-----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
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
Thus spake Bruce Campbell" <bc-nanog@vicious.dropbear.id.au> 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<