ECRIT R. Gellens
Internet-Draft Core Technology Consulting
Intended status: Standards Track H. Tschofenig
Expires: January 22, 2017 Individual
July 21, 2016
Next-Generation Pan-European eCall
draft-ietf-ecrit-ecall-10.txt
Abstract
This document describes how to use IP-based emergency services
mechanisms to support the next generation of the Pan European in-
vehicle emergency call service defined under the eSafety initiative
of the European Commission (generally referred to as "eCall"). eCall
is a standardized and mandated system for a special form of emergency
calls placed by vehicles, providing real-time communications and an
integrated set of related data.
This document also registers a MIME Content Type and an Emergency
Call Additional Data Block for the eCall vehicle data and metadata/
control data.
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Table of Contents
1. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Document Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. eCall Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. Vehicle Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. Data Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7. Call Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7.1. Call Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8. Test Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
9. eCall-Specific Control/Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
9.1. The eCall Control Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
9.1.1. The <ack> element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9.1.1.1. Attributes of the <ack> element . . . . . . . . . 12
9.1.1.2. Child Elements of the <ack> element . . . . . . . 13
9.1.1.3. Ack Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
9.1.2. The <request> element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
9.1.2.1. Attributes of the <request> element . . . . . . . 13
9.1.2.2. Request Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
10. The emergencyCallData.eCall INFO package . . . . . . . . . . 14
10.1. INFO Package Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
10.1.1. Overall Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
10.1.2. Applicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
10.1.3. Info Package Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
10.1.4. Info Package Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
10.1.5. SIP Option-Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
10.1.6. INFO Message Body Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
10.1.7. Info Package Usage Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . 16
10.1.8. Rate of INFO Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
10.1.9. Info Package Security Considerations . . . . . . . . 16
10.1.10. Implementation Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
10.1.11. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
11. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
12. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
13. Privacy Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
14. XML Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
15. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
15.1. Service URN Registrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
15.2. MIME Content-type Registration for
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'application/emergencyCallData.eCall.MSD+per' . . . . . 26
15.3. MIME Content-type Registration for
'application/emergencyCallData.eCall.control+xml' . . . 27
15.4. Registration of the 'eCall.MSD' entry in the Emergency
Call Additional Data Blocks registry . . . . . . . . . . 29
15.5. Registration of the 'eCall.control' entry in the
Emergency Call Additional Data Blocks registry . . . . . 29
15.6. Registration of the emergencyCallData.eCall Info Package 29
15.7. URN Sub-Namespace Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
15.7.1. Registration for urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:eCall . . . 29
15.7.2. Registration for
urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:eCall:control . . . . . . . . 30
15.8. Registry creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
15.8.1. eCall Control Action Registry . . . . . . . . . . . 31
15.8.2. eCall Control Extension Registry . . . . . . . . . . 32
16. Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
17. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
18. Changes from Previous Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
18.1. Changes from draft-ietf-08 to draft-ietf-09 . . . . . . 33
18.2. Changes from draft-ietf-07 to draft-ietf-08 . . . . . . 33
18.3. Changes from draft-ietf-06 to draft-ietf-07 . . . . . . 34
18.4. Changes from draft-ietf-05 to draft-ietf-06 . . . . . . 34
18.5. Changes from draft-ietf-04 to draft-ietf-05 . . . . . . 34
18.6. Changes from draft-ietf-03 to draft-ietf-04 . . . . . . 34
18.7. Changes from draft-ietf-02 to draft-ietf-03 . . . . . . 34
18.8. Changes from draft-ietf-01 to draft-ietf-02 . . . . . . 34
18.9. Changes from draft-ietf-00 to draft-ietf-01 . . . . . . 35
18.10. Changes from draft-gellens-03 to draft-ietf-00 . . . . . 35
18.11. Changes from draft-gellens-02 to -03 . . . . . . . . . . 35
18.12. Changes from draft-gellens-01 to -02 . . . . . . . . . . 35
18.13. Changes from draft-gellens-00 to -01 . . . . . . . . . . 35
19. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
19.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
19.2. Informative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
1. 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].
This document re-uses terminology defined in Section 3 of [RFC5012].
Additionally, we use the following abbreviations:
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+--------+----------------------------------------+
| Term | Expansion |
+--------+----------------------------------------+
| 3GPP | 3rd Generation Partnership Project |
| | |
| CEN | European Committee for Standardization |
| | |
| EENA | European Emergency Number Association |
| | |
| ESInet | Emergency Services IP network |
| | |
| IMS | IP Multimedia Subsystem |
| | |
| IVS | In-Vehicle System |
| | |
| MNO | Mobile Network Operator |
| | |
| MSD | Minimum Set of Data |
| | |
| PSAP | Public Safety Answering Point |
+--------+----------------------------------------+
2. Document Scope
This document is focused on the signaling, data exchange, and
protocol needs of next-generation eCall (NG-eCall, also referred to
as packet-switched eCall or all-IP eCall) within the SIP framework
for emergency calls, as described in [RFC6443] and [RFC6881]. eCall
itself is specified by 3GPP and CEN and these specifications include
far greater scope than is covered here.
The eCall service operates over cellular wireless communication, but
this document does not address cellular-specific details, nor client
domain selection (e.g., circuit-switched versus packet-switched).
All such aspects are the purview of their respective standards
bodies. The scope of this document is limited to eCall operating
within a SIP-based environment (e.g., 3GPP IMS Emergency Calling).
The technical contents of this document also provide a basis for
reuse and extension for other vehicle-initiated emergency call
systems.
Vehicles designed for multiple regions might need to support eCall
and other Advanced Automatic Crash Notification (AACN) systems, such
as described in [I-D.ietf-ecrit-car-crash].
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3. Introduction
Emergency calls made from vehicles (e.g., in the event of a crash)
assist in significantly reducing road deaths and injuries by allowing
emergency services to be aware of the incident, the state of the
vehicle, the location of the vehicle, and to have a voice channel
with the vehicle occupants. This enables a quick and appropriate
response.
The European Commission initiative of eCall was conceived in the late
1990s, and has evolved to a European Parliament decision requiring
the implementation of a compliant in-vehicle system (IVS) in new
vehicles and the deployment of eCall in the European Member States in
the very near future. Other regions are developing eCall-compatible
systems.
The pan-European eCall system provides a standardized and mandated
mechanism for emergency calls by vehicles. eCall establishes
procedures for such calls to be placed by in-vehicle systems,
recognized and processed by the mobile network, and routed to a
specialized PSAP where the vehicle data is available to assist the
call taker in assessing and responding to the situation. eCall
provides a standard set of vehicle, sensor (e.g., crash related), and
location data.
An eCall can be either user-initiated or automatically triggered.
Automatically triggered eCalls indicate a car crash or some other
serious incident. Manually triggered eCalls might be reports of
witnessed crashes or serious hazards. PSAPs might apply specific
operational handling to manual and automatic eCalls.
