Re: RE: [Geopriv] teasing apart: http as a GEOPRIV using protocol

Hannes Tschofenig <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip,gmane.ietf.geopriv
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It seems I misunderstood your comment.
In this case I agree with your observation.

Randall Gellens wrote:
> At 7:31 PM +0200 7/29/06, Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
> 
>>  Hi Randy,
>>
>>  Maybe there is such a relationship. I do, however, suspect that in 
>> the typical case there isn't since this places the deployment bar 
>> quite high: Every location recipient (e.g., PSAP, SIP user agent, 
>> Location Server, etc.) needs to have a relationship (or even a shared 
>> secret) with the access network provider (L3 provider) since this is 
>> the place where the HTTP server needs to be located.
> 
> 
> I agree.  That's the question I was raising: my reading of the draft 
> suggests that, since it relies on HTTP DIGEST, there must be a 
> relationship in order for there to be credentials.
> 
>>
>>  The identity used for digest authentication can indeed be used in 
>> combination with the common policy rules. You just need to define how 
>> the digest identity and the digest realm part are matched with the 
>> content of the 'id' and the 'domain' part to the common policy rules.
>>
>>  With the Pawn Ticket URLs the solution would, however, be simpler (as 
>> simple as with URLs with a randomly create and unguessable component): 
>> If you know the URI then you are allowed to retrieve the PIDF-LO.
>>
>>  (This assumes that I understood the Pawn Ticket approach properly.)
>>
>>  Ciao
>>  Hannes
>>
>>  Randall Gellens wrote:
>>
>>>  This does look to me to be a "using protocol".
>>>
>>>  Presumably the HTTP server and the dereferencer have a relationship 
>>> such that HTTP DIGEST can be used.
>>>
>>>  Perhaps the DIGEST identity can be used when evaluating the policy 
>>> rules.
>>
>>
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