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To: ftth who wrote (2482)	12/7/1998 11:08:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 12823

Dave, that was once again, a great job. Thanks. Hope you don't mind my posting your reply over in the VoIP thread. Thus far, if you ask a VoIP provider about their security, what you wind up getting is a cough and an evasion. The providers themselves are at the mercy of the vendors to a great degree in this regard, and the S word is still very much on the back burner, like you say. I suspect that it will be as thorny an issue in VoIP as it is in VPNs, since a call will not be contained within a single provider's net, nor will it be supported by a single vendor's wares. Therefore interoperability of security features in the VoI sector will be as much of a problem at the "S" development plateau, as gateway interoperability has been at the gatekeeper and signaling plateaus, probably worse. In fact, you can bet on it. I'd like to take the time over the next couple of days to review your initial response on this topic, and combine it with this last one, and then compare to what the VoIPs are doing in this respect and get back next week on this some time. Thanks again, and Best Regards, Frank C.