This paper investigates the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), an IETF proposed standard described in RFC 2543, reporting on the deployment of a SIP environment in the computer science department at Rhodes University. The paper discusses two initial services: Watchbuddy, which comes with the Columbia SIP kit and Alarm, implemented by the author.
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