Location Conveyance for the Session Initiation Protocol
RFC 6442
Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(December 2011; Errata)
Updated by RFC 8262
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Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Replaces | draft-ietf-sip-location-conveyance | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text pdf html bibtex | ||
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Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 6442 (Proposed Standard) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Robert Sparks | ||
IESG note | Adam Roach (adam@nostrum.com) is the document shepherd. | ||
Send notices to | (None) |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) J. Polk Request for Comments: 6442 Cisco Systems Category: Standards Track B. Rosen ISSN: 2070-1721 J. Peterson NeuStar December 2011 Location Conveyance for the Session Initiation Protocol Abstract This document defines an extension to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to convey geographic location information from one SIP entity to another SIP entity. The SIP extension covers end-to-end conveyance as well as location-based routing, where SIP intermediaries make routing decisions based upon the location of the Location Target. Status of This Memo This is an Internet Standards Track document. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6442. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2011 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Polk, et al. Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 6442 Location Conveyance in SIP December 2011 This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published or made publicly available before November 10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process. Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other than English. Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................3 2. Conventions and Terminology Used in This Document ...............4 3. Overview of SIP Location Conveyance .............................4 3.1. Location Conveyed by Value .................................4 3.2. Location Conveyed as a Location URI ........................5 3.3. Location Conveyed though a SIP Intermediary ................6 3.4. SIP Intermediary Replacing Bad Location ....................7 4. SIP Extensions for Geolocation Conveyance .......................8 4.1. The Geolocation Header Field ...............................8 4.2. The Geolocation-Routing Header Field ......................11 4.2.1. Explaining Geolocation-Routing Header-Value States .............................................12 4.3. 424 (Bad Location Information) Response Code ..............14 4.4. The Geolocation-Error Header Field ........................15 4.5. Location URIs in Message Bodies ...........................19 4.6. Location Profile Negotiation ..............................19 5. Geolocation Examples ...........................................20 5.1. Location-by-Value (in Coordinate Format) ..................20 5.2. Two Locations Composed in Same Location Object Example ....21 6. Geopriv Privacy Considerations .................................23 7. Security Considerations ........................................24 8. IANA Considerations ............................................26 8.1. IANA Registration for the SIP Geolocation Header Field ....26 8.2. IANA Registration for the SIP Geolocation-Routing Header Field ..............................................26 8.3. IANA Registration for Location Profiles ...................27 8.4. IANA Registration for 424 Response Code ...................27 8.5. IANA Registration of New Geolocation-Error Header Field ...28Show full document text