[Adium-devl] AOL opens up AIM

[Andre-John Mas]

On 5-Mar-08, at 19:29 , Andre-John Mas wrote:

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> On 5-Mar-08, at 19:13 , Evan Schoenberg wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> http://dev.aol.com/aim
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>> 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.
>>
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> On the http://dev.aol.com/aim/oscar/ page there is indication on flags
> indicating whether the "Client supports SIP/RTP video".
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> On the http://dev.aol.com/aim/faqs#VoiceVideo page they refer to http://www.sipfoundry.org/sipX
> .
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> I don't know whether that is suitable starting point.

BTW This seems to be a good intro into the whole initiative:

http://www.gregsmind.com/

His blogs cover a lot of AIM related stuff (he is an AIM developer).

Andre