RFC 3261, "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", June 2002

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 3265, RFC 3853, RFC 4320, RFC 4916, RFC 5393, RFC 5621, RFC 5626, RFC 5630, RFC 5922, RFC 5954, RFC 6026, RFC 6141, RFC 6665, RFC 6878, RFC 7462, RFC 7463, RFC 8217, RFC 8591, RFC 8760, RFC 8898, RFC 8996

Errata ID: 4275
Status: Reported
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Chao Wang
Date Reported: 2015-02-19

Section 15 says:

The caller's UA MAY send a BYE for either confirmed or early dialogs

It should say:

The caller's UA MUST send a BYE for confirmed dialogs

Notes:

In general, BYE shall be handled in the same way as CANCEL if it is for early dialogs.
In case, when BYE is on the way to the destination, the callee probably accepts INVITE, the race condition will occure.
If we follow the procedure as CANCEL, caller shall send ACK for 200 OK and immediately release the session using BYE.
So two BYEs will be triggered in the case, it does not make sense.

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