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Network Working Group D. Meyer
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SPEERMINT Terminology
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Abstract
This document defines the terminology that is to be used by the
Session PEERing for Multimedia INTerconnect Working Group
(SPEERMINT). It has as its primary objective to focus the working
group during its discussions, and when writing requirements, gap
analysis and other solutions oriented documents.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. SPEERMINT Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. General Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Call Routing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2. Call Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.3. PSTN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.4. Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.5. Service Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.6. Voice Service Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. Peering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1. Layer 3 Peering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. Layer 5 Peering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.3. Session Peering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.4. Private Peering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. ENUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.1. Carrier of Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.2. User ENUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.3. Infrastructure ENUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6. Federations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . . . 11
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1. Introduction
The term "VoIP Peering" has historically been used to describe a wide
variety of aspects pertaining to the interconnection of service
provider networks and to the delivery of SIP call termination over
those interconnections. The discussion of these interconnections has
at times been confused by the fact that the term "peering" is used in
various contexts to relate to interconnection at different levels in
a protocol stack. Session Peering for Multimedia Interconnect
focuses on how to identify and route real-time sessions (such as VoIP
calls) at the application layer, and it does not (necessarily)
involve the exchange of packet routing data or media sessions. In
particular, "layer 5 network" is used here to refer to the
interconnection between SIP servers, as opposed to interconnection at
the IP layer ("layer 3"). Finally, the terms "peering" and
"interconnect" are used interchangeably throughout this document.
This document introduces standard terminology for use in
characterizing real-time session interconnection. Note however, that
while this document is primarily targeted at the VoIP interconnect
case, the terminology described here is applicable to those cases in
which service providers interconnect using SIP signaling for real-
time or quasi-real-time communications.
The remainder of this document is organized as follows: Section 2
provides the general context for the SPEERMINT Working Group.
Section 3 provides the general definitions for real-time SIP based
communication, with initial focus on the VoIP interconnect case, and
Section 5 briefly touches on terms from the ENUM Working Group.
Finally, Section 6 introduces the concept of federations.
2. SPEERMINT Context
Figure 1 depicts the general VoIP interconnect context. In the case
shown here, an E.164 number [ITU.E164.1991] is used as a key by ENUM
to retrieve a NAPTR record [RFC3404] from the DNS, which in turn
resolved into a SIP URI. Call routing is based on the resulting SIP
URI. The call routing step does not depend on the presence of an
E.164 number; indeed, the resulting SIP URI may no longer even
contain any numbers, and the SIP URI can be advertised in various
other ways, such as on a web page. Finally, note that the subsequent
lookup steps described in RFC 3263 [RFC3263] used to find the next-
hop SIP server from this URI are outside the scope of SPEERMINT.
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E.164 number <--- Peer Discovery
|
| <--- ENUM lookup of NAPTR in DNS
|
|
| ENUM Working Group Scope
=====+=======================================
| SPEERMINT Working Group Scope
|
|
SIP URI <--- Call Routing Data (CRD)
|
| <--- Service Location (Lookup of SRV in DNS)
|
|
Hostname <--- Addressing and session establishment
|
| <---- Lookup of A and AAAA in DNS
|
Ip address
|
| <---- Routing protocols, ARP etc
|
Mac-address
Figure 1: Session Interconnect Context
The ENUM Working Group is primarily concerned with the acquisition of
Call Routing Data, or CRD (i.e., above the double line in Figure 1),
while the SPEERMINT Working Group is focused on the use of such CRD.
Importantly, the CRD can be derived from ENUM (i.e., an E.164 DNS
entry), or via any other mechanism available to the user.
3. General Definitions
3.1. Call Routing Data
Call Routing Data, or CRD, is a SIP URI used to route a call (real-
time, voice or other type) to the called domain's ingress point. A
domain's ingress point can be thought of as the location pointed to
by the SRV record that resulted from the resolution of the CRD (i.e.,
a SIP URI).
3.2. Call Routing
Call routing is the set of processes, rules, and CRD used to route a
call to its proper (SIP) destination. More generally, call routing
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can be thought of as the set of processes, rules and CRD which are
used to route a real-time session to its termination (ingress) point.
3.3. PSTN
The term "PSTN" refers to the Public Switched Telephone Network. In
particular, the PSTN refers to the collection of interconnected
circuit-switched voice-oriented public telephone networks, both
commercial and government-owned. In general, PSTN terminals are
addressed using E.164 numbers, noting that various dial-plans (such
as emergency services dial-plans) may not directly use E.164 numbers.
3.4. Network
For purposes of this document and the SPEERMINT and ENUM Working
Groups, a network is defined to be the set of SIP servers and end-
users (customers) that are controlled by a single administrative
domain. The network may also contain end-users who are located on
the PSTN.
