Re: comments on draft-ietf-sip-info-events-01

Dean Willis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Nov 16, 2008, at 11:35 PM, Jonathan Rosenberg wrote:
> * I know we've discussed this one, but I disagree that the event
> packages HAVE to be specification required. I think we should allow  
> for
> vendor prorpietary usage. My suggestion is to define a vendor tree for
> info event packages.

I'd be okay with this.

>>


>> Because there are numerous situations where a SIP method request can
>>   carry a payload, any INFO method may contain body parts in addition
>>   to the payload associated with the Info Package.
>
> hmm, why? This complicates things. KISS.
>

Because an SIP request can carry AIB or e2m (or other such extension,  
like SAML assertions)) body parts, there is the possibility that an  
INFO might also get such attachments. We can't stop this without  
deprecating the behavior of those specifications. We must therefore be  
prepared to determine which body part(s) is(are) associated with the  
INFO package, and which are something else.

Can we do this based only on the MIME body type?  Yes, in the cases we  
know about so far. Do we have a way to assure this given the  
probability of future specs


>
>> 9.5.  Creation of the Info Packages Registry
>
> You should show an example of what the actual table in the IANA  
> registry looks like and include the 'nil' there.
>> There are no specific security issues for this mechanism, beyond
>>   those already applicable to SIP-based session signaling.  In
>>   particular, if one does not protect the SIP signaling from
>>   eavesdropping or authentication and repudiation attacks, for  
>> example
>>   by using TLS transport,
>
> I disagree with this statement. There are new considerations here -  
> we're now exchanging APPLICATION data in SIP, and this increases  
> sensitivity of the data depending on the application. For example  
> considering using INFO to send typical form-data, like a credit card  
> number....
>

And I assure you, the IESG will notice this weakness. We do need to  
beef this discussion up.


--
Dean

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