rfc-3261

SIP: Session Initiation Protocol

J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne, G. Camarillo, A. Johnston, J. Peterson, R. Sparks, M. Handley, E. Schooler

date2002-07 streamIETF arearai wgsip statusPROPOSED STANDARD pages269 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3261 doi10.17487/RFC3261 errataview

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]

obsoletes

rfc-2543 — SIP: Session Initiation Protocol

updated by

rfc-3265 — Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-Specific Event Notification
rfc-3853 — S/MIME Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Requirement for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
rfc-4320 — Actions Addressing Identified Issues with the Session Initiation Protocol's (SIP) Non-INVITE Transaction
rfc-4916 — Connected Identity in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
rfc-5393 — Addressing an Amplification Vulnerability in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Forking Proxies
rfc-5621 — Message Body Handling in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
rfc-5626 — Managing Client-Initiated Connections in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
rfc-5630 — The Use of the SIPS URI Scheme in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
rfc-5922 — Domain Certificates in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
rfc-5954 — Essential Correction for IPv6 ABNF and URI Comparison in RFC 3261
rfc-6026 — Correct Transaction Handling for 2xx Responses to Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) INVITE Requests
rfc-6141 — Re-INVITE and Target-Refresh Request Handling in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
rfc-6665 — SIP-Specific Event Notification
rfc-6878 — IANA Registry for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) "Priority" Header Field
rfc-7462 — URNs for the Alert-Info Header Field of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
rfc-7463 — Shared Appearances of a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Address of Record (AOR)
rfc-8217 — Clarifications for When to Use the name-addr Production in SIP Messages
rfc-8591 — SIP-Based Messaging with S/MIME
rfc-8760 — The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Digest Access Authentication Scheme
rfc-8898 — Third-Party Token-Based Authentication and Authorization for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
rfc-8996 — Deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1