Re: [Webct-admin] Re: Chat binding to *:4445

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The ports were picked because they weren't used by any common 
service at the time and could be started by a non-root user on a 
UNIX system. I've never heard of a system that we had a port 
conflict and even if we did, you could change our ports without 
dinking with the clients.

Remember the current line of WebCT is still just an extension of 
software that was originally developed to put one class on the 'net. 
That's a big reason why we're rewriting for Cobalt.

As for standards in chat/whiteboard, I don't know of any particular 
ones we're implmenting. I think most people would prefer us to be 
able to interact with one of the existing IM systems before H.323, 
but that's a personal opinion. That's why I pushed for Jabber, but 
we want to keep the default system simple & let the complicated 
stuff come later or from a 3rd party.

Mark

On 8 Sep 01, at 7:33, Ian Goh wrote:

> > (I just noted another weirdism.  Why does the whiteboard use one
> > port for TCP and a different one for UDP.  You can use the same port
> > number for TCP and UDP.  See
> > http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers for a list of
> > registered port numbers.  Does WebCT know that they are using ports
> > that already belong to other applications?)
> 
> I've suggested in the past that WebCT use H.323 / T.120 compliant
> conferencing.  That's a "standard"!
> 
> - Ian
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