asterisk users - Oct 2005 - Announcing – Voice over IP Directory Services (http://www.voipDS.org)

Announcing ? Voice over IP Directory Services
(http://www.voipDS.org)

Hi All,

I am sure many of you are aware that by using VOIP
devices one can make peer-to-peer calls. By devices I
mean software phones, hardware phones and Asterisk.
This feature is available, out of the box,  in
majority of devices today. Peer-to-peer calls are
'free' as in 'free beer' because they don't go through
the service providers. All that is required to make a
peer-to-peer call is 'peer connection information' of
other user. 

To make this global, where any VOIP user could make
peer-to-peer call to any other VOIP user, we need the
following 
a central repository which stores peer connection
information of all users
an easy way to search and retrieve peer connection
information of other users.

Voice over IP Directory Services (voipDS, pronounced
as 'voip' D S) precisely addresses this need. Its a
central repository that stores peer connection
information of all users and also provides a search
mechanism by which one could search for other VOIP
users. 

Searching and registering 'peer connection
information' can be done manually via web based
interface or automatically by implementing 'voipDS
protocol'. 

For more information, please visit,
http://www.voipds.org 

voipDS is an 'Open source' effort and all the code
will be released under GPL. If you wish to take part
in this effort, please visit the website and join the
mailing lists. 

Feedback, comments and suggestions, please send to
'feedback at voipds dot org'.

Thanks for your time,
Balaji NJL
balaji at voipDS dot org


		
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Balaji NJL wrote:
> Announcing ? Voice over IP Directory Services
> (http://www.voipDS.org)
> 
> 
> To make this global, where any VOIP user could make
> peer-to-peer call to any other VOIP user, we need the
> following 
> a central repository which stores peer connection
> information of all users
> an easy way to search and retrieve peer connection
> information of other users.
> 
Sorry to be negative, but this kind of services came up in tons
when e-mail was a new service. All of the addresses registred in there
is now totally un-usable because of spam.

I do not really believe in global directory services as a solution...

/O