[Jingle] Call forking

[Peter Saint-Andre]

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On 10/8/09 3:38 PM, Olivier Crête wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If a contact I'm trying to call has multiple online resources. I want to
> call it, currently Gabble, our XMPP implementation, just picks one more
> or less randomly and tries to call it. 

Randomly? Without first determining which resources support Jingle?

> I think the right approach is to
> do something like SIP forking, that is, try to call both and when one
> answers, cancel the other calls. 

And how well has forking worked out? Most SIP experts I've talked with
have said "avoid forking in Jingle if you possibly can".

> The problem is that the non-answering
> resources will see it as a missed call. Maybe we should add a
> "answered-somewhere-else" reason for that case. Or is it what "cancel"
> or "success" are for ?

That's one possibility. Another is XEP-0168, although people don't seem
to like that approach.

Peter

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