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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below 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] [reminder: [email protected] for non-technical discussions, please]