VoIP Numbering Plan Vs. Domain names. IPNP

On Thursday, April 23, 1998 8:22 AM, Berislav Todorovic[SMTP:BERI at etf.bg.ac.yu] wrote:
@>> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:07:42 +0200
@>> From: Vered Nimrod <nim at tadirantele.com>
@>> Subject: VoIP Numbering Plan Vs. Domain names. IPNP
@>> 
@>> Is there any work being done on the above subject ?
@
@IETF has a working group dealing with IP Telephony, but I'm not sure
@whether they are dealing with the mentioned problem, or not.
@

There is also a lot of work that has already been done in this
area and most of the world has either not seen it or has not
invented it as their own yet.

Before focusing on the numbering plan, you might want to
wrestle with the "service model" issues. Some people want a
pure end-to-end system, other people (like me) advocate a
proxy/gateway model. IPv6 is a product of the end-to-end group
and IPv8 is a product of the proxy/gateway advocates, who
some like to label "telephone people".

In the end-to-end model the assumption is that a "telephone"
will have enough intelligence to communicate directly with other
telephones and servers attached to the open and flat network.
In the proxy/gateway model the telephone has an uplink connection
to a machine that provides agency services via software agents.
Those agencies then cooperate and have a different trust relationship
with each other than end-users. Some people do not like giving
away that trust relationship. Therefore, they advocate end-to-end.

It will be interesting to see where it all comes out. Fortunately,
the marketplace will get to decide...if it is allowed to...

-
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI