Re: [PATCH] Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), direction dated 2008-12-10

Agreeing with Alex as well.

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Alejandro Guerrieri
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On 26/02/2009, at 12:14, Kenny wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I support Alex because this can easily be resolved at the application
> level. Several countries may as well have other requirments and would
> this mean having patches for all the countries?
>
>
> On 2/26/09, Alexander Malysh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> distro packages have nothing todo with this hack.
>>
>> Kannel has following rule:
>> 	no specific workarounds (and this hack is only India specific and is
>> only for commercial MT)
>>
>> If we break this rule we have to do more work to allow all the needed
>> workarounds and maintain these,
>> what is the real work.
>>
>> The second think about this patch: why should this go into SMPP
>> module? why it's not possible to do
>> at application level before submitting message to kannel? I really
>> don't see reason to accept this patch.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>> Am 26.02.2009 um 08:09 schrieb Enver ALTIN:
>>
>>> Hi Stipe,
>>>
>>> At first glance, my reaction was neutral like you but then I think
>>> somehow it needs to go in.
>>>
>>> A comfortable Kannel experience today is to download the source code
>>> from CVS, build and use that. This was how a Slackware or Gentoo  
>>> user
>>> would get things done nearly a decade ago, but things change.
>>>
>>> There are excellent distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and
>>> SuSE;
>>> and that's what people actually use. If there is a Kannel package
>>> provided by their distribution of choice, they use that.
>>>
>>> Now, think about people from India. You're really putting a
>>> roadblock on
>>> their way. They just can't use the OpenSolaris package as it is, if
>>> there's one, they'll have to rebuild it. And it's really dumb to  
>>> have
>>> development tools installed on a production server, for many  
>>> reasons.
>>>
>>> Short story, it should be in.
>>>
>>> PS: We really should start encouraging people to use distro packages
>>> at
>>> some point.
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 16:34 +0100, Stipe Tolj wrote:
>>>> Hi list,
>>>>
>>>> according to the TRAI, all SMSC in India need to use prefixes in
>>>> TON=5
>>>> (alphanumeric) source addresses since 2009-02-01.
>>>>
>>>> Please find a corresponding patch against 1.4.3 and CVS HEAD at
>>>>
>>>> http://www.kannel.org/~tolj/patchsets/TRAI/
>>>>
>>>> along with the official direction statement of the TRAI.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure if we want to "mainline" this into CVS, since it
>>>> exposes another
>>>> config directive to the smsc group. But as this is of general
>>>> interest to all
>>>> users from India, please feel free to incorporate the patch to your
>>>> production
>>>> systems.
>>>>
>>>> Any opinions if we want this (or modified) to go into CVS? I'm +0
>>>> on it, not
>>>> really sure and want to hear some opinions from the group.
>>>>
>>>> Stipe
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Enver
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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