Yeh, that's exactly my question: based on RFC3261, how does a stateless
proxy know the ACK should be dropped?

Regards,

Shan Lu

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Igor Slepchin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
>Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 4:05 PM
>To: 'Shan Lu'; 'Jiri Kuthan'; 'James Undery'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [Sip-implementors] RE: [Sip] Authentication and ACK
>
>
>Well, if INVITE failed authentication, it wasn't forwarded 
>anyway so the ACK
>would be hop by hop and would not be forwarded either...
>
>Thank you,
>Igor Slepchin
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Shan Lu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> <...>
>> True. However on the flip side, if INVITE failed authentication, ACK
>> sure should not be proxied along. It's not a big deal, just 
>not nice. 
>> 
>> Shan Lu 
>

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