RFC 3486:Compressing the Session Initiation Protoc...
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transport protocol


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... service in this context is the transport protocol to be used by SIP (e.g., UDP, TCP ...
... SCTP). A SIP server that supports, for instance, three different transport protocols, will have three different DNS entries. ...
... DNS entries. Since it is foreseen that the number of transport protocols supported by a particular application layer protocol is not going to grow ...
... However, sometimes it is necessary to include new layers between the transport protocol and the application layer protocol. Examples of these layers are transport layer security ...



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