Network Working Group R. Sparks
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The SIP Referred-By Mechanism
draft-ietf-sip-referredby-03
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Abstract
The SIP REFER method provides a mechanism where one party (the
referrer) gives a second party (the referee) an arbitrary URI to
reference. If that URI is a SIP URI, the referee will send a SIP
request, often an INVITE, to that URI (the refer target). This
document extends the REFER method allowing the referrer to provide
information about the REFER request to the refer target using the
referee as an intermediary. This information includes the identity
of the referrer and the URI to which the referrer referred. The
mechanism utilizes S/MIME to help protect this information from a
malicious intermediary. This protection is optional, but a recipient
may refuse to accept a request unless it is present.
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Table of Contents
1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. The Referred-By Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1 Referrer behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2 Referee behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3 Refer Target behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. The Referred-By Header Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. The Referred-By Token . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1 Refer target inspection of a Referred-By token . . . . . . . . 8
5. The 429 Provide Referrer Identity error response . . . . . . . 9
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.1 Identifying the referee in the Referred-by Token . . . . . . . 11
7. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.1 Basic REFER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.2 Insecure REFER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7.3 Requiring Referrer Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
7.4 Nested REFER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
9. Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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1. Overview
The SIP REFER method [1] provides a mechanism where one party (the
referrer) provides a second party (the referee) with an arbitrary URI
to reference. If that URI is a SIP URI, the referee will send a SIP
request, often an INVITE, to that URI (the refer target). Nothing
provided in [1] distinguishes this referenced request from any other
request the referee might have sent to the refer target.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Referrer Referee Refer Target
| | |
| REFER | |
| Refer-To: target | |
|----------------->| INVITE target |
| |------------------->|
Classic REFER
---------------------------------------------------------------------
There are applications of REFER, such as call transfer [7], where it
is desirable to provide the refer target with certain information
about the referrer and the REFER request itself. This information
may include, but is not limited to, the referrer's identity, the
referred to URI, and the time of the referral. The refer target can
use this information when deciding whether to admit the referenced
request. This draft defines one set of mechanisms to provide that
information.
All of the mechanisms in this draft involve placing information in
the REFER request that the referee copies into the referenced
request. This necessarily establishes the referee as an eavesdropper
and places the referee in a position to launch man-in-the-middle
attacks on that information.
At the simplest level, this draft defines a mechanism for carrying
the referrer's identity, expressed as a SIP URI in a new header:
Referred-By. The refer target can use that information, even if it
has not been protected from the referee, at the perils and with the
limitations documented here. The draft proceeds to define an S/MIME
based mechanism for expressing the identity of the referrer and
capturing other information about the REFER request, allowing the
refer target to detect tampering (and other undesirable behaviors) by
the referee.
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2. The Referred-By Mechanism
The following figure summarizes how Referred-By information is
carried to the Refer Target. The Referrer provides a Referred-By
header with its SIP address-of-record, optionally associating an S/
MIME protected token reflecting the identity of the referrer and
details of the REFER request. The Referee copies this header and the
token, if provided, into the triggered request (shown here as an
INVITE).
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Referrer Referee Refer Target
| | |
| REFER | |
| Refer-To: target | |
| Referred-By: referrer;cid=X | |
| | |
| (one of the body parts is) | |
| Content-ID: X | |
| <Referred-By Token> | |
|----------------------------->| |
| | INVITE target |
| | Referred-By: referrer;cid=X |
| | |
| | (one of the body parts is) |
| | Content-ID: X |
| | <Referred-By token> |
| |---------------------------->|
REFER with Referred-By
---------------------------------------------------------------------
2.1 Referrer behavior
A UA sending a REFER request (a referrer) MAY provide a Referred-By
header field value in the request. A REFER request MUST NOT contain
more than one Referred-By header field value.
A referrer MAY include a Referred-By token in a REFER request. A
REFER request containing a Referred-By token MUST contain a Referred-
By header field value with a cid parameter value equal to the
Content-ID of the body part containing the token.
