Hi All, Thanks Les for hosting the meeting last night. We had nine come out and enjoyed a lively discussion. Also enjoyed Les's demo of splicing fibre.
One topic that we discussed was why are the vast majority of IP phones not accessible from the Internet. I was lamenting that this has been the big failure of the whole shift to VoIP. I proposed that you should be able to phone someone by phone#@company.domain or even better by using their email address. This of course is technically possible and not that difficult to do. Others said that this would be not good because of spam. There is some validity to this concern but I was thinking that unlike email this should be even easier to stop. A system sort of like captchas should be sufficient. Asking the caller to respond to a question should stop spam. My feeling why this has not happened is probably due somewhat to security concerns but probably more lack of knowledge and a PSTN centric view of telephony. It also may be when IP phones were initially being rolled out VOI (Voice over Internet) had many issues with quality. Those concerns are generally not an issue now. -- Bill _______________________________________________ Asterisk mailing list [email protected] http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/asterisk
