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Re: draft-ietf-mmusic-sip-session-timer-00.txt

Henning Schulzrinne <hgs@cs.columbia.edu> Tue, 23 February 1999 14:07 UTC

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:07:34 -0500
From: Henning Schulzrinne <hgs@cs.columbia.edu>
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To: Aishling <irelanda@tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: draft-ietf-mmusic-sip-session-timer-00.txt
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Aishling wrote:
> 
> >
> > My understanding is that a SIP Client issues an Invite message to a SIP Server,
> > which in turn forwards the request to a target SIP Client (or some GW or some
> 
> Do clients not only issue requests, I didn't realise they could accept
> requests???

Because it sounds strange to some to talk about clients accepting
requests, the SIP spec uses the terms UAC and UAS (user agent client and
server). However, this is obviously more awkward than just saying
"client". Just do the mental substitution...



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