Jiri Kuthan wrote:
At 17:34 19/10/2007, Christian Schlatter wrote:
I don't understand why username@domain is not
unique enough?
sometimes it is christian(a)domain.com, sometimes
christian.schlatter(a)domain.com,
sometimes it is christian.schlatter@.domain.org or even worse you can
take your spouses'
name and from day D you begin to be christian.blair(a)domain.org, and
your company
gets acquired and you become christian.blair(a)oracle.com. (Which
clients without
DNS/SRV can try to reach as christian.blair(a)sip.oracle.com, and those
who pay
extra respect to you using capital letters as
Christian.Blair(a)sip.oracle.com)
The implication to sanity of data in usrloc, accounting and other
tables is immense
if you don't bring those to a common denominator. Any change to any
name becomes
a real pain. The point is names do changes, use of numbers is designed
to make
relations between tables invariable.
Ok, this makes sense e.g. for foreign key relationships, but isn't this
more of a database specific thing? We are using our university's LDAP
based identity management system to manage SIP accounts, and openser
accesses this system directly through H.350. Our assumption is that the
SIP proxy shouldn't care about identity management at all, so it doesn't
care if it is christian.blair(a)domain.org or christian.blair(a)oracle.com.