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Re: Vonage complains about VoIP-blocking

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Tue Feb 15 18:48:55 2005

From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>,
	"Bruce Campbell" <bc-nanog@vicious.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:48:35 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Thus spake "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
> > 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?

One needs an SSL certificate, but the operator may already have one.  If
not, or they don't want to reuse an existing server, they can either get one
for a fee or maybe use a self-signed certificate.

S

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