On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 16:13 +0800, Leslie, Qi Wang (qiwa) wrote:
> In Internet-Draft, SCTP as a Transport for SIP,
> draft-ietf-sip-sctp-06.txt, there is a paragraph,
>    "SIP transactions need to be mapped into SCTP streams in a way that
>    avoids Head Of the Line (HOL) blocking.  Among all the different ways
>    of performing this mapping that fulfil this requirement, we have
>    chosen the simplest one; a SIP entity SHOULD send every SIP message
>    (request or response) over stream zero with the unordered flag set.
>    On the receiving side, a SIP entity MUST be ready to receive SIP
>    messages over any stream."
> 
> Does anyone know why the draft requires "a SIP entity SHOULD send every
> SIP message  (request or response) over stream zero with the unordered
> flag set."?

"Among all the different ways of performing this mapping that fulfil
[sic] this requirement, we have chosen the simplest one"

> My understanding is we should set one SIP call into one SCTP
> stream. If the number of SIP calls is more than the number of streams in
> the SCTP, multiple calls can be in one stream with unorded flag set. So
> I don't understand why there is such a requirement in the draft.

Would your suggested scheme be simpler or more complicated?  Would it
provide additional functionality?

Dale


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