RFC 7614 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2015

Explicit Subscriptions for the REFER Method

Overview

RFC 7614, “Explicit Subscriptions for the REFER Method”, is a Proposed Standard document published in August 2015 by R. Sparks. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) REFER request, as defined by RFC 3515, triggers an implicit SIP-Specific Event Notification framework subscription. Conflating the start of the subscription with handling the REFER request makes negotiating SUBSCRIBE extensions impossible and complicates avoiding SIP dialog sharing. This document defines extensions to REFER that remove the implicit subscription and, if desired, replace it with an explicit one.

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