Squawk Box - July 9, 2008 - P2P SIP - Special Guest: David Bryan Conference call organized by Dan York

Does P2P SIP represent the future of SIP communication? Does it have the possibility to enable the creation of a peer-to-peer communication cloud that could rival Skype but be based on open standards? Where would P2P SIP fit? In an enterprise environment? consumer? What's the technology behind it all, anyway?

Today's Squawk Box should be quite a fascinating one for those of us interested in the network level of how VoIP can all work. Today, pretty much all SIP-based telephony is "server-centric". You have SIP servers to which SIP clients register. The SIP servers, be they IP-PBXs, call managers, whatever... control the overall conversation. But what if you could have SIP in a *serverless* environment? What if SIP endpoints could "self-organize" and create P2P clouds? How would this work? How secure would it be? Who would use it?

Joining us on the call will be David Bryan, co-chair of the IETF's P2PSIP Working Group and also CEO of SIPpeerior Technologies. I've known David through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) where he heads up the P2PSIP working group and has been working to move that effort along. To me this is an absolutely fascinating area of exploration and offers some incredible potential. David's a great guy and I'm looking forward to having this conversation with him around what is happening in the world of P2PSIP.

Some links:

http://www.p2psip.org/
http://www.p2psip.org/reading.php
http://tools.ietf.org/wg/p2psip/ (IETF working group)
http://www.sipeerior.com/