[sorry for cross posting. this is an invitation]
Pairing Cellular Hosts https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/humanresolvers Currently there are two approaches for obtaining contact information for a target cell phone: (i) consulting a phonebook, (ii) manually exchanging phone numbers upon face-to-face user contact. Both approaches have their own limitations. The following is a new abstract solution, a third alternative, a protocol for "pairing" two cellular hosts: Model of operation 1. The querier user types the target user's "human name" (as if he were consulting a phonebook), or a pseudoynm. 2. The pairing request is forwarded to the target phone. 3. The query, along with the querier user's name, are displayed on the target phone's screen. 4. The target user approves the request in real-time by pushing on the YES button of the phone. 5. The two phones exchange their Mobile IPv6 home addresses, SIP URIs, and establish an IPsec security association (using IKEv2). The target user does not need to publish his/her private SIP URI and home address (as recommended in [1] in SIP context). Cell phone users do not publish their phone numbers today. The users do not need to manually exchange their SIP URIs and home addresses which are too long (an IPv6 address is 16 bytes long and random looking, a SIP URI can be very long e.g. up to 30 characters and even more with a random part for privacy). The protocol also works in the absence of user contact, for example when the target user's SIP URI is lost (loss of state, new phone), or this is the user's first phone, and hence his/her contact list is initially empty. Thousands of cell phones are sold everyday.. [1] Peterson, J., "A Privacy Mechanism for the Session Initiation Protocol", RFC3323, November 2002. ======================= Interested folks could you please subscribe to the mailing list created for this discussion: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/humanresolvers We already had some discussions on the IETF list recently. You may want to take a look at the archives for an introduction: http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg48129.html There is also a side discussion on CAPTCHAs: http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg48172.html Regards, pars mutaf
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