SIP WG                                                       C. Jennings
Internet-Draft                                             Cisco Systems
Expires: January 14, 2005                                  July 16, 2004


                   SIP Conventions for Voicemail URIs
                  draft-jennings-sip-voicemail-uri-02

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Abstract

   At the previous meeting, the working group consensus was that Cullen
   could not move this draft forward as an individual submission.
   However, there was no consensus to adopt it as a WG item.  This
   version of the draft carefully documents exactly what it is that
   Cullen may not move forward.

   SIP systems are often used to initiate connections to voicemail or
   unified messaging systems.  This document describes a convention for
   forming SIP Request URIs that request particular services from
   unified messaging systems.



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   This work is being discussed on the sip@ietf.org mailing list.

Table of Contents

   1.   Conventions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.   Mechanism (UAS and Proxy)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.1  Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     3.2  Cause  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     3.3  Retrieving Messages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   4.   Interaction with Netann  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   5.   Interaction with History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   6.   Limitations of Voicemail URI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   7.   Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     7.1  Proxy Forwards No Answer to Voicemail  . . . . . . . . . .   6
     7.2  Zero Configuration UM System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     7.3  TDM Voice Mail Connected via a Gateway . . . . . . . . . .   9
     7.4  Call Coverage  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   8.   Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   9.   PSTN Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   10.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   11.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     11.1   Integrity Protection of Forwarding in SIP  . . . . . . .  12
     11.2   Privacy Related Issues on the Second Call Leg  . . . . .  13
   12.  Changes from 00 Version  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   13.  Changes from 01 Version  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   14.  Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   15.  References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   15.1   Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   15.2   Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
        Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
        Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . .  16



















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1.  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 RFC-2119 [1].

2.  Introduction

   Unified messaging systems (UM) have developed out of traditional
   voice mail systems.  They can be used for storing and interacting
   with voice, video, faxes, email and instant messaging.  Users often
   use SIP to initiate communications with them.  When a SIP call is
   routed to a UM, there is a requirement for the UM to be able to
   figure out several bits of information from the call so that it can
   deliver the desired services.  The UM needs to know what mailbox
   should be used for the context of this call and possible reasons
   about what type of service is desired.  This includes knowing the
   type of media (voice or IM for example).  Many voice mail systems
   provide different greetings depending whether the reason the call was
   sent to voicemail was that the user was busy or because the user did
   not answer.  All of this information can be delivered in existing SIP
   signaling from the call control that retargets the call to the UM,
   but there are no standardized conventions for describing how the
   desired mailbox and service requested are expressed.  It would be
   possible for every vendor to make this configurable so that any site
   can get it to work; however, this is not a very realistic view of
   achieving interoperability among call control, gateways, and unified
   messaging systems from different vendors.  These requirements and
   more are described in the History Requirements [9].  This document
   describes a convention for describing this mailbox and service
   information in the SIP URI so that vendors and operators can build
   interoperable systems.  It meets some but not all of the requirements
   in [9].

   The work in the History Info [10] draft can be used in similar
   systems.  It is more comprehensive and covers a much wider set of
   requirements.  A key difference from this system is that history
   allows the UM to look at the history of the call and decided on what
   the best treatment is for the call.  This work requires the call
   control system to know something about the history of the call and
   specifically ask the UM to invoke a particular service.

   If there were no need to interoperate with TDM based voicemail
   systems or allow TDM systems to use VoIP unified messaging systems,
   this problem would be a little easier.  The problem that is
   introduced in the VoIP to TDM case is as follows.  The SIP system
   needs to tell a PSTN GW both the subscriber's mailbox identifier
   (which typically looks like a phone number) and the address of the



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   voicemail system in the TDM network (again a phone number).

   One topic that causes some confusion in the requirements for this has
   to do with the fact that the related PSTN mechanism can carry two
   addresses.  These correspond to the original target of the call and
   the most recent target to which it has been redirected.  In general,
   the original target is used to find the voice mail box.  The target
   that most recently redirected is not as useful for voicemail but is
   very useful for billing.  It is often used to bill the most recent
   portion of the call leg.  This work addresses only the requirements
   for UM system, and billing is completely out of scope.  The History
   draft is much more extensive and covers more cases that might be
   useful for billing, but this work does not.

