Jo Hornsby wrote:
>>Generally, the mapping of an incoming request URI to obtain a
>>key into the DB of registered contact is a matter of local
>>policy,
>>
>
> Agreed.
>
>
>>but it needs to be done in a consistent and coherent
>>manner, in order to avoid interop problems. This particular
>>item, use of user=phone, has been a source of trouble for some
>>time.
>>
>
> Well, there needs to be alignment between a Registrar's
> usage of the address-of from the To in a REGISTER, and
> corresponding lookups based on the Request-URI, or
> whatever.
The bigger problem is consistency with how a calling UA might construct
the request URI for a particular user; that is the particular source of
interop problems here.
>
> Given this and some other resolutions, it seems to me
> that strictly only the user and host parts can be of
> significance now. Which is nice.
>
>
>>I believe that the correct thing to do in this particular
>>case is that the registrar should not user the user=phone
>>when using the address-of-record from the REGISTER. Furthermore,
>>it ought to be stripped from the incoming r-uri,
>>
>
> I'm so not against this.
> But I fear that I am missing something, since I read it
> as conflicting somewhat with your summary of the fix for #281:
>
>
>>There were two comments on this proposal, from Jo Hornsby
>>and from Jon Peterson (enclosed below). Both support the
>>proposal. Jon recommended some additional text on reasonable
>>choices for the "transformation" as he describes it. I think
>>thats OK; discussing the issue in particular with user=phone
>>(whether or not that is part of the key, and I believe
>>it generally is).
>>
>
> Or do I have post-New Year Celebrations "flu"? &:)
I never guarantee self consistency of my arguments, or that they won't
change over time ;)
I wrote the above after quickly thinking about it, but on deeper
reflection, I think that ignorning the user=phone is better.
-Jonathan R.
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