One document matched: draft-ietf-siprec-req-06.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE rfc SYSTEM "rfc2629.dtd" [
<!ENTITY rfc2119 PUBLIC '' 'http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.2119.xml'>
<!ENTITY rfc3261 SYSTEM "http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.3261.xml">
<!ENTITY rfc2804 SYSTEM "http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.2804.xml">
]>
<rfc category="info"
ipr="pre5378Trust200902"
docName="draft-ietf-siprec-req-06">
<?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='rfc2629.xslt' ?>
<?rfc toc="yes" ?>
<?rfc symrefs="yes" ?>
<?rfc sortrefs="yes"?>
<?rfc iprnotified="no" ?>
<?rfc compact="yes" ?>
<?rfc subcompact="no" ?>
<?rfc strict="no" ?>
<front>
<title abbrev="Requirements for SIPREC">Requirements for SIP-based Media Recording (SIPREC)</title>
<author fullname="Ken Rehor" initials="K.R" role="editor" surname="Rehor">
<organization>Cisco Systems</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>170 West Tasman Dr.</street>
<street>Mail Stop SJC30/2/</street>
<city>San Jose</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>95134</code>
<country>USA</country>
</postal>
<email>krehor@cisco.com</email>
</address>
</author>
<author fullname="Leon Portman" initials="L.P" role="editor" surname="Portman">
<organization>NICE Systems</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>8 Hapnina</street>
<city>Ra'anana</city>
<code>43017</code>
<country>Israel</country>
</postal>
<email>leon.portman@nice.com</email>
</address>
</author>
<author fullname="Andrew Hutton" initials="A." surname="Hutton">
<organization>Siemens Enterprise Communications</organization>
<address>
<email>andrew.hutton@siemens-enterprise.com</email>
<uri>http://www.siemens-enterprise.com</uri>
</address>
</author>
<author fullname="Rajnish Jain" initials="R.J" surname="Jain">
<organization>IPC Systems</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>777 Commerce Drive</street>
<city>Fairfield</city>
<region>CT</region>
<code>06825</code>
<country>USA</country>
</postal>
<email>rajnish.jain@ipc.com</email>
</address>
</author>
<date month="December" day="31" year="2010"/>
<workgroup>DISPATCH</workgroup>
<keyword>Internet-Draft</keyword>
<abstract>
<t>Session recording is a critical requirement in many business
communications environments such as call centers and financial
trading floors. In some of these environments, all calls must be
recorded for regulatory and compliance reasons. In others, calls may
be recorded for quality control or business analytics.</t>
<t>Recording is typically done by sending a copy of the session media
to the recording devices. This document specifies requirements for
extensions to SIP that will manage delivery of RTP media from an end-point
that originates media (or that has access to it) to a recording device.
This is being referred to as SIP-based Media Recording.</t>
</abstract>
</front>
<middle>
<section title="Requirements notation">
<t>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] and indicate
requirement levels for compliant mechanisms.</t>
</section>
<section title="Introduction">
<t>Session recording is a critical operational requirement in many
businesses, especially where voice is used as a medium for commerce
and customer support. A prime example where voice is used for trade
is the financial industry. The call recording requirements in this
industry are quite stringent. The recorded calls are used for
dispute resolution and compliance. Other businesses such as customer
support call centers typically employ call recording for quality
control or business analytics, with different requirements.</t>
<t>Depending on the country and its regulatory requirements, financial
trading floors typically must record all calls. In contrast, call centers typically only
record a subset of the calls, and calls must not fail regardless of
the availability of the recording device.</t>
<t>Respecting the privacy rights and wishes of users engaged in a call
is of paramount importance. In many jurisdictions participants have a right to
know that the session is being recorded or might be recorded, and have a
right to opt out, either by terminating the call or by demanding that the
call not be recorded. Therefore this document contains requirements for being
able to notify users that a call is being recorded and for users to be able
to request that a call not be recorded.