   The question has been asked why the To header cannot be used to
   understand which mailbox to use.  One of the problems with this is
   that the call control proxies cannot modify the To header, and the
   UAC often set it incorrectly because they do not have information
   about the subscribers in the domain they are trying to call.  This
   happens because the routing of the call often translates the URI
   multiple times before it results in an identifier for the desired
   user that is valid in the namespace that the UM system understands.

   Another set of requirements that this mechanism can deal with is the
   call coverage naming issues.  The problem is when Bill calls the 800
   number that sends him to the helpdesk, the proxy may first fork the
   call to Alice (who works at the help desk), and then if Alice does
   not answer in a few seconds fork the call on to Bob (who also works
   at the helpdesk).  Both Alice and Bob would like to be informed that
   the call was to the help desk before they answer the call.  If
   neither answers, the call may get sent to the help desk's voice
   mailbox, not Bob's or Alice's.

3.  Mechanism (UAS and Proxy)

   The mechanism works by encoding the information for the desired
   service in the SIP URI that is sent to the UM system.  Two chunks of
   information are encoded, the first being the target mailbox to use
   and the second being the SIP error code that caused this retargeting
   and indicates the desired service.  The target mailbox can be put in
   the user part of the URI and is also put in a target URI parameter
   while the reason is put in the URI cause parameter.  For example, if
   the proxy wished to use Alice's mailbox because her phone was busy,
   the URI sent to the UM system could be something like:

   sip:alice@um.example.com;target=alice;cause=486





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3.1  Target

   The target parameter indicates the mailbox to use.  In many cases the
   user portion of the SIP URI could be set to the same value but it
   does not have to be.  For example in the case of a voice mail system
   on the PSTN, the user portion will contain the phone number of the
   voice mail system while the target will contain the phone number of
   the subscriber's mailbox.

3.2  Cause

   The URI cause parameter is used to indicates the service that the UAS
   receiving the message should perform.  It corresponds to the SIP
   Status-Code that results in the desired service being requested.  A
   mapping between some common services and reason codes are:

           +------------------------------+-----------------+
           | Service                      | Cause Parameter |
           +------------------------------+-----------------+
           | Busy                         | 486             |
           | No answer                    | 408             |
           | Unconditional                | 302             |
           | Deflect                      | 487             |
           | No Contacts/Failure of UA    | 410             |
           +------------------------------+-----------------+


3.3  Retrieving Messages

   The UM system MAY use the fact that the From header is the same as
   the URI target as a hint that the user wishes to retrieve messages.

4.  Interaction with Netann

   This approach is designed to interact well with the netann mechanism.
   A netann parameter[8] can be used to indicate exactly which initial
   prompt to play.

5.  Interaction with History

   The History mechanism[10] provides considerably more information that
   is useful for a UM system.  This work does not stop a UM system from
   taking advantage of the History information if it is present and
   using that to handle the call.

6.  Limitations of Voicemail URI

   This system requires the proxy that is requesting the service to



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   understand what are valid targets on the UM system.  For practical
   purposes this means that the approach is unlikely to work in many
   cases where the proxy is not configured with information about the UM
   system or if the proxy is not in the same administrative domain.

   This system requires the call control proxy to know what it wants the
   UM to do instead of giving the UM system the information about the
   call that allows the UM system to decide what to do.  For example, if
   a call to the help desk got forwarded first to Alice, then to Bob,
   then finally to the helpdesk UM system, the UM system may want to
   leave a copy of the message in the primary help desk mail box and
   also leave a copy in Alice's mailbox since she was the primary person
   at the helpdesk.  In addition the UM system might want to page Alice,
   Bob and their supervisor to let them know that no one is staffing the
   help desk.  This system does not provide enough information to the UM
   system about what happened to the call to meet the needs of a
   scenario such as the one above.

   This system only works when the service the call control wants
   applied is fairly simple.  For example it does not allow the proxy to
   express information like "Do not offer to connect to the target's
   colleague because that address was already tried".

   Some systems have expressed requirements for the UAC to understand
   when the call is re-targeted and get updated information about where
   it was targeted to as the call proceeds.  This work does not address
   this requirement - History does, as does the option of just sending a
   1xx class message with a Reason header[7].

   The mechanism in this document does not address any billing issues
   associated with forwarded calls.  This is a separate problem.

