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> Moreover it's designed to support federated calls between internet domain names, just as email is federated by domain names. Theoretically SIP could have been
by nico 4y ago
> Moreover it's designed to support federated calls between internet domain names, just as email is federated by domain names. Theoretically SIP could have been deployed on the public internet in much the same way email is today, with email addresses reused as SIP identifiers, meaning that you could call an email address directly and without contracting with or paying any intermediary.
What hurdles are there to this happening and phone numbers being replaced with email addresses?
- somat 4y agoNothing at all, however I made the mistake when I set up my sip system of using names, it turns out there is a really awkward disconnect between the ui of traditional phones and using names. something about it being very hard to type in a name from a numeric keypad. However, you don't have to use names, ip addresses work just as well as phone numbers, and you can type the on a traditional phone keypad.
- HyperSane 4y agoUsing IPs would seem to be very inflexible if you need to ever change the IP.
- supertrope 4y agoThe mother of all network effects. People ask for your phone number based on the PSTN format tel:800-NNN-XXXX. 0% of people have a sip:username@company.com. Such a transition would rely on phone companies voluntarily relinquishing their control of the address space, spending huge sums of money on training customers, to de facto commoditize their service. Every single phone with just a number pad would have to be replaced. Hence this will not happen. You can already bypass the PSTN by using Facetime, Signal, Whatsapp, etc. But when someone doesn't use the same service or doesn't own a smartphone at all, good luck telling them to set it up or not contact you at all.