Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART Last Call review of draft-ietf-cuss-sip-uui-reqs-06

Ben Campbell <ben@nostrum.com> Tue, 01 November 2011 19:01 UTC

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Hi Alan,

That resolves all my concerns. However, it might be helpful to include the two following explanations in the draft text.

Thanks!

Ben.

On Oct 27, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Alan Johnston wrote:

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>> -- REQ-12: 
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>> What degree of certainty is required here? (i.e. strong identity?) If implied by the SIP dialog, does that impact expectations on what sort of authn must happen at the SIP layer?
> 
> This is not meant to imply strong identity.  And since UUI data can appear in a response, there aren't really any strong methods available with SIP.   The UUI mechanism does not introduce stronger authorization requirements for SIP, but instead the mechanism needs to be able to utilize existing SIP approaches.
> 
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>> -- REQ 13:
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>> I'm not sure I understand how this interacts with the ability for intermediaries to remove UUI. Should this be detectable by the endpoints? Or is that ability limited to the hop-by-hop case, or require no integrity protection?
> 
> Yes, there are tradeoffs between this requirement and requirement REQ-9.  Hop-by-hop protection is one way to resolve this interaction.

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