   These limitations discussed in this section are addressed by the
   History[10] work.

7.  Examples

7.1  Proxy Forwards No Answer to Voicemail

   In this example, Alice calls Bob.  Bob's proxy runs a timer and
   determines that Bob has not answered his phone, and the proxy
   forwards the call to Bob's voicemail.  Alice's phone is at
   192.168.0.1 while Bob's phone is at 192.168.0.2.  The important
   things to note is the URI in message F4.







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   F1: INVITE 192.168.0.1 -> proxy.example.com

   INVITE sip:15555551002@example.com;user=phone SIP/2.0
   Via: SIP/2.0/TCP 192.168.0.1:5060;branch=z9hG4bK-74bf9
   From: Alice <sip:5551001@example.com>;tag=9fxced76sl
   To: sip:15555551002@example.com;user=phone
   Call-ID: c3x842276298220188511
   CSeq: 1 INVITE
   Max-Forwards: 70
   Contact: <sip:x123456x@192.168.0.1;transport=tcp>
   Content-Type: application/sdp
   Content-Length: *Body length goes here*

   * SDP goes here*


   F2: INVITE proxy.example.com -> 192.168.0.2

   INVITE sip:line1@192.168.0.2 SIP/2.0
   Via: SIP/2.0/TCP 192.168.1.4:5060;branch=z9hG4bK-ik80k7g-1
   Via: SIP/2.0/TCP 192.168.0.1:5060;branch=z9hG4bK-74bf9
   From: Alice <sip:5551001@example.com>;tag=9fxced76sl
   To: sip:15555551002@example.com;user=phone
   Call-ID: c3x842276298220188511
   CSeq: 1 INVITE
   Max-Forwards: 70
   Contact: <sip:x123456x@192.168.0.1;transport=tcp>
   Content-Type: application/sdp
   Content-Length: *Body length goes here*

   * SDP goes here*


   F3: 486 192.168.0.2 -> proxy.example.com

   SIP/2.0 486 Busy Here
   Via: SIP/2.0/TCP 192.168.1.4:5060;branch=z9hG4bK-ik80k7g-1
   Via: SIP/2.0/TCP 192.168.0.1:5060;branch=z9hG4bK-74bf9
   From: Alice <sip:5551001@example.com>;tag=9fxced76sl
   To: sip:15555551002@example.com;user=phone;tag=09xde23d80
   Call-ID: c3x842276298220188511
   CSeq: 1 INVITE
   Contact: <sip:x654321x@192.168.0.2;transport=tcp>
   Content-Length: 0







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   F4: INVITE proxy.example.com -> um.example.com

   INVITE sip:bob@um.example.com;target=bob;cause=486 SIP/2.0
   Via: SIP/2.0/TCP 192.168.1.4:5060;branch=z9hG4bK-ik80k7g-2
   Via: SIP/2.0/TCP 192.168.0.1:5060;branch=z9hG4bK-74bf9
   From: Alice <sip:5551001@example.com>;tag=9fxced76sl
   To: sip:15555551002@example.com;user=phone
   Call-ID: c3x842276298220188511
   CSeq: 1 INVITE
   Max-Forwards: 70
   Contact: <sip:x123456x@192.168.0.1;transport=tcp>
   Content-Type: application/sdp
   Content-Length: *Body length goes here*

   * SDP goes here*


7.2  Zero Configuration UM System

   In this example, the UM system has no configuration information
   specific to any user.  The proxy is configured to pass a URI that
   provides the prompt to play and an email address in the user portion
   of the URI to send the recorded message to.

   The call flow is the same as in the previous example except that the
   URI in F4 changes to specify the user part as Bob's email address,
   and the netann URI play parameter specifies where the greeting to
   play can be fetched from.


