Re: [Linphone-developers] SIP address or phone number:

[Nathan Stratton]

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Petr Pisar wrote:

> I'm strongly against this approach as I described above. From point of theory
> and URI handling, <sip:address@hidden> is not equaled to <tel:N> in general. 
> Anybody
> is free to register <sip:address@hidden> on his registrar. Thus embeding 
> telephone
> number into sip: URI is specific to local SIP routing policy and no obligation
> in this direction should bee assumed. Also public phone numbers (E.164) are
> (usually) maintained by authorites different from local SIP operator,
> therefore overloading sip: namespace is wrong way if one recalls SIP is not
> about numbers only.
>
> Be ware that SIP protocol allows to INVITE any URI including tel: URI.

I understand that, however check out CounterPath, SJPhone, etc, whenever 
your registered the user expects to just enter a phone number.

-Nathan