Category: Standards
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Watch the Royal Wedding? Or talk about XMPP? Join VUC on April 29th for an XMPP-fest
Continue Reading: Watch the Royal Wedding? Or talk about XMPP? Join VUC on April 29th for an XMPP-festSo which would you rather do? Watch the Royal Wedding? Or talk about all things XMPP with a bunch of VoIP and telephony geeks?If you’d prefer the latter, then join the VUC conf call at 12 noon US Eastern on Friday, April 29, for a lengthy dive into all things XMPP. (XMPP being the “Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol” originally known as the Jabber protocol.)
As noted on the show page the session will feature Emil Ivov of Jitsi.org (formerly SIP Communicator) and Thiago Rocha Camargo (of Nimbuzz) and is going to cover a whole range of topics:
- What is XMPP/Jabber
- How does one do telephony with XMPP
- How does XMPP/Jingle compare to SIP and (why) is it better.
- Who supports it
- Facebook and their XMPP gateway
- Google Talk
- Nimbuzz – one of the biggest VoIP providers using XMPP as their primary protocol
- NAT traversal
- How does one do it with XMPP
- Again, how is this part different from what we have with SIP
- Media relaying with TURN and Jingle Nodes
I am a big fan of XMPP on the IM/messaging side so I’m very much looking forward to this conversation.
You can join the live call via SIP,…
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NetworkWorld interviews SIP pioneer and now Skyper Jonathan Rosenberg
Continue Reading: NetworkWorld interviews SIP pioneer and now Skyper Jonathan RosenbergThis week Network World ran a great interview with Jonathan Rosenberg about his new role at Skype. Jonathan is now the “Chief Technology Strategist” at Skype, but he’s known in the industry as one of the co-authors of the original RFC 3261 that defines the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and also for his many years working at Cisco. He’s been extremely active within the IETF, writing a seriously large quantity of Internet-Drafts. I think, in fact, I first met JDR at an IETF meeting… and subsequently was on at least one panel with him (I think a VoiceCon or Interop in New York).It’s been interesting to watch Skype accumulate more and more people with strong SIP backgrounds, and hiring Jonathan was definitely an interesting – and good – move on Skype’s part.
I don’t know that the Network World interview broke any amazing new ground for those of us who have been watching Skype closely, but if you haven’t been paying attention to Skype, Jonathan gives a great view into what the company has been doing lately and where it is going. It is definitely worth a read.
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What is new in VoiceXML 3? Join this free webinar tomorrow (May 20)
Continue Reading: What is new in VoiceXML 3? Join this free webinar tomorrow (May 20)What is different in the upcoming VoiceXML 3 specification from the W3C? How will it help you create better communication applications? How can you get ready for VXML 3?If you are curious about what the VoiceXML 3 effort is all about, Voxeo is hosting a free webinar tomorrow, Thursday, May 20, 2010, at 11 am US Eastern time where one of the co-chief editors of the specification, Dan Burnett, will talk about these questions and more.
Registration is free and you can register online. It should be a very informative session.
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IETF 74 starts next week in San Francisco…
Continue Reading: IETF 74 starts next week in San Francisco…The 74th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) starts Monday morning out in San Francisco. As usual there is a packed agenda with a lot of great discussions going on. This one is particularly interesting for those of us involved in the “Real-time Applications and Infrastructure (RAI)” area – which is all the various working groups related to SIP and other real-time communications protocols – as there are some proposals moving forward to rather fundamentally restructure the ways in which SIP-related work moves through the IETF. I expect there will be many involved conversations going on out there next week.As much as I would like to be there, I won’t be physically out at IETF 74. It’s not my new role at Voxeo keeping me away, but rather this… oh… wee minor little detail that my wife is now five weeks from giving birth to our second child! 🙂 At this stage of things I’m severely limiting my travel – and flights across the country are definitely out.
Instead I’ll be participating remotely, listening to the audio streams and joining in the Jabber chat rooms. Probably writing about some of it over on the “Speaking…
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Do the IM protocol wars even matter? Adium and the continued *client* unification of IM…
Continue Reading: Do the IM protocol wars even matter? Adium and the continued *client* unification of IM…Do you care any more about zillion different IM services? Do you care about the IM protocol wars that have plagued the usage of IM for the last years?Odds are that if you are an IM user like me, you probably don’t. Why not? Simple… we’ve unified the IM services on the client side and basically stopped caring about the various services and protocols.
I was reminded of this fact this morning when I received a message saying that an update was available for Adium on my Mac that solved a really annoying disconnection problem with Yahoo!Messenger. (And if you are a Yahoo IM user, you really need to get the 1.3.2b1 beta.)
[NOTE: An equivalent to Adium for Windows or Unix/Linux users is Pidgin.]
