Registering a SIP Resource Priority Header Field Namespace for Local Emergency Communications
RFC 7135
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RFC - Informational
(May 2014; No errata)
Was draft-polk-local-emergency-rph-namespace (individual in rai area)
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) J. Polk
Request for Comments: 7135 Cisco Systems
Category: Informational May 2014
ISSN: 2070-1721
Registering a SIP Resource Priority Header Field Namespace for
Local Emergency Communications
Abstract
This document creates the new Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
Resource Priority header field namespace 'esnet' and registers this
namespace with IANA. The new header field namespace allows for local
emergency session establishment to a public safety answering point
(PSAP), between PSAPs, and between a PSAP and first responders and
their organizations.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
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). Not all documents
approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see 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/rfc7135.
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RFC 7135 Emergency RPH Namespace May 2014
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Rules of Usage of the Resource Priority Header Field . . . . . 4
3. "esnet" Namespace Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1. Namespace Definition Rules and Guidelines . . . . . . . . 6
3.2. The 'esnet' Namespace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.1. IANA Resource-Priority Namespace Registration . . . . . . 7
4.2. IANA Priority-Value Registrations . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1. Introduction
This document creates the new Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
Resource Priority header (RPH) field namespace 'esnet' for local
emergency usage and registers this namespace with IANA. The SIP
Resource-Priority header field is defined in RFC 4412 [RFC4412]. The
new 'esnet' namespace is to be used for inbound calls towards a
public safety answering point (PSAP), between PSAPs, and between a
PSAP and first responders or their organizations within managed IP
networks. This namespace is not for use on the open public Internet
because it can be trivially forged.
Adding an RPH with the 'esnet' namespace can be differentiated from
the marking of an emergency call using a service URN as defined in
[RFC5031] in that the RPH specifically requests preferential
treatment in networks that honor it, while the marking merely
identifies an emergency call without necessarily affecting resources
allocated to it. It is appropriate to use both where applicable.
RPH with 'esnet' may also be used within public safety networks for
SIP sessions that are not emergency calls and thus not marked per RFC
5031.
This new namespace is included in SIP requests to provide an explicit
priority indication within controlled environments, such as an IP
Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) infrastructure or Emergency Services
network (ESInet) where misuse can be reduced to an acceptable level
because these types of networks have controls in place. The function
facilitates differing treatment of emergency SIP requests according
to local policy, or more likely, a contractual agreement between the
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