The referrer will receive a NOTIFY with a message/sipfrag [3] body
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indicating a final response of 429 "Provide Referrer Identity" to the
referenced request if the refer target requires a valid Referred-By
token to accept the request. This can occur when either no token is
provided or a provided token is invalid.
The referrer will receive a 429 "Provide Referrer Identity" response
to the REFER if the referee requires a Referred-By token to be
present in order to accept the REFER.
If a referrer wishes to reattempt to refer a referee after receiving
a 429 response or a NOTIFY containing a 429, it MAY submit a new
REFER request containing a Referred-By token.
2.2 Referee behavior
A UA accepting a REFER request (a referee) to a SIP URI (using either
the sip: or sips: scheme) MUST copy any Referred-By header field
value and token into the referenced request without modification.
A referee MAY reject a REFER request that does not contain a
Referred-By token with a 429 "Provide Referrer Identity" response. A
referee SHOULD NOT reject a request that contains a Referred-By token
encrypted to a key it does not possess. Note that per [2] the
referee should still be able to verify the signature of such an
encrypted token.
A referee SHOULD present the same identity to the referrer and the
refer target.
2.3 Refer Target behavior
A UA receiving a non-REFER SIP request MAY inspect the request for a
Referred-By header field and token.
If a Referred-By header field value is not present, this UA can not
distinguish this request from any other the UA acting as the referee
might have sent. Thus, the UA would apply exactly the admissions
policies and processing described in [4] to the request.
If a Referred-By header field value is present, the receiving UA can
consider itself a refer target and MAY apply additional admission
policies based on the contents of the Referred-By header field and
token.
The referee is in a position to modify the contents of the Referred-
By header field value, or falsely provide one even if no REFER
actually exists. If such behavior could affect admission policy
(including influencing the agent's user by rendering misleading
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content), the refer target SHOULD require that a valid Referred-By
token be present.
The refer target MAY reject a request if no Referred-By token is
present or if the token is stale using the 429 "Provide Referrer
Identity" error response defined in Section 5. The 428 error
response from [6] is not appropriate for this purpose - it is needed
for the refer target to request an authentication token from the
referee.
If no Referred-By token is present, the refer target MAY proceed with
processing the request. If the agent provides any information from
the Referred-By header to its user as part of processing the request,
it MUST notify the user that the information is suspect.
The refer target MUST reject an otherwise well-formed request with an
invalid Referred-By token (see Section 4) with a 429 error response.
3. The Referred-By Header Field
Referred-By is a request header field as defined by [4]. It can
appear in any request. It carries a SIP URI representing the
identity of the referrer and, optionally, the Content-ID of a body
part (the Referred-By token) that provides a more secure statement of
that identity.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------
Referred-By = ("Referred-By" / "b") HCOLON referrer-uri
*( SEMI (referredby-id-param / generic-param) )
referrer-uri = ( name-addr / addr-spec )
referredby-id-param = "cid" EQUAL sip-clean-msg-id
sip-clean-msg-id = LDQUOT dot-atom "@" (dot-atom / host) RDQUOT
dot-atom = atom *( "." atom )
atom = 1*( alphanum / "-" / "!" / "%" / "*" /
"_" / "+" / "'" / "`" / "~" )
Referred-By Syntax
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Since the Content-ID appears as a SIP header parameter value which
must conform to the expansion of gen-value defined in [4], this
grammar produces values in the intersection of the expansions of gen-
value and msg-id from [8]. The double-quotes surrounding the sip-
clean-msg-id MUST be replaced with left and right angle brackets to
derive the Content-ID used in the message's MIME body. For example,
Referred-By: sip:r@ref.example;cid="2UWQFN309shb3@ref.example"
indicates the token is in the body part containing
Content-ID: <2UWQFN309shb3@ref.example>
The Referred-By header field MAY appear in any SIP request, but is
meaningless for ACK and CANCEL. Proxies do not need to be able to
read Referred-By header field values and MUST NOT remove or modify
them.
The following row should be interpreted as if it appeared in Table 3
of RFC 3261.
