Re: iptel and iCalendar

["Henning G. Schulzrinne" <hgs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Stracke wrote:
> 
> "Henning G. Schulzrinne" wrote:
> 
> > There is a somewhat related problem, as in "I don't want to receive
> > calls from 11 pm to 6 am, wherever I am (as I'm asleep during that
> > time)", but the server will have a hard time knowing which time zone
> > each end system is in, so I doubt that this is useful in practice.
> 
> And this effect can be obtained with regular time zones anyway.  If you're not in your
> home time zone, and you want to receive calls while you're awake, you're probably going
> to need to forward calls to wherever you are (unless you forward to your cellphone--in
> which case you can turn it off at night).  When you set up that forwarding, you could
> give it a rule such as "except from 11PM to 6AM in this time zone".

It's a little bit easier and more complicated. With SIP phones, I can
plug one (in the form of an iPaq, to cite a real-life example) into a
hotel Ethernet jack or 802.11 network and it automatically rings for my
calls, modulo what my CPL script says. No explicit forwarding is needed.
Unplugging it at night is not an option, since I want to still receive
emergency calls from my wife, say.



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