At the 2006 ITU-T workshop, a presentation was made on the ‘next’ generation of protocols ‘H.325‘ ! The primary pitch for H.325:a) It offers a ‘centralized’ model of operation, as opposed to SIP and H.323 which put intelligence in the device. SIP cannot do this (*cough* tell this to the SIP centrex guys *cough* B2B) Secondary pitches for H.325 :b) Reduced Complexity ( haven’t we heard that before)c) Rapid Service creation (we have seen this on marketing slideware for years)d) Better ‘capability negotiation’ (which does not need a new protocol – its a behavioural change that can be adapted to any existing protocol)e) “Truly” take advantage of IP networks (not sure what that really means)f) Better NAT/FW traversal (enough already ! we have come to a point where Sykpe’s NAT traversel works everywhere. Why bother again ?)g) It says “SIP is largely equated to voice” (not at all, really) And finally: “H.325 was launched by ITU SG-16 to meet NGN requirements and overcome limitations of ‘legacy’ systems” – oh brother ! Join the queue please, we have 3GPP, 3GPP2, TISPAN and a bunch of other SDOs trying to ‘solve the next generation’ problem. The interesting part is that H.325 is

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