Jabber released the Jingle spec as a draft last week. Jingle is an extention to the core XMPP Jabber spec to support voice over IP (VoIP), but it’s more than that, it’s the spec for Google Talk.
Not only that, but Google has gone ahead and released libJingle under a BSD license. LibJingle is their implementation of Jingle, so it’s guaranteed interoperable with Google Talk’s peer-to-peer and voice calling capabilities.
What’s included in LibJingle is even more interesting: there’s a p2p stack, including base p2p functionality and client hooks into XMPP, session support for phone signalling, a light XML parser based on Expat, and an XMPP engine.
An open source XML parser from Google has to be interesting, and from the sounds of it, there’s enough code there to make it a fairly simple matter to create a compatible phone … and most of this code is based on cross-platform open source code like oRTP (from linphone) and Glib (from GTK) ... so I can’t imagine it will take long for new Jingle Talk clients to come out. Hopefully GAIM and Miranda will pick up on this …
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Hopefully GAIM and Miranda will pick up on this
Yeah, that’s why I love GAIM so much!