On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Alex Balashov <abalas...@evaristesys.com>
wrote:

> Yeah, but as I understand it, the spec is more explicit on arbitrary
> parameters in the Route set than in Via.
>
> Route is where I'd expect the state to go in this case, too—it's where all
> other state goes. But the implementors went with custom Via parameters
> instead.


The issue is that responses to SIP request (especially error responses to
the dialog creating INVITE) do not always contain Route or Record-Route
headers. The only way to store application specific data which is needed to
forward such SIP responses is in the Via generic parameter.

Regards,
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