Add proposal for "completed elsewhere" hangup reason.

dbkr/voip-completed-elsewhere
David Baker 1 year ago
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# MSC4006: Completed Elsewhere for VoIP
Usually, it is self-evident when a VoIP call in Matrix has been answered by a different client:
the answer event from a different party ID is present in the room. However, bridges can complicate
this. If one client is SIP bridge, for example, the SIP server will just send a CANCEL on any call
forks that are not answered, adding a cause of 200 with text, "Call completed elsewhere"
(https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3326). This cause code will currently be ignored by the bridge as
there is no equivalent to translate it to, so the call will show as a missed call.
## Proposal
Add another value for the `reason` field in an `m.call.hangup` event of `completed_elsewhere`.
```
{
"type": "m.call.hangup",
"content": {
"call_id": "1234567",
"party_id": "AAAAAAA",
"version": "1",
"reason": "completed_elsewhere"
},
}
```
## Potential issues
This would make the VoIP spec marginally more complex for all clients, when a large majority of users
are probably unlikely to interact with such a bridge, let alone complete a call elsewhere. However,
if clients choose to ignore this reason code, the failure mode will simply be that the call shows as
a missed call (as it does currently).
## Alternatives
This could potentially be done without extra spec if the bridge were to create a fake answer event.
However, in SIP, the bridge would get no further information about the call, so wouldn't know when it
ended, meaning that it would have to send a fake hangup straight afterwards, so the call would appear
as zero duration.
## Security considerations
None forseen.
## Unstable prefix
Until merged, the reason code shall be, `org.matrix.msc4006.completed_elsewhere`.
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