Bug 6844 - Universal Alcatel Protocol - Reloaded - Review for check-in requested

["RUOFF, LARS (LARS)** CTR **" <lars.ruoff () alcatel-lucent com>]

Hi,
 
i've been maintaining an inhouse dissector for Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise's Universal Alcatel (UA) protocol and 
sub-protocols for many years now.
To my regret, this protocol suite used to be classified and i didn't get the authorization for releasing it to the 
Wireshark tree as open source.
 
Therefore, it is with much surprise that i realized that Marek Tews has committed a UA dissector to the trunk last year.
Upon quick inspection of the code, i cannot directly link it to any previous version of our private trunk, so i guess 
Marek developed this on his own. (Maybe you can confirm, Marek?).
 
Now it happens that this gave me some new arguments to deal with my management and the good news is that Alcatel-Lucent 
Enterprise has agreed to submit all available source code of our in-house UA- and subprotocol-dissectors to the 
Wireshark source tree.
 
This is interesting because from what i see the current dissector lacks a lot of functionality compared to our inhouse 
plug-in which features support for the latest protocol specifiaction, more detailed dissection and filtering 
possibilities on subprotocols, RTP stream setup, NOE over SIP, etc., to name just a few.
 
Thus i am submitting our complete sources for complete replacement of the existing dissector:
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6844 
The dissector has been tested by a large user base over several years during inhouse use as a plugin.
It has not been fuzz-tested though.
 
Naturally, i'd be very happy if the dissector would be accepted before release of WS 1.8.0.
 
Thank you,
best regards,
Lars Ruoff
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