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About This Guide
8 Avaya 9600 Series SIP IP Telephone Developer Guide
IP Internet Protocol – a suite of information-exchanged message sets widely used
for data transmission and increasingly used for the transmission of voice.
IPTML IP Telephony Markup Language. A simple XML based language that allows
applications to exchange information with an IP endpoint.
Item The Item element is the most often used element in an IPTML document. It can
refer to an application line, a softkey, or a hard button on the IP phone.
Label The Label element is used to define text for the Top Line, Title Line and Prompt
Line.
Link The URI that is used to chain cards together.
List Used in a Card Element to identify application lines, softkeys, or hard buttons.
Prompt Line The third line in the top display area. The current application uses the Prompt
Line to provide context-specific prompts, hints, explanations, help, or similar
information.
Registration The registration is a scheme of allowing an Avaya IP Telephone to authenticate
itself with the Avaya Communication Manager. The Avaya Media Server switch
supports registering and authenticating Avaya IP Telephones using the
extension and password.
Skin The "look and feel" of an Avaya IP Telephone, specifically the display area.
Title Line The second line in the top display area. Comprised of the current application
title, subtitle (if applicable), and choice or Web paging indicators as applicable.
Top Line The top area of the display is subdivided horizontally into a Top Line, a Title
Line, and a Prompt Line, each extending across the entire width of the 318 pixel
usable area for the 9600 Series IP Telephones. The Top Line contains current
status information. Examples of status information are the extension number,
time and date, and icons for phone- or call-related data. For the 9610 IP
Telephone, which has only a Top Line, messages and prompts appear there.
Type Type specifies a tag or attribute.
VDATA A DTD data type representing a string that can contain variable references. This
type is only used in attribute values.
W3C World Wide Web Consortium.
WAP Wireless Application Protocol. An open global standard for wireless solutions
that includes WML.
WML Wireless Markup Language is a subset of XML, used by the Avaya IP
Telephone Web browser to communicate with WML Servers.
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