RFC 3261:SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
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... SIP is an application-layer control protocol that can establish, modify, and terminate multimedia sessions ...


... transaction layer handles application-layer retransmissions, matching of responses to requests, and application-layer ...
... application-layer retransmissions, matching of responses to requests, and application-layer timeouts. Any task that a user agent client (UAC ...



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