Hi, 
 
>>>>>No. For subscribe/notify interaction, it is trivial: 
>>>>>whomever issues the subscribe gets the notify. Easy for 
>>>>>the stack to figure out.  For INFO
>>>>>interaction, everything goes to call control. That works if your 
>>>>>model is pure softswitch/feature server, but not many folks are 
>>>>>doing that anymore.
>>>>Assume two applications are interested of the same event, so they 
>>>>both subscribe to it. Now, how does the SENDER know to which 
>>>>subscription to use for a specific application?
>>>Is this a trick question? Or don't I understand you?
>>>
>>>If two applications have concurrent and identical subscriptions for 
>>>the same event then they should both receive equivalent 
>>>notifications.
>> 
>>Yes, and that means that both applications will receive the event, 
>>even if the sender only intended to send the event to one of the 
>>applications.
>> 
>>So, in that case: if the same information is sent in an INFO, the 
>>receiver will provide it to both application that has indicated to the

>>stack that they want that type of information to be dispatched to
them.
> 
>I have lost my way in this conversation.
> 
>In the context of sub/not when we talk about multiple 
>applications being interested in the same event, they are 
>typically not resident in the same UA. 
>
>For instance for DTMF we may have a pre-paid application acting as a
B2BUA and an 
>IVR at the far end that also wants to interact with the caller.

Then the B2BUA has to be designed in a way so things works. It can
choose to collect the pre-paid DTMFs before contacting the IVR, or
something else. It's not up to us to design those B2BUAs.  
 
>You are talking about two applications resident in the same 
>UA. That is usually outside the scope of our discussions.

I would hope so, but I think Eric brought this case up at one point.

>In general the source if the info (the notifier or sender of 
>INFO) won't know where it wants to send the info, or that 
>there might be multiple consumers of it. In the case of 
>sub/not it is told this by SUBSCRIBEs. 
>In the case of INFO there really isn't any point in it 
>knowing if there are multiple consumers, since that won't 
>alter its behavior.

Fine, so it's not a problem then.

Regards,

Christer



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