Re: M3UA and SUA recommendations

Siu Chai Tho <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sigtran
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Brian,
  

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]> wrote:
    > [Stanislav Ivanovich] What specifications do tell you is how should
> signalling processes behave on the external protocol and what is the
> functionality the prcesses should contain. Internal structure of
> signalling processes is irrelevant for specifications.
> 
> 
> 
> [Siu Chai Tho]I feel that you have misunderstood my question. I was
> trying to reassure that there are boundaries of a layer defined as
> mentioned in chapter 1.6 of RFC 3868 and also in chapter 3.1 RFC 2719.
> I understand that implementations can do whatever they like and are
> not forced to use layers. However, what is the purpose of using the
> word layer when there is no layer intended ?

What would you call it then? We refer to all of these UA as SS7-User
Adaptation Layers. You don't like the word 'layer'? (You will find
it on every page.)
   
  [Siu Chai Tho] Sorry if I express myself wrong. I understood Stanislav's answer in a way that a UA would not be layer definition, but only definition of external behaviour. I think of UAs as defined protocol layers (with boundaries as defined in chapter 1.6) and that it's current best practise to implement layers with the defined boundaries. Is this true ?
   
  Thank you,
  Joe

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