@misc{rfc4028, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 4028, howpublished = {RFC 4028}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC4028}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4028}, author = {Jonathan Rosenberg and Steve Donovan}, title = {{Session Timers in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)}}, pagetotal = 27, year = 2005, month = may, abstract = {This document defines an extension to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). This extension allows for a periodic refresh of SIP sessions through a \textbackslash{}\%re-INVITE or UPDATE request. The refresh allows both user agents and proxies to determine whether the SIP session is still active. The extension defines two new header fields: \textbackslash{}\%Session-Expires, which conveys the lifetime of the session, and \textbackslash{}\%Min-SE, which conveys the minimum allowed value for the session timer. {[}STANDARDS-TRACK{]}}, }