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Why do we require Capabilities Update Procedure (DIAMETER) ?

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What is the sense of giving Capabilities Update Procedure described in new RFC-6737.

posted Apr 25, 2014 by Atif

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Before Capabilities Update Procedure (CUR/CUA) there was only CER/CEA.
When we are starting a connection CER/CEA exchange will happen.

After that if the application has upgraded/updated then to made the changes to other Peers we must bring down the application and again CER/CEA will happen.

We have to restart the connection so obvious the outage will be there for some time (restarting time).

In similar way When we want to upgrade/update the application in open state this CUR/CUA will be required to prevent those outage time. With these the upgradation will be easy.

This is the main reason for CUR/CUA procedures.

answer Apr 28, 2014 by Hiteshwar Thakur
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