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M3UA/SIGTRAN: Optional RC configured on one side and not the other

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Assume you have the conditions (one AS, etc.) to allow RC to be optional, does the RFC permit one side (IPSP SE mode for example) to still send an RC and the other to not include an RC? I think the answer is yes, but I can't find an explicit reference permitting it.

posted Nov 18, 2013 by Ahmed Patel

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Nothing forbidding it either. Whether RC is included or not could even vary on a message-by-message basis from either ASP.

answer Nov 19, 2013 by Kumar Mitrasen
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