[VOIPSEC] IPv6 and the demise (or not) ofNAT(wasRe: Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE))

[Randell Jesup]

"Hadriel Kaplan" <HKaplan at acmepacket.com> writes:
>Yes, but the current solutions for SIP and MGCP don't require any
>protocol/interop changes, thus no standards.  But of course media needs to
>be relayed - there actually is a way around that relaying still without the
>endpoint needing to be too smart, but it adds a bit of complexity (still
>less than ICE).  But most carrier call models really show very few calls
>voip-to-voip.  The vast majority of calls are to the PSTN/off-net anyway
>today, and so media relaying would be done anyway.

        Those numbers will be changing and already are.  For video calls,
of course, they're all on-net.  Which method of avoiding relaying were
you referring to?

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Randell Jesup, Worldgate (developers of the Ojo videophone), ex-Amiga OS team
rjesup at wgate.com