From: The IESG To: IETF-Announce Message-Id: <20081031144540.74FB73A6A20@core3.amsl.com> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:45:40 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Internet Architecture Board , sipping mailing list , sipping chair , RFC Editor Subject: [Sipping] Protocol Action: 'Example calls flows of race conditions in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)' to BCP The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Example calls flows of race conditions in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) ' as a BCP This document is the product of the Session Initiation Proposal Investigation Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jon Peterson and Cullen Jennings. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-sipping-race-examples-06.txt Technical Summary This document gives examples of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) call flows in race condition. Call flows in race condition are confusing, and this document shows the best practice to handle them. The elements in these call flows include SIP User Agents and SIP Proxies. Call flow diagrams and message details are shown. Working Group Summary There was strong consensus around this document. Document Quality This document clarifies a set of issues that relate to features that are widely implemented. Personnel The document shepherd is Gonzalo Camarillo. The responsible Area Director is Jon Peterson. Gen-ART review was provided by Ben Campbell.