[Sip] Re: draft-fwmiller-ping-00 comments

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:48 +0530, Rayees Khan wrote:
> Section 2 of the draft mentions that signaling path of the PING method
> is established as a result of a call setup. Now what I understand is
> that main purpose the method is to keep the signaling path alive or to
> check the validity of the signaling path. This means that it would
> mostly be sent outside the context of a session. In such context I
> guess it has to follow path of a dialog establishing request.
> 

Did some cleanup of wording here to make it more general.

> Section 2.1 lists the headers that are expected in the PING method.
> Well, I have come across devices using Require and Proxy-Require
> header in PING messages. 
> 

I saw your other email.  I'd still like to hear some other opinions
before I add this.

> Section 2.2 mentions the responses that are expected for a PING
> request. I was wondering that it is very well possible that if a
> server receives a PING request which is addressed to something that
> Server does not know about it is most likely to send a 404 response.
> 
> 

Changed the text to allow for any response other than a 1xx or 3xx to be
interpreted as a 200 OK

New version on the website: http://www.cornfed.com/ping.html and
http://www.cornfed.com/ping.txt

FM

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