[VoiceOps] SUBSCRIBE/NOTIFY method for CNAM querying

[Carlos Alvarez]

LONG long ago, I worked for a NETBIOS networking company, and managed to
get a joke/easter egg put into the actual code, and actually working.  It
accidentally became documented and then started being used.  I got yelled
at, they took it out, and users complained.


On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 01:44:09PM -0700, Ryan Delgrosso wrote:
>
> > "rogue standard"
> >
> > When future historians ask why communications in the 21st century was
> > such a mess, someone will base their dissertation on that phrase.
>
> I call it a form of SIP meme laundering. Seed some behaviour somewhere,
> and pretty soon everyone's doing it, like starting a line to nowhere and
> finding other people lining up because "surely" it goes somewhere... and
> then someone shows up to provide something at the head of it, and now
> it's legit.
>
> Given that it's Broadsoft, I'm pretty sure pets were harmed somehow.
>
> "Whiskers won't know the difference," they said.
>
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