Hi Andy,

In theory I would say: yes, Call-Id would be sufficient

The complete dialog-id consists of from-tag + call-id + to-tag, the to-tag is not set yet and the caller could send multiple INVITEs with the same call-id but different from tags. Consequence would be that all these calls get routed to the same proxy, but that seems reasonable to me

An issue that will occur is: at which point will you remove the state in the distributor (i.e. the mapping of call-id to the selected proxy)? Perhaps upon reception of a response containing a Contact header, but then what about retransmitted INVITEs / PRACKS etc that arrive after that? You would probably need to set a timer and wait for 32 seconds after forwarding the response with the contact header

Jeroen

----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Pandaram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Paul Kyzivat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Sip-implementors] Using call-id for SIP call distribution


The call distributor only distributes incoming SIP calls among multiple proxies or may be even SIP UAs (like a SIP-PSTN GW). The SIP-GWs would listen on non-standard ports. The call distributor would receive INVITEs etc on port 5060 and send them to the SIP GW which may be listening on port 10,000. Now, the re-transmitted INVITEs would still come to the call distributor. And also until the SIP GW can give its new contact in the 200 Ok or possibly in an UPDATE, subsequent requets (like PRACK) might come through the call distributor. In such cases, the distributor would need to send the subsequent requests to the same GW (as the first INVITE was sent to). Now, for this purpose, is it enough that the distributor looks at just the Call-Id and not other tags and parameters?

Thanks
Andy


Paul Kyzivat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Andy Pandaram wrote:
Hi,

If a SIP call distributor has to send incoming calls to multiple SIP proxies, is it enough to just look at the Call-Id (since that must be unique across space and time)? Is there any reason for the distributor to look at From/To Tags/Via branch etc?

What is a SIP call distributor?

If it is a proxy then 3261 should tell you all you need to know.

Paul

Thanks
Andy


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