Not normally, but it’s sometimes possible.
Location in enterprise maps switch ports to location.
In some circumstances, you know the switchport is in an office, and you can associate it with the telephone system extension. However, that doesn’t always work, because there are rooms with switch ports that don’t have extensions. Rooms with more switch ports than extensions, more extensions than switchports, and circumstances where you, for example, IM from a conference room, and even though the conference room has an extension, that would be the wrong identity.
Since all of those conditions exist, I think the enterprise LIS better not put a telephone system identity on location.
Brian
From: Bernard Aboba [mailto:bernard_aboba@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 2:01 AM
To: br@brianrosen.net; jmpolk@cisco.com; geopriv@ietf.org
Subject: RE: [Geopriv] Issue in HELD, confusing device ID with entity= attribute
> It's only in something like a cellphone network where the identity in the
> PIDF and the identity in whatever is conveying the PIDF could reasonably be
> the same thing. And only in those cases could you have something we would
> recognize as an AoR in the PIDF. I'm not at all sure we will see that AoR
> in the PIDF, but at least in that case it could be.
There is also the enterprise case. There the NAI could indeed be an AoR.
