Thanks to everyone who responded to my question.

What I gather:

1. We can be precise when we refer to the UAC-UAC concatenation: b2buac.
2. One reponse favored sticking to the precise definition for b2bua in rfc3261 as the
     concatenation of UAS-UAC.

3. Two other responses were ok with calling UA-UA as a b2bua.

 While I don't disagree with 2 (I was hoping 3 was the answer), in a follow-on
  call where an  INVITE comes into a UAS and an INVITE is sent out using a UAC
  (and therefore a UAS-UAC concat.), if the application decided to tear down both
   active dialogs, it would then function as a UAC-UAC.

    To sum up, while rfc3261 only refers to UAS-UAC while describing a b2bua,
     we would not be in violation of the defintion to generalize it to UA-UA.

 Any dissent?

Thanks,
Ganesh

Brett Tate wrote:
Would  it be incorrect to use the term b2bua 
to refer to a UAC-UAC concatenation?
    

If the mentioned UAC endpoints truly never 
act as a UAS within a given dialog,
b2buac would be the better definition.
However to truly satisfy such a definition would
be rare since it would need to drop incoming 
requests traversing the dialog or provide a 
Contact of another device to ensure that it
would not need to act as a UAS.  

Note that a 3pcc b2bua which intends to reject
all dialog related incoming requests with
something like a 405 or 403 is still acting
a UAS when it rejects the requests.  Thus
it would still be considered a b2bua instead
of a b2buac.

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