[Asterisk-Users] Opportunistic VoIP

Florian Overkamp
Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:49:42 -0000

This is slightly off-topic I suppose, but:


At 20:37 10-6-2003 -0700, you wrote:
>You should investigate TRIP (RFC 3129):
>
>http://www.zvon.org/tmRFC/RFC3219/Output/
>
>Find BSD-licensed proof-of-concept code at
>http://www.vovida.org/downloads/trip/trip-1.0.0.tar.gz
>
>If someone could incorporate this into Asterisk and extend the
>functionality, that would be pretty nice.  The basic ENUM support in
>Asterisk already can handle specific number paths, but I think TRIP or
>something like TRIP would be best for handling situations where larger
>groups of numbers need to be "advertised" into a routing table
behind a
>particular Asterisk server.  Think "BGP for phone numbers."

I'm sorry, but I see no real benefits to TRIP over ENUM. Large amounts of
data in DNS databases have not been a real problem yet, provided the tree
is delegated properly (as ENUM does), and works quite effectively due to
caching.

TRIP only makes it harder for widespread use to deal with such things as
number portability (can't ever do that with IP, remember). As far as I can
tell from the TRIP docs this looks a lot like some big telco tries to make
it more difficult for customers to move to another telco and still use
their old number...

Florian