hello all / carsten, regarding this post and had some questions and thoughts,
>> Between two endpoints there are many things like firewalls, routers and
>> the like, this leads to the only solution: a relay or a server.
> Which of course has some obvious drawbacks. First thing is that someone
> needs to provide a server (for free) and a _lot_ of bandwidth,
> especially if you're going to do video.
Yes, that is true, but my point is more that the software, the protocol and the servers should be open source.
FULL ACK
If you are not happy with a
server, you are able to create your own. Richard Stallman say's long ago
that freedom means that you must have the right to copy, share and
modify the sources. If you want you CAN run your own server perhaps only
for your family. I feel that this is a bigger issue then ever, with
software patents at the door of europe and globaly controled standards.
As you know, one of the reason to doing this is that M$ doens't support
Win98 anymore.
I try to find the cources of an old protocol called cuseeme
and i like to hear if some body else is interesed in working on this.
Carsten is with www.carminotalks.org on the way to create a multiconferencing client as i can see but there is no code
and not develeopment in the last half year.
I am in contact to a few develoepers and like
to bring www.cuseeme.de back to the community.
My question is IF somebody know anyone , that probably know
a friend that had the "old cornell client sources "
plese drop me a line.
> Other problem is logistics. If I'm talking to my girlfriend (who lives
> in the same city) then it's kind of wastefull if that connection goes
> through some server in the US. This will also add at least 100ms of
> latency.
That's note Realy a issue. If i be as good as Netmeeting, im happy with that. Videoconferencing is nothing really new.
http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/07/cov_21feature.html
> So yes, from a technical point of view using a relay/server is the way
> to go, it solves quite a bit of firewall/routing problems. But from the
> user point of view using intermediate servers just sucks :D Especially
> if those servers go down or can't handle the load.
Yes, that is a problem.
But i dont see another way to allow connections with more the two people.
> Same thing goed for filetransfer BTW.
http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/jdev/2003-November/017219.html
talk soon cheers
marc
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" Sic transit gloria mundi"
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