Re: M3UA notify following ASP-up-ack

> yes, it should, provided this ASP Up Ack message follows the ASP
transition 
> from ASP-Down to ASP-Inactive, see Section 4.3.4.5 of RFC 4666:
> 
> "When an ASP moves from ASP-DOWN to ASP-INACTIVE within a particular
AS, a 
> Notify message SHOULD be sent, by the ASP-UP receptor, after sending
the 
> ASP-UP-ACK, in order to inform the ASP of the current AS state."

That doesn't explain the presence of the 2nd (and 3rd)
NOTIFY(AS-INACTIVE)
in sections 5.1.3 (and 5.1.4).

There is also the presumable assumption that they would be replaced
by NOTIFY(AS-ACTIVE) if the AS is already active.

If a NOTIFY() isn't generated followning every ASP-UP-ACK [1] then
with slight reordering of the requests the example in 5.1.4 leaves
the latter connections no idea of the actual AS state and whether
they should be sending traffic.

We don't send traffic until we've received an explicit indication
of AS-ACTIVE. But on a loadshare config the latter connections
aren't receiving the indication.

	David

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