Ted,
I've reviewed this draft ( http://tools.ietf.org/rfcmarkup?doc=draft-hardie-p2psip-p2p-pointers
) and listened to your presentation at this morning's P2PSIP
meeting. It seems like a worthwhile idea to continue exploring. If I
understand it correctly, this would enable me to put a link on my web
site, for instance, that would let someone else with a compatible
application click on the link, join the P2P overlay and initiate a
call to me... or at least join my overlay.
To a degree this sounds like what Skype does with their URLs that let
you join into a "public chat" which is a P2P IM cloud. On one of my
web sites ( http://www.blueboxpodcast.com/ ) I have a widget on the
side that, if clicked by a Skype user, connects the user into the
public chatroom. The link itself is a big long hideous URL that has a
"blob" of characters that are not meant for humans to read. Beyond
having this on a web page, I have also emailed the link and IM'd it to
people in the past.
The ability to do this with P2PSIP seems like a great idea. My major
feedback on the draft is that it would be great if it included some
use cases (or scenarios or whatever you want to call them) that talk
about how this functionality might actually be used. Could it be used
for a "click-to-call" link on a web page? Could it work like what I
outlined works for Skype today? If I can IM this link to someone, why
might I want to do this? Could it be used for voice, IM, or video?
And if I put a link on my website, would anyone clicking it have to
use the same application as me? (as is the case of Skype) or could
they use any "P2PSIP compatible" application? (whatever those may be)
I think it would be useful to have 2 or 3 brief descriptions at the
beginning that show how this functionality might actually work. (And
I'd be glad to work with you on some text if you would like.)
Regards,
Dan
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