Re: Structure of tel: URI

At 12:24 pm -0400 7/8/02, Henning Schulzrinne wrote:
>Yes, and that's a problem that's going to be causing confusion in 
>the future if the allocchio draft goes forward. We had, I believe, 
>intentionally decided not to support the various pauses and such in 
>2806bis, since they are dial strings, not directory or routing 
>numbers. The idea was that adding pauses and such depended too 
>strongly on the local environment to be useful in a URI.
>
>Michael Hammer wrote:
>>Also, note how phone-string is being defined in:
>>
>>draft-allocchio-gstn-04.txt:

Yup.
Agree wholeheartedly with Henning on this.
Dial strings are the wrong way to go.

That draft is just....complex I think that the Internet Fax WG
(from which this abomination came) are trying to solve some other problem
- it is not at all clear to me what this is, and why they need pauses, etc.

atb,   Lawrence
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