3.5. Service Provider
A Service Provider (or SP) is defined to be an entity that controls a
"network" as defined in Section 3.4, and provides transport of SIP
signaling and media packets.
3.6. Voice Service Provider
A Voice Service Provider (or VSP) is an entity that provides
transport of SIP signaling (and possibly media streams) to its
customers. Such a service provider may additionally be
interconnected with other service providers; that is, it may "peer"
with other service providers. A VSP may also interconnect with the
PSTN.
Note that as soon as a ingress point is advertised via a SRV record,
anyone can find that ingress point and hence can send calls there.
This is very similar to sending mail to a SMTP server based on the
existence of a MX record.
Finally, note that the terms VSP and SP are used interchangeably in
this document.
4. Peering
While the precise definition of the term "peering" is the subject of
considerable debate, peering in general refers to the negotiation of
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reciprocal interconnection arrangements, settlement-free or
otherwise, between operationally independent service providers.
This document distinguishes two types of peering, Layer 3 Peering and
Layer 5 peering, which are described below.
4.1. Layer 3 Peering
Layer 3 peering refers to interconnection of two service providers
for the purposes of exchanging IP packets which destined for one (or
both) of the peer's networks. Layer 3 peering is generally agnostic
to the IP payload, and is frequently achieved using a routing
protocol such as BGP [RFC1771] to exchange the required routing
information.
An alternate, perhaps more operational definition of layer 3 peering
is that two peers exchange only customer routes, and hence any
traffic between peers terminates on one of the peer's network.
4.2. Layer 5 Peering
Layer 5 peering refers to interconnection of two service providers
for the purposes of SIP signaling. Such interconnection may be
direct (e.g., in those cases where two SPs interconnect without an
intervening Layer 5 network), or indirect (e.g., via some referral
network). Of course, in the indirect case, transitive trust must
typically be established.
4.3. Session Peering
Session peering is defined to be a layer 5 peering between two VoIP
providers for purposes of routing real-time (or quasi-real time) call
signaling between their respective customers. Media streams
associated with this signaling (if any) are not constrained to follow
the same set of paths.
4.4. Private Peering
Private Peering is generally regarded as the use of one or more
technologies (including DNS/ENUM and, optionally, SIP Redirect) that
service providers or enterprises may use to exchange phone number to
URI mappings in a private secure manner.
Private Peering may use any mutually agreed upon domain name as an
ENUM root, which may be a public or private root or domain. Records
in such an ENUM root may be globally visible but in most cases are
not visible to the global Internet and are protected using a variety
of security technologies such as split-DNS, VPN's or various forms or
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authentication and authorization. Technical comments on issues
surrounding split-DNS can be found in [RFC2826].
5. ENUM
ENUM [RFC3761] defines how the Domain Name System (DNS) can be used
for identifying available services connected to one E.164 number.
5.1. Carrier of Record
For purposes of this document, "Carrier of Record", or COR, refers to
the entity that provides PSTN service for an E.164 number. More
specifically, the COR can be defined can defined as follows
[I-D.ietf-enum-infrastructure-enum-reqs]:
o If the number in question has not been ported, then the COR is the
Service Provider to which the E.164 number was allocated for end
user assignment (either the National Regulatory Authority (NRA) or
the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) makes these
assignments), or
o If the number has been ported, the COR is the service provider to
which the number was ported, or
o If the number is assigned directly to end users, the COR is the
service provider that the end user number assignee has chosen to
provide a Public Switched Telephone Network/Public Land Mobile
Network (PSTN/PLMN) point-of-interconnect for the number.
Finally, note that the exact definition of who and what is a COR is
ultimately the responsibility of the relevant NRA.
5.2. User ENUM
User ENUM is generally defined as the set administrative policies and
procedures surrounding the use of the e164.arpa domain for Telephone
Number to URI resolution [RFC3761]. In the User ENUM case, the
entity (or person) having the right to use a number has the controls
the content of the associated domain and thus the zone content (at
the very least, there is local control over the content of the zone).
From a domain registration perspective, the end user number assignee
is thus the registrant [I-D.ietf-enum-infrastructure-enum-reqs].
Policies and procedures for the registration of telephone numbers
within all branches of the e164.arpa tree are Nation State issues by
agreement with the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and ITU.
National Regulatory Authorities have generally defined User ENUM
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Registrants as the E.164 number holder as opposed to the COR that
issued the phone number.
5.3. Infrastructure ENUM
Infrastructure ENUM (also called Carrier ENUM) is generally regarded
as the use of a separate branch the e164.arpa tree, such as
i.e164.arpa to permit service providers to exchange phone number to
URI data in order to find points of interconnection. The current
theory of Infrastructure ENUM is that only the COR for a particular
E.164 number is permitted to provision data for that E.164 within
that portion of the e164.arpa tree.
