8 Dec
2022
8 Dec
'22
1:27 p.m.
On 07/12/2022 18:34, Vadim Yanitskiy wrote:
Hi Keith,
It's not just me saying that using SEMS is an overkill. In the wiki
page I linked you also wrote "it is quite some overkill" :P
hehe.. nice catch. I didn't even remember that!
And generally I am not a big fan of text based protocols, even though
in this case all string manipulations are done by some SIP library
(e.g. sofia-sip).
text based protocol you say! hrmmph!, Well, I only have one response to
that; "z9hG4bK" !
So, I guess you make an exception for email. :-) And isn't something
like C also a text-based protocol? We should write in pure assembly.
But seriously, nerdy jokes aside, lest anyone think I'm defending SIP or
any other tech, no not at all, SIP (like most tech). is probably badly
designed, overloaded, bloated and full of hacks to "fix" things that
probably should be fixed elsewhere, but that said, two things.
1) Things are going they way of IMS, right? So sooner or later you will
be dealing with text based protocols in mobile comms.
2) What I wrote on the wiki is just an INVITE with the most basic of
SDP, it really could not be more "simple", honestly, nothing can go wrong.
(ducks)
Exactly. The less additional components it involves,
the better.
The 3rd (of 2) thing, is I'm now reminded of an osmo devcon when I
remember looking around the room in a moment of insight and I stated as
a question, something like.. "Nobody else here ever uses osmo-msc with
the external MNCC, right? and I never use osmo-msc without the external
MNCC".
To me, osmo-msc without osmo-sip-connector is akin to an impenetrable
black box. kinda pointless.
I guess there are other ways, MSC-S or MSS or whatever it's called, but
I don't think I will ever go there.
But my point being, osmo-sip-connector and beyond is not an additional
component to my mind, it's essential. So of course, I wanted to advocate
for attention to the sip side
Anyway, this thread got large for some reason, and I only scanned it,
but I think do what you need, there's quite a lot of engineer test
commands I don't see why one more hurts.
k/