Hi Michael,
Some thoughts in line

On Apr 4, 2005 9:08 PM, Michael Hammer (mhammer) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Miki,
> 
> If we did cover this specific aspect before, it is probably in the SIP
> email archive.  But, to save time looking for that, let's look at this
> closely now.  Email below trimmed to specific issue.  I re-read the note
> text in beginning of Section 15 of RFC-3261.  It addresses the cleaning
> up state of the UAS, but does not discuss all possible message sequences
> from the UAC.  What the UAC sends and when is the main issue below.
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Miki HASEBE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 7:59 AM
> >To: Michael Hammer (mhammer)
> >Cc: Kenneth Ho; Cullen Jennings (fluffy);
> >[email protected]; Dean Willis;
> >[email protected]; Gonzalo Camarillo
> >Subject: Semi Regular Examples draft
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >> 2) how you can send a CANCEL then ACK a 200 OK, (seems like
> >> a retrans of CANCEL or a BYE would do the trick here)
> >
> >Considering notes about "hanging up" on chapter 15 of RFC3261,
> >this is considered to be the recommendation specification that
> >the software in phones need to maintain state for a short
> >while in order to clean up properly.
> >
> >Therefore, I think UAC should send ACK to the 200 OK.
> >I think we would like to add the sequence to the draft, that
> >is sending BYE soon after sending ACK.
> 
> I still don't like sending the ACK after a CANCEL was sent.  This leads
> to the possibility that the CANCEL is lost (or 200 OK's suppressing
> further CANCELs but not acted upon) and the ACK is received, leading the
> UAS to think the dialog is really complete.  The only advantage you seem
> to get is that the UAS can now send a BYE, if the called party hears
> nothing and decides to hang up.  The down side is that the UAC won't
> send another message since it will get a 200 OK to CANCEL, and the UAS
> won't timeout, since it got the ACK.  So, the called party listens to a
> mute call until he gets angry and hangs up.  Not getting the ACK would
> give the UAS a clue that something is wrong.  Also, once it times out
> waiting for the ACK, it could then send a BYE.

a) Instead of sending a ACK the UAC can send a BYE (presuming that
this would stop any retransmissions from the UAS side which is waiting
for a ACK).
b) Moreover, UAS MUST NOT send a BYE before it receives an ACK for its
200OK. So this is one of the reasons sending an ACK is not harmful as
you say.

regards
Mallesh
> 
> But, if the UAC sends a CANCEL, then receives a 200 OK to INVITE, it
> knows that the CANCEL was not received in time and will have no effect
> on the UAS (see Section 9, p. 53, and 9.2, p. 55).  Therefore, it needs
> to immediately send a BYE.  (Note: This is not covered in Section 9.1,
> nor in Section 9.2 that only covers the case of CANCEL received before
> final response sent).  By transitioning from retransmissions of CANCELs
> to sending and retransmission of BYEs the UAC can be more assured of
> ending the call.
> 
> Last, note that Section 9.2 says that a CANCEL is reponded with a 200 OK
> if it matches an existing transaction, which is the case here.  This
> seems to be true whether it arrives before a final response is sent or
> after, even though no action will be taken on it.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >> 4) If you receive a CANCEL, accept that and the fact that an
> >ACK won't be forthcoming to the 200 OK.  There is no sense
> >trying to complete that dialog once both sides know it is
> >going to fail.
> >
> >As you have pointed out, I also think that receiving the
> >CANCEL may be considered as failure of the dialog establishment.
> >According to RFC3261, UAC MAY send a BYE in this situation.
> >But surely UAS knows that the dialog establishment has failed,
> >so I would like to consider the recommendation of UAS behavior.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> My whole goal above is to not send the UAS mixed (contradictory)
> signals.  Let me know what you think.
> 
> Mike
> 
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