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

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