[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In Sec 17.1.2 for Non-Invite client transaction.
> Why we need timer k for unreliable transport?
> Since client transaction already receive final reaponse at Completed
> state.
> Why not go to Terminated state directly and ignore any additional resp
> retransmission.

THe purpose of the state is exactly that - to ignore response
retransmits. Without it, a proxy would get a response retransmit, not be
able to correlate it to a server transaction, and then probably forward
it upstream statelessly, which is the wrong thing to do. 

-Jonathan R.


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