Legacy eCall is standardized (by 3GPP [SDO-3GPP] and CEN [CEN]) as a
3GPP circuit-switched call over GSM (2G) or UMTS (3G). Flags in the
call setup mark the call as an eCall, and further indicate if the
call was automatically or manually triggered. The call is routed to
an eCall-capable PSAP, a voice channel is established between the
vehicle and the PSAP, and an eCall in-band modem is used to carry a
defined set of vehicle, sensor (e.g., crash related), and location
data (the Minimum Set of Data or MSD) within the voice channel. The
same in-band mechanism is used for the PSAP to acknowledge successful
receipt of the MSD, and to request the vehicle to send a new MSD
(e.g., to check if the state of or location of the vehicle or its
occupants has changed). NG-eCall moves from circuit switched to all-
IP, and carries the vehicle data and other eCall-specific data as
additional data carried with the call. This document describes how
IETF mechanisms for IP-based emergency calls, including [RFC6443] and
[I-D.ietf-ecrit-additional-data] are used to provide the signaling
and data exchange of the next generation of pan-European eCall.
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The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) [SDO-ETSI]
has published a Technical Report titled "Mobile Standards Group
(MSG); eCall for VoIP" [MSG_TR] that presents findings and
recommendations regarding support for eCall in an all-IP environment.
The recommendations include the use of 3GPP IMS emergency calling
with additional elements identifying the call as an eCall and as
carrying eCall data and with mechanisms for carrying the data and
eCall-specific signaling. 3GPP IMS emergency services support
multimedia, providing the ability to carry voice, text, and video.
This capability is referred to within 3GPP as Multimedia Emergency
Services (MMES).
A transition period will exist during which time the various entities
involved in initiating and handling an eCall might support next-
generation eCall, legacy eCall, or both. The issues of migration and
co-existence during the transition period is outside the scope of
this document.
4. eCall Requirements
eCall requirements are specified by CEN in [EN_16072] and by 3GPP in
[TS22.101] clauses 10.7 and A.27. Requirements specific to vehicle
data are contained in EN 15722 [msd].
5. Vehicle Data
Pan-European eCall provides a standardized and mandated set of
vehicle related data, known as the Minimum Set of Data (MSD). The
European Committee for Standardization (CEN) has specified this data
in EN 15722 [msd], along with both ASN.1 and XML encodings. Both
circuit-switched eCall and this document use the ASN.1 PER encoding,
which is specified in Annex A of EN 15722 [msd] (the XML encoding
specified in Annex C is not used in this document).
This document registers the 'application/
emergencyCallData.eCall.MSD+per' MIME Content-Type to enable the MSD
to be carried in SIP. As an ASN.1 PER encoded object, the data is
binary and transported using binary content transfer encoding within
SIP messages. This document also adds the 'eCall.MSD' entry to the
Emergency Call Additional Data Blocks registry to enable the MSD to
be recognized as such in a SIP-based eCall emergency call. (See
[I-D.ietf-ecrit-additional-data] for more information about the
registry and how it is used.)
See Section 6 for a discussion of how the MSD vehicle data is
conveyed in an NG-eCall.
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6. Data Transport
The "Additional Data related to an Emergency Call" document
[I-D.ietf-ecrit-additional-data] establishes a general mechanism for
attaching blocks of data to a SIP emergency call. This mechanism
permits certain MIME types to be attached to SIP messages. This
document makes use of that mechanism.
Note that if additional data sets are defined and registered (e.g.,
in the future or in other regions) and transmitted using the same
mechanisms, the size and frequency of transmission during a dialog
need to be evaluated to be sure it is appropriate to use the
signaling channel.
An In-Vehicle System (IVS) transmits the MSD (see Section 5) by
encoding it per Annex A of EN 15722 [msd] and attaching it to a SIP
message as a MIME body part per [I-D.ietf-ecrit-additional-data].
The body part is identified by its MIME content-type ('application/
emergencyCallData.eCall.MSD+per') in the Content-Type header field of
the body part. The body part is assigned a unique identifier which
is listed in a Content-ID header field in the body part. The SIP
message is marked as containing the MSD by adding (or appending to) a
Call-Info header field at the top level of the SIP message. This
Call-Info header field contains a CID URL referencing the body part's
unique identifier, and a 'purpose' parameter identifying the data as
the eCall MSD per the Emergency Call Additional Data Blocks registry
entry; the 'purpose' parameter's value is
'emergencyCallData.eCall.MSD'.
A PSAP transmits a metadata/control object (see Section 9) by
encoding it per the description in this document and attaching it to
a SIP message as a MIME body part per
[I-D.ietf-ecrit-additional-data]. The body part is identified by its
MIME content-type ('application/emergencyCallData.eCall.control+xml')
in the Content-Type header field of the body part. The body part is
assigned a unique identifier which is listed in a Content-ID header
field in the body part. The SIP message is marked as containing the
MSD by adding (or appending to) a Call-Info header field at the top
level of the SIP message. This Call-Info header field contains a CID
URL referencing the body part's unique identifier, and a 'purpose'
parameter identifying the data as an eCall metadata/control block per
the Emergency Call Additional Data Blocks registry entry; the
'purpose' parameter's value is 'emergencyCallData.eCall.control'.
An In-Vehicle System (IVS) initiating an NG-eCall attaches the MSD to
the initial INVITE. The PSAP creates a metadata/control object
acknowledging receipt of the MSD and attaches it to the SIP response
to the INVITE.
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A PSAP can request the vehicle to send an updated MSD during a call.
The PSAP creates a metadata/control object requesting the MSD and
attaches it to a SIP INFO message which it sends within the dialog.
The IVS then attaches an updated MSD to a SIP INFO message and sends
it within the dialog. The metadata/control object and the MSD are
attached to an INFO message in the same way they are attached to
other messages (such as the INVITE and the reply to the INVITE as
discussed above). See Section 10 for information about the use of
INFO messages to carry data within an eCall.
When data is being carried in an INFO request message, the body part
also carries a Content-Disposition header field set to "Info-
Package".
Support for the data blocks defined in
[I-D.ietf-ecrit-additional-data] is NOT REQUIRED for conformance with
this document.
7. Call Setup
In circuit-switched eCall, the IVS places a special form of a 112
emergency call which carries an eCall flag (indicating that the call
is an eCall and also if the call was manually or automatically
triggered); the mobile network operator (MNO) recognizes the eCall
flag and routes the call to an eCall-capable PSAP; vehicle data is
transmitted to the PSAP via the eCall in-band modem (in the voice
channel).
///----\\\ 112 voice call with eCall flag +------+
||| IVS |||---------------------------------------->+ PSAP |
\\\----/// vehicle data via eCall in-band modem +------+
Figure 1: circuit-switched eCall
For NG-eCall, the IVS establishes an emergency call using a Request-
URI indicating a manual or automatic eCall; the MNO (or ESInet)
recognizes the eCall URN and routes the call to an NG-eCall capable
PSAP; the PSAP interpets the vehicle data sent with the call and
makes it available to the call taker.
///----\\\ IMS emergency call with eCall URN +------+
IVS ----------------------------------------->+ PSAP |
\\\----/// vehicle data included in call setup +------+
Figure 2: NG-eCall
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See Section 6 for information on how the MSD is transported within an
NG-eCall.
This document registers new service URN children within the "sos"
subservice. These URNs provide the mechanism by which an eCall is
identified, and differentiate between manually and automatically
triggered eCalls (which might be subject to different treatment,
depending on policy). The two service URNs are:
urn:service:sos.ecall.automatic and urn:service:sos.ecall.manual,
which requests resources associated with an emergency call placed by
an in-vehicle system, carrying a standardized set of data related to
the vehicle and incident.
