Re: What should be the behavior of ASP, when SCON message received with out congestion indication parameter

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Jan 2007 03:14:29 -0700

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Pavan,

Pavan Kumar wrote:                               (Mon, 01 Jan 2007 14:00:25)
> 
>    Hello All ,
> 
>    I  wanted  to  know,  what  should  be  behaviour of ASP when the SCON
>    message is received with out congestion indication parameter.

The ASP can do what it would like and that which it is capable.

I would suggest either delivering the message as an MTP-STATUS indication to
the user or informing local management of the error.

>    Here i am reffering to RFC 4666 & using the ANSI.

RFC 4666 applies to more than just ANSI.

>    According to RFC , it has mentioned that congestion indication is only
>    for  the  ANSI  & national method.Is there any specific reason to keep
>    the congestion indication in the optional parameter. I can't guess the
>    use SCON message without congetion indication.

No need to guess:

     "For MTP congestion methods without multiple congestion levels (e.g.,
      the ITU international method) the parameter is not included."

--brian

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