Header field where proxy ACK BYE CAN INV OPT REG
___________________________________________________________________
Referred-By R - o - o o o
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4. The Referred-By Token
The Referred-By token is an Authenticated Identity Body as defined by
[2]. This body part MUST be identified with a MIME [5] Content-ID:
field.
The sipfrag inside a Referred-By token MUST contain copies of the
Refer-To, Referred-By, and Date header fields from the REFER request.
The token SHOULD NOT contain the Call-ID header field from the REFER
request as that information is not useful to the refer target and may
even be an information leak. The token SHOULD NOT contain the From
header field from the REFER request since the identity being claimed
is represented in the Referred-By header field.
The token MAY contain the To header field from the REFER request, but
it SHOULD NOT be included unless the referrer has cryptographically
identified the referee. Some ways this authentication can be
achieved include inspecting the certificates used in a TLS
association between the referrer and the referee or encrypting the
Refer-To header in the REFER request using the S/MIME encryption
techniques detailed in [4]. Including the To header field
significantly strengthens the claim being asserted by the token, but
may have privacy implications as discussed in Section 6.1.
Additional header fields and body parts MAY be included in the token.
As described in [2], a Referred-By token MAY be encrypted as well as
signed. The subjectAltName of the certificate used for these
operations SHOULD exactly match the identity claimed in the referrer-
uri in the Referred-By header field in the token.
4.1 Refer target inspection of a Referred-By token
A refer target MUST treat a Referred-By token with an invalid
signature as an invalid token. A target SHOULD treat a token with an
aged Date header field value as invalid.
A target SHOULD verify that the request it receives matches the
reference in the Refer-To header field in the token. This
verification SHOULD include at least the request method and any
indicated end-to-end header field values. Note that the URI in the
Refer-To header field may not match the request URI in the received
request due to request retargetting between the referee and the refer
target.
The target SHOULD verify that the identity in the Referred-By header
field in the token exactly matches the SubjectAltName from the
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signing certificate, reporting discrepancies to its user as described
in [2].
If the token contains a To header field, the target SHOULD verify
that the identity it expresses matches the referrer. One way of
verifying this is to exactly match the identity in the token's To
header field with the subjectAltName of the certificate used by the
referee to sign the aib protecting the request itself. The 428
response defined in [6] can be used to request such an aib if one is
not already present.
5. The 429 Provide Referrer Identity error response
The 429 client error response code is used by a refer target to
indicate that the referee must provide a valid Referred-By token. As
discussed in the behavior section, the referee will forward this
error response to the referrer in a NOTIFY as the result of the
REFER. The suggested text phrase for the 429 error response is
"Provide Referrer Identity".
6. Security Considerations
This mechanism defined in this specification relies on an
intermediary (the referee) to forward information from the referrer
to the refer target. This necessarily establishes the referee as an
eavesdropper of that information and positions him perfectly to
launch man-in-the-middle attacks using the mechanism.
A SIP proxy is similarly positioned. Protecting SIP messaging from
malicious proxy implementations is discussed in [4]. In contrast to
a proxy, the referee's agent is an endpoint. Proxies will typically
be managed and monitored by service providers. Malicious behavior by
a proxy is more likely to be noticed and result in negative
repercussions for the provider than malicious behavior by an endpoint
would be. The behavior of an endpoint can be entirely under the
control of a single user. Thus, it is more feasible for an endpoint
acting as referee to behave maliciously than it is for a proxy being
operated by a service provider.
This specification uses an S/MIME based mechanism to enable the refer
target to detect manipulation of the Referred-By information by the
referee. Use of this protection is optional! The community has
asserted that there are systems where trust in the validity of this
information is either not important or can be established through
other means. Any implementation choosing not to use this optional
mechanism needs to provide its own defense to the following risks:
o The Referred-By information is highly likely to influence request
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admission policy. For instance, it may be displayed to the user
of the agent with a "This call was transferred to you by X.
Accept?" prompt. A malicious referee can unduly influence that
policy decision by providing falsified referred-by information.
