Greg (gregv@lucent.com)
Tue, 2 Oct 2001 19:31:12 -0600
Your phrase "as long as any sender can send to any of those subaddresses".
In a voicemail telephone user interface, we often prompt our subscribers
"that mailbox has subaddresses. Please select which submailbox you wish to
send to, 1 for mom, 2 for dad, or 3 for princess". (The valid subaddresses
and associated spoken names may be learned from an LDAP query to the VPIM
schema) Translating that user input into a value that corresponds to the
recipients submailbox is up to the senders agent. My question is, what rule
should the senders agent use to create the subaddress to assure the message
will be delivered to the intended submailbox? This is a usage convention
that profoundly affects interoperability.
As for string-matching E.164, that is true after the message is composed,
but we must often provide pre-processing to put the address in legal form
after the user enters +1 (972) 733 2722....presumably using a web interface
that permits entry of these characters. The difference is that the rules
are clear, there are no leading zeros, spaces, or formatting characters.
Greg V.
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Moore [mailto:moore@cs.utk.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 7:56 PM
To: Vaudreuil, Greg M (Greg)
Cc: Vpim
Subject: Re: [VPIM] VPIM Sub-Addressing
Greg,
forgive the naive question, but what's wrong with string equivalence?
if one receiver wants to number subaddresses as 01, 02, etc., and
another receiver wants to number subaddresses as 1, 2, 3, why is this
a problem as long as any sender can send to any of those subaddresses?
are there some semantics associated with a particular subaddress?
to me it seems odd to say that the e.164 portion of an address
uses string matching while the subaddress using numeric matching.
Keith
----------------------------------------------------------
This message was sent to you, since you are subscribed to
vpim@lists.neystadt.org. You can manage your subscription at
http://www.neystadt.org/cgi-bin/majordomo
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b3 on Wed Oct 03 2001 - 03:31:30 IST