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What is the need of routing context in M3UA

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Going thought the RFC 3332 and have a doubt about RC, in M3UA we have a concept of routing context to identify an AS but same can be achieve by the routing Key (it seems) then what the purpose RC is serving.

posted Aug 7, 2013 by Deepak Dasgupta

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The RK can be made up of a combination of fields, and would be expensive to parse with each message requiring it. The RC serves as a single value representing the RK - this single value is easier to parse and interpret under load.

You could think of this relationship in the way one often has an integer primary key in a database (equivalent to the RC) representing a compound unique business key (the RK).

answer Aug 18, 2013 by anonymous
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RC is a numerical index that identifies a routing key. See RFC 4666/1.4.2.1 Page 14.

answer Aug 18, 2013 by anonymous
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