At 10:12 AM 3/10/2010, you wrote:
>And indeed, back to my initial statement. It's pretty obvious how >hard it is to reach any consensus and how many different opinions that exist. > >Take a look at the more popular Amateur Radio programs, how many of >them are Open Source? Not many, but the successful VoIP systems of the previous generation have some openness in their protocols and an API of some sort. IRLP - The voice protocol is the public domain Speak Freely protocol. Authentication uses PGP. It's theoretically possible to have a private keyring for non IRLP nodes using the same protocols. The software interface to the IRLP board has been re-implemented in open source, and internally, the bulk of the code is bash scripts, with plenty of hooks for adding extra functionality. Echolink - A number of open source implementations exist, so the protocols are now effectively open. Echolink also has an open, published API to allow programmers and tinkerers to add functionality to the program. Some of the open source implementations have their own means to extend functionality. 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com
