[Nsi-wg] Another NSI protocol requirement

[Jerry Sobieski]

Hi Gigi

Makes perfect sense!  I thought we had this already in one of the reqs.

Issue:  the provider must always respond back. There is no "initial'  
NSA-NSA always thinks he is first/only NSA working on this request.

J

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 14, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Gigi Karmous-Edwards <gigi_ke at ncsu.edu>  
wrote:

> All,
>
> As I mentioned on the call last week, I think we need another NSI  
> protocol requirement as following:
>
> The provider agent involved in the initial NSI request from an NSI  
> requesting agent  (in these cases, the requester agent acts as an  
> end user or application), must take on the responsibility of  
> replying back to the end user the result of the request. That is  
> either a failure or success with the correct pointers or Global  
> Identifiers. This needs to be true regardless of weather the initial  
> provider agent uses chain or tree model to reserve a path.
>
> This requirement will have implications on the intermediate  
> messaging that take place between the requesting agents and provider  
> agents along the path. I can also imagine that the messaging to  
> uphold this requirement will be different for tree vs chain.
>
> I hope this makes sense...
>
> Kind regards,
> Gigi
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