[Asterisk-biz] CDR mediation

[Chris Ochs]

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From: <alex at pilosoft.com>
To: "Chris Ochs" <voip at paymentonline.com>; "Commercial and Business-Oriented 
Asterisk Discussion" <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] CDR mediation


> On Mon, 16 May 2005, Chris Ochs wrote:
>
>> I'm curious how CDR mediation is done if you are connecting to someone
>> like L3/XO/Qwest via SIP.  Do upstream proxies pass the BYE messages
>> back down the proxy chain so you get a full CDR?  Or is there some sort
>> of API you query that gives you call records straight from a SBC?
> You get the BYE messages. Obviously, how else would you know to signal the
> caller that the call needs to be terminated.
>
I was 99% sure on this, but after skimming the 10+ RFC's dealing with SIP I 
wanted to make sure.  Did they really have to make SIP that complicated?  Or 
maybe it's just overly verbose.

Chris