The other week I interviewed Skype's general manager of audio and video. When asked a question regarding SIP, he responded:
"I think that the vision of the early SIP founders has been largely unreal in the SIP world. SIP is typically just used for this mundane trunking application like the one we have or sending calls between two networks and it is just calls. The vision of multi-modal communications and rich end points has largely failed within the same and I think that a big part of this is that they did not pragmatically just solve basic problems like NAT traversal for example and they also evolved the specification to the point that it is no longer had its light weight appeal. So, we will see, SIP will continue to be dominant protocol in terms of this sort of narrowly defined scenarios but I think when it comes to rich communications, you are going to see more of this fragmentation. You are going to see some islands of providers who are just solving the problems. Just making it work for the user and not being religious about the protocol for example." For full transcript see: http://ecommmedia.com/blog/2008/02/jonathan-christensen-skype.html Thought this may be of interest. Regards Lee _______________________________________________ Sip mailing list http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sip This list is for NEW development of the core SIP Protocol Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for questions on current sip Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for new developments on the application of sip
