On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:37 AM, neil.young <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Could you, or anyone else, clarify what is meant with that rfc822name
>> "to use in the overlay" ? Why is it there ?
>>
>>
>
> AFAIK the username is a human readable name for a given RELOAD peer or
> client.
>
>> Assume you have a central enrollment and a SIP usage, the client
>> (application) may want to know from this enrollment which AOR it
>> should use. I.e. you have a mobile device, within the enrollment
>> process, the AOR should be provided by enrollment since the Client
>> (user) does not want to configure it's AOR manually in the phone (you
>> never did that with you "old" mobile, right ?).
>>
>>
>
> Hmm. My understanding is that a SIP usage of RELOAD stores and fetches AORs
> on its own. This has nothing to do with the information provided in a
> certificate used at RELOAD transport level (hence nothing to do with the
> rfc822name and/or node_ids, used to manage the RELOAD functionality). But
> this is only my understanding.
>
> The SIP AOR is for me nothing special than a datum, stored in the DHT of the
> overlay, able to be retrieved from that.
>
> But I might be wrong. And because all experts prefer to not comment, we
> might stay stupid for a certain time :(

My intention was always that the name in the certificate was the AOR. obviously
the documents aren't clear on this point. Can you suggest some text that
would help?

-Ekr
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