Re: SCON received a­t ASP from one of SGs

Mikhail Plotkin <[email protected]> Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:10:41 +0400
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sigtran
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Sorry for the previous mail, there was something with the format.

> Hi All,
> Hope to get a piece of advise regarding interpretation of sections 1.3.2 and 4.5.2.2 of RFC4666.
> 
> ASP has
> routes to SS7 destination point through several SGs.
> 
> 1 . If ASP gets SCON from one of SGs should it immediately send congestion indication
> to the user or should we send report to the user if and only if SCON received from both SGs? RFC says that ASP "determines whether or
>    not the overall availability or congestion status of the affected
>    destination(s) has changed". Does it mean ASP should set for the destination the minimum congestion status among all SGs or the maximum congestion status among all SGs ?
> 
> 2. In the
> same configuration. If we get SCON from one SG should we try to redistribute
> the part of traffic from the congested route, that leads to congestion, to the other routes  through which this destination is accessible?
> 
> If yes,
> what measures can be taken to diminish possible negative side effects of such
> redistribution? By the way, RFC recommends to handle it "much like an MTP3 layer
>    maintains route-set status", but ITU-T Q.704 does not say anything about rerouting caused by congestion in one of the routes.
> 
> (Similar questions have been discussed here before, but those were for several ASPs and a single SG)

Regards, Mikhail.

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