This includes falsely claiming to have been referred in the first
place. (The S/MIME mechanism protects the information with a
signature, hampering the referee's ability to inject or modify
information without knowing the key used for that signature).
o A referee is by definition an eavesdropper of the referred-by
information. Parts of that information may be sensitive. (The S/
MIME mechanism allows encryption).
o The referee may store any referred-by information it sees and
paste it into future unrelated requests. (The S/MIME mechanism
allows detection of stale assertions by covering a timestamp with
the signature and allows detection of use in unrelated requests by
covering the Refer-To header field with the signature).
The mechanisms in this specification do NOT prevent the referee from
deleting ALL referred-by information from the referenced request. A
refer target can not detect such deletion. This introduces no new
problems since removing all referred-by information from a referenced
request transforms it into an ordinary SIP request as described in
[4]. Thus the referee gains no new influence over processing logic
at the refer target by removing the referred-by information.
Refer targets can protect themselves from the possibility that a
malicious referee removed a token (leaving an unsecured identity in
the Referred-By header field) by using the 429 error response.
Applications using the mechanisms in this draft may be able to take
advantage of pre-existing relationships between the participants to
mitigate the risks of its use. In some transfer scenarios, A has the
choice of referring B to C or referring C to B. If A and B have a
pre-existing trust relationship leading A to have greater confidence
that B will not behave maliciously (B is A's administrative assistant
for example), referring B to C may make more sense.
This mechanism involves two SIP requests between three endpoints, the
REFER and the referenced request. The content of those messages
(including the referred-by information) is subject to the security
considerations and protection mechanisms documented in [4].
Proxies between the participants may collect referred-by information
and reinsert it in future requests or make it available to hostile
endpoints. The end-to-end confidentiality capabilities discussed in
[4] can help reduce risk of exposing sensitive referred-by
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information to these proxies. The abuse possibilities in subsequent
requests by proxies (or endpoints that they may leak information to)
between the referee and the refer target are identical to abuse by
the referee and the considerations discussed for malicious referee
applies. The abuse possibilities in subsequent requests by proxies
(or endpoints that they may leak information to) between the referrer
and the referee are similar to those discussed for the presentation
of Authenticated Identity Bodies in [6].
6.1 Identifying the referee in the Referred-by Token
To a refer target, a Referred-By token minimally asserts "The
identity expressed by this Referred-By header field asked at the time
indicated in this Date header field that the request indicated by
this Refer-To header field be sent". This assertion makes no claims
at all about who is being asked to send the request. This is
sufficient to enable policies such as "Accept any requests referred
by Alice", but not "Only accept requests from Bob if he can prove
that Alice referred him to us". Thus, there is an opportunity for a
cut-and-paste attack. If Mallory sees Alice refer Carol to us using
a minimal token, he can copy that token into his own request (as long
as it matches what is indicated in the embedded Refer-To header), and
it will appear to us that Alice referred Mallory to us. This risk is
best mitigated by protecting the REFER Alice sends to Carol from
eavesdropping, using TLS or the S/MIME mechanisms detailed in [4].
Including the To header field from the REFER request in the Referred-
by token enables the "Only accept requests from Bob if he can prove
that Alice referred him to us". Alice is constrained to add this
header to the token only if she is sure she is sending the REFER
request to Bob. We, in turn, ensure it was Bob that sent the
referrenced request to us in addition to validating Alice's signature
of the token. Mallory's earlier attack is not effective with this
token.
Including the To header field in the Referred-By token has privacy
implications, however. Carol, above, might wish to contact us
anonymously. That wish would be defeated if Carol's identity
appeared in the token Alice created. If Alice encrypted the token to
us, Carol will not even be aware of the information leak. To protect
herself when she wishes anonymity, Carol will have to reject any
REFER requests containing a Referred-By token she can not inspect.
7. Examples
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7.1 Basic REFER
This example shows the secured Referred-By mechanism applied to a
REFER to an SIP INVITE URI.
Details are shown only for those messages involved in exercising the
mechanism defined in this document.
