Dave

I believe the To: field is always supposed to be urn:service:sos, 
regardless of the choice in how to do this.  I don't know if this 
helps the point you're making...

James

At 09:30 PM 3/19/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In regard to this use case in draft-rosenberg-sip-ua-loose-route-02.txt:
>
>    2.6.  Emergency Services
>
>    Another problem that arises from Request-URI rewriting is with
>    emergency services for VoIP.  A key requirement of systems supporting
>    emergency calling is that the SIP INVITE request for an emergency
>    call be 'marked' in some way that makes it clear that it is an
>    emergency call, so that it can receive priority treatment
>    [I-D.ietf-ecrit-requirements].  However, such a marking needs to be
>    done in a way that it cannot be abused by attackers seeking to get
>    special treatment for non-emergency calls.  The solution for this is
>    that the marking needs to be the target address of the request
>    itself, which would unambiguously identify an emergency services
>    calltaker as the target.
>
>Implicitly, an additional requirement is the ability to do non-trivial
>routing and fowarding of the emergency request, that is, where one SIP
>agent could provide routing instructions to downstream SIP agents.  In
>a perfect world, a proxy could route locally-originating emergency
>requests to any specified SIP URI, based on local policy regarding
>routing of emergency requests.
>
>Unfortunately, neither draft-rosenberg-sip-ua-loose-route,
>draft-holmberg-sip-target-uri-delivery, nor History-Info solves this
>problem.  The problem is fundamental:  We desire the *routing* of the
>message to be controlled by one element of the request, while the
>*priority* is controlled by a different element, the alleged ultimate
>destination ("urn:service:sos").  But such a split automatically
>allows a malicious user to take advantage of emergency prioritization
>for his own use.
>
>As proposed, a message would have "routed emergency service" in one of
>the following ways.  (We assume that sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is the
>emergency services address.  In North American usage, an emergency
>services operation is called a "PSAP", "Public-Safety Answering
>Point".)
>
>     INVITE urn:service:sos SIP/2.0
>     From: xxx
>     To: xxx
>     Route: <sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED];lr>
>
>     INVITE sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIP/2.0
>     From: xxx
>     To: xxx
>     Target: urn:service:sos
>
>     INVITE sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIP/2.0
>     From: xxx
>     To: xxx
>     History-Info: <urn:service:sos?Reason=SIP%3Bcause%3D302>;index=1,
>             <sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;index=2
>
>Unfortunately, all of mechanisms can be exploited (in the same way)
>for nefarious purposes:
>
>     INVITE urn:service:sos SIP/2.0
>     From: xxx
>     To: xxx
>     Route: <sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED];lr>
>
>     INVITE sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIP/2.0
>     From: xxx
>     To: xxx
>     Target: urn:service:sos
>
>     INVITE sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIP/2.0
>     From: xxx
>     To: xxx
>     History-Info: <urn:service:sos?Reason=SIP%3Bcause%3D302>;index=1,
>             <sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;index=2
>
>By hypothesis, all of these requests are intended to be routed to
>sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with emergency priority, before allegedly
>being forwarded to the correct PSAP destination.
>
>Dale
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