Dear Nokia developers,

It's been a long time since I started using the sofia-sip library, and I
am personally quite happy and impressed with its performance. So first
of all, thanks to all of you and specially to Nokia for making it freely
available to everyone.

Said so, there's still a small lack of functionality in the free-open
version of sofia-sip, which is the support of Signaling Compression
(SigComp) as defined in RFC3320 and RFC4077. SigComp is widely used in
lots of mobile-related applications using a radio network as physical
transport, where the size of the transmitted packets is an important
issue.
 
Digging in the code, one can see the setup and usage of the sigcomp
compartments, and the methods to decompress and compress the messages
directly at tport level. Thus, it seems clear that the private version
of sofia-sip maintained in Nokia has already a good support for SigComp.

There are already several free-open source SigComp stacks out there:
 * opensigcomp (C++ library, GPL or commercial license, already
available through the reSIProcate stack)
 * libsigcomp (C++ library, LGPL)
 * tinysigcomp (C library, GPL, part of "doubango" framework)

Including support for any of those in sofia-sip doesn't seem an easy
solution (at least for us, developers, using the API of sofia-sip and
not developing sofia-sip itself). And even worse, it doesn't make much
sense to spend too much time in that effort when the work is already
done by Nokia.

My humble request is then, please make the sigcomp plugin for sofia-sip
free software, publicly available for everyone, so that we can keep on
developing applications using the sofia-sip stack also including SigComp
support.

Cheers,
-- 
Aleksander


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