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

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