> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Kyzivat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 3:49 PM
>
> I think it might be worth some effort to attempt an agreement by which
> B2BUAs don't have to change callids. For instance, agree on some form of
> callid that b2bua's can recognize as "safe" - not including domain names
> that might leak some "proprietary" info about the source network.

Yeah that's what I was hoping we could do too a while ago.  But it appears that 
won't succeed - B2BUA's are changing them for other reasons than just the 
security one.  One reason I know of is to track separate dialogs they create, 
ironically.  But I really don't know all the reasons they're doing it - there 
are lots of vendor devices doing it, and it's clear they're not all doing it 
for security purposes.

Doing this in a new header has another advantage over that as well, fwiw - if 
we mandate not changing "safe" call-id values, all b2bua's along the path have 
to stop changing it, and the UAC has to create a "safe" one.  If we do a new 
header, only some b2bua's need to change for matching to work in most cases.  
All of them would need to pass the header for it to work, but my assumption is 
that's more likely.  It may be a false assumption, but from the traces I get to 
see, it looks like new headers get through fairly often. (at least those 
without URI's)

-hadriel
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