[Nsi-wg] Message Delivery Layer

[Henrik Thostrup Jensen]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:

> The problem that I am trying to solve is the situation where the client 
> is possibly behind a firewall/NAT/whatever, where the client is the only 
> one capable of setting up a bidirectional TCP session.
[snip]
>
> In my opinion the simplest way to solve that is indeed to make the 
> callback optional and allow clients to poll for updates. The 
> reserveConfirmed may or may not be sent. But getting it failed to 
> deliver would not trigger a fault.

Well, NSAs should already handle that (NSAs may be unavailable). Sure 
there will be some log entries. Clients can already poll, so I don't see 
how this would require any protocol changes.


     Best regards, Henrik

  Henrik Thostrup Jensen <htj at nordu.net>
  Software Developer, NORDUnet