[VOIPSEC] Looking for more information on midcom

[Paine, Richard H]

As identity (people and machines) associated with packets on the network
becomes more important, one practical and potential use of the middlebox
is network enforcement of identity.  The network requirement will be to
verify those identities (and hence packets) and enforce policy on the
network.  The Open Group's Secure Mobile Architecture (SMA) at
http://www.opengroup.org/products/publications/catalog/e041.htm enables
such identity and security enforcement.  The middlebox is the potential
policy enforcement mechanism in SMA for the network administration and
management.

Richard H. Paine
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Billerbeck [mailto:Michael.Billerbeck at gmx.de] 
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 1:15 AM
To: voipsec at voipsa.org
Subject: [VOIPSEC] Looking for more information on midcom

Hello,

I am looking for some more information on MIDCOM (Middlebox
Communication) and I am aware of that many RFCs (RFC 3234, RFC 3303, RFC
3304, RFC 3989, RFC 4097 and RFC 4540, the last one about the SIMCO
protocol version 3). But is there a practical use for it?
Well, there are some companies like Ranch Networks (in conjunction with
asterisk pbx), Veraz Networks and maybe Newport Networks (not quite
sure) that use this protocol and the architecture/framework in their
products for interoperability. This doesn't seem to be important, does
it? But why isn't it widely used then if there are so many RFCs?

Thanks,
Michael

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