[asterisk-dev] AstriDevCon - PineMango

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 01:49:13PM +0200, Nir Simionovich wrote:
> Agreed, so it must be in the architecture - but as you may have noticed from
> my previous email, I raised the issue of what is the proper architecture, I'm
> not  sure that having a layer of AA services is the proper way to go.
> 
> If the AA services are a mandatory layer, we risk making things more
> complicated for standalone application developers. 

The word "application" in the context of Asterisk and of this discussion
has multiple meanings. So could you please clarify further?

(For some of those meanings, AA are a must to consider anyway)

> Going to the other side, if I'm a service
> provider, I would really like to tie that AA layer to an existing AAA
> infrastructure that I may already have deployed, such as RADIUS or DIAMETER. 
> 
> I think that the best track to take would be to go about and include that 
> AA mechanism as an API with pluggable modules, allowing for additional AA
> mechanisms to be plugged in. If we've already gone the distance to include
> it, no point in not doing in such a way that would appeal to the Big 
> Boys too. I know for fact that carriers in Israel hadn't adopted 
> Asterisk fully due to its lack of RADIUS/DIAMETER support. 
> 
> Please consider the diagram currently posted in the wiki.

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