Hi Ranganathan,

Just think of some good value you can put in this header when the
other side is an IVR, would that value work for normal calls also.
The sip stack I worked on are using some kind of timer C for UACs also.

Regards,
Sumit Jindal

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 1:57 AM, M. Ranganathan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am wondering why it is not mandatory for the UAC to attach an
> Expires to a dialog forming INVITE. It would seem useful for at least
> a couple of things:
>
> 1. Stack can know when to tear down a "dead" transaction which is
> stuck in Proceeding state.
>
> 2. Downstream proxy can know what the max fork expiration time can be.
>
> It would seem useful to make this a mandatory header for a dialog
> forming INVITE and yet it is not. Just wondering why.
>
> Ranga
>
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