[VOIPSEC] TLS and Firewalls

[Brian Rosen]

Ultimately, this is the problem with IAX.  It's a special protocol,
promulgated by a small group, without a rigorous process.

It's not in the general interest of the Internet Community (whatever that
is) to have multiple ways to do the same thing.  SIP is the way the IETF
decided to do session management, including voice, video and text (although
there are other IM protocols).  IETF is not the only game in town, of
course.

I think that, actually, the IAX one port idea is a bad way to handle
signaling and multiple media streams related to the same session.  The fact
that it makes it easier on the firewalls is not enough to overcome the
limitations it has.  We're better off working to make SIP and firewalls work
better together. 

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Voipsec-bounces at voipsa.org [mailto:Voipsec-bounces at voipsa.org] On
> Behalf Of Diana Cionoiu
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 12:09 PM
> To: Alexander
> Cc: Voipsec at voipsa.org
> Subject: Re: [VOIPSEC] TLS and Firewalls
> 
> If you find any RFC avaibile for IAX let me know. Until now we have
> implement IAX based on what we have been able to learn from other people
> code. The problem with IAX secure is that of course there is no standard
> and we have to get all developers from different projects together and
> "maybe" we are lucky enough to convince them to make it work right.
> >From my experience each project has his own IAX version.
> 
> Diana
> 
> > > one port. The problem with IAX is that are no devices around. We hope
> that
> >
> >   There are some devices with IAX support, and the trend is, there
> >   will be more soon. Just few of them:
> >
> >   http://www.iaxtalk.com/
> >   http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=iaxy
> >   http://www.farfon.com/
> >
> > Regards,
> > /Al
> >
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