RE: Congestion in M3UA/SUA and the use of the SCON

Brian,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian F. G. Bidulock [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 7:19 PM
> To: Tolga Asveren
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Sigtran] Congestion in M3UA/SUA and the use of the SCON
>
> We discussed this at great length before.  Leave SCON for SS7
> management.  If
> you want to signal ASP congestion outside of the mechanisms of
> SCTP, we need
> to define some ASPTM messages to do so.  And that is where we
> left it.  Nobody
> proposed ASPTM messages for congestion indication, and nothing
> more was done
> about it.
[TOLGA]Yes, I also recall that we touched this issue and barely decided on
how SCON should behave :-), and yes there was no progress made on an ASPTM
serving that purpose. IMHO, lack of such a message causes sometimes people
to try using SCON for that purpose. I personally am in favor of a new ASPTM,
because I also saw some real-life deployments where congestion status of
ASPs was desirable for message routing from SG to ASPs.