Use cases where users participating in a call are not informed that the
call is or might be recorded are outside the scope of this document.
In particular, lawful intercept is outside the scope of this document.
</t>
<t>Furthermore, the scale and cost burdens vary widely, in all markets,
where the different needs for solution capabilities such as media
injection, transcoding, and security-related needs do not conform
well to a one-size-fits-all model. If a standardized solution
supports all of the requirements from every recording market, but
doing so would be expensive for markets with lesser needs, then
proprietary solutions for those markets will continue to propagate.
Care must be taken, therefore, to make a standards-based solution
support optionality and flexibility.</t>
<t>This document specifies requirements for using SIP <xref target="RFC3261"/> between a
Session Recording Client and a Session Recording Server to control the
recording of media that has been transmitted in the context of a Communication Session.
A Communication Session is the "call" between participants.
The Session Recording Client is the source of the recorded media. The Session Recording Server is the sink of
recorded media. It should be noted that the requirements for the protocol between a
Session Recording Server and Session Recording Client have very similar requirements
(such as codec and transport negotiation, encryption key interchange,
firewall traversal) as compared to regular SIP media sessions. The
choice of SIP for session recording provides reuse of an existing
protocol. </t>
<t>The recorded sessions can be any RTP media sessions
including voice, DTMF (as defined by [RFC4733]), video, and text (as defined by [RFC4103]).</t>
<t>An archived session recording is typically comprised of the Communication Session media content and
the Communication Session Metadata. The Communication Session Metadata allows recording archives to be searched and
filtered at a later time and allows a session to be played back in a meaningful way,
e.g., with correct synchronization between the media.
The Communication Session Metadata needs to be conveyed from the Session Recording Client
to the Session Recording Server.</t>
<t>This document only considers active recording, where the Session Recording
Client purposefully streams media to a Session Recording Server. Passive
recording, where a recording device detects media directly from the
network, is outside the scope of this document.</t>
</section>
<section title="Definitions">
<t>Session Recording Server (SRS): A Session Recording Server (SRS) is a SIP User Agent (UA) that is a
specialized media server or collector that acts as the sink of the recorded media. An
SRS is a logical function that typically archives media for extended durations of time and
provides interfaces for search and retrieval of the archived media.
An SRS is typically implemented as a multi-port device that is capable
of receiving media from several sources simultaneously. An SRS is
typically also the sink of the recorded session metadata.
</t>
<t>Session Recording Client (SRC): A Session Recording Client (SRC) is a SIP User Agent
(UA) that acts as the source of the recorded media, sending it to the SRS. An SRC is a logical
function. Its capabilities may be implemented across one or more
physical devices. In practice, an SRC could be a personal device
(such as a SIP phone), a SIP Media Gateway (MG), a Session Border
Controller (SBC) or a SIP Media Server (MS) integrated with an
Application Server (AS). This specification defines the term SRC such
that all such SIP entities can be generically addressed under one
definition. The SRC itself or another entity working on its behalf
(such as a SIP Application Server) may act as the source of the
recording metadata.</t>
<t>Communication Session (CS): A session created between two or more SIP User Agents (UAs)
that is the target for recording.</t>
<t>Recording Session (RS): The SIP session created between an SRC and SRS for the
purpose of recording a Communication Session.</t>
<t>Figure 1 pictorially represents the relationship between a Recording Session and Communication Session.</t>
<figure anchor="recording_session">
<preamble></preamble>
<artwork><![CDATA[
+-------------+ +-----------+
| | Communication Session | |
| A |<------------------------------------>| B |
| | | |
+-------------+ +-----------+
..................................................................
. Session .
. Recording .
. Client .
