RE: M3UA : query on RC presence in messages

Lev and Tolga,
Yes it's has been rightly pointed out by Tolga that the purpose of RC is
to provide a faster mechanism to find out the routing key associated
with the message. But again, do SG should really care about the RC in
first place if the ASP which is sending the message is active? Shouldn't
the AS which is not active must not send any data message to SG? IMO the
SG should really care about the RC when sending the messages to AS, as
we really don't want the SG to send data to an AS which is not prepared
to handle it i.e it is not active! 
 
Regards,
Prabind
-----Original Message-----
From: Tolga Asveren [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:35 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [SIGTRAN] M3UA : query on RC presence in messages

To prevent routing key analysis happening multiple times is one of the
reasons. There is no need to analyze the message twice both on SG and
ASP.

When messages are allowed to be sent/received is determined by AS state
machine, which has a 1:1 relationship to a RK. To have RC in messages is
an
easy way to perform the necessary state machine updates/checks.

   Thanks,
   Tolga
-----Original Message-----
From: Lev Finkel [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 9:39 AM
To: Aditya; Prabind Chaubey; [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [SIGTRAN] M3UA : query on RC presence in messages


Aditya, Prabind,

following this logic intelligent ASP also may accept DATA messages
without
RC parameter and handle it based on OPC, DPC, CIC, etc. However I guess
the
RFC authors saying MUST intended to avoid variety of ASP and SGP
implementation dependent behaviors.

Brian,
what was a real the rationale behind this MUST for RC being in the
messages?

Regards,
Lev




From: Aditya [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:25 PM
To: Prabind Chaubey; [email protected]; Lev Finkel
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [SIGTRAN] M3UA : query on RC presence in messages


I agree with Prabind. However, the RFC says "MUST".

Regards,
Aditya Sehgal
Alcatel-Lucent

Prabind Chaubey <[email protected]> wrote:
Brian,
If it is known by configuration that which AS the asp is going
to serve into, is it mandatory to send RC from asp, even if the multiple
AS are being served by the asp? I mean SG can very well route the
message to MTP3 based on the DPC in the message.

Regards,
Prabind

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian F. G. Bidulock [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:26 PM
To: Lev Finkel
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [SIGTRAN] M3UA : query on RC presence in messages

Lev,

Section 3.8.1 Error/RFC 4666

...

The "No Configured AS for ASP" error is sent if a message is received
from a peer without a Routing Context parameter and it is not known
by configuration data which Application Servers are referenced.

--brian

Lev Finkel wrote: (Wed, 13 Dec 2006
12:00:45)
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> is the statement in RFC 3332/4466 sections 3.3.1 (and same for
other
> messages)
>
> "Where multiple Routing Keys and Routing Contexts are used
across a
> common association, the Routing Context MUST be sent to identify
the
> traffic flow, assisting in the internal distribution of Data
messages"
>
> relates to both ASP and SGP?
>
> Is it correct for SGP to reply with ERROR upon DATA message without
RC
> after several RC coordinated? Is it mandatory to send ERROR? Or
M3UA
> implementation may allow to forward message based on DPC only?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Lev Finkel
>
> Veraz Networks ltd.

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