Referrer Referee Refer Target
| F1 REFER | |
|-------------------------->| |
| 202 Accepted | |
|<--------------------------| |
| NOTIFY | |
|<--------------------------| F2 INVITE |
| 200 OK |--------------------------->|
|-------------------------->| 200 OK |
| |<---------------------------|
| | ACK |
| NOTIFY |--------------------------->|
|<--------------------------| |
| 200 OK | |
|-------------------------->| |
| | |
F1 REFER sip:referee@referee.example SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP referrer.example;branch=z9hG4bK392039842
To: sip:referee@referee.example
From: sip:referrer@referrer.example;tag=39092342
Call-ID: 2203900ef0299349d9209f023a
CSeq: 1239930 REFER
Max-Forwards: 70
Contact: <sip:referrer.example>
Refer-To: <sip:refertarget@target.example>
Referred-By: <sip:referrer@referrer.example>
;cid="20398823.2UWQFN309shb3@referrer.example"
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=unique-boundary-1
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
--unique-boundary-1
Content-Type: multipart/signed;
protocol="application/pkcs7-signature";
micalg=sha1; boundary=dragons39
Content-ID: <20398823.2UWQFN309shb3@referrer.example>
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
--dragons39
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Content-Type: message/sipfrag
Content-Disposition: aib; handling=optional
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:02:03 GMT
Refer-To: <sip:refertarget@target.example>
Referred-By: <sip:referrer@referrer.example>
;cid="20398823.2UWQFN309shb3@referrer.example"
--dragons39
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name=smime.p7s
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=smime.p7s;
handling=required
(appropriate signature goes here)
--dragons39--
--unique-boundary-1--
F2 INVITE sip:refertarget@target.example SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP referee.example;branch=z9hG4bKffe209934aac
To: <sip:refertarget@target.example>
From: <sip:referee@referee.example>;tag=2909034023
Call-ID: fe9023940-a3465@referee.example
CSeq: 889823409 INVITE
Max-Forwards: 70
Contact: <sip:referee@referee.example>
Referred-By: <sip:referrer@referrer.example>
;cid="20398823.2UWQFN309shb3@referrer.example"
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=my-boundary-9
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
--my-boundary-9
Content-Type: application/sdp
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
v=0
o=referee 2890844526 2890844526 IN IP4 referee.example
s=Session SDP
c=IN IP4 referee.example
t=0 0
m=audio 49172 RTP/AVP 0
a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000
--my-boundary-9
Content-Type: multipart/signed;
protocol="application/pkcs7-signature";
micalg=sha1; boundary=dragons39
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Content-ID: <20398823.2UWQFN309shb3@referrer.example>
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
--dragons39
Content-Type: message/sipfrag
Content-Disposition: aib; handling=optional
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:02:03 GMT
Refer-To: <sip:refertarget@target.example>
Referred-By: <sip:referrer@referrer.example>
;cid="20398823.2UWQFN309shb3@referrer.example"
--dragons39
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name=smime.p7s
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=smime.p7s;
handling=required
(appropriate signature goes here)
--dragons39--
--my-boundary-9--
7.2 Insecure REFER
The flow for this example is the same as that of Section 7.1. Here,
the referrer has opted to not include a Referred-By token, and the
refer target is willing to accept the referenced request without one.
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F1 REFER sip:referee@referee.example SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP referrer.example;branch=z9hG4bK392039842
To: <sip:referee@referee.example>
From: <sip:referrer@referrer.example>;tag=39092342
Call-ID: 2203900ef0299349d9209f023a
CSeq: 1239930 REFER
Max-Forwards: 70
Contact: <sip:referrer.example>
Refer-To: <sip:refertarget@target.example>
Referred-By: <sip:referrer@referrer.example>
Content-Length: 0
F2 INVITE sip:refertarget@target.example SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP referee.example;branch=z9hG4bKffe209934aac
To: <sip:refertarget@target.example>
From: <sip:referee@referee.example>;tag=2909034023
Call-ID: fe9023940-a3465@referee.example
CSeq: 889823409 INVITE
Max-Forwards: 70
Contact: <sip:referee@referee.example>
Referred-By: <sip:referrer@referrer.example>
Content-Type: application/sdp
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
v=0
o=referee 2890844526 2890844526 IN IP4 referee.example
s=Session SDP
c=IN IP4 referee.example
t=0 0
m=audio 49172 RTP/AVP 0
a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000
7.3 Requiring Referrer Identity
In contrast to the example in Section 7.2, the refer target requires
a Referred-By token to accept the referenced request. The referrer
chooses to provide an encrypted token (note that the block surrounded
by asterisks represents encrypted content). F1 and F2 are identical
to the messages detailed in Section 7.2.
