RFC 8433

A Simpler Method for Resolving Alert-Info URNs, August 2018

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Status:
INFORMATIONAL
Author:
D. Worley
Stream:
INDEPENDENT

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8433

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Abstract

The "alert" namespace of Uniform Resource Names (URNs) can be used in the Alert-Info header field of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) requests and responses to inform a voice over IP (VoIP) telephone (user agent) of the characteristics of the call that the user agent has originated or terminated. The user agent must resolve the URNs into a signal; that is, it must select the best available signal to present to its user to indicate the characteristics of the call.

RFC 7462 describes a non-normative algorithm for signal selection. This document describes a more efficient alternative algorithm: a user agent's designer can, based on the user agent's signals and their meanings, construct a finite state machine (FSM) to process the URNs to select a signal in a way that obeys the restrictions given in the definition of the "alert" URN namespace.


For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.




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