RE: SIGTRAN Plugtest Day 3

Brian,

The problem is that there must be a person present at a terminal somewhere
to push a button to resend the ASP-Active. I doubt that many carriers would
be happy about this.

Barry

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian F. G. Bidulock [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:59 AM
To: Barry Nagelberg
Cc: SIGTRAN Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Sigtran] SIGTRAN Plugtest Day 3


Barry,

What problem results from not resending ASP Active?

--brian

Barry Nagelberg wrote:                    (Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:16:21)
> Greetings from Moscow! Here is the wrap-up report for Day 3 of the SIGTRAN
> Plugtest.
>
> Protocols tested:
> M2PA - 5 implementations
> M3UA - 6 implementations
> M2UA - 2 implementations
> SUA  - 2 implementations
>
> There was one issue raised at the Day 3 wrap-up:
>
> Some ASP implementations are not resending the ASP-Active msg, after not
> receiving the ASP-Active-Ack from the SGP. This behaviour is of course
> allowed by RFC 4666. The RFC states that:
>
> <snip>
> "If the ASP does not receive a response to an ASP Active message
> within T(ack), the ASP MAY restart T(ack) and resend ASP Active
> messages until it receives an ASP Active Ack message."
> <snip>
>
> However the consensus within the group is that such behaviour is not very
> logical, and that it would be helpful if the "MAY"
> in the text above would be replaced with "SHOULD".
>
> Barry Nagelberg
>
>
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