On 4/24/20 8:18 PM, Keith Moore wrote:
On 4/24/20 6:07 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:
Now being the dutiful engineer that I am, I decided to have an
argument with myself and ask whether we both (STIR/SHAKEN and
SIP-DKIM) are wrong. That is, is telephony as we know it essentially
dying. The Covid pandemic has really put that into focus with
services like Zoom in the limelight which as far as I know doesn't
use SIP. Maybe none of them have an inter-provider problem like the
PSTN does.
IMO the fragmentation of video call services is a disaster. I
certainly hope that single-provider solutions aren't the future of
video calling.
Do the unwashed masses use anything that supports inter-provider like
xmpp or sip for texting? As far as I can tell that ship sailed ages ago
with facebook, whatsapp and all of the rest. Video is pretty hopeless
because if it requires mixing, somebody has to pay for the mixing in the
backend and there is about zero interest to set up inter-provider
settlement. Unless this sort of thing is mandated by government, I can't
imagine what would change that.
Mike
