I received a call early in the evening last night from Carolyn Schuk over at Voxilla. Apparently they listened to my interview with Cullen and wanted to hear more about open standards P2P VOIP. Here is a link to the article and the phone interview with Carolyn. The Article at Voxilla http://voxilla.com/voxstory170.html The Recorded Interview | MP3 | 4MB \ 12Mins http://sipthat.com/mp3/Voxilla-P2PSIP-Lagerway.mp3
Voxilla's Interview with me on P2P VOIP
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For the past couple of days, Erik has posted discussions on SIP based P2P and security issues. These discussions are in audio format and are really interviews with Cullen Jennings, Rohan Mahy and Erik’s interview to Voxilla. The following is... Read More
Here's a message I sent Erik earlier (about a July 25th post), that he asked I post here. I've
included it in its entirety, and will follow up with another post after.
So again, I'm still not sold on the benefits of P2P SIP. I think it's cool, don't get me
wrong. And the idea of setting up an instant P2P network in the middle of a desert or in a disaster area is appealing,
certainly. But you have to admit those are rather extreme circumstances. For the remaining 99.999% of actual real world
users, this is not the case.
Furthermore, I agree that the servers at Free World Dialup and other free SIP services cost money. But not much, else they
wouldn't be free. For under $100/mo you can get a dedicated server right on the backbone. The cost of deploying and
maintaining hardware is virtually negligible these days.
The real costs come in managing the network, and this is where centralized services come in handy.
So P2P SIP is cool, certainly. And it might be handy the extreme situations you offer. But by the time the intrinsic
decentralized problems have been hammered out, a centralized alternative will already dominate the landscape. And when it
comes to competition, the decentralized solution offers no significant real world advantage (cost, reliability, performance)
to anyone (user, administrator), while offering significant drawbacks in terms of complexity and the overall uncontrolled
nature of P2P.
Would you disagree? I mean, except for disaster areas and deserts, and except for saving $100/mo for a million users,
what's the benefit?
Furthermore, do you acknowledge the disadvantages in terms of reliability and performance (ie, global distributed search
versus database lookup) of a P2P solution? How would you argue the benefits outweigh the detriments?
-david