AFIK, SIP doesn't provide any mechanism to indicate whether
call-progress progress tones are available in-band or need to be
generated locally - a SIP end-point can determine by listening to the
media stream when it receives the corresponding SIP message or
developing a common local policy.

Muthu    

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:56:59 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gurus,
> 
> If party-A in a call wants to put the other party(B) on hold, it should
> reinvite that party with a sendonly media stream offer. Party-B answers
> with a recvonly media stream - the media is now one-way from A to B.
> Typically, according to RFC3264 section 8.4, party-A should locally mute.
> 
> However, the question arises when dealing with e.g. music on hold and
> call-progress tones. In the situation described above, party-B would be
> responsible for generating a call-progress tone locally. But if party-A
> would not mute, but instead send media (music on hold or whatever) party-B
> should not generate call-progress tones.
> 
> Is there a general way for party-B to decide to either generate
> call-progress-tones or to play the media?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin.
> 
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