Re: [sixpac] SIP AOR/GRUU discovery for offline XMPP contacts.

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Thu, 17 March 2011 23:37 UTC

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On 3/17/11 4:13 PM, Emil Ivov wrote:
> На 17.03.11 21:46, Peter Saint-Andre написа:
>> On 3/17/11 2:07 PM, Emil Ivov wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> На 17.03.11 20:07, Peter Saint-Andre написа:
>>>> On 3/11/11 1:44 AM, Emil Ivov wrote:
>>>>> Hey Simo,
>>>>>
>>>>> На 11.03.11 08:43, Simo.Veikkolainen@nokia.com написа:
>>>>>>> Would it make sense to also allow uploading and retrieving that
>>>>>>> kind of information within a vCard? Of course, if available,
>>>>>>> information in a presence or a message stanza should always take
>>>>>>> precedence.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This approach might be most straightforward. See
>>>>>> http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0054.html which I believe will be
>>>>>> superseded by http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0292.html
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Right, I was also thinking about them and I guess all that we need to do
>>>>> is indicate the elements where the AOR/GRUU would need to be stored and
>>>>> retrieved from.
>>>>
>>>> Would we use the vCard4 IMPP property for this?
>>>
>>> Syntax-wise it looks right. Semantically RFC 4770 seems to be declaring
>>> it as an IM or a presence address only.
>>>
>>> So I am wondering if this could be source of confusion for non-sixpac
>>> clients.
>>>
>>> An example on page 2 seems to explicitly point that a SIP uri would be
>>> used for SIMPLE chats and presence, and it is my understanding that most
>>> sixpac clients would be unreachable this way.
>>
>> You have a point.
>>
>> Perhaps the TEL property is appropriate, instead:
>>
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-vcarddav-vcardrev-16#section-6.4.1
> 
> It seems to come with a "*" cardinality so how would one distinguish
> between the sixpac SIP uri and the regular phones? Do we define a new
> scheme?

Do you mean that we'd need a new URI scheme to identify sixpac-aware SIP
UAs? That seems unnecessary.

However, we could define a vcard extension for a special property.

> Also, I am not sure how to read the following:
> 
>     It is expected that the URI scheme will be "tel", as
>     specified in [RFC3966]
> 
> Does this mean that use with URI other than "tel" should be avoided?

I see no reason why a "sip" URI would be problematic, but we can ask the
vcard folks about that.

Peter

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