Sorry, I haven't been keeping up with the exact details of the system, and I currently am under some time deadlines that prevent adequate checking of the code. Is this a true or false statement these days? "As of the date this article was written, Asterisk does not have the ability to pass a fully qualified SIP URI through its dialplan from a SIP device, but it was capable of dialing an SIP URI from within the dialplan if explicitly referenced. This is a subtle but annoying bug that hopefully will be fixed within a few weeks. " If false, please comment. I appreciate your picking up for my lack of time... This is for the 2nd (long overdue) O'Reilly article I wrote that has been languishing in their inbox for quite a while now. JT