Re: Comment on DERIVE and B2BUAs

Adam Roach <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Elwell, John wrote:
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
>> Behalf Of [email protected]
>>
>> However...  If we change the sequence of operations a bit, so that the
>> UAS sends a 183 with a Contact carrying a specific header parameter
>> carrying a crypto-random value, and we get B2BUAs to pass it through
>> (attaching it to the Contact they use in the 183 they emit on the
>> other side), then if the UAS does a non-filtered dialog event
>> SUBSCRIBE, it can check the returned NOTIFY to see if it carries the
>> Contact header parameter that it created.  That's a reasonably good
>> test that the UAC of the INVITE can be reached via the From value that
>> the UAS received.
>>     
> [JRE] Unless a B2BUA fails to play according to the rules and
> acknowledges the SUBSCRIBE without carrying out the same test on the
> next hop.

That's kind of the point of Juri's draft, though -- semantically, the 
recipient of the SUBSCRIBE doesn't need to know that this is an identity 
check. So the B2BUA would have no obligation to do anything towards the 
calling party.

/a
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