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

[Eric Dierker]

Yes indeed, Open Standards. And if ICANN focused more on Standards than survival we would be much better off.
 
Skype is not the issue.  Innovation and consumer retention is the issue.  Absolutely no way in hell should the “govners” of the Internet begin to build robust socialistic preservation societies for private enterprise success stories.  No more sure way to kill them than that.  If there is a need and we prevent governed interference, the fittest and most dynamic model will excel.
 
Roland: Great point ---  sometimes larger corporate structures create a sideproduct that does not fit in with the overall funding motif of that structure – but the idea and product is so good it just plain flourishes (Once my mother described me as the youngest of six kids as being such a by product – fair nuf)  Perhaps time for Skype to grow up and move out on its own. 
 
Joe:  Your recent comment that declares that the only governors of the Internet are end consumers, is proven here.  No matter how much ebay ignored Skype it grew (always remembering the ultimate flattery is imitation)
 
McTim: No! was the perfect response.  If governance is to help the people and indeed that is the noblest goal, our efforts toward subsidies, grants and access enhancement should be focused on doing for the disenfranchised or barred users.  It should be a pointed synergy to create access and reliability for those without. It should be to facilitate the useage of existing paradigms to enhance quality of life --  Not the enhancement or protection of the paradigms.
 
My choices both corporate and personal have been not focused so much on product but on the politics of use: In Vietnam we use the most expensive system  -  that facilitates us spending money on developing technologies and the people. If my wife sees our home bills I use the cheapest to promote tranquility.  In my mobile office we use a Packet 8 system right out of 1 Wilshire, and caged next to Yahoo.  I don’t like to be seen, but when my loved ones travel I insist on a Skype video concept so I can judge health and they can see home.  To Mexico it is all Vonage – seems to be politically correct and lowtech. (note the shameless plug for dotLOWTECH, a Dierker owned, Babtista designed TLD)
 
The only real shock about Skype is the shock some folks experience at watching how services grow and evolve.


--- On Sat, 8/1/09, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:


From: Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroapp.org>
Subject: Re: [governance] FW: [IP] Shock threat to shut Skype
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Date: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 3:20 PM


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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