What would it take to overthrow the PSTN

using SIP?

What would it take to overthrow the PSTN

using SIP?Dayton TurnerDayton TurnerClueCon 2013ClueCon 2013

Objectives

Reduce (or eliminate!) the dependency on the PSTN

Establish de-centralized routing database / phone book

Increase functionality and flexibility of current routing mechanisms

Get the conversation started

Similar systems

ENUM

Centralized

Requires explicit verification per DID

Simply provides raw SIP URI

DUNDi

Asterisk only

BGP

Operates on same basic principles of peers and trust

What is necessary?

Identify areas where other systems failed to reach mass adoption

Define secure peering mechanism

Protocol for data exchange

Build ready-to-go implementation

Ideas

Service broadcast (like Bonjour)

Peer to peer neighbor learning

Inbound DID directory

White/Yellow page replacement

Outbound routing possibilities

More ideas

Health monitoring between sites

Potentially offer alternate media routing paths that were designed for voice

Allow for advanced routing criteria (avoid known un-trusted networks)

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Concerns

Security is huge

Need network operators to experiment and test

Privacy in an open directory?!

Love to hear your concerns and ideas!

Where do we start?

Discussion

ClueCon, mailing list

We are starting work using Kazoo

Building with API abstraction in mind for connecting to arbitrary data stores

More information?

theMesh.io

Thank you!

(I'll be here all week)