RFC3261: SIP:1简介

1 Introduction

1简介

There are many applications of the Internet that require the creation
and management of a session, where a session is considered an
exchange of data between an association of participants.  The
implementation of these applications is complicated by the practices
of participants: users may move between endpoints, they may be
addressable by multiple names, and they may communicate in several
different media - sometimes simultaneously.  Numerous protocols have
been authored that carry various forms of real-time multimedia
session data such as voice, video, or text messages.  The Session
Initiation Protocol (SIP) works in concert with these protocols by enabling Internet endpoints (called user agents) to discover one
another and to agree on a characterization of a session they would
like to share.  For locating prospective session participants, and
for other functions, SIP enables the creation of an infrastructure of
network hosts (called proxy servers) to which user agents can send
registrations, invitations to sessions, and other requests.  SIP is
an agile, general-purpose tool for creating, modifying, and
terminating sessions that works independently of underlying transport
protocols and without dependency on the type of session that is being
established.

互联网的许多应用程序都需要创建和管理会话，其中会话被视为参与者协会之间的数据交换。这些应用程序的实现因参与者的实践而变得复杂：用户可能在端点之间移动，他们可能通过多个名称进行寻址，并且他们可能在几个不同的媒体中进行通信，有时是同时进行的。已经编写了许多协议，这些协议携带各种形式的实时多媒体会话数据，例如语音、视频或文本消息。会话发起协议（SIP）与这些协议协同工作，使互联网端点（称为用户代理）能够发现彼此，并就他们想要共享的会话的特征达成一致。为了定位潜在的会话参与者和其他功能，SIP能够创建网络主机（称为代理服务器）的基础设施，用户代理可以向其发送注册、会话邀请和其他请求。SIP是一种灵活的通用工具，用于创建、修改和终止会话，它独立于底层传输协议工作，不依赖于正在建立的会话类型。