Re: GNU SIP Witch Announced

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I do not expect to do any official distributions for release before 
November 1, but current code is in cvs on Savannah in gnucomm's repository.

Aymeric Moizard wrote:
> 
> Good announcement! I'll get my eyes into it...
> 
> Aymeric MOIZARD / ANTISIP
> amsip - http://www.antisip.com
> osip2 - http://www.osip.org
> eXosip2 - http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/exosip/
> 
> 
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, David Sugar wrote:
> 
>> I am sure most people did not yet know that there was a bruja de SIP, 
>> let alone a bruja de SIP del GNU...
>>
>> SIP Witch is an official package of the GNU Project as of August 10th 
>> 2007. GNU SIP Witch is also part of GNU Telephony & the GNU Telecom 
>> subsystem.
>>
>> GNU SIP Witch is a call and registration server for the SIP protocol. 
>> As a call server it services call registration for SIP devices and 
>> destination routing through SIP gateways.  GNU SIP Witch does not 
>> perform codec operations or media proxying and thereby enables SIP 
>> endpoints to directly peer negotiate call setting and process peer to 
>> peer media streaming even when when multiple SIP Witch call nodes at 
>> multiple locations are involved. This means GNU SIP Witch operates 
>> without introducing additional media latency or offering a central 
>> point for media capture.
>>
>> GNU SIP Witch is designed to support network scaling of telephony 
>> services, rather than the heavily compute-bound solutions we find in 
>> use today.  This means a call node has a local 
>> authentication/registration database, and this will be mirrored, so 
>> that any active call node in a cluster will be able to accept and 
>> service a call.  This allows for the possibility of live failover 
>> support in the future as well.
>>
>> GNU SIP Witch is not a SIP "router", and does not try to address the 
>> same things as a project like iptel "Ser".  GNU SIP Witch is being 
>> designed to create on-premise SIP telephone systems, telecenter 
>> servers, and Internet hosted SIP telephone systems.  One important 
>> feature will include use of URI routing to support direct peer to peer 
>> calls between service domains over the public internet without needing 
>> mediation of an intermediary "service provider" so that people can 
>> publish and call sip: uri's unconstrained.  GNU SIP Witch is about 
>> freedom to communicate and the removal of artifical barriers and 
>> constraints whether imposed by monopoly service providers or by 
>> governments.
>>
>> Resources for supporting GNU SIP Witch will be consolidated and 
>> handled principally through Savannah using the existing GNU Telecom 
>> subsystem project found there 
>> (https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnucomm) as a central point of 
>> contact. This sub-project is being reorganized for this purpose.
>>
>> GNU SIP Witch depends on the UCommon library, which may merge with and 
>> become GNU Common C++ 2.0 early next year.  CVS for and new 
>> distributions of UCommon will be found in the GNU Telecom project on 
>> an interim basis until then.  GNU SIP Witch also uses libeXosip2 and 
>> GNU oSIP, and these may be found at their respective sites.  GNU SIP 
>> Witch is licensed under the GNU General Public License V3 or later.
>>
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