Sunday, April 15, 2007

My Mother Uses Skype - Why Bother With Standards?

A panel discussion from Spring VON 2007 in San Jose, California, exploring the question of the advantages of open standards vs. proprietary software in the world of VoIP deployments. With the runaway success of Skype, members of IMTC and one brave Skype employee ask, why bother with standards?


Moderator: Anatoli Levine - Sr. Director, Software Support and Services, RADVISION
Jonathan Christensen - Sr. Director, Skype
Håkon Dahle - Chief Technologist, TANDBERG
Kfir Pravda - President, Pravda Marketing Services
Peter Saint-Andre - Director of Standards, Jabber Inc.
Shantanu Sarkar - Sr. Manager, Cisco Systems
Chris Steck - Director of Technology Strategy, RealNetworks

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