1. Introduction
There is currently a need for a mechanism to identify the originating party of a voice mail message, outside of the "FROM" header information. The telephone number and name of the caller are typically available from the telephone network, but there is no obvious header field to store this in an Internet Mail message. This information is intended for use when the VPIM message format is used for storing "Call Answer" voice messages in an Internet Mail message store, i.e., the calling party leaves a voice message for the recipient, who was unable to answer the call. The implication is that there is no RFC 2822prop address known for the originator. [VPIMV2R2] suggests the originating number be included as an Internet address, using the first method shown below. There are several other ways to store this information, but they all involve some manipulation of the "From" field. For example: 1. From: "416 555 1234" <non-mail-user@host> 2. From: "John Doe" <4165551234@host> 3. From: unknown:; Since any of these is a forced translation, it would be useful to store the calling party's name and number as presented by the telephone system to the called party without manipulation. This would allow the calling party's information to be displayed to the recipient (similar to it appearing on the telephone) and also allow future determination of an Internet address for the originator (if one exists). Note that there is no requirement to store meta-data (e.g., type of number, presentation restricted), as this information is not presented to the called party and is generally not available to voice mail systems. The intent is to store the available information to an analog (non-ISDN) phone (e.g., per [T1.401] in North America). [RFC2076] currently lists "phone" as an Internet message header which would hold the originating party's telephone number, but it is listed as "non-standard", i.e., usage of this header is not generally recommended. It also has no defined format, making the information unparsable. There is no similar entry for the originator's name. It is proposed that two new message header fields be included to hold this information, namely the Calling Line Identification ("Caller- ID") and Caller Name ("Caller-Name").
