I agree, it depends on the use cases and one rule does not apply in all
cases. Another use case is for an IVR system and in that case as well,
where if dtmf usage does not work, there is no point in continuing with
the dialog.

Sanjay 

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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
>Behalf Of Eric Burger
>Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:45 PM
>To: SIP IETF
>Subject: Re: [Sip] Moving along with the INFO discussion
>
>In this case, I would offer we have the same, awful user experience.   
>Alice connects to the VM system, and the call is immediately 
>dropped (dialog dies).  Alice calls her service provider and 
>says, "Voice Mail is broken."  Or, Alice connects to the VM 
>system, and the VM system is totally unresponsive (dialog does 
>not die).  Alice calls her phone manufacturer and says, "your 
>phone doesn't work" or calls her service provider and says, 
>"my phone doesn't work."
>
>Now assume your very highly paid customer service rep at the 
>service provider trying to debug the dialog does not die scenario...
>
>On Jul 15, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Dean Willis wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> Alice is an INFO sender for DTMF. She's talking to a new voice mail 
>> system and starts sending it info-dtmf-relay. The VM doesn't 
>> understand, so it 4xxes the INFO. Is Alice better served by 
>having the 
>> call drop or her DTMF attempt ignored? I suspect here that "ignore", 
>> with its potential of a UI indicator to Alice saying "My attempt to 
>> send info-dtmf-relay failed", is probably better than the call 
>> dropping.
>>
>> How about the ISUP and QSIG use cases? I'm guessing they would fail 
>> typically not with the new 4xx, but with the 415 Unsupported as 
>> documented in RFC 3372.
>>
>> So it looks like you've convinced me; it's better for the 
>INFO failure 
>> to NOT drop the dialog or dialog usage.
>[snip]
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