[Asterisk-biz] www.google.com/talk/

[Steve Kennedy]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 06:18:17PM +0200, Lars Dybdahl wrote:

> You don't.
> Google Talk is based on the jabber.org protocol, and as far as I
> understand, that's also the protocol that delivers the voice.

Google talk is based on the XMPP protocol (or is that XMP protocol)
which happened to be mainly developed by the jabber.org and the jabber
protocol is an implementation.

> Jabber is a decentralized protocol where everybody can set up their
> own servers etc., and user identities is based on the
> username at servername schema. This means that all jabber users can
> contact all other jabber users, no matter what their provider is -
> however, Google Talk doesn't seem to allow incoming and outgoing
> requests to/from their system right now. Many big companies use jabber
> protocol based instant messaging systems, and something seems to
> indicate, that jabber will conquer the world.

Google don't currently allow S2S (server to server) connections (well
externally), they may do - but are worried about SPIM etc. Anyone can go
to a public (Jabber) server and register lots of bogus addresses from
which to inject rubbish into the network.

Of course implementing S2S well is also difficult, and they may just not
have written that module yet.


Steve

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