Re: [sipcore] #2: Editorial: section 2 is really confusing

["Worley, Dale R (Dale)" <[e-mail]>]

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From: [e-mail] [[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Hadriel Kaplan [[e-mail]]

Do you not want to use the term "Divert" because of the Diversion header?

I think it's the only term left that isn't ambiguous... "retarget" is being used for any/all cases of changing the request-uri, and "forward" is used for generic message routing procedures, and "redirect" is used for 3xx cases.  So there isn't a term left I can think of that means "changing the target to a new user/identity" (i.e., "call forwarding" in the PSTN).

And really the draft would be clearer if there was a unique term for that, because a lot of use-cses depend on it: finding the previous or current diverted-to party.
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People use these various terms freely, but in reality, none of them are well-defined and people don't use the same definition for each term.  The current doc carries forward this confusion by deferring the meanings to previous documents.  The only useful way to deal with the situation is to define the terms we want to use ab initio in this document.

Dale