SPEERMINT Working Group J-F. Mule Internet-Draft CableLabs Intended status: Informational June 27, 2008 Expires: December 29, 2008 SPEERMINT Requirements for SIP-based Session Peering draft-ietf-speermint-requirements-05.txt Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on December 29, 2008. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2008). Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 1] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 Abstract This memo captures protocol requirements identified for enabling session peering of voice, presence, instant messaging and other types of multimedia traffic. It is an informational document linking the session peering use cases to protocol solutions. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. General Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1. Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2. Border Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.3. Session Establishment Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.3.1. User Identities and SIP URIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.3.2. URI Reachability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4. Considerations and Requirements for Session Peering of Presence and Instant Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5. Security Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5.1. Security Properties for the Acquisition of Session Establishment Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5.2. Security Properties for the SIP exchanges . . . . . . . . 13 5.3. End-to-End Media Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 6. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Appendix A. Policy Parameters for Session Peering . . . . . . . . 20 A.1. Categories of Parameters and Justifications . . . . . . . 20 A.2. Summary of Parameters for Consideration in Session Peering Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . . . 26 Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 2] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 1. Introduction Peering at the session level represents an agreement between parties to allow the exchange of multimedia traffic. It is assumed that these sessions use the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) protocol to enable peering between two or more actors. These actors are called SIP Service Providers (SSPs) and they are typically represented by users, user groups such as enterprises, real-time collaboration service communities, or other service providers offering voice or multimedia services. Common terminology for SIP session peering is defined in [I-D.ietf-speermint-terminology] and a reference architecture is described in [I-D.ietf-speermint-architecture]. A number of use cases describe how session peering has been or could be deployed based on the reference architecture ([I-D.ietf-speermint-voip-consolidated-usecases] and [I-D.ietf-speermint-consolidated-presence-im-usecases]). Peering at the session layer can be achieved on a bilateral basis (direct peering established directly between two SSPs), or on an indirect basis via a session intermediary (indirect peering via a third-party SSP that has a trust relationship with the SSPs) - see the terminology document for more details. This document first describes general requirements. The use cases are then analyzed in the spirit of extracting relevant protocol requirements that must be met to accomplish the use cases. These requirements are intended to be independent of the type of media exchanged such as Voice over IP (VoIP), video telephony, and instant messaging. Media-specific requirements are defined in separate sections. It is not the goal of this document to mandate any particular use of IETF protocols by SIP Service Providers in order to establish session peering. Instead, the document highlights what requirements should be met and what protocols may be used to define the solution space. Finally, we conclude with a list of parameters for the definition of a session peering policy, provided in an informative appendix. It should be considered as an example of the information SIP Service Providers may have to discuss or agree on to exchange SIP traffic. Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 3] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 2. Terminology 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]. This document also reuses the terminology defined in [I-D.ietf- speermint-terminology]. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Session Description Protocol (SDP) [RFC4566] and the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) [RFC3261]. Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 4] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 3. General Requirements The following sub-sections contain general requirements applicable to multiple use cases for multimedia session peering. 