On Nov 3, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
IAX is a pseudo-protocol designed by his author just to become "cool". First of all, IAX doesn't separe signalling and media, instead both go together via the same UDP flow. IAX is not a professional protocol and it's just used to interconnect two Asterisk (that can be interconnected also with SIP, of course). IAX makes no sense in this world.
Compared to H.323 SIP is cobbled together by a couple of monkeys who only knew how to speak HTTP and had heard of a planet in a galaxy far, far away called Telefonis where people talked to each other using tin cans.
Calling protocol names is not productive. Separating media from the signaling might theoretically by a "correct" concept, in practice there's much to be said for combining them. Every time I hear someone call anything "not professional" I get the feeling it must be something very good because this person feels threatened by it and the net result of that statement is the opposite -)