..................................................................
|
| Recording
| Session
|
v
+------------+
| Session |
| Recording |
| Server |
+------------+
]]></artwork>
<postamble></postamble>
</figure>
<t>Metadata: Information that describes recorded media and the CS to which they relate.</t>
<t>Pause and Resume during a Communication Session:
Pause: The action of temporarily discontinuing the transmission and collection of RS media
Resume: The action of recommencing the transmission and collection of RS media
</t>
</section>
<section title="Use Cases">
<t>Use Case 1: Full-time Recording: One (or more, in the case of redundant recording)
Recording Session for each Communication Session.</t>
<figure anchor="full_time">
<preamble>For example, the diagram below shows the lifecycle of Communication Sessions (CS)
and the relationship to the Recording Sessions (RS)</preamble>
<artwork><![CDATA[
CS |--- CS 1 ---| |--- CS 2 ---| |--- CS 3 ---|
RS |--- RS 1 ---| |--- RS 2 ---| |--- RS 3 ---|
]]></artwork>
<postamble></postamble>
</figure>
<t>Record every CS for specific extension/person.</t>
<t>The need to record all calls is typically due to business process purposes
(such as transaction confirmation or dispute resolution)
or to ensure compliance with governmental regulations.
Applications include enterprise, contact center, and financial trading floors.</t>
<t>Also commonly known as Total Recording.</t>
<t>Use Case 2: Selective Recording: Start a Recording Session when a
Communication Session to be recorded is established.</t>
<figure anchor="selective">
<preamble>In this example, Communication Sessions 1 and 3 are recorded but CS 2 is not.</preamble>
<artwork><![CDATA[
CS |--- CS 1 ---| |--- CS 2 ---| |--- CS 3 ---|
RS |--- RS 1----| |--- RS 2 ---|
]]></artwork>
<postamble></postamble>
</figure>
<t>Use Case 3: Dynamic Recording: Start/Stop a Recording Session during a Communication Session.</t>
<t>The Recording Session starts during a Communication Session, either manually via a user-controlled mechanism
(e.g. button on user’s phone) or automatically via an application (e.g. a Contact Center customer service application)
or business event.
A Recording Session either ends during the Communication Session, or when the Communication Session ends.</t>
<figure anchor="dynamic">
<preamble>One or more Recording Sessions per Communication Session:</preamble>
<artwork><![CDATA[
CS |------------- Communication Session -----------|
RS |---- RS 1 ----| |---- RS 2 -----|
]]></artwork>
<postamble></postamble>
</figure>
<t>Also known as Mid-session or Mid-call Recording.</t>
<t>Use Case 4: Persistent Recording: A single Recording Session captures one or more Communication Sessions,
in sequence (Fig. 6) or in parallel (Fig. 7).
</t>
<figure anchor="persistent">
<preamble></preamble>
<artwork><![CDATA[
|--- CS 1 ---| |--- CS 2 ---| |--- CS 3 ---|
RS |---------------------- Recording Session ---------------------|
]]></artwork>
<postamble></postamble>
</figure>
<t>A Recording Session records continuously without interruption.
Silent periods must be reproduced upon playback
(e.g. by recording the silent period, by not recording the silent periods
but marking them as metadata for a player to utilize, etc.)
Applications include financial trading desks and emergency (first-responder) service
bureaus. The length of a Persistent Recording Sessions is
independent from the length of the actual Communication Sessions.
Persistent Recording Sessions avoid issues such as media clipping
that can occur due to delays in Recording Session establishment.</t>
<t>The connection and attributes of media in the Recording
Session are not dynamically signaled for each Communication Session before
it can be recorded; however, codec re-negotiation is possible.
