> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harpreet Ahluwalia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 4:07 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Sip-implementors] Q regarding UAS's INVITE state machine
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a doubt regarding the UAS's INVITE state machine
> diagram: Once it has got the ACK, why does the UAS still have to wait
> for 32s in the "confirmed" state, before  moving to the 
> completed state.

I have answered this question many times. The confirmed state is to absorb
any subsequent ACKs that arrive. If the state machine were destroyed, these
would be "stray" ACKs and might be treated differently (i.e., forwarded by a
proxy).

-Jonathan R.
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