Re: draft-dotson-sip-mutual-auth

Dean Willis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Nov 25, 2008, at 3:32 PM, Sumanth Channabasappa wrote:

> Scott,
>
> I had additional offline discussions with Ekr and Cullen last week.  
> Ekr
> indicated that the proposed I-D does not align with the SIP security
> model (UE <=> next-hop authentication; no need for UE <=>
> <authentication beyond next hop>).
>

Huh?

We have long held that there may be multiple proxies (possibly in  
different domains) challenging a given request. This has been a  
hallmark of scenarios such as the "hotel proxy" that doesn't do  
authentication or act as a an identity server but that does do local  
firewall control.

So somebody is confused about something. Who knows, might be me,  
occasionally I wake up in a different time-space continuum, but AFAIK,  
we've always intended to support authentication more than one hop  
away. In fact, I recall design discussions with Pingtel and 3Com  
people about that as far back as 1999. Robert Sparks had a lot to say  
about it, IIRC.

--
Dean

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