El Thursday 15 May 2008 16:01:44 Paul Kyzivat escribió:

> *If* it is known that the dialog only had a single usage (the normal
> case) then it provides *some* evidence of the continued existence of
> that usage. But it is in general impossible to know there was a single
> usage. For instance, a REFER may have been sent within the dialog,
> resulting in a refer subscription usage sharing the dialog. Then the
> INVITE-usage could have gone away leaving only the refer subscription
> within the dialog. An OPTIONS at that time would still conclude that the
> dialog existed even though the INVITE did not. This would typically not
> be a problem since the INVITE, REFER, and OPTIONS are typically all sent
> by the same entity, but that depends upon application design.

Ok, so in the case of a softswitch (which probably doesn't handle/allow REFER 
and so) the usage of OPTIONS in-dialog could be perfectly valid according to 
RFC 3261/5057, isn't?

Thanks a lot.


-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
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