GNU SIP Witch Announced

I am sure most people did not yet know that there was a
bruja de SIP, 
let alone a bruja de SIP del GNU...

SIP Witch is an official package of the GNU Project as of
August 10th 
2007.  GNU SIP Witch is also part of GNU Telephony & the
GNU Telecom 
subsystem.

GNU SIP Witch is a call and registration server for the SIP
protocol. As 
a call server it services call registration for SIP devices
and 
destination routing through SIP gateways.  GNU SIP Witch
does not 
perform codec operations or media proxying and thereby
enables SIP 
endpoints to directly peer negotiate call setting and
process peer to 
peer media streaming even when when multiple SIP Witch call
nodes at 
multiple locations are involved.  This means GNU SIP Witch
operates 
without introducing additional media latency or offering a
central point 
for media capture.

GNU SIP Witch is designed to support network scaling of
telephony 
services, rather than the heavily compute-bound solutions we
find in use 
today.  This means a call node has a local
authentication/registration 
database, and this will be mirrored, so that any active call
node in a 
cluster will be able to accept and service a call.  This
allows for the 
possibility of live failover support in the future as well.

GNU SIP Witch is not a SIP "router", and does not
try to address the 
same things as a project like iptel "Ser".  GNU
SIP Witch is being 
designed to create on-premise SIP telephone systems,
telecenter servers, 
and Internet hosted SIP telephone systems.  One important
feature will 
include use of URI routing to support direct peer to peer
calls between 
service domains over the public internet without needing
mediation of an 
intermediary "service provider" so that people can
publish and call sip: 
uri's unconstrained.  GNU SIP Witch is about freedom to
communicate and 
the removal of artifical barriers and constraints whether
imposed by 
monopoly service providers or by governments.

Resources for supporting GNU SIP Witch will be consolidated
and handled 
principally through Savannah using the existing GNU Telecom
subsystem 
project found there (https://sav
annah.gnu.org/projects/gnucomm) as a 
central point of contact. This sub-project is being
reorganized for this 
purpose.

GNU SIP Witch depends on the UCommon library, which may
merge with and 
become GNU Common C++ 2.0 early next year.  CVS for and new

distributions of UCommon will be found in the GNU Telecom
project on an 
interim basis until then.  GNU SIP Witch also uses
libeXosip2 and GNU 
oSIP, and these may be found at their respective sites.  GNU
SIP Witch 
is licensed under the GNU General Public License V3 or
later.

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