ECRIT J. Winterbottom
Internet-Draft M. Thomson
Intended status: BCP Andrew Corporation
Expires: April 29, 2010 H. Tschofenig
Nokia Siemens Networks
H. Schulzrinne
Columbia University
October 26, 2009
ECRIT Direct Emergency Calling
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Abstract
The specified IETF emergency services architecture puts a strong
emphasis on emergency call and emergency messaging via the Voice
Service Provider (VSP) / Application Service Provider (ASP). There
are two reasons for this design decision: The call routing via the
VSP/ASP is more natural as it follows the standard communication
pattern and transition deployments assume non-updated end hosts.
As the deployment of the Location-to-Service Translation protocol
progresses there are possibilities for upgraded end devices to
directly communicate with the IP-based emergency services network
without the need to interact with a VSP/ASP, which simplifies the
task of regulators as the involved parties are within the same
jurisdiction.
This memo describes the procedures and operations of a generic
emergency calling client utilizing the available building blocks.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3. The Jurisdictional Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4. ESRP Route Determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5. Emergency Client Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6. Emergency Client Call Intitiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7. Call Termination Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
8. SIP Feature Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
9. Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
9.1. Test Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
9.2. Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
10. PSAP Callback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
11. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
12. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
13. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
14. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
14.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
14.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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1. Introduction
The description of the IETF emergency services architecture, found in
[I-D.ietf-ecrit-phonebcp] and in [I-D.ietf-ecrit-framework], focuses
on devices where emergency calls are routed primarily through the
subscriber's home VSP and the direct signaling communication between
the end host and the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) that
contains the IP-based PSAP is only an exception. This is a
convenient assumption if one considers the regular communication
patterns of the device and the potential proprietary protocol
implementations used between the end host and the VSP and the ability
to move the interoperability challenges away from the end device and
closer to VSPs. There are, however, challenges for regulators to
enforce emergency services functionality when the VSP is located in a
different jurisdiction. Inclusion of a VSP introduces unnecessary
elements into the emergency call path making the overall solution
more cumbersome.
With the help of the Location-to-Service Translation protocol a PSAP
URI is discovered that allows the end device to directly send SIP
communication requests towards the PSAP.
Note that the information returned by LoST may not necessarily be the
address of the PSAP itself but might rather be an entity that gets
the emergency call closer to the PSAP by returning the address of an
Emergency Services Routing Proxy (ESRP).
The intent of this client is that it will be able to use the
available ECRIT building blocks to allow any IP enabled device with
access to the Internet to make an emergency call without requiring
the signaling interaction with the VSP. In fact, there is no
assumption or requirement for a VSP subscription to exist. The
interacting entities are shown in Figure 1.
.... ....
,' ',' ',
; ;
+--------+ ; ; +------+
| Device |--->: ISP :----->| ESRP |
+--------+ ; ; +------+
`, ,', ,'
, , , ,
```` ````
Figure 1: Network Configuration
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Furthermore, a means for call-back in the event of a dropped call is
also described.
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2. Terminology
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
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3. The Jurisdictional Problem
The jurisdictional problem is illustrated with Figure 2 that
highlights that provided the data in the Location Information Server
(LIS) and the LoST server are correct, that the caller and the PSAP
are assured of being in the same regulatory jurisdiction. This is
important, because it shows that it is the access component of the
network and not the service component against which reguatory
obligations can be imposed with any hope of enforcement. Regulation
without the possibility of enforcement is challenging as there is
very little coordination between regulators world wide in this area,
consequently any emergency calling procedure should ensure that all
nodes against which the procedures apply fall within the same
regulatory boundary.
+-----+
| VSP |
| # |
+-----+
o-------------o----------------------o-------------o
/ \
/ +---------+ +--------+ \
/ | Access \ / ESINet \ \
o | Network \ / \ o
| + + + O + |
| / O | /
interaction to learn
about the available emergency services (potentially using the
serviceListBoundary extension defined in
[I-D.ietf-ecrit-lost-servicelistboundary]). The service options may
be presented to the emergency caller in a graphical fashion and once
a specific service is selected a LoST query would be initiated
(unless a cached mapping is available that makes this request
obsolete). The LoST query to obtain the ESRP URI for
the selected service is in this example initiated at the time the
emergency call setup is performed. It is recommended that ESRP
discovery occurs at call time.
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5. Emergency Client Registration
Emergency registration is only necessary when an emergency call
procedure is initiated. Immediately prior to making an emergency
call, the emergency client performs a SIP emergency registration with
the registrar in the ESRP, the ESRP-registrar. The emergency
registration is a SIP registration with specific options and headers
which are required in order to guard the emergency network and ensure
callback should it be required.
