SIP certificate management (RFC 6072) and SIP outbound

Cullen Jennings

2011-10-10 23:32:54 UTC

Post by Olle E. Johansson
After reading RFC 6072 I can't help to wonder how this works with an outbound proxy configured in the UA.
For instance, using SIP Outbound we have two proxys that we keep an active flow to. RFC 6072 says that
the UA is required to have a direct connection to the certificate service in order to publish a key and certificate.
This is in order to be able to examine the servers certificate.
Does this mean that a UA that follows RFC 6072 should override the pre-defined route in the UA and thus
also ignore the SIP outbound mechanism for this transaction?

Those outbound guys and 6072 guys should really talk to each other :-)

Yes, the implementation I have seen are just skipping the outbound proxy for managing their own credentials. The alternative is to use an outbound server that you trust at the same level as your credential server. I don't like this as much because even thought they are likely managed by the same domain, the credential server is probably a bit more carefully managed with less going on with it.

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