Sameer Sawhney wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> The draft document talks about procedures to check operational status of SIP
> elements which support OPTIONS.
> 
> In network, there might be some SIP elements which do not support OPTIONS
> and they will respond appropriately with 405 (Method Not Allowed) to OPTIONS
> ping, proving that they are operational and can process further requests.

OPTIONS is required to implement in 3261. (See section 11.)

> So I think there should not be any limitation that remote end point MUST
> support OPTIONS in order to check the operational status. 
> 
> In case remote end point does not support OPTIONS, this should not bar the
> originating sip element to send further requests.
> 
> Regards
> Sameer Sawhney
> 
> 
> Extract:
> 
> To comply with procedures described in this
> document, all SIP entities, including SIP user agents and proxy
> servers, MUST support the OPTIONS message when received outside of a
> dialog in accordance with this memo.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sip-implementors-boun...@lists.cs.columbia.edu
> [mailto:sip-implementors-boun...@lists.cs.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of Paul E.
> Jones
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 9:36 PM
> To: 'mustafa rifaee'; sip-implementors@lists.cs.columbia.edu
> Cc: Gonzalo Salgueiro
> Subject: Re: [Sip-implementors] Using SIP OPTIONS Message with IMS
> 
> Mustafa,
> 
> Not specific to IMS, there is a general need to query for operational
> status.  Unfortunately, we're finding every variant of SIP (or even products
> targeted for the same environment) use OPTIONS to query for operational
> status, but they all do it differently.  What we're trying to do is write a
> document or two that defines something everybody can live with.
> 
> Here's the draft we currently have:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jones-sip-options-ping
> 
> Marius is also working on text for in-dialog OPTIONS and, unfortunately,
> I've not had a moment to review what was produced.
> 
> Paul
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sip-implementors-boun...@lists.cs.columbia.edu [mailto:sip-
>> implementors-boun...@lists.cs.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of mustafa rifaee
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:17 AM
>> To: sip-implementors@lists.cs.columbia.edu
>> Subject: [Sip-implementors] Using SIP OPTIONS Message with IMS
>>
>> Hello all;
>> i would ask you about the draft of  Using OPTIONS to Query for Operational
>> Status in SIP.
>> Can we use OPTIONS message with IMS  to  Query for Operational Status in
>> SIP?
>>
>> Please Help me;
>> Thanks
>> Mustafa
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