Re: [Dime] draft-ietf-dime-diameter-api in AD-Follow-Up

["Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <dromasca at avaya.com>]

Thank you, Sebastien. 

Other opinions? 

Dan
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastien Decugis [mailto:sdecugis at nict.go.jp] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:34 AM
> To: Romascanu, Dan (Dan)
> Cc: dime at ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [Dime] draft-ietf-dime-diameter-api in AD-Follow-Up
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > I would like to get feedback from the authors and the WG. Is the 
> > document useful? If yes, for what? Who will use it? Do today's 
> > implementations and deployments follow the API that this document 
> > describes?
> >   
> As far as I am concerned, I don't follow this API in my 
> implementation.
> I studied the API when I started this work and came to the 
> conclusion that it is not appropriate for general-purpose 
> implementations (not easy to implement agents functions for 
> example). Anyway, people with different requirements might 
> find it useful for other situations. I personally believe 
> that this API can only be used for "simple"
> client-sides of applications, but I may be mistaken.
> 
> Best regards,
> Sebastien.
> 
> --
> Sebastien Decugis
> Research fellow
> Network Architecture Group
> NICT (nict.go.jp)
> 
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