Subject: RE: [SIP] Response if user not registered?

From: Jonathan Rosenberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 02:39:06 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 4:42 PM
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: [SIP] Response if user not registered?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In some environments (3G etc.) user has to be registered 
> before being able
> to issue outgoing requests.

Why? Who cares? THe main thing is that its authenticated and authorized for
outgoing service. For that, we have a response code, 407.

> It seems that 2543bis has no 
> directly suitable
> response code for a scenario where the outbound or home proxy 
> wants to ask
> the user to register before e.g. INVITE is accepted: 
> 
> UA ------------->INVITE------------> Proxy
> UA <---4XX Registration Required---- Proxy
> 
> Is there anything that could be (mis)used, e.g. 402 Payment 
> Required, or
> should a new one be defined? Or did I miss it?

-Jonathan R.

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