ADR-0007 — Trunk/PSTN strategy: rent the transport, no first-party SIP stack.
Supersedes ADR-0003 (Rust-native trunk SIP). The 2026-06 strategic-relevance
review stress-tested ADR-0003 against the 2026 market + solo-build realities
and it did not survive: a trunk SIP/media core is the highest-cost,
lowest-differentiation square on the board (the perceived-quality battle and
the buying criteria both live above the transport), and no production-hardened
pure-Rust SIP stack exists to stand on (ezk is bus-factor-1 / pre-1.0;
str0m self-describes as 'not for production' for SIP).
rutster owns no SIP stack. PSTN reach is rented transport in three layers:
1. Primary (demo, most users) — CPaaS raw-media fork (Twilio Media Streams,
Telnyx). Media-leg ingress, core-as-server (parallel to WebRTC ingress
per ADR-0006). Use the raw-audio fork, *not* managed Voice-AI products
that would consume the reflex loop.
2. Graduation (on-prem) — out-of-tree SBC (Kamailio/FreeSWITCH/drachtio +
rtpengine) B2BUAs carrier SIP into rutster as clean RTP/tap media,
outside the trust boundary.
3. Never — a first-party Rust trunk SIP stack. rsip/ezk stay off the
critical path.
The only things rutster owns in Rust: the call model, the reflex loop, the
agent tap. Everything that touches a carrier is rented (layer 1) or
out-of-tree (layer 2).
ADR-0008 — The FOB and the green zone: the build-vs-reuse doctrine. Names
the boundary criterion implicit across ADRs 0002-0007 as one mechanical rule
every contributor (human or agent) applies the same way.
- FOB (build in Rust) — admitted only if it passes one of: hot path,
security-constitutive, differentiating. Current FOB: media termination
(rutster-media on str0m) · real-time reflexes (VAD/barge-in/jitter/pacing)
· call model (rutster-call-model) · agent tap (rutster-tap) · spend/abuse
gate (rutster-spend) · control API + state/bus trait (rutster).
- Green zone (reuse at arm's length) — its own process/container/trust
domain, never in the FOB's address space. Admitted when it fails all
three FOB tests AND a trusted, actively-maintained project already does
it well. Current green zone: Valkey (ADR-0005) · carrier trunk (ADR-0007)
· agent brain · reference GUI · object storage · KMS · OTel collector ·
container supervisor.
- 'Actively maintained' is the load-bearing gate: excludes a first-party
Rust SIP stack and webrtc-rs; admits Valkey and str0m-for-WebRTC.
- When in doubt, default to green zone. The FOB earns its members.
Restates the memory-safety pillar precisely: the FOB is 100% memory-safe
Rust; the green zone is trusted battle-tested OSS kept outside the boundary
— not an over-claim that every byte is Rust.
ADR-0003's status is flipped to Superseded with a forward-pointer to ADR-0007.
Kept as the historical record of the 'own trunk SIP + media termination in
Rust, no SBC shield' plan; reversed under the strategic-relevance review.
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