[Sipping-tispan] Re: [Sipping] Reason header in Responses

On Oct 18, 2005, at 4:24 AM, Jesske, R wrote:

> Dear all,
> Still the use of the Reason header confuses me.
> With regard to the discussion of the retargeting draft the  
> inclusion of a 486 in a 302 is discussed as possible.
> But on the other side the inclusion of a Q.850 reason header in a  
> response is not allowed.
> Could I have some Guidance How I have to understand the following  
> phrase written in RFC 3326 Reason Header:
>
>    Initially, the Reason header field defined here appears to be most
>    useful for BYE and CANCEL requests, but it can appear in any  
> request
>    within a dialog, in any CANCEL request and in any response whose
>    status code explicitly allows the presence of this header field.
>
>    Note that the Reason header field is usually not needed in  
> responses
>    because the status code and the reason phrase already provide
>    sufficient information.
>
> Does this mean that if I specify the use of SIP Reason in a  
> response (e.G in a IETF RFC, ITU-T or ETSI Specification) it is  
> allowed to use this now or do I need a special IETF draft to allow  
> the use of Q.850 Reasons in responses?

I'm sorry, Roland, but use of Q.850 codes in SIP responses would be  
"unreasonable" ;-), at least without an RFC that revises the response  
code to allow it to carry a Reason header. John submitted a draft  
that proposed extending 302 to carry a Reason header, and we haven't  
resolved on that approach. Even with such a draft, we'd also I  
believe need additional RFCs defining use of Q.850 codes in Reason  
headers, along with appropriate IANA actions.

--
Dean

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