Re: Regarding hostname/ip address based routing in SUA

Ashish,

Hostname/IP address in SUA is broken and underspecified.  Further
it attempts to extend SCCP which is outside the scope of the RFC.
I fully expect it to fall out of use.

--brian

Ashish Gupta wrote:                          (Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:55:35)
> 
>    Hi,
> 
> 
> 
>    I  have two questions regarding the hostname/ip address based routing
>    in SUA, about which the RFC doesn't talk about.
> 
> 
>    Q 1) I believe that hostname/ip address  based routing will be of use
>    in the All-IP network, i.e. IPSP-IPSP mode of communication. Hence,
>    the SSNM messages generated by SUA layer in this scenario will be the
>    result of the invocation of the N-STATE primitive only (having
>    affected hostname/ip address  and SSN). Unlike, the SG-ASP mode of
>    communication where the SSNM messages will also be generated as a
>    result of invocation of the N-PCSTATE primitives. Please clarify if my
>    understanding is correct.
> 
> 
>    Q2)Inline with the previous question, since hostname/ip address based
>    routing will be used by SUA-USER in only ALL IP domain, so what, if at
>    all, would be the usage of network appearance in this scenario. As
>    network appearance parameter has the primary importance of identifying
>    the point code format in the SS7 interworking domain. I believe that
>    SUA can refrain from using network appearance parameter in this
>    scenario. Please clarify if my understand is correct.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>    Thanks,
> 
>    Ashish

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