Each emergency client MUST provide an instance-id, as defined in
[I-D.ietf-sip-outbound], this allows the ESRP-registrar to generate a
GRUU [RFC5627] that can be used as a callback identifier. A GRUU is
necessary as the callback identifier because the emergency client
does not provide a longer-term contact address to the ESRP-registrar
prior to registration, and the GRUU provides a handle by which the
PSAP can identify the calling emergency client. To simplify the
emergency client and ESRP-registrar implementations, only public
GRUUs are provided by the ESRP-registrar. The public GRUU is
guaranteed to be the same for a device regardless of re-registration
with a different call-id, which may occur if the device unexpectedly
reboots. This is not true for temporary GRUUs, which makes temporary
GRUUs undesriable in the scope of this application space.
The PSAP is able to define and mandate the time over which callback
is possible. This needs to be a reasonable period of time, nominally
10s of minutes, as the device may well be transient with regards to
network attachment. The ESRP-registrar reflects the regulatory
callback period in the expiry value of emergency registration
responses. Emergency clients claiming compliance to this
specification MUST honour the value in the registration response from
the ESRP-registrar, up to a maximum of 60 minutes. An emergency
client SHOULD respect a registration expiry of longer than 60
minutes, but MAY terminate its registration with and ESRP-registrar
at 60 minutes if the expiry value provided by the ESRP-registrar was
longer.
In the event that a registration is lost by the emergency client
prior to reaching registration expiry then the emergency client MUST
re-register with the ESRP-registrar and SHOULD use the same call-id.
In this circumstance the ESRP-registrar SHOULD match the instance-id
and the call-id to recognize that it is a re-registration for a
dropped connection, and expiry time in the registration response
SHOULD be set to the time remaining when the original registration
occurred.
[I-D.ietf-sip-outbound] requires a device to support at least 2
registrations to different proxies. The emergency client
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requirements in this memo relax this requirement down to one
registration, but more than one is allowed. There are several
reasons for relaxing the connection redundancy requirement. Firstly,
ESRPs are expected to have inbuilt redundancy, so if a connection is
dropped due to a failed proxy in the ESRP, then a new connection or
registration will automatically be directed to an active proxy in the
ESRP cluster. If the connection dropped because of some other
failure along the path from the emergency client to the ESRP, then
multiple SIP registrations are unlikely to provide any measurable
reliability improvements since single points of failure in this path
are inherently likely. Secondly, re-registrations only occur
immediately prior to call placement, so any outbound failure will
also likely result in the call dropping. If this occurs then the
emergency client MUST re-register with the ESRP-registrar, and since
instance-id and public GRUU will remain unchanged as a result of
this, the emergency client can either receive a callback from the
PSAP, or it can initiate a new call to the emergency network.
Location information is critical to emergency calling. Providing
location information to the calling-entity with sufficient
granularity to allow ESRP route determination is crucial. Since this
must occur prior to the emergency client registering with the ESRP-
registrar, the emergency client must have access to a certain amount
of location information (and the amount varies depending on the
specific emergency services deployment architecture).
The device SHOULD include all the location information it has when
registering with the ERSP-registrar. Inclusion of location
information in SIP REGISTER messages is specified in
[I-D.ietf-sipcore-location-conveyance]. There are three possible
execution paths for the ESRP-registrar when receiving a REGISTER
message:
1. If the REGISTER message does not include location information the
ESRP-registrar MUST use HELD identity
[I-D.ietf-geopriv-held-identity-extensions] to obtain the
location of the device as both a location value and reference.
In order to contact the LIS the ESRP-registrar SHOULD determine
the LIS address using the mechanism described in
[I-D.thomson-geopriv-res-gw-lis-discovery]. The ESRP-registrar
MAY use other methods for LIS determination where available.
2. If the REGISTER message contains a location URI then the ESRP-
registrar MUST dereference it so that it has a location available
to route the impending emergency call. The ESRP-registrar MAY
validate the LIS address in the location URI with that of the LIS
serving the network from which the REGISTER message originated.
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3. The REGISTER message contains location information by value. Any
actions performed by the ESRP-registrar to valid this information
are specific to the jurisdiction in which the ESRP operates and
are out of the scope of this document.
Where location conveyance is used confidentiality protection SHOULD
be provided using Transport Layer Security (TLS).
Figure 3 show the registration message exchange graphically.
