[asterisk-dev] IAX internet draft (draft-guy-iax-00)

[Steve Kann]

Rod Dorman wrote:

>On Monday, March 6, 2006, 16:51:31, Steve Kann wrote:
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>>I don't know if the spec should include this as a requirement or not:
>>It was really a workaround for a broken implementation
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>IMHO  a  broken  implementation is equivalent to a different protocol. A
>spec  should  describe how to do it right, not enumerate several ways to
>do it wrong.
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>At  least  not in a normative section, a non-normative appendix would be
>the appropriate way to incorporate it in the spec if its really needed.
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>>-- but it would still be needed for asterisk < 1.2, or very old
>>iaxclient implementations (the new jitterbuffer was in iaxclient
>>before asterisk).
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>I'm not familiar enough with IAX history. Were the older implementations
>IAX Version 2?
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Yes, IAX1 and IAX2 are similar in spirit, but completely 
non-interoperable. IAX2 was introduced long before asterisk 1.0.

-SteveK



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