Re: [stir] Not just "called party" - Re: current draft charter

[Henning Schulzrinne <[e-mail]>]

I tend to agree (particularly given that we just had a house-sitter watching our home, and I most definitely don't want the bank to take his identity for ours).

It would, e.g., for two-factor authentication, be useful to be able to tell if a number has been redirected. I don't see much hope there, however - if you have a malicious app on your phone that redirects the call to the impostor, the phone is dutifully going to respond that the call has indeed reached the right number.

On Jun 17, 2013, at 3:04 PM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:

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> For sake of focus and having a prayer of getting this done before we all retire, I think we should focus exclusively on caller-id reputability.  No bank would ever trust this type of thing for called-party identity anyway, because it only identifies phone numbers not humans - i.e., at best it identifies a phone, not the person on the other end.  Thus they'll have to ask you a bunch of identifying questions anyway.
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> -hadriel
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