RFC 5631 · INFORMATIONAL · 2009

Session Initiation Protocol Session Mobility

Overview

RFC 5631, “Session Initiation Protocol Session Mobility”, is an Informational document published in October 2009 by R. Shacham, H. Schulzrinne, S. Thakolsri, W. Kellerer. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

Session mobility is the transfer of media of an ongoing communication session from one device to another. This document describes the basic approaches and shows the signaling and media flow examples for providing this service using the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Service discovery is essential to locate targets for session transfer and is discussed using the Service Location Protocol (SLP) as an example. This document is an informational document. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

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Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

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