[governance] FW: [IP] Shock threat to shut Skype

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 31/07/2009, at 11:08 PM, Michael Gurstein wrote:

> Anyone agree with me that Skype, like medical care, is too essential  
> a service to be left to the market...


Actually the lesson for discussion at the IGF is a very simple one;  
"stick to open standards".  This is why I have always preferred to use  
SIP for Internet telephony, being an open standard that no single  
vendor can lock up.  If this Skype debacle achieves anything, it will  
be to encourage more people to switch to SIP providers.

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