LAAP performance issues

["Andy Dowling" <andy.dowling@xxxxxx>]

Hi Stephen, David

some suggestions on LAAP performance:

1. Batch LAAP requests. Perhaps the LAAPRequestMessage could be replaced
with
    a SEQUENCE of LAAPRequestMessage, so that a LRQ could request multiple
ACs
    with a single LAAP request? (The LRP would evaluate each
LAAPRequestMessage
    in the SEQUENCE individually). This could result in a saving of network
bandwidth in
    cases where a large volume of ACs is to be pulled over LAAP.

2.  Support for a "keep-alive" TCP connection between LRQ and LRP.
     One problem with this is that, at the socket layer, some LRP
implementations may
     timeout the socket after a couple of minutes of inactivity. Perhaps the
use of a "null"
     LAAP request could be used in order for the LRQ to force the connection
to stay
     alive at the socket layer. This seems like a strange idea, 'cos if the
LRP supports
     keep-alives then the LRP will set the to infinite lifetime anyway.
Nonetheless, comments
     on this would be appreciated....

Thanks,

Andy

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