From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jul 4 15:15:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B10137B400; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 15:15:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tgd.net (mail.tgd.net [209.81.25.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB8443E31; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 15:15:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sean@mail.tgd.net) Received: by mail.tgd.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A459C20F01; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 15:15:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 15:15:41 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: Brooks Davis Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke , Barney Wolff , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Skinny (SCCP) protocol gateway for libalias Message-ID: <20020704151541.D77084@ninja1.internal> References: <1025480857.48597.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20020630204452.A56736@tp.databus.com> <1025485730.48597.35.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20020630213704.A57193@tp.databus.com> <1025487696.48597.43.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20020630202858.B10041@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020630202858.B10041@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>; from "brooks@one-eyed-alien.net" on Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at = 08:28:58PM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > I knew I should have explained. :) > > > > > > What I fear is volatility, with an undocumented proprietary > > > protocol. And suppose Cisco abandons it for something > > > completely different - when would it be aged out? > > > > You bring up a good point. Volatility is something I didn't > > consider. Thanks. > > IMO you shouldn't consider it. Cisco will probably support this > protocol for years. Even if they "abandon" it, it will still be > supported because there are already sites with thousands of phone > that aren't going to upgrade on a whim. I believe it should go in. > If at some point in the future it is actually gone from real use, > then it can be removed. Ehh.. I worked for the dept in Cisco that was deploying the call manager servers for Cisco... this puppy's going to be around for a while: Cisco dumped a huge chunk of change into implementing and deploying this. They're not about to write this off as a sunk cost any time soon (unlike Unity, which got the ax). -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message