Re: [Dime] RFC 3588 (Diameter Base Protocol) - Section 2.1.1. SCTP Guidelines

[Victor Pascual Avila <[e-mail]>]

Any opinions? Is the below worth to be clarified in 3588bis?

Thanks,
-Victor

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Victor Pascual Avila
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Apologies in case this is not the appropriate list for the question
> below-- I'd appreciate pointers to any other list.
>
> RFC 3588 - Section  2.1.1 (SCTP Guidelines) states the following: "To
> prevent blocking: All Diameter nodes SHOULD utilize all SCTP streams
> available to the association to prevent head-of-the-line blocking."
> While RFC 3539 - Section 3.8.1 (Using SCTP Streams to Prevent Head of
> Line Blocking) also addresses multi-streaming, it's not clear to me
> whether:
>
> a) Diameter transactions need to be mapped into SCTP streams (ie; send
> Diameter messages belonging to the same transaction over the same SCTP
> stream and messages belonging to different transactions over different
> SCTP streams-- as long as there are enough available streams)
> b) Ordered vs unordered delivery: for the above mechanism, I
> understand TLS would require ordered delivery. When TLS is not used
> (say, IPSec is used instead), do we really need ordered delivery?
>
> Thanks in advance for any clarification,
> --
> Victor Pascual Ávila
>



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Victor Pascual Ávila