Re: [martini] Consensus call: Resolution of Ticket #57

["Elwell, John" <[e-mail]>]

I think what is paramount here is the ability for gin to gain traction in the market place. Although in Maastricht I agreed to this resolution, along with the other people in the room at the time, I had earlier in the meeting expressed a concern about raising the bar too high for SSPs to adopt gin. If SSPs are happy to keep support for public GRUU as a MUST, that is fine with me. But if SSPs say this raises the bar too high and they will not be able to implement gin within a reasonable timescale, I am concerned.

I know GRUU is needed to support attended transfer using REFER/Replaces. It is also required to support transfer using REFER on a new dialog. However, transfer between domains is generally done by 3PCC means (re-INVITE), because of security / charging concerns about acting on a REFER request from another domain. In my opinion public GRUU is not a necessary component of a basic, entry level SIP interface between SIP-PBX and SSP.

John


> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [martini] Consensus call: Resolution of Ticket #57
> 
> In the MARTINI WG second session at IETF 78, the participants 
> in the room came to consensus (12-0) on the following text to 
> resolve Issue 57:
> 
> In order to provide support for privacy, the SSP
> SHOULD implement the temporary GRUU
> mechanism described in this section. Reasons for
> not doing so would include systems with an
> alternative privacy mechanism which maintains
> the integrity of public GRUUs (i.e., if public
> GRUUs are anonymized then the anonymizer
> function would need to be capable of providing as
> the anonymized URI a globally routable URI
> that routes back only to the target identified by
> the original public GRUU).
> 
> We are now bringing this resolution to the mailing list to 
> verify that consensus. 
> 
> If you did not express your opinion during the IETF 78 
> MARTINI WG meeting, and would like to do so now, please 
> respond to this email and post your opinion as to whether you 
> agree with the text above as a resolution to Issue 57. 
> 
> This consensus call will last until September 12, 2010.  
> 
>