RFC 5589 requires that the Transferor and the Transferee are not removed from a session as part of a transfer transaction, and states that without this requirement some current behaviours such as ringback on transfer failure would be lost.

Checked 2026-09-16

The Transferor and the Transferee must not be removed from a session as part of a transfer transaction.
Vendor
IETF
Product
Session Initiation Protocol
Subsystem
Transfer requirements
Deployment
not restricted
Region
not restricted
Release range
BCP 149
Checked
2026-09-16

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 16). Call transfer semantics REFER and Replaces: source note xfersem-transferor-and-transferee-stay-in-the-session. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/xfersem-transferor-and-transferee-stay-in-the-session

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-xfersem-transferor-and-transferee-stay-in-the-session,
  title  = {Call transfer semantics REFER and Replaces: source note xfersem-transferor-and-transferee-stay-in-the-session},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/xfersem-transferor-and-transferee-stay-in-the-session},
  note   = {Source note xfersem-transferor-and-transferee-stay-in-the-session, checked 2026-09-16}
}

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