3.1. Scope The primary focus of this document is on the requirements applicable to the boundaries of Layer 5 SIP networks: SIP entities and Signaling path Border Elements (SBEs); any requirements touching SIP UA or end- devices are considered out of scope. SSPs desiring to establish session peering relationships have to reach an agreement on numerous aspects. This document highlights only certain aspects of a session peering agreement, mostly the requirements relevant to protocols, including the declaration, advertisement and management of ingress and egress for session signaling and media, information related to the Session Establishment Data (SED), and the security mechanisms a peer may use to accept and secure session exchanges. Numerous other aspects of session peering arrangement are critical to reach a successful agreement but they are considered out of scope of the SPEERMINT working group. They include aspects such as SIP protocol support (e.g. SIP extensions and field conventions), media (e.g., type of media traffic to be exchanged, compatible media codecs and media transport protocols, mechanisms to ensure differentiated quality of service for media), SIP layer-3 IP connectivity between the Signaling Path and Data Path Border Elements, traffic capacity control (e.g. maximum number of SIP sessions at each ingress point, maximum number of concurrent IM or VoIP sessions), and accounting. The informative Appendix A lists parameters that may considered when discussing the technical aspects of SIP session peering. The purpose of this list which has evolved through the working group use case discussions is to capture the parameters that are considered outside the scope of the protocol requirements. 3.2. Border Elements For border elements to be operationally manageable, maximum flexibility should be given for how border elements are declared or dynamically advertised. Indeed, in any session peering environment, there is a need for a SIP Service Provider to declare or dynamically advertise the SIP entities that will face the peer's network. The data path border elements are typically signaled dynamically in the session description. Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 5] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 The use cases defined ([I-D.ietf-speermint-voip-consolidated-usecases]) catalog the various border elements between SIP Service Providers; they include Signaling Path Border Elements (SBEs) and SIP proxies (or any SIP entity at the boundary of the Layer 5 network). o Requirement #1: Protocol mechanisms must exist for a SIP Service Provider (SSP) to communicate the ingress Signaling Path Border Elements of its service domain. Notes on solution space: The SBEs may be advertised to session peers using static mechanisms or they may be dynamically advertised. There seems to be general agreement that [RFC3263] provides a solution for dynamically advertising ingress SBEs in most cases of Direct or Indirect peering. However, this DNS-based solution may be limited in cases where the DNS response varies based on who sends the query (peer-dependent SBEs, see below). o Requirement #2: Protocol mechanisms should exist for a SIP Service Provider (SSP) to communicate the egress SBEs of its service domain. Notes on motivations for this requirement: For the purposes of capacity planning, traffic engineering and call admission control, a SIP Service Provider may be asked where it will generate SIP calls from. The SSP accepting calls from a peer may wish to know where SIP calls will originate from (this information is typically used by the terminating SSP). Note that this may not be applicable to all types of session peering (voice may be a particular case where this is needed -- at least based on current practices). While provisioning requirements are out-of-scope of this document, some SSPs may find use for a mechanism to dynamically advertise or discover the egress SBEs of a peer. If the SSP also provides media streams to its users as shown in the use cases for "Originating" and "Terminating" SSPs, a mechanism should exist to allow SSPs to advertise their egress and ingress data path border elements (DBEs), if applicable. While some SSPs may have open policies and accept media traffic from anywhere outside their network to anywhere inside their network, some SSPs may want to optimize media delivery and identify media paths between peers prior to traffic being sent (layer 5 to layer 3 QoS mapping). o Requirement #3: Protocol mechanisms should be available to allow a SIP Service Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 6] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 Provider to communicate its DBEs to its peers. Notes: Some SSPs engaged in SIP interconnects do exchange this type of DBE information today in a static manner. Some SSPs do not. Some SSPs may have some restrictions on the type of media traffic their SIP entities acting as SBEs are capable of establishing. In order to avoid a failed attempt to establish a session, a mechanism may be provided to allow SSPs to indicate if some restrictions exist on the type of media traffic: ingress and egress SBE points may be peer-dependent, and/or media-dependent. o Requirement #4: The mechanisms recommended for the declaration or advertisement of SBE and DBE entities must allow for peer variability. Notes on solution space: For advertising peer-dependent SBEs (peer variability), the solution space based on [RFC3263] is under specified and there are no know best current practices. Is DNS the right place for putting data that varies based on who asks? In the use cases provided as part of direct and indirect scenarios, an SSP deals with multiple SIP entities and multiple SBEs in its own domain. There is often a many-to-many relationship between SIP Proxies and Signaling path Border Elements. It should be possible for an SSP to define which egress SBE a SIP entity must use based on a given peer destination. For example, in the case of an indirect peering scenario (section 5.1.5 of [I-D.ietf-speermint-voip-consolidated-usecases], Figure 5), it should be possible for the O-Proxy to choose the appropriate O-SBE based on the information the O-Proxy receives from the Lookup Function (LUF) and/or Location Routing Function (LRF) - message response labeled (3). Note that this example also applies to the case of Direct Peering when a service provider has multiple service areas and each service area involves multiple SIP Proxies and a few SBEs. o Requirement #5: The mechanisms recommended for the lookup and location routing service must be capable or returning both a target URI destination and a value for the SIP Route header. Notes: solutions exist if the protocol used between the Proxy and the LUF/LRF is SIP; if ENUM is used, the author of this document does not know of any solution today. It is desirable for an SSP to be able to communicate how Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 7] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 authentication of a peer's SBEs will occur (see the security requirements for more details). o Requirement #6: The mechanisms recommended for locating a peer's SBE must be able to convey how a peer should initiate secure session establishment. Notes : certain mechanisms exist; for example, the required protocol use of SIP over TLS may be discovered via [RFC3263]. 