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ECRIT                                                     H. Schulzrinne
Internet-Draft                                               Columbia U.
Expires: September 7, October 21, 2006                               R. Marshall, Ed.
                                                                     TCS
                                                           March 6,
                                                          April 19, 2006


      Requirements for Emergency Context  Resolution with Internet
                              Technologies
                  draft-ietf-ecrit-requirements-06.txt
                  draft-ietf-ecrit-requirements-07.txt

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Abstract

   This document enumerates requirements for the context resolution of
   emergency calls placed by the public using voice-over-IP (VoIP) and
   general Internet multimedia systems, where Internet protocols are
   used end-to-end.





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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   3.  Basic Actors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
   4.  High-Level Requirements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   5.  Identifying the Caller's Location  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 15
   6.  Emergency Identifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 18
   7.  Mapping Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 21
   8.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 25
   9.  Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 26
   10. Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 27
   11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 28
     11.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 28
     11.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 28
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 29
   Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . . . 29 30


































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1.  Introduction

   Users of both voice-centric (telephone-like) and non voice type
   services (e.g., text communication for hearing disabled users (RFC
   3351 [8]) have an expectation to be able to initiate a request for
   help in case of an emergency.

   Unfortunately, the existing mechanisms to support emergency calls
   that have evolved within the public circuit-switched telephone
   network (PSTN) are not appropriate to handle evolving IP-based voice,
   text and real-time multimedia communications.  This document outlines
   the key requirements that IP-based end systems and network elements,
   such as SIP proxies, need to satisfy in order to provide emergency
   call services, which at a minimum, offer the same functionality as
   existing PSTN services, with the additional overall goal of making
   emergency calling more robust, less costly to implement, and
   multimedia-capable.

   This document only focuses on end-to-end IP-based calls, i.e., where
   the emergency call originates from an IP end system and terminates
   into an IP-capable PSAP, conveyed entirely over an IP network.

   This document outlines the various functional issues which relate to
   placing an IP-based emergency call, including a description of
   baseline requirements (Section 4), identification of the emergency
   caller's location (Section 5), use of an emergency identifier to
   declare a call to be an emergency call (Section 6), and finally, the
   mapping function required to route the call to the appropriate PSAP
   (Section 7).

   Ideally, the mapping protocol would yield a URI from a preferred set
   of URIs (e.g., SIP:URI, SIPS:URI) which would allow an emergency call
   to be completed using IP end-to-end.  Despite this goal, some PSAPs
   may not immediately have IP based connectivity, and therefore it is
   imperative that the URI scheme not be fixed, in order to ensure
   support for a less preferred set of URIs, URIs such as as, for example, a TEL
   URI which may be used to complete a call via the PSTN.

   Identification of the caller, while not incompatible with the
   requirements for messaging outlined within this document, is
   considered to be outside the scope of the ECRIT charter.

   Location is required for two separate purposes, first, to route the
   call to the appropriate PSAP and second, to display the caller's
   location to the call taker for help in dispatching emergency
   assistance to the correct appropriate location.

   As used in this document, validation of location does not require to



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   that we ascertain as to whether or not the location actually exists.
   For example, validation might only check that the house number in a
   civic address falls within the assigned range, not whether that the
   building exists at that spot. location.  However, such higher precision
   validation is desirable.














































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2.  Terminology

   In this document, the key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED",
   "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY",
   and "OPTIONAL" are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [1].

   Since a requirements document does not directly specify a protocol to
   implement, [1],
   with the qualification that unless otherwise stated these compliance labels should be read as indicating
   requirements for words apply
   to the protocol design of the mapping protocol, not its implementation or architecture, rather than an
   implementation.
   application.

   Codes: "caller" or "emergency caller" refers to the person placing an
   emergency call or sending an emergency instant message (IM).

   Application Service Provider (ASP): The organization or entity that
      provides application-layer services, which may include voice (see
      "Voice Service Provider").  This entity can be a private
      individual, an enterprise, a government, or a service provider.
      An ASP is more general than a Voice Service Provider, since
      emergency calls may use other media beyond voice, including text
      and video.  For a particular user, the ASP may or may not be the
      same organization as his IAP or ISP.

   Basic Emergency Service: Basic Emergency Service allows a user to
      reach a PSAP serving its current location, but the PSAP may not be
      able to determine the identity or geographic location of the
      caller, except by having the call taker ask the caller.

