Christian Jansson wrote:
>>Paul Kyzivat wrote:
>>
>>- a dialog stateful proxy will maintain dialog state, which consists
>>  primarily of callid, cseq, local and remote targets (contacts),
>>  and route set.
> 
> 
> What is the reason a proxy would want this information given that a
> proxy can't send requests?

Good question!

Maybe so that it can claim to be a proxy most of the time and just 
"break the law" now and then. (E.g. to send a BYE.)

(Note that I am not advocating this.)

I guess it could also be useful to *verify* that certain policies are 
being followed.

        Paul
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