RE: [Dime] Limited flexibility with NAPTR queries

["Asveren, Tolga" <tasveren at sonusnet.com>]

After having a quick look to the meeting minutes I saw that this issue
was touched as well. So, does anybody have some proposal or are we going
to rely on SLP?

    Thanks,
    Tolga
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor Fajardo [mailto:vfajardo at tari.toshiba.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 11:33 AM
> To: Asveren, Tolga
> Cc: dime at ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [Dime] Limited flexibility with NAPTR queries
> 
> Hi Tolga,
> 
> > Something, which is bothering me recently is the limited flexibility
> when using NAPTR service fields to locate Diameter servers. The
current
> values placed in the registry allow to find *a* Diameter server in a
given
> domain. It doesn't help much if one is looking for a server for a
specific
> application in a given domain. This could work in environments where
each
> domain (or better said each domain which envisions use of DNS to
locate
> its servers) has a relay/redirect as the main contact point.
> >
> >
> > My initial thoughts are:
> > a) We can have registry entries for each Diameter application (could
be
> hard to manage ?)
> > b) We can explain in the bis document that NAPTR query should
resolve to
> a relay/redirect for the domain, if the domain supports more than one
> Diameter application.
> >
> 
> I would prefer option (b) for simplicity though I'm concerned about
> explain deployment considerations such as these in the base spec. It
may
> open up the door for adding many more possible deployment scenarios
> within the base spec. It maybe possible to add this in the guidelines
> doc but I'm sure.
> 
> regards,
> victor
> 
> regards,
> victor
> 
> 
> > Or am I missing something?
> >
> >    Thanks,
> >    Tolga
> >
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