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To: Secret_Agent_Man who wrote (2558)	3/10/1999 3:02:00 AM
From: Gary R. Owens	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

Excerpts from The Pulver Report - March 10, 1999 The below comments are Plahte quoting Pulver and Pulver responding (confusing, I know, I recommend that you subscribe to the newsletter if you're interested in VON. There's also a section on IP Telephony Jobs!) From: Ivar Plahte <snip> JP> 3. The Telephony Industry has Settlements. The ISPs community needs JP> to adopt a similar Settlements model in order for JP> the widespread availability of Quality of Service (QoS) for telephony JP> routes on the public Internet. Without Settlements, QoS on the public JP> Internet may never get better then what is currently experienced today. I completely agree. But again, widespread deployment of such agreements will not happen until a single standard has been defined. I think you'll also see IP-telephony being a disaster for the small ISPs, since they won't be able to control the end-to-end quality of the calls that larger ISPs may do - by keeping most of the calls within their network and/or have private peering agreements with other large ISPs that have similar control. JP> 4. IP based Telephony will evolve as a free service on the Internet and JP> will become known as a service just like the Web, Telnet, ftp and Usenet. JP> Like it or not, there will be such a thing as a "free phone call". It might be possible to place free phone calls with proprietary solutions over IP, but I think the calls that follows the established standard will be controlled by the operators. The financial incentive to do this is just too great. <snip> ========================================================================== If you are aware of others who would like to receive this service, please forward this entire message to them and cc: report@pulver.com They will automatically receive a subscription. To discontinue your subscription please e-mail: listadm@pulver.com and put REMOVE in the subject. Please send your comments and feedback regarding this issue of The Pulver Report to jeff@pulver.com. Your suggestions for topics to be covered for future issues would be greatly appreciated. Jeff Pulver Tel. +1.516.753.2640 The Pulver Report Fax. +1.516.293.3996 March 10, 1999 pulver.com