Somewhat ironically, there was a discussion going on in a Skype groupchat in which I participate about the various IM protocols and whether anyone really used GTalk, etc. Since I was updating Adium at the time, I took a moment to look at all the different protocols that Adium now supports… as seen in the screenshot on the right side of this post. If I look at my own usage, I use Adium to…
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Down at IETF 71 in Philadelphia this week
Continue Reading: Down at IETF 71 in Philadelphia this weekThis week (March 10-14) finds me down in Philadelphia for IETF-71, the 71st meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (the people who write the standards for the Internet). I don’t honestly know how much I’ll be blogging here on this blog. I do hope to be writing some over at the “Speaking of Standards” blog on Voxeo’s site. We’ll see. These meetings tend to be rather intense.If you’d like to follow along with what’s happening here at IETF, I’ve written up some instructions about how to join in the audio streaming and IM group chats. I’ve also posted what I think will be my schedule, which will give you a sense of what the various VoIP-related sessions.
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The EComm 2008 Interview with Skype’s Jonathan Christensen should be required reading…
Continue Reading: The EComm 2008 Interview with Skype’s Jonathan Christensen should be required reading…As we enter into the final month before eComm 2008, I would suggest that the interview with Jonathan Christensen, Skype’s general manager of audio and video, should be required reading for anyone seriously interested in this space. Why? Well, in part because Jonathan Christensen does provide some good information about what Skype has done and is doing but also because it provides some good insight into what one of the people driving Skype’s agenda is thinking about this space. Take one of the final paragraphs where he answered Lee Dryburgh’s question about what he saw as the the future of communications (bold emphasis added by me):Well, a big question I guess and, having worked on the space for quite a while, I think that it’s only going to get more interesting over the coming years since, well, like this open spectrum for example. You know, I just have to reiterate, I think that anybody who has not figured out that the Internet is the platform and that there isn’t any such thing as walled gardens that will survive, or sub-networks [such as AOL tried] that are going to survive, those people are doomed. The intersection of these worlds is going…
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IETF “RUCUS” BOF to be held about SPIT…
Continue Reading: IETF “RUCUS” BOF to be held about SPIT…Over on the Voice of VOIPSA blog today I posted about a new session has been approved for the IETF 71 meeting coming up in Philadelphia in March called “Reducing Unwanted Communications using SIP” a.k.a. “RUCUS”.Hannes Tschofenig, who submitted the proposal, has created a RUCUS web page and is looking for feedback. I’m planning to be at the RUCUS session at IETF 71 and would encourage others who want to talk about voice spam / SPIT to join in as well!Technorati Tags: rucus, spit, spam, voice spam, voip, voip security, security, ietf, standards
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Skype says “No” to VoIP interoperability – *because customers aren’t asking for it!* – Well, I am!
Continue Reading: Skype says “No” to VoIP interoperability – *because customers aren’t asking for it!* – Well, I am!So Skype says that they have no plans for interoperability with other VoIP systems because their customers aren’t asking for it??
By way of Dameon Welch-Abernathy today I learned of Phil Wolff’s post back in December about ZDNet’s interview (Got all that? 😉 with Skype’s VP of telecoms, Stefan Oberg. The article was primarily about Skype’s London phone number debacle, but this was the part that most irritated me:
Another issue which may concern business users of VoIP is the Enum registry, which aims to unite not only the various VoIP providers — referred to by some as “islands” due to their lack of interconnection with each other — but the entire VoIP and traditional telephony worlds.
Asked whether Skype had considered opening up its famously closed communications protocols, Oberg claimed that there had been no customer demand for interconnection. “[Customers] are not saying they would love to call a VoIP provider on a different network,” he said. “Customers are asking for better video and better conference calling. If it is something that customers really ask for, we would consider it, but it is very easy for anyone to get on the island.”
Well, Mr. Oberg, here is one paying customer of Skype…
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Introducing “Speaking of Standards”, a new Voxeo blog about industry standards, IETF, W3C, SIP Forum, etc.
Continue Reading: Introducing “Speaking of Standards”, a new Voxeo blog about industry standards, IETF, W3C, SIP Forum, etc.A large part of why I have NOT been writing here all that much in the past few weeks is that I’ve been busy in my new role with Voxeo working on a corporate blog portal. I’ve been covering a bit of that odyssey over on my Disruptive Conversations blog as well as in my weekly reports into the For Immediate Release podcast. It’s been a great amount of work but also a lot of fun – I’ve been very lucky to have a colleague who does amazing things with CSS and graphics, and so the sites look a whole lot better than they would if I were left to my own devices.
I’m very pleased to say, now, that we’ve reached the point where I’m willing to link to our work and talk a bit about what we are doing. The main blog portal is the predictable “blogs.voxeo.com” but the weblog that we’re really starting to use and could be of interest to readers of this blog is our “Speaking of Standards” blog found at:
http://blogs.voxeo.com/speakingofstandards/
I’ve obviously been very occasionally writing here about standards and some of that may continue, but I expect most of…