The Purple Streak, Hilarie Orman wrote:
I think the concept of an "OPES system" being traceable, without
requiring each OPES processor to be traceable, is unsupportable.
It will not satisfy anyone, and it will lead to endless arguments
about what constitutes compliance.
If I recall correctly, there were two arguments that lead to this concept:
(1) Carriers are typically hesitant to reveal information about their
internal network infrastructure, i.e. they don't want to provide
information (e.g. the IP address) about their internal network elements.
(2) OPES processors might be configured to use non-routable, private
IP addresses inside a carrier's network. How would they be identified?
A user having problems/concerns would trace and contact the carrier
who provided an OPES service (without tracing the exact OPES
processor/callout server). It's up to the carrier to have maintained
approriate internal detailed traces to find the answer to the
customer's inquery.
Anyone any thoughts or comments on that issue? This is a very
important topic and we must get WG consensus on it, so please post
your views to the mailing list!
-Markus