The IESG has received a request from the SIP Overload Control WG (soc) to consider the following document: - 'Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Rate Control' <draft-ietf-soc-overload-rate-control-09.txt> as Proposed 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 2014-08-22. 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 The prevalent use of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) in Next Generation Networks necessitates that SIP networks provide adequate control mechanisms to maintain transaction throughput by preventing congestion collapse during traffic overloads. Already a loss-based solution to remedy known vulnerabilities of the SIP 503 (service unavailable) overload control mechanism has been proposed. This document proposes a rate-based control scheme to complement the loss-based control scheme, using the same signaling. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-soc-overload-rate-control/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-soc-overload-rate-control/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
