Subject: [Simple] Possible IM Message solution??

From: a c <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:42:33 -0700 (PDT)

hello Radhika,

>(I hope that you are NOT proposing routing of media
via network layer devices like routers.)

no. This is an application server which processes 
IM messages and routes them to their endpoints. 
It cannot be used for voice due to the realtime
constraints. But it can definetly be used for 
IM traffic. It can do much more than  just 
passing traffic. For example : language 
translation,  calea, etc..

The only requirement is that it talks to 
the proxy. The proxy can instruct the 
application server to implement a certain feature 
per call. 

other advantages:

- drastically cuts down on header tags (no header 
  tags. Why do we need them when signalling 
  is taking care of it). 
- If no headers in the message, then it is easier 
  to convert to other protocols (e.g. cpim). No 
  parsing of headers for each message
- congestion control (app server initiated 
  congestion control)
- capability to do end to end or thru server

Addresses Brian Rosen's 4 variables:

        Direct UA-to-UA routing - can do both
        TCP transport - / udp
        SIP Headers - not necessary
        cpim Body - no problem

alex

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