Disruptive Telephony

(Originally posted at http://dyork.livejournal.com/250011.html)

Publicity helps, of course. Start talking about something and the people start signing up. Overnight the VOIPSA "best practices" mailing list has grown from 26 to 65 subscribers, with more subscription notices coming in each time I look at my email. This certainly reflects the way I distributed the word... I'm sure many people, myself included, route the VOIPSEC mailing list into a folder where they read it when they can. Or at least they read other messages before that of a "mailing list". So I expect I'll continue to see subscriptions coming in over the next couple of days.

As the mailing list administrator, I naturally receive the subscription notifications and I have to say that there are some pretty impressive people and companies among those who have subscribed. I think we now have one or more representatives of basically all of the major IP-PBX vendors, a good number of security vendors, univerisites, US government agencies, a few financial institutions (good to have, given the natural security paranoia of banks)... plus a whole host of people that are using various Gmail, Yahoomail, etc. addresses that give nothing away about their identity. (I would expect nothing less from a group of security professionals! :-) Good number of folks participating from companies around the world. Knowing the caliber of some of the people who have signed up thus far, I'll admit that it could be a bit intimidating.... luckily, for better or worse, I've never been accused of a lack of self-confidence. :-)

A lack of time is a different issue, though, but it looks like things are okay to the point where I can spend the afternoon putting the last pieces together in the wiki to be able to start a discussion tomorrow. We'll see...

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