[Etoys] VoIP Question

[Yoshiki Ohshima]

  Hello,

> My name is Raymond Cheng and I am currently doing some work for Barry 
> Vercoe. We were looking into VoIP for the XO. We noticed that you have 
> some VoIP built into eToys so we had a few questions:
> 
> Is there any further development into VoIP for eToys?

  In the OLPC Etoys image, not much.  The Croquet system (written in
the same Squeak) has better real time one, and there are a few other
attempts at other private companies.

> Is anyone working on a SIP client for the XO?

  I don't know.

  There was an unsuccessful attempt to write MPEG4IP binding to
Squeak.  But that was done at wrong layer.  The right thing was to
implement SIP and other protocols in Squeak and use that kind of
library as codec optimization.

> How does the current implementation in eToys work?

  In a "works-for-a-demo" way.

> Does it use SIP?

  No.

> any encoding?

  It uses GSM codec.

> Does it require that eToys be running at all times on both ends?

  In a sense, yes.  One could run the Squeak image as a background
process.  The image could be a stripped-down Etoys image so that
unnecessary classes and methods can be discarded.

-- Yoshiki