[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.6 and IPv6

[John Todd]

At 8:32 AM +0100 2008/3/20, Hans Witvliet wrote:
>On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 19:02 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:
>>  On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Hans Witvliet <hwit at a-domani.nl> wrote:
>>  > On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 17:34 -0400, Simon Perreault wrote:
>>  >  > On Wednesday 19 March 2008 17:25:27 Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>  >  > > Is IPv6 in the Asterisk 1.6 beta?
>>  >  >
>>  >  > Sadly not.
>>  >  >
>  > >  > > I really want to look hard at an IPv6 VoIP world working 
>in concert with
>>  >  > > Teredo where needed.
>>  >  >
>>  >  > Take a look at http://www.asteriskv6.org, you'll see that 
>>this world isn't
>>  >  > that far from reality. ;)
>>  >  >
>>  >
>>  >  looked at it. seems to be the beginning of a complete re-write of
>>  >  asterisk, instead of a fork...
>>  >
>>
>  > Is that a good or a bad thing?
>[snip]
>Latest what i heard, was
>>  Thanks,
>>  Steve Totaro that the merge of v6 code into mainstream 1.6.x was 
>>"work-in-progress", so they are working on it.
>
>I would count on 1.6.0-final. So perhaps 1.6.1 ????
>
>Anyway, any other voip-clients available than linphone or some
>vietnamese dect-phone? AFAIK most ata's or sip-phones are not v6 ready.
>On the leaflet of the spa-3102, they claim for some time there is an
>update for v6, but that seems to be vapor-ware....
>Currently, i'm using <dug> grandstream </dug> and siemens.
>Won't buy anything else until they have a ipv6 version/update.
>
>Hans

Sorry for late reply.

There are several nations in Asia (notably, Japan) who are actively 
experimenting and converting to IPv6, and Asia is one of the most 
densely SIP-enabled areas of the planet, even though woefully 
under-represented here on Asterisk-dev.  I strongly suspect there are 
SIP clients there which are V6 compatible.  Additionally, there is 
the so-called "mandate" that the US Government will be V6 compliant 
soon, though I'm not holding my breath.  However, I believe this 
means that vendors like Polycom, Marconi, Cisco, and Avaya will 
almost certainly have V6 stacks on their SIP devices within 18 
month's time, even if crudely implemented and only semi-adhering to 
the standards.

As Maxim mentioned, SER and OpenSER have had V6 support for some 
time.  It would be easier to sell/install Asterisk platforms that 
supported V6 even if the customer wasn't going to use them anytime 
soon, because CIOs will be flapping their arms and yodeling about V6 
support during any opportunity to shoot down a project.  It used to 
be "Open source!?  We can't use that here in our ENTERPRISE!"  Soon, 
it will be "Well, the <insert big vendor name> rep told me over a 
$200 lunch that Asterisk wasn't future-proof since it doesn't support 
V6, so we simply can't use it."

Beware the FUD.

JT