I remember that some opposed the use of this RFC when it came about telephone 
numbers because there is no domain part involved.

For Presence I do not see telephone numbers involved but only SIP URIs. Would 
there be other issues against the use of this RFC for this very purpose?

Adrian

On Aug 26, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Olle E. Johansson wrote:

> 
> 26 aug 2010 kl. 12.46 skrev Adrian Georgescu:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have a question maybe someone can help or comment.
>> 
>> How can one protect in the real world against faking the identity of 
>> presence subscriptions originating from foreign domains?
>> 
>> The scenario is:
>> 
>> Once us...@domaina accepts presence subscriptions from us...@domainb and his 
>> pre-rules is updated with this information, nobody stops somebody else to 
>> impersonate us...@domainb to send subscribe messages from any source and 
>> presenting the same From header.
>> 
>> How can the server that serves domainA check for the real identity of the 
>> foreign subscriber?
>> 
>> Can anyone comment what would be a good practical solution?
> 
> No, what you're talking about is trust between domains. SIP identity is 
> trying to get a grip on that, as well as a few other identity solutions, 
> including S/MIME in the good ol' RFC 3261.
> 
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