The debian.org SIP service has been active for over a year and the fedrtc.org service for Fedora is actively being evaluated[1] and will hopefully be adopted as official Fedora infrastructure.
Can anybody think of other communities that would run this solution? Would FSF Europe like to play an active role in engaging other communities to try this now that we have a way forward to replace Skype?
RTC Quick Start guide[2] documents everything that has been done in the debian.org and fedrtc.org sites and is a blueprint for anybody who wants to replicate this.
Two common points of concern when I discuss it with system administrators: a) they don't want to run an Asterisk instance because they tried it once already and realized they don't have time to learn and support a whole PBX b) softphones on Linux frequently have NAT problems and one-way-audio problems and this makes many complaints and time wasted and a bad impression of the service
The solution chosen for debian.org and fedrtc.org is not a full Asterisk, it is just a SIP proxy, so that resolves the first problem. WebRTC and TURN have advanced NAT traversal capabilities and all the logic is in the browser, the server (and administrator) are not responsible for troubleshooting a million complaints about NAT, that resolves the second problem.
1. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/infrastructure/2015-May/016245.htm...