RE: draft-ietf-mmusic-sip-session-timer-00.txt

"Donovan, Steven R. (MCI)" <Steven.R.Donovan@mci.com> Tue, 16 February 1999 15:00 UTC

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From: "Donovan, Steven R. (MCI)" <Steven.R.Donovan@mci.com>
To: 'Douglas Clowes' <dclowes@ozemail.com.au>, Francois Menard Distribution List Management Account <fm-listproc@mediatrix.com>, "'confctrl@ISI.EDU'" <confctrl@ISI.EDU>
Subject: RE: draft-ietf-mmusic-sip-session-timer-00.txt
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 07:40:07 -0700
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	...<snip>

> IRR is being used in H.323 to determine if the endpoint is still alive,
> but
> the preference seems to be heading toward gatekeeper routed calls. Here,
> you have a TCP connection through the gatekeeper for session control, but
> media still goes direct.
> 
	Doesn't this have some real scaling and performance problems?  I
assume that this requires setting up a TCP connection per call attempt and
limits the number of sessions that a single gatekeeper can handle to the
number of simultaneous TCP connections that the gatekeeper can handle.

> >-=Francois=-
> >fmenard@mediatrix.com
> >
> 
> Douglas