Re: Last Call: draft-polk-local-emergency-rph-namespace-01.txt (IANA Registering a SIP Resource Priority Header Field Namespace for Local Emergency Communications) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-13 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
Reading through the document I fail to see the clearly stated restriction that 
this is not to be used between the emergency caller's UA and the VSP/ASP's 
network (for VSP/ASP routed calls) or between the UA and the PSAP (for directly 
routed calls). 
I was in the believe that the scope is restricted only to PSAP-to-first 
Responder, and PSAP-to-PSAP communication. 

It might also be useful to add that this document did not make it through the 
ECRIT working group. The document type is Standards Track and might give the 
impression that there is wide consensus behind the document -- but there isn't. 
IETF last calls may add a lot of value but I do not see that anyone had pointed 
to the various discussions in the ECRIT mailing list on that topic. 

I was always of the impression that the mechanism does not lead to any useful 
outcome. See previous discussions: 
Hannes: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ecrit/current/msg05940.html
Henning: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ecrit/current/msg05941.html
JamesW: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ecrit/current/msg05945.html

For those who have not followed the work I would like to point out that we have 
an marking (or call it indication) of an emergency call already, it is called 
a Service URN - RFC 5031. How many times do we need to again identify that a 
call (or a message) is an emergency call? 

The document interestingly talks about closed networks or controlled 
environments where this is supposed to be used. I don't believe it is useful to 
do so because this leaves the door open to use the mechanism anywhere. Often, 
these networks are not as closed as we think. 

  This new namespace can be included in SIP requests to provide an
   explicit priority indication within controlled environments, such as
   an IMS infrastructure or Emergency Services network (ESInet) where
   misuse can be reduced to a minimum because these types of networks
   have great controls in place.

Btw, what are these great controls? 

My comments are addressed if the document (in the introduction) makes it clear 
that UAs' MUST NOT include this  RP namespace in an outgoing emergency call 
because there is already the Service URN marking that classifies the call as an 
emergency call. 
We had already agreed on this a long time ago, see 
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ecrit/current/msg05960.html. Still, the 
text in the introduction and in the security consideration is very fuzzy and in 
my view intentionally does not make the case clear to leave it up to 
interpretation. 

It is ironic that this document manages to get finished before the major work 
of the ECRIT group, namely PhoneBCP, and ECRIT framework, get completed. (Or 
the SIPCORE SIP location conveyance for that matter as well.) 
Why would someone want to go with their work through a working group when they 
can get a Standards Track document faster and easier? 

Ciao
Hannes

On Jun 16, 2011, at 12:26 AM, The IESG wrote:

 
 The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider
 the following document:
 - 'IANA Registering a SIP Resource Priority Header Field Namespace for
   Local Emergency Communications'
  draft-polk-local-emergency-rph-namespace-01.txt as a Proposed
 Standard
 
 The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
 final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
 ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2011-07-13. Exceptionally, comments may be
 sent to i...@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the
 beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting.
 
 Abstract
 
 
   This document creates the new Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
   Resource Priority header field namespace esnet for local emergency
   usage to a public safety answering point (PSAP), between PSAPs, and
   between a PSAP and first responders and their organizations, and
   places this namespace in the IANA registry.
 
 
 
 
 The file can be obtained via
 http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-polk-local-emergency-rph-namespace/
 
 IESG discussion can be tracked via
 http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-polk-local-emergency-rph-namespace/
 
 
 No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
 
 
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RE: [Ecrit] Last Call: draft-polk-local-emergency-rph-namespace-01.txt (IANA Registering a SIP Resource Priority Header Field Namespace for Local Emergency Communications) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-13 Thread DRAGE, Keith (Keith)
If you insist on that scope

 I was in the believe that the scope is restricted only to PSAP-to-first
 Responder, and PSAP-to-PSAP communication.

Then you can throw it away.

I certainly don't see it being used by an emergency calling UA, but in a 3GPP 
like solution to emergency calling, there is no reason why it cannot be used by 
the first network operator provided entity that identifies an emergency call. I 
agree it is not applicable to the IETF solution, but then you have no network 
operator to provide you with priority in the first place.

If a network operator want to provide priority in their equipment after point 
of entry to the network, to an emergency call, then RPH is the sensible way of 
doing it, and not forcing them to recognize multiple different parameters to 
identify that priority is needed.

