Network Working Group M. Watson Request for Comments: 3324 Nortel Networks Category: Informational November 2002 Short Term Requirements for Network Asserted Identity Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002). All Rights Reserved. Abstract A Network Asserted Identity is an identity initially derived by a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) network intermediary as a result of an authentication process. This document describes short term requirements for the exchange of Network Asserted Identities within networks of securely interconnected trusted nodes and to User Agents securely connected to such networks. There is no requirement for identities asserted by a UA in a SIP message to be anything other than the user's desired alias. Watson Informational