RE: [Dime] Review of draft-tsou-dime-base-routing-ext-03.txt

"Glen Zorn" <glenzorn@comcast.net> Tue, 11 December 2007 08:00 UTC

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Subject: RE: [Dime] Review of draft-tsou-dime-base-routing-ext-03.txt
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:58:02 -0800
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> I am not sure why there is a requirement for subsequent 
> session oriented message to traverse the same intermediary 
> hops which the initial message has traversed. 

What if some of the intermediates are stateful and e.g.
collect charging data by tracking the user session?

[gwz] 
I must admit that I cannot think of a single (real-life) scenario where this
kind of thing would be desirable (let alone required).  Would you mind
describing one in detail?
[/gwz]
 
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