[Asterisk-Users] Re: How far is IAX to be a Standard

[Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists]

> >Try travelling in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, where
> >everything is still mostly dialup and many of the phone wires
> >installed go back before the time when plastic was invented.
> 
> So SIP doesn't work on dialup? That's funny 'cause I'm using it like that...

That's not what I said. I said "Try travelling in Africa, the Middle
East and South Asia" and that is precisely what I meant. I have been
doing a lot of travelling in those places and in many situations and
places the only thing that worked was IAX and ILBC.

You may want to search the archives of this list because this has been
discussed many times before and I have explained my observations in
quite some detail. You will also see that it won't make any sense for
you to come back saying that I am too stupid to set up a SIP
connection and that this would have to be the only reason why SIP
didn't work while IAX did, because I had already explained in those
earlier discussions that we had been competing against the big names
in the industry, the cream of the cream, who came with their SIP gear
and their SIP specialists, and they couldn't get VoIP to work where we
could with IAX.

> If you don't agree that having IAX ratified into a standard would be a
> help, well, that's where we differ.

I have been nagging Mark for some time about getting an IAX RFC
initiative under way, and I have offered my help to Frank Miller
drafting call flow charts and whatever other limited assistance I
could be of in his aim to eventually evolve his IAX specification
document to the point where it would be suitable for submission to the
IETF. So, we are certainly not in disagreement about the benefit of
such an initiative.

However, I disagree with the notion that only big industry player
backed proposals pushed by plenty of lobbying have a chance of
succeeding as standards. Many of the most important internet protocols
have all been single inventor designs which became standard through
grassroots adoption.

I certainly believe that IAX has gained enough momentum to become a
major standard without the marketing and lobbying dollars that have by
now been thrown behind SIP.

rgds
benjk

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