You seem to be back in cloud cuckoo land where you believe all emergency calls 
are handled by the IETF ECRIT solution.

Keith

 -Original Message-
 From: ecrit-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ecrit-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
 Hannes Tschofenig
 Sent: 13 July 2011 10:21
 To: ietf@ietf.org IETF; ec...@ietf.org
 Subject: Re: [Ecrit] Last Call: draft-polk-local-emergency-rph-namespace-
 01.txt (IANA Registering a SIP Resource Priority Header Field Namespace
 for Local Emergency Communications) to Proposed Standard
 
 Reading through the document I fail to see the clearly stated restriction
 that this is not to be used between the emergency caller's UA and the
 VSP/ASP's network (for VSP/ASP routed calls) or between the UA and the
 PSAP (for directly routed calls).
 I was in the believe that the scope is restricted only to PSAP-to-first
 Responder, and PSAP-to-PSAP communication.
 
 It might also be useful to add that this document did not make it through
 the ECRIT working group. The document type is Standards Track and might
 give the impression that there is wide consensus behind the document --
 but there isn't. IETF last calls may add a lot of value but I do not see
 that anyone had pointed to the various discussions in the ECRIT mailing
 list on that topic.
 
 I was always of the impression that the mechanism does not lead to any
 useful outcome. See previous discussions:
 Hannes: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ecrit/current/msg05940.html
 Henning: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ecrit/current/msg05941.html
 JamesW: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ecrit/current/msg05945.html
 
 For those who have not followed the work I would like to point out that we
 have an marking (or call it indication) of an emergency call already, it
 is called a Service URN - RFC 5031. How many times do we need to again
 identify that a call (or a message) is an emergency call?
 
 The document interestingly talks about closed networks or controlled
 environments where this is supposed to be used. I don't believe it is
 useful to do so because this leaves the door open to use the mechanism
 anywhere. Often, these networks are not as closed as we think.
 
   This new namespace can be included in SIP requests to provide an
explicit priority indication within controlled environments, such as
an IMS infrastructure or Emergency Services network (ESInet) where
misuse can be reduced to a minimum because these types of networks
have great controls in place.
 
 Btw, what are these great controls?
 
 My comments are addressed if the document (in the introduction) makes it
 clear that UAs' MUST NOT include this  RP namespace in an outgoing
 emergency call because there is already the Service URN marking that
 classifies the call as an emergency call.
 We had already agreed on this a long time ago, see
 http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ecrit/current/msg05960.html. Still,
 the text in the introduction and in the security consideration is very
 fuzzy and in my view intentionally does not make the case clear to leave
 it up to interpretation.
 
 It is ironic that this document manages to get finished before the major
 work of the ECRIT group, namely PhoneBCP, and ECRIT framework, get
 completed. (Or the SIPCORE SIP location conveyance for that matter as
 well.)
 Why would someone want to go with their work through a working group when
 they can get a Standards Track document faster and easier?
 
 Ciao
 Hannes
 
 On Jun 16, 2011, at 12:26 AM, The IESG wrote:
 
 
  The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider
  the following document:
  - 'IANA Registering a SIP Resource Priority Header Field Namespace for
Local Emergency Communications'
   draft-polk-local-emergency-rph-namespace-01.txt as a Proposed
  Standard
 
  The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
  final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
  ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2011-07-13. Exceptionally, comments may
 be
  sent to i...@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the
  beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting.
 
  

Last Call: draft-polk-local-emergency-rph-namespace-01.txt (IANA Registering a SIP Resource Priority Header Field Namespace for Local Emergency Communications) to Proposed Standard

2011-06-15 Thread The IESG

The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider
the following document:
- 'IANA Registering a SIP Resource Priority Header Field Namespace for
   Local Emergency Communications'
  draft-polk-local-emergency-rph-namespace-01.txt as a Proposed
Standard

The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
i...@ietf.org mailing lists by 2011-07-13. Exceptionally, comments may be
sent to i...@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the
beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting.

Abstract


   This document creates the new Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
   Resource Priority header field namespace esnet for local emergency
   usage to a public safety answering point (PSAP), between PSAPs, and
   between a PSAP and first responders and their organizations, and
   places this namespace in the IANA registry.




The file can be obtained via
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-polk-local-emergency-rph-namespace/

IESG discussion can be tracked via
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-polk-local-emergency-rph-namespace/


No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.


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