While Congress trudges away trying to outlaw P2P technology, one of the major telecom's, Earthlink, has released a new, open source P2P network application: SIPshare. While the technological implications are certainly significant--Earthlink notes that this protocol can enable VoIP over a P2P network--what is more important is Earthlink's demonstrated and stated commitment to P2P:

EarthLink believes an open Internet is a good Internet. An open Internet means users have full end-to-end connectivity to say to each other whatever it is they say, be that voice, video, or other data exchanges, without the help of mediating servers in the middle whenever possible. We believe that if peer-to-peer flourishes, the Internet flourishes. SIPshare helps spread the word that SIP is more than a powerful voice over IP enabler --- much more. SIP is a protocol that enables peer-to-peer in a standards-based way.

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