What's weird is the story on app engine blog seems to contradict this: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/12/developer-insights-mobile-voucher-sales.html
"URL Fetch API to link to third-party API’s such as sending SMS’s and integration to mobile networks for airtime voucher purchase" This is exactly how one would work with Twilio/Troop/Plivo in order to send SMS or make calls. I've been focusing on App Engine without realizing such use cases are not welcome, but the REST APIs seem like such a good fit here. Hope someone from GAE team can clarify. On Sunday, January 20, 2013 11:51:11 PM UTC-8, Marc Heinken wrote: > In earlier (around 2009) versions of the ToS that section reads like this: > > > You agree not to use the XMPP API to operate or to enable any > telecommunications service or in connection with any applications that allow > users to place calls to or receive calls from any public switched telephone > network. > > > That seems reasonable to me. After all, looking at the heavy usage > restrictions of the channel API, realtime-communication isn't the > infrastructure's biggest forte and running a telephony system on top of XMPP > could be considered misuse. > > > I don't think Google Voice is that big a profit center to justify such > restrictions. Maybe it's some kind of regulation I don't know about. > > > Does that section really disallow ANY type of interaction of an appengine > hosted site with ANY other web based application that connects to the PSTN > even if that interaction is only part of the client side HTML/Javascript code > and does NOT happen inside appengine? > If so, would that include interacting with Google Voice? How about embedding > a skype call button or a SIP-URL in my HTML? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/C6dpB1yXtRMJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
