The opening night at VoIP Sizzles was great. We just had a Sip Margarita reception where we learned about — Surprise — SIP. There were some great speakers telling us about the standards issues that need to be worked out in the SIP community. There was some discussion of the telco/cable duopoly and what they will do to thwart competition and how this could hurt the industry.

There was further talk of IMS and how much promise it holds and how it could be used by service providers to provide poor service or no service to competing services.

The mood was positive overall as examples kept popping up regarding how the VoIP community continually innovates and stays one step ahead of those who try to thwart us. Embedding SIP messages in HTTPS was something that was done in Latin America to escape government regulations that prohibited VoIP calls for example.

Here are some photos: