[asterisk-dev] RE: [Asterisk-Users] Bandwidth Management

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Alexander Lopez wrote:

> First:	We need to make the selection of CODECS technology agnostic, There currently exist a facility for CODEC selection (SIP_CODEC) in the sip channel but not in others.

This can be done by extending the CHANNEL() dialplan function, presumably.

> Second:	Discuss is this sould be an outside application that is called from within Asterisk or if it should become a function Set(CODEC=${OPTIMALCODEC(quality)})
> 	available options could be:
> 
> 	quality
> 	bandwidth
> 	license 

Policy decisions do not belong in the Asterisk code; only the mechanisms
to implement them. Turning any of these variables into a codec choice is
certainly 'policy', because everyone will have different needs and desires.