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Please Mr. Skype, may I have a SIP?

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Happy 1st birthday, Skype Developers' Program: https://about.skype.com/2006/06/skype_developers_program_hits.html

Let's face it, who doesn't like Skype? And major kudos to them for deploying such a successful application and platform.

You know what I'd love to see? I'd love Skype to offer SIP & RTP interoperability, so I can use any of the plethora of available VOIP software, hardware and APIs to interoperate with it. That would be cool. I could just buy a generic SIP phone, provision it with whatever Skype needs for billing, etc, and hey presto. If I bought some fancy VOIP call center software, I could point it at Skype just as I would any other VOIP provider.

Maybe it's just a matter of time before Skype does this? Maybe it would dilute their advantage so they won't do it? Maybe there really is some special sauce in their own signaling and media techniques that wouldn't work in SIP & RTP? I don't know. But I think it would be awesome for the rest of the industry if they did this.

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    June 16, 2006
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