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	Title		: Marketing Buzzword "SIPPING 16" Considered Harmful
	Author(s)	: R. Mahy
	Filename	: draft-mahy-sipping-16-00.txt
	Pages		: 6
	Date		: 2004-9-1

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has become very popular, and
   with this popularity, the harmful misconceptions that there is a
   specific limit to the number of features that can be implemented
   using SIP primitives, and that informational documents produced by
   the SIPPING Working Group that show example call flows place
   restrictions on what can be implemented.  One especially catchy
   buzzword--The "SIPPING 16"--supposedly refers to the sixteen basic
   features of SIP.  This document describes why the mythical SIPPING 16
   does not exist,  and where to find out more information about SIP
   features.

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