Hello,

I have several questions about retransmissions in a UAC, especially ACK
retransmission :

1. When an ACK request must be retransmitted ? and how ?

I've been looking in RFC 3261 in 17.1.1.3 for 3xx/6xx ACK and in
13.2.2.4 for 2xx ACK. ACK construction is detailed but I did not found
the retransmission process. In 13.2.2.4 :

   The ACK MUST be passed to the client transport every time a
   retransmission of the 2xx final response that triggered the ACK
   arrives.

Ok, but this is not really an ACK retransmission as it is triggered by
the arrival of another 2xx response.

   The UAC core considers the INVITE transaction completed 64*T1 seconds
   after the reception of the first 2xx response.  At this point all the
   early dialogs that have not transitioned to established dialogs are
   terminated.  Once the INVITE transaction is considered completed by
   the UAC core, no more new 2xx responses are expected to arrive.

Ok, that says when ACK retransmissions must be stopped, but not when
(and how) retransmissions are triggered. I think they can be triggered
like regular requests (exponential T1 timer), but there is no response
to stop ACK retransmission... There must be something I misunderstood.

2. Is it necessary to retransmit an ACK if a transport error occured
while sending the first ACK ?

That would be the trigger I am looking for.

3. More generally, is it necessary to retransmit a request if a
transport error occured (creating a new transport) ?

I think it is not necessary, but I am not sure.


Thanks,

john

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