[Asterisk-Users] Sipura SIP vs. IAX

[Tom Samplonius]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:47:21 -0700, Joseph <syscon at interbaun.com> wrote:
> I'm just curious why Sipura isn't using free IAX protocol with their
> devices instead of SIP?

* SIP isn't a standard.  It could be made into an official standard,
if there was a standards document.  Someone should write one, and
start an IETF working-group.  If the IETF adopted it, there would be
wider acceptance.

* SIP NAT traversal in Asterisk is harder than it needs to be.  This
should be getting better.  But SIP in general isn't very easy to
configure in Asterisk.  It sounds like this is getting a lot better in
the next release (no more goofy "peer" vs. "friend" distinction).

Tom