On 11/18/13 11:31 PM, Vivek Gupta wrote: > RFC section 10.2.1 says below: > > The Contact header field values of the request typically consist of SIP or > SIPS URIs that identify particular SIP endpoints (for example, “ > sip:ca...@cube2214a.chicago.com”), but they MAY use any URI scheme.* A **SIP > UA can choose to register telephone numbers (with the tel URL, RFC 2806 > [8]) or email addresses (with a mailto URL, RFC 2368 [32]) as Contacts for > an address-of-record, for example.* > > I would be interested to know the practical use cases where SIP UA would > make use of Tel URL in the Contact header when registering.
A UA that is registering isn't necessarily registering contacts that identify itself. It may register contacts that identify something else. You could potentially register a TEL uri in order to get incoming calls redirected to some arbitrary phone number. Thanks, Paul > Vivek Gupta | Sr. Consultant Engineering > GlobalLogic > P +91.120.406.2953 M +91.987.390.4358 S vivek.gupta_globallogic.com > www.globallogic.com > <http://www.globallogic.com/> > http://www.globallogic.com/email_disclaimer.txt > _______________________________________________ > Sip-implementors mailing list > Sip-implementors@lists.cs.columbia.edu > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/sip-implementors > _______________________________________________ Sip-implementors mailing list Sip-implementors@lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/sip-implementors