Re: [stir] Alexey Melnikov's Discuss on draft-ietf-stir-certificates-11: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 11/3/2016 12:22 PM, Alissa Cooper wrote:
>> What has been defined and what you describe is quite a complex
>> system.
> I think the existing system of relationships and network paths that
> comprise the phone system is the root of the complexity here; the
> challenge for STIR has been to provide building blocks with enough
> flexibility to help address the requirements in RFC 7340 across a
> variety of different deployment scenarios and use cases.


Alissa,

I've heard that being said, but in fact the phone system's design is 
almost completely irrelevant to the specifics of STIR.  STIR's actual 
task is almost identical to the job that DKIM does.

The only relevant detail from the world of telephony is the existence of 
call centers that must be able to generate calls that appear to be from 
a call center customer.

This is identical to being able to have an email From: address contain a 
value that differs from the domain name associated with the email 
operator being used.

d/
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net