Re: [Sip] submission of a new I-D: "Dialog Event foR Identity VErification"

[Dean Willis <dean.willis at softarmor.com>]

On Oct 26, 2008, at 5:45 AM, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:

> El Domingo, 26 de Octubre de 2008, Dean Willis escribió:
> > > A new I-D, draft-kuthan-sip-derive-00, was just submitted. Your
> > > comments are always welcome.
> >
> > Sounds like you have reinvented identd, which has pretty much  
> > vanished
> > from the Internet because it was found to not really add any useful
> > authentication.
>
> draft-kuthan-sip-derive-00 proposal is 100% SIP based instead of  
> depending on
> other protocols. IMHO it has *nothing* to do with Identd mechanism.

But it is very much LIKE the ident mechanism, in that, in response to  
a connection attempt, the connected party does a reverse-to-host  
connection to ask "Is this from you, and which user is it from"?

You've just implemented a complicated version of a return-routability  
check.

--
Dean


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