Gatekeeper-assigned address in RCF

[Chris Wayman Purvis]

Francois,

Agreed.
Furthermore it's always puzzled me why this is restricted to the case where
no terminalAlias is included in the RRQ.  Maybe a proposal to address your
point should address that as well at the same time?

Regards,
Chris

Francois Audet wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I found a minor mistake in H.225.0v4. It says in 7.9.1 that if no
> terminalAlias is included in the RRQ, a dialedDigits address may be
> assigned by the gatekeeper in the RCF terminalAlias. There is no reason
> to restrict it to a dialedDigits string. The text in 7.9.2 for
> RCF mentions a terminalAlias field, not a dialedDigits. If we wanted to
> restrict it to a "phone number", it should be a partyNumber.
>
> The original text is as follows:
>
>     terminalAlias ? This optional value is a list of alias addresses, by
>     which other terminals may identify this terminal.  This field may be
>     used in addition to or as an alternative to the terminalAliasPattern
>     and supportedPrefixes fields.  If the terminalAlias is null, a
>     dialedDigits address may be assigned by the gatekeeper, and included
>     in the RCF. If an email-ID is available for the endpoint, it should
>     be registered. Note that multiple alias addresses may refer to the
>     same transport addresses. All of the endpoint's aliases that it
>     desires to register shall be included in this list unless the
>     additiveRegistration option is specified, in which case the endpoint
>     aliases in an RRQ shall be added to the list of aliases currently
>     registered for the endpoint.
>
> It should be changed to:
>
>     terminalAlias ? This optional value is a list of alias addresses, by
>     which other terminals may identify this terminal.  This field may be
>     used in addition to or as an alternative to the terminalAliasPattern
>     and supportedPrefixes fields.  If the terminalAlias is null,
>     a terminalAlias address may be assigned by the gatekeeper, and
>     included in the RCF. If an email-ID is available for the endpoint,
>     it should be registered. Note that multiple alias addresses may
>     refer to the same transport addresses. All of the endpoint's aliases
>     that it desires to register shall be included in this list unless
>     the additiveRegistration option is specified, in which case the
>     endpoint aliases in an RRQ shall be added to the list of aliases
>     currently registered for the endpoint.
>
> Comments?
>
>
>
> ----
>
> François AUDET, Nortel Networks
>
> mailto:audet at nortelnetworks.com, tel:+1 408 495 3756
>
>


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