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This document describes an end-to-end session identifier for use inIP-based multimedia communication systems that enables endpoints,intermediary devices, and management systems to identify a sessionend-to-end, associate multiple endpoints with a given multipointconference, track communication sessions when they are redirected,and associate one or more media flows with a given communicationsession. While the identifier is intended to work across multipleprotocols, this document describes its usage in the SessionInitiation Protocol (SIP).
This document also describes a backwards-compatibility mechanism foran existing session identifier implementation (RFC 7329) that issufficiently different from the procedures defined in this document.
This document obsoletes RFC 7329.
For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.
For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.