Re: Trying to summarize discussion on SIMPLE interop

30 okt 2012 kl. 12:06 skrev Iñaki Baz Castillo <[email protected]>:

> 2012/10/30 Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <[email protected]>:
>>> The short-term plan is to focus on the existing set of recommendations in RFCs and try to find out
>>> which implementation guidelines and maybe extra set of documents that are needed to get a
>>> baseline interoperability in handling of a simple buddy list, presence involving multiple devices
>>> and presence authorization. There seems to be an agreement that MSRP based chat works.
>>> 
>>> The long-term plan is to spend time on developing something that would be much easier to implement,
>>> not require 18 (or more) subscriptions with states and be easier to interoperate with XMPP.
>>> 
>>> I personally would like to focus on the short term plan for now. I want agreement on a
>>> set of implementation guidelines so we can get the available softphones (and hardphones
>>> that implement SIMPLE) to interoperate using standard open source servers like OpenSIPS,
>>> OpenXCAP and Kamailio (and possibly others). If it's not possible, well, then at least we tried to
>>> fix it and we can divert attention on either XMPP or developing a SIMPLE--.
>>> 
>> 
>> I agree. We (kind of) took this approach and managed to build something that works, so it's doable. It would be great if we could put together some recommendations / specifications for these items you highlighted: a buddy list, multi-device presence and authorization.
> 
> 
> The "short-term" plan looks no so "short" for me (taking into account
> that AG, really experts in this area has required years of work to
> make all the SIMPLE/XCAP stuff to work). If the short-term plan
> requires that a developer team starting with SIMPLE must work over 2-3
> years to implement all the specs, I would not name it "short-term" at
> all.

There must be a lot of people with experiences of developing and using the SIMPLE framework on this list.
Any opinions? We need you !!

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