Under RFC 3264 an offerer that wants to keep the session but neither send nor receive media on a stream MUST mark that stream inactive.

Checked 2026-09-24

If the offerer wishes to communicate, but wishes to neither send nor receive media at this time, it MUST mark the stream with an "a=inactive" attribute.
Vendor
IETF
Product
SIP
Subsystem
direction attributes
Deployment
any
Region
not restricted
Release range
RFC 3264 as published
Checked
2026-09-24

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 24). Hold resume and conference signaling: source note hold-resume-conference-3264-inactive-offer. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/hold-resume-conference-3264-inactive-offer

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-hold-resume-conference-3264-inactive-offer,
  title  = {Hold resume and conference signaling: source note hold-resume-conference-3264-inactive-offer},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/hold-resume-conference-3264-inactive-offer},
  note   = {Source note hold-resume-conference-3264-inactive-offer, checked 2026-09-24}
}

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