Re: Re: Re: VoIP peering & routing protocols (revisited)

["Kalogiros Constantinos" <ckalog@aueb.gr>]

======= At 2005-04-20, 10:47:29 you wrote: =======

>> Of course, complexity vs functionality is a tradeoff that cannot
>> be ignored. However, in a competitive environment like VoIP
>> market (where real money are exchanged and thus there are a lot
>> of issues to be tackled) complexity is inherent.
>
>oh?  and why?  because money breeds bad architecture, crappy
>design, ...?  this is the bellhead mind-set trap.  this is why the
>margins are gone from the wire-line and now wireless telcos.
>perhaps different architectural models might be considered this
>time around, where complexity is taken as a sign of looking at
>things in the wrong way.

I meant that the heart of the problem is the distributed nature (if this is desired), not a specific software implementation. A commercial distributed system cannot be compared to a file-sharing p2p system. As long as PSTN interconnection is important and there are many possible gateways, a lot of mechanims that would enable trust must be in place.
>
>for an understanding of some of the physics behind bad software
>engineering, see, for example
>
>  <http://www.geometer.org/sgi/usability.html>
>
>randy
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