[Asterisk-Users] Windows IAX soft phone

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 02:27 pm, William Flanagan wrote:
> Why is this the case?  Is it that it uses TCP?  Is it the protocol?
>  Is it that it works better through NATs?  Is it just more mature
> than the SIP or MGCP implementation?  What's the reason for it?  A
> protocol is a protocol in my book.  I'm trying to understand why
> the IAX protocol would work sooo much better.

It might be because IAX was designed by an implementor (Mark), while
a protocol such as SIP was designed by committee.  Problems that take
a committee 6 months and another 50 pages of revisions to correct are
fixed much more easily when the guy writing the protocol and the guy
writing the implementation are the same person.

An old adage comes to mind:  to find a group IQ, you take the lowest
IQ of any person in the group, then divide by the total number of
people.

-Tilghman