[Asterisk-biz] Call termination database

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Alistair Cunningham wrote:

> Would people be interested in such a site? What features would people 
> like to see? In particular, how detailed would you like locations to be? 
> Countries? Regions / States? Individual area codes?

I have been considering building a "route only" database, to also be 
publicly available. This would serve two purposes: it would be a 
canonical (hopefully accurate) list of routes (country, city/region, 
route type), and would also provide a template to be used for an A-Z 
termination provider to provide their rates. If the site allowed the 
route database (or portions thereof) to be downloaded as CSV/SXC/XLS, 
then I could provide the database to a potential termination provider, 
have them fill in the numbers (or they could provide me their 
already-filled-in template they have on file) and then it would be easy 
to merge the numbers in my company's routing database.

As it stands now, pretty much every provider has their own "rate chart" 
format, and many of them are incomplete and/or inaccurate. I wasn't 
really thinking about actually building a _rate_ database, since the 
rates are frequently not public, based on volume, etc.

I'd like to discuss this further; I have equipment that I could host 
this with, and would be happy to do so (again, as Alistair said, it's 
good advertising plus we'd be giving back to the community).

If this is off-topic for this mailing list, email me directly and we'll 
try to get something figured out.