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  • Subject: Re: [wg-pic] RE: Google opening up video groupchat specs (surprise, it's XMPP based!)
  • Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:16:42 -0500

I have Justin in my chat roster, and he's responded to my previous IMs and Emails regarding interoperability with Google Talk as well as my queries regarding the impact of WebRTC.

I've never attended one of your WG-PIC conference calls, but I would be willing to do so, and I can see if Justin is willing.

Jesse Thompson
UW-Madison

On 7/6/11 4:46 PM, Callahan, Tim wrote:
Other relevant news this week from Justin's blog:

Google Talk now supports XMPP Jingle
http://juberti.blogspot.com/
"we've just finished updating Google Talk and its related services to speak XMPP's
Jingle call signaling protocol."
...
The announcement:
"We are pleased to announce that we have launched support for Jingle
XEP-166 and XEP-167 for Google Talk calls to and from Gmail, iGoogle,
and Orkut. We have also added the same level of support to libjingle
(http://code.google.com/p/libjingle), which is used by many native
clients. From this point on, it will be our primary signalling
protocol, and the old protocol will only remain for backwards
compatibility."



-----Original Message-----
From: Callahan, Tim
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 5:38 PM
To:

Cc: Scott Brim; Callahan, Tim
Subject: Google opening up video groupchat specs (surprise, it's XMPP based!)

Is interoperability with Google's video groupchat on the horizon? Probably so
(see article below)... they let it slip that it's XMPP/Jingle based, so it
may actually be interoperable with things WE do. This could fit into some of
the work we've proposed/discussed, especially with the Internet2 Commons.
Has anyone had any experience with Hangouts / have you attempted
interoperability? (Does anyone know Justin Uberti? perhaps we can invite him
to one of the calls.)
-Tim

Google plans to open Hangouts for interoperability:
http://gigaom.com/video/google-plus-hangouts-interoperability/
"Hangouts, the group video chat component of Google Plus that everyone's been
raving about, could eventually be usable with other video chat clients and services as
well. Google Real-time Communications Tech Lead Justin Uberti wrote this weekend on his
blog that the company plans to publish the specifications necessary to interoperate
with Hangouts."
...
"At a high level, it's based on XMPP MUC (XEP-0045) and Jingle (XEP-0166/167),
with some other enhancements needed to handle our architecture."

Also:
Justin's Hangouts Blog
http://juberti.blogspot.com/2011/07/hangouts-mailbag.html


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