Subject: [Asap] ASAP: Introduction & Way Forward

From: "Sreekanth Narayanan (sreenara)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 12:32:38 +0000

Hi All,

Thank you for subscribing to the ASAP mailing list. For the benefit of folks that are new to this effort, below is a summary

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With the advent of SIP trunking, enterprise networks are increasing peering with their service providers over SIP in favour of traditional interconnection methods such as ISDN circuits and analog lines. However, due to the large number of extensions to baseline SIP & RTP and other minor considerations (formatting of the calling number, for example) administrators spend several time cycles in coming up with a configuration block that allows enterprise networks to effectively peer with their service providers over SIP. The following draft (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kinamdar-dispatch-sip-auto-peer-03) defines a parameter set (and a corresponding data model), which when populated by a service provider and which when communicated to an enterprise network provides the administrator sufficient information to configure SIP trunking with the service provider.
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In order to get the draft referenced above to be formally adopted by the ASAP working group, the authors believe it would be helpful to engage in a discussion about the following so as make the draft representative of the largest possible chunk of considerations that arise/may arise(as related work matures) when deploying SIP trunking with telephony service providers.

  1.  Modifications to the capability set.
  2.  Inclusion of a STIR specific section
  3.  Inclusion of a section for certificate management
  4.  Using WebFinger as a mechanism for service discovery.

We would like to ideally have a separate discussion thread for each of the items listed above. This mail serves as a starting point for those who are new to ASAP and would like to get familiar with the idea. A subsequent mail will cover detailed notes about each of the aforementioned points. In the meantime, we would be happy to address any thoughts or objections that you'll might have.

Regards
Sreekanth