[Devel] discussion of roadmap for 1.3

[Klaus Darilion]

Victor Gamov wrote:
> Dialog-based extensions which may be useful:
> 
> -- allow to destroy dialog from MI with accounting generating.
> -- try to find idle or disconnected dialog (ping-like, get statistic 
> from rtpproxy or some other method) and close it with accounting generating
> 
> This features usefull for example in next situation:
> A calls B. When conversation complete A and B disconnects from network 
> (unplug cable for example) and OpenSer  never gets "BYE" and this call 
> cann't be acounted properly.
> 
> -- allow Openser to be SBC. Now we can use OpenSER for this with some 
> gymnastic in rewriting of request and response body using avpops module, 
> But it's really difficult to write and support this config.  New OpenSER 
> module (may be) called SBC can do all this work with interaction some 
> other modules (RR, TM and others). This module must rewrite SIP messages 
> to mask all internal resources for outgoing (relative to OpenSER) 
> messages and rewrite all incoming messages to be appropriate of outgoing 
> messages.

What do you mean with SBC? SBC typically have dozens of features (NAT, 
...). Do you mean topology hiding or an other feature?

> 
> -- (dreams) SIP-H.323 converter. I know that many of such converters 
> exists in real world (one of famous and commonly used is Asterisk). But 
> I think that native OpenSER SIP-H.323 converter can helpto OpenSER to be 
> more useful. If somebody familiar with H.323 he can write this module 
> based on OpenSER Dialog module

There is already Asterisk, yate, freeswitch ... this IMO we should fokus 
on SIP.

regards
klaus