[VoiceOps] Passing the Voiceops torch

[Hiers, David]

Hello everyone,
It's honestly been an honor and a pleasure to have played my role in our industry.  What started out as me trying to find some smart people that'd let me copy off their homework turned into a thriving community of professionals.

I extend my heartfelt thanks to Mike and the room full of people that tossed their hats in the ring to help keep Voiceops running.  I might have started it, but the true value of Voiceops came from everyone else.

Best wishes to all,

David



-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Johnston <mjohnston at wiktel.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 5:01 PM
To: VoiceOps <voiceops at voiceops.org>
Cc: Hiers, David <David.Hiers at cdk.com>
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On January 2, 2023, David Hiers wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thank you all for your contributions to voiceops over the years, you 
> quite literally make the voiceops distro what it is.
>
> With the coming of 2023, it’s about time to pass the voiceops torch to 
> the next generation.  If you’d like to pick up the domain name and 
> such, please contact me off list.
>
> Happy New Year to all,
>
> David Hiers

The torch has been passed.  David has transferred the voiceops.org domain name over to me, and I am now hosting the DNS and landing page on $DAYJOB servers.  The actual mailing list is still hosted at puck.nether.net.

And thank you, David, for your years of work to the voiceops list.  Much of what we do is so niche, it can be hard to find the resources we need anywhere else.  Just look at the DTMF thread from yesterday!

So let's all give a big thanks to David!


I'll leave you with a few quotes from way way back in the archives.

On July 30, 2009, David Hiers wrote:
> "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you."

On August 5, 2009, Mark R Lindsey wrote:
> At IPTComm a couple of years ago, Jonathan Rosenberg stood up and said 
> the big problem was the walled gardens that are telcos and ITSPs. We 
> carriers just aren't passing traffic via VoIP. Even Cisco customers 
> aren't passing traffic within their own company; you'd have a BTS over 
> here and a BTS over there, owned by the same Cable MSO, passing 
> traffic via ISUP.

That was back in 2009.  That is, sadly, still the case for many telcos, both large and small.

And here are some excellent words from anorexicpoodle, written on October 21, 2009:
> Since we, collectively, are steering one of the industries driving up 
> individual utilization of the IPV4 address space as well as being one 
> of the most sensitive to NAT which is the only way through which IPV4 
> has been sustained as long as it has; it seems like a worthy exercise 
> to discuss our own, and the industries preparedness to adopt IPV6.
>
> Has anyone out there had any experience using any of the open source 
> platforms (OpenSIPS, Asterisk, SIPPY etc) with native IPV6? It seems 
> like these projects are the best equipped right now to handle this 
> move since they rely heavily on the network stack of the underlying OS.
>
> Are there any endpoints or other CPE that anybody has had luck getting 
> to work over native IPV6?
>
> So far I am unaware of any carrier grade (meaning it costs a lot of
> money) softswtch platforms that are ready for this, or seem like they 
> would be without a multi-year effort. Anybody out there that can 
> enlighten us on this one?


Sincerely,
Mike Johnston