RFC 2543:SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
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telephone number


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... host. The user part is a user name or a telephone number. The host part is either a domain name ...


... Internet telephony gateway, the user field MAY also encode a telephone number using the notation of telephone-subscriber ...
... telephone-subscriber (Fig. 4). The telephone number is a special case of a user name and cannot be distinguished by a BNF ...
... BNF. Thus, a URL parameter, user, is added to distinguish telephone numbers from user names. The phone identifier ...



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