Video: WebRTC Introduction (revisited)
For those who missed this video the first time around, here is a great introduction to WebRTC (Real-time Communication on the web via HTML5 & JavaScript) from Cullen Jennings, Cisco Fellow & Co-chair of WebRTC & RTCWEB Working Groups in the IETF / W3C & advisor at Hookflash.
Cullen covers plenty of ground, focusing on the standards work surrounding this newly proposed standard that is WebRTC. A must watch for those interested in WebRTC. Sadly, there has been zero progress regarding MTI video codecs since this video was shot/uploaded 8 months ago. This MTI video codec issue really needs to be put to bed at the next IETF meeting in July.
Skype for SIP, it's about time!
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Back in 2004 I wrote a post relating to the VON Canada Panel I sat on with Niklas Zennstrom. It was an interesting debate on open standards (SIP in this case) and closed networks, specifically Skype. I was quite vocal about how silly I thought Skype was not to include SIP, a few of you picked up on that 😉
It looks like something good came of the eBay purchase as we now see a Skype pushing towards open standards, good stuff!
On a similar note, I heard a rumour that it’s likely Jason Fischl the current CTO at Counterpath (Xten) will be going over to work with Jonathan Christensen (General Manager – Media Platform) at Skype. Jason was an early advocate of SIP in the IETF and works with some of the best minds on the subject: Cullen Jennings, Robert Sparks, Alan Duric come to mind.
This could get interesting.
I will do some testing with SkypeforSIP & Response Point and post the results along with my comments on what this new offer from Skype might mean for Response Point.
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