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Referrer Referee Refer Target
| F1 REFER | |
|-------------------------->| |
| 202 Accepted | |
|<--------------------------| |
| NOTIFY | |
|<--------------------------| F2 INVITE |
| 200 OK |--------------------------->|
|-------------------------->| F3 429 Provide Referrer Identity
| |<---------------------------|
| | ACK |
| F4 NOTIFY |--------------------------->|
|<--------------------------| |
| 200 OK | |
|-------------------------->| |
| F5 REFER | |
|-------------------------->| |
| 202 Accepted | |
|<--------------------------| |
| NOTIFY | |
|<--------------------------| F6 INVITE |
| 200 OK |--------------------------->|
|-------------------------->| 200 OK |
| |<---------------------------|
| | ACK |
| NOTIFY |--------------------------->|
|<--------------------------| |
| 200 OK | |
|-------------------------->| |
| | |
F3 SIP/2.0 429 Provide Referrer Identity
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP referee.example;branch=z9hG4bKffe209934aac
To: <sip:refertarget@target.example>;tag=392093422302334
From: <sip:referee@referee.example>;tag=2909034023
Call-ID: fe9023940-a3465@referee.example
CSeq: 889823409 INVITE
Content-Length: 0
F4 NOTIFY sip:referrer@referrer.example SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP referee.example;branch=z9hG4bK2934209da390
To: <sip:referrer@referrer.example>;tag=39092342
From: <sip:referee@referee.example>;tag=199949923
Call-ID: 2203900ef0299349d9209f023a
CSeq: 3920390 NOTIFY
Event: refer;id=1239930
Subscription-State: terminated
Content-Type: message/sipfrag
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F5 REFER sip:referee@referee.example SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP referrer.example;branch=z9hG4bK98823423
To: <sip:referee@referee.example>
From: <sip:referrer@referrer.example>;tag=39092342
Call-ID: 2203900ef0299349d9209f023a
CSeq: 1239931 REFER
Max-Forwards: 70
Contact: <sip:referrer.example>
Refer-To: <sip:refertarget@target.example>
Referred-By: <sip:referrer@referrer.example>
;cid="20342EFXEI.390sdefn2@referrer.example"
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=unique-boundary-1
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
--unique-boundary-1
Content-Type: multipart/signed;
protocol="application/pkcs7-signature";
micalg=sha1; boundary=boundary42
Content-ID: <20342EFXEI.390sdefn2@referrer.example>
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
--boundary42
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-mime; smime-type=enveloped-data;
name=smime.p7m
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=smime.p7m
handling=required
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
***********************************************************
* Content-Type: message/sipfrag *
* Content-Disposition: aib; handling=optional *
* *
* Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:02:03 GMT *
* Refer-To: <sip:refertarget@target.example> *
* Referred-By: <sip:referrer@referrer.example> *
* ;cid="20342EFXEI.390sdefn2@referrer.example" *
***********************************************************
--boundary42
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name=smime.p7s
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=smime.p7s;
handling=required
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--boundary42--
F6 INVITE sip:refertarget@target.example SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP referee.example;branch=z9hG4bK3920390423
To: <sip:refertarget@target.example>
From: <sip:referee@referee.example>;tag=1342093482342
Call-ID: 23499234-9239842993@referee.example
CSeq: 19309423 INVITE
Max-Forwards: 70
Referred-By: <sip:referrer@referrer.example>
;cid="20342EFXEI.390sdefn2@referrer.example"
Contact: <sip:referee@referee.example>
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=my-boundary-9
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
--my-boundary-9
Content-Type: application/sdp
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
v=0
o=referee 2890844526 2890844526 IN IP4 referee.example
s=Session SDP
c=IN IP4 referee.example
t=0 0
m=audio 49172 RTP/AVP 0
a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000
--my-boundary-9
Content-Type: multipart/signed;
protocol="application/pkcs7-signature";
micalg=sha1; boundary=boundary42
Content-ID: <20342EFXEI.390sdefn2@referrer.example>
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
--boundary42
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-mime; smime-type=enveloped-data;
name=smime.p7m
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=smime.p7m
handling=required
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
***********************************************************
* Content-Type: message/sipfrag *
* Content-Disposition: aib; handling=optional *
* *
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* Refer-To: <sip:refertarget@target.example> *
* Referred-By: <sip:referrer@referrer.example> *
* ;cid="20342EFXEI.390sdefn2@referrer.example" *
***********************************************************
--boundary42
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name=smime.p7s
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=smime.p7s;
handling=required
(appropriate signature)
--boundary42--
--my-boundary-9--
7.4 Nested REFER
The Refer-To URI may be a SIP URI indicating the REFER method.
