RFC 5359 says older UAs may set the connection address to 0.0.0.0 to hold and that this is deprecated in favour of inactive when no media is sent or sendonly when media is still sent.

Checked 2026-09-24

Older UAs may set the connection address to 0.0.0.0 when initiating hold.
Vendor
IETF
Product
SIP service examples
Subsystem
legacy hold
Deployment
any
Region
not restricted
Release range
RFC 5359 as published
Checked
2026-09-24

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 24). Hold resume and conference signaling: source note hold-resume-conference-5359-zero-addr-deprecated. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/hold-resume-conference-5359-zero-addr-deprecated

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-hold-resume-conference-5359-zero-addr-deprecated,
  title  = {Hold resume and conference signaling: source note hold-resume-conference-5359-zero-addr-deprecated},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/hold-resume-conference-5359-zero-addr-deprecated},
  note   = {Source note hold-resume-conference-5359-zero-addr-deprecated, checked 2026-09-24}
}

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