Re: The problem with draft-kaplan-sip-secure-call-id-00

"Spencer Dawkins" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip
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I agree with Jonathan - this is the right way to go.

Spencer


>I didnt get a chance to say this at the mike.
> 
> You *cannot* change the BNF for the call-id. If you did, you might end 
> up with the following problem:
> 
> A new UA gets built, compliant to this update. It is one of these 
> 'aggressive parsing' UAs. It rejects any message which is not compliant 
> to the BNF. An older, normal RFC-3261 compliant UA sends a call-id which 
> includes the @-sign.
> 
> According to the BNF of this updated 3261, and based on the strictness 
> of this aggressive-parsing UAs, it rejects that request as non-compliant.
> 
> As such, you need to keep the BNF, but change the normative language 
> such that an endpoint MUST NOT include the [@ host] but MUST be prepared 
> to receive it.
> 
> -Jonathan R.

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