[Standards] Do we need STUN?

[Rachel Blackman]

>> (This is assuming we haven't already consigned ourselves to a  
>> silo.  My
>> understanding of both SIP and Jingle is only ankle-deep at the  
>> moment.)
>
> Well we havn't yet. libjingle doesn't play ball with anyone else, but
> there's nobody else to play ball with yet. A Jingle implementation  
> that
> uses "raw UDP" will be trivially gatewayable onto a SIP client, and  
> I'd
> like the same to be possible for ICE-enabled clients too.

There's already a third-party translator out there, which acts as a  
clearinghouse and lets you use SIP, Google Talk, AND the MSN and  
Yahoo voicechats through their service, letting Google Talk people  
talk to Yahoo or SIP or whatever.

http://www.gtalk2voip.com/

So it's definitely technologically possible to gateway these things. ;P

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Rachel Blackman <rcb at ceruleanstudios.com>
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