Technical Summary
This document specifies how message bodies should be handled in SIP.
Additionally, this document specifies SIP user agent support for MIME
(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) in message bodies.
Working Group Summary
There is consensus in the working group to publish this document, and
is targeted for Standards Track. Work on this document began in
May 2007, and was adopted as a working group item in August 2007.
WGLC was issued in June 2008.
Document Quality
This document specifically addresses an area of SIP that has been an
interoperability problem in the past. The SIPit interoperability
events have seen many problems in the area of interoperability of
MIME handling.
This document has been reviews by many participants over the lifetime
of the document, by the following members of the WG:
- Paul Kyzivat
- John Elwell
- Francois Audet
- Dan Wing
- Eric Burger
- Dale Worley
- Jonathan Rosenberg
- Cullen Jennings
- Adam Roach
Additionally, an extensive APPS area review of the document was been
performed by Dave Crocker in an early version of the this document.
Personnel
Theo Zourzouvillys is the Document Shepherd.
Robert Sparks is the Responsible Area Director.
RFC Editor Note
(applies to version 06 of this document)
The XML in figure 2 is invalid due to a missing '>'.
The Content-Length in the same message is also invalid.
Please replace line 230, which is currently:
Content-Length: 617
with:
Content-Length: 619
Please replace line 250, which is currently:
<resource-lists xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists"
with:
<resource-lists xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists">