FRIGN said: > Well I looked into SIP a few months ago and couldn't become a fan of > it.
Can you please go in more detail about SIP? I looked into it some time ago, and (apart from several ugly XML-based extensions) it seemed fine. I actually use baresip[0] – a small command line client with audio and video support. Although it lacks several features I would like to see, it is quite usable, > 2) ncurses needs to be discussed. A design like we have with ii would > be very creative, but (imho) not very pleasant in everyday life with > a proper secondary interface on top of it. Actually I would choose ii-like interface over curses-based UI. One may implement latter on top of former, but not vice versa. > It's different, because it's decentralized. You don't need to > "register", as it's building on top of a DHT-P2P-network and you just > have a hash-key you give to your friends and they can directly add you. > This strong benefit is imho one of the key advantages over centralized > systems like those based on XMPP (Pidgin being a client). Actually, this is a good argument for choosing Tox over SIP. Unfortunately, http://tox.im appears to be unreachable, so I can't comment on protocol itself yet. [0] http://www.creytiv.com/baresip.html -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
