Multiple aliases in ARQ destinationInfo

[Paul Long]

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Jim Toga [SMTP:jim.toga at INTEL.COM]
                Sent:   Friday, January 22, 1999 9:46 AM
                To:     ITU-SG16 at mailbag.cps.intel.com
                Subject:        Re: Multiple aliases in ARQ destinationInfo

                With respect to 'errror' conditions or inconsistencies on the
GK database
                when doing look-ups, it seems as though that would really be a
policy
                issue.  The usual behaviour of 'least astonishment' should be
the default.

                Comments?

I agree that it should be a policy issue. An administrator might not want to
delay the call setup by having to look up all aliases in its registration
database before responding to an ARQ. I know that one GK vendor I spoke to at
the interop had this concern. Plus, what's the danger in not having all
aliases resolve to the same transport address? The caller gets a wrong number?
Not like that hasn't happened before. I still like good old #4.

Paul Long
Smith Micro Software, Inc.