[asterisk-biz] ANI

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:10:00PM +0200, Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 16:28 -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > As I noted, I'm perfectly happy to let aggregators do it by contract;
> > the hammer that will fall on them is big enough that I don't think they
> > need to validate a second (or third) time.
> 
> well verification is a particularly hard thing to do correctly.  For

Only in the core.  It's trivial at the edge.  IP routing people know
this instinctively, and it translates.

> example, e164.org will call the phone number then place the route.  This
> is not (or so it seems) done at intervals later on, which means you can
> get a number, verify it, release it to someone else, get a new one, and
> so on.  You would end up with a bunch of numbers you only owned long
> enough to get verified, and now belong to others, allowing you to hijack
> their calls.

<sigh>

Please stop with the strawmen, would you?

> Ok, so that is a problem with e164.org, but taking the verification
> thing further, how exactly do you propose to do this for all the
> customers that you have?  If you place a phone call, it only proves that
> they (or a disgruntled employee) has access to that number at that
> particular point in time, it does not verify anything for the future.

<sigh> again.  Go back and actually read what I wrote... cause it's
sure not what you're responding to.

Cheers,
-- jra
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