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Re: [Ecrit] Related services

Subject: Re: [Ecrit] Related services
From: Andrew Newton
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:54:29 -0400
Henning Schulzrinne wrote:
The server-based approach has the advantage that the server may have a better idea what's available, avoiding having to client to try a bunch of things. (The discovery mechanism addresses that problem to some extent.)

The server based approach is more time and network efficient. I hope those are important attributes for emergency use cases.

The problem with the server-based approach is that it starts to get messy if the alternative, second-best answer is a list, not a single answer. Suddenly, the protocol has to support providing a possibly lengthy list of services that are all potential substitutes.

What is suppose to happen with a list of services on the user end? I want sos.fire and I get back a list of sos.utility, sos.scuba-accidents, and sos.crazy-persons? What am I suppose to do with those?

-andy


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