How to make OCS 2007 R2 non-RFC 3966-compliant using RemovePlusFromRequestURI

VoIP & Gadgets Blog — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:06:29 GMT

Office Communications Server 2007 Mediation Server uses a plus sign (+) to prefix E.164 numbers in the Request Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for outgoing calls. Unfortunately, some IP-PBXs don't comply with RFC 3966 and do not accept numbers that

re: RemovePlusFromRequestURI (or how to make OCS non-RFC 3966-compliant)

fnielsen@eplus.com — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:14:56 GMT

great post, thank you! I feel it's important to point out that most external PBX's aren't necessarily non-compliant to RFC3966 (a proposed standard not widely implemented, at least not yet), but rather many don't leverage E164 global numbering in their URI contexts. Most instead use something akin to a local URI (also specified in the RFC). One could easily argue that within OCS it should be just as easy to send/receive requests using "local" numbers within a private context as defined by 3966 to make it fully compliant with the standard.