   Call taker: A call taker is an agent at the PSAP that accepts calls
      and may dispatch emergency help.  Sometimes the functions of call
      taking and dispatching are handled by different groups of people,
      but these divisions of labor are not generally visible to the
      outside and thus do not concern us here.

   Civic location: A described location based on some defined grid, such
      as a jurisdictional, postal, metropolitan, or rural reference
      system, (e.g., street address).

   Emergency address: The URI (e.g., SIP:URI, SIPS:URI, XMPP:URI, IM:
      URI, etc.) which represents the address of the PSAP useful for the
      completion of an emergency call.

   Emergency call routing support: An intermediary function which
      assists in the routing of an emergency call via IP.  An ESRP, ESRP is an
      example of an Emergency call routing support entity.






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   Emergency caller: The user or user device entity which sends his/her
      location to another entity in the network.





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   Emergency identifier: The numerical and/or text An identifier which is
      supplied by a user or that marks a user device, which identifies the call as an emergency
      call.  A universal emergency identifier is an example
      of an emergency identifier.

   Emergency Service Routing Proxy (ESRP): An ESRP is an emergency call
      routing support entity that invokes the location-to-URI location-to-PSAP URI
      mapping, to return either the URI for the appropriate PSAP, or the
      URL for another ESRP.  (In a SIP system, the ESRP would typically
      be a SIP proxy, but may also be a Back-to-back user agent (B2BUA).

   Enhanced emergency service: Enhanced emergency services add the
      ability to identify the caller's identity or location to basic
      emergency services.  (Sometimes, only the caller location may be
      known, e.g., when a call is placed from a public access point that
      is not owned by an individual.)

   Geographic location: A reference to a locatable point described by a
      set of defined coordinates within a geographic coordinate system,
      (e.g., lat/lon within the WGS-84 datum).  For example, (2-D)
      geographic location is defined as an x,y coordinate value pair
      according to the distance North or South of the equator and East
      or West of the prime meridian.

   Home emergency dial string: A home emergency dial string represents a
      (e.g., dialed) sequence of digits, that is used to initiate an
      emergency call within a geographically correct location of a
      caller if it is considered to be a user's "home" location or
      vicinity.

   Internet Attachment Provider (IAP): An organization that provides
      physical and layer 2 network connectivity to its customers or
      users, e.g., through digital subscriber lines, cable TV plants,
      Ethernet, leased lines or radio frequencies.  Examples of such
      organizations include telecommunication carriers, municipal
      utilities, larger enterprises with their own network
      infrastructure, and government organizations such as the military.

   Internet Service Provider (ISP): An organization that provides IP
      network-layer services to its customers or users.  This entity may
      or may not provide the physical-layer and layer-2 connectivity,
      such as fiber or Ethernet, i.e., it may or may not be the role of
      an IAP.





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   Location: A geographic identification assigned to a region or feature
      based on a specific coordinate system, or by other precise
      information such as a street number and name.  It can be either a
      civic or geographic location.





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   Location-dependent emergency dial string: Location-dependent
      emergency dial strings should be thought of as the digit sequence
      that is dialed in order to reach emergency services.  There are
      two dial strings, namely either a "home emergency dial string", or
      a "visited emergency dial string", and is something separate from
      a universal
      an emergency identifier, since each represents specific emergency
      dial string key sequences which are recognized within a local
      geographic area or jurisdiction.

   Location validation: A caller location is considered valid if the
      civic or geographic location is recognizable within an acceptable
      location reference systems system (e.g., USPS, WGS-84, etc.), and can be
      mapped to one or more PSAPs.  While it is desirable to determine
      that a location exists, validation may not ensure that such a
      location exists.  Location validation ensures that a location is
      able to be referenced for mapping, but makes no assumption about
      the association between the caller and the caller's location.

   Mapping: Process The process of resolving a location to a URI (or multiple URIs) one or more PSAP URIs
      which directly identify a PSAP, or point to an intermediary which
      knows about a PSAP and that is designated as responsible to serve
      that location.

   Mapping client: A mapping client interacts with the Mapping Server to
      learn one or more PSAP URIs for a given location.

   Mapping protocol: A protocol used to convey the mapping request and
      response.

   Mapping server: The Mapping Server holds information about the
      location-to-URI mappings.
      location-to-PSAP URI mapping.