Consider The following URI which A uses to refer B to send a REFER
request to C which refers C to send an INVITE to D.
Note that A provides a Referred-By token which gets passed through B
and C to D. In particular, B does not provide its own Referred-By
token to C. Also note that A is notified of the outcome of the
request it triggered at B (the REFER), not at C (the INVITE).
Refer-To: <sip:C.example;method=REFER?Refer-To="<sip:D.example>">
This reference would result in the following flow:
A B C D
| F1 REFER | | |
|------------------>| | |
| 202 Accepted | | |
|<------------------| | |
| NOTIFY | | |
|<------------------| F2 REFER | |
| 200 OK |------------------>| |
|------------------>| 202 Accepted | |
| F3 NOTIFY |<------------------| |
|<------------------| NOTIFY | |
| 200 OK |<------------------| F4 INVITE |
|------------------>| 200 OK |------------------>|
| |------------------>| 200 OK |
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| | NOTIFY |<------------------|
| |<------------------| ACK |
| | 200 OK |------------------>|
| |------------------>| |
| | | |
F1 REFER sip:B SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP A.example;branch=z9hG4bK3802394232
To: <sip:B.example>
From: <sip:A.example>;tag=23490234
Call-ID: 2304098023@A.example
CSeq: 2342093 REFER
Max-Forwards: 70
Contact: <sip:A.example>
Refer-To: <sip:C.example;method=REFER?Refer-To="<sip:D>.example">
Referred-By: <sip:A.example>;
cid="23094202342.10123091233@A.example"
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=unique-boundary-1
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
--unique-boundary-1
Content-Type: multipart/signed;
protocol="application/pkcs7-signature";
micalg=sha1; boundary=dragons39
Content-ID: <23094202342.10123091233@A.example>
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
--dragons39
Content-Type: message/sipfrag
Content-Disposition: aib; handling=optional
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:02:03 GMT
Refer-To: <sip:C.example;method=REFER?Refer-To="<sip:D.example>">
Referred-By: <sip:A.example>;
cid="23094202342.10123091233@A.example"
--dragons39
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name=smime.p7s
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=smime.p7s;
handling=required
(appropriate signature goes here)
--dragons39--
--unique-boundary-1--
F2 REFER sip:C.example SIP/2.0
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Via: SIP/2.0/UDP B.example;branch=z9hG4bK00239842
To: <sip:C.example>
From: <sip:B.example>;tag=2934u23
Call-ID: 203942834@B.example
CSeq: 8321039 REFER
Max-Forwards: 70
Contact: <sip:B.example>
Refer-To: <sip:D.example>
Referred-By: <sip:A.example>;
cid="23094202342.10123091233@A.example"
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=unique-boundary-1
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
--unique-boundary-1
Content-Type: multipart/signed;
protocol="application/pkcs7-signature";
micalg=sha1; boundary=dragons39
Content-ID: <23094202342.10123091233@A.example>
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
--dragons39
Content-Type: message/sipfrag
Content-Disposition: aib; handling=optional
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:02:03 GMT
Refer-To: <sip:C.example;method=REFER?Refer-To="<sip:D.example>">
Referred-By: <sip:A.example>;cid="23094202342.1012309123@A.example"
--dragons39
Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name=smime.p7s
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=smime.p7s;
handling=required
(appropriate signature goes here)
--dragons39--
--unique-boundary-1--
F3 NOTIFY sip:A.example SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP A.example;branch=z9hG4bK3802394232
To: <sip:A.example>;tag=23490234
From: <sip:B.example>;tag=5923020
