Re: Plan for moving forward

[Lakshminath Dondeti <ldondeti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That was one savings I was looking for.  Where it is unnecessary, 
battery-powered devices might want to skip it.  Once there is 
flexibility, we can think of other optimizations too.

thanks,
Lakshminath

On 6/7/2007 11:02 AM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> At Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:21:14 -0700,
> Lakshminath Dondeti wrote:
> > I definitely understand the mode of operation you are talking about, but 
> > the point is that the caller has to authenticate twice, first with a 
> > self-signed cert and then later using DTMF digits.  In some cases, the 
> > first authentication has no real purpose, so why can't we skip it? 
> > That's what I am getting at.
>
> It does have a purpose: it ties the signalling to the media so
> that (for instance) ANI works properly.
>
> Moreover, what's the purpose of skipping it? As far as I can tell
> it just saves a signature...
>
> -Ekr
>