--- Paul Kyzivat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [I think there was a discussion on scope of Accept
> wrt dialogs not too 
> long ago, but I can't find it.]
> 
> This question came up in looking at a REFER call
> flow. The question is 
> whether an "Accept: message/sipfrag" is ever
> required in order to 
> indicate ability to accept the notifications
> resulting from the refer.
> 
> In 3261, the majority of the semantics of Accept are
> deferred to 
> RFC2616. But that isn't much help for this, because
> the scope of an 
> Accept in 2616 seems to be limited to the response
> to the message 
> carrying it, and that doesn't seem appropriate for
> SIP.
> 
> So, in the context of SIP it isn't clear to me if an
> Accept message 
> should be exhaustive, like Allow is, or just a way
> of reporting some of 
> the types accepted. The description of error 406 in
> 3261 certainly 
> suggests that a server should treat the Accept
> header as a complete and 
> exhaustive list, else it would never be appropriate
> to return a 406 error.
> 
> Let me pose a specific scenario that I am curious
> about:
> 
> 1) INVITE ... (initiates new dialog)
>     (no Accept header - default is Application/SDP)
> 
> 2) 200 OK
> 
> 3) ACK
> 
> 5) REFER ... (same dialog)
>     (no Accept header)
> 
> 6) 202 OK
> 7) NOTIFY ...
>     Cotent-Type: message/sipfrag
> 
> According to 3261, the default for Accept is
> application/sdp. Should 
> the server conclude it can't send the notify? If so,
> what should it do? 
> Should it refuse the REFER with a 406? Should it
> just not send the NOTIFY?
> 
> Or should the server assume an implied Accept:
> message/sipfrag in 
> message #5?
[TOLGA]I would think so -afterall putting
message/sipfrag in NOTIFY is mandatory based on
RFC3515, so IMO sending REFER impilicty indicates that
it will be accepted-.
> 
> Would anything change if there was an explict Accept
> header in message 
> #1 that doesn't mention sipfrag, such as "Accept: 
> application/sdp,text/plain"?
[TOLGA]I wouldn't think so.
> 
>       Thanks,
>       Paul
> 
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