BEWARE!  BEWARE!!
SIP can stand for many things!

The one we want for VOIP is the Session Initialization Protocol (RFC 2543),
(See The SIP Center)

but there's also Simple Internet Protocol, an ancestor of IPv6,

and SMDS Interface Protocol.

It's like ATM which is variously known as
the Automatic Teller Machine, Adobe Type Manager, or Asynchronous Transfer Mode.