Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Skype vs. GnomeMeeting

[Rodney Dawes <dobey free fr>]

Rather, it is probably more like Rendezvous (multicast DNS stuff). Not
that that makes much sense for a conferencing app, since you would need
to be within some reasonable distance to be able to create a rendezvous
network between the two machines. So, You can just talk to that person
face to face. You can't really use p2p for a proxy/ils server. It
implies that you already know what you are connecting to and where it
is, thus making the ils part useless mostly. Having a proxy built in
to the client makes no sense either, since the point of a proxy is that
you need to go through it to access the outside. If your client is doing
the proxy, it's still connecting to the same services from the same
machine, so that makes no sense really.

-- dobey


Il lun, 2003-09-22 alle 09:18, Stefan Bruens ha scritto:
> Am Montag, 22. September 2003 14:50 schrieb Damien Sandras:
> > Le lun 22/09/2003 à 14:42, Matthias Redlich a écrit :
> > > "Is Skype available for Mac OS, Linux, Palm OS, Pocket PC..?
> > > Currently, Skype is only available for Windows 2000 and XP. Stay tuned
> > > for more information about other platforms."
> > >
> > > That's why we should think about implementing it in GnomeMeeting or not.
> >
> > By reverse-engineering it?
> >
> > > Basically I think that their idea with P2P and IP telephony is very
> > > good. Furthermore it seems to be very easy to use. (works behind NAT
> > > without any problems, for instance) Thus Skype seems to be quite
> > > innovative.
> >
> > We should really investigate a bit more about what they mean by P2P. For
> > me, GM already is P2P.
> 
> I think the point is that they are using p2p for the proxies and directory 
> servers, making it sort of fail save and number of client agnostic.
> 
> Stefan