I think that outbound in written in a way that High-availability could be added on top of it without requiring new changes on the clients. So one could improve the servers and get HA without requiring new changes on the UAs that support outbound.
You are welcome to make proposals on high-availability if you want. > -----Original Message----- > From: Juha Heinanen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 09:28 > To: Audet, Francois (SC100:3055) > Cc: Jiri Kuthan; [email protected]; Christer Holmberg > Subject: RE: [Sip] Draft: draft-holmberg-sip-keep-00.txt > > Francois Audet writes: > > > However, getting the CRLF back tells the UA that the proxy > is alive. > > yes, and if it gets one CRLF back, it can turn on the detection mode. > there is no need to introduce yet another sip protocol level > feature for that purpose. > > > Remember that outbound can be used for high-availability. > The UA can use this > to switch to a backup proxy. > > i would have very much liked that outbound would have > supported high availability. unfortunately, features that > would support ha are not mandatory in outbound draft, which > means that proxies cannot rely on them. this is the biggest > reason why outbound is useless. > > -- juha > _______________________________________________ Sip mailing list https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sip This list is for NEW development of the core SIP Protocol Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for questions on current sip Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for new developments on the application of sip
