Why is there no AAA component that uses something like RADIUS or Diameter?
While DB-like interactions are an important component of any SIP deployment, the SPEC SIP SubCommittee decided to omit this from the benchmark for two reasons: simplicity and lack of standardization. Simplicity because omitting the DB made the benchmark simpler and more a measure of the native SIP stack rather than of a DB server. Lack of standardization because there does not yet seem to be an standard way of communicating with a DB-like server that is actually widely used across industry. At the moment, many different approaches appear to be used: JDBC, LDAP, RADIUS, Diameter, and even proprietary protocols. Choosing one of these protocols would be expressing favoritism and biasing against products that did not support that protocol; choosing several of them would make apples-to-apples comparisons difficult. After a great deal of discussion, the SPEC SIP SubCommittee decided to not include this in the benchmark, with the understanding that future releases of the benchmark might chang