   F4: INVITE proxy.example.com -> um.example.com

   INVITE
      sip:bob@um.example.com;target=mailto:bob@example.com;cause=486;
      play=http://www.example.com/bob/busy.way
      SIP/2.0
   Via: SIP/2.0/TCP 192.168.1.4:5060;branch=z9hG4bK-ik80k7g-2
   Via: SIP/2.0/TCP 192.168.0.1:5060;branch=z9hG4bK-74bf9
   From: Alice <sip:5551001@example.com>;tag=9fxced76sl
   To: sip:15555551002@example.com;user=phone
   Call-ID: c3x842276298220188511
   CSeq: 1 INVITE
   Max-Forwards: 70
   Contact: <sip:x123456x@192.168.0.1;transport=tcp>
   Content-Type: application/sdp
   Content-Length: *Body length goes here*

   * SDP goes here*



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   In addition, if the proxy wished to indicate a VXML script that the
   UM should execute, it could add a parameter to the URI in the above
   message that looked like:

   voicexml=http://www.example.com/bob/busy.vxml


7.3  TDM Voice Mail Connected via a Gateway

   In this example, the voicemail system has a TDM interconnect to a
   gateway to the VoIP system.  Bob's mailbox is +1 555 555-1002 while
   the address of the voicemail system on the TDM network is +1 555
   555-2000.

   The call flow is the same as in the previous example except for the
   URI in F4.


   F4: INVITE proxy.example.com -> gw.example.com

   INVITE sip:+1-555-555-2000@um.example.com;user=phone;\
          target=tel:+1-555-555-1002;cause=486
          SIP/2.0
   Via: SIP/2.0/TCP 192.168.1.4:5060;branch=z9hG4bK-ik80k7g-2
   Via: SIP/2.0/TCP 192.168.0.1:5060;branch=z9hG4bK-74bf9
   From: Alice <sip:5551001@example.com>;tag=9fxced76sl
   To: sip:15555551002@example.com;user=phone
   Call-ID: c3x842276298220188511
   CSeq: 1 INVITE
   Max-Forwards: 70
   Contact: <sip:x123456x@192.168.0.1;transport=tcp>
   Content-Type: application/sdp
   Content-Length: *Body length goes here*

   * SDP goes here*


7.4  Call Coverage

   In this example a user on the PSTN calls a 800 number.  The GW sends
   this to the proxy which recognizes that the helpdesk is the target.
   Alice and Bob are staffing the help desk and are tried sequentially
   but neither answers, so the call is forwarded to the helpdesk's voice
   mail.

   The key item in this flow is that the invite to Alice and Bob looks
   like




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   INVITE sip:bob@um.example.com;target=helpdesk;cause=302 SIP/2.0


8.  Syntax

   This document updates the BNF in Section 25 of RFC 3261 [3] to add
   the target-param to the uri-parameter as shown below.


   uri-parameter     =  transport-param / user-param /
                        method-param / ttl-param / maddr-param /
                        lr-param / other-param /
                        target-param / cause-param

   target-param      =  "target"  EQUAL pvalue

   cause-param       =  "cause" EQUAL Status-Code


9.  PSTN Mapping

   The mapping to PSTN protocol is important both for gateways that
   connect the IP network to existing TDM equipment, such as PBX's and
   voicemail systems, and for gateways that connect the IP network to
   the PSTN network.  Both ISDN and ISUP have signaling for this
   information that can be treated as roughly equivalent for the
   purposes here.

   The user portion of the URI SHOULD be used as the address of the
   voicemail system on the PSTN, while the target SHOULD be mapped to
   the original redirecting party on the PSTN side.

   If the gateway and Proxy are in the same Trust Domain (defined in RFC
   3325 [5]) and the Spec(T) includes compliance with this document and
   the Spec(T) asserts that the Proxy will do screening (whatever that
   means), then the gateway MAY claim it is screened; otherwise it
   SHOULD NOT assert that the diversion information is screened.

   This draft says nothing about what to put into the redirecting
   numbers, as that has billing implications outside the scope of this
   work.  The requirements here will work fine if the redirecting number
   is not set on the PSTN side.  It is not recommended that the GW map
   the target information into the redirecting party information, but
   doing so is not in violation of this document.

   The following SHOULD be used as the mapping between reason parameters
   and ISUP/ISDN redirect reason codes:




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   +-----------+----------------------------------------+--------------+
   | ISUP or   | PSTN Reason                            | URI Cause    |
   | ISDN      |                                        | Parameter    |
   +-----------+----------------------------------------+--------------+
   | 0000      | Unknown                                | 300          |
   | 0001      | Call forwarding busy or called DTE     | 486          |
   |           | busy                                   |              |
   | 0010      | Call forwarding no reply               | 408          |
   | 1111      | Call forwarding unconditional or       | 302          |
   |           | systematic call redirection            |              |
   | 1010      | Call deflection or call forwarding by  | 487          |
   |           | the called DTE                         |              |
   | 1001      | Call forwarding DTE out of order       | 410          |
   +-----------+----------------------------------------+--------------+

   The redirection counters SHOULD be set to one unless additional
   information is available.

