H.323 (8.1) Phase A - Call Setup

[Peter Price]

Paul,

I forgot to say that I agree with your second paragraph with the proviso
that it might take more than 4 seconds to send the Alerting.
Call Proceeding is not a substitue for Alerting its just an indication that
the caller should not give up too quickly.

Pete

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul E. Jones [mailto:paulej at PACKETIZER.COM]
> Sent: 20 July 2001 12:48
> To: ITU-SG16 at mailbag.cps.INTEL.COM
> Subject: Re: H.323 (8.1) Phase A - Call Setup
> 
> 
> Peter,
> 
> Alerting was the intent.  Call Proceeding not produce a 
> ringing sound in the
> caller's ear.  H.323 devices have to be able to send an 
> Alerting, though
> they're not required to do so if they can send a Connect 
> within 4 second.
> The 4 seconds is the T303 timeout and the T303 timer is disabled when
> receiving Alerting, too... not just Call Proceeding.
> 
> The ideas are related, but independent.  What we have seen 
> some folks do is
> send a Call Proceeding to the caller and then nothing else until the
> connect.  The result is that the calling party hears silence 
> for a very long
> time: that's not good.
> 
> Paul
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Price" <PeterP at VEGASTREAM.COM>
> To: <ITU-SG16 at mailbag.cps.INTEL.COM>
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 6:54 AM
> Subject: H.323 (8.1) Phase A - Call Setup
> 
> 
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I think I may have found some incorrect text in H.323 8.1
> >
> > The same text appears in both V3 and V4 so I suspect nobody 
> has commented
> > before.
> >
> > In the paragraph beginning:
> > "An endpoint shall be capable of sending the Alerting message. ..."
> >
> > it goes on to say:
> > "If an endpoint can respond to a Setup message with a Connect, Call
> > Proceeding, or Release Complete within 4 seconds, it is not 
> required to
> send
> > the Alerting message. An endpoint sending the Setup message 
> can expect to
> > receive either an Alerting, Connect, Call Proceeding, or 
> Release Complete
> > message within 4 seconds after successful transmission."
> >
> > I believe the first sentence here should really be discussing the
> > requirement to send a Call Proceeding (not Alerting) message.
> > The period of 4 seconds in the last sentence is related to 
> T303 which is
> > specifically terminated by a Call Proceeding message in 
> order to extend
> the
> > timeout for the sending endpoint.
> >
> > I think the sentence should read:
> > "If an endpoint can respond to a Setup message with a 
> Connect, Alerting,
> or
> > Release Complete within 4 seconds, it is not required to 
> send the Call
> > Proceeding message."
> >
> > This is then consistent with the use of Call Proceeding described in
> 8.1.8.2
> > (second para).
> >
> > Peter Price
> >
> > 
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