[Telepathy] SIP chats (was: New channel request/announcement/dispatch interfaces)

[Pekka Pessi]

It is possible to send MESSAGEs within an otherwise established
dialog. Otherwise, the From URI is only way to map incoming MESSAGEs
to different dialogs.

2008/3/20, mikhail.zabaluev at nokia.com <mikhail.zabaluev at nokia.com>:
> Hi,
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: telepathy-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org
> >[mailto:telepathy-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of
> >ext Simon McVittie
> >Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 3:28 PM
> >To: telepathy at lists.freedesktop.org
> >Subject: [Telepathy] New channel request/announcement/dispatch
> >interfaces
> >
> >  - SIP dialogs/call-IDs associating text messages (similar to XMPP
> >    message threading, I think?)
>
> The sad truth is, we don't currently use any cross-message "chat"
> identification, and AFAIK Call-ID cannot be interoperably used for this
> purpose. There's some chat handle/event support in Sofia-SIP, but it looks
> like it was primarily targeted for MSRP, and it doesn't make life easier
> with basic SIMPLE. Pekka may correct me if I'm wrong.
> Currently, we relay entirely on the sender-recipient URI pair to identify
> text channels in SIP; this causes problems if aliases are involved.
>
> Best regards,
>   Mikhail
>


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