On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:55:40 -0500, Karl Brose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And what to you base such an assertion on? > Would you care to elaborate on the technical justifications?
In a nutshell: The future of voice will be peer-to-peer and that's where IAX has a clear edge. As for a technical discussion of the benefits of IAX, there is quite a bit of material available in the list archives and on the Wiki (search for SIP versus IAX). > standards are not declared by publication or committee votes, but by > the numbers of implementations. precisely my point. > The activity surrounding IAX and > Asterisk at present is encouraging and stimulating, no doubt. indeed. > But there is other competition as well, BT is implementing not SIP, > but MGCP in their transition to an all voip-based network. Is this an argument that bolsters SIP? I would think not. I would think it is a sign that SIP isn't all that omni-potent as SIP lobbyists would have us believe. > Currently, I don't see how IAX can achieve the kind of flexibility > and versatility of SIP, but let the market decide. That may well be the difference between us, you seem to look at things as they are *curently*, I look at the *potential* of things and how they might be in the changed landscape of the future. > Your zealous attitude does little to promote qualified technological > exchange on this list or elsewhere, it rather reminds us of ideological > battles between close-minded parties engaged in power struggles. It's all about balance. While some play the part of a zealous nay-sayer, I may be forgiven to play the role of the zealous supporter. What you call zealous here is of course subject to whether or not you want to take things out of context and how you interpret them: You may think that horse carriages are automatically a bad thing and motorcars are automatically a good thing. The truth is though that this depends on viewpoint. When I say SIP is like a horse carriage, then this reflects the fact that it is a design for the world we have come from, not necessarily the world we are going to. It doesn't mean that horse carriages were a bad thing. After all, motorcars have also brought us noise and pollution. When I say IAX is like a motorcar, then this reflects the fact that it is a design for a modern world. Mind you, driving a motorcar in the days of a non-motorised world was a rather impractical activity. No gas station network, no garages to get things fixed, bad roads. A horse carriage was far more suited to that world. However, that world did change, for good or for worse. rgds benjk -- Sunrise Telephone Systems, 9F Shibuya Daikyo Bldg., 1-13-5 Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. NB: Spam filters in place. Messages unrelated to the * mailing lists may get trashed. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
