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2004-04-24-ituMania

CREATED BY chris • LAST EDITED BY chris 7862 days AGO

"Once upon a time, the only VoIP protocol was [create H.323]. This was a standard created by the ITU-T, the same organisation that gave us the run away success of the [create X.500] directory service and [create X.400] email. H.323 has much in common with other ITU-T standards - it features a complex binary wire protocol, a nightmarish implementation, and a bulk that can be used to fell medium-to-large predatory animals. OpenH323, an open-source implementation of this protocol, consists of over 7 MB of C++ code (the UNIX utility 'wc' reports that it's over 2.4 million lines of code). This doesn't include the code to actually encode and decode the audio."

Grandioses PyCon-Paper von Shtoom-Entwickler [create Anthony Baxter].

"As an aside, UPnP's implementation (which features SOAP, HTTP over multicast/broadcast UDP, and extremely odd XML) is a must-read for fans of unnatural and baroque network protocols."