2009/9/17 Oliver Gorwits <oliver.gorw...@oucs.ox.ac.uk>: > I'm not very familiar with Skype at all, but my understanding was > that it is peer to peer in essence, if firewalls permit. If the > firewalls don't permit, then so-called "supernodes" are used to > relay calls, which are simply clients with more permissive firewall > configs.
Wow, there have been a lot of vague opinions about Skype on this thread. Luckily, people have done research on Skype: http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~salman/skype/ "An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to-Peer Internet Telephony Protocol" being the interesting one. My point of view is that I think Skype is proprietary and would prefer a more open approach but most VOIP things fail to get out of firewalls or NATs whereas Skype Just Works. Oh, and we won't spam the list, don't worry, Léon