   Mapping service: A network service which uses a distributed mapping
      protocol, to perform a mapping between a location and a PSAP, or
      intermediary which knows about the PSAP, and is used to assist in
      routing an emergency call.

   PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point): Physical location where
      emergency calls are received under the responsibility of a public
      authority.  (This terminology is used by both ETSI, in ETSI SR 002
      180, and NENA.)  In the United Kingdom, PSAPs are called Operator
      Assistance Centres, in New Zealand, Communications Centres.
      Within this document, it is assumed, unless stated otherwise, that
      PSAP is that which supports the receipt of emergency calls over



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      IP.  It is also assumed that the PSAP is reachable by IP-based
      protocols, such as SIP for call signaling and RTP for media.





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   PSAP URI: PSAP URI is a general term, used to refer to the output of
      the mapping protocol, and represents either the actual PSAP IP
      address, or the IP address of some other intermediary, e.g., an
      ESRP, which points to the actual PSAP.

   Universal emergency identifier: An emergency identifier which is
      recognized by any compatible endpoint, from any geographic
      location.  A general approach to using universal emergency
      identifiers is outlined in the service URN draft (I-D.ietf-ecrit-
      service-urn [5]).

   Visited emergency dial string: A visited emergency dial string
      represents a sequence of digits that is used to initiate an
      emergency call within a geographically correct location of the
      caller if outside the caller's "home" location or vicinity.

   Voice Service Provider (VSP): A specific type of Application Service
      Provider which provides voice related services based on IP, such
      as call routing, a SIP URI, or PSTN termination.  In this
      document, unless noted otherwise, any reference to "Voice Service
      Provider" or "VSP" may be used interchangeably with "Application/
      Voice Service Provider" or "ASP/VSP".



































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3.  Basic Actors

   In order to support emergency services covering a large physical
   area, various infrastructure elements are necessary, including:
   Internet Attachment Providers (IAPs), Application/Voice Service
   Providers (ASPs or VSPs), (ASP/VSPs), PSAPs as endpoints for emergency calls, mapping
   services or other infrastructure elements that assist during the call
   routing.

   This section outlines which entities will be considered in the
   routing scenarios discussed.


      Location
      Information     +-----------------+
          |(1)        |Internet         |   +-----------+
          v           |Attachment       |   |           |
     +-----------+    |Provider         |   | Mapping   |
     |           |    | (3)             |   | Service   |
     | Emergency |<---+-----------------+-->|           |
     | Caller    |    | (2)             |   +-----------+
     |           |<---+-------+         |          ^
     +-----------+    |  +----|---------+------+   |
          ^           |  |   Location   |      |   |
          |           |  |   Information<-+    |   |
          |           +--+--------------+ |(5) |   | (6)
          |              |                |    |   |
          |              |    +-----------v+   |   |
          |   (4)        |    |Emergency   |   |   |
          +--------------+--->|Call Routing|<--+---+
          |              |    |Support     |   |
          |              |    +------------+   |
          |              |          ^          |
          |              |      (7) |          |  +----+--+
          |    (8)       |          +------------>|       |
          +--------------+----------------------->| PSAP  |
                         |                     |  |       |
                         |Application/         |  +----+--+
                         |Voice                |
                         |Service              |
                         |Provider             |
                         +---------------------+

   Figure 1: Framework for emergency call routing

   Figure 1 shows the interaction between the entities involved in the
   call.  There are a number of different deployment choices, as can be
   easily seen from the figure.



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   o How is location information provided to the end host?  It might
   either be known to the end host itself via manual configuration,
   provided via GPS, or obtained via a third party method.  Even if
   location information is known to the network it might be made
   available to the end host via DHCP (RFC 3825 [2]) or some other
   mechanism.  Alternatively, location information is used as part of
   call routing and inserted by intermediaries.

   o Is the Internet Attachment Provider also the Application/Voice
   Service Provider?  In the Internet today these roles are typically
   provided by different entities.  As a consequence, the Application/
   Voice Service Provider is typically not able to learn the physical
   location of the emergency caller.

   The overlapping squares in the figure indicate that some functions
   can be collapsed into a single entity.  As an example, the
   Application/Voice Service Provider might be the same entity as the
   Internet Attachment Provider.  There is, however, no requirement that
   this must be the case.  Additionally, we consider that end systems
   might act as their own VSP, ASP/VSP, e.g., either for enterprises or for
   residential users.

