RFC 6357: Design Considerations for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Overload Control

Publisher

IETF / RFC Editor

URL

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6357.html

Published

2011-08-01

Updated

unknown

Accessed

2026-09-25

HTTP status

200

License

IETF Trust Legal Provisions (BCP 78); no-redistribution; short excerpts and locators only

Source notes citing this source

• The 503 plus Retry-After mechanism is only a limited overload control: it cannot prevent overload of a SIP server or congestion collapse. in context

Cite this source record

APA

WarmTransfer. (2011, August 1). RFC 6357: Design Considerations for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Overload Control. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/rfc-6357-sip-overload-design

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-rfc-6357-sip-overload-design,
  title  = {RFC 6357: Design Considerations for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Overload Control},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2011},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/rfc-6357-sip-overload-design},
  note   = {IETF / RFC Editor, accessed 2026-09-25}
}