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        RFC 3263

        Title:      Session Initiation Protocol (SIP):
                    Locating SIP Servers
        Author(s):  J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       June 2002
        Mailbox:    jdrosen@dynamicsoft.com,
                    schulzrinne@cs.columbia.edu
        Pages:      17
        Characters: 42310
        Obsoletes:  2543

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-sip-srv-06.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3263.txt


The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) uses DNS procedures to allow a
client to resolve a SIP Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) into the IP
address, port, and transport protocol of the next hop to contact.  It
also uses DNS to allow a server to send a response to a backup client
if the primary client has failed.  This document describes those DNS
procedures in detail.

This document is a product of the Session Initiation Protocol Working
Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for
the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
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"Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the
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