The recipient of an offer for a held stream should not automatically answer with the corresponding stream held, and RFC 3264 gives the reason: certain third party call control scenarios do not work when an answerer responds to held SDP with held SDP.

Checked 2026-09-15

Certain third party call control scenarios do not work when an answerer responds to held SDP with held SDP.
Vendor
IETF
Product
SIP
Subsystem
SDP offer/answer
Deployment
not restricted
Region
not restricted
Release range
RFC 3264
Checked
2026-09-15

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 15). SDP offer answer and codec negotiation: source note sdp-oa-answerer-should-not-mirror-held-sdp. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sdp-oa-answerer-should-not-mirror-held-sdp

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-sdp-oa-answerer-should-not-mirror-held-sdp,
  title  = {SDP offer answer and codec negotiation: source note sdp-oa-answerer-should-not-mirror-held-sdp},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sdp-oa-answerer-should-not-mirror-held-sdp},
  note   = {Source note sdp-oa-answerer-should-not-mirror-held-sdp, checked 2026-09-15}
}

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