CS details and CS metadata will still be
signaled, and can be correlated to the recorded media. There
will still need to be a means of correlating the recorded media
connection/packets to the Communication Session.</t>
<figure anchor="mixing">
<preamble>In some cases, more than one concurrent Communication Session
(on a single end-user apparatus, e.g. trading floor turret)
is mixed into one Recording Session:</preamble>
<artwork><![CDATA[
|-------- CS 1 -------|
|-------- CS 2 -------|
|-------- CS 3 -------|
RS |----------- Recording Session --------------|
]]></artwork>
<postamble></postamble>
</figure>
<t>Use Case 5: Real-time Recording Controls.</t>
<t>For an active Recording Session, privacy or security reasons may
demand not capturing a specific portion of a conversation. An
example is for PCI (payment card industry) compliance where credit
card info must be protected. One solution is to not record a caller
speaking their credit card information.</t>
<t>An example of a real-time controls is Pause/Resume.</t>
<t>Use Case 6: IVR / Voice Portal Recording.</t>
<t> Self-service Interactive Voice Response (DTMF or ASR) applications
may need to be recorded for application performance tuning or to meet
compliance requirements.</t>
<t>Metadata about an IVR session recording must include session information
and may include application context information (e.g. VoiceXML session variables, dialog names, etc.)</t>
<t>Use Case 7: Enterprise Mobility Recording.</t>
<t>Many agents and enterprise workers are not located on company premises.</t>
<t>Examples:</t>
<t>o Home-based agents or enterprise workers.</t>
<t>o Mobile phones of knowledge workers when they conduct work related
(and legally required recording) calls. i.e. insurance agents,
brokers, physicians.</t>
<t>Use Case 8: Geographically distributed or centralized recording.</t>
<t>Global banks with multiple branches up to thousands of small sites.</t>
<t>o Only phones and network infrastructure in branches, no recording
services.</t>
<t>o Internal calls inside or between branches must be recorded.</t>
<t>o Centralized recording system in data centers together with
telephony infrastructure (e.g. PBX).</t>
<t>Use Case 9: Record complex call scenarios.</t>
<t>Record a call that is associated with another call.</t>
<t>Example:</t>
<t>o Customer in conversation with Agent</t>
<t>o Agent puts customer on hold in order to consult with a Supervisor.</t>
<t>o Agent in conversation with Supervisor.</t>
<t>o Agent disconnects from Supervisor, reconnects with Customer.</t>
<t>o The Supervisor call must be associated with the original customer call.</t>
<t>Use case 10: High availability and continuous recording.</t>
<t>Specific deployment scenarios present different requirements for system availability,
error handling, etc. including:</t>
<t>o An SRS must always be available at call setup time.</t>
<t>o No loss of media recording, including during failure of an SRS.</t>
<t>o The Communication Session must be terminated (or suitable notification)
in the event of a recording failure.</t>
<t>Use Case 11: Record multi-channel, multi-media session.</t>
<t>Some applications require the recording of more than one media
stream, possibly of different types. Media is synchronized, either
at storage or at playback.</t>
<t>Speech analytics technologies (e.g. word spotting, emotion detection,
speaker identification) may require speaker-separated recordings for
optimum performance.</t>
<t>Multi-modal Contact Centers may include audio, video, IM or other
interaction modalities.</t>
<t>In trading floors environments, in order to save resources,
it may be preferable to mix multiple concurrent calls (Communication Sessions)
on different handsets/speakers on the same turret into single recording session.</t>
<t>Use Case 12: Real-time media processing.</t>
<t>Recorder must support real-time media processing, such as speech analytics.</t>
<t>Recording and real-time analytics of trading floor interactions
(including video and instant messaging). Real time analytics is
required for automatic intervention (stopping interaction or alert)
if for example, trader is not following regulations.</t>
<t>Speaker separation is required in order to reliably detect who is
saying specific phrases.</t>
</section>
<section title="Requirements">
<t>The following are requirements for SIP-based Media Recording:</t>
<t>o REQ-001 The mechanism MUST provide a means for "using the SIP protocol for" establishing,
maintaining and terminating Recording Sessions between a Session Recording Client and a
Session Recording Server.</t>
<t>o REQ-002 The mechanism MUST support the ability to record all CSs in their entirety.</t>
<t>o REQ-003 The mechanism MUST support the ability to record selected CSs in their entirety, according to policy.</t>
<t>o REQ-004 The mechanism MUST support the ability to record selected parts of selected CSs.</t>
<t>o REQ-005 The mechanism MUST support the ability to record a CS without
an intentional loss of media (for example, clipping media at the beginning
of the CS) and without impacting the quality or timing of the CS (for example,
delaying the start of the CS while preparation for recording takes place).
