Re: [sipcore] Bypassing out-of-service intermediate Proxy

[Christer Holmberg <[e-mail]>]

Hi, 

>>>>Not exactly the same case that Youssef is talking about, 
>>>>but every now and then I have had discussions that it would be useful to be 
>>>>able to re-negotiate the route set (not only the local/remote 
>>>>targets, but also the record-routes) during a dialog. E.g. in Outbound cases it 
>>>>could be used to move ongoing dialogs from a failed flow to 
>>>>another (it is not always possible to achieve it by using 
>>>>domain names and DNS).
>>>>
>>>>A problem is of course backward compability, becuase you would need 
>>>>to ensure that every intermediary that wants to remain in the route 
>>>>set inserts Record-Route in every re-INVITE/UPDATE (or 
>>>>whatever request is used to re-negotiate the route set).
>>>>
>>>>No, I did not suggest that we start work on such functionality :)
>>>
>>>We already have a way to do that: INVITE with Replaces.
>>
>>Sure, but that requires the establishment of a new session.
>>
>>Because I don't think it's allowd to send a re-INVITE, in 
>>order for a session to replace "itself", is it?
> 
>Yes, it requires establishment of a new session. But the new 
>session could be identical to the old one. (E.g. the exact 
>same media addresses, ports, and formats could be offered.)

I guess it would be useful to e.g. have a response code which would trigger the new INVITE, so that it doesn't have to be done by a B2BUA in the network.

For example, if a registrar detects that it cannot forward a mid-session request on an outbound flow, it could send an error response back to the UA in order to trigger a new INVITE, which would then be forwarded on another outbound flow.

Regards,

Christer