Network Working Group R.J. Jesske
Internet-Draft Deutsche Telekom
Intended status: Informational July 15, 2013
Expires: January 16, 2014

Uniform Resource Name (URN) extension for automatic and manual Emergency Services
draft-jesske-ecrit-ecall-urn-extension-01

Abstract

This document describes and discusses a mechanism for extending sos URN's to fulfill the emergency call requirements of carriers.

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Table of Contents

1. Overall Applicability

Uniform Resource Name (URN) for emergency and other Well-Known Services are well defined within RFC5031 [RFC5031]. There are also existing proposals for automatic and manual ecall IN-Vehicles which defines their own URN's and additional procedures for vehicle specific eCalls. Due to the existing telecommunication world and their implementations a combination of both is needed. Due to the fact that only one URN can be used within the request line of a SIP Message a new approach is needed. Therefore this document proposes to extend the existing URN's with an extension to reflect this.

This draft should be seen as proposal which could be incoperated into draft-rosen-ecrit-ecall-10 [draft-rosen-ecrit-ecall-10] after discussing this approach

2. Conventions

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 [RFC2119].

3. Overview

RFC5031 [RFC5031] defines URN values for emergency calls. The values for the SOS subtree are sos.ambulance, sos.animal-control, sos.fire, sos.gas, sos.marine, sos.mountain , sos.physician, sos.poison and sos.police draft-rosen-ecrit-ecall-10 [draft-rosen-ecrit-ecall-10] proposes two additional URN for ecall. automatic and ecall.manual the sub-services 'sos' as specified in Section 4.2 of RFC5031 [RFC5031].

Within the existing implementation in GSM networks for emergency call as specified in 3GPP TS 22.101 [TS22101] the following requirements and code points are described:

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It shall be possible to initiate emergency calls to different emergency call centers, depending on the type of emergency. The following types of emergency calls shall be possible:

o Police

o Ambulance

o Fire Brigade

o Marine Guard

o Mountain Rescue

o Manually Initiated eCall

o Automatically Initiated eCall

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It shall be possible to tie any emergency call number to any single emergency call type or to any combination of emergency call types.

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This means in practice that a emergency Call Center from police must differentiate between automatic and manual eCalls. Same belongs to the other types like fire brigade Marine Guard ect.

Requirement:

Req-1: It shall be possible to tie a manually initiated eCall with different type of emergency type i.e. Police, Ambulance, Fire Brigade, Marine Guard and Mountain Rescue.

Req-2:It shall be possible to tie a automatically initiated eCallC with different type of emergency type i.e. Police, Ambulance, Fire Brigade, Marine Guard and Mountain Rescue.

These requirements will not allow a second different URN Format as described in draft-rosen-ecrit-ecall-10 [draft-rosen-ecrit-ecall-10]. This draft adds two additional URN urn:service:sos.ecall.manual and urn:service:sos.ecall.automatic Which allows to address the ecall itself. But the requirement in 3GPP TS 22.101 [TS22101] described will not be satisfied. Therefor this document proposes an other format of the URN

4. IANA Consideration

IANA is requested to register the URNs described below under the sub-services 'sos' registry defined in Section 4.2 of RFC5031[RFC5031]

4.1. sublabel for sos service and the related subservices

An additional sublabel for sos and the 5 base values of police, ambulance, fire, mountain are defined.

.ecall

This sublevel indicated that an ecall has been triggered.

.automatic

This sublevel indicates that an eCall had been triggered automatically. This could be a sensor-controlled measuring of heat or pressure in case of car accidents or fire situations.

.manual

This sublevel indicates that an eCall had been triggered based on the manual interaction of a person.

 
  Service                   Reference  Description
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      sos.ecall             RFC xxxx   Emergency services, automatic eCall

      sos.ecall.automatic             RFC xxxx   Emergency services, automatic eCall
      sos.ecall.manual                RFC xxxx   Emergency services, manual eCall
      sos.police.ecall.automatic      RFC xxxx   Police, law enforcement, automatic eCall
      sos.police.ecall.manual         RFC xxxx   Police, law enforcement, manual eCall
      sos.ambulance.ecall.automatic   RFC xxxx   Ambulance service, automatic eCall
      sos.ambulance.ecall.manual      RFC xxxx   Ambulance service, manual eCall
      sos.fire.ecall.automatic        RFC xxxx   Fire service, automatic eCall
      sos.fire.ecall.manual           RFC xxxx   Fire service, manual eCall
      sos.marine.ecall.automatic      RFC xxxx   Maritime search and rescue, automatic eCall
      sos.marine.ecall.manual         RFC xxxx   Maritime search and rescue, manual eCall
      sos.mountain.ecall.automatic    RFC xxxx   Mountain rescue, automatic eCall
      sos.mountain.ecall.manual       RFC xxxx   Mountain rescue, manual eCall

5. Security Considerations

This document does not raise security considerations beyond those described in RFC5031 [RFC5031].

6. Contributors and Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank Dieter Jacobsohn, Maik Kirsch and Thomas Dennert for clarifying the requirements on automatic and manual eCall in the existing GSM world.

7. Normative References

[1] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[2] Schulzrinne, H., "A Uniform Resource Name (URN) for Emergency and Other Well-Known Services", RFC 5031, January 2008.
[3] Rosen, B., Tschofenig, H. and R. Gellens, ""Internet Protocol-based In-Vehicle Emergency Call"", July 2013.
[4] 3GPP, "3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects; Service aspects; Service principles (Release 11)", ", 3GPP TS 22.101 10.7.0, September 2012.

Author's Address

Roland Jesske Deutsche Telekom Heinrich-Hertz-Strasse 3-7 Darmstadt, 64307 Germany Phone: +4961515812766 EMail: r.jesske@telekom.de