[Asterisk-Users] Opportunistic VoIP

[Florian Overkamp]

This is slightly off-topic I suppose, but:


At 20:37 10-6-2003 -0700, you wrote:
>You should investigate TRIP (RFC 3129):
>
>http://www.zvon.org/tmRFC/RFC3219/Output/
>
>Find BSD-licensed proof-of-concept code at 
>http://www.vovida.org/downloads/trip/trip-1.0.0.tar.gz
>
>If someone could incorporate this into Asterisk and extend the 
>functionality, that would be pretty nice.  The basic ENUM support in 
>Asterisk already can handle specific number paths, but I think TRIP or 
>something like TRIP would be best for handling situations where larger 
>groups of numbers need to be "advertised" into a routing table behind a 
>particular Asterisk server.  Think "BGP for phone numbers."

I'm sorry, but I see no real benefits to TRIP over ENUM. Large amounts of 
data in DNS databases have not been a real problem yet, provided the tree 
is delegated properly (as ENUM does), and works quite effectively due to 
caching.

TRIP only makes it harder for widespread use to deal with such things as 
number portability (can't ever do that with IP, remember). As far as I can 
tell from the TRIP docs this looks a lot like some big telco tries to make 
it more difficult for customers to move to another telco and still use 
their old number...

Florian