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IETF RFC 3261
[ACTIVE]

SIP: Session Initiation Protocol

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Publisher
IETF
Doc Type
Standard
Pages
269
Abstract
This document describes Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), an application-layer control (signaling) protocol for creating, modifying, and terminating sessions with one or more participants. These sessions include Internet telephone calls, multimedia distribution, and multimedia conferences. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Publication Date
2002-07-01
Status Note
Proposed Standard
DOI
10.17487/RFC3261
Link
https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC3261
Author(s)
Jonathan Rosenberg
Henning Schulzrinne
Gonzalo Camarillo
Alan Johnston
Jon Peterson
Robert Sparks
Mark J. Handley
Eve Schooler
Keyword(s)
SIP, Multimedia, Multicast, Unicast
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  • ▶ IETF RFC 3261 (2002-07-01)
    THIS DOC [ACTIVE] [LATEST VERSION]

Amended by:
  • IETF RFC 3265 [Superseded*]
  • RFC3853 NOT IN REGISTRY
  • RFC4320 NOT IN REGISTRY
  • RFC4916 — RFC4916 EXTERNAL
  • RFC5393 NOT IN REGISTRY
  • RFC5621 NOT IN REGISTRY
  • RFC5626 — RFC5626 EXTERNAL
  • IETF RFC 5630 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 5922 [Active*]
  • RFC5954 NOT IN REGISTRY
  • RFC6026 NOT IN REGISTRY
  • RFC6141 NOT IN REGISTRY
  • RFC6665 — RFC6665 EXTERNAL
  • RFC6878 NOT IN REGISTRY
  • IETF RFC 7462 [Active*]
  • RFC7463 — RFC7463 EXTERNAL
  • RFC8217 NOT IN REGISTRY
  • RFC8591 NOT IN REGISTRY
  • RFC8760 NOT IN REGISTRY
  • RFC8898 NOT IN REGISTRY
  • IETF RFC 8996 [Active*]

Normative Reference(s)

Bibliographic Reference(s)

  • Johnston, A., Donovan, S., Sparks, R., Cunningham, C., Willis, D., Rosenberg, J., Summers, K. and H. Schulzrinne, "SIP Call Flow Examples", Work in Progress. EXTERNAL
  • E. M. Schooler, "A multicast user directory service for synchronous rendezvous," Master's Thesis CS-TR-96-18, Department of Computer Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, Aug. 1996. EXTERNAL
  • E. M. Schooler, "Case study: multimedia conference control in a packet-switched teleconferencing system," Journal of Internetworking: Research and Experience, Vol. 4, pp. 99--120, June 1993. ISI reprint series ISI/RS-93-359. EXTERNAL
  • H. Schulzrinne, "Personal mobility for multimedia services in the Internet," in European Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Services (IDMS), (Berlin, Germany), Mar. 1996. EXTERNAL
  • R. Pandya, "Emerging mobile and personal communication systems," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 33, pp. 44--52, June 1995. EXTERNAL
  • IETF RFC 1321 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 1889 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 2069 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 2076 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 2326 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 2368 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 2426 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 2543 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 2849 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 2914 [Active*]
  • IETF RFC 2976 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 3015 [Superseded*]
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