[Web4lib] {pr02} OSS modules for SIP Authentication

[David Dorman]

Don,

Is there a reason why you decided to use SIP rather than NCIP?  The former 
is an old industry standard developed by 3M, while NCIP is a newer 
XML-based NISO standard that has an expanded set of protocols.

David

At 03:24 PM 10/07/2005, McMorris,Don wrote:
>Please excuse cross posting.
>
>When replying, please be sure to include "{pr02}" in the subject 
>line.  This puts all these messages in a nice little folder on my mail server.
>
>I was just asked recently about researching a computer management system 
>that would authenticate to our ILS via SIP.  I am in the middle of 
>constructing a "should have this..." document as a base for contacting 
>commercial vendors, but as a personal project, I want to use OSS to 
>develop a solution.
>
>I was planning on developing an ISM build for our local library using a 
>local database.  Now that this question has arisen, I am investigating SIP 
>authentication using the ISM.  I have contacted the ISM developers (GRPL), 
>but they have not done it and did not have a suggestion off the top of 
>their heads.  They said a CPAN module was not found after a brief search.
>
>So, does anybody know of SIP-querying scripts or middleware-software 
>(*nix) that I might be able to pretty easily integrate into ISM?
>
>Any and all suggestions on how to communicate with SIP from Unix/Linux 
>welcome, as it is a new subject that I plan to master.
>
>Thanks.
>
>--Don
>
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