[Serusers] adress book

[Nils Ohlmeier]

On Monday 30 January 2006 12:44, Arek Bekiersz wrote:
> Yes its how I started (ldap+radius(
> But it depends what you want to do.
>
> 1) If you want to have nice display in softphone (or hardware phone with
> LCD) of global system phonebook and/or private phonebook - I'm sorry, no
> vendor is supporting this.
> I was trying to convince few videophone manufacturers to support XML or
> SOAP, but there are other reasons they won't do it now (they all go
> proprietary).

Actually this is not completely true: Snom phone support since firmware 
release 5.0 some basic LDAP connections to M$ Exchange servers. Allthough I 
have to admit that I never tested it, I would say this some kind of standard.

  Nils

> 2) If you want to just implement a SIP-like phonebook functionality,
> like "you hook-off, you press # and number of phonebook entry and system
> dials for you", then voila. You can do it yourself. Just write clever
> SER module, or PHP script and use Ldap.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Arek Bekiersz
>
> Voipers Portugal wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am using SER with centralized LDAP backend which is accessed by
> > RADIUS. Maybe it could work out for you.
> > Jose Simoes
> >
> >
> > On 1/30/06, *Arek Bekiersz* <sip at perceval.net <mailto:sip at perceval.net>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     Hello Joao,
> >
> >     I'm using SER and Asterisks-based system, with centralized LDAP
> > backend. To access LDAP I use SOAP and DSML.This is now used for every
> > provisioning/management/billing/ivr activity in the system. In future I
> > plan to have centralized phonebook based in LDAP.
> >
> >     I think that having centralized LDAP directory and accessing it from
> >     clients via SOAP/XML is a best option. If security is an issue,
> > SOAP/XML Digital Signature and Encryption could be used here.
> >
> >     Maybe we will live until times when hardware vendors will support
> > SOAP clients in their phones, or at least XML browsers or some sort of
> > thin clients. I see SNOM is doing something in XML - maybe worth
> > checking.
> >
> >     I think that will be the soft-phone manufacturers that will first
> > adapt idea of central phonebook, based on SOAP message exchanges with
> > centralized LDAP directory servers.
> >
> >     --
> >     Regards,
> >     Arek Bekiersz
>
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