Re: M2PA Alignment Clarification

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Oct 2006 06:53:56 -0600

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Newman,,

Newman, Catherine J wrote:                                         (Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:40:44)
> 
> but will deliver up the SLTM since it is a different stream. So even if
> an M2PA implementation is following M2PA RFC 4.1.8 to the letter (within
> the M2PA layer), there could be no messages on stream 0 to read at this
> point and the race condition could still apply. 

No, that would not be following 4.1.8.  Following 4.1.8 requires that
stream 0 be both read and written with priority over stream 1.

BTW, the SCTP API in the RFC is just a suggestion.  There is no guarantee
that the API mentioned there will meet the needs of any application (and
in fact would be insufficient for most--if not all--SIGTRAN UAs).

--brian

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