[77988] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Vonage complains about VoIP-blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Tue Feb 15 18:14:03 2005
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "'Stephen Sprunk'" <stephen@sprunk.org>,
Bruce Campbell <bc-nanog@vicious.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:12:57 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Stephen Sprunk
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 6:08 PM
> To: Bruce Campbell
> Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes
> Subject: Re: Vonage complains about VoIP-blocking
>
>
>
> Thus spake Bruce Campbell" <bc-nanog@vicious.dropbear.id.au>
> > Introducing new devices that are intended to trust that
> big, bad, easily
> > spoofable internet using non-secured protocols such as tftp
> in order to
> > get their configuration from a non-local server shows a
> degree of trust
> > not seen since the Famous Five, the BabySitters Club and
> pre '96 O'Reilly
> > books on writing internet protocols.
>
> Unfortunately, TFTP is the only protocol that many phone vendors
> implement -- and VoIP operators aren't happy about it. Some
> vendors have
> started implementing HTTP(S), but it's far from common at this point.
Wouldn't there be a fee to utilize https?
-M<
