asterisk users - Mar 2005 - Sipura SIP vs. IAX

I'm just curious why Sipura isn't using free IAX protocol with their
devices instead of SIP?

With IAX NAT traversal would have been easier, so why are they using
SIP.
Is there any politics in it?

-- 
#Joseph

Because SIP works with things other than Asterisk. IAX does not.

Roman Volf
Keystreams Internet Solutions
volfman@keystreams.com



Joseph wrote:
>I'm just curious why Sipura isn't using free IAX protocol with their
>devices instead of SIP?
>
>With IAX NAT traversal would have been easier, so why are they using
>SIP.
>Is there any politics in it?
>
>  
>

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:47:21 -0700, Joseph <syscon@interbaun.com>
wrote:
> I'm just curious why Sipura isn't using free IAX protocol with
their
> devices instead of SIP?
* SIP isn't a standard.  It could be made into an official standard,
if there was a standards document.  Someone should write one, and
start an IETF working-group.  If the IETF adopted it, there would be
wider acceptance.

* SIP NAT traversal in Asterisk is harder than it needs to be.  This
should be getting better.  But SIP in general isn't very easy to
configure in Asterisk.  It sounds like this is getting a lot better in
the next release (no more goofy "peer" vs. "friend"
distinction).

Tom