> Just to be clear, routed calls are not "Icom routed" calls, they are native > to the D-STAR protocol. The Icom gateway implements them. DPLUS linking is > a non-standard add-on, widely deployed and accepted by the users, but not > native to the protocol. > > DE K7VE
More later, but just to be really clear, dplus is a DStar extension, not an add-on. Nothing in the DStar protocol prohibits extensions, so to say dplus is "non-standard" is a non sequitur. Dplus adds features to the DStar environment which overall are "accepted", but I think it is time to seriously rethink the way some of those features behave, specifically what NU5D has mentioned. Callsign routing and gateway linking are not inherently compatible for at least the reasons NU5D has mentioned. Whether (local or G2 delivered) RF callsign and slash routed streams are forwarded to dplus links needs to be a local dplus configuration option, not a global setting. Whether dplus (linked) callsign and slash routed streams are delivered to the local gateway also needs to be a local configuration option. Another local configuration option needs to offer a (silent) dplus unlinking when callsign and slash routed streams arrive by RF, G2 or dplus. This matters hugely to gateways where operators often use callsign and slash routing. For gateways that merely function like linked FM repeaters, it doesn't matter. 73 -- John
