[rrg] and while we're at it, here's a view from the ground...

[Scott Brim]

On 10/30/08 5:34 PM, William Herrin allegedly wrote:
> If you asked an audience of system administrators whether Vonage and
> Skype would be impacted by fracturing the end-to-end principle with
> carrier grade NAT, I'm not sure how many would correctly identify that
> Skype would be impacted but Vonage would not. I think most would
> incorrectly believe that all VoIP systems would be hurt, not just the
> ones structured in a peer to peer design.

OK I'm one of them.  I thought Skype had STUN-like servers in order to
deal with NATs.  CGNs will affect all such servers but it will affect
them equally.  No?

swb