Technical Summary
The purpose of the SPIRITS protocol is to support services that originate in
the cellular or wireline Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and
necessitate interactions between the PSTN and the Internet. In response to
particular events in the PSTN (aligned with the traditional Intelligent
Network call model), queries or notifications are passed through a SPIRITS
gateway that interworks between the Internet and the PSTN. In particular, th
SPIRITS protocol would be leveraged to provide PSTN services like Internet
call waiting and certain forms of Caller-ID delivery that require accessing
Internet databases or resources. SPIRITS relies on SIP, and in particular th
SIP event framework, for its Internet-facing capabilities.
Working Group Summary
The SPIRITS Working Group maintained constantly solidarity in the advancemen
of this proposal.
Protocol Quality
This specification was reviewed for the IESG by Jon Peterson.
RFC Editor Note:
Section 7, IANA Considerations
OLD:
This document calls for IANA to:
o register two new SIP Event Packages per [3].
o register a new namespace URN per [16].
NEW:
This document calls for IANA to:
o register two new SIP Event Packages per [3].
o register a new MIME type per [20]
o register a new namespace URN per [16].
o register a new XML schema per [16]
Normative References:
NEW:
[20] N. Freed et al., "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
Part One" to "Five", RFC 2045-2049, November 1996.