Re: Is cpim-srv document necessary at all? (Re: NAPTR and CPIM)

Tony Hansen <[email protected]> Thu, 28 Nov 2002 23:39:07 -0500
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Jonathan Rosenberg wrote:
> I am taking it a step further. My point was that SRV can't even do 
> im:user@domain1 to XYZ:user@domain2, BECAUSE the translation might need 
> to be more complex than that  - i.e., a user name change. Thus, ALL that 
> SRV does is tell you the server to deliver the request to, and that 
> request is sent with the im URI intact, not translated. Once it arrives 
> at the server, it can translate the URI according to some local policy.

I'm not convinced that more complex translations are necessry.

If you're going to advertise an im: URI, it should already be using the 
appropriate username for the protocol and domain that the SRV is going 
to be doing the mapping into.

	Tony Hansen
	[email protected]




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