The IESG has approved publication of The Refer Method
<draft-ietf-sip-refer-07.txt> as a Proposed Standard.
This document is the product of the Session Initiation Protocol Working
Group. The IESG contact persons are Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner.
Technical Summary
This document defines the REFER method. This SIP extension requests
that the recipient REFER to a resource provided in the request.
It provides a mechanism allowing the party sending the REFER to be
notified of the outcome of the referenced request. This can be used
to enable many applications, including call transfer.
In addition to the REFER method, this document defines the refer
event package and the Refer-To request header.
Working Group Summary
The working group reached good consensus on this document.
A header for Referred-by was split out so that it could await
authenticated identity.
Protocol Quality
The document was reviewed for the IESG by Eric Rescorla, Steve
Bellovin, and Allison Mankin. Implementations of this method
have been tested in interoperability events by a number of vendors.
RFC Editor
Please replace each instance of:
"atlanta.com" with "atlanta.example.com"
"biloxi.com" with "biloxi.example.net"
"cleveland.com" with "cleveland.example.org"
"denver.com" with "denver.example.org"
Please add to the end of the document before the Copyright
Statement a copy of the RFC 2026 10.4(A) and 10.4(B) notices
under the heading Intellectual Property Statement.
