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

[Carlos Afonso]

Yes, I strongly agree.

--c.a.

Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> 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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