   Various potential interactions between the entities depicted in
   Figure 1, are described in the following:

   (1) Location information might be available to the end host itself.

   (2) Location information might, however, also be obtained from the
   Internet Attachment Provider (e.g., using DHCP or application layer
   signaling protocols).

   (3) The emergency caller might need to consult a mapping service to
   determine the PSAP that is appropriate for the physical location of
   the emergency caller, possibly considering other attributes such as
   appropriate language support by the emergency call taker.

   (4) The emergency caller might get assistance for emergency call
   routing by infrastructure elements that are Emergency Call Routing
   Support entities, e.g., an Emergency Service Routing Proxy (ESRP), in
   SIP).

   (5) Location Information is used by emergency call routing entities
   to determine the appropriate PSAP.
   for subsequent mapping requests.

   (6) Individual emergency Emergency call routing support entities might need to consult a
   mapping service to determine where to route the emergency call.




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   (7) For infrastructure-based emergency call routing (in contrast to



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   UE-based emergency call routing), the emergency call routing support
   entity needs to forward the call to the PSAP.

   (8) The emergency caller (UE) may interact directly with the PSAP
   (e.g., UE invokes mapping, and initiates a connection), without
   relying on any intermediary emergency call routing support entities.













































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4.  High-Level Requirements

   Below, we summarize high-level architectural requirements that guide
   some of the component requirements detailed later in the document.

   Re1.  Application/Voice service provider: provider existence: The initiation of
      an IP-based emergency call SHOULD NOT assume the existence of an
      Application/Voice Service Provider (ASP/VSP) SHOULD NOT be
      assumed. (ASP/VSP).

      Motivation: The caller may not have an application/voice service
      provider.  For example, a residence may have its own DNS domain
      and run its own SIP proxy server for that domain.  On a larger
      scale, a university might provide voice services to its students
      and staff, but not be a telecommunication provider.

   Re2.  International:  International applicability: Regional, political and
      organizational aspects MUST be considered during the design of
      protocols and protocol
      extensions. extensions which support IP-based emergency
      calls.

      Motivation: It must be possible for a device or software developed
      or purchased in one country to place emergency calls in another
      country.  System components should not be biased towards a
      particular set of emergency numbers or languages.  Also, different
      countries have evolved different ways of organizing emergency
      services, e.g., either centralizing them or having smaller
      regional subdivisions such as United States counties or
      municipalities handle emergency calls.

   Re3.  Distributed administration: Deployment of IP-based emergency
      services MUST NOT depend on a sole central administration
      authority.

      Motivation: Once common standards are established, it The design mapping protocol must be make it possible to
      deploy and administer emergency calling features on a regional or
      national basis without requiring coordination with other regions
      or nations.  The system cannot assume, for example, that there is
      a single global entity issuing certificates for PSAPs, ASPs, ASP/VSPs,
      IAPs or other participants.

   Re4.  Multiple modes: Multiple  Multi-mode communication: IP-based emergency calls MUST support
      multiple communication modes, such as including, for example, audio, video
      and text MUST be supported (i.e., implemented in the
      protocol, though not necessarily used in all calls). text.

      Motivation: In PSTN, voice and text telephony (often called TTY or
      textphone
      text-phone in North America) are the only commonly supported
      media.  Emergency calling must support a variety of media.  Such
      media should include voice, conversational text (RFC 4103 [10]), instant
      messaging and video.



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      instant messaging and video.

   Re5.  Alternate mapping sources: The mapping protocol MUST implement
      a mechanism that allows for the retrieval of mapping information
      from different sources.

      Motivation: This provides the possibility of having available
      alternative sources of mapping information when the normal source
      is unavailable or unreachable.

   Re6.  Differences of currency in mapping sources: For alternate
      mapping, differences in currency between mapping data contained
      within  Currency indication: The mapping sources protocol SHOULD be minimized. support an
      indicator describing how current the information provided by the
      mapping source is.

      Motivation: Alternative This is especially useful when an alternate mapping is
      requested, and alternative sources of mapping data may not have
      been created or updated with the same set of information or within
      the same timeframe.  Differences in currency between mapping data
      contained within mapping sources should be minimized.

   Re7.  Mapping result usability: The ECRIT mapping protocol MUST return a URI (or URIs) one
      or more URIs that are usable within a standard signaling protocol
      (i.e., without special emergency extensions).

