[Asterisk-Users] res_motv: Request for Comment

[Florian Overkamp]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> Now, of course, any time you put a "call home" feature in, 
> there are people who will be concerned about privacy.  
> Clearly it will be able to be disabled, but I want to run my 
> idea about deployment by everyone here and see if you guys 
> had some ideas.  The idea would be that *new* installs ("make 
> samples") would have the feature turned on for MAJOR level by 
> default, and that any existing install (e.g. 
> /etc/asterisk/sip.conf exists, but not 
> /etc/asterisk/motv.conf) would have the file created at the 
> next "make install" based upon prompting the installer.

Sounds like a nice feature. Things to consider:

- What if someone has their own development tree to work with - the 'call
home server' should be configurable ?
- As a security consideration, sending the local version might not be wise -
what if the call home server is being dns-spoofed ? An intruder might get
relevant version info... Downloading a changes matrix might be wise (maybe
related to 'last time checked' rather than version)

Florian