Re: submission of a new I-D: "Dialog Event foR Identity VErification"

Dean Willis wrote:
> 
> On Oct 25, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Victor Pascual Ávila wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A new I-D, draft-kuthan-sip-derive-00, was just submitted. Your
>> comments are always welcome.
> 
> Sounds like you have reinvented identd, which has pretty much vanished 
> from the Internet because it was found to not really add any useful 
> authentication.
> 
> See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ident
> 
> So tell me, how is this operationally different from IDENT?

I'm actually not sure how this comparison holds, perhaps because IDENT
vanished from the Internet before I noticed it was there. I think the
email verification is a better example in that a) it works b) it is
massively used c) it is protocol-specific as opposed to being
a universal instance.

-jiri


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