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<p>Implementation experience indicates that a dual-stack approach may not be feasible on all the computing platforms for which Jabber clients have been written, or even desirable on platforms where it is feasible. Therefore, it seems reasonable to define an XMPP signalling protocol that can provide the necessary signalling semantics while also making it relatively straightforward to interoperate with existing Internet standards.</p> <p>Implementation experience indicates that a dual-stack approach may not be feasible on all the computing platforms for which Jabber clients have been written, or even desirable on platforms where it is feasible. Therefore, it seems reasonable to define an XMPP signalling protocol that can provide the necessary signalling semantics while also making it relatively straightforward to interoperate with existing Internet standards.</p>
<p>As a result of feedback received on <cite>XEP-0111</cite>, the original authors of this document (Joe Hildebrand and Peter Saint-Andre) began to define such a signalling protocol, code-named Jingle. Upon communication with members of the Google Talk team, <note>Google Talk is a messaging and voice chat service and client provided by Google; see &lt;<link url='http://www.google.com/talk/'>http://www.google.com/talk/</link>&gt;.</note> it was discovered that the emerging Jingle approach was conceptually (and even syntactically) quite similar to the signalling protocol used in the Google Talk application. Therefore, in the interest of interoperability and adoption, we decided to harmonize the two approaches. The signalling protocol specified herein is, therefore, substantially equivalent to the existing Google Talk protocol, with several adjustments based on feedback received from implementors as well as for publication within the XMPP Standards Foundation's standards process.</p> <p>As a result of feedback received on <cite>XEP-0111</cite>, the original authors of this document (Joe Hildebrand and Peter Saint-Andre) began to define such a signalling protocol, code-named Jingle. Upon communication with members of the Google Talk team, <note>Google Talk is a messaging and voice chat service and client provided by Google; see &lt;<link url='http://www.google.com/talk/'>http://www.google.com/talk/</link>&gt;.</note> it was discovered that the emerging Jingle approach was conceptually (and even syntactically) quite similar to the signalling protocol used in the Google Talk application. Therefore, in the interest of interoperability and adoption, we decided to harmonize the two approaches. The signalling protocol specified herein is, therefore, substantially equivalent to the existing Google Talk protocol, with several adjustments based on feedback received from implementors as well as for publication within the XMPP Standards Foundation's standards process.</p>
<p>The purpose of Jingle is not to supplant or replace SIP. Because dual-stack XMPP+SIP clients are difficult to build, given that they essentially have two centers of program control, <note>For example, one large ISP recently decided to switch to a pure XMPP approach after having implemented and deployed a dual-stack client for several years.</note> we have designed Jingle as a pure XMPP signalling protocol. However, Jingle is intended to interwork with SIP so that the millions of deployed XMPP clients can be added onto the existing open VoIP networks, rather than limiting XMPP users to a separate and distinct VoIP network.</p> <p>The purpose of Jingle is not to supplant or replace SIP. Because dual-stack XMPP+SIP clients are difficult to build, given that they essentially have two centers of program control, <note>For example, one large ISP recently decided to switch to a pure XMPP approach after having implemented and deployed a dual-stack client for several years.</note> we have designed Jingle as a pure XMPP signalling protocol. However, Jingle is intended to interwork with SIP so that the millions of deployed XMPP clients can be added onto the existing open VoIP networks, rather than limiting XMPP users to a separate and distinct VoIP network.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the purpose of Jingle is not to build a full-fledged telephony application, but instead to add basic voice chat, video chat, and real-time multimedia functionality (e.g., screen sharing) to existing and future XMPP clients. For this reason, the core Jingle specifications do not include support for features such as forking or call transfer. Such features may be added via optional extensions in the future, but are not needed to meet the requirements for basic multimedia interaction.</p>
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<section1 topic='Requirements' anchor='reqs'> <section1 topic='Requirements' anchor='reqs'>
<p>The protocol defined herein is designed to meet the following requirements:</p> <p>The protocol defined herein is designed to meet the following requirements:</p>