Re: [Atoca] Requirement D2: "Large Audience"

"Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com> Sun, 16 January 2011 23:12 UTC

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From: "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com>
To: Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net>, Art Botterell <artbotterell@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:15:04 +0800
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On Jan 15, 2011, at 11:58 PM, Art Botterell wrote:
> One difference in "broadcast" delivery is that it's frequntly
> impractical and/or undesirable to try to track individual deliveries or
> process individual responses.

If SIP is our delivery mechanism, can anything be done to suppress 200 responses to NOTIFY requests?  Is there any point if we're using acknowledged transport like TCP?  Is there a concern that unacknowledged packets (UDP) will get dropped?

The potential to create congestion worries me.

--Martin