Re: [sipcore] draft-sparks-sipcore-multiple-reasons

Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> Sun, 15 May 2022 16:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [sipcore] draft-sparks-sipcore-multiple-reasons
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On 5/11/22 8:51 AM, Paul Kyzivat wrote:
> Its clear that this will be the case initially. My question is a 
> hypothetical. At some time in the future someone may find a reason 
> they want to use multiple reasons with SIP or another pre-existing 
> protocol. At that point they might propose an update to allow that for 
> SIP. At that point there would be a potential backward compatibility 
> problem.
In my initial formulation, I felt that this would be that future draft's 
problem. (There are a lot of _other_ things a future update to SIP might 
do as well, and I'm reticent to start discussing ramifications of 
something this draft doesn't do).
>
> I'm only asking that this document discuss the issue and provide 
> guidance for the future. For instance it might ban such changes for 
> pre-existing protocols. Or it might just point out that an update to 
> allow such for a protocol address the problem as part of the update.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Paul
>
> On 5/11/22 2:30 AM, Christer Holmberg wrote:
>> I thought the idea was to allow multiple protocols ONLY if the 
>> protocol value explicitly allows it (e.g., "STIR").
>>
>> But, the change would NOT allow multiple instances of "SIP".
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Christer
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sipcore <sipcore-bounces@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Dale R. Worley
>> Sent: keskiviikko 11. toukokuuta 2022 5.04
>> To: Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu>
>> Cc: sipcore@ietf.org
>> Subject: Re: [sipcore] draft-sparks-sipcore-multiple-reasons
>>
>> Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>>> If an update is made to an existing protocol definition that does
>>> allow multiple reasons, it could break existing implementations.
>>
>> A possible "upward compatibility" mechanism is to retain the 
>> requirement that existing protocol names still have only one value, 
>> and define a second protocol name to carry the other values that are 
>> semantically associated with the existing protocol name.  Thus one 
>> might have:
>>
>>      Reason: SIP ;cause=200 ;text="Call completed elsewhere",
>>              SIP-M ;cause=200.1 ;text="Call completed by voicemail",
>>              SIP-M ;cause=200.1.17 ;text="Subscriber's voicemail"
>>
>> Older implementations would likely discard both the SIP-M values and 
>> process the SIP value as expected.
>>
>> Dale
>>
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