+--------+ +-----+ +------+ +------+
| Device | | LIS | | LoST | | ESRP |
+--------+ +-----+ +------+ +------+
| | | |
+<----LIS Discovery---->+ | |
| | | |
+----locationRequest--->+ | |
| | | |
+<---locationResponse---| | |
| | | |
+------------------findService------------->+ |
| | | |
+<--------------findServiceResponse---------+ |
| | | |
+------------------------REGISTER------------------------>+
| | | |
| +<------locationRequest-----------+
| | | |
| +-------locationResponse--------->+
| | | |
+<-------------------------200 OK ------------------------+
| | | |
Figure 3: Example Registration Message Flow
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REGISTER sip:sos.example.com SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/TCP 192.0.2.2;branch=z9hG4bKnashds7
Max-Forwards: 70
From: anon ;tag=7F94778B653B
To: anon
Call-ID: 16CB75F21C70
CSeq: 1 REGISTER
Geolocation:
;inserted-by="anon@192.0.2.2"
;routing-allowed=yes
Geolocation:
;inserted-by="anon@192.0.2.2"
;routing-allowed=no
Require: gruu, geolocation
Supported: outbound, gruu
Contact:
;+sip.instance=""
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=boundary1
Content-Length: ...
Figure 4: Sample REGISTER message
Since the emergency client does not have a domain, it MUST register
in the same domain as the ESRP. This is illustrated in the example
REGISTER message show in Figure 4.
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6. Emergency Client Call Intitiation
Immediately subsequent to the registration a SIP INVITE request is
sent to the ESRP in the following form:
1. The Request URI MUST be the service URN [RFC5031] in the "sos"
tree.
2. The To header MUST be a service URN in the "sos" tree.
3. The From header MUST be present and MUST be the public GRUU
returned from the registration with the ESRP-registrar.
4. A Route header MUST be present with an ESRP URI, obtained from
LoST.
5. A Contact header MUST be present and contain the public GRUU
[RFC5627], and be valid for several minutes following the
termination of the call, provided that the UAC remains registered
with the same registrar, to permit an immediate call-back to the
specific device which placed the emergency call.
6. A SDP offer MUST be included in the INVITE. If voice is
supported the offer MUST include the G.711 codec, see Section 14
of [I-D.ietf-ecrit-phonebcp].
7. SIP Caller Preferences [RFC3841] SHOULD be used to signal how the
PSAP should handle the call. For example, a language preference
expressed in an Accept-Language header may be used as a hint to
cause the PSAP to route the call to a call taker who speaks the
requested language. SIP Caller Preferences may also be used to
indicate a need to invoke a relay service for communication with
people with disabilities in the call.
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7. Call Termination Control
The description in [I-D.rosen-ecrit-premature-disconnect-rqmts] is
relevant for this document.
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8. SIP Feature Restrictions
The functionality defined in Section 9.3 in [I-D.ietf-ecrit-phonebcp]
regarding disabling of certain features is relevant for this document
and an emergency client MUST NOT implement the the features listed in
ED-70, and ED-71.
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9. Testing
The description in Section 15 of [I-D.ietf-ecrit-phonebcp] regarding
emergency call testing is used by this specification. Since this
specification mandates a registration with the ESRP-registrar a
similar tagging URI to that described in
[I-D.patel-ecrit-sos-parameter] is used to indicate a test
registration.
Test registrations SHALL be of short durations, but MUST be long
enough to allow completion of a "test call" as described in
[I-D.ietf-ecrit-phonebcp].
9.1. Test Registration
When the emergency client sends a REGISTER request for emergency test
registration, the "sos.test" URI parameter MUST be appended to the
URI in the Contact header. This indicates to the ESRP-registrar that
the request is for emergency test registration.
...
Contact:
;+sip.instance=""
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=boundary1
Content-Length: ...
Figure 5: Test REGISTER Message Fragment
Only one Contact header field SHOULD be included in the emergency
REGISTER test request. If more than one Contact header is included
then the presence of the "sos.test" URI in any of the Contact fields
SHALL result in the ESRP-registrar treating the registration as a
test registration.
9.2. Format
The following syntax specification uses the augmented Backus-Naur
Form (BNF) as described in [RFC5234].
The "sos.test" URI parameter is a "uri-parameter", as defined by
[RFC3261].
uri-parameter =/ sos-param-test
sos-param-test = "sos.test"
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10. PSAP Callback
PSAP callback occurs as described in
[I-D.schulzrinne-ecrit-psap-callback].
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11. Security Considerations
TBD
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12. IANA Considerations
This specification defines one new SIP URI parameter, as per the
registry created by [RFC3969].
