RE: [Sip] Vocabulary and problem statement for Request-URI, retargeting, and SIP routing (long, but read it!)

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dean Willis [mailto:dean.willis@softarmor.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:34 PM
>To: Hadriel Kaplan
>Cc: IETF SIP List
>Subject: Re: [Sip] Vocabulary and problem statement for 
>Request-URI,retargeting, and SIP routing (long, but read it!)
>
>Hadriel Kaplan wrote:
>> 
>>> We also have a related operation:
>>> 
>>> 4) Request redirection, which informs an upstream node about a new 
>>> identity to target instead of the original.
>> 
>> 
>> This is described from the aspect of the downstream node sending the 
>> 3xx, right?  Vs. what it is for the upstream node recursing on the 
>> 3xx? (which has no idea if it's performing (2) or (3) when this 
>> occurs, but I guess could be added to the 3xx contact as a 
>param such 
>> as described in JR's draft)
>
>right.
>
>> So if a proxy is doing "redirection" it is sending a 3xx,
>
>Right.
>
>> whereas the
>> upstream proxy or UAC getting that 3xx is not doing redirection, but 
>> in fact "recursing".
>> 
>
>The upstream node is just generating a new request. It really 
>doesn't know where that request is going, except that the new 
>request URI was obtained during an attempt to reach the old 
>one. 
Not sure what you mean here? The next request-uri is taken from Contact
of the redirect response. So it knows where the request is going.

> We'd actually have more information from a REFER request.
How is the Refer-To header different that Contacts in redirect response?

Sanjay

>
>We've already seen all sorts of hideous problems related to an 
>upstream proxy recursing on a 3xx. My take is that we should 
>never do this in a proxy.
>
>--
>Dean
>
>
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