John Levine wrote:
I wrote:
Covering the legacy dialing with a time-out should IMHO be sufficient
to maintain support for *old* equiment and also provide a slight
motivation for end users to upgrade if they don't like pressing "#"
or waiting for the timeout before the connection is established.
You didn't quote my answer to your concerns (inserted above).
Probing each time when a new digit arrives does not seem reasonable to me.
I have some numbers on speed dial but I often dial numbers one digit
at a time.
Likely >99% of _humans_ dial phone numbers one digit at a time when
they "dialing". That doesn't mean that the technology that establishes
the actual communication link must continue to start beating a path
for every new digit.
20 years ago the German Telekom still had mix of old mechanic
phone switches and newer digital switches. If the equiment on your
end supported and was using DTMF but the call was routed over old
switches, you could listen to the clicking sounds from the old
rotary hardware how the call was routed to its destination, long
after you had finished "typing" the number on your DTMF phones keypad.
I dunno about you, but it seems utterly unreasonable to demand that we
change the way we've been placing calls for the better part of a
century merely to avoid a few DNS lookups. I thought computers were
supposed to make life easier for people, not the other way around.
I'm terribly sorry, I never intended to convey such a message
(and I still believe I didn't).
I'm all in favour of full backwards compatibility!
For those that have come to love slow dialing, I'm all in favour
of retaining the _ORIGINAL_ user experience, waiting for the
rotary mechanical technique to complete its magic before the
communication link is established. But since the telephone
network backbone no longer provides this user experience,
it needs to be emulated by all VoiP equipment that offers
attachment of two-wire analogue phones.
I'm sorry for my insensitivity to describe the enlighenting performance
of the classical phone user experience by the VoiP equipment emulation
as a "timeout" (preceding the instant connection setup with the
full and final number).
-Martin
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