Re: the VoIP Paradox

[S Woodside <sbwoodside@yahoo.com>]

On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 05:21 AM, grenville armitage wrote:
> S Woodside wrote:
> 	[..]
> > Voice over IP is paradoxically both internet and telephony at the same
> > time. This article presents the paradox, and associated arguments.
> Your paradox seems artificial. "IP Telephony" is both internet and 
> telephony,
> but Voice over IP makes no claims (except in sloppy reporting) to be
> telephony. Unless, that is, you consider commerical 2-way radios, CB 
> radios,
> intercoms and tin-cans-and-string to also be telephony by virtue of 
> involving
> transport of voice.

Sloppy reporting? Which way would you like it...

"The focus of the IP Telephony (iptel) group is on the problems related
to naming and routing for Voice over IP (VoIP) protocols."
    http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/iptel-charter.html

Period. If they meant otherwise they would have said "related to naming 
and routing for telephony-related VoIP protocol usage". There is no 
attempt on the IPtel WG page to distinguish between VoIP uses on the 
public internet vs. other IP networks.

(You say "VoIP makes no claims to be telephony" but the SIP page 
differs:

"SIP, the Session Initiation Protocol, is a signaling protocol for 
Internet conferencing, telephony, presence, events notification and 
instant messaging."
    http://www.cs.columbia.edu/sip/
)

simon

> cheers,
> gja

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