Re: [Insipid] draft-ietf-insipid-session-id-14: comments and questions

"Paul Giralt (pgiralt)" <pgiralt@cisco.com> Tue, 05 January 2016 22:22 UTC

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From: "Paul Giralt (pgiralt)" <pgiralt@cisco.com>
To: Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Insipid] draft-ietf-insipid-session-id-14: comments and questions
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I don’t think it’s all doom and gloom. I think in the majority of cases the Session-ID will be consistent end-to-end. It is these corner case error conditions that lead to ambiguity as to the right thing to do which is why I’d prefer expected behavior be documented as clearly as possible, even if it may knowingly result in a situation where all devices don’t necessarily agree on the Session-ID for some period of time in the call. I think there will still be enough information in the message exchange that any post-processing tools being used to diagnose a problem will have enough information to correlate calls even in such scenarios.

-Paul


> On Jan 5, 2016, at 2:51 PM, Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> This discussion is reinforcing my belief that this mechanism is a mess - that the chance is slim to none of getting consistent results in all the connected devices.
>