If the intended responder shares presence with the initiator and has more than one available resource but only one of the resources supports Jingle and the desired content description format, the initiator SHOULD MUST initiate the Jingle signalling with that resource.
If the intended responder shares presence with the initiator and has more than one available resource but more than one of the resources supports Jingle and the desired content description format, the initiator SHOULD use &xep0168; in order to determine which is the best resource with which to initiate the desired Jingle session.
If the intended responder does not share presence with the initiator, the initiator SHOULD first send a &xep0155; request to the responder in order to initiate the exchange of XMPP stanzas. The request SHOULD include a RAP routing hint as specified in XEP-0168 and the &MESSAGE; stanza containing the request SHOULD be of type "headline" so that (typically) it is not stored offline for later delivery.
Once the initiator has discovered which of the receiver's XMPP resources is ideal for the desired content description format, it sends a session initiation request to the receiver. This request is an IQ-set containing a &JINGLE; element qualified by the 'http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0166.html#ns' namespace. The &JINGLE; element MUST possess the 'action', 'initiator', and 'sid' attributes (the latter two uniquely identify the session). For initiation, the 'action' attribute MUST have a value of "session-initiate" and the &JINGLE; element MUST contain one or more &CONTENT; elements, each of which defines a content type to be transferred during the session; each &CONTENT; element in turn contains one &DESCRIPTION; child element that specifies a desired content description format and one &TRANSPORT; child element that specifies a potential content transport method. If either party wishes to propose the use of multiple transport methods for the same content description, it must send multiple &CONTENT; elements.