> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Kyzivat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> My personal opinion is that the kind of checking you are talking about
> is just "meddling" in the affairs of the UAs, and should not be done.
> But I suppose one might desire a policy that enforces standards in this
> way. But if so, as a UA I don't want my agents enforcing policies that
> prevent valid usages by my UA.
>
> Perhaps Hadriel would like to comment on this. His company makes SBCs
> that I think are in the business of sticking their nose into other
> people's sip usage and policing it.

Cute.  I believe Christer's makes them too, as does yours, and a dozen others 
on this list.  We don't "stick our nose into other people's usage".  They sent 
SIP to us.  We can't force a UA not to send something to us.  But it doesn't 
mean we have to accept it.  No one forces you to send your SIP requests to us 
or any SBC, AFAIK.


> Do they do this kind of enforcement?

Of course we could do that kind of enforcement, depending on configuration, as 
I assume you guys do.  My guess is even "Proxies" do it, based on config. (and 
there are plenty of record-routing proxies)  The RFCs say to forward SIP 
requests, just as they expect routers to forward packets, but that doesn't stop 
routers from having ACLs, policing, shaping, filtering routes, etc.  Email 
servers block emails based on usage too.

Regardless, I'm with you that we can't consider local device policies as a 
roadblock to all new things.  (Although pragmatism has its place)  It's just 
that it is an advantage for a mechanism if we know it works in more cases due 
to empirical evidence.  I think there is also some evidence that a Notify in an 
Invite dialog works, because there is at least one vendor out there that uses 
Notify in an Invite for DTMF.  But many more do Info, I believe, so I assume 
its chance of success is greater.

-hadriel


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