Re: Traffic handling modes compatibility
"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]>
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Sergey, On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Sergey Mikhailov wrote: > If we accept your explanation, then it is unclear: what was > the reason of specifying 'SHOULD NOT' rather than 'MUST > NOT' in Section 3.7.1? It is not so hard to conceive of an SG that could support mixed modes: there is just little current support for it in the protocol. We did not say that an implementation MUST NOT do a thing if it is conceivable that it can achieve it with some effort: we instead said SHOULD NOT. The following drafts offer proposals to support mixed modes in the protocol: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bidulock-sigtran-loadsel-03.txt http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bidulock-sigtran-loadgrp-03.txt The above were developed because there was interest at one point in supporting mixed modes and there were some that felt it could be achieved even without protocol support. --brian -- Brian F. G. Bidulock ¦ The reasonable man adapts himself to the ¦ [email protected] ¦ world; the unreasonable one persists in ¦ http://www.openss7.org/ ¦ trying to adapt the world to himself. ¦ ¦ Therefore all progress depends on the ¦ ¦ unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ¦