The IESG has received a request from the SIP Overload Control WG (soc) to consider the following document: - 'Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Overload Control' <draft-ietf-soc-overload-control-14.txt> as Internet Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2013-12-23. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract Overload occurs in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) networks when SIP servers have insufficient resources to handle all SIP messages they receive. Even though the SIP protocol provides a limited overload control mechanism through its 503 (Service Unavailable) response code, SIP servers are still vulnerable to overload. This document defines the behaviour of SIP servers involved in overload control, and in addition, it specifies a loss-based overload scheme for SIP. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-soc-overload-control/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-soc-overload-control/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1364/
