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I miss ordinary conference calling being the norm. I like having a desktop IP phone.

• lxgr 4d ago
  It’s a real shame that essentially all modern communication other than email runs over proprietary protocols.
  • hdgvhicv 4d ago
    We use a lot of sip with all manner of endpoints
    • lxgr 4d ago
      Sure, in a way SIP is bigger than ever with NGNs, and there’s SIP use beyond that too, but actual interoperable SIP (as in, I can dial sip:name@example.com) is effectively not a thing anymore.
      • hdgvhicv 4d ago
        I don’t deal with corporate telephony but our sip accounts on the broadcast side have all manner of endpoints, including software and hardware from many different manufacturers. We land them on a pair of paired oracle sbcs which somehow (I’m not close to the details on this part) shares account detail and sessions between the two geographically resilient locations. You just need the dns, account and password.
        • lxgr 4d ago
          I do believe that vendor-interoperable SIP exists today, but I also know that I can't call >99.9..9% of the people in the world via SIP, and 100% of the ones I practically do call. This is a very different story from e.g. email – even though most people I communicate with use either Gmail or some hosted Outlook service, I don't have to on my side (with some limitations around deliverability etc. lately).