7.1. Call Routing
The routing applied to eCalls might differ from those of other
emergency calls, as eCalls are intended to be handled by PSAPs that
support eCall. In regions without ESInets, typically the emergency
services authorities and the originating network determine how such
calls are routed. In a region that uses ESInets, the originating
network passes all types of emergency calls to an ESInet (calls which
have a request URI containing the "SOS" service URN). The ESInet is
then responsible for routing such calls to the appropriate PSAP.
8. Test Calls
eCall requires the ability to place test calls (see [TS22.101] clause
10.7 and [EN_16062] clause 7.2.2). These are calls that are
recognized and treated to some extent as eCalls but are not given
emergency call treatment and are not handled by call takers. The
specific handling of test eCalls is not itself standardized;
typically, the test call facility allows the IVS or user to verify
that an eCall can be successfully established with voice
communication. The IVS might also be able to verify that the MSD was
successfully received.
A service URN starting with "test." indicates a test call. For
eCall, "urn:service:test.sos.ecall" indicates such a test feature.
This functionality is defined in [RFC6881].
This document registers "urn:service:test.sos.ecall" for eCall test
calls.
The CS-eCall test call facility is a non-emergency number so does not
get treated as an emergency call. For NG-eCall, MNOs, emergency
authorities, and PSAPs can determine how to treat a vehicle call
requesting the "test" service URN so that the desired functionality
is tested, but this is outside the scope of this document.
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9. eCall-Specific Control/Metadata
eCall requires the ability for the PSAP to acknowledge successful
receipt of an MSD sent by the IVS, and for the PSAP to request that
the IVS send an MSD (e.g., the call taker can initiate a request for
a new MSD to see if there have been changes in the vehicle's state,
e.g., location, direction, number of fastened seatbelts).
This document defines a block of metadata/control data as an XML
structure containing eCall-specific elements. When the PSAP needs to
send an eCall control block that is in response to data sent by the
IVS in a SIP request (e.g., the MSD in the initial INVITE), the
control block can be sent in the SIP response to that request (e.g.,
the response to the INVITE request). When the PSAP needs to send an
eCall control block in other circumstances (e.g., mid-call), the
control block can be transmitted from the PSAP to the IVS in a SIP
INFO request within the established dialog. The IVS sends the
requested data (the MSD) in a new INFO request. This mechanism
flexibly allows the PSAP to send eCall-specific data to the IVS and
the IVS to respond. See Section 6 for more information on attaching
a metadata/control block to a SIP message.
This mechanism requires
o An XML definition of the eCall control object
o An extension mechanism by which new elements, attributes, and
values can be added to the control object definition
o A MIME type registration for the control object (so it can be
carried in SIP messages and responses)
o An entry in the Emergency Call Additional Data Blocks sub-registry
(established by [I-D.ietf-ecrit-additional-data]) so that the
control block can be recognized as emergency call specific data
within SIP messages
o An Info-Package registration per [RFC6086] permitting data blocks
registered in the Emergency Call Additional Data Blocks sub-
registry (established by [I-D.ietf-ecrit-additional-data]) within
Info messages
When the IVS includes an unsolicited MSD in a SIP request (e.g., the
initial INVITE), the PSAP sends a metadata/control block indicating
successful/unsuccessful receipt of the MSD in the SIP response to the
request. This also informs the IVS that an NG-eCall is in operation.
If the IVS receives a SIP response without the metadata/control
block, it indicates that the SIP dialog is not an NG-eCall (e.g.,
some part of the call is being handled as a legacy call). When the
IVS sends a solicited MSD (e.g., in a SIP INFO request sent following
receipt of a SIP INFO request containing a metadata/control block
requesting an MSD), the PSAP does not send a metadata/control block
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indicating successful or unsuccessful receipt of the MSD. (Normal
SIP retransmission handles non-receipt of requested data; if the IVS
sends a requested MSD in an INFO request and does not receive a SIP
status message for the INFO request, it resends it; if the PSAP
requests an MSD and does not receive a SIP status message for the
INFO request, it resends it.)
This provides flexibility to handle various circumstances. For
example, if a PSAP is unable to accept an eCall (e.g., due to
overload or too many calls from the same location), it can reject the
INVITE. Since a metadata/control object is also included in the SIP
response that rejects the call, the IVS knows if the PSAP received
the MSD, and can inform the vehicle occupants that the PSAP
successfully received the vehicle location and information but can't
talk to the occupants at that time. Especially for SIP response
codes that indicate an inability to conduct a call (as opposed to a
technical inability to process the request), the IVS can also
determine that the call was successful on a technical level (e.g.,
not helpful to retry as a CS-eCall). The SIP response codes 600
(Busy Everywhere), 486 (Busy Here), and 603 (Decline) are used when
the PSAP wants to reject a call but inform the vehicle occupants that
it is aware of the situation. (Note that there could be edge cases
where the PSAP response is not received by the IVS, e.g., if an
intermediary sends a CANCEL, and an error response is forwarded
towards the IVS before the error response from the PSAP is received,
the response will be dropped, but these are unlikely to occur here.)
9.1. The eCall Control Block
The eCall control block is an XML data structure allowing for
acknowledgments and requests. It is carried in a SIP body part with
a specific MIME content type. It can be extended via an IANA
registry to add additional elements, attributes, and values. Two
top-level elements are defined for use within an eCall control block:
ack Used in a control block sent by the PSAP to acknowledge
receipt of a data set sent by the IVS.
request Used in a control block sent by the PSAP to request the
vehicle to perform an action. The only action defined
in this document is a request for the IVS to send an
MSD.
Mandatory Actions (the IVS and the PSAP MUST support):
o Transmit data object
Optional Actions (the IVS and the PSAP MAY support):
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o None
The <ack> element indicates the object being acknowledged (e.g., the
MSD), and reports success or failure.
The <request> element contains attributes to indicate the request and
to supply related information. The 'action' attribute is mandatory
and indicates the specific action. An IANA registry is created in
Section 15.8.1 to contain the allowed values.
Extensibility: New elements, child elements, attributes of new and
existing elements, and values for new and existing attributes can be
added in the IANA registry created in Section 15.8.2. The registry
permits implementors to see what has been added, with a reference to
the defining document. (Implementations are not expected to
dynamically check the registry.) Implementations MUST ignore
unrecognized elements, attributes, and values (this allows new items
to be added without breaking older implementations).
9.1.1. The <ack> element
The <ack> element is transmitted by the PSAP to acknowledge receipt
of an eCall data object. An <ack> element sent by a PSAP references
the unique ID of the data object that was sent by the IVS, and
further indicates if the PSAP considers the receipt successful or
not.
The <ack> element has the following attributes:
9.1.1.1. Attributes of the <ack> element
The <ack> element has the following attributes:
Name: ref
Usage: Mandatory
Type: anyURI
Description: References the Content-ID of the body part that
contained the data object being acknowledged.
Example: <ack received="yes" ref="1234567890@atlanta.example.com"/>
Name: received
Usage: Conditional: mandatory in an >ack< element sent by a PSAP
Type: Boolean
Description: Indicates if the referenced object was successfully
received or not
Example: <ack received="yes" ref="1234567890@atlanta.example.com"/>
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9.1.1.2. Child Elements of the <ack> element
The <ack> element has no child elements
9.1.1.3. Ack Examples
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<EmergencyCallData.eCall.Control
xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:EmergencyCallData:eCall:control"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation=
"urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:EmergencyCallData:eCall:control">
<ack received="true" ref="1234567890@atlanta.example.com"/>
</EmergencyCallData.eCall.Control>
Figure 3: Ack Example from PSAP to IVS
9.1.2. The <request> element
A <request> element allows the PSAP to request that the IVS send an
MSD. The following attributes are defined:
9.1.2.1. Attributes of the <request> element
The <request> element has the following attributes:
Name: action
Usage: Mandatory
Type: token
Description: Identifies the action that the vehicle is requested to
perform. An IANA registry is established in Section 15.8.1 to
contain the allowed values.