10.  IANA Considerations

   This document adds a new value to the IANA registration in the
   sub-registry at http://www.iana.org/assignments/sip-parameters as
   defined in [6].


      Parameter Name  Predefined Values  Reference
      ____________________________________________
      target                  No         RFC XXXX
      cause                  Yes         RFC XXXX

   Note to RFC Editor - replace XXXX with the RFC number of this
   document.

11.  Security Considerations

   This draft inherently discusses transactions involving at least 3
   parties.  This makes the privacy issues somewhat more complex.

   The new URI parameters defined in this draft are generally sent from
   a Proxy or call control system to a unified messaging (UM) system or
   gateway to the PSTN, and then to a voicemail system.  This tells the
   UM what service the proxy wishes to have performed.  Just as any
   message sent from the proxy to the UM needs to be integrity
   protected, these need to be integrity protected.  This stops
   attackers from doing things like causing a voicemail meant for the
   CEO of the company to go to an attacker's mailbox.  RFC 3261 provides
   TLS and IPSEC mechanisms suitable for protecting against this.




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   The signaling from the Proxy to the UM will reveal who is calling
   whom and possibly some information about the presence of a user based
   on whether a call got sent to voicemail instead of being answered.
   This information can be protected by encrypting the SIP traffic
   between the Proxy and UM.  Again, RFC 3261 contains mechanisms for
   accomplishing this using TLS and IPSEC.

   The S/MIME based mechanisms in RFC 3261 will generally not be
   applicable for protecting this information because they are meant for
   end to end issues and this is primarily a middle to end scenario.
   Ongoing work on middle to end [11] may allow S/MIME based schemes to
   be used for protecting this information.  These schemes would allow
   the information to be hidden and integrity protected if there was
   another administrative domain between the Proxy and UM.  The current
   scheme is based on hop by hop security and requires all hops between
   the Proxy and UM to be trusted, which is the case in many deployment
   scenarios.

11.1  Integrity Protection of Forwarding in SIP

   Forwarding of a call in SIP brings up a very strange trust issue.
   Consider the normal case of when A calls B, and then the call gets
   forwarded by a network element in the domain of B to C, and then C
   answers the call.  A called B but ended up talking to C.  This may be
   hard to separate from a man in the middle attack.

   There are two possible solutions for this.  One is that B sends back
   information to A saying don't call me, call C and signs it as B.  The
   problem with this is that it reveals the fact that B has forwarded to
   C and often B does not want to do this.  For example, B may be a work
   phone that has been forwarded to a mobile or home phone.  The user
   does not want to reveal their mobile or home phone number but, even
   more importantly, does not want to reveal that they are not in the
   office but are instead working from home.

   The other possible solution for this is that A needs to trust B only
   to forward to a trusted identity.  This requires a hop by hop
   transitive trust such that each hop will only send to a trusted next
   hop and each hop will only do things that the user at that hop
   desired.  This solution is enforced in SIP using the SIPS URI and TLS
   based hop by hop security.  It protects from an off axis attack but
   if one of the hops is not trustworthy, the call may be subverted to
   an attacker.

   Any redirection of a call to an attacker's mailbox is a very serious
   issue.  It is trivial for the attacker to make the mailbox seem very
   much like the real mailbox and forward the message to the real
   mailbox so that the fact that the messages have been intercepted or



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   even tampered with is not detected.

11.2  Privacy Related Issues on the Second Call Leg

   When A calls B and gets redirected to C, occasionally people say
   there is a requirement for the call leg from B to C to be anonymous.
   This is not the PSTN: there is no call leg from B to C; instead there
   is a VoIP session between A and C.  If A had put a To header
   containing B in the initial invite message, unless something special
   is done about it, C will see that To header.  If the person who
   answers phone C says "I think you dialed the wrong number, who were
   you trying to reach?" A will probably specify B.

