[asterisk-users] Passing variables over IAX2 -- IAXVAR patch?

[Watkins, Bradley]

>	From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Bill
Hackensack>
>	Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 5:56 PM
>	To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>	Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Passing variables over IAX2 --
IAXVAR patch?
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>	Isn't this channel specific?  Why is this being added?  It does
not work with SIP.  It does not appear to be architecturally generic.
>	 
>	This gets added, but yet a channel specific enhancement for SIP
that would be beneficial for endusers does not get added.  Again,
Asterisk is good at transferring >     calls around, but when it comes
to end users, the developers just keep closing the tickets on the much
needed features.


Being able to pass variables around between systems is by *definition*
channel-specific, since the channel driver is the module responsible for
speaking a given protocol.  Besdies, SIP already has (and has had for a
long time) a method for doing this (SIP headers).  So does ISDN, for
that matter (IEs).

Also, insofar as changing things in the core for this, it isn't
necessary.  Asterisk has had channel variables for at least as long as
I've been working with it.  This is really just an extension of that so
that there is a way to send this kind of information to remote systems.

Finally, chiming in on this issue in the way you did is fairly childish.
It's not really related, even, just a whine about a feature which you
(incorrectly) equate with one that got shot down.

Regards,
- Brad