Example: action="send-data"
Name: datatype
Usage: Conditional
Type: token
Description: Mandatory with a "send-data" action. Specifies the
data block that the IVS is requested to transmit, using the same
identifier as in the 'purpose' attribute set in a Call-Info header
field to point to the data block. Permitted values are contained
in the 'Emergency Call Data Types' IANA registry established in
[I-D.ietf-ecrit-additional-data]. Only the "eCall.MSD" value is
mandatory to support.
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Example: datatype="eCall.MSD"
9.1.2.2. Request Example
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<EmergencyCallData.eCall.Control
xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:EmergencyCallData:eCall:control"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation=
"urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:EmergencyCallData:eCall:control">
<request action="send-data" datatype="eCall.MSD"/>
</EmergencyCallData.eCall.Control>
Figure 4: Request Example
10. The emergencyCallData.eCall INFO package
This document registers the 'emergencyCallData.eCall' INFO package.
Both endpoints (the IVS and the PSAP equipment) include
'emergencyCallData.eCall' in a Recv-Info header field per [RFC6086]
to indicate ability to receive INFO messages carrying data as
described here.
Support for the 'emergencyCallData.eCall' INFO package indicates the
ability to receive body parts registered in the 'Emergency Call Data
Types' IANA registry. Because new body parts can be added to the
registry, implementations MUST ignore any unsupported or unrecognized
body parts. Only the 'application/emergencyCallData.eCall.MSD+per'
and 'application/emergencyCallData.eCall.control+xml' body parts are
REQUIRED to be supported for conformance with this document.
An INFO request message carrying data related to an emergency call
has an Info-Package header field set to 'emergencyCallData.eCall' per
[RFC6086]. See Section 6 for details on how to attach eCall data to
an INFO message.
10.1. INFO Package Requirements
The requirements of Section 10 of [RFC6086] are addressed in the
following sections.
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10.1.1. Overall Description
This section describes "what type of information is carried in INFO
requests associated with the Info Package, and for what types of
applications and functionalities UAs can use the Info Package."
INFO requests associated with the emergencyCallData.eCall INFO
package carry data associated with emergency calls as registered in
the 'Emergency Call Data Types' IANA registry. The application is
emergency calls established using SIP. The functionality is to carry
data, metadata, and control information (requests) between vehicles
and PSAPs. Refer to [TBD: THIS DOCUMENT] for more information.
10.1.2. Applicability
This section describes "why the Info Package mechanism, rather than
some other mechanism, has been chosen for the specific use-case...."
The use of INFO is based on an analysis of the requirements against
the intent and effects of INFO versus other approaches (which
included SIP MESSAGE, SIP OPTIONS, SIP re-INVITE, media plane
transport, and non-SIP protocols). In particular, the transport of
emergency call data blocks occurs within a SIP emergency dialog, per
Section 6, and is normally carried in the initial INVITE and its
response; the use of INFO only occurs when emergency-call-related
data needs to be sent mid-call. While MESSAGE could be used, it is
not tied to a SIP dialog as is INFO and thus might not be associated
with the dialog. SIP OPTIONS or re-INVITE could also be used, but is
seen as less clean than INFO. SUBSCRIBE/NOTIFY could be coerced into
service, but the semantics are not a good fit, e.g., the subscribe/
notify mechanism provides one-way communication consisting of (often
multiple) notifications from notifier to subscriber indicating that
certain events in notifier have occurred, whereas what's needed here
is two-way communication of data related to the emergency dialog.
Use of the media plane mechanisms was discounted because the number
of messages needing to be exchanged in a dialog is normally zero or
very few, and the size of the data is likewise very small. The
overhead caused by user plane setup (e.g., to use MSRP as transport)
would be disproportionately large.
Based on the the analyses, the SIP INFO method was chosen to provide
for mid-call data transport.
10.1.3. Info Package Name
The info package name is emergencyCallData.eCall.
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10.1.4. Info Package Parameters
None.
10.1.5. SIP Option-Tags
None.
10.1.6. INFO Message Body Parts
Only those body parts registered in the 'Emergency Call Data Types'
IANA registry are associated with this INFO package.
When more than one body part is included, they are enclosed in a
multipart body part (e.g., multipart/mixed). When a body part is
digitally signed or encrypted, it is enclosed in an appropriate body
part (e.g., multipart/signed or multipart/encrypted).
The Content-Disposition value of a message body part associated with
the emergencyCallData.eCall info package is "info-package".
10.1.7. Info Package Usage Restrictions
None.
10.1.8. Rate of INFO Requests
The rate of SIP INFO requests associated with the
emergencyCallData.eCall info package is expected to be quite low
(most dialogs are likely to contain zero INFO requests, while others
can be expected to carry occasional requests).
10.1.9. Info Package Security Considerations
The MIME content type registation for each data block listed in the
'Emergency Call Data Types' IANA registry contains a discussion of
the security and/or privacy considerations specific to that data
block. The "Security Considerations" and "Privacy Considerations"
sections of [TBD: THIS DOCUMENT] discuss security and privacy
considerations of the data carried in eCealls.
10.1.10. Implementation Details
See [TBD: THIS DOCUMENT] for protocol details.
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10.1.11. Examples
See [TBD: THIS DOCUMENT] for protocol examples.
11. Examples
Figure 5 illustrates an eCall. The call uses the request URI
'urn:service:sos.ecall.automatic' service URN and is recognized as an
eCall, and further as one that was invoked automatically by the IVS
due to a crash or other serious incident. In this example, the
originating network routes the call to an ESInet which routes the
call to the appropriate NG-eCall capable PSAP. The emergency call is
received by the ESInet's Emergency Services Routing Proxy (ESRP), as
the entry point into the ESInet. The ESRP routes the call to a PSAP,
where it is received by a call taker. In deployments where there is
no ESInet, the originating network routes the call directly to the
appropriate NG-eCall capable PSAP, an illustration of which would be
identical to the one below except without an ESInet or ESRP.
+------------+ +---------------------------------------+
| | | +-------+ |
| | | | PSAP2 | |
| | | +-------+ |
| | | |
| | | +------+ +-------+ |
Vehicle-->| |--+->| ESRP |---->| PSAP1 |--> Call-Taker |
| | | +------+ +-------+ |
| | | |
| | | +-------+ |
| | | | PSAP3 | |
| Originating| | +-------+ |
| Mobile | | |
| Network | | ESInet |
+------------+ +---------------------------------------+
Figure 5: Example of NG-eCall Message Flow
Figure 6 illustrates an eCall call flow with a mid-call PSAP request
for an updated MSD. The call flow shows the IVS initiating an
emergency call, including the MSD in the INVITE. The PSAP includes
in the 200 OK response a metadata/control object acknowledging
receipt of the MSD. During the call, the PSAP sends a request for an
MSD in an INFO message. The IVS sends the requested MSD in a new
INFO message.
