[Dime] Mirja Kühlewind's Discuss on draft-ietf-dime-drmp-05: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

["Mirja Kuehlewind" <[e-mail]>]

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DISCUSS:
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I fully agree with all discuss comments made by Ben and Alissa. However,
the summary here might be that this information might simply be not very
useful for the uses cases described. And there might be other mechanisms
that do not require any trust and that can address the uses cases easier
and more appropriate such a simply prioritization of a certain
application in the request handler/request agent or relative priorities
within one application (on sent-out). 

However, the one part that does actually concern me is:
"When using DRMP priority information, Diameter nodes MUST use the
   default priority for transactions that do not have priority specified
   in a DRMP AVP."
This part seems dangerous and I would proposed to instead basically have
to different queues: one if a priority is defined and another one for
requests without priority indication to make sure that requests out of
the second queue will be served at some point in time and cannot be
starved by other low priority requests completely.


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COMMENT:
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Why do you need 15 different priority levels? Wouldn't be two enough for
all or your use cases?