Re: FW: I-D Action:draft-kaplan-sip-session-id-00.txt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dale
> Worley
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 10:37 AM
> To: Hadriel Kaplan
> Cc: SIP List; Adam Roach
> Subject: Re: [Sip] FW: I-D Action:draft-kaplan-sip-session-id-00.txt
> 
> On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 13:27 -0500, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:
> > > I'm still troubled by what I perceive as an inversion of the names: I
> > > think of a 'session' as something that happens within a 'call'.  I
> > > believe that you're looking for something that's a parent of 'call-
> id's,
> > > not a child.  Might I suggest 'Call-Set-Id'?
> >
> > Yeah, header names are funny things.  We want them to mean X, but
> > other people interpret them to mean Y, and in reality they end up
> > meaning Z. :)
> >
> > I used the term "Session-ID" because it was what I thought common
> > operators of SIP deployments would expect it to be, because I think
> > most people think of a Session as actually a superset of a Call-ID -
> > the Call-ID could change 15 times along the path, but it's the same
> > session. (in many ways a Call-ID is not a "Call" identifier at all!)
> > But I grant that it confuses us with media "sessions".
> >
> > How about: "Correlation-ID", or even "Opaque-Call-ID"?
> 
> It's treacherous -- the original IETF definition was for "session",
> which meant a particular stream of media bytes.  SIP is "Session
> Initiation Protocol", a wrapper around sessions.  But with the use of
> re-INVITE, one can change the enclosed session in a myriad of ways.
> 
> If we're talking about a "sequence" of SIP dialogs which are connected
> end-to-end by B2BUAs, then they all enclose the *same* session.  (Which
> suggests the common identifier should be put into the SDP!)  But if we

Such an Sdp attribute will correlate the media streams. It could be problematic if a B2BUA generates a request without Sdp (medialess INVITE etc). 

Looking at it from draft's troubleshooting use case perspective, if one wants to track the signaling flow end-to-end, I like e2e-session-group-id.

Serhad


> use the identifier to group dialogs in any other way -- and there have
> been suggestions to do so -- then we can't call the group of dialogs a
> "session" without creating confusion.
> 
> Dale
> 
> 
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