On 14:29, Sat 30 Jan 10, Olle E. Johansson wrote: > Friends, > > Before the Christmas holidays, I did send this letter and did not get a lot > of response, but some. Since then, I've been able to get interest from a few > parties that are willing to fund parts of this work, including Digium, the > main sponsor of Asterisk. I will also apply for additional funding from a > foundation here in Sweden and hope to get some more responses so that we can > fund this project together. If anyone out there has interest or feedback > regarding IPv6, Asterisk and VoIP, I'll be happy to get in contact. > > I've documented some of my thoughts on how to proceed, based on the work > already done by Marc Blanchet (and of course work together with him) on my > blog, http://www.voip-forum.com/asterisk/2010-01/voip-users-care-ipv6/ > > My hope is that we can get this done and integrated in Asterisk 1.8, but that > requires some immediate attention from the community, as well as help with > testing and feedback when we start rolling. Marcs code is already out there, > so you can start testing NOW in your IPv6-enabled network. > http://www.asteriskv6.org/ > > IPv6 is a boring topic, and if you do it right, no one will thank you for it. > It just needs to be done. My work with IPv6 started the summer of 1995 and > since then people have been shouting "We need to migrate now!". We've done > that so long so that no one listens any more and now it's getting really > critical. The IP numbering authorities, like ARIN and RIPE, have already > outlined how they will have to change procedures for IPv4 assignments every > six months from now, making it harder and harder to get addresses. For VoIP - > sip trunks, calling each other across the Internet, it's critical to have > public IP addresses unless you want to stay with your lovely Telco on the > other end of the copper cables. > > Personally, I'm not sure how to design software for this migration properly. > In order to educate myself and collegues that develop and build SIP > solutions, I'm going to organize an event this spring which combines testing > and training. I do hope that the Asterisk community will join me and support > the developer team in our efforts to make Asterisk - the leading Open Source > PBX - running perfectly well on both IPv4 and IPv6 networks. It needs to be > done, we will get it done. And no one will thank us for it, since everyone > just expects Asterisk to work as we have done for the last 10 years... > > With IPv6 greetings!
Says he, who sent this mail over a pure IPv4 network. Not a single IPv6 hop in the path. tsk tsk tsk. Like I said before, I'm really interested in this, and have a couple of ipv6 boxen with asterisk on it. I also have some credits with sixxs.net so I can provide at least 1 subnet for testing. Money on the other hand is a totally different issue. Cant provide that. sorry. > > /Olle > > > Vidarebefordrat brev: > > > Fr?n: "Olle E. Johansson" <[email protected]> > > Datum: 17 december 2009 09.39.40 CET > > Till: Asterisk Non-Commercial Discussion Users Mailing List - > > <[email protected]> > > ?mne: [asterisk-users] Asterisk IPv6 update - we need an update > > Svara till: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > > <[email protected]> > > > > Friends, > > > > At the first Astricon I was very happy to see Marc Blanchet as one of the > > attendees. I knew he was one of the IPv6 gurus and I wanted someone to show > > some interest in Asterisk and IPv6. > > > > Well, he did not only get interested in it, but started coding on it. The > > results have been available for quite some time at > > http://www.asteriskv6.org/ and Marc has tested it at several SIPits for > > interoperability. > > > > This patch is very large and affects large areas of Asterisk. In order to > > support IPv6, we need to update the way we interact with sockets, with DNS, > > with URI's. The SIP channel needs to handle multiple UDP as well as TCP > > sockets in both protocols. The ACL's we use for all VoIP protocols and > > manager needs support for IPv6. And much more. > > > > Marc hasn't been able to spend time to keep it up to date with the > > everchanging trunk. > > > > I feel we need to move this forward and try to divide the large patch into > > smaller pieces that can be reviewed separately by the developer team and > > be merged gradually. First, Marcs branch needs a serious overhaul to get up > > to date with trunk. In order to work on this, Marc and I needs funding. > > > > I have a few interested parties, but need more interested parties that can > > commit to funding during the first half of 2010 for this project. It's not > > a small task, the current estimate is at least one month's work for each of > > us for updating, cutting it up, merging, going through the review process, > > testing and finalizing with new tests at SIPit or a similar event. > > > > If your organization is interested, please let me know off list and we'll > > discuss from there. My e-mail is as always [email protected]. Please don't > > hesitate to mail me with any questions you might have about this project. > > > > Thank you for your support. > > > > Best regards, > > /Olle > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- Michiel van Baak [email protected] http://michiel.vanbaak.eu GnuPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x71C946BD "Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?" -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
