Re: Review of draft-kuthan-sip-derive-00

Adam Roach <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/20/08 10:19 AM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam
>> Roach
>>
>> I think the greatest appeal of an approach like the one in DERIVE, if it
>> can be made to work, is that it requires no explicit support on the
>> calling party's side.
>>     
>
> That's not totally accurate, methinks.  It requires support for the dialog-event package on the UAC, 

We've established that -- "28% and likely to increase" is a good 
starting point.

> and requires the UAC to allow some random far-end UA outside its domain that it does not know about to subscribe to it.

This isn't some random far-end UA that the calling party has no reason 
to trust -- the dialog event package explicitly talks about 
authentication based on knowledge of the dialog identifiers.

> [And it requires the path between the UAC and UAS to not contain b2bua's that change call-id or tag, of course]
>   

Unless they also accommodate DERIVE. That's a known property of B2BUAs: 
you tend to need to update them whenever you want to do something new. 
Presumably, if the market asks for it, B2BUAs will address the issue.

/a
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