Subject: [AAA-WG]: Issue 261: Peer discovery mechanism requirements CLOSED

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:45:52 +0200

Hi all,

Text accepted & modified accordingly.

John

Issue 261: Peer discovery mechanism requirements 
Submitter email address: [email-masked] 
Date first submitted: 02-Jan-02 
Reference: 
Document: Base 08 
Comment type: Technical 
Priority: S 
Section: 5.2 
Rationale/Explanation of issue: 
Current text does not clearly enough specify 
which peer discovery mechanisms are mandatory 
and which are not. 

There's two approaches to handling this issue. 
One, (apparently the current approach) we stay 
clear of using MUST/SHOULD/MAY in section 5.2 
and therefore all of the text falls to Informative, 
and nothing is really mandated. 

The second approach is that we explicitly state 
what DIAMETER nodes MUST/SHOULD/MAY be capable of 
in this area. I favor the latter approach. 

Proposed change: 

Indicate in the list under 5.2 that the first 
option (manual configuration) MUST be supported 
by all DIAMETER nodes, while the latter two options 
(SRVLOC and DNS SRV records) MAY be supported.