[Bug 26866] add support for requesting handles for a vCard field or URI

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26866

--- Comment #26 from Mikhail Zabaluev <mikhail.zabaluev at nokia.com> 2010-08-26 02:34:54 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #24)
> (In reply to comment #20)
> > What about making ENUM lookups to resolve a tel URI?
> 
> It seems like just another resolution step. I guess the question is, if a CM
> advertises support for the TEL vCard field, are we assuming that it could reach
> any number on earth? Or could it be that it supports TEL only inside a walled
> garden (could only reach telephone numbers that successfully resolve with
> ENUM).

Not really; It's not a problem to have unreachable contacts, and there can be
fallback methods in case ENUM fails. I'm interested in where could we work
these network roundtrips into the translation from an address to the target
handle proper. I don't think it's good to perform during regular handle
normalization, but requesting channels by address properties could be such a
place. A consistent way to resolve contacts without requesting a channel
requires some more thinking. Maybe it's just simpler to have one
RequestContactsBy* method style and allow network roundtrips. But then, bulk
requesters will cause a lot of traffic.

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