Call-ID: 2304098023@A.example
CSeq: 29420342 NOTIFY
Event: refer;id=2342093
Subscription-State: terminated
Max-Forwards: 70
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Contact: <sip:B.example>
Content-Type: message/sipfrag
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
SIP/2.0 202 Accepted
F4 INVITE sip:D.example SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP C.example;branch=z9hG4bK29348234
To: <sip:D.example>
From: <sip:C.example>;tag=023942334
Call-ID: 23489020352@C.example
CSeq: 1230934 INVITE
Max-Forwards: 70
Contact: <sip:C.example>
Referred-By: <sip:A.example>;
cid="23094202342.10123091233@A.example"
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=unique-boundary-1
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
--unique-boundary-1
Content-Type: application/sdp
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
v=0
o=C 2890844526 2890844526 IN IP4 C.example
s=Session SDP
c=IN IP4 C.example
t=0 0
m=audio 49172 RTP/AVP 0
a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000
--unique-boundary-1
Content-Type: multipart/signed;
protocol="application/pkcs7-signature";
micalg=sha1; boundary=dragons39
Content-ID: <23094202342.10123091233@A.example>
Content-Length: (appropriate value)
--dragons39
Content-Type: message/sipfrag
Content-Disposition: aib; handling=optional
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:02:03 GMT
Refer-To: <sip:C.example;method=REFER?Refer-To="<sip:D.example>">
Referred-By: <sip:A.example>;
cid="23094202342.1012309123@A.example"
--dragons39
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Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name=smime.p7s
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=smime.p7s;
handling=required
(appropriate signature goes here)
--dragons39--
--unique-boundary-1--
8. IANA Considerations
(Note to RFC Editor: Please fill in all occurrences of XXXX in this
section with the RFC number of this specification).
This document defines a new SIP header field name with a compact form
(Referred-By and b respectively). It also defines an new SIP client
error response code (429).
The following changes should be made to http:///www.iana.org/
assignments/sip-parameters
The following row should be added to the header field section
(replacing any existing row for Referred-By).
Header Name Compact Form Reference
Referred-By b [RFCXXXX]
The following row should be added to the response code section under
the Request Failure 4xx heading
429 Provide Referrer Identity [RFCXXXX]
9. Contributors
Rohan Mahy distilled RFC2822's msg-id into this document's definition
of sip-clean-msg-id.
Normative References
[1] Sparks, R., "The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Refer
Method", RFC 3515, April 2003.
[2] Peterson, J., "SIP Authenticated Identity Body (AIB) Format",
draft-ietf-sip-authid-body-02 (work in progress), July 2003.
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[3] Sparks, R., "Internet Media Type message/sipfrag", RFC 3420,
November 2002.
[4] 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.
[5] Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies",
RFC 2045, November 1996.
Informative References
[6] Peterson, J., "Enhancements for Authenticated Identity
Management in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)", draft-
ietf-sip-identity-01 (work in progress), March 2003.
[7] Sparks, R. and A. Johnston, "Session Initiation Protocol Call
Control - Transfer", draft-ietf-sipping-cc-transfer-01 (work in
progress), February 2003.
[8] Resnick, P., "Internet Message Format", RFC 2822, April 2001.
Author's Address
Robert J. Sparks
dynamicsoft
5100 Tennyson Parkway
Suite 1200
Plano, TX 75024
EMail: rsparks@dynamicsoft.com
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