RFC 6913 defines the sip.fax media feature tag with values t38 and passthrough so SIP user agents can advertise fax capability in REGISTER and callers can request it with Accept-Contact in INVITE.

Checked 2026-09-24

Vendor
IETF
Product
RFC 6913
Subsystem
SIP signalling
Deployment
standard
Region
not restricted
Release range
RFC 6913 (March 2013)
Checked
2026-09-24

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 24). Fax and T.38 in cloud calling: source note fax-t38-rfc6913-sip-fax-tag. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/fax-t38-rfc6913-sip-fax-tag

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-fax-t38-rfc6913-sip-fax-tag,
  title  = {Fax and T.38 in cloud calling: source note fax-t38-rfc6913-sip-fax-tag},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/fax-t38-rfc6913-sip-fax-tag},
  note   = {Source note fax-t38-rfc6913-sip-fax-tag, checked 2026-09-24}
}

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