On 02/22/2012 04:11 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> 2012/2/22 Paul Kyzivat<[email protected]>:
>> If I was in the position of needing to construct a temporary offer, with
>> no ability to handle media myself, and no knowledge of what the caller
>> might be looking for or what is likely to be offered later, I would be
>> inclined to offer audio with G.711 and a black holed IPv4 media address.
>> Or maybe I would offer both audio and video and a whole bunch of codecs,
>> still with black holed IPv4 address. But if possible it would be better
>> to tailor the offer to the sorts of capabilities that will be offered later.
>
> And all of this makes the requirement of an SDP offer in the first 1XX
> response really a pain, am I wrong?
>
> BTW, what about if a SIP proxy/server receives an INVITE with no SDP
> offer and "Require: 100rel" and the SIP proxy/server wants to reply a
> 181 "Call Is Being Forwarded" or 182 "Queued" before ruting the call
> to the appropriate destination (imagine an specific SIP application
> server for an incoming call-center)? why should such a SIP
> server/proxy include an SDP offer in the 181/182 response? It makes no
> sense at all, and hence the requirement within RFC 3262 is wrong
> (IMHO).
>
> Maybe this annoying requirement is inheritance from RFC 3261 in which
> is stated that "the first reliable response to an INVITE MUST contain
> an SDP answer/offer (depending on the presence of SDP offer in the
> INVITE or not)?

Yes, that's exactly where it comes from. The usage of 100rel/PRACK turns 
that 181/182 response into a 'reliable response'.

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