   If A does not want C to see that the call was to B, A needs a special
   relationship with the Proxy that does the forwarding so that it will
   not reveal that information, and the call should go through an
   anonymizer service that provides session or user level privacy (as
   described in RFC 3323 [4]) service before going to C.  It's not hard
   to figure out how to meet this requirement, but it is difficult to
   figure out why anyone would want this service.

   If B wants to make sure that C does not see that the call was to B,
   it is easier but a bit weird.  The usual argument is Bill wants to
   forward his phone to Monica but does not want Monica to find out his
   phone number.  It is a little weird that Monica would want to accept
   all Bill's calls without knowing how to call Bill to complain.  The
   only person Monica will be able to complain to is Hillary who tried
   to call Bill.  Several popular web portals will send SMS alert
   message about things like stock prices and weather to mobile phone
   users today.  Some of these contain no information about the account
   on the web portal that imitated them, making it nearly impossible for
   the mobile phone owner to stop them.  This anonymous message
   forwarding has turned out to be a really bad idea even where no
   malice was intended.  Clearly some people are fairly dubious about
   the need for this, but never mind: let's look at how it is solved.

   In the general case, the proxy needs to route the call through an
   Anonymization Service and everything will be cleaned up.  Any
   Anonymization service that performs the "Privacy: Header" Service in
   RFC 3323 [5] MUST remove the reason and target URI parameters from
   the URI.  RFC 3325 already makes it pretty clear you would need to
   clean up this sort of information.

   There is a specialized case of some interest where the mechanism in
   this document is being used in conjunction with RFC 3325 and the UM
   and the Proxy are both in the trust domain.  It this limited case,
   the problem that B does not want reveal their address to C can be
   solved by ensuring that the target parameter URI should never be in a



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   message that is forwarded outside the trust domain.  If it is passed
   to a PSTN device in the trust domain, the appropriate privacy flag
   needs to be set in the ISUP or ISDN signaling.

12.  Changes from 00 Version

   The reason information was moved from being a tag in the URI to using
   the Reason header.

13.  Changes from 01 Version

   The reason information was moved from using the Reason header to
   being a tag in the URI.

   Seriously, I'm not joking - this was the consensus at the last
   meeting.

14.  Acknowledgments

   Mary Barnes, Dean Willis, and Steve Levy have spent significant time
   with me helping me understand the requirements and pros and cons of
   various approaches.  I would like to thank them very much for this,
   and since this is an acknowledgments section I would also like to
   acknowledge Rohan Mahy's help with the various documents on this
   subject and his encouragement to work on a solution that brings some
   consensus to this topic.

15.  References

15.1  Normative References

   [1]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
        Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [2]  Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
        Specifications: ABNF", RFC 2234, November 1997.

   [3]  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.

   [4]  Peterson, J., "A Privacy Mechanism for the Session Initiation
        Protocol (SIP)", RFC 3323, November 2002.

   [5]  Jennings, C., Peterson, J. and M. Watson, "Private Extensions to
        the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for Asserted Identity
        within Trusted Networks", RFC 3325, November 2002.




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   [6]  Camarillo, G., "The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA)
        Universal Resource Identifier  (URI) Parameter Registry for the
        Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)",
        draft-ietf-sip-uri-parameter-reg-02 (work in progress), June
        2004.

   [7]  Schulzrinne, H., Oran, D. and G. Camarillo, "The Reason Header
        Field for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)", RFC 3326,
        December 2002.

15.2  Informative References

   [8]   Burger, E., "Basic Network Media Services with SIP",
         draft-burger-sipping-netann-07 (work in progress), September
         2003.

   [9]   Barnes, M., "SIP Generic Request History Capability
         Requirements", draft-ietf-sipping-req-history-04 (work in
         progress), June 2003.

   [10]  Barnes, M., "An Extension to the Session Initiation Protocol
         for Request History  Information",
         draft-ietf-sip-history-info-01 (work in progress), October
         2003.

   [11]  Ono, K. and S. Tachimoto, "End-to-middle security in the
         Session Initiation Protocol(SIP)",
         draft-ono-sipping-end2middle-security-02 (work in progress),
         May 2004.


Author's Address

   Cullen Jennings
   Cisco Systems
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   Mailstop SJC-21/2
   San Jose, CA  95134
   USA

   Phone: +1 408 902-3341
   EMail: fluffy@cisco.com









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