On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 07:58 -0400, Paul Kyzivat wrote:

> However this will not guarantee you will get a secure call to a 
> destination on the PSTN. Once the call leaves the sip network all bets 
> are off.
> 
> IMO a key value of TEL is that it does not dictate the protocol used to 
> reach the destination, whereas a sip/sips URI does. In theory a TELS URI 
> could specify a requirement to reach a destination securely without 
> specifying how. But in practice I don't think we currently know how to 
> realize that.

I'd say that last more strongly - "securely without saying how" is at
best meaningless and at worst actively misleading - exactly the sort of
statement the bad guys would all like us to agree on.

-- 
Scott Lawrence  tel:+1-781-938-5306;ext=162 or sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  sipXecs project coordinator - SIPfoundry http://www.sipfoundry.org/sipXecs
  Chief Technology Officer    - Pingtel Corp. http://www.pingtel.com/


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