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A column I wrote for Inc magazine about Internet phone service.

IETF RFC 791, which defines "best effort" along with the entire Internet Protocol.

Yes, it is possible to build networks that offer better than best-effort. Read this scenario and instead of blue and green packets think of blue and non-blue packets and you'll see what I mean.

The Switchboard, a VoIP applet I find very clever.

So theswitchboard.ca isn't the only VoIP applet. Here is another one (I've found several) but theswitchboard.ca seems to be the furthest along toward true utility.