RE: Review of IETF netann Draft

At 15:56 04/02/27 -0500, Eric Burger wrote:
>If we were to assume that a URL -at a host- somehow leaked out as a URI 
>-in a domain-, would John's proposal, to prepend the user name with 'sip' 
>and postfix it with 'master' alleviate the potential problem?

Something in that direction, yes, very much. I don't care too
much about the specifics. Maybe having prefixes and suffixes
is a bit too complicated, so rather than sipanncmaster,
better anncsipmaster or so, or something a bit simpler.

Regards,   Martin.


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Martin Duerst [mailto:duerst@w3.org]
> > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 11:02 AM
> > To: Eric Burger
> > Cc: uri@w3.org
> > Subject: RE: Review of IETF netann Draft
> >
> >
> > At 17:24 04/02/23 -0500, Eric Burger wrote:
> >
> > > > From: Martin Duerst [mailto:duerst@w3.org]
> >
> > > > At 12:50 04/02/19 -0500, Eric Burger wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >The IETF Internet Draft Basic Network Media Services with SIP,
> > > >
> > >http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-burger-sipping-neta
>nn-08.txt,
> > > >amongst other things establishes a URI convention for
> > > addressing named
> > > >resources at an automaton (in this case, a media server).
>
>
> > > One solution to this problem may be to change
> > >      sip:annc@example.net....
> > > to
> > >      sip:special-annc@example.net
> > > (choose whatever appropriate for the 'special' prefix).
> >
> >In theory, any special prefix suffers the same problem.  "annc" takes away
> >from the namespace the same as "special-annc".
> >
> >In practice, it is in fact the way SIP is used that makes the namespace
> >issue a non-problem.  The "reserved" users are typically at a device or
> >proxy.  They are not exposed externally, as discussed in Section 6 of the
> >draft.
>
>I have way not enough SIP knowledge to try to give you examples
>how this might change in the future. But I'm also sure that you
>cannot predict the future. Better be careful now than sorry
>later.
>
>
>Regards,    Martin.

Received on Friday, 27 February 2004 16:52:28 UTC