SIP is still an evolving standard. There is an active SIPForum (www.sipforum.org) group that is currently developing SIPConnect 1.1 to standardize on an interface between a SIP Service provider (e.g. Vonage) and a SIP-PBX.
There is an activity called BLISS for defining the "best practices" to implement SIP features between User Agents. BLISS reference:
http://www.bliss-ietf.org/charter.html[
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