Re: Recommendation for SUA modifications

Haresign,

Haresign Lincoln wrote:                                                           (Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:31:01)
> John,
> 
> I agree...SGs always have point codes.  
> 
> With regards to ASPs, there are SOME architectures where PCs are NOT
> necessary.  Of course there are others where they ARE necesssary.  I'm
> trying to solve the problem of when they are NOT necessary and NO other
> problem.  I'm sure we can think of many scenarios where affected PC is
> necessary.  And I'm not arguing against those scenarios.
> 
> But I think you have to admit that there are SOME architectures where it
> is not necessary for the ASP to know it's Point Code.  As a matter of
> fact, we have this architecture deployed in several large networks
> today. If you'd like me to elaborate further, I'd be happy to.
> 
> So if we go on the premise that there are some network architectures
> that do not require knowledge of point code in the ASP, then we either
> need to:
> 
> 1) Unneccessarily configure the point code on the ASP only so that we
> can send an SCON with the required affected point code.

You have another choice right now: don't send SCON from the ASP.

Because the SG can ignore received SCON, it is not interoperable anyway.

> 
> OR:
> 
> 2) Make the point code optional for certain scenarios.  For example when
> the ASP and the SG share the same point code.
> 

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