S Woodside wrote: [..] > There is no > attempt on the IPtel WG page to distinguish between VoIP uses on the > public internet vs. other IP networks. Considering that their focus is, as you observed, on the naming and routing aspect I consider this an understandable simplification. But it is, of course, merely a simplification and not a paradox. > (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/ > ) "SIP" != "VoIP" in any way meaningful to our discussion of your "paradox". cheers, gja