RFC 6442

"Location Conveyance for the Session Initiation Protocol", December 2011

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6442.txt
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Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Authors:

J. Polk
B. Rosen
J. Peterson

Stream:

IETF

Source:

sipcore (rai)

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Abstract

This document defines an extension to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to convey geographic location information from one SIP entity to another SIP entity. The SIP extension covers end-to-end conveyance as well as location-based routing, where SIP intermediaries make routing decisions based upon the location of the Location Target. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.