Re: [sipcore] An alternate to the requirements section in proxy-feature-02 - Question 3

Christer Holmberg <christer.holmberg@ericsson.com> Tue, 14 June 2011 05:44 UTC

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From: Christer Holmberg <christer.holmberg@ericsson.com>
To: Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com>, "SIPCORE (Session Initiation Protocol Core) WG" <sipcore@ietf.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:44:46 +0200
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Hi Robert,

In my previous reply, I forgot to comment on your question 3) 

>Question 3: It appears that the capability indication is
>  only used when processing the initial request, and appears
>  in subsequent in-dialog signalling in the current proposed
>  mechanism because that's what 3261 requires. If the mechanism
>  evolved such that the indication appeared only in the dialog
>  establishing transaction, and not in any subsequent in-dialog
>  messages, what would break?

I am not sure whether any of the existing use-cases would break, but I'd need to look into it.

But, again, the intention is that what applies to UAs should also apply to proxies.

Regards,

Christer