A user agent accepting a well-formed REFER should request approval from the user to proceed, which may be satisfied interactively or from configured policy, and may decline the request if that approval is immediately denied; RFC 3515 also says a user agent not capable of accessing non-SIP URIs should not accept REFER requests to them.

Checked 2026-09-16

Vendor
IETF
Product
Session Initiation Protocol
Subsystem
REFER
Deployment
not restricted
Region
not restricted
Release range
Standards Track
Checked
2026-09-16

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 16). Call transfer semantics REFER and Replaces: source note xfersem-refer-approval-may-be-sought. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/xfersem-refer-approval-may-be-sought

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-xfersem-refer-approval-may-be-sought,
  title  = {Call transfer semantics REFER and Replaces: source note xfersem-refer-approval-may-be-sought},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/xfersem-refer-approval-may-be-sought},
  note   = {Source note xfersem-refer-approval-may-be-sought, checked 2026-09-16}
}

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