Re: [dispatch] Updated: draft-kaplan-dispatch-session-id-02

[Hadriel Kaplan <[e-mail]>]

Yup, and we have it indicated as one of the recorded fields in the Ipfix-based sipclf I-D, in the draft-niccolini-sipclf-ipfix-03. (though of course that's just a strawman list of fields right now anyway)

-hadriel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vijay K. Gurbani [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 2:25 PM
> To: Hadriel Kaplan
> Cc: [e-mail]; [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: [dispatch] Updated: draft-kaplan-dispatch-session-id-02
> 
> On 07/13/2010 11:37 AM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:
> > There is a need for having a globally unique session identifier for the
> > same SIP session, which can be consistently maintained across Proxies,
> > B2BUAs and other SIP middle-boxes, for the purpose of Troubleshooting.
> > This draft proposes a new SIP header to carry such a value: Session-ID.
> 
>  > A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>  >
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-kaplan-dispatch-session-id-
> 02.txt
> 
> Hadriel: I know are aware of this, but to point this work
> out to the broader audience in the sipclf WG ... another use of
> the Session-ID header can conceivably include the end-to-end
> tracing of sessions that cross administrative domains.  We have
> talked about this in the sipclf WG.
> 
> Session-ID can appear as one of the extension headers in the
> SIP CLF record.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - vijay
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