Hi,

Pls see comments inline:

-- regards
Hul

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Karthikeyan Gopal , TLS-Chennai <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  Hi All,
>
>     In SIP outbound draft 11 it was mentioned that flow back to particular
> UA can be Identified based on instance-id and reg-id.
>
[Hb] I dont think Instance-id and reg-id can be used to identify the ip
address of user. They are just used to identify the uniqueness of device.

> Then what is the need for flow-token.
>
[Hb]Flow token actually contains information of src ip address and port(Flow
token  = HMAC(users address, local address, key)). Thus a stateless proxy
need not have any other information to correctly send the request to UE.

>
> Is this flow-token is used only in case of edge-proxy support?
>
[Hb] Yes, it appears that flow token is used only by edge proxy.


> If it is so what is the need of instance-id in case of edge-proxy.
>
[Hb] Flow token may not be usefull in case of edge proxy, but surely as per
outbound section 7(bullet 3), its usefull for Authoritative proxies and
SCSCF (in IMS)  .

> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Karthikeyan.G
>
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