[Asterisk-Users] IAX/SIP (Was: Windows IAX soft phone)

[Fredrik Hedberg]

I don't think SIP should be bashed just of the NAT problems you guys are
having. Not that IAX isn't an -exellent- protocoll for its uses, but SIP
it a bit more than just p2p trunk VoIP.

F

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 21:48, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 August 2003 02:27 pm, William Flanagan wrote:
> > Why is this the case?  Is it that it uses TCP?  Is it the protocol?
> >  Is it that it works better through NATs?  Is it just more mature
> > than the SIP or MGCP implementation?  What's the reason for it?  A
> > protocol is a protocol in my book.  I'm trying to understand why
> > the IAX protocol would work sooo much better.
> 
> It might be because IAX was designed by an implementor (Mark), while
> a protocol such as SIP was designed by committee.  Problems that take
> a committee 6 months and another 50 pages of revisions to correct are
> fixed much more easily when the guy writing the protocol and the guy
> writing the implementation are the same person.
> 
> An old adage comes to mind:  to find a group IQ, you take the lowest
> IQ of any person in the group, then divide by the total number of
> people.
> 
> -Tilghman
> 
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