[asterisk-dev] 'IAX2 call variable passing between servers '

[Jared Smith]

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 08:17 -0600, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> No Matt. It's comical. This is exactly the type of situation that IAX2
> was designed for, and it doesn't do it very well. 

No, what's comical is your insistence that IAX2 was designed to pass
variables between servers.  IAX2 was designed to pass *calls* between
Asterisk servers, not arbitrary variables.

> The very fact that I have to make modifications to the code to get
> IAX2 to work, but not SIP (yet), indicates IAX2 is falling far short
> of it's expectations.

Who has the expectation that IAX2 should pass variables?  I think most
of us realize that IAX2 doesn't pass arbitrary variables between
servers.  Just because SIP can do something and IAX2 can't doesn't mean
that IAX2 should do it -- as much as I like SIP, there are some things
that SIP can do that I hope IAX2 never does.  IAX2 wasn't designed by
committee, it was designed by Mark Spencer to do one thing and do it
well.  Just because something is *possible*, it doesn't mean it's a good
idea to implement it.

> I don't see how this is complaining. I am trying to solve a problem,
> and given the lack of documentation out there, this is one of the few
> places to turn. 

Maybe it's because of the tone of your emails, and how you seem to think
the Asterisk community is a group of idiots because we don't share the
same view of IAX2 as you do.  Maybe it's your insistence that you're
right and we're wrong, even when you fail to read the responses written
to you.  (Then again, maybe we are a group of idiots, and maybe I should
calm down and eat some breakfast before I read my email first thing in
the morning.  Who knows?)

-Jared