B.2 H.323 Resources

1. ViDe VideoConferencing Cookbook: Excellent introduction to videoconferencing, written especially for the higher education and K-12 community
2. Paul Jones' H.323 Site at Packetizer.com: Good source for current drafts of H.323 Recommendations and lots of other good information; (Paul is ITU-T Study Group 16 H.323 Rapporteur)
3. OpenH323 Project: Open source implementation of the H.323 protocol
4. h.323 Forum: An industry forum sponsored by sponsored by the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC). Presentations, Whitepapers and certification information
5. International Engineering Consortium tutorial on H.323: Explains H.323 call flows with an emphasis on gateways and gatekeepers.
6. Wainhouse Whitepapers on rich media communication: ``Business case'' type approach to evaluating multimedia services
7. Real Time Protocol (RTP): IETF RFC 1889
8. ITU-T Recommendation H.323 (2000), Packet-based multimedia communications systems.
9. ITU-T Recommendation H.235 (2000), Security and encryption for H-Series (H.323 and other H.245-based) multimedia terminals.
10. ITU-T Recommendation H.225.0 (2000), Call signaling protocols and media stream packetization for packet-based multimedia communications systems.
11. ITU-T Recommendation H.320 (1999), Narrow-band visual telephone systems and terminal equipment.