RFC 6442: Location Conveyance for the Session Initiation Protocol

Publisher

IETF / RFC Editor

URL

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6442.html

Published

2011-12-01

Updated

unknown

Accessed

2026-09-24

HTTP status

200

License

IETF Trust; BCP 78; IETF Trust legal provisions permit reproduction with attribution; excerpts kept short

Source notes citing this source

• Under RFC 6442, if a SIP request has no Geolocation-Routing value, that is treated the same as 'no', and intermediaries must not use the included location for routing. in context
• RFC 6442 conveys location in SIP through the Geolocation header field: a cid: URI points to a PIDF-LO body in the request (location by value), while a sip, sips, pres, http or https URI must be dereferenced at a location server (location by reference). in context

Cite this source record

APA

WarmTransfer. (2011, December 1). RFC 6442: Location Conveyance for the Session Initiation Protocol. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/rfc-6442-location-conveyance

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-rfc-6442-location-conveyance,
  title  = {RFC 6442: Location Conveyance for the Session Initiation Protocol},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2011},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/rfc-6442-location-conveyance},
  note   = {IETF / RFC Editor, accessed 2026-09-24}
}