Re: [VIPR] VIPR privacy issue

["Kevin P. Fleming" <[e-mail]>]

On 01/26/2012 06:27 PM, Cullen Jennings wrote:

> For some of the attacks on ViPR, the best defense is to make sure your PSTN numbers are registered. I view this as  feature of the design. I'm sure opinions vary on this.

Wearing a 'businessperson' hat, I just don't see how this is an 
acceptable situation. This would be similar to saying that if you don't 
choose to advertise in the Yellow Pages, other companies can do it in a 
way that lets them know who your customers are. Granted, there might not 
be much of a direct cost to participate in a public ViPR cloud, but 
there are certainly significant potential indirect costs for companies 
who don't have the equipment/software in place to participate from day one.

In addition, wearing my 'paranoia' hat, who is to say that there won't 
be multiple (possibly many) ViPR clouds being used to route E.164 
numbers? For each one that exists, anyone who wishes to best defend 
their numbers must participate.

I suppose one way to look at this is that it will potentially spawn a 
whole new industry of 'ViPR protection service' companies :-)

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