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Session Initiation Protocol Extension to Assure Congestion Safety
draft-ietf-sip-congestsafe-02

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (sip WG)
Expired & archived
Authors Ben Campbell , Dean Willis
Last updated 2015-10-14 (Latest revision 2003-10-14)
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Intended RFC status Proposed Standard
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Stream WG state WG Document
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IESG IESG state Expired (IESG: Dead)
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Consensus boilerplate Unknown
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Responsible AD Allison J. Mankin
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Abstract

The Session Initiation Protocol allows the use of UDP for transport of SIP messages. The use of UDP inherently risks network congestion problems, as UDP itself does not define congestion prevention, avoidance, detection, or correction mechanisms. This problem is aggravated by large SIP messages which fragment at the UDP level. Transport protocols in SIP are also negotiated on a per-hop basis, at the SIP level, so SIP proxies may convert from TCP to UDP and so forth. This document defines by which a SIP User Agent may require that its requests are not sent over UDP or other transports having congestion-related characteristics similar to those of UDP.

Authors

Ben Campbell
Dean Willis

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