[SIPForum-discussion] Regarding Section 8.1.1.2 in RFC 3261

[P V]

Hi,

I would request the fellow members to address this question. Thanks in 
Advance.

In section 8.1.1.2 in RFC 3261 we find the following:

"A UAC may learn how to populate the To header field for a particular
request in a number of 
ways........................................................
.......................................The RHS will frequently be the
home domain of the requestor, which allows for the home domain to
process the outgoing request. This is useful for features like
"speed dial" that require interpretation of the user part in the home
domain.

Question: How could the RHS be the same as the home domain of the requestor?

"A request outside of a dialog MUST NOT contain a To tag; the tag in
the To field of a request identifies the peer of the dialog. Since
no dialog is established, no tag is present."

In section 8.1.1, we find the following:

"A valid SIP request formulated by a UAC MUST, at a minimum, contain
the following header fields: To, From, CSeq, Call-ID, Max-Forwards,
and Via; all of these header fields are mandatory in all SIP
requests."

"Examples of requests sent outside of a dialog include an INVITE to
establish a session (Section 13) and an OPTIONS to query for
capabilities (Section 11)."

Question: Do the quotes from section 8.1.1 contradict the quote from 8.1.1.2 
above?

with regards
PV