From: The IESG To: IETF-Announce Message-Id: Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:38:26 -0500 Cc: sip mailing list , sip chair , Internet Architecture Board , sip chair , RFC Editor Subject: [Sip] Protocol Action: 'Conveying Feature Tags with Session Initiation Protocol REFER Method' to Proposed Standard The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Conveying Feature Tags with Session Initiation Protocol REFER Method ' as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Session Initiation Protocol Working Group. The IESG contact person is Allison Mankin. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-sip-refer-feature-param-01.txt Technical Summary The SIP "Caller Preferences" extension defined in RFC 3840 provides a mechanism that allows a SIP request to convey information relating to the originator's capabilities and preferences for handling of that request. The SIP REFER method defined in RFC 3515 provides a mechanism that allows one party to induce another to initiate a SIP request. This document extends the REFER method to use the mechanism of RFC 3840. By doing so, the originator of a REFER may inform the recipient as to the characteristics of the target that the induced request is expected to reach. Working Group Summary This specification is the result of several months of discussion in the SIP working group. The key issue resolved was around the scope of capabilities to be expressed, with agreement on the capabilities expression of RFC 3840 developing during a break-out session at IETF 63. This compromise position received broad support. Protocol Quality The specification was reviewed for quality by the SIP working group and by SIP Chair Dean Willis. It includes only a very small extension to the REFER method of RFC 3515. Dean is the working group chair shepherd. Allison Mankin is the Responsible Area Director. Note to RFC Editor [provide a full abstract] Abstract OLD: This document extends the REFER method, defined in RFC 3515, to convey feature parameters defined in RFC 3840. NEW: The SIP "Caller Preferences" extension defined in RFC 3840 provides a mechanism that allows a SIP request to convey information relating to the originator's capabilities and preferences for handling of that request. The SIP REFER method defined in RFC 3515 provides a mechanism that allows one party to induce another to initiate a SIP request. This document extends the REFER method to use the mechanism of RFC 3840. By doing so, the originator of a REFER may inform the recipient as to the characteristics of the target that the induced request is expected to reach. Section 3, Definitions: OLD: Refer-To = ("Refer-To" / "r") HCOLON ( name-addr / addr-spec ) * (SEMI generic-param) is extended to: Refer-To = ("Refer-To" / "r") HCOLON ( name-addr / addr-spec ) * (SEMI refer-param) NEW: Refer-To = ("Refer-To" / "r") HCOLON ( name-addr / addr-spec ) *(SEMI generic-param) is extended to: Refer-To = ("Refer-To" / "r") HCOLON ( name-addr / addr-spec ) *(SEMI refer-param) [eliminate the spaces after the *] -------- Also in Section 3: OLD: Note that if any URI parameters are present, the entire URI must be enclosed in "<" and ">". If no "<" and ">" are present, all parameters after the URI are header parameters, not URI parameters. NEW: Note that if any URI parameters are present, the entire URI must be enclosed in "<" and ">". If the "<" and ">" are not present, all parameters after the URI are header parameters, not URI parameters.