Re: [Ekiga-list] For or against ?

["Rene Bartsch" <ML Bartschnet de>]

> Hello,
>
>
> Would you be for or against such a scheme ?
>
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Fee+Announcement+from+Free+World
> +Dialup
>

I've received that mail, too.

With the result I won't use FWD anymore.

Drawbacks:

1.) Having fees forces the use of payment systems which often need
additional personal information of the user. NOT Good! :(

2.) There is no global numbering plan and I won't register with 20
registrars to pay 600 $ per year.

So I'd propose a donation system with a donation meter with red, yellow
and green area showing how many days the system can be kept running. When
reaching yellow, comfort functions will be disabled, and red means the
service will be suspended until enough donations have been made.

By the way, you don't need a SIP registrar when using a ENUM-Domain with
NAPTR-,A- and SRV-Records.

So I would only pay for a ENUM-Domain with some kind of DynDNS or SOAP
interface to update the records.

Cheers,


Renne