Source note · SDP offer answer and codec negotiation
An offer may contain zero media streams, which means the offerer wishes to communicate but intends to add the streams later in a modified offer.
Checked 2026-09-15
Zero media streams implies that the offerer wishes to communicate, but that the streams for the session will be added at a later time through a modified offer.
- Vendor
- IETF
- Product
- SIP
- Subsystem
- SDP offer/answer
- Deployment
- not restricted
- Region
- not restricted
- Release range
- RFC 3264
- Checked
- 2026-09-15
Sources
- RFC 3264 — An Offer/Answer Model with the Session Description Protocol (SDP) — IETF / RFC Editor · tier 1 standards and regulators · RFC 3264 section 5 Generating the Initial Offer
Cite this note
APA
WarmTransfer. (2026, September 15). SDP offer answer and codec negotiation: source note sdp-oa-an-offer-may-carry-no-streams. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sdp-oa-an-offer-may-carry-no-streams
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-sdp-oa-an-offer-may-carry-no-streams,
title = {SDP offer answer and codec negotiation: source note sdp-oa-an-offer-may-carry-no-streams},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sdp-oa-an-offer-may-carry-no-streams},
note = {Source note sdp-oa-an-offer-may-carry-no-streams, checked 2026-09-15}
}