On Thursday 17 January 2008 15:23:22 Paul Kyzivat wrote:
> Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 January 2008 14:08:07 Paul Kyzivat wrote:
> >> Anybody that you permit to register with your scheme can still put any
> >> ip it wants into the the contact addresses it registers. So you haven't
> >> solved the problem you set out to solve. Having something special in the
> >> user part doesn't change that.
> >
> > It would avoid fraudulent calls through gateways and call to any existing
> > SIP account. Yes, the INVITE would arrive to the IP you set in "Contact"
> > but it will be rejected since that URI doesn't exist.
> >
> > For example, nothing should occur if an INVITE like:
> >   INVITE sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > arrives to the gateway. It would be rejected.
>
> This requires that every sip device in the universe adopt your naming
> convention for Contact addresses. That isn't going to happen.

Yes, that's really true. Maybe this could be implemented locally (if devices 
allow setting "Contact" username).



> >> Regarding your authentication example: if user2 does this, and the owner
> >> of phone1 complains, then user2 can be punished. In any case, you can
> >> modify your example so the contact used by user2 is:
> >> <sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In that case the registrar will permit this
> >> according to your proposal.
> >
> > Yes, but when the "INVITE sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" arrives to phone1 it will
> > be rejected with 404.
> > This is the same as in-dialog messages, proxies allow them and it's
> > responsability of UAS to reject messages with a To tag not corresponding
> > to an existing session.
>
> I'll also mention that it is quite common (though not especially wise)
> for UAs to use the same contact address for registrations to multiple
> AORs. And it is pretty common for specialized UAs, like phones, to
> entirely ignore the R-URI and process any requests incoming to their sip
> port.

Ops, that a point I didn't consider.

Thanks for explanations.



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