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

[Alexander Lopez]

> 
> 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.
> 
Good so we already have a good place to add this in.

> > 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.

Agreed, I was looking that way also as I personally prefer to keep
Asterisk lean.