Henning,
Henning Schulzrinne wrote:
you might want to look at the SIP design, which offers most of the
functionality you describe already. The notion of a common address
(prefixed to generate a URL by the communication scheme, be it sip: or,
more generically, pres: or im:) were part of the design,
SIP obtained this design from previous work on IM and Presence:
<http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web-old/ietf-announce-old/Current/msg21041.html>
contains the announcement.
I can't seem to track down the original draft of draft-ietf-impp-srv-00,
"Address Resolution for Instant Messaging and Presence" which provided the
initial generalization.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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