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The draft will certainly be renewed; It has gone through the review process and is <BR>
waiting approval. (however, IAX will not be a standards track RFC.)<BR>
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On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 15:20 +0200, Johansson Olle E wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">18 aug 2006 kl. 15.11 skrev Wasim Baig:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> <A HREF="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-guy-iax-01.txt">http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-guy-iax-01.txt</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> expires on sep 7, 2006</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> what happens then? or is the expiry date superflous?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> moreover what needs to be done to make IAX more than a draft,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> i.e. a real honest to goodness, meaty RFC</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Ed Guy can answer the details on this.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Additional question: Did the recent two major security changes to </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">chan_iax2</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">only concern implementation or also the protocol in itself?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">-------</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Do remember that all RFCs are not standard track RFCs.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">And as a side note, even though SIP is on the standards track,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">there has been no official interoperability tests and no movement</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">towards making SIP an Internet standard protocol lately.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Too complex protocols tend to stall in that part of the standards</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">process... Remember IMAP2...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">;-)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">/O</FONT>
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