3.3. Session Establishment Data The Session Establishment Data (SED) is defined in [I-D.ietf-speermint-terminology] as the data used to route a call to the next hop associated with the called domain's ingress point. The following paragraphs capture some general requirements on the SED data. 3.3.1. User Identities and SIP URIs User identities used between peers can be represented in many different formats. Session Establishment Data should rely on URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers, [RFC3986]) and SIP URIs should be preferred over tel URIs ([RFC3966]) for session peering of VoIP traffic. The use of DNS domain names and hostnames is recommended in SIP URIs and they should be resolvable on the public Internet. It is recommended that the host part of SIP URIs contain a fully-qualified domain name instead of a numeric IPv4 or IPv6 address. As for the user part of the SIP URIs, the mechanisms for session peering should not require an SSP to be aware of which individual user identities are valid within its peer's domain. o Requirement #7: The protocols used for session peering must accommodate the use of different types of URIs. URIs with the same domain-part should share the same set of peering policies, thus the domain of the SIP URI may be used as the primary key to any information regarding the reachability of that SIP URI. o Requirement #8: The mechanisms for session peering should not require an SSP to be aware of which individual user identities are valid within its peer's domain. o Notes on the solution space for #7 and #8: This is generally well supported by IETF protocols. When telephone numbers are in tel URIs, SIP requests cannot be routed Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 8] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 in accordance with the traditional DNS resolution procedures standardized for SIP as indicated in [RFC3824]. This means that the solutions built for session peering must not solely use PSTN identifiers such as Service Provider IDs (SPIDs) or Trunk Group IDs (they should not be precluded but solutions should not be limited to these). Motivations: Although SED data may be based on E.164-based SIP URIs for voice interconnects, a generic peering methodology should not rely on such E.164 numbers. 3.3.2. URI Reachability Based on a well-known URI type (for e.g. sip, pres, or im URIs), it must be possible to determine whether the SSP domain servicing the URI allows for session peering, and if it does, it should be possible to locate and retrieve the domain's policy and SBE entities. For example, an originating service provider must be able to determine whether a SIP URI is open for direct interconnection without requiring an SBE to initiate a SIP request. Furthermore, since each call setup implies the execution of any proposed algorithm, the establishment of a SIP session via peering should incur minimal overhead and delay, and employ caching wherever possible to avoid extra protocol round trips. o Requirement #9: The mechanisms for session peering must allow an SBE to locate its peer SBE given a URI type and the target SSP domain name. Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 9] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 4. Considerations and Requirements for Session Peering of Presence and Instant Messaging This section describes requirements for presence and instant messaging session peering. Several use cases for presence and instant messaging peering are described in [I-D.ietf-speermint-consolidated-presence-im-usecases], a document authored by A. Houri, E. Aoki and S. Parameswar. Credits for this section must go to A. Houri, E. Aoki and S. Parameswar. The following requirements for presence and instant messaging session peering are derived from [I-D.ietf-speermint-consolidated-presence-im-usecases] and [I-D.houri-speermint-presence-im-requirements]: o Requirement #10: The mechanisms recommended for the exchange of presence information between SSPs MUST allow a user of one SSP's presence community to subscribe presentities served by another SSP via its local community, including subscriptions to a single presentity, a personal, public or ad-hoc group list of presentities. Notes: see section 2.2 of [I-D.ietf-speermint-consolidated-presence-im-usecases]. o Requirement #11: The mechanisms recommended for Instant Messaging message exchanges between SSPs MUST allow a user of one SSP's community to communicate with users of the other SSP community via their local community using various methods. Such methods include sending a one-time IM message, initiating a SIP session for transporting sessions of messages, participating in n-way chats using chat rooms with users from the peer SSPs, sending a file or sharing a document. Notes: see section 2.6 of [I-D.ietf-speermint-consolidated-presence-im-usecases]. o Requirement #12: Privacy Sharing In order to enable sending less notifications between communities, there should be a mechanism that will enable sharing privacy information of users between the communities. This will enable sending a single notification per presentity that will be sent to the appropriate watchers on the other community according to the presentity's privacy information. The privacy sharing mechanism must be done in a way that will enable getting the consent of the user whose privacy will be sent to the other community prior to sending the privacy information. Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 10] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 if user consent is not give, it should not be possible to this optimization. In addition to getting the consent of users regarding privacy sharing, the privacy data must be sent only via secure channels between communities. Notes: see section 2.3 of [I-D.ietf-speermint-consolidated-presence-im-usecases]. o Requirement #13: Multiple Recipients It should be possible to send a presence document with a list of watchers on the other community that should receive the presence document notification. This will enable sending less presence document notifications between the communities while avoiding the need to share privacy information of presentities from one community to the other. o Requirement #14: Mappings Early deployments of SIP based presence and IM gateways are done in front of legacy proprietary systems that use different names for different properties that exist in PIDF. For example "Do Not Disturb" may be translated to "Busy" in another system. In order to make sure that the meaning of the status is preserved, there is a need that either each system will translate its internal statuses to standard PIDF based statuses of a translation table of proprietary statuses to standard based PIDF statuses will be provided from one system to the other. Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 11] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 5. Security Requirements This section describes the security properties that are desirable for the protocol exchanges in scope of session peering. Three types of information flows are described in the architecture and use case documents: the acquisition of the Session Establishment Data (SED) based on a destination target via the Lookup and Location Routing Functions (LUF and LRF), the SIP signaling between SIP Service Providers, and the associated media exchanges. This section is focused on three security services, authentication, data confidentiality and data integrity as summarized in [RFC3365]. However, this text does not specify the mandatory-to-implement security mechanisms as required by [RFC3365]; this is left for future protocol solutions that meet the requirements. A security threat analysis provides guidance for session peering ([I-D.draft-niccolini-speermint-voipthreats]). 5.1. Security Properties for the Acquisition of Session Establishment Data The Look-Up Function (LUF) and Location Routing Function (LRF) are defined in [I-D.ietf-speermint-terminology]. They provide mechanisms for determining the SIP target address and domain the request should be sent to, and the associated SED to route the request to that domain. A mutual authentication service is desirable for the LUF and LRF protocol exchanges. The response from the LUF and LRF may depend on the identity of the requestor: the authentication of the LUF/LRF requests is therefore a desirable property. Mutual authentication is also desirable: the requestor may verify the identity of the systems that provided the LUF/LRF responses given the nature of the data returned in those responses. Authentication also provides some protection for the availability of the LUF and LRF against attackers that would attempt to launch DoS attacks by sending bogus requests causing the LUF to perform a lookup and consume resources. Given the sensitive nature of the session establishment data exchanged with the LUF and LRF functions, the protocol mechanisms chosen for the lookup and location routing should offer data confidentiality and integrity protection (SED data may contain user addresses, SIP URI, location of SIP entities at the boundaries of SIP Service Provider domains, etc.). Requirement #15: The data exchanges for the lookup and location routing MUST support Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 12] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 mutual authentication, data confidentiality and integrity. Notes on the solution space: ENUM, SIP and proprietary protocols are typically used today for accessing these functions. SSPs may use lower layer security mechanisms to guarantee some of those security properties. 5.2. Security Properties for the SIP exchanges The fundamental mechanisms for securing SIP are applicable (see Section 26.2 of [RFC3261], and [RFC4474]). Authentication of SIP communications are desirable, especially in the context of session peering involving SIP intermediaries. Data confidentiality and integrity of the SIP message body may be desirable given some of the levels of session peering indirection (indirect/assisted peering), but they could be harmful as they may prevent intermediary SSPs from "inserting" SBEs/DBEs along the signaling and data paths. 