RFC 7984: Locating Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Servers in a Dual-Stack IP Network

Publisher

RFC Editor / IETF

URL

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7984.html

Published

2016-09-01

Updated

unknown

Accessed

2026-09-24

HTTP status

200

License

IETF Trust Legal Provisions (BCP 78); short excerpts and locators only

Source notes citing this source

• RFC 7984 has a dual-stack SIP client look up address records for every address family it supports and add all resulting addresses to the list to contact, rather than one A or AAAA lookup. in context
• RFC 7984 allows RFC 6724 destination address selection to reorder addresses derived from one SRV record but forbids it from reordering addresses derived from different SRV records. in context
• RFC 7984 (September 2016, Standards Track) updates RFC 3263 for locating SIP servers in dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 networks. in context

Cite this source record

APA

WarmTransfer. (2016, September 1). RFC 7984: Locating Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Servers in a Dual-Stack IP Network. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/rfc-7984-sip-dual-stack

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-rfc-7984-sip-dual-stack,
  title  = {RFC 7984: Locating Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Servers in a Dual-Stack IP Network},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2016},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/rfc-7984-sip-dual-stack},
  note   = {RFC Editor / IETF, accessed 2026-09-24}
}