[asterisk-dev] New SIP channel driver project page

[BJ Weschke]

+1 Matt

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On Nov 7, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Matthew Jordan <mjordan at digium.com> wrote:

> On 11/07/2012 01:01 PM, James Cloos wrote:
>> The new sip driver should include sctp support, at least tentatively.
> 
> So, I'd like to avoid this thread turning into a list of feature
> requests.  The consensus out of AstriDevCon wasn't "let's go build a new
> SIP channel driver so we can put X in it", but rather "let's go build a
> new SIP channel driver because putting X in the current one is hard".
> And by hard, I mean there is a difficulty imposed on the developer by
> the very nature of the channel driver, from the implementation of a new
> feature, to testing said new feature, to actually maintaining said new
> feature.  Code changes in the current SIP channel driver lend themselves
> to causing regressions.
> 
> The first step is to figure out what is the minimum set of requirements
> that a SIP channel driver has to provide.  Following closely on that are
> the basic design goals that we want to levy against the project, e.g.,
> use a 3rd party SIP stack.  This is why Mark's current list focuses on
> functionality that the current SIP channel driver provides, as the goal
> - initially - should simply be feature parity.
> 
> Now, if there are things that a good design and a good SIP stack lets us
> do easily and in a modular fashion, then additional functionality is
> definitely something that we (meaning the community as a whole) should
> look into.  If the transport stack is modular and extensible, I'm sure
> that making an SCTP sub-project as part of the SIP channel driver
> project has potential, and may be something that community members would
> like to contribute to.
> 
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