Re: Need ANSWER 4 these QUERIES !!

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:34:27 -0700

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Holland,,

Holland, Peter Michael (Peter) wrote:                             (Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:22:05)
> Brian,
> 
>  
> > > 
> > >     1. In  M3UA  msg  the  version  parameter  can  have 
> > value 0 or 1, Is
> > >        version-1 has BACKWARD copatibility with vesion-0?
> > 
> > No.  RFC 4666 was not written with backward compatibility to 
> > RFC 3332 in mind.
> > RFC 4666 OBSOLETES RFC 3332.  Therefore a version parameter 
> > with a value of 0
> > is following an OBSOLETE PROPOSED STANDARD.  
> > 
> 
> RFC 3332 and RFC 4666 both specify the Version parameter shall be set to 1.
> So I assume that RFC 4446 should be backward compatible with RFC 3332.

Oh, I just assumed they were different.

Nevertheless, RFC 4666 OBSOLETES RFC 3332.  RFC 4666 is not backward
compatible to RFC 3332 in a good number of ways (including message format).

--brian

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