Telepathy provides:
Connection
- Manager
- Alias
- Avatar
- Capabilities
- Contact info
- Forwarding
- Presence
- Privacy
- Renaming
Channel
- Handler
- Contact list
- Contact search
- DTMF
- Group list
- Hold
- Password
- Room list
- Streamed media
- Text
- Transfer
- FileName mode (give url and ask for a ft channel with pause/resume/cancel cmds)
- FileStream mode (get ft channel and push bytes along)
Skype reqs:
- multiple devices at once (on single account), even multi logins on single dev
- audio/video conferencing
- extra plugins (AP2AP, or stand-alone?)
- whiteboards
- p2p games
- screensharing
- answering machines / call centers
- SMS
- Chat
- File transfers
- Call forwarding
- Skypecasts
- SkypeFind
- Billing/prices info – caps for skype in/out avail, remaining budget