Folks,
Paul Long and I have combined the H.323 information from our personal web sites at a new domain, http://www.packetizer.com/. This not-for-profit site is devoted to packet-switched conversational protocols, serving the end-user, engineer, and executive, although the focus is on the engineer. For obvious reasons (if you know anything at all about us), we will initially have much more information on H.323, but we intend to gather information on other protocols including SIP, MGCP, and H.248, if only as links to other online resources.
Contributors Wanted
This is a cooperative effort. Besides announcing the site, this email invites _your_ input. If you have any information regarding these or other packet-switched conversational protocols that you can share and would be of interest to others, please forward it to us so that we can make it public on this web site. We will attribute the work to you unless you request us not to. We provide the web space, bandwidth, organization, indexing, and focus; you provide information that is in the public domain or whose copyright you or your organization own and does not contain trade secrets. We don't want to get sued; you don't want to get fired. :-) Your contribution can be as simple as a single tip for solving a particularly nasty implementation issue or clarification of some aspect of a standard or as involved as a complete tutorial on a particular protocol. See the list below for ideas. Conversely, if there is something that you would like to see, please let us know. Maybe we can find someone to write something up or maybe we can maintain a "wish list" on the site for future contributions.
Contributions
Here is a list of the types of contributions for which we are looking. It is likely that you already have things like this lying around somewhere that you had to put together for your own use or use within your organization. Let's share!
- Summary - Primer - Tutorial - Implementation guide - Implementation notes - Cheat sheet - Glossary - Protocol comparisons - Links to other online resources - Description of how to participate, e.g., how to subscribe to the email reflectors and location of reflector archives - List of standards organization(s) working in an area, with contact and membership info - Diagrams - FAQ - Upcoming event sponsored by your company or institution, e.g., seminar or panel discussion
Best Regards, Paul E. Jones Editor of the H.323 Recommendation