Dean Elwood: "Why SIP Doesn't Need OpenID"
February 21, 2007
Dean Elwood over at VoIPuser.org has taken up the question about Open ID with his post "Why SIP Doesn't Need OpenID". Dean suggests that the problem really lies between servers:
The problem of identity authentication actually resides in the server to server realm in a peered environment. How does sip.fwd.com know for sure that a peered call request is really coming from sip.voipuser.org?
Good question... and one that Dean believes can be solved through the use of the already-standardized Open Settlement Protocol (OSP).
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