Network Working Group C. Holmberg
Internet-Draft J. Axell
Intended status: Informational Ericsson
Expires: July 24, 2017 January 20, 2017

IANA Registration of New Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Resource-Priority Namespace for Mission Critical Push To Talk service
draft-holmberg-dispatch-mcptt-rp-namespace-05

Abstract

This document creates an additional Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Resource-Priority namespace to meet the requirements of the 3GPP defined Mission Critical Push To Talk, and places this namespace in the IANA registry.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has defined a Mission Critical Push To Talk (MCPTT) over LTE service [TS.3GPP.22.179] . The MCPTT service supports an enhanced PTT service, suitable for mission critical scenarios, based upon 3GPP Evolved Packet System (EPS) services. The requirements for the MCPTT service defined within 3GPP can also form the basis for a non-mission critical Push To Talk (PTT) service.

The MCPTT service is intended to support communication between several users (a group call), where each user can gain permission to talk in an arbitrated manner. However, the MCPTT service also supports private calls between pairs of users.

MCPTT is primarily targeted to provide a professional Push To Talk service to e.g., public safety, transport companies, utilities or industrial and nuclear plants. In addition to this, a commercial PTT service for non-professional use (e.g., groups of people on holiday) may be delivered through an MCPTT system. Based on their operational model, the performance and MCPTT features in use vary per user organization, where functionality which is more mission critical specific (e.g., Imminent Peril Call) might not be available to commercial customers.

The MCPTT service provides its users with different priorities for the access to network resources in order to provide means to prioritize between calls when resources are scarce. These priorities take into account among other things the priority and role of the caller, the priority and type of the group, and the situation in which the call is made.

The SIP level call control procedures using these namespaces are specified in [TS.3GPP.24.379]. The namespaces defined here will support a wide range of queuing options. The namespaces correspond to what can be supported over the 3GPP Rx interface, defined in [TS.3GPP.29.214]. The usage of the namespaces can be tailored to the needs of the operator. The mechanism to do this is to configure which values a specific user is allowed to use. This configuration is specified in [TS.3GPP.24.384].

High priority calls when there is danger of life, for either the public safety worker or any other human, need to be set up immediately and thus require preemption. Other calls may be less sensitive in call set-up time but have a high priority once established. For these calls a queueing mechanism is more appropriate. The MCPTT data transfer service currently under development can benefit from a queueing mechanism. Another example is video only calls that are not critical in call set-up time, but where keeping the call is important.

This document creates additional Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Resource-Priority namespaces to meet the requirements of the 3GPP defined Mission Critical Push To Talk, and places these namespaces in the IANA registry.

2. Applicability

This document defines namespaces applicable for MCPTT services defined by 3GPP that use the network services of a 3GPP defined LTE network. The use of this namespace outside such networks is undefined.

3. New SIP Resource-Priority Namespaces Created

3.1. Introduction

This document introduces the MCPTT namespaces mcpttp and mcpttq, the name coming from the 3GPP defined Mission Critical Push To Talk service.

3.2. The MCPTT namespaces

The mcpttp namespace uses the priority levels listed below from lowest to highest priority.

Intended algorithm for mcpttp is preemption.

New Warning code: No.

New SIP response code: No.

The mcpttq namespace uses the priority levels listed below from lowest to highest priority.

Intended algorithm for mcpttq is queuing.

New Warning code: No.

New SIP response code: No.

4. Security Considerations

This document does not have any impact on the security of the SIP MCPTT protocol. Its purpose is purely administrative in nature.

5. IANA Considerations

Abiding by the rules established within [RFC4412] and [RFC7134] , this is an Informative RFC creating two new namespaces, their associated priority-values, and intended algorithms.

6. Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Bob Fredericks, Baruh Hason, Mary Barnes and Keith Drage for comments and discussions.

7. Change Log

[RFC EDITOR NOTE: Please remove this section when publishing]

Changes from draft-holmberg-dispatch-mcptt-rp-namespace-04.

Changes from draft-holmberg-dispatch-mcptt-rp-namespace-03.

Changes from draft-holmberg-dispatch-mcptt-rp-namespace-01.

Changes from draft-holmberg-dispatch-mcptt-rp-namespace-00.

8. Normative References

[RFC4412] Schulzrinne, H. and J. Polk, "Communications Resource Priority for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)", RFC 4412, DOI 10.17487/RFC4412, February 2006.
[RFC7134] Rosen, B., "The Management Policy of the Resource Priority Header (RPH) Registry Changed to "IETF Review"", RFC 7134, DOI 10.17487/RFC7134, March 2014.
[TS.3GPP.22.179] 3GPP, "3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects; Mission Critical Push To Talk (MCPTT) over LTE; Stage 1", 3GPP TS 22.179 13.3.0, December 2015.
[TS.3GPP.29.214] 3GPP, "3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Core Network and Terminals; Policy and Charging Control over Rx reference point;", 3GPP TS 29.314 13.7.0, September 2016.
[TS.3GPP.24.379] 3GPP, "3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Core Network and Terminals; Mission Critical Push To Talk (MCPTT) call control; Protocol specification;", 3GPP TS 24.379 13.2.0, September 2016.
[TS.3GPP.24.384] 3GPP, "3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Core Network and Terminals; Mission Critical Push To Talk (MCPTT) configuration management; Protocol specification", 3GPP TS 24.384 13.2.0, September 2016.

Authors' Addresses

Christer Holmberg Ericsson Hirsalantie 11 Jorvas, 02420 Finland EMail: christer.holmberg@ericsson.com
Joergen Axell Ericsson Groenlandsgatan 31 Stockholm, 16480 Sweden EMail: jorgen.axell@ericsson.com