[Sip] Join header (draft-ietf-sip-join-03.txt) unnecessary?

"Christian Jansson" <christian.jansson@hotsip.com> Thu, 21 October 2004 14:25 UTC

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Why do we need a Join header to be able to indicate that we want to join
an ongoing session? Wouldn't it be enough to, for the party that wants
to join, actually use the call-id for the session when sending the
join-INVITE? Suppose A and B are in a session with the dialog identified
by call-id=12345;tag=A;tag=B. If C now wants to join the session he
sends an INVITE to A or B with call-id=12345, from-tag=C, and an empty
to-tag. Wouldn't it make more sense that the 2 dialog-ids had some parts
in common, that is the call-id, and something that distinguished them,
that is the to and from tags? It would be much easier to find the
session related messages as they would share the same call-id.

 

Have I missed some essential part of the Join header, or are we just
adding something that we could already express easily with what we
already have?

 

 

/ Christian Jansson, Hotsip

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