Recently, Ivor Jones popped out over the fence
around uk.telecom.voip and said...
|"ßødincµs²°°°" <this.em@il.is.invalid> wrote in message
|news:MPG.1fcc5d86656d44e19896e6@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk
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|> Skype is an Instant Messaging system, like Yahoo (that
|> was doing voice chat AGES before Skype) or MSN.
|> It doesn't belong to VoIP, the VoIP protocols are SIP and
|> H323.
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|Actually, much as I hate to admit it, technically it *is* voice over ip..!
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|BTW there is also IAX.
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|Ivor
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Forgot 'bout IAX, is it a ratified standard like SIP or H323?

Anyway, ever heard about ISO OSI levels? Well, IM (Skype, Yahoo, etc...)
voice traffic doesn't reach the IP ISO OSI level in the TCP stack. Being
a proprietary protocol it stands - by definition - at application level,
aka level 7.
IP protocol is way down
there
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