Exactly. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Audet, Francois (SC100:3055) 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 4:50 PM
> To: Dean Willis; Stucker, Brian (RICH1:AR00)
> Cc: [email protected]; Adam Roach; Barnes, Mary (RICH2:AR00)
> Subject: RE: [Sip] INFO
> 
> I'm still completely baffled by why are we having this thread.
> 
> INFO is used by ISUP tunnelling. It's there, we can leave it 
> alone. As far as I know, nobody is trying to improve it. 
> Legacy stuff. No RFC required here. 
> 
> DTMF transport is a null issue since the last remaining 
> laggars that didn't support RFC 2833 now support it. So it is 
> going away and I really can't imagine that anybody would 
> bring a draft to resurect it. No RFC required here.
> 
> IETF is certainly not going to come up with new INFO usages. 
> Everytime somebody shows up with an INFO idea, he's promptly 
> turned away.
> 
> So, what is the "problem" that we are trying to solve? Why 
> are we wasting time on this?
> 
> Can't we just declare victory and move on?
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dean Willis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 09:47
> > To: Stucker, Brian (RICH1:AR00)
> > Cc: [email protected]; Adam Roach; Barnes, Mary (RICH2:AR00)
> > Subject: Re: [Sip] INFO
> > 
> > 
> > On Oct 1, 2007, at 3:01 AM, Brian Stucker wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > So if we're allowing SIP-T, which builds off of a baseline SIP 
> > > requirement that if you get a MIME type or method (INFO) that you 
> > > don't understand, that you gracefully handle this: send a
> > 415/488 or
> > > send a 405, respectively, then why are we disallowing 
> other uses of 
> > > INFO that do not introduce ANY requirements beyond those of SIP-T 
> > > which we are allowing?
> > >
> > 
> > This raises the argument that SIP-T should be revisited to more 
> > clearly negotiate support for the material being tunneled, 
> including 
> > the context in which it is being tunneled. My UA might, for 
> example, 
> > know how to render an ISUP message using a pretty-printer. That 
> > doesn't mean it knows how to do SIP-T for gateways.
> > 
> > So, SIP-T is broken and likely to give surprising results. 
> > That is not a hearty argument for endorsing the technique 
> of SIP-T for 
> > other functions.
> > 
> > 
> > > Here's another question for the readers: let's say Eric's draft 
> > > becomes an RFC as written for sake of argument. What
> > happens when a UA
> > > that does not support SIP-T gets a call from an ISUP
> > gateway and gets
> > > an INFO with encapsulated ISUP in the message body? How does this 
> > > processing differ from an endpoint getting encapsulated DTMF in a 
> > > format it may not understand? It doesn't differ because it
> > can't: the
> > > UA cannot differentiate between two different MIME types
> > when it does
> > > not recognize either of them.
> > 
> > But assume the UA DOES recognize the MIME type. How does it 
> know what 
> > to do with it? Is content-disposition adequate?
> > 
> > If it were, why would we have the higher-level negotiation of event 
> > contexts?
> > 
> > --
> > Dean
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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