canonicalization
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... particular goal is to enable an enterprise or service provider to
maintain a canonical source of users and their multimedia
conferencing systems, so that multiple call servers from multiple
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* enterprise directory: A canonical collection of information about
users in an organization. Typically this information is collected
from a variety of organizational units to create ...
... white pages' to locate other users with whom
they wish to communicate. All of these processes should pull their
information from canonical data sources in order to reduce redundant
administrative processes and ensure information accuracy. The
following design criteria are established for this architecture ...
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3) enable all endpoint information to be stored in a canonical data
source (the Directory), rather than local to the call server, so
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