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IVS PSAP
|(1) INVITE (eCall MSD) |
|------------------------------------------->|
| |
|(2) 200 OK (eCall metadata [ack MSD]) |
|<-------------------------------------------|
| |
|(3) start media stream(s) |
|............................................|
| |
|(4) INFO (eCall metadata [request MSD]) |
|<-------------------------------------------|
| |
|(5) 200 OK |
|------------------------------------------->|
| |
|(6) INFO (eCall MSD) |
|------------------------------------------->|
| |
|(7) 200 OK |
|<-------------------------------------------|
| |
|(8) BYE |
|<-------------------------------------------|
| |
|(9) end media streams |
|............................................|
| |
|(10) 200 OK |
|------------------------------------------->|
Figure 6: NG-eCall Call Flow Illustration
The example, shown in Figure 7, illustrates a SIP eCall INVITE that
contains an MSD. For simplicity, the example does not show all SIP
headers, nor the SDP contents, nor does it show any additional data
blocks added by the IVS or the originating mobile network. Because
the MSD is encoded in ASN.1 PER, which is a binary encoding, its
contents cannot be included in a text document.
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INVITE urn:service:sos.ecall.automatic SIP/2.0
To: urn:service:sos.ecall.automatic
From: <sip:+13145551111@example.com>;tag=9fxced76sl
Call-ID: 3848276298220188511@atlanta.example.com
Geolocation: <cid:target123@example.com>
Geolocation-Routing: no
Call-Info: cid:1234567890@atlanta.example.com;
purpose=emergencyCallData.eCall.MSD;
Accept: application/sdp, application/pidf+xml,
application/emergencyCallData.eCall.control+xml
CSeq: 31862 INVITE
Recv-Info: emergencyCallData.eCall
Allow: INVITE, ACK, PRACK, INFO, OPTIONS, CANCEL, REFER, BYE,
SUBSCRIBE, NOTIFY, UPDATE
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=boundary1
Content-Length: ...
--boundary1
Content-Type: application/sdp
...Session Description Protocol (SDP) goes here...
--boundary1
Content-Type: application/emergencyCallData.eCall.MSD+per
Content-ID: 1234567890@atlanta.example.com
Content-Disposition: by-reference;handling=optional
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
...MSD in ASN.1 PER encoding goes here...
--boundary1--
Figure 7: SIP NG-eCall INVITE
Continuing the example, Figure 8 illustrates a SIP 200 OK response to
the INVITE of Figure 7, containing an eCall control block
acknowledging successful receipt of the eCall MSD. (For simplicity,
the example does not show all SIP headers.)
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SIP/2.0 200 OK
To: <sip:+13145551111@example.com>;tag=9fxced76sl
From: Exemplar PSAP <urn:service:sos.ecall.automatic>
Call-ID: 3848276298220188511@atlanta.example.com
Call-Info: cid:2345678901@atlanta.example.com;
purpose=emergencyCallData.eCall.control;
Accept: application/sdp, application/pidf+xml,
application/emergencyCallData.eCall.control+xml,
application/emergencyCallData.eCall.MSD+per
CSeq: 31862 INVITE
Recv-Info: emergencyCallData.eCall
Allow: INVITE, ACK, PRACK, INFO, OPTIONS, CANCEL, REFER, BYE,
SUBSCRIBE, NOTIFY, UPDATE
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=boundaryX
Content-Length: ...
--boundaryX
Content-Type: application/sdp
...Session Description Protocol (SDP) goes here...
--boundaryX
Content-Type: application/EmergencyCallData.eCall.control+xml
Content-ID: 2345678901@atlanta.example.com
Content-Disposition: by-reference;handling=optional
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<EmergencyCallData.eCall.Control
xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:EmergencyCallData:eCall:control"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation=
"urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:EmergencyCallData:eCall:control">
<ack received="true" ref="1234567890@atlanta.example.com"/>
</EmergencyCallData.eCall.Control>
--boundaryX--
Figure 8: 200 OK response to INVITE
Figure 9 illustrates an INFO message containing an eCall metadata/
control block requesting an eCall MSD. (For simplicity, the example
does not show all SIP headers.)
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INFO sip:+13145551111@example.com SIP/2.0
To: <sip:+13145551111@example.com>;tag=9fxced76sl
From: Exemplar PSAP <urn:service:sos.ecall.automatic>
Call-ID: 3848276298220188511@atlanta.example.com
Call-Info: cid:3456789012@atlanta.example.com;
purpose=emergencyCallData.eCall.control;
Accept: application/sdp, application/pidf+xml,
application/emergencyCallData.eCall.control+xml,
application/emergencyCallData.eCall.MSD+per
CSeq: 41862 INFO
Recv-Info: emergencyCallData.eCall
Allow: INVITE, ACK, PRACK, INFO, OPTIONS, CANCEL, REFER, BYE,
SUBSCRIBE, NOTIFY, UPDATE
Content-Type: application/EmergencyCallData.eCall.control+xml
Content-ID: 3456789012@atlanta.example.com
Content-Disposition: info-package
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<EmergencyCallData.eCall.Control
xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:EmergencyCallData:eCall:control"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation=
"urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:EmergencyCallData:eCall:control">
<request action="send-data" datatype="eCall.MSD"/>
</EmergencyCallData.eCall.Control>
Figure 9: INFO requesting MSD
Figure 10 illustrates a SIP eCall INFO that contains an MSD. For
simplicity, the example does not show all SIP headers. Because the
MSD is encoded in ASN.1 PER, which is a binary encoding, its contents
cannot be included in a text document.
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INFO urn:service:sos.ecall.automatic SIP/2.0
To: urn:service:sos.ecall.automatic
From: <sip:+13145551111@example.com>;tag=9fxced76sl
Call-ID: 3848276298220188511@atlanta.example.com
Call-Info: cid:4567890123@atlanta.example.com;
purpose=emergencyCallData.eCall.MSD;
Accept: application/sdp, application/pidf+xml,
application/emergencyCallData.eCall.control+xml
CSeq: 51862 INFO
Recv-Info: emergencyCallData.eCall
Allow: INVITE, ACK, PRACK, INFO, OPTIONS, CANCEL, REFER, BYE,
SUBSCRIBE, NOTIFY, UPDATE
Content-Type: application/emergencyCallData.eCall.MSD+per
Content-ID: 4567890123@atlanta.example.com
Content-Disposition: info-package
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
...MSD in ASN.1 PER encoding goes here...
Figure 10: INFO containing MSD
12. Security Considerations
The security considerations described in [RFC5069] apply here.
In addition to any network-provided location (which might be
determined solely by the network, or in cooperation with or possibly
entirely by the originating device), an eCall carries an IVS-supplied
location within the MSD. This is likely to be useful to the PSAP,
especially when no network-provided location is included, or when the
two locations are independently determined. Even in situations where
the network-supplied location is limited to the cell site, this can
be useful as a sanity check on the device-supplied location contained
in the MSD.
The document [RFC7378] discusses trust issues regarding location
provided by or determined in cooperation with end devices.
Security considerations specific to the mechanism by which the PSAP
sends acknowledgments and requests to the vehicle are discussed in
the "Security Considerations" block of Section 15.3.
