Hi all,

The last paragraph of section 7.4 of RFC 4028 states:

'It is RECOMMENDED that the UPDATE request not contain an offer [4], but a
re-INVITE SHOULD contain one, even if the details of the session have not
changed. In that case, the offer MUST indicate that it has not changed. In
the case of SDP, this is accomplished by including the same value for the
origin field as did previous SDP messages to its peer. The same is true for
an answer exchanged as a result of a session refresh request; if it has not
changed, that MUST be indicated.'

What happens when the refresher sends an offer with an unchanged origin
field, receives a 200 OK with an unchanged origin field but an 'm=' line
that was present in the most recent offer/answer exchange is missing from
the UAS response?

My gut feeling is that the UAS is out of spec (and the entire SDP should be
unchanged) but according to the quote above, only the origin field needs to
be unchanged in order to indicate that the session details are also
unchanged.

At the moment this causes problem for our SIP implementation as it has no
control over the media. It simply raises an event to the application that is
controlling the media to indicate that the session parameters have changed.
We don't want to be doing this for session refresh requests unless a genuine
offer/answer exchange has been negotiated during the transaction.

If the UAS is out of spec, how should the UAC behave?
If not, is there anywhere in the RFCs that specifies more clearly how to
identify that a media session is unchanged? I haven't been able to find
anything in SIP, SDP, Session Timer or Offer Answer (which isn't to say the
answers aren't there somewhere).

It may well be the case that I just have to change our logic and ignore all
of the SDP if the 'o=' is unchanged. Part of my query is to ensure that, if
I do this, I don't break anything elsewhere.

Cheers

Steve

Steve Paterson
Software Engineer
Aculab
Tel: +44 (0) 1908 273866
Fax: +44 (0) 1908 273801
Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website: http://www.aculab.com  

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