RFC 3263:Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): Locati...
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... identify an intermediate hop towards that resource (in which case, the URI is found in the Route header). The procedures defined here in no way affect this URI ...
... requirement that it be delivered to the same server that received the original request (indeed, if that server did not record-route, it will not get the ACK). ...


... header in a REGISTER, or in a Record-Route header in an INVITE ...
... then should the element fail, there is no way to route the request or response through a backup. ...



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