I agree that early media has no role in pure/clean IP-IP communications, but only when connecting to the PSTN. Should early media support not be localized in the respective SIP endpoints, that is in the SIP-PSTN gateway?
Support of early media in the SIP-PSTN gateway would resolve this issue. What do you think? Henry On 8/20/08 5:40 PM, "Dean Willis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 20, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Dan Wing wrote: >> >> There are some apparently-legitimate uses of early media, > > No there aren't, IMHO. > >> at least >> from the perspective of some network operators, to deliver things >> like "Than you for using <operator>", advertisements, colorful >> ringback >> (music as ringback), and so on. Brian did a great write-up of many >> scenarios in the (now expired) >> draft-stucker-sipping-early-media-coping-03.txt. > > Well, if you caveat it that way., then your statement is correct. One > might reasonably ask if those operators don't simply have their > requirements confused. > > My take, however, is that "early media" is a cop-out for coping with a > fundamentally broken PSTN-interworking model, coupled with Bad Ideas > about charging based on signaling rather than content. > > But like forking, this genie has left the bottle, and we have to deal > with the consequences of that failing as long as we have SIP 2.0. > > --- > Dean > > _______________________________________________ > Sip mailing list https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sip > This list is for NEW development of the core SIP Protocol > Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for questions on current sip > Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for new developments on the application of sip _______________________________________________ Sip mailing list https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sip This list is for NEW development of the core SIP Protocol Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for questions on current sip Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for new developments on the application of sip