Data received from external sources inherently carries implementation
risks. For example, depending on the platform, buffer overflows can
introduce remote code execution vulnerabilities, null characters can
corrupt strings, numeric values used for internal calculations can
result in underflow/overflow errors, malformed XML objects can expose
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parsing bugs, etc. Implementations need to be cognizant of the
potential risks, observe best practices (which might include
sufficiently capable static code analysis, fuzz testing, component
isolation, avoiding use of unsafe coding techniques, third-party
attack tests, signed software, over-the-air updates, etc.), and have
multiple levels of protection. Implementors need to be aware that,
potentially, the data objects described here and elsewhere might be
malformed, might contain unexpected characters, excessively long
attribute values, elements, etc.
The security considerations discussed in
[I-D.ietf-ecrit-additional-data] apply here (see especially the
discussion of TLS, TLS versions, cypher suites, and PKI).
When vehicle data or control/metadata is contained in a signed or
encrypted body part, the enclosing multipart (e.g., multipart/signed
or multipart/encrypted) has the same Content-ID as the enclosed data
part. This allows an entity to identify and access the data blocks
it is interested in without having to dive deeply into the message
structure or decrypt parts it is not interested in. (The 'purpose'
parameter in a Call-Info header field identifies the data and
contains a CID URL pointing to the data block in the body, which has
a matching Content-ID body part header field).
13. Privacy Considerations
The privacy considerations discussed in
[I-D.ietf-ecrit-additional-data] apply here. The MSD carries some
identifying and personal information (mostly about the vehicle and
less about the owner), as well as location information, and so needs
to be protected against unauthorized disclosure. Local regulations
may impose additional privacy protection requirements.
Privacy considerations specific to the data structure containing
vehicle information are discussed in the "Security Considerations"
block of Section 15.2.
Privacy considerations specific to the mechanism by which the PSAP
sends acknowledgments and requests to the vehicle are discussed in
the "Security Considerations" block of Section 15.3.
14. XML Schema
This section defines an XML schema for the eCall control block. The
text description of the eCall control block in Section 9.1 is
normative and supersedes any conflicting aspect of this schema.
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xs:schema
targetNamespace=
"urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:EmergencyCallData:eCall:control"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:pi="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:EmergencyCallData:eCall:control"
xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"
elementFormDefault="qualified"
attributeFormDefault="unqualified">
<xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"
schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2009/01/xml.xsd"/>
<xs:element name="EmergencyCallData.eCall.Control"
type="pi:eCallControlType"/>
<xs:simpleType name="iana-token">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:documentation>Permitted values specified in IANA
registries</xs:documentation>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:simpleType>
<xs:complexType name="eCallControlType">
<xs:complexContent>
<xs:restriction base="xs:anyType">
<xs:choice>
<xs:element name="request" type="pi:requestType"/>
<xs:element name="ack" type="pi:ackType"/>
<xs:element type="cx:iana-token"/>
<xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax"
minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xs:choice>
<xs:anyAttribute/>
</xs:restriction>
</xs:complexContent>
</xs:complexType>
<xs:complexType name="ackType">
<xs:complexContent>
<xs:restriction base="xs:anyType">
<xs:sequence minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax"
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minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xs:attribute type="cx:iana-token"/>
</xs:sequence>
<xs:attribute name="ref"
type="xs:anyURI"
use="required"/>
<xs:attribute name="received"
type="xs:boolean"/>
<xs:anyAttribute/>
</xs:restriction>
</xs:complexContent>
</xs:complexType>
<xs:complexType name="requestType">
<xs:complexContent>
<xs:restriction base="xs:anyType">
<xs:choice minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax"
minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xs:element type="cx:iana-token"/>
</xs:choice>
<xs:attribute name="action" type="xs:token" use="required"/>
<xs:attribute type="cx:iana-token" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xs:anyAttribute/>
</xs:restriction>
</xs:complexContent>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:schema>
Figure 11: eCall Control Block Schema
15. IANA Considerations
15.1. Service URN Registrations
IANA is requested to register the URN 'urn:service:sos.ecall' under
the sub-services 'sos' registry defined in Section 4.2 of [RFC5031].
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This service requests resources associated with an emergency call
placed by an in-vehicle system, carrying a standardized set of data
related to the vehicle and incident. Two sub-services are registered
as well:
urn:service:sos.ecall.manual
Used with an eCall invoked due to manual interaction by a vehicle
occupant.
urn:service:sos.ecall.automatic
Used with an eCall invoked automatically, for example, due to a
crash or other serious incident.
IANA is also requested to register the URN
'urn:service:test.sos.ecall' under the sub-service 'test' registry
defined in Setcion 17.2 of [RFC6881].
15.2. MIME Content-type Registration for 'application/
emergencyCallData.eCall.MSD+per'
IANA is requested to add application/emergencyCallData.eCall.MSD+per
as a MIME content type, with a reference to this document, in
accordance to the procedures of RFC 6838 [RFC6838] and guidelines in
RFC 7303 [RFC7303].
MIME media type name: application
MIME subtype name: emergencyCallData.eCall.MSD+per
Mandatory parameters: none
Optional parameters: none
Encoding scheme: binary
Encoding considerations: Uses ASN.1 PER, which is a binary
encoding; when transported in SIP, binary content transfer
encoding is used.
Security considerations: This content type is designed to carry
vehicle and incident-related data during an emergency call. This
data contains personal information including vehicle VIN,
location, direction, etc. Appropriate precautions need to be
taken to limit unauthorized access, inappropriate disclosure to
third parties, and eavesdropping of this information. In general,
it is acceptable for the data to be unprotected while briefly in
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transit within the Mobile Network Operator (MNO); the MNO is
trusted to not permit the data to be accessed by third parties.
Sections 7 and Section 8 of [I-D.ietf-ecrit-additional-data]
contain more discussion.
Interoperability considerations: None
Published specification: Annex A of EN 15722 [msd]
Applications which use this media type: Pan-European eCall
compliant systems
Additional information: None
Magic Number: None
File Extension: None
Macintosh file type code: 'BINA'
Person and email address for further information: Randall Gellens,
rg+ietf@randy.pensive.org
Intended usage: LIMITED USE
Author: The MSD specification was produced by the European
Committee For Standardization (CEN). For contact information,
please see <http://www.cen.eu/cen/Pages/contactus.aspx>.
Change controller: The European Committee For Standardization
(CEN)
15.3. MIME Content-type Registration for 'application/
emergencyCallData.eCall.control+xml'
IANA is requested to add application/
emergencyCallData.eCall.control+xml as a MIME content type, with a
reference to this document, in accordance to the procedures of RFC
6838 [RFC6838] and guidelines in RFC 7303 [RFC7303].
MIME media type name: application
MIME subtype name: emergencyCallData.eCall.control+xml
Mandatory parameters: none
Optional parameters: charset
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Indicates the character encoding of the XML content.
Encoding considerations: Uses XML, which can employ 8-bit
characters, depending on the character encoding used. See
Section 3.2 of RFC 7303 [RFC7303].
Security considerations:
This content type carries metadata and control information and
requests, such as from a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)
to an In-Vehicle System (IVS) during an emergency call.
