[Sip] international chars in hostname part of SIP URL

"Ajay Chitturi" <ajaych@windows.microsoft.com> Fri, 07 September 2001 18:32 UTC

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Hi,

The SIP URL syntax allows only alphanum and '-' for the hostname part of the SIP URL.
Is it by design to prevent the use of other characters in the domain name ?

Thanks
Ajay.

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