Re: francois' comments and why RFC4474 not used in the field

Dean Willis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Francois Audet wrote:

>
>> Except we MUST have a problem, because  several folks keep
>> saying we do.
>>
>> So Cullen et. al. have been pushing us to nail down exactly
>> what the problem is (and saying RFC 4474 is broken by SBCs is
>> not an answer; it is a symptom).
>>
>> So what seems to be the problem?
>
> The problem is that people seem to prefer changing the SDP than
> using TURN, because it is easier and more convenient.
>
> And what draft-wing-sip-identity-media does is show how and 4474-like
> mechanism that doesn't protect the IP address can be used in
> conjunction with DTLS-SRTP, to provide an adequate level of security.
>
> So, I'll repeat the question from a previous email: what's wrong with
> draft-wing-sip-identity-media???

If I understand the argument, extending the d-w-s-i-m approach to non- 
DTLS media legitimizes the obfuscation of the one media identifier we  
do have -- the IP address. Some people seem to find this unacceptable.

--
Dean

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