In infrastructure ENUM, only the COR may enter data in the
corresponding domain. The COR may also enter CRD (i.e., a SIP URI)
to allow other VSPs to to route calls to its network.
Finally, note that ENUM is not constrained to carry only data (CDR)
as defined by SPEERMINT. In particular, an an important class of
CRD, the tel URIs [RFC3966] may be carried in ENUM. Such tel URIs
are most frequently used to interconnect with the PSTN directly, and
are out of scope for SPEERMINT. On the other hand, PSTN endpoints
served by a COR and reachable via CDR and networks as defined in
Section 3.1 and Section 3.4 are in scope for SPEERMINT.
6. Federations
The domain policy DDDS application [I-D.lendl-domain-policy-ddds]
defines a method with which a domain owner can announce the policy it
will use to accept incoming calls. This section introduces a policy
type for use with that framework, known as federations
[I-D.lendl-speermint-federations].
Briefly, a federation is a group of VSPs which agree:
o To receive calls from each other via SIP,
o On a set of administrative rules for such calls (settlement,
abuse-handling, ...), and
o On specific rules for the technical details of the
interconnection.
[I-D.lendl-domain-policy-ddds] does not define what these rules can
be or how they might be communicated to the members of a federation.
Further, there is no requirement that such rules are in any way
public.
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Example federation rules might include the following:
o A set of VSPs form an association and agree to accept calls from
each other via the public Internet as long as the SIP call uses
TCP/TLS as transport protocol and presents a X.509 cert which was
signed by the association's own CA.
o A set of VSPs build a L3 network dedicated to VoIP peering (e.g.,
the 3GPP GRX). The further agree to accept calls from all
participants in that network and bill each other via a
clearinghouse.
o A set of VSPs agree to accept calls originating from within the
same country. They use a set of firewall rules to block calls
from abroad.
o A company sets up a SIP proxy which acts as a forwarding proxy
between the SIP proxies of all participating VSPs. The group of
these VSP form a federation whose technical rules state that calls
have to be routed via that central proxy.
7. Acknowledgments
Many of the definitions were gleaned from detailed discussions on the
SPEERMINT, ENUM, and SIPPING mailing lists. Scott Brim, Mike Hammer,
Jason Livingood, Jean-Francois Mule, David Schwartz, Richard Shocky,
Henry Sinnreich, Richard Stastny, and Dan Wing all made valuable
contributions to early revisions of this document. Patrik Faltstrom
also made many insightful comments to early versions of this draft,
and contributed the basis of Figure 1.
8. Security Considerations
This document introduces no new security considerations. However, it
is important to note that Session interconnect, as described in this
document, has a wide variety of security issues that should be
considered in documents addressing both protocol and use case
analyzes.
9. IANA Considerations
This document creates no new requirements on IANA namespaces
[RFC2434].
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10. References
10.1. Normative References
[RFC3263] Rosenberg, J. and H. Schulzrinne, "Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP): Locating SIP Servers", RFC 3263,
June 2002.
[RFC3404] Mealling, M., "Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS)
Part Four: The Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)",
RFC 3404, October 2002.
[RFC3761] Faltstrom, P. and M. Mealling, "The E.164 to Uniform
Resource Identifiers (URI) Dynamic Delegation Discovery
System (DDDS) Application (ENUM)", RFC 3761, April 2004.
[ITU.E164.1991]
International Telecommunications Union, "The International
Public Telecommunication Numbering Plan", ITU-
T Recommendation E.164, 1991.
[RFC3966] Schulzrinne, H., "The tel URI for Telephone Numbers",
RFC 3966, December 2004.
10.2. Informative References
[RFC1771] Rekhter, Y. and T. Li, "A Border Gateway Protocol 4
(BGP-4)", RFC 1771, March 1995.
[RFC2434] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 2434,
October 1998.
[RFC2826] Internet Architecture Board, "IAB Technical Comment on the
Unique DNS Root", RFC 2826, May 2000.
[I-D.ietf-enum-infrastructure-enum-reqs]
Lind, S. and P. Pfautz, "Infrastrucure ENUM Requirements",
draft-ietf-enum-infrastructure-enum-reqs-00 (work in
progress), March 2006.
[I-D.lendl-speermint-federations]
Lendl, O., "Federations for the Domain Policy DDDS
Application", draft-lendl-speermint-federations-00 (work
in progress), March 2006.
[I-D.lendl-domain-policy-ddds]
Lendl, O., "The Domain Policy DDDS Application",
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draft-lendl-domain-policy-ddds-00 (work in progress),
February 2006.
Author's Address
David Meyer
Email: dmm@1-4-5.net
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