On Monday 12 September 2005 19:45, Dean Willis wrote: > Are you just being difficult (like the IMS > people who actually have a transitive authentication mechanism keyed > off REGISTER that they built that way BECAUSE they got SIP REGISTER > confused with GSM Registration -- after all, the names are very > similar)
:-) few reasons of the top of my head that the IMS probably chose to do this: * to assign an S-CSCF to the user, which is needed for further messages * for grabbing the filter criterion from the HSS, which are needed to route further messages. * roaming, where the P-CSCF is located in a visited network - for ensuring the user is allowed to roam with that identity. I initially thought "what the hell" when reading through the IMS spec, but am now starting to appreciate the reasons things have been done the way they have while deploying a scarily large SIP network while keeping resources to a sane level thoughts? (maybe offlist :)) ~ Theo, not related to the IMS in any way other than implementing it :) -- Theo P. Zourzouvillys People who enjoy waiving flags don't deserve to have one -- Santa's Ghetto 2004, Banksy _______________________________________________ Sip-implementors mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/sip-implementors