5.3. End-to-End Media Security Media security is critical to guarantee end-to-end confidentiality of the communication between the end-users' devices, independently of how many direct or indirect peers are along the signaling path. It is recommended that the establishment of media security be provided along the media path and not over the signaling path given the indirect peering use cases. Notes on the solution space: Media carried over the Real-Time Protocol (RTP) can be secured using secure RTP or sRTP ([RFC3711]). A framework for establishing sRTP security using Datagram TLS [RFC4347] is described in [I-D.ietf-sip-dtls-srtp-framework]: it allows for end-to-end media security establishment using extensions to DTLS ([I-D.ietf-avt-dtls-srtp]). This DTLS-SRTP framework meets the above requirement. Note that media can also be carried in numerous protocols other than RTP such as SIP (SIP MESSAGE method), MSRP, XMPP, etc. In these cases, it is desirable those those protocols offer data confidentiality protection at a minimum. Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 13] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 6. Acknowledgments This document is a work-in-progress and it is based on the input and contributions made by a large number of people in the SPEERMINT working group, including: Edwin Aoki, Scott Brim, John Elwell, Mike Hammer, Avshalom Houri, Richard Shocky, Henry Sinnreich, Richard Stastny, Patrik Faltstrom, Otmar Lendl, Daryl Malas, Dave Meyer, Sriram Parameswar, Jon Peterson, Jason Livingood, Bob Natale, Benny Rodrig, Brian Rosen, Eric Rosenfeld, Adam Uzelac and Dan Wing. Specials thanks go to Rohan Mahy, Brian Rosen, John Elwell for their initial drafts describing guidelines or best current practices in various environments, and to Avshalom Houri, Edwin Aoki and Sriram Parameswar for authoring the presence and instant messaging requirements. Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 14] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 7. IANA Considerations This document does not register any values in IANA registries. Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 15] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 8. Security Considerations Securing session peering communications involves numerous protocol exchanges, first and foremost, the securing of SIP signaling and media sessions. The security considerations contained in [RFC3261], and [RFC4474] are applicable to the SIP protocol exchanges. A number of security considerations are also described in Section Section 5. Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 16] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 9. References 9.1. Normative References [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. 9.2. Informative References [I-D.draft-ietf-pmol-sip-perf-metrics] Malas, D., "SIP End-to-End Performance Metrics", draft-ietf-pmol-sip-perf-metrics-01.txt (work in progress), June 2008. [I-D.draft-niccolini-speermint-voipthreats] Niccolini, S., Chen, E., and J. Seedorf, "VoIP Security Threats relevant to SPEERMINT", draft-niccolini-speermint-voipthreats-03.txt (work in progress), February 2008. [I-D.houri-speermint-presence-im-requirements] Houri, A., Aoki, E., and S. Parameswar, "Presence and IM Requirements", May 2007. [I-D.ietf-avt-dtls-srtp] McGrew, D. and E. Rescorla, "DTLS Extensions to Establish Keys for SRTP", draft-ietf-avt-dtls-srtp-02.txt (work in progress), February 2008. [I-D.ietf-sip-dtls-srtp-framework] Fischl, J., Tschofenig, H., and E. Rescorla, "DTLS-SRTP Framework", draft-ietf-sip-dtls-srtp-framework-01 (work in progress), February 2008. [I-D.ietf-sip-hitchhikers-guide] Rosenberg, J., "A Hitchhikers Guide to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)", July 2007. [I-D.ietf-speermint-architecture] Penno et al., R., "SPEERMINT Peering Architecture", draft-ietf-speermint-architecture-06.txt (work in progress), May 2008. [I-D.ietf-speermint-consolidated-presence-im-usecases] Houri, A., Aoki, E., and S. Parameswar, "Presence & Instant Messaging Peering Use Cases", draft-ietf-speermint-consolidated-presence-im-usecases-04 (work in progress), February 2008. Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 17] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 [I-D.ietf-speermint-terminology] Meyer, R. and D. Malas, "SPEERMINT Terminology", draft-ietf-speermint-terminology-16.txt (work in progress), February 2008. [I-D.ietf-speermint-voip-consolidated-usecases] Uzelac et al., A., "VoIP SIP Peering Use Cases", draft-ietf-speermint-voip-consolidated-usecases-08.txt (work in progress), May 2008. [RFC2198] Perkins, C., Kouvelas, I., Hodson, O., Hardman, V., Handley, M., Bolot, J., Vega-Garcia, A., and S. Fosse- Parisis, "RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data", RFC 2198, September 1997. [RFC3261] Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., Camarillo, G., Johnston, A., Peterson, J., Sparks, R., Handley, M., and E. Schooler, "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261, June 2002. [RFC3263] Rosenberg, J. and H. Schulzrinne, "Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): Locating SIP Servers", RFC 3263, June 2002. [RFC3365] Schiller, J., "Strong Security Requirements for Internet Engineering Task Force Standard Protocols", BCP 61, RFC 3365, August 2002. [RFC3455] Garcia-Martin, M., Henrikson, E., and D. Mills, "Private Header (P-Header) Extensions to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for the 3rd-Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)", RFC 3455, January 2003. [RFC3550] Schulzrinne, H., Casner, S., Frederick, R., and V. Jacobson, "RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications", STD 64, RFC 3550, July 2003. [RFC3603] Marshall, W. and F. Andreasen, "Private Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Proxy-to-Proxy Extensions for Supporting the PacketCable Distributed Call Signaling Architecture", RFC 3603, October 2003. [RFC3611] Friedman, T., Caceres, R., and A. Clark, "RTP Control Protocol Extended Reports (RTCP XR)", RFC 3611, November 2003. [RFC3702] Loughney, J. and