[Asterisk-dev] goiax expanded with free us domestic calling

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Sunday 02 October 2005 14:54, Mark Aiken wrote:
> One thing that really puzzles me is why people keep inventing new
> call control protocols now that SIP has proven itself and has been
> adopted by all the major carriers and 3GPP. Skype was a hit because
> it solved one the major weakness of SIP - NAT traversal. That problem
> is quickly going away and Skype's value is now its user base as a P2P
> network. What does IAX bring to the table? Why bother with Yet
> Another Call Control Protocol. Mark

Because SIP hadn't yet "proven itself" when IAX was invented?  I'll
note that IAX predates Skype.

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Tilghman