On 10/10/2013 12:21 AM, Peterson, Jon wrote:
> 
> I suspect your confusion surrounds who exactly would be helped and what
> that help would be. All I was saying is that there are deployments whose
> operators and implementers don't perceive the need for such help, 

I agree with that.

> and that
> we're unlikely to persuade them of it. 

Ah. I thought you had said that TLS wouldn't actually add value.

But you actually meant it wouldn't be perceived to add value by
those who don't perceive the need I guess, which seems a little
tautological.

> Making TLS MTU for SIP would have
> no appreciable impact on those environments.

The question is not IMO whether we declare TLS to be MTU for SIP.

For me, the question is: Nobody uses SIP/TLS now. Using SIP/TLS
would add some value. How can we make it more likely they do use
SIP/TLS?

S.

> 
> Jon Peterson
> Neustar, Inc.
> 
> On 10/9/13 3:59 PM, "Stephen Farrell" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> On 10/09/2013 11:44 PM, Peterson, Jon wrote:
>>> A BCP could
>>> however provide the necessary motivation for using TLS in the situations
>>> where it will actually help, and the recent revelations make that case
>>> rather eloquently.
>>
>> I'm confused by that a bit - given the GCHQ/Belgacom example, in
>> which situations would running SIP over TLS never help?
>>
>> Note that I've not yet argued for MTU at all, so that's a real
>> question.
>>
>> S.
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