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From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: command-line vat/like program
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Luigi Rizzo writes:
 > 
 >   - be as easy to use as a telephone, especially for point-to-point
 >     communications, so that one can possibly use it even without a
 >     screen, just a keyboard and the audio device (i.e. feedback comes
 >     through the headset, as in a telephone.)

In order to really achieve this, outside the niche-scope of
RTP-conferencing application interoperability the application needs to
speak H.323 to the network. There is already a line of boxes and
applications that do everything from simple telephony to CTI, etc. and
the common thing they all do is H.323.
 > 
Pete