During this last "blogisode" we moved from a discussion about the technology and weakness of the SIP RFCs to what I feel is a far more difficult hurdle, the political challenges with SIP interoperability. As with national and global politics, getting people with diverse needs and existing investments to compromise is a significant challenge.
So how do we break the almost infinite cycle of continuous interoperability testing between the growing number of hardware vendors, software applications and carriers?
One approach that immediately comes to mind is to define a "gold standard" that each of the market participants can test against, and create a predictable level of interoperability assurance between systems. As one of my readers duly noted, this is the driving vision of the SIP Forum, and their SIPconnect effort, trying to make SIP Trunking interoperability more predictable. The SIPconnect Technical Recommendation 1.0 specifies the interface between a SIP-enabled Service Provider to a SIP-enabled Enterprise Network (aka "SIP Trunks"). Continue Reading...
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