The whole subject of “billing” is probably, for the majority of us, one of the least exciting and least sexy parts of the entire communications infrastructure. Yet it is probably one of the most *critical* aspects as that is how, ultimately, we all keep the lights on.

In this episode, host Dan York speaks with Jim Dalton, CEO of Transnexus ( http://www.transnexus.com/ ) and one of the leading proponents of the Open Settlement Protocol (OSP), an open standard for service providers and enterprises to exchange billing information among themselves. Jim gave a presentation at IT EXPO East 2009 in Miami and Dan caught up with him after the talk to ask him some questions. More information about OSP can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_settlement_protocol or http://www.etsi.org/

UPDATE: The white paper upon which Jim based his ITEXPO presentation is available online: “Peer to Peer Settlement for Next Generation IP Networks”

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NOTE: The “OSPrey” software that Jim mentions that is available for free can be downloaded from Transnexus’ site.

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What is XMPP all about? Who is using it? What is it’s future? And why was Peter St. Andre, Executive Director of the XMPP Standards Foundation up at the 73rd meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) last month (Nov 2008) in Minneapolis, MN? In this show, host Dan York caught up with Peter in a hotel hallway and asked him to discuss these and other questions.

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This interview with Peter St. Andre was recorded at the IETF 73 meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 19, 2008.

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In this final show from IETF 73 in Minneapolis, Dan York offers a few final thoughts about the IETF, IPv6 and NAT, and the use of ENUM for resolving SIP addresses.

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This week Dan York is up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the 73rd meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and in this show he talks about what is going on at the IETF 73 meeting and a bit about what the IETF is all about.

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In this show, Dan York talks about his week at VoiceCon San Francisco 2008, the sessions he was involved with, the eComm dinner he attended and then a bit on the importance of the Microsoft / IBM announcement about the instant messaging (IM) interop that they are doing between Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) and IBM’s Lotus Sametime. He also discussed why this is of interest to Voxeo. (Here’s a hint.)

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