Timer H sets the wait for an acknowledgement at 64 times the round trip estimate and its expiry is what ends a server transaction that never received one.

fact · verified 2026-09-15

Vendor
IETF
Product
Session Initiation Protocol
Subsystem
transaction timers
Deployment
not restricted
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-09-15
Status
fact
Confidence
0.90
Verified
2026-09-15

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WarmTransfer. (2026, September 15). SIP retransmission timers and transaction state: claim siprt-timer-h-is-the-ack-deadline. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/siprt-timer-h-is-the-ack-deadline

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@misc{warmtransfer-claim-siprt-timer-h-is-the-ack-deadline,
  title  = {SIP retransmission timers and transaction state: claim siprt-timer-h-is-the-ack-deadline},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/siprt-timer-h-is-the-ack-deadline},
  note   = {Claim siprt-timer-h-is-the-ack-deadline, verified 2026-09-15}
}

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