G. Camarillo, "Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting Requirements for the Session Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 18] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 Initiation Protocol (SIP)", RFC 3702, February 2004. [RFC3711] Baugher, M., McGrew, D., Naslund, M., Carrara, E., and K. Norrman, "The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)", RFC 3711, March 2004. [RFC3824] Peterson, J., Liu, H., Yu, J., and B. Campbell, "Using E.164 numbers with the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)", RFC 3824, June 2004. [RFC3966] Schulzrinne, H., "The tel URI for Telephone Numbers", RFC 3966, December 2004. [RFC3986] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66, RFC 3986, January 2005. [RFC4347] Rescorla, E. and N. Modadugu, "Datagram Transport Layer Security", RFC 4347, April 2006. [RFC4474] Peterson, J. and C. Jennings, "Enhancements for Authenticated Identity Management in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)", RFC 4474, August 2006. [RFC4566] Handley, M., Jacobson, V., and C. Perkins, "SDP: Session Description Protocol", RFC 4566, July 2006. Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 19] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 Appendix A. Policy Parameters for Session Peering This informative section lists various types of parameters that should be considered by implementers when deciding what configuration parameters to expose to system administrators or management stations, as well as SSPs or federations of SSPs when discussing the technical aspects of a session peering policy. In the context of session peering, a policy can be defined as the set of parameters and other information needed by an SSP to exchange traffic with another peer. Some of the session policy parameters may be statically exchanged and set throughout the lifetime of the peering relationship. Others parameters may be discovered and updated dynamically using by some explicit protocol mechanisms. These dynamic parameters may also relate to an SSP's session- dependent or session independent policies as defined in [I-D.ietf- sipping-session-policy]. Various types of policy information may need to be discovered or exchanged in order to establish session peering. At a minimum, a policy should specify information related to session establishment data in order to avoid session establishment failures. A policy may also include information related to QoS, billing and accounting, layer-3 related interconnect requirements which are out of the scope of this document. Some aspects of session peering policies must be agreed to and manually implemented; they are static and are typically documented as part of a business contract, technical document or agreement between parties. For some parameters linked to protocol support and capabilities, standard ways of expressing those policy parameters may be defined among SSP and exchanged dynamically. For e.g., templates could be created in various document formats so that it could be possible to dynamically discover some of the domain policy. Such templates could be initiated by implementers (for each software/ hardware release, a list of supported RFCs, RFC parameters is provided in a standard format) and then adapted by each SSP based on its service description, server or device configurations and variable based on peer relationships. A.1. Categories of Parameters and Justifications The following list should be considered as an initial list of "discussion topics" to be addressed by peers when initiating a VoIP peering relationship. Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 20] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 o IP Network Connectivity: Session peers should define how the IP network connectivity between their respective SBEs and DBEs. While this is out of scope of session peering, SSPs must agree on a common mechanism for IP transport of session signaling and media. This may be accomplish via private (e.g. IPVPN, IPsec, etc.) or public IP networks. o Media-related Parameters: * Media Codecs: list of supported media codecs for audio, real- time fax (version of T.38, if applicable), real-time text (RFC 4103), DTMF transport, voice band data communications (as applicable) along with the supported or recommended codec packetization rates, level of RTP paylod redundancy, audio volume levels, etc. * Media Transport: level of support for RTP-RTCP [RFC3550], RTP Redundancy (RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data - [RFC2198]) , T.38 transport over RTP, etc. * Other: support of the VoIP metric block as defined in RTP Control Protocol Extended Reports [RFC3611] , etc. o SIP: * A session peering policy should include the list of supported and required SIP RFCs, supported and required SIP methods (including private p headers if applicable), error response codes, supported or recommended format of some header field values , etc. * It should also be possible to describe the list of supported SIP RFCs by various functional groupings. A group of SIP RFCs may represent how a call feature is implemented (call hold, transfer, conferencing, etc.), or it may indicate a functional grouping as in [I-D.ietf-sip-hitchhikers-guide]. o Presence and Instant Messaging: TBD o Accounting: Methods used for call or session accounting should be specified. An SSP may require a peer to track session usage. It is critical for peers to determine whether the support of any SIP extensions for accounting is a pre-requisite for SIP interoperability. In some cases, call accounting may feed data for billing purposes but not always: some operators may decide to use accounting as a 'bill and keep' model to track session usage and monitor usage against Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 21] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 service level agreements. [RFC3702] defines the terminology and basic requirements for accounting of SIP sessions. A few private SIP extensions have also been defined and used over the years to enable call accounting between SSP domains such as the P-Charging* headers in [RFC3455], the P-DCS-Billing-Info header in [RFC3603], etc. o Performance Metrics: Layer-5 performance metrics should be defined and shared between peers. The performance metrics apply directly to signaling or media; they may be used pro-actively to help avoid congestion, call quality issues or call signaling failures, and as part of monitoring techniques, they can be used to evaluate the performance of peering exchanges. Examples of SIP performance metrics include the maximum number of SIP transactions per second on per domain basis, Session Completion Rate (SCR), Session Establishment Rate (SER), etc. Some SIP end-to-end performance metrics are defined in [I-D.draft-ietf-pmol-sip-perf-metrics]; a subset of these may be applicable to session peering and interconnects. Some media-related metrics for monitoring VoIP calls have been defined in the VoIP Metrics Report Block, in Section 4.7 of [RFC3611]. o Security: An SSP should describe the security requirements that other peers must meet in order to terminate calls to its network. While such a list of security-related policy parameters often depends on the security models pre-agreed to by peers, it is expected that these parameters will be discoverable or signaled in the future to allow session peering outside SSP clubs. The list of security parameters may be long and composed of high-level requirements (e.g. authentication, privacy, secure transport) and low level protocol configuration elements like TLS parameters. The following list is not intended to be complete, it provides a preliminary list in the form of examples: * Call admission requirements: for some providers, sessions can only be admitted if certain criteria are met. For example, for some providers' networks, only incoming SIP sessions signaled over established IPSec tunnels or presented to the well-known TLS ports are admitted. Other call admission requirements may be related to some performance metrics as descrived above. Finally, it is possible that some requiremetns be imposed on lower layers, but these are considered out of scope of session peering. Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 22] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 * Call authorization requirements and validation: the presence of a caller or user identity may be required by an SSP. Indeed, some SSPs may further authorize an incoming session request by validating the caller's identity against white/black lists maintained by the service provider or users (traditional caller ID screening applications or IM white list). * Privacy requirements: an SSP may demand that its SIP messages be securely transported by its peers for privacy reasons so that the calling/called party information be protected. Media sessions may also require privacy and some SSP policies may include requirements on the use of secure media transport protocols such as sRTP, along with some contraints on the minimum authentication/encryption options for use in sRTP. * Network-layer security parameters: this covers how IPSec security associated may be established, the IPSec key exchange mechanisms to be used and any keying materials, the lifetime of timed Security Associated if applicable, etc. * Transport-layer security parameters: this covers how TLS connections should be established as described in Section Section 5. A.2. Summary of Parameters for Consideration in Session Peering Policies The following is a summary of the parameters mentioned in the previous section. They may be part of a session peering policy and appear with a level of requirement (mandatory, recommended, supported, ...). o IP Network Connectivity (assumed, requirements out of scope of this document) o Media session parameters: * Codecs for audio, video, real time text, instant messaging media sessions * Modes of communications for audio (voice, fax, DTMF), IM (page mode, MSRP) * Media transport and means to establish secure media sessions * List of ingress and egress DBEs where applicable, including STUN Relay servers if present Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 23] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 o SIP * SIP RFCs, methods and error responses * headers and header values * possibly, list of SIP RFCs supported by groups (e.g. by call feature) o Accounting o Capacity Control and Performance Management: any limits on, or, means to measure and limit the maximum number of active calls to a peer or federation, maximum number of sessions and messages per specified unit time, maximum number of active users or subscribers per specified unit time, the aggregate media bandwidth per peer or for the federation, specified SIP signaling performance metrics to measure and report; media-level VoIP metrics if applicable. o Security: Call admission control, call authorization, network and transport layer security parameters, media security parameters Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 24] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 Author's Address Jean-Francois Mule CableLabs 858 Coal Creek Circle Louisville, CO 80027 USA Email: jf.mule@cablelabs.com Mule Expires December 29, 2008 [Page 25] Internet-Draft SPEERMINT Requirements June 2008 Full Copyright Statement Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2008). 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