Hi,

You can indicate if any SDP information has been updated using the sess-version part 
of the SDP origin (o- line) parameter. It must be incremented if the SDP information 
has been updated.

Regards,

Christer Holmberg
Ericsson Finland



> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of 
> Brett Tate
> Sent: 26. lokakuuta 2004 1:44
> To: 'Christina Zhao'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Sip-implementors] How to determine a Session Refresh
> Request(re-INVITE)?
> 
> 
> > Hi, I have another question regarding Session Timer:
> > 
> > If the refresher is uac, how can the uas 
> > determine the re-INVITE is for the purpose of 
> > session refresh?  (assuming uas needs to tell 
> > the difference between a Session Refresh 
> > re-INVITE and other purpose re-INVITEs so 
> > that it can pursue different process. )
> > 
> > There could be re-INVITEs that are Target 
> > Refresh Request (RFC3261 12.2), and 
> > re-INVITEs that change SDP.
> > 
> > My idea is to determine by checking if the 
> > header part contains "Supported: timer", but 
> > I am not sure this condition is good enough.
> 
> SIP currently does not provide a very complete mechanism to 
> communicate what
> is trying to updated by a re-INVITE/UPDATE or what was 
> successfully updated.
> The receiver basically has to analyze the request for every 
> header/body that
> it willing to allow to be updated; and basically nothing 
> should be updated
> if a failure response is returned.  The following thread 
> provides a little
> detail concerning the issue.
> 
> http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/sip/current/msg08077.html
> 
> Concerning your specific question, the RFC indicates that the 
> origin line of
> the SDP is used to indicate when the SDP changes.  However a 
> request to
> update headers (Contact, Session-Expires, etcetera) and the 
> SDP can occur at
> the same time.
> 
> 
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