Metadata (such as an acknowledgment that data sent by the IVS
to the PSAP was successfully received) has limited privacy and
security implications. Control information (such as requests
from the PSAP that the vehicle perform an action) has some
privacy and security implications. The privacy concern arises
from the ability to request the vehicle to transmit a data set,
which as described in Section 15.2, can contain personal
information. The security concern is the ability to request
the vehicle to perform an action. Control information needs to
originate only from a PSAP or other emergency services
provider, and not be modified en-route. The level of integrity
of the cellular network over which the emergency call is placed
is a consideration: when the IVS initiates an eCall over a
cellular network, in most cases it relies on the MNO to route
the call to a PSAP. (Calls placed using other means, such as
Wi-Fi or over-the-top services, generally incur somewhat higher
levels of risk than calls placed "natively" using cellular
networks.) A call-back from a PSAP merits additional
consideration, since current mechanisms are not ideal for
verifying that such a call is indeed a call-back from a PSAP in
response to an emergency call placed by the IVS. See the
discussion in Section 12 and the PSAP Callback document
[RFC7090].
Sections 7 and Section 8 of [I-D.ietf-ecrit-additional-data]
contain more discussion.
Interoperability considerations: None
Published specification: This document
Applications which use this media type: Pan-European eCall
compliant systems
Additional information: None
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Magic Number: None
File Extension: .xml
Macintosh file type code: 'TEXT'
Person and email address for further information: Randall Gellens,
rg+ietf@randy.pensive.org
Intended usage: LIMITED USE
Author: The IETF ECRIT WG.
Change controller: The IETF ECRIT WG.
15.4. Registration of the 'eCall.MSD' entry in the Emergency Call
Additional Data Blocks registry
This specification requests IANA to add the 'eCall.MSD' entry to the
Emergency Call Additional Data Blocks registry, with a reference to
this document.
15.5. Registration of the 'eCall.control' entry in the Emergency Call
Additional Data Blocks registry
This specification requests IANA to add the 'eCall.control' entry to
the Emergency Call Additional Data Blocks registry, with a reference
to this document.
15.6. Registration of the emergencyCallData.eCall Info Package
IANA is requested to add emergencyCallData.eCall to the Info Packages
Registry under "Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Parameters", with a
reference to this document.
15.7. URN Sub-Namespace Registration
15.7.1. Registration for urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:eCall
This section registers a new XML namespace, as per the guidelines in
RFC 3688 [RFC3688].
URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:eCall
Registrant Contact: IETF, ECRIT working group, <ecrit@ietf.org>, as
delegated by the IESG <iesg@ietf.org>.
XML:
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BEGIN
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<title>Namespace for eCall Data</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Namespace for eCall Data</h1>
<p>See [TBD: This document].</p>
</body>
</html>
END
15.7.2. Registration for urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:eCall:control
This section registers a new XML namespace, as per the guidelines in
RFC 3688 [RFC3688].
URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:eCall:control
Registrant Contact: IETF, ECRIT working group, <ecrit@ietf.org>, as
delegated by the IESG <iesg@ietf.org>.
XML:
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BEGIN
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<title>Namespace for eCall Data:
Control Block</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Namespace for eCall Data</h1>
<h2>Control Block</h2>
<p>See [TBD: This document].</p>
</body>
</html>
END
15.8. Registry creation
This document creates a new registry called 'eCall Control Data'.
The following sub-registries are created for this registry.
15.8.1. eCall Control Action Registry
This document creates a new sub-registry called "eCall Control Action
Registry". As defined in [RFC5226], this registry operates under
"Expert Review" rules. The expert should determine that the proposed
action is within the purview of a vehicle, is sufficiently
distinguishable from other actions, and the action is clearly and
fully described. In most cases, a published and stable document is
referenced for the description of the action.
The content of this registry includes:
Name: The identifier to be used in the 'action' attribute of an
eCall control <request> element.
Description: A description of the action. In most cases this will
be a reference to a published and stable document. The
description MUST specify if any attributes or child elements are
optional or mandatory, and describe the action to be taken by the
vehicle.
The initial set of values is listed in Table 2.
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+-----------+--------------------------------------+
| Name | Description |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+
| send-data | See Section 9.1.2.1 of this document |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+
Table 2: eCall Control Action Registry Initial Values
15.8.2. eCall Control Extension Registry
This document creates a new sub-registry called "eCall Control
Extension Registry". This registry contains elements, attributes,
and values for the eCall metadata/control object. As defined in
[RFC5226], this registry operates under "Expert Review" rules. The
expert should determine that the proposed elements, attributes, and/
or values are within the purview of a vehicle, are sufficiently
distinguishable, and clearly and fully described. In most cases, a
published and stable document is referenced for the description of
each element, attribute, or value. New values MUST indicate for
which attributes or elements they are appropriate. New attributes
MUST indicate in which elements they can appear and to which values
that can be set. New elements MUST indicate if they can appear as
child elements within other elements, and if so which elements, and/
or if they can appear at the top level of an eCall metadata/control
object. New elements MUST also describe which attributes and/or sub-
elements they can contain and which are optional and which are
mandatory. Note that this mechanism allows new items to be added
while maintaining compatibility with existing implementations, since
unrecognized items are ignored.
The content of this registry includes:
Type: 'Element', 'Attribute', or 'Value'.
Name: The name of the new element or attribute. Not used for new
values.
Description: A description of the element, attribute, or value. In
most cases this will be a reference to a published and stable
document.
16. Contributors
Brian Rosen was a co-author of the original document upon which this
document is based.
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17. Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Bob Williams and Ban Al-Bakri for their
feedback and suggestion; Rex Buddenberg, Lena Chaponniere, Keith
Drage, Stephen Edge, Wes George, Christer Holmberg, Ivo Sedlacek, and
James Winterbottom for their review and comments; Robert Sparks and
Paul Kyzivat for their help with the SIP mechanisms. We would like
to thank Michael Montag, Arnoud van Wijk, Gunnar Hellstrom, and
Ulrich Dietz for their help with the original document upon which
this document is based.
18. Changes from Previous Versions
18.1. Changes from draft-ietf-08 to draft-ietf-09
o Created a new "Data Transport" section that describes how the MSD
and metadata/control blocks are attached, and then referred to
that section rather than repeat the information about the CID and
Call-Info and so forth, which means most references to the
additional-data draft have now been deleted
o Mentioned edge cases where a PSAP response to INVITE isn't
received by the IVS
o Reworded description of which status codes are used when a PSAP
wishes to reject a call but inform the vehicle occupants that it
is aware of the situation to be more definite
o Added examples showing INFO
o Added references for eCall test call requirement
o Described meaning of eCall URNs in Section 8 as well as in IANA
registration
18.2. Changes from draft-ietf-07 to draft-ietf-08
o eCall MSD now encoded as ASN.1 PER, using binary content transfer
encoding
o Added text to point out aspects of call handling and metadata/
control usage, such as use in rejected calls, and solicited MSDs
o Revised use of INFO to require that when a request for an MSD is
sent in INFO, the MSD sent in response is in its own INFO, not the
response to the requesting INFO
o Added material to INFO package registation to comply with
Section 10 of [RFC6086]
o Moved material not required by 3GPP into
[I-D.ietf-ecrit-car-crash], e.g., some of the eCall metadata/
control elements, attributes, and values
o Revised test call wording to clarify that specific handling is out
of scope
o Revised wording throughout the document to simplify
o Moved new Section Section 7.1 to be a subsection of Section 7
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o Moved new Section Section 10 to be a main section instead of a
subsection of Section 9
o Revised SIP INFO usage and package registration per advice from
Robert Sparks and Paul Kyzivat
18.3. Changes from draft-ietf-06 to draft-ietf-07
o Fixed typo in Acknowledgements
18.4. Changes from draft-ietf-05 to draft-ietf-06
o Added additional security and privacy clarifications regarding
signed and encrypted data
o Additional security and privacy text
o Deleted informative section on ESINets as unnecessary.
