Re: [Sip] draft-ietf-sip-outbound

[Dean Willis <dean.willis at softarmor.com>]

On May 10, 2008, at 7:49 AM, Juha Heinanen wrote:

> Dean Willis writes:
>
>> Earlier, you were apparently arguing that having only one proxy
>> configured should be a violation of the spec, and that Outbound is
>> useless because it does not require a UA to register with multiple
>> proxies. Now you're saying that this would be perfectly fine.
>
> i said that UA MUST register with EVERY proxy in its set.  if there is
> only one in the set, then it is fine too.
>
>> Are you saying that the configuration mechanism should have an
>> indicator to tell a configured UA which or how many proxies it should
>> bind to, out of a larger set of available proxies that it can choose
>> from?
>
> no, see above.
>

So if, for example, there are 32 SRV records in the DNS for the proxy,  
then the UA would register with every one of them? While that might  
work, it also might be overkill for environments that have some state  
awareness in their proxies.

--
Dean
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