What would it take to overthrow the PSTN using SIP? Dayton Turner ClueCon 2013
Objectives Reduce (or eliminate!) the dependency on the PSTN Establish de-centralized routing database / phone book Increase functionality and flexibility of current routing mechanisms Get the conversation started
Similar systems ENUM Centralized Requires explicit verification per DID Simply provides raw SIP URI DUNDi Asterisk only BGP Operates on same basic principles of peers and trust
What is necessary? Identify areas where other systems failed to reach mass adoption Define secure peering mechanism Protocol for data exchange Build ready-to-go implementation
Ideas Service broadcast (like Bonjour) Peer to peer neighbor learning Inbound DID directory White/Yellow page replacement Outbound routing possibilities
More ideas Health monitoring between sites Potentially offer alternate media routing paths that were designed for voice Allow for advanced routing criteria (avoid known un-trusted networks) ?????
Concerns Security is huge Need network operators to experiment and test Privacy in an open directory?! Love to hear your concerns and ideas!
Where do we start? Discussion ClueCon, mailing list We are starting work using Kazoo Building with API abstraction in mind for connecting to arbitrary data stores
More information? theMesh.io Thank you! (I'll be here all week)