> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jonathan Rosenberg
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 11:29 PM
>
> Regarding the issue of message length in general, if we want to
> continue to
> use UDP, we really need to work hard to keep those message lengths below
> 1500 bytes (specifically, 1280 appears to be the recommended
> number). We may
> need to develop additional guidelines on things like Via and record-route
> usage to prevent very large messages. We've already specified the
> Call-INFO
> and ALert-Info headers as mechanisms to include content via URLs
> rather than
> directly, and I think thats a really good idea in general.
>
The sip messages in practical networks, particularly ones doing many-folks
style QoS stuff, are getting large and if they start to include signatures
for various things I think it is going to be very difficult to keep them
under 1280 octets.
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