You are right. End station (PC) is SCP-equivalent in packet world. Will Internet community allow or push for it? How to manage credentials, etc...? Pain and more pain... -----Original Message----- From: Alex Bligh [mailto:alex@alex.org.uk] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:21 PM To: Chen, Weijing; nanog@merit.edu Cc: Alex Bligh Subject: RE: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea) --On 17 February 2004 16:10 -0600 "Chen, Weijing" <Weijing_Chen@labs.sbc.com> wrote:

Sound like an any to any end to end signaling/control mechanism with authentication capabilities. Smell fishy (packet version of dial tone?)

Since when had dialtone got end-to-end signalling/control? My POTS line doesn't run C7/SS7. I mean authentication as in scp (and not tftp). IE one end user authorizes the other end user, using whatever credentials they like. Alex