SIP in higher education

[Candace Holman <>]

Substitute SIMPLE for XMPP, and the minutes will be less generic.

Candace

Bill Reid wrote:
> Dennis Baron wrote:
> > Finally, Candace poses a question. In the Presence and Integrated
> > Communications (PIC) working group for Internet2, they have been 
> > discussing
> > XMPP.  She's had been reluctant to change her mind from SIP to XMPP, but
> > has read more of the Jabber standards and has changed her opinion. She
> > was not around during the decision to shift from H.323 to SIP in the 
> > VOIP
> > working group, and wonders if this is the same thing. She's interested
> > in the historical perspective on the shift from H.323 to SIP, and if
> > another shift from SIP to XMPP could be expected in the next year or 
> > two.
>
> SIP and XMPP is not the same discussion as H.323 and SIP. SIP and XMPP 
> can co-exist very nicely and provide complimentary services while SIP 
> is a replacement for H.323. There is no need to discuss whether we 
> replace SIP with XMPP but do we want to support XMPP as well as SIP.  
> XMPP Jingle Signalling just puts SIP/SDP inside of an XMPP stream. It 
> is rather trival for a client or server to support SIP as well as Jingle.
>
> A good article on this subject by a Jabber guru:
> http://www.saint-andre.com/blog/2005-09.html#2005-09-02T14:47
>
> -- Bill
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