This object enables or disables sending provisional response to the CA when processing a request received from the CA. The provisional response to the CA indicates that the GW is processing the request and will send a final response once the processing is complete.

For example, if a CRCX request from the CA using MGCP protocol, requires that resources be reserved along the bearer path using RSVP, GW would send a provisional response if this parameter was set to true. It would then wait for the RSVP procedure to complete before sending the final response. On the other hand, if the value of this parameter was set to false, the final response will be sent out without waiting for the RSVP procedure to complete. When the RSVP procedure does complete, a NTFY will be sent from the GW indicating if the RSVP procedure was successful or not.

The GW will receive provisional responses from the CA. These messages will be parsed and ignored regardless of this object.

If the protocol supported by the CA is MGCP1.0, the default value for this object is 'sendProvisionalResponse'. In all other cases, it is 'notSendProvisionalResponse'.

This object has no relevance when the protocol is SRCP.