RE: Media Security Requirements Draft: New Requirement

["Christer Holmberg (JO/LMF)" <christer.holmberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, 

>>The main point is that I am telling how many networks (again, it's not

>> IMS specific) work today.
> 
>I agree the problems are not specific to RTPSEC.  SIP doesn't 
>consider this stuff, neither does AVT.  IETF doesn't give 
>much thought to firewalls or anything that blocks packets.
> 
>>But, if we don't want to take that into consideration I would suggest 
>>that we clearly state, in order to avoiding having similar discussions

>>in the future, that the mechanism we are working on may not be
applicable to networks where these kind of functions 
>>exist.
> 
>As this isn't specific to RTPSEC (this isn't the place to discuss it),
why burden only RTPSEC with this?  It implies 
>that only RTPSEC keying will break, when in reality other SIP things
will break.

I don't see it as a burden, and I don't think it implies that there may
not be problems elsewhere. I see it as a clarification of the scope and
applicability of the mechanism we're working on in RTPSEC.

Regards,

Christer