[asterisk-biz] g729 licensing (slightly technical questions)

[Christopher Bergström]

Hej Bret,

I have a feeling this is going to be a hit.  Every bit of it makes sense 
from an outside perspective.  My only question is what is your plan for 
rapid growth?  I imagine that the "global pool" doesn't have much to do 
with water and much more to do with a database.  So.. MySQL, PostgreSQL 
or Oracle?  Clustering/ Failover/ HA? Now comes the question of if 
you're tying in clients from all over the place you'll have to deal with 
authentication...  We can assumed SSL/TLS, but what language and how 
portable is the client app? (What's to stop someone malicious from 
trying to abuse the system.)  Also.. how do you plan to handle the 
metrics for how long a codec is "checked out" from the global pool.  
Will there be some automagical method to release those back to the 
pool?  I can easily see you quickly gaining 100 customers and a global 
pool of codecs in the thousands.  (Just from this list as advertising)

If the box you are going to put at customers location checks out some 
licenses..
    When does it release those licenses?
    Will the release be triggered from your server or that client box? 
If from the server then that means a direct connection to the internet.. 
(firewalls,proxies...)

Is there source coming with this entire solution?
How will you manage updates to this box or will it be customers 
responsibility from that point?

I may not have a good understanding of this so if completely irrelevant 
just ignore.  Just curious is all..  Sounds great and I look forward to 
it :)

Cheers,

C.

ps. Let me know offlist if you want to talk high performance db and a 
distributed client base.