Can anybody explain me why IAX is called proprietary protocol? In some places IAX is refereed as "open protocol". How can proprietary protocol be open protocol? -- #Joseph
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Joseph wrote:> How can proprietary protocol be open protocol?If the protocol is fully documentated and this documententation is available to anyone you can speak of a open protocol. It is not an open 'standard', because it is only supported by Digium, thus proprietary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary Stefan
IAX is an abbreviation for Inter Asterisk Exchange. So IAX was a proprietary protocol for interconnecting Asterisk servers, it was only used with 2 asterisk servers. IAX has always been open for the community. So some may say it's proprietary, while it is open. At the current time, the IAX protocol is not only used in asterisk, but also in some softphone clients and other software, but you still need asterisk as one of the partners in a client-server relation. So wether you can still call it proprietary is up to you. Regards, Marc Joseph wrote:> Can anybody explain me why IAX is called proprietary protocol? > In some places IAX is refereed as "open protocol". > > How can proprietary protocol be open protocol? >-- CTO Marc Storck MS Networks SA mstorck@msnetworks.lu IT Service Provider http://www.msnetworks.lu 15, route d'Esch Phone: +352 2727 3030 L-4450 Belvaux Fax: +352 2727 3060 --------------- MS Networks powered service --------------- http://www.LuxAdmin.com Hosting and housing solutions ----------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3364 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050427/cb85cdf6/smime.bin
Joseph wrote:>Can anybody explain me why IAX is called proprietary protocol? >In some places IAX is refereed as "open protocol". > >How can proprietary protocol be open protocol? > > >Proprietary means it came from a proprietor - Digium in this case. This is a completely unrelated issue to whether it is open. Marketing departments try to confuse the issues. :-) Regards, Steve
> >http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20protocols > > > >I think that should be corrected! > > > > > > > Happy now? :) > > Jonathan / denonMuch better :-) (thank you!) -- #Joseph
Joseph wrote:>Can anybody explain me why IAX is called proprietary protocol? >In some places IAX is refereed as "open protocol". > >How can proprietary protocol be open protocol? > >Since the source code is available to anyone and GPL'ed it is an open protocol. However it's not a standard and there is no clear specification other than the source code (which kind of sucks because it means that ATA makers probably won't support it). So it's a non-standard, open protocol. Cheers, Jean-Michel. -- Ykoz Un Max - La VoIP en pr?-pay?! Essayez gratuitement - 5 cr?dits offerts. ---> http://ykoz.net/voip/max <---