Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Callback
RFC 7090

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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                    H. Schulzrinne
Request for Comments: 7090                           Columbia University
Category: Standards Track                                  H. Tschofenig
ISSN: 2070-1721
                                                             C. Holmberg
                                                                Ericsson
                                                                M. Patel
                                      Huawei Technologies (UK) Co., Ltd.
                                                              April 2014

             Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Callback

Abstract

   After an emergency call is completed (terminated either prematurely
   by the emergency caller or normally by the call taker), the call
   taker may feel the need for further communication.  For example, the
   call may have been dropped by accident without the call taker having
   sufficient information about the current state of an accident victim.
   A call taker may trigger a callback to the emergency caller using the
   contact information provided with the initial emergency call.  This
   callback could, under certain circumstances, be treated like any
   other call and, as a consequence, it may get blocked by authorization
   policies or may get forwarded to an answering machine.

   The IETF emergency services architecture specification already offers
   a solution approach for allowing Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)
   callbacks to bypass authorization policies in order to reach the
   caller without unnecessary delays.  Unfortunately, the specified
   mechanism only supports limited scenarios.  This document discusses
   shortcomings of the current mechanisms and illustrates additional
   scenarios where better-than-normal call treatment behavior would be
   desirable.  We describe a solution based on a new header field value
   for the SIP Priority header field, called "psap-callback", to mark
   PSAP callbacks.

Schulzrinne, et al.          Standards Track                    [Page 1]
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   This is an Internet Standards Track document.

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Schulzrinne, et al.          Standards Track                    [Page 2]
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Table of Contents

   1. Introduction ....................................................3
   2. Terminology .....................................................5
   3. Callback Scenarios ..............................................5
      3.1. Routing Asymmetry ..........................................5
      3.2. Multi-Stage Routing ........................................7
      3.3. Call Forwarding ............................................8
      3.4. Network-Based Service URN Resolution ......................10
      3.5. PSTN Interworking .........................................11
   4. SIP PSAP Callback Indicator ....................................12
      4.1. General ...................................................12
      4.2. Usage .....................................................12
      4.3. Syntax ....................................................12
           4.3.1. General ............................................12
           4.3.2. ABNF ...............................................12
   5. Security Considerations ........................................12
      5.1. Security Threat ...........................................12
      5.2. Security Requirements .....................................13
      5.3. Security Solution .........................................13
   6. IANA Considerations ............................................15