Re: M2PA retrasmission buffer

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:17:07 -0600

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Dario,

Dario wrote:                                                                         (Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:43:43)
> 
> Hi Brian,
> so it means that both SCTP and M2PA should buffer sent but not acknowledged
> messages?

M2PA buffers messagse sent and even acknowledged by the peer SCTP, but not yet
acknowledged by the peer M2PA.

> On the other hand, Data Retrieval and Retransmission is not supported in
> M3UA.

Well, really it is.  See draft-bidulock-sigtran-corid-05.txt for an example of
how to use existing mechanisms to effect the same procedures as changeover,
changeback and forced and controlled rerouting.

--brian

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