18.5. Changes from draft-ietf-04 to draft-ietf-05
o Reworked the security and privacy considerations material in the
document as a whole and in the MIME registation sections of the
MSD and control objects
o Clarified that the <actionResult> element can appear multiple
times within an <ack> element
o Fixed IMS definition
o Added clarifying text for the 'msgid' attribute
18.6. Changes from draft-ietf-03 to draft-ietf-04
o Added Privacy Considerations section
o Reworded most uses of non-normative "may", "should", "must", and
"recommended."
o Fixed nits in examples
18.7. Changes from draft-ietf-02 to draft-ietf-03
o Added request to enable cameras
o Improved examples and XML schema
o Clarifications and wording improvements
18.8. Changes from draft-ietf-01 to draft-ietf-02
o Added clarifying text reinforcing that the data exchange is for
small blocks of data infrequently transmitted
o Clarified that dynamic media is conveyed using SIP re-INVITE to
establish a one-way media stream
o Clarified that the scope is the needs of eCall within the SIP
emergency call environment
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o Added informative statement that the document may be suitable for
reuse by other ACN systems
o Clarified that normative language for the control block applies to
both IVS and PSAP
o Removed 'ref', 'supported-mime', and <media> elements
o Minor wording improvements and clarifications
18.9. Changes from draft-ietf-00 to draft-ietf-01
o Added further discussion of test calls
o Added further clarification to the document scope
o Mentioned that multi-region vehicles may need to support other
crash notification specifications in addition to eCall
o Added details of the eCall metadata and control functionality
o Added IANA registration for the MIME content type for the eCall
control object
o Added IANA registries for protocol elements and tokens used in the
eCall control object
o Minor wording improvements and clarifications
18.10. Changes from draft-gellens-03 to draft-ietf-00
o Renamed from draft-gellens- to draft-ietf-.
o Added mention of and reference to ETSI TR "Mobile Standards Group
(MSG); eCall for VoIP"
o Added text to Introduction regarding migration/co-existence being
out of scope
o Added mention in Security Considerations that even if the network-
supplied location is just the cell site, this can be useful as a
sanity check on the IVS-supplied location
o Minor wording improvements and clarifications
18.11. Changes from draft-gellens-02 to -03
o Clarifications and editorial improvements.
18.12. Changes from draft-gellens-01 to -02
o Minor wording improvements
o Removed ".automatic" and ".manual" from
"urn:service:test.sos.ecall" registration and discussion text.
18.13. Changes from draft-gellens-00 to -01
o Now using 'EmergencyCallData' for purpose parameter values and
MIME subtypes, in accordance with changes to
[I-D.ietf-ecrit-additional-data]
o Added reference to RFC 6443
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o Fixed bug that caused Figure captions to not appear
19. References
19.1. Normative References
[EN_16062]
CEN, , "Intelligent transport systems - eSafety - eCall
High Level Application Requirements (HLAP) Using GSM/UMTS
Circuit Switched Networks, EN 16062", April 2015.
[EN_16072]
CEN, , "Intelligent transport systems - eSafety - Pan-
European eCall operating requirements, EN 16072", April
2015.
[I-D.ietf-ecrit-additional-data]
Gellens, R., Rosen, B., Tschofenig, H., Marshall, R., and
J. Winterbottom, "Additional Data Related to an Emergency
Call", draft-ietf-ecrit-additional-data-38 (work in
progress), April 2016.
[msd] CEN, , "Intelligent transport systems -- eSafety -- eCall
minimum set of data (MSD), EN 15722", April 2015.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
[RFC3688] Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", BCP 81, RFC 3688,
DOI 10.17487/RFC3688, January 2004,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3688>.
[RFC5031] Schulzrinne, H., "A Uniform Resource Name (URN) for
Emergency and Other Well-Known Services", RFC 5031,
DOI 10.17487/RFC5031, January 2008,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5031>.
[RFC5226] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
DOI 10.17487/RFC5226, May 2008,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5226>.
[RFC6443] Rosen, B., Schulzrinne, H., Polk, J., and A. Newton,
"Framework for Emergency Calling Using Internet
Multimedia", RFC 6443, DOI 10.17487/RFC6443, December
2011, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6443>.
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[RFC6838] Freed, N., Klensin, J., and T. Hansen, "Media Type
Specifications and Registration Procedures", BCP 13,
RFC 6838, DOI 10.17487/RFC6838, January 2013,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6838>.
[RFC6881] Rosen, B. and J. Polk, "Best Current Practice for
Communications Services in Support of Emergency Calling",
BCP 181, RFC 6881, DOI 10.17487/RFC6881, March 2013,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6881>.
[RFC7303] Thompson, H. and C. Lilley, "XML Media Types", RFC 7303,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7303, July 2014,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7303>.
[TS22.101]
3GPP, , "3GPP TS 22.101: Technical Specification Group
Services and System Aspects; Service aspects; Service
principles".
19.2. Informative references
[CEN] "European Committee for Standardization",
<http://www.cen.eu>.
[I-D.ietf-ecrit-car-crash]
Gellens, R., Rosen, B., and H. Tschofenig, "Next-
Generation Vehicle-Initiated Emergency Calls", draft-ietf-
ecrit-car-crash-08 (work in progress), July 2016.
[MSG_TR] ETSI, , "ETSI Mobile Standards Group (MSG); eCall for
VoIP", ETSI Technical Report TR 103 140 V1.1.1 (2014-04),
April 2014.
[RFC5012] Schulzrinne, H. and R. Marshall, Ed., "Requirements for
Emergency Context Resolution with Internet Technologies",
RFC 5012, DOI 10.17487/RFC5012, January 2008,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5012>.
[RFC5069] Taylor, T., Ed., Tschofenig, H., Schulzrinne, H., and M.
Shanmugam, "Security Threats and Requirements for
Emergency Call Marking and Mapping", RFC 5069,
DOI 10.17487/RFC5069, January 2008,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5069>.
[RFC6086] Holmberg, C., Burger, E., and H. Kaplan, "Session
Initiation Protocol (SIP) INFO Method and Package
Framework", RFC 6086, DOI 10.17487/RFC6086, January 2011,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6086>.
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[RFC7090] Schulzrinne, H., Tschofenig, H., Holmberg, C., and M.
Patel, "Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Callback",
RFC 7090, DOI 10.17487/RFC7090, April 2014,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7090>.
[RFC7378] Tschofenig, H., Schulzrinne, H., and B. Aboba, Ed.,
"Trustworthy Location", RFC 7378, DOI 10.17487/RFC7378,
December 2014, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7378>.
[SDO-3GPP]
"3d Generation Partnership Project",
<http://www.3gpp.org/>.
[SDO-ETSI]
"European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)",
<http://www.etsi.org>.
Authors' Addresses
Randall Gellens
Core Technology Consulting
Email: rg+ietf@randy.pensive.org
Hannes Tschofenig
Individual
Email: Hannes.Tschofenig@gmx.net
URI: http://www.tschofenig.priv.at
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