Conveying Feature Tags with the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) REFER Method
Author(s) -
O. Levin,
Alan Johnston
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
rfc
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.17487/rfc4508
Subject(s) - session initiation protocol , session (web analytics) , computer science , feature (linguistics) , protocol (science) , computer network , world wide web , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , server , alternative medicine , pathology
The SIP "Caller Preferences" extension defined in RFC 3840 provides amechanism that allows a SIP request to convey information relating tothe originator's capabilities and preferences for handling of thatrequest. The SIP REFER method defined in RFC 3515 provides a mechanismthat allows one party to induce another to initiate a SIP request.This document extends the REFER method to use the mechanism of RFC3840. By doing so, the originator of a REFER may inform the recipientas to the characteristics of the target that the induced request isexpected to reach. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
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