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Diameter: When does an AVP consider with its mandatory presence within a Diameter message ?

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Diameter: When does an AVP consider with its mandatory presence within a Diameter message ?
posted Mar 25, 2016 by Vikram Singh

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I don't have depth knowledge in Diameter but If I understood your question then find my response a below:
- When a AVP is defined, it may be defined as a mandatory, vendor-specific. If it is defined as mandatory, in that case Diameter Agent such as proxy server should know about the AVP. If it is an optional then there is no need to know about the AVP at Diameter Agents.
- Your other question is when a particular AVP considered as mandatory and when as an optional. It is totally depends on the application requirement. An AVP that is taken as a mandatory AVP for a application, it can be considered as an optional AVP for other application.

answer Mar 26, 2016 by Harshita
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