[Psi-devel] [ANN] Johnny Talker - revolution in creation of VoIP-based applications?

[Francisco Joaquín Rodríguez Prados]

I'm not a Psi developer, so this is my opinion, not the Psi official position.

I would really like to see Jabber (concretely Psi) offering VoIP
capabilities. Somehow the presence service is related also with voice
conversations - it's a good idea to have a live agenda; you call your
friends when they are reachable - i.e.: they have announced their
presence in the system.

However, the Psi project is still working on covering several
functionalities which are already a standard in Jabber. And the
standard are high priority, or should be, in my opinion. It is a risk
- and maybe a waste of time - invest efforts and time on protocols
which might not work with any other client, more than Psi. So I see
two big problems, at this point; first, there are more basic tasks
that require the attention of the Psi project at the moment; and
secondly, there is no standard for Jabber-based voice conversation.

Thought the first problem might be solved if someone just invested his
time on coding this connection you suggest between your daemon and
Psi, the second one would still be there. There's not specified
protocol for the handshaking or the "incoming call" announcements, for
instance, appart from the own protocols that iChat and GoogleTalk
implemented.

The closest possibility I see would be attach to Psi this /de facto/
protocol of GoogleTalk and iChat (I don't even know if they are
compatible among them). In any case, we still would have to wait for a
full specification of this protocol.

Best regards,

Fran.


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Francisco Joaquín Rodríguez Prados
Fachbereich Informatik,
Fachhochschule Darmstadt,
Darmstadt, Germany
E-mail: prados at gmail.com
JID: franqui at jabber.dk