      Motivation: For example, a SIP specific URI which is returned by
      the mapping protocol, protocol needs to be usable within by any SIP capable phone
      in
      within a SIP initiated emergency call.  This is in contrast to a
      "special purpose" URI, which may not be recognizable by a legacy
      SIP device.

   Re8.  PSAP URI accessibility: The mapping information protocol MUST be available
      without having support
      interaction between the client and server where no enrollment to enroll with a
      mapping service provider. exists or is required.

      Motivation: The mapping server may well be operated by a service
      provider, but access to the server offering the mapping must not
      require use of a specific ISP or VSP. ASP/VSP.

   Re9.  No modification of location databases:  Common data structures and formats: The mapping protocol SHOULD NOT require that
      support common data within location structures and formats from the mapping
      server.

      Motivation: Location databases should not need to be transformed
      or modified in any unusual or unreasonable way in order for the
      mapping protocol to use the data.

      Motivation: Databases  For example, a database which contain
      contains civic addresses used within by location servers, servers may be used for
      multiple purposes and applications beyond emergency service
      location-to-PSAP URI mapping.



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5.  Identifying


   Re10.  Anonymous mapping: The mapping protocol MUST NOT require the Caller's Location

   Location can either be provided direct, or by reference, and
   represents either a civic location, or as a geographic location.  How
   does
      true identity of the target for which the location (or location reference) information is
      attributed.

      Motivation: Ideally, no identity information is provided via the
      mapping protocol.  Where identity information is provided, it may
      be in the form of an unlinked pseudonym (RFC 3693 [9]).












































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5.  Identifying the Caller's Location

   Location can either be provided direct, or by reference, and
   represents either a civic location, or as a geographic location.  How
   does the location (or location reference) become associated with the
   call?  In general, we can distinguish three modes of operation of how
   a location is associated with an emergency call:

   UA-inserted: The caller's user agent inserts the location information
      into the call signaling message.  The location information is
      derived from sources such as GPS, DHCP (RFC 3825 [2]) and
      I-D.ietf-geopriv-dhcp-civil [7]) or utilizing the Link Layer
      Discovery Protocol (LLDP) [see IEEE8021AB].

   UA-referenced: The caller's user agent provides a pointer (i.e., a
      location reference), via a permanent or temporary identifier, to
      the location which is stored by a location service somewhere else
      and then retrieved by the PSAP, ESRP, or other authorized service
      entity.

   Proxy-inserted: A proxy along the call path inserts the location or
      location reference.

   Lo1.  Reference datum: The mapping server protocol MUST implement support for the WGS-84
      coordinate reference system and MAY support other coordinate
      reference systems.

   Lo2.  Location provided: An Emergency Services Routing Proxy (ESRP) The mapping protocol MUST NOT remove retain any
      location information which is provided to it, even after performing location
      based routing. mapping
      is performed.

      Motivation: The ESRP and the PSAP use the same location
      information object, but for a different purpose.  Therefore, it is
      imperative that the mapping protocol not remove location
      Information so that the PSAP can still needs to receive the caller's caller
      location.

   Lo3.  Location delivery by-value: The mapping protocol MUST support
      the delivery of location information using a by-value method,
      though it MAY also support de-referencing a URL that references a
      location object.

      Motivation: The mapping protocol is not required to support the
      ability to de-reference specific location references.







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6.  Emergency Identifier

   Id1.  Universal emergency identifier setup: One or more universal
      emergency identifiers


   Lo4.  Alternate community names: The mapping protocol MUST be recognized by any device or network
      element for call setup purposes. support
      both the jurisdictional community name and the postal community
      name fields within the PIDF-LO data.

      Motivation: There A mapping query must be some way for any device accepted with either or element to
      recognize an emergency call throughout the call setup.  This both
      community name fields, and provide appropriate responses.  If a
      mapping query is
      regardless of made with only one field present, and if the device location,
      database contains both jurisdictional and postal, the application/voice service
      provider used.  An example mapping
      protocol response should return both.

   Lo5.  Validation of this might be "urn:service:sos".

   Id2.  Emergency identifier resolution: Where multiple emergency
      identifiers exist, there civic location: The mapping protocol MUST be a mechanism to differentiate each
      emergency identifier used, support
      civic address validation, based on the specific type of location, prior to initiating
      an emergency
      help requested. call.

