Subject: Re: [Sigtran] M2PA:Questions on sequence number

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:36:20 +0530

Hi Brian/Tom,

Adding a Ack Message on the DATA stream seems to be the right approach.
The FSN/BSN in Link Status messages only cause confusion as to when they should
be discarded and when used.
Can the FSN/BSN in Link Status messages please be removed?

Regards
Anshoo.
www.hssworld.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email-masked]>
To: "Tom George" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 4:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Sigtran] M2PA:Questions on sequence number

> Tom,
>
> A separate ACK message (or message with no data payload) would
> solve that.
>
> --brian
>
> Tom George wrote:
                                                                      (Mon, 26
Aug 2002 17:32:28)
> > What if M2PA has to ack a message, but has not User Data to send? I had
> > dealt with that by having M2PA send a Link Status In Service message.
> >
> > "Brian F. G. Bidulock" wrote:
> > >
> > > Tom,
> > >
> > > I never considered acks on the status stream: is there any reason
> > > to allow acks on status stream at all?  IMO acks SHOULD only be
> > > sent on the data stream.
> > >
> > > --brian
> >
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