The beauty of Jabber/XMPP tho is that there is the possibility of gatewaying to things such as SIP, so you can have the best of both worlds while maintaining a single protocol on the Jabber/XMPP side, so there is no need to worry too much about what will become the dominant voice protocol since there is the possibility of interoperability.
Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Prince" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 7:42 PM Subject: RE: [JDEV] Voice over IP > I'm glad this is idle chit-chat on my side and I don't have to pick a > protocol ;) > > SIP has momentum on it's side: a lot of companies are producing SIP > products today. (same could be said for H.323) It's cool to see XMPP > showing its flexibility by negotiating streaming interactions, but I'd > worry that it'd be yet another way of slicing the same problem. > > That said, more protocols=more options and let darwinian principals > decide the outcome :) (that is unless M$ or such imbalances the > equation with cash) > > BTW, I should put some meat in the post: Which XMPP clients support > video/audio streaming? Any open source ones. Inquiring minds want to > know... > > -Mike _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
