[Adium-devl] AOL opens up AIM

[Andre-John Mas]

On 5-Mar-08, at 19:13 , Evan Schoenberg wrote:

>
> On Mar 5, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Andre-John Mas wrote:
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>> Just wanted to let you know that AOL has opened up AIM:
>>
>> http://dev.aol.com/aim
>
> They've published most of the protocol's documentation, some of  
> which will hopefully be helpful but much of which is what we already  
> knew.  I may be missing it, but I don't see documentation of their  
> voice/video communications.  Alan, is there anything in here which  
> provides new information on that front?
>
> I'm hopeful that they will continue on this path towards a truly  
> open protocol; it's certainly a step in the right direction.  The  
> truly open solution would be for AOL to provide an open source,  
> feature complete implementation of their protocol for use by  
> clients, without the various restrictions which currently make it  
> unlikely that Adium, as a GPL'd program, could participate, such as  
> specifying licensure as 'nontransferable' and requiring that the  
> program implement certain AOL features.
>

On the http://dev.aol.com/aim/oscar/ page there is indication on flags  
indicating whether the "Client supports SIP/RTP video".

On the http://dev.aol.com/aim/faqs#VoiceVideo page they refer to http://www.sipfoundry.org/sipX 
.

I don't know whether that is suitable starting point.

Andre