See Use Case 4 in Section 5.</t>
<t>o REQ-006 The mechanism MUST support the recording of IVR sessions.</t>
<t>o REQ-007 The mechanism MUST support the recording of RTP media types voice,
DTMF (as defined by [RFC4733]), video, and text (as defined by [RFC4103]).</t>
<t>o REQ-008 The mechanism MUST support the ability for an SRC to deliver mixed audio
streams from multiple Communication Sessions to an SRS.</t>
<t>Note: A mixed audio stream is where several Communication Sessions
are carried in a single Recording Session. A mixed media stream is
typically produced by a mixer function.
The RS MAY be informed about the composition of the mixed streams through session metadata.</t>
<t>o REQ-009: The mechanism MUST support the ability for an SRC to deliver
mixed audio streams from different parties of a given Communication Session to an SRS.</t>
<t>o REQ-010 The mechanism MUST support the ability to deliver to the SRS multiple media streams for a given CS.</t>
<t>o REQ-011 The mechanism MUST support the ability to pause and resume the
transmission and collection of RS media.</t>
<t>o REQ-012 The mechanism MUST provide the SRS with metadata describing CSs
that are being recorded, including the media being used and the identities of
parties involved.</t>
<t>o REQ-013 The mechanism MUST provide the SRS with the means to correlate
RS media with CS participant media described in metadata.</t>
<t>o REQ-014 Metadata format must be agnostic of the transport protocol.</t>
<t>o REQ-015: The mechanism MUST support a means to cancel and discard
the recording and associated metadata for a CS.
</t>
<t>o REQ-016: The mechanism MUST support a means to cancel and discard
the recording but not the associated metadata for a CS.
</t>
<t>o REQ-017 The mechanism MUST support a means for an authorized participant involved in a CS to request,
prior to the start of recording, that the CS not be recorded</t>
<t>o REQ-018 The mechanism MUST provide a means of indicating to the participants involved in a CS
that their session is being recorded.</t>
<t>Examples include: inject tones into the CS from the SRC,
play a message at the beginning of a session, a visual indicator on a display, etc.</t>
<t>o REQ-019 The mechanism MUST provide a way for metadata to be conveyed to the SRS incrementally during the CS.</t>
<t>o REQ-020 The mechanism MUST NOT prevent high availability deployments.</t>
<t>o REQ-021 The mechanism MUST support means to relate Recording Session(s) with Communication Session(s).</t>
<t>o REQ-022 The mechanism MUST provide the SRS the starting wall clock time for
each RS media stream corresponding to the CS participant media.</t>
<t>o REQ-023 The mechanism MUST provide the SRS the wall clock time when the
Recording Session is paused and resumed.</t>
<t>o REQ-024 The mechanism MUST support functionality such that if the CS is encrypted,
the RS may use the same or different encryption keys.</t>
<t>o REQ-025 The mechanism MUST provide means for an SRS to authenticate the SRC on RS initiation.</t>
<t>o REQ-026 The mechanism MUST provide means for an SRC to authenticate the SRS on RS initiation.</t>
<t>o REQ-027 The mechanism MUST ensure that the integrity of the metadata sent from SRC to SRS is an accurate representation of the original CS metadata.</t>
<t>o REQ-028 The mechanism MUST ensure that the integrity of the media sent from SRC to SRS is an accurate representation of the original CS media.</t>
<t>o REQ-029 The mechanism MUST ensure the confidentiality of the Metadata sent from SRC to SRS.</t>
<t>o REQ-030 The mechanism MUST provide a means to support RS confidentiality.</t>
</section>
<section title="Privacy Considerations">
<t>Respecting the privacy rights and wishes of users engaged in a call
is of paramount importance. In many jurisdictions participants have a right to
know that the session is being recorded or might be recorded, and have a
right to opt out, either by terminating the call or by demanding that the
call not be recorded. Therefore this document contains requirements for being
able to notify users that a call is being recorded and for users to be able
to request that a call not be recorded.
