[sipcore] Summary: number of location headers

Adam Roach - SIPCORE Chair <adam@nostrum.com> Tue, 09 November 2010 09:10 UTC

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Subject: [sipcore] Summary: number of location headers
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[as chair]

I just wanted to summarize where it looks like the discussion ended up 
on whether we constrain the number of location header fields in a SIP 
message. From my review of the discussion, I believe that four people 
have weighed in on the topic to voice support for an arbitrary number of 
location headers (albeit with a implementation warning that doing so is 
not advisable):

Martin Thompson: 
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/sipcore/current/msg03576.html
Richard Barnes: 
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/sipcore/current/msg03580.html
Keith Drage: 
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/sipcore/current/msg03600.html
Hannu Hietalahti: 
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/sipcore/current/msg03619.html

And two people have agreed to go along with that direction, with 
expressed reservations:

Jon Peterson: 
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/sipcore/current/msg03601.html
James Polk: 
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/sipcore/current/msg03603.html

If any other working group participants have comments on this topic, 
they are encouraged to make them quickly. Lacking any further input, the 
authors will be instructed to revise the document to allow an arbitrary 
number of location header fields, with an accompanying warning that 
doing so is not recommended.

/a