Thanks Michael,

I was not aware that REFER could create a dialog aswell. I have briefly come
across REFER before, though this was in the context of facilitating call
transfer in SIP.

I have now (very quickly) skimmed over RFC 3515 to confirm this dialog
creation property. However, I now feel a little puzzled: there seems to be
very little difference in purpose behind the SUBSCRIBE and the REFER method;
both seem to request notifications in change of some state information.

thanks
Matt  


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Procter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25 January 2006 09:07
To: Matthew Gardiner
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Sip-implementors] Dialog creation by SUBSCRIBE


Matthew Gardiner wrote:
[...]
> Furthermore, would I be right in saying that INVITE and 
> SUBSCRIBE are the
> only requests which are able to create dialogs?

REFER may create a dialog (RFC3515 Section 2), but can
also be used within a dialog.  I think that is about it.

Regards,

Michael Procter

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