      Motivation: Some jurisdictions may have multiple types Location validation provides an opportunity to help
      assure ahead of
      emergency services available, (e.g., fire, police, ambulance), in
      which case, it is important that any one could be selected
      directly.

   Id3.  Emergency identifier marking: Any device in the signaling path
      that recognizes by some means that time, whether or not successful mapping to the signaling
      appropriate PSAP will likely occur when it is associated
      with an required.
      Validation may also help to avoid delays during emergency call
      setup due to invalid locations.

   Lo6.  Validation resolution: The mapping protocol MUST add a specific emergency indication,
      if it doesn't already exist, support the
      ability to provide ancillary information about the signaling before forwarding
      it.  This marking mechanism must be different than QoS marking.

      Motivation: Marking ensures proper handling as an emergency call
      by downstream elements that may not recognize, for example, a
      local variant of a logical emergency address.

   Id4.  Prevention resolution of fraud: A call MUST be routed
      location data used to retrieve a PSAP if it is
      identified as an emergency call. URI.

      Motivation: This prevents The mapping server may not use of all the emergency call indication to
      gain access data elements
      in the provided location information to call features determine a match, or authentication override for non-
      emergency purposes.

   Id5.  Extensibility of emergency identifiers: The list of defined
      emergency identifiers MUST may
      be extensible, and it is not necessary able to provide mapping find a match based on all of the information except for every possible service.

      Motivation:
      some specific data elements.  The use uniqueness of an this information
      set may be used to differentiate among emergency identifier is locally
      determined.







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   Id6.  Discovery jurisdictions.
      Precision or resolution in the context of emergency dial strings: this requirement might
      mean, for example, explicit identification of the data elements
      that were used successfully in the mapping.

   Lo7.  Indication of non-existent location: The mapping protocol MUST
      support a mechanism to discover existing location-dependent emergency dial
      strings, (e.g., "9-1-1", "1-1-2"), which are contextually
      appropriate for the indicate and resolve any associated issues
      attributed to a location or a part of the caller.

      Motivation: Users are trained to dial the appropriate emergency
      dial string to reach emergency services.  There needs to be a way
      to figure out what the dial string location that is within known to
      not exist, despite the local environment receipt of the caller.

   Id7.  Local emergency dial string translation: An end device (i.e.,
      SIP UA), SHOULD translate home emergency dial strings into
      universal emergency identifiers. a successful mapping response.

      Motivation: The UA would most likely be pre-
      provisioned with the appropriate information in order emergency authority for a given jurisdiction may
      provide a means to make such resolve addressing problems, e.g., a translation.

   Id8.  Emergency dial string replacement: For each signaling protocol URI for a
      web service that can be used in to report problems with an emergency call, reserved universal
      emergency identifiers SHOULD address.

   Lo8.  Limits to validation: Successful validation of a civic location
      MUST NOT be allowed required to replace the original
      emergency dial strings, based on local conventions, regulations,
      or preference (e.g., as in the case of place an enterprise). emergency call.







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      Motivation: Any signaling protocol requires the use of In some
      identifier to indicate the called party, and the user terminal cases, a civic location may
      lack not be considered
      valid.  This fact should not result in the capability call being dropped or
      rejected by any entity along the call setup signaling path to determine the actual emergency address
      (PSAP URI).
      PSAP.

   Lo9. 3D sensitive mapping: The use of local conventions mapping protocol MUST implement
      support for both 2D and 3D location information, and may be required as accept
      either a
      transition mechanism.  Note: Such use complicates international
      movement of the user terminal, 2D or 3D mapping request as input.

      Motivation: It is expected that provisioning systems will accept
      both 2D and evolution to 3D data.  When a standardized
      universal emergency identifier or set of identifiers 3D request is preferred.

   Id9.  Universal emergency identifier recognition: A universal
      emergency identifier MUST be recognized presented to an area
      only defined by any network element
      which supports 2D data, the mapping protocol.

   Id10.  Emergency identifier not recognized: A call MUST result would be recognized the same as an emergency call even
      if the specific emergency service
      requested is not recognized.

      Motivation: In order to have a robust system that supports
      incremental service deployment while still maintaining a fallback
      capability.

   Id11.  Discovery of visited emergency dial strings: The mapping
      protocol MUST support (i.e., implement, though not necessarily
      use) a mechanism to allow height/altitude dimension was omitted in the end device to learn visited
      emergency dial strings. request.






































