30 jan 2010 kl. 23.40 skrev Michiel van Baak: > On 14:29, Sat 30 Jan 10, Olle E. Johansson wrote: >> Friends, >> >> Before the Christmas holidays, I did send this letter and did not get a lot >> of response, but some. Since then, I've been able to get interest from a few >> parties that are willing to fund parts of this work, including Digium, the >> main sponsor of Asterisk. I will also apply for additional funding from a >> foundation here in Sweden and hope to get some more responses so that we can >> fund this project together. If anyone out there has interest or feedback >> regarding IPv6, Asterisk and VoIP, I'll be happy to get in contact. >> >> I've documented some of my thoughts on how to proceed, based on the work >> already done by Marc Blanchet (and of course work together with him) on my >> blog, http://www.voip-forum.com/asterisk/2010-01/voip-users-care-ipv6/ >> >> My hope is that we can get this done and integrated in Asterisk 1.8, but >> that requires some immediate attention from the community, as well as help >> with testing and feedback when we start rolling. Marcs code is already out >> there, so you can start testing NOW in your IPv6-enabled network. >> http://www.asteriskv6.org/ >> >> IPv6 is a boring topic, and if you do it right, no one will thank you for >> it. It just needs to be done. My work with IPv6 started the summer of 1995 >> and since then people have been shouting "We need to migrate now!". We've >> done that so long so that no one listens any more and now it's getting >> really critical. The IP numbering authorities, like ARIN and RIPE, have >> already outlined how they will have to change procedures for IPv4 >> assignments every six months from now, making it harder and harder to get >> addresses. For VoIP - sip trunks, calling each other across the Internet, >> it's critical to have public IP addresses unless you want to stay with your >> lovely Telco on the other end of the copper cables. >> >> Personally, I'm not sure how to design software for this migration properly. >> In order to educate myself and collegues that develop and build SIP >> solutions, I'm going to organize an event this spring which combines testing >> and training. I do hope that the Asterisk community will join me and support >> the developer team in our efforts to make Asterisk - the leading Open Source >> PBX - running perfectly well on both IPv4 and IPv6 networks. It needs to >> be done, we will get it done. And no one will thank us for it, since >> everyone just expects Asterisk to work as we have done for the last 10 >> years... >> >> With IPv6 greetings! > > Says he, who sent this mail over a pure IPv4 network. > Not a single IPv6 hop in the path. tsk tsk tsk. EXACTLY! It's embarrasing. Everytime I turn on IPv6 in my local network, some application break. This is why I want to start fixing this!
> > Like I said before, I'm really interested in this, and have a couple of > ipv6 boxen with asterisk on it. I also have some credits with sixxs.net > so I can provide at least 1 subnet for testing. We'll make sure you get involved, don't worry. ;-) /O -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
