[Bug 25185] New: Handles for undisclosed contacts

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25185

           Summary: Handles for undisclosed contacts
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: tp-spec
        AssignedTo: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: mikhail.zabaluev at nokia.com
                CC: ppessi+telepathy at gmail.com


In mobile telephony and Skype there may be calls or messages from unidentified
parties, which however need to be distinguished for some follow-up use cases.

My idea to deal with this is to provide an extension to classify these contact
handles as private (there may be other classes as well), so that the client
would know not to display their IDs the same way as it would show properly
addressable handles.

I don't know if it's practical to let such handles have an empty string ID, but
it may be a string ID which cannot be successfully used in RequestHandles or
Contacts on the same (or any other) connection.

This may be considered together with bug #15562.


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