On Oct 31, 2008, at 5:30 AM, Victor Pascual Ávila wrote:
Elwell, John writes:
I support draft-kuthan-sip-derive-00, and hope the WG can devote >
time and energy to improving and standardizing it to work well > >
across a variety of networks.
[JRE] I agree. This must include networks that contain B2BUAs/SBCs.
A B2BUA is a man-in-the-middle, there's no feasible end-to-end
scenario here.
One might argue that we could define a "standard B2BUA function for
optimal transparency". We would then add "Considerations at the
Standard B2BUA" into every SIP extension.
Would this change what SBCs do to make them application transparent?
I rather doubt it. My sense is that the SBCs do what they do for
reasons that are not dictated by our specifications, but from the
valid or invalid perceptions of network operators and the business
decisions they make in response to those perceptions.
We can tell them that not beating their heads on the wall will reduce
their cranial pain, but it is entirely possible that they're beating
their heads because they enjoy it, feel that it will scare away the
bogeyman, are using it to distract themselves from other self-
inflicted wounds, don't have anything better to do with their money,
or have found that ritual head-beating sedates the liability vultures
and auditing zombies.
Happy Halloween!
--
Dean
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