2009/1/1 Dale Worley <[email protected]>:
> Could you explain exactly what you mean by "proprietary" here?

I mean that each vendor implements this feature in a non standar way
(with "standar" I mean a RFC or perhaps a draft).


> It would probably be useful if you published a summary of the problems
> you have discovered.

Not too much for now. The only test I've done for now is with L*****
phones. But if there are, at least, 4 kinds of dialog state server
implementations, I expect there will be interoperability problems.


> As for *why* this is so, I think it's due to the general tendency of
> phone vendors (and other vendors) to expend as little effort as possible
> on implementation.  This leads to responses from vendors like the one we
> received from Pol****, "It works with Broadwords."  I suspect that in
> the telecom world this is even worse than other parts of the computer
> world, because vendors are used to having to tweak their systems to work
> with each particular other vendor; there is little understanding of the
> concept of "standards conformance" in practice.

Yes, that's annoying :(

Thanks.


-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
<[email protected]>

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