Hi,

Suppose the following case:

UA-A has established a session with UA-B and there is a dialog-stateful
proxy, P1, in the signaling path.
UA-A and P1 support session timer but UA-B doesn't. 
The initial session timer is established by P1 requesting UA-A to
refresh the session (i.e., by inserting the Session-Expires and Require
headers appropriately in the 2xx response for the INVITE).

After some time before a session refresh, UA-B sends a Re-INVITE with an
offer SDP to place the session on hold. Since UA-B doesn't support
session timer, the Re-INVITE doesn't have a Session-Expires header. When
P1 receives the Re-INVITE, P1 inserts a Session-Expires header and
Require header to request UA-A to refresh the session (P1 can safely
insert the Require header with timer because P1 knows that UA-A supports
timer via initial session establishment). When UA-A receives the
Re-INVITE, UA-A sends a 2xx provided no failure occurred and the 2xx
includes an answer SDP and the Session-Expires header. When P1 receives
the 2xx, P1 updates the session timer and forwards the 2xx to UA-B.

I think the above Re-INVITE processings by P1 and UA-A are valid as per
RFC4028, but can any of you please verify? 

One question on UA-A processing in the above. 
If UA-A sends a 422 response for the Re-INVITE and P1 forwards it to
UA-B, UA-B wouldn't know what to do as it won't understand the 422
response. For this reason and maybe others, should P1 not insert the
Session-Expires header and Require header in the Re-INVITE and wait for
UA-A to issue another Re-INVITE for session refresh after the Re-INVITE
for session hold is completed?
Or if P1 still inserts those headers, should UA-A not send a 422
response for the Re-INVITE for session hold and send another Re-INVITE
for session refresh immediately after the Re-INVITE for session hold is
completed?
Any thoughts?

Thanks,
YoungSun

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