Use cases where users participating in a call are not informed that the
call is or might be recorded are outside the scope of this document.
In particular, lawful intercept is outside the scope of this document.</t>
<t>
Requirements for participant notification of recording
varies widely by jurisdiction. In a given deployment, not all users will be
authorized to stop the recording
of a CS (although any user can terminate a CS). Typically users within the
domain that is carrying out the recording will be subject to policies of
that domain concerning whether CSs are recorded. For example, in a call centre,
agents will be subject to policies of the call centre and may or may not have
the right to prevent the recording of a CS or part of a CS. Users calling into
the call centre, on the other hand, will typically have to ask the agent not
to record the CS. If the agent is unable to prevent recording, or if caller
does not trust the agent, the only option generally is to terminate the CS.</t>
<t>Privacy considerations also extend to what happens to a recording once it
has been created. Typical issues are who can access the recording (e.g.,
receive a copy of the recording, view the metadata, play back the media, etc.),
for what purpose can the recording be used (e.g., for non-repudiation, for
training purposes, for quality control purposes, etc.) and for how long the
recording is to be retained before deletion. These are typically policies of
the domain that makes the recording, rather than policies of individual users
involved in a recorded CS, whether those users be in the same domain or in a
different domain. Taking the call centre example again, agents might be made
aware of call centre policy regarding retention and use of recordings as part
of their employment contract, and callers from outside the call centre might
be given some information about policy when notified that a CS will be recorded
(e.g., through an announcement that says that calls may be recorded for quality purposes).</t>
<t>This document does not specify any requirements for a user engaged in
a CS to be able to dictate policy for what happens to a recording, or
for such information to be conveyed from an SRC to an SRS. It is
assumed that the SRS has access to policy applicable to its
environment and can ensure that recordings are stored and used in
accordance with that policy.
</t>
</section>
<section title="Security Considerations">
<t>Session recording has substantial security implications, for the
SIP UA's being recorded, the SRC, and the SRS.</t>
<t>For the SIP UA's involved in the Communication Session, the requirements
in this draft enable the UA to identify that a Communication Session is being
recorded and for the UA to request that a given Communication Session is not
subject to recording.</t>
<t>Since humans don't typically look at or know about protocol signaling
such as SIP, and indeed the SIP session might have originated through
a PSTN Gateway without any ability to pass on in-signaling
indications of recording, users can be notified of recording in the
media itself through voice announcements, a visual indicator on
the endpoint, or other means.</t>
<t>With regards to security implications of the protocol(s), clearly
there is a need for authentication, authorization, eavesdropping
protection, and non-repudiation for the solution. The SRC needs to
know the SRS it is communicating with is legitimate, and vice-versa,
even if they are in different domains. Both the signaling and media
for the Recording Session need the ability to be authenticated and protected from
eavesdropping and non-repudiation. Requirements are
detailed in the requirements section.</t>
</section>
<section title="IANA Considerations">
<t>This document has no IANA actions.</t>
</section>
<section title="Acknowledgements">
<t>Thanks to Dan Wing, Alan Johnson, Vijay Gurbani,
Cullen Jennings, Hadriel Kaplan, Henry Lum, Dave Smith, Martin Palmer, Alissa Cooper,
Deepanshu Gautam, Paul Kyzivat, Parthasarathi R, and Ram Mohan R
for their significant contributions and assistance with this document and Working Group,
and to all the members of the DISPATCH WG and SIPREC WG mailing lists for
providing valuable input to this work.</t>
</section>
</middle>
<back>
<references title='Normative References'>
&rfc2119;
&rfc3261;
&rfc2804;
&rfc4103;
&rfc4733;
</references>
</back>
</rfc>
| PAFTECH AB 2003-2026 | 2026-04-24 22:11:45 |