OpenSIPIt#01 a great success!

OpenSIPIt#01 drew to a close on around midday US Pacific Time on Wednesday, April 14 – and was a great success!

Does that mean that every single Interop test worked perfectly, or that all the projects represented all worked together perfectly?
Of course not!
But what it does mean is that lots of successful SIP and STIR/SHAKEN Interop trials took place and as/when Interop did not fully occur, the reasons for it were examined an understood – and the relevant group members were able to identify what refinements and optimisations were needed in their code.

Moreover, building on the success of the pilot event in September 2020 in terms of increased numbers of participating projects and people has given rise to better communications and friendship between the various Open Source projects that took part.

There were a number of ‘Big Wins’ from OpenSIPIt#01, not only did the event attract the key ‘SIP people’ from various projects, companies and geographic locations, but there was a very high level of participation and the Slack channels created by @sobomax were almost on fire with the numbers of messages going backwards and forwards during the testing activities.

As mentioned in previous posts, the areas under test this time around were RFC8760 and STIR/SHAKEN and – as you can imagine, the kind of tests that were carried out go well beyond whether two ends can actually work together, and include looking at each possible scenario for both working and non-working cases, in addition to checking into how various failure modes are dealt with.

As has been pointed out before in the world of RFCs… They need to be tight enough to enable proper Interoperability but flexible enough to permit correct operation in a range of different situations.

We’ll finish this short report with a role-call of participants this time around, to whom huge thanks and respect are due…

Asterisk – Ben Ford and George Joseph
Enable Security – Sandro Gauci (special thanks), Alfred Farrugia
FreeSWITCH – Mike Jerris, Chris Rienzo, Dragos Oancea, Andrey Volk
Kamailio/SIPfront (and SIPP) – Andreas Granig (special thanks)
OpenSIPS – Liviu Chircu (special thanks for leading various exercises) and Bogdan Andrei Iancu
SIPPY Software – Maksym Sobolyev @sobomax (MAX special thanks for driving this series of events), Pavel Bussel, Andriy Pylypenko
OpenTelecom.IT – Giovanni Maruzzelli

You can check out videos of the livestreams for OpenSIPIt#01 on the SIPPY Labs YouTube Channel.