From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:11:41 -0400
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   iptel chair <jdrosen@dynamicsoft.com>,
   Internet Architecture Board <iab@iab.org>,
   RFC Editor <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>
Subject: Protocol Action: 'The tel URI for Telephone Numbers' to Proposed Standard 

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'The tel URI for Telephone Numbers '
   <draft-ietf-iptel-rfc2806bis-09.txt> as a Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the IP Telephony Working Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Jon Peterson and Allison Mankin.

Technical Summary
 
This document defines a "tel" URI scheme for telephone numbers and
thereby revises the original definition given in RFC2806.  This revision
eliminates all vestiges of "dial string" usage of the tel URI in favor
of a model where a tel URI is always a globally unique identifier.  It
also clarifies the use of tel URIs as the user portion of SIP URIs.
 
Working Group Summary
 
The IPTEL working group supported this revision to RFC2806.
 
Protocol Quality
 
This document was reviewed for the IESG by Jon Peterson.

RFC Editor Note:
Section 3, 2nd paragraph:

OLD:

   If the reserved characters
   "+", ";", "=", and "?" are used as delimiters between components of
   the "tel" URI, they MUST NOT percent-encoded. 

NEW:

   If the reserved characters
   "+", ";", "=", and "?" are used as delimiters between components of
   the "tel" URI, they MUST NOT be percent-encoded. 
                                ^^