Re: [M3UA] NA validation

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:43:47 -0600

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Santhana,

Santhana wrote:                                                   (Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:49:47)
>    Hi
> 
>                When the Network Appearance, is found invalid the RFC
>    suggests that the SGP should send an ERROR(INVALID_NETWORK_APPEARANCE)
>    message.
> 
> 
>    Based on this, it leads to some confusion
> 
>    1)       Can SGP also include NA in messages sent to ASP. Or only the
>    ASP should include NA in the messages sent to SGP ?

Read RFC 4666/3.3.1.

>    2)       If the ASP finds invalid NA, can it also send the above
>    ERROR(INVALID_ NETWORK_APPEARANCE) message ?

Why not?

>    Also when Network Appearance is invalid, what should be the treatment
>    for the offending message. Should it be discarded or can it be
>    processed(if an implementation can process it without NA) ?

Your choice.

--brian

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