[sr-dev] XMPP Jingle support status?

[Olle E. Johansson]

14 dec 2011 kl. 16:46 skrev kasip at elektromaniak.wz.cz:

> Dne 13.12.2011 v 16:16:54, IĂąaki Baz Castillo <ibc at aliax.net> napsal:
> 
>>> Adding jingle support to existing one seems way better.
>>> Sure, if both clients support only incompatible sets of codecs, then it
>> won't
>>> work.
>> 
>> It's not just that. SIP uses a plain/raw SDP format while XMPP uses a
>> XML version of SDP. Just an example of the hard task a SIP-XMPP-proxy
>> should fulfill to enable full interoperability between both words.
> 
> Sure.. it would be a bit easier (measured in lines of code) if one could simply
> forward SDP around.
> Doing some kind of conversions & keeping it light/fast/reliable is harder than
> sending what I received.
> 
> I thought about putting the feature as a transport on a jabber server, but then
> it would have to act as a sip router as well, creating way more complications
> and issues.
> 
> Maybe I should try poking around first..  If you give me some more directions /
> possible issue information, I can find out how hard it is and stop asking.

It's much easier to do this in a b2bua like Asterisk - which already has it, than in a proxy.

I don't see the point of trying to bridge a SIP call with a jingle call in a proxy. Maybe you can explain that?

/O