[SIPForum-techwg] Feedback on bootstrapping

[Henning Schulzrinne]

I don't think we want to go back to pre-Carterfone days and have  
(only) the phone company provide the instrument/software.

Henning

On Sep 28, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Sumanth Channabasappa wrote:

> Your concern in valid! We just need to better understand the scenarios
> we want to support prior to suggesting specific solutions. For  
> example,
> one can say that a consumer who purchases (or downloads) a client will
> need to first identify a service provider willing to configure and
> provide services. Is that a valid assumption? If so, how does the
> consumer figure out who provides services (e.g., will there be a  
> central
> non-affiliated registry of service providers)? Or is there an  
> assumption
> that the service provider will provide the client and hence the client
> already knows where to go, and it just needs to figure out the
> authentication credentials?
>
>
> - S