[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0017141]: Request to change Name/username field truncation from 11 to 12 chars

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https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=17141 
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Reported By:                lmadsen
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   17141
Category:                   Channels/chan_sip/General
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   trivial
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
Asterisk Version:           SVN 
JIRA:                        
Regression:                 No 
Reviewboard Link:            
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A 
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             2010-04-06 07:50 CDT
Last Modified:              2010-04-07 01:17 CDT
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Summary:                    Request to change Name/username field truncation
from 11 to 12 chars
Description: 
While working on documentation for Asterisk, Jim and I realized that the
truncation length of the output of 'sip show peers' is 11 characters.
Because we're now telling people a best practice (both in the book, and I
believe in the best practices document shipped with Asterisk) is to use a
MAC address for the username, it only seems logical to increase this from
11 chars to 12 chars in order to see the entire MAC address.
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 (0120189) Jamuel (reporter) - 2010-04-07 01:17
 https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=17141#c120189 
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Not to start an "arms race" or to have oej say "I told you so" but do you
think you could make the truncation occur at 13-digits? Or even better make
it configurable in sip.conf or some such?  Same for sip show subscriptions
too.  

We use MAC addresses ourselves but on devices with multiple line
appearances we append another digit to differentiate the individual
appearances hence the request for 13-digits.

Thanks for your consideration. 

Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2010-04-07 01:17 Jamuel         Note Added: 0120189                          
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