Technical Summary
When making routing and resource allocation decisions, Diameter nodes
currently have no generic mechanism to determine the relative
priority of Diameter messages. This document addresses this by
defining a mechanism to allow Diameter endpoints to indicate the
relative priority of Diameter transactions. With this information
Diameter nodes can factor that priority into routing, resource
allocation and overload abatement decisions.
Working Group Summary
The document received a large support for adoption when
initiated and it has been reviewed multiple times, with
detailed comments and corrections. The version -03 addresses
the last comments received after the WGLC process. There
is a strong WG consensus on the content of this document,
with a broad range of people, including key experts.
Document Quality
The proposed solution has not been implemented yet,
as vendors are waiting for IANA AVP code value
assignment before implementing. However, no issues
are expected with implementation. Moreover, the solution
defined in this document have been already introduced
in standard specifications defined by 3GPP. It is therefore
understood that the vendors implementing 3GPP
specifications will implement this mechanism.
Personnel
The document shepherd is Lionel Morand.
Stephen Farrell is being AD-like for this.