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