RE: [Sipping] Question on ReInvite procedures

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bert Culpepper [mailto:bert.culpepper@intervoice-brite.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 5:15 PM
> To: 'Hemant Agrawal'; sipping@ietf.org
> Subject: RE: [Sipping] Question on ReInvite procedures
> 
> 
> This kind of behavior is discussed in draft-rosenberg-sip-3pcc-01.txt.
> It STRONGLY RECOMMENDs that UAs do not change their address and port
> assignments in responses to re-INVITEs when asked to change 
> the address
> and port they send media to. 

Actually, I do not think that the 3pcc document actually makes this
recommendation, nor does bis, as I can recall. At one time, we discussed
this as a strong recommendation in order to enable flow 2 from 3pcc. But,
since it was generally agreed that you can't REQUIRE this behavior,
especially when codec changes are involved, so flow 2 was not recommended.
Neither of the two recommended flows rely on a UA maintaining the same SDP.
Thus, while keeping the same address/port is probably a good idea, it is not
needed for the recommended 3pcc flows.

> RFC2543bis touches 
> on this in
> appendix B but for a little different scenario.  That is, 
> re-INVITE w/o
> SDP, 200 with "previous SDP" (offer), and ACK with SDP 
> (answer).  In the
> first paragraph of section B.4 it states "... the offerer SHOULD offer
> the same SDP it provided previously if it has no reason to change
> anything." 

Well, this scenario is a bit different. Here, we are talking about a
"triggered offer", where the UA is prodded into making an offer. In the case
above, we are talking about an answer to an offered SDP. 

> It's up to implementers to comply with the recommendation
> above for 3pcc to work.

No, as I said, flow 2 is not recommended so you don't need this behavior.
What is needed is the ability to accept INVITE w/o SDP, since this is the
cornerstone of flows 1 and 3. When people ask me what is the most important,
yet most frequently overlooked SIP capability to implement in a UA, it is
that. 

-Jonathan R.
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