[SR-Users] The SIP protocol v2 - we're giving up.

Jason Penton jason.penton at smilecoms.com
Fri Apr 1 12:24:17 CEST 2011


lol!

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Meftah Tayeb <tayeb.meftah at gmail.com>wrote:

> i disagree
> i liked the idea
> i hop they will by true.
> my FUCKING ISP did block sip in leyer7 mode then ipv6 is my friend;)
>
> On 01/04/2011 11:51, Klaus Darilion wrote:
>
>> Didn't you wanted to call it "SIP-sexy"
>>
>>
>>
>> On 01.04.2011 10:54, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
>>
>>> Friends,
>>>
>>> After having spent many years working with the Asterisk SIP channel
>>> driver, Kamailio and the SIPv2 protocol, I have finally realized that this
>>> is a dead end. It's getting nowhere and it's way too complicated to set up,
>>> run and support in working code.
>>>
>>> After realizing this, I started a new standardization project together
>>> with my friends in Canada, Simon and Marc, to develop a working solution
>>> based on the combination of IPv6 and SIP. We have gotten great feedback and
>>> now the IETF, the ITU and the IPv6 forum jointly launches the new standard,
>>> SIP-six.
>>>
>>>  From the press release:
>>>
>>> "”We realize that 99% of the SIP users use SIP for PSTN phone calls. The
>>> original SIP standards was written with other applications in mind, a vision
>>> that never came true.” said Bob Plug, area director in the IETF. ”That’s why
>>> we sat down and said to ourselves that this should be way more simple.”
>>>
>>> The SIP-six standard totally removes the dependency of domains and URI
>>> syntax. There’s no point in using this, since everyone seems to think that
>>> IP addressing is more than enough. The new standard use part of the vast
>>> IPv6 address space to incorporate the E.164 phone numbers as addresses. This
>>> is the reverse of the reverse phone number usage in the enum standard, which
>>> is no longer needed in SIP-six.
>>>
>>> By using IPv6 mobile IP, phone users register their phones and get access
>>> to their phone number. Users that need security can easily integrate IPsec
>>> into their setup. Media and signalling uses the same addressing scheme and
>>> is mixed so that both SIP-six, RTP and RTCP only uses one port address - but
>>> in this case a port address with 32 bit subaddress identifying the media
>>> stream. This finally solves a lot of the firewall traversal issues that SIP
>>> v2.0 had. With the combination of mobile IP and use of public IPv6 addresses
>>> NAT traversal won’t be an issue.
>>>
>>> The testbed for SIP-six has been running for a year at six choosen large
>>> SIP carriers, with the assistance of Edvina AB in Sweden and ViaGenius in
>>> Montreal, Canada. In an International effort, the testbed is today put in
>>> production and Roboid phones all over the world is automatically connected
>>> to this worldwide network."
>>>
>>>
>>> You will be able to find out more about it here:
>>> http://bit.ly/sipsix
>>>
>>> SIP-six is implemented as a channel driver in Asterisk 2.0, as a
>>> replacement for SIP2.0 in Kamailio 4.0 and a channel module in FreeSwitch -
>>> all releases to be released later today. Softphones for testing will shortly
>>> be available from Blink and Zoiper.
>>>
>>> Looking forward to continue this project with the rest of the
>>> Kamailio/SIP-router community!
>>> Special thanks to Daniel for the reference implementation in Kamailio
>>> 4.0!
>>>
>>> Have a nice weekend!
>>>
>>> /Olle
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>
> --
> Meftah Tayeb
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> phone: +13477595883
>
>
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