Subject: what is an mId

From: James Adragna <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 19:20:20 -0500

can someone please clarify...

is an mId merely an opaque string used
to uniquely identify an MG or MGC
or must it be something that an address
can be determined from?

the interop profile had us using mIds
such as "GATEWAY0" and "CONTROLLER0",
so the answer seems to be that they are
just opaque identifiers.

if this is true, how does an MG learn the 
address of an MGC that it is redirected to
by a ServiceChangeMgcId parameter?

seems the only way to know the address of
"CONTROLLER0" is by provisioning it, but
if it's already in the provisioned list
of MGCs then the MG would have tried it
eventually anyway.

Thanks -