How does the UAC cancelling the request help.

Surely all we end up with is the CANCEL request desperatly trying to
catch up with all the propagated INVITE requests. I see nothing in the
transaction model that helps it catch up, and I suspect (based on
experience in non-SIP systems) that it never will in most people's
implementations. It will always be pretty much the same number of steps
behind.

Regards

Keith 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale Worley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 4:01 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Sip] Two minor Max-Breadth comments
> 
>    From: Adam Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
>    During today's meeting, a point was raised surrounding whether the 
>    max-breadth approach should limit the total number of 
> requests or merely 
>    the number of requests in flight at once. The statement is 
> that limiting 
>    only the ones in flight simultaneously ultimately results 
> in the same 
>    number of messages as would result without the extension.
> 
>    While there has been a token mention of Timer C, I think we're 
>    underestimating the mitigating effect of Timer C.
> 
>    As an additional point, I think it's worth pointing out 
> that the victim, 
>    if they recognize they are being subjected to this style 
> of attack, can 
>    tear the entire tree down fairly rapidly by throwing a 
> 600-class response.
> 
> Also, the UAC, if it is not perverse, will ultimately cancel 
> the request.
> 
> Dale
> 
> 
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