Talk:Media Gateway Control Protocol (Megaco)

With regard to the spelling of signalling, the ITU and IETF standards use signalling, and not signaling in their titles and text.

——— The 'see also' section references SIP... can someone put in a clue to explain the relationship? i.e. what illumination should a reader be looking for if they follow that link? DKEdwards 20:20, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Merge with "Media Gateway Control Protocol"?
Should this article be merged with Media Gateway Control Protocol? Seems like they are the same thing. Diverman 01:51, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

MGCP and Megaco are not the same protocol, although with the same aim created. Megaco is actually the implementation of MGCP, which is a broader thing.

I think this statement is a little bit misleading. AFAIR MEGACO is an implementation of MGCP *API* defined in RFC 2805, not the protocol defined in RFC 3525.

H.248 and MGCP are completely different, incompatible protocols that operate over the same interface -- that of a decomposed H.323 Gateway. Beyond the obvious syntax differences, the connection models are also different between the two. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tex2690 (talk • contribs) 05:32, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Article has wrong name
While they indeed are different, incompatible protocols, both their names are based on the same fully spelled out title "media gateway control protocol". The name of this article is shortened, likely to avoid collision with the MGCP article which owns the full title. Unfortunately, however, this shortening of the title is not correct. It should be just "Megaco", or perhaps "Media gateway control protocol (Megaco)". No one will search for this protocol under the current article name, I don't think. Kbrose (talk) 03:02, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Megaco and MGCP articles are now renamed consistently. Wikilinks should just use the common acronyms Megaco (or MEGACO) and MGCP, except for navigation templates of course, which should use the actual full article title. Kbrose (talk) 20:22, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, this renaming is incorrect. If you look at H.248.1, the title is "Gateway Control Protocol".  Further, the most current relevant draft of the "Megaco" protocol in the IETF is in RFC 3525 (now historic) whose title is "Gateway Control Protocol Version 1". "Megaco", as was stated in the edits I provided some time ago, is the name of the IETF working group (now closed) and is only a colloquialism for the protocol. My original rename was not to avoid collision with MGCP, but rather was intended to provide the correct name of the protocol. I think it is far more appropriate to name the article correctly ("Gateway Control Protocol") and redirect "Megaco" to it.  Note that the protocol need not be used with a media gateway -- many typical implementations today are used for border control gateways as well! Tex2690 (talk) 06:03, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Removing external links
I have removed the following link: www.packetizer.com/ipmc/h248/

There was no special information on H.248, and the link is essentially a free advertisement for the packetizer web-site. 193.164.14.2 (talk) 15:30, 3 November 2009 (UTC)