At 10:27 PM 2/17/2005, Juha Heinanen wrote:
Marian Dumitru writes:
Also you can go for TLS, which is as concept basically the same thing IPSEC tunnels. The major difference is that TLS is not free as IPSEC is.
TLS not being part of free ser is indeed a problem. i think it is the only feature mandated by rfc3261 that is not included in free ser.
i fully understand that iptel needs to make money somehow in order to keep its developers on the payroll, but i feel that a mandatory feature should not be hold back. there still is plenty of other value add that iptel can produce even if tls would be in public domain.
To be candid, the suggestion to release some of money-generating features freely and begin working on some other money-generating feature is easier said than executed.
so what can be done about it? the easiest thing would, of course, be that iptel changes its policy and makes their tls implementation as part of free ser.
I do not see that as feasible, at least not at short-term. The feature is commercially available to those with a compelling need for it.
-jiri