-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/2011 03:17 PM, Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote: > Hello Yannick, > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Yannick <[email protected]> wrote: >> Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 12:46 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : >>> On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 07:15:18PM -0800, Thomas Lord wrote: >>>> Step 1: >>>> >>>> Let's pick 5 apps. I suggest email mailbox hosting, chat, >>>> instant messaging, blogging and FB-ish "walls". >>> >>> What is the difference between "chat" and "instant messaging"? >>> >>> If first one is realtime voice chat, I suggest calling it telephony to >>> avoid misunderstanding. >>> >>> And I suggest to aim even lower that for first iterations. Not because >>> any of them are weak as selling points, but because not all of them >>> really exist yet (or are prepackaged in Debian, if that matters yo you). >> >> Nowadays, there is no more such difference between Instant Messaging, >> Voice/video Chat and Telephony. It all converges. > > Actually, there is a big difference from a technical perspective. > IM can handle latency, jitter and other network issues much better > than voice can, unless you are happy with >1sec voice latency to > buffer your way through these problems. > >> One issue is there is 2 free (as in speech) protocols: XMPP and SIP. >> >> Personnaly, I would prefer SIP because it has a focus on telephony >> features, stong backup by hardware vendors for real telephony and allow >> to call "real" phones too. The downside is the complexity of the >> specification and interoperability issues. > > Yes, SIP is very good in many ways, but at ServalProject.org at least, > we are looking to create a simple alternative protocol (open of > course) which will tolerate latency and excessive packet loss much > better than SIP does,
I guess you mean RTP, not SIP here. > and will be substantially more bandwidth > efficient when calls are not in progress. - -- Marc Petit-Huguenin Personal email: [email protected] Professional email: [email protected] Blog: http://blog.marc.petit-huguenin.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk10GAIACgkQ9RoMZyVa61czcACeO3Al4EgJimKrIHanbt8d3sSM wnoAn3QIUgkfwWPchMQ3zQ0Mql1HMFt8 =9kmc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
