keith, SIP may have been initially motivated by telephony style applications but it is a very general and extensible negotiation protocol - it was that aspect that grabbed my attention when I first heard about Schulzrinne's work on it several years ago. I think the point really is that SIP is extensible and may be a very reasonable platform on which to build a wide range of peer to peer and distributed application control. vint At 07:43 PM 8/20/2003 -0400, Keith Moore wrote: >Why in the world should IETF bias a conferencing solution toward the telephony >providers? I mean, if SIP turned out to be a good solution for everyone, fine. >But the group shouldn't assume a priori that SIP is the right direction. Vint Cerf SVP Technology Strategy MCI 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, F2-4115 Ashburn, VA 20147 703 886 1690 (v806 1690) 703 886 0047 fax vinton.g.cerf@mci.com www.mci.com/cerfsup
