Re: [MEDIACTRL] msc-mixer: Discriminating between a non-existing connectionid and a non-existing conferenceid in <join>

[Lorenzo Miniero <lorenzo at meetecho.com>]

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:31:42 -0700
Jean-Francois Bertrand <jeffy at broadsoft.com> wrote:

> Section 4.2.2.2. of http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mediactrl-mixer-control-package-07  specifies that:
> 
>   "If id1 or id2 specify a conference identifier and the conference does
>    not exist on the MS, the MS reports an error (406).  If id1 or id2
>    specify a connection identifier and the connection does not exist on
>    the MS, the MS reports an error (412)."
> 
> While there are well-defined rules on how to create a connectionid, the conferenceid is basically free-form.
> 
> How can one distinguishes between an non-existing conferenceid and non-existing connectionid in a <join> request?
> 
> thanks
> 
> /Jean-François Bertrand
> Software Engineer
> Broadsoft
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I guess that, so long as you make sure the ':' is never used when you
build a conferenceid, you can use that token to differentiate
between them. In our implementation, only alphanumeric characters are
used to build conferenceid identifiers, so that works.

L.


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Lorenzo Miniero <lorenzo at meetecho.com>