Parameter Name: sos.test
Predefined Values: none
Reference: [RFCXXXX]
[NOTE TO IANA: Please replace XXXX with the RFC number of this
specification.]
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13. Acknowledgements
Thanks to Elaine Quah for being a sounding board.
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14. References
14.1. Normative References
[I-D.ietf-ecrit-phonebcp]
Rosen, B. and J. Polk, "Best Current Practice for
Communications Services in support of Emergency Calling",
draft-ietf-ecrit-phonebcp-13 (work in progress),
July 2009.
[I-D.ietf-geopriv-held-identity-extensions]
Winterbottom, J., Thomson, M., Tschofenig, H., and R.
Barnes, "Use of Device Identity in HTTP-Enabled Location
Delivery (HELD)",
draft-ietf-geopriv-held-identity-extensions-01 (work in
progress), October 2009.
[I-D.ietf-sip-outbound]
Jennings, C., "Managing Client Initiated Connections in
the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)",
draft-ietf-sip-outbound-20 (work in progress), June 2009.
[I-D.ietf-sipcore-location-conveyance]
Polk, J. and B. Rosen, "Location Conveyance for the
Session Initiation Protocol",
draft-ietf-sipcore-location-conveyance-01 (work in
progress), July 2009.
[I-D.schulzrinne-ecrit-psap-callback]
Schulzrinne, H., Tschofenig, H., and M. Patel, "Public
Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Callbacks",
draft-schulzrinne-ecrit-psap-callback-01 (work in
progress), October 2009.
[I-D.thomson-geopriv-res-gw-lis-discovery]
Thomson, M. and R. Bellis, "Location Information Server
(LIS) Discovery From Behind Residential Gateways",
draft-thomson-geopriv-res-gw-lis-discovery-02 (work in
progress), July 2009.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC3261] Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., Camarillo, G., Johnston,
A., Peterson, J., Sparks, R., Handley, M., and E.
Schooler, "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261,
June 2002.
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[RFC3841] Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., and P. Kyzivat, "Caller
Preferences for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)",
RFC 3841, August 2004.
[RFC3969] Camarillo, G., "The Internet Assigned Number Authority
(IANA) Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Parameter
Registry for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)",
BCP 99, RFC 3969, December 2004.
[RFC5031] Schulzrinne, H., "A Uniform Resource Name (URN) for
Emergency and Other Well-Known Services", RFC 5031,
January 2008.
[RFC5222] Hardie, T., Newton, A., Schulzrinne, H., and H.
Tschofenig, "LoST: A Location-to-Service Translation
Protocol", RFC 5222, August 2008.
[RFC5234] Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008.
[RFC5627] Rosenberg, J., "Obtaining and Using Globally Routable User
Agent URIs (GRUUs) in the Session Initiation Protocol
(SIP)", RFC 5627, October 2009.
14.2. Informative References
[I-D.ietf-ecrit-framework]
Rosen, B., Schulzrinne, H., Polk, J., and A. Newton,
"Framework for Emergency Calling using Internet
Multimedia", draft-ietf-ecrit-framework-10 (work in
progress), July 2009.
[I-D.ietf-ecrit-lost-servicelistboundary]
Wolf, K., "Location-to-Service Translation Protocol (LoST)
Extension: ServiceListBoundary",
draft-ietf-ecrit-lost-servicelistboundary-00 (work in
progress), October 2009.
[I-D.patel-ecrit-sos-parameter]
Patel, M., "SOS Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
Parameter for Marking of Session Initiation Protocol
(SIP) Requests related to Emergency Services",
draft-patel-ecrit-sos-parameter-06 (work in progress),
May 2009.
[I-D.rosen-ecrit-premature-disconnect-rqmts]
Rosen, B., "Requirements for handling abandoned calls and
premature disconnects in emergency calls on the
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Internet", draft-rosen-ecrit-premature-disconnect-rqmts-02
(work in progress), January 2009.
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Authors' Addresses
James Winterbottom
Andrew Corporation
Andrew Building (39)
University of Wollongong, NSW 2500
AU
Email: james.winterbottom@andrew.com
Martin Thomson
Andrew Corporation
Andrew Building (39)
University of Wollongong, NSW 2500
AU
Email: martin.thomson@andrew.com
Hannes Tschofenig
Nokia Siemens Networks
Linnoitustie 6
Espoo, 02 600
Finland
Email: Hannes.Tschofenig@gmx.net
Henning Schulzrinne
Columbia University
Department of Computer Science
450 Computer Science Building
New York, NY 10027
US
Phone: +1 212 939 7004
Email: hgs+ecrit@cs.columbia.edu
URI: http://www.cs.columbia.edu
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