[Dundi] Why no paid services?

[Brian West]

DUNDi is not ment to be exploited in that manner.  It's really just a cost
saving method for everyone involved.  You can advertise your routes on DUNDi
and accepts calls to your customers.  That saves you ports on your PRI when
the network gets HUGE like I suspect it will.

bkw

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dundi-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:dundi-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve Kann
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 1:24 PM
> To: dundi at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Dundi] Why no paid services?
> 
> 
> I'm wondering why the DUNDi was specified that you cannot advertise paid
> services?
> 
> I guess it would introduce a host of issues, including how to establish
> billing relationships between providers, but it would be nice to be able
> to request routes to providers, and get back a list of responses which
> include paid and non-paid services:
> 
> I.e. I ask for a route to 12125551212, and get back
> 
> "quality"     "cost" "url"
> nnn            .02USD   iax:12125551212 at asteriskfriendly.net
> nnn            .50USD   sip:12125551212 at ripoff.telco.com
> nnn            0             sip:12125551212 at nyc.fwd.org
> 
> The querier could then choose amongst the services that respond;
> 
> Additionally, to reduce the number of replies you get, a query could
> have a "max-cost" parameter, and then responses could only be generated
> where the call cost is less then the max-cost parameter.  (so, if you
> made the request above, with a max-cost of .05USD, you wouldn't get the
> ripoff telco response).
> 
> -SteveK
> 
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