RFC 4485 · INFORMATIONAL · 2006

Guidelines for Authors of Extensions to the Session Initiation Protocol

Overview

RFC 4485, “Guidelines for Authors of Extensions to the Session Initiation Protocol”, is an Informational document published in May 2006 by J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a flexible yet simple tool for establishing interactive communications sessions across the Internet. Part of this flexibility is the ease with which it can be extended. In order to facilitate effective and interoperable extensions to SIP, some guidelines need to be followed when developing SIP extensions. This document outlines a set of such guidelines for authors of SIP extensions. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

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