Re: [straw] straw-sip-traceroute: 205?

The 205 response code by itself won't be enough - it's too likely to get mapped to a 200 before reaching the UAC.  The Reason header might be enough by itself.  The rationale for doing the 205 was discussed in the original thread back in July.   See here:
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/straw/current/msg00147.html

-hadriel

On Sep 9, 2013, at 7:13 AM, Christer Holmberg <christer.holmberg@ericsson.com> wrote:

> (As co-chair)
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> Hi,
>  
> Hadriel has submitted the following draft in DISPATCH:
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> http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-kaplan-dispatch-sip-205-response-00.txt
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> The draft defines a new SIP response code, 205, and Hadriel has also suggested the response code to be used in the STRAW trace-route delivery:
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> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-straw-sip-traceroute-00
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>  
> The 205 draft has not been adopted yet, but the chairs would still like to ask the STRAW community whether it thinks that we can make a working assumption decision that we will use the 205 mechanism (assuming it gets done) in the trace-route delivery, or whether we should use some other mechanism.
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> If we choose 205, the trace-route draft will obviously have a dependency on the 205 draft, and we’ll have to wait for it to get done.
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> And, as we don’t know whether 205 will ever become an RFC, or how it will eventually look like, we can always re-visit any decision we make.
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> So, the question to the community is:
>  
> Do you think that:
> a)      We shall base the trace-route delivery on using the SIP 205 response.
> b)      We shall base the trace-route delivery on another mechanism - AND I am also elaborating on how such mechanism would look like.
> c)      I have read all the relevant drafts, and the e-mail discussions, but I still think it is too early to make a working assumption, even if it later can be re-visited, at this point - AND I am also elaborating on why I think so.
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> Regards,
>  
> Christer & Victor
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> (STRAW Chairs)
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