But we're all using technology designed by an entirely different mindset. All through the VoIP RFCs, you get the idea that the job of the network is to allow endpoints to interconnect however they want. Only by pushing intelligence to the leaf nodes of the network can you have scalable distributed applications.
We are selling the services that customers know they want. But please don't pretend that that the network we're building is the final answer for IP-based telecommunications, or even the most interesting realization of VoIP technologies.
Personally, I don't have a problem with endpoints interconnecting however they want. I do have a problem, though, with the idea that because I use the same provider as another endpoint, the lack of common settings (with the endpoint) results in a failed call, when, if I were using a different provider, the call would succeed. Even worse, because the failure likely occurs after the 200, there's not a great way to fail-route. -jbn Justin B Newman