Re: [Sip] INFO considered harmful

["Adam Roach" <adam@dynamicsoft.com>]

From: "Dean Willis" <dean.willis@softarmor.com>

> SIP, as you may have noticed, is a fairly complicated protocol. This has
> given rise to the distribution of reusable (even open source) SIP stacks.
> Personally I'm not up to hacking a new method (into, say, the Vovida
stack)
> everytime I want to deliver a new type of blob. INFO, constructed as I've
> proposed, would let me implement a new INFO package on a stack without
> having to rewrite the stack. We'd just need an API to tell the stack what
> INFO packages we handled at the application layer, and it could do the
rest
> of the work without caring what data is being transported in the INFOs.

So, your fundamental argument springs from the desire to have the API to
most SIP stacks include a function called something like
"registerNewInfoPackage" instead of  "registerNewMethod".

For some reason, that doesn't strike me as particularly compelling.

/a

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