This was discussed briefly at a SIPit a few years ago. Outbound seems to focus on session setup, not session management. What happens if a connection goes down and a device re-registers with a new reg-id during a call?
I think you two have hit a very good issue with outbound that needs to be discussed.
/O
28 apr 2013 kl. 21:37 skrev "Peter Dunkley" peter.dunkley@crocodile-rcs.com:
Hi Juha,
This sounds like a bug with the outbound specification. I can't believe that the ability to re-target dialogs would be deliberately removed by the outbound enhancement without it being mentioned in the RFC.
Perhaps the right thing to do would be to raise this issue on the appropriate IETF mailing lists and seeing if the designers of the specification have an opinion rather than just using a proprietary solution like contact aliasing?
Regards,
Peter
i have one more comment on flow token vs. contact aliasing.
flow token is part of a route uri that represent a proxy in the route set. route set cannot be changed during the dialog, but remote target uri can. from rfc3261:
Requests within a dialog MAY contain Record-Route and Contact header fields. However, these requests do not cause the dialog's route set to be modified, although they may modify the remote target URI. Specifically, requests that are not target refresh requests do not modify the dialog's remote target URI, and requests that are target refresh requests do. For dialogs that have been established with an INVITE, the only target refresh request defined is re-INVITE (see Section 14). Other extensions may define different target refresh requests for dialogs established in other ways.
Note that an ACK is NOT a target refresh request.Target refresh requests only update the dialog's remote target URI, and not the route set formed from the Record-Route.
if flow token is used instead of contact aliasing to store the remote target uri, then it is not possible to modify the remote target uri via target refresh requests (e.g. when moving from wifi to mobile network) and such setup is violating the above text of rfc3261.
this problem does not exist with contact aliasing, because add_contact_alias() is called on each in-dialog target refresh request, which allows changing of remote target uri during the dialog.
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