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      Motivation: Scenarios exist where a user dials a visited emergency
      dial string that is different from the home emergency dial string:
      If a user (i.e., UA operator) visits a foreign country, observes a
      fire truck with 999 on the side, the expectation is one of being
      able to dial that same number to summon a fire truck.  Another use
      case cited is where a tourist collapses, and a "good Samaritan"
      uses the tourist's cell phone to enter a local emergency dial
      string.











































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7.  Mapping Protocol

   Given the requirement from the previous section, one of having a
   universal emergency identifier that is independent of the caller's
   location, and since each PSAP only serves a limited geographic
   region, and for reasons of jurisdictional and local knowledge, having
   the call reach the appropriate PSAP based on a mapping protocol is
   crucial.

   There are two basic approaches to invoking a mapping service.  We
   refer to these as caller-based and mediated.  In each case, the
   mapping client initiates a request to a mapping server via a mapping
   protocol.  A proposed mapping protocol is outlined in the document
   I-D.hardie-ecrit-lost [6].

   For caller-based resolution, the caller's user agent invokes a
   mapping service to determine the appropriate PSAP based on the
   location provided.  The resolution may take place well before the
   actual emergency call is placed, or at the time of the call.

   For mediated resolution, a call signaling server, such as a SIP
   (outbound) proxy or redirect server invokes the mapping service.

   Since servers may be used as outbound proxy servers by clients that
   are not in the same geographic area as the proxy server, any proxy
   server has to be able to translate any caller location to the
   appropriate PSAP.  (A traveler may, for example, accidentally or
   intentionally configure its home proxy server as its outbound proxy
   server, even while far away from home.)

   Ma1.  Appropriate PSAP: Calls MUST be routed to the PSAP responsible
      for a particular geographic area.  In particular, the location
      determination should not be fooled by the location of IP telephony
      gateways or dial-in lines into a corporate LAN (and dispatch
      emergency help to the gateway or campus, rather than the caller),
      multi-site LANs and similar arrangements.

      Motivation: Routing to the wrong PSAP will result in delays in
      handling emergencies as calls are redirected, and result in
      inefficient use of PSAP resources at the initial point of contact.

   Ma2.  Minimal additional delay: The execution of the mapping protocol
      SHOULD minimize the amount of additional delay to the overall
      call-setup time.







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      Motivation: Since outbound proxies will likely be asked to resolve
      the same geographic coordinates repeatedly, a suitable time-
      limited caching mechanism should be supported.

   Ma3.  Referral:


6.  Emergency Identifier

   Id1.  Emergency identifier support: The mapping protocol MUST support (i.e., Implement
      for use), a mechanism
      one or more emergency identifiers for the delivery back to mapping client
      clients to be able to contact used for call setup purposes.

      Motivation: Since there is a need for any mapping server and be referred device or network
      element to another server that recognize an emergency call throughout the call setup,
      there is more
      qualified also a need to answer the query.

      Motivation: This requirement alleviates have the potential for
      incorrect configurations to cause calls to fail, particularly for
      caller-based queries.

   Ma4.  Multiple response URIs: The mapping protocol response MUST provide support
      for such an identifier.  This is regardless of the inclusion device location
      or the ASP/VSP used.  An example of this kind of identifier might
      be "urn:service:sos".

   Id2.  Emergency identifier resolution: Where multiple URIs in emergency
      identifiers exist, the response.

   Ma5.  URI alternate contact: The mapping protocol MUST support be able to
      differentiate between identifiers based on the
      return specific type of a URI or contact method explicitly marked as an
      alternate contact.
      emergency help requested.

      Motivation: In response to a mapping request, the mapping server Some jurisdictions may return an alternate URI.  Implementation details to have multiple types of
      emergency services available, (e.g., fire, police, ambulance), in
      which case, it is important that any one could be
      described within an operational document.

   Ma6.  URL properties: selected
      directly.

   Id3.  Emergency identifier marking: The mapping protocol MUST support include
      an emergency identifier with the ability
      to provide additional information that allows signaling, if one does not exist,
      for the mapping client
      to determine relevant properties purpose of marking the URL. call as an emergency call.

      Motivation: In some cases, the same geographic area is served Marking ensures proper handling as an emergency call
      by
      several PSAPs, downstream elements that may not recognize, for example, a corporate campus might be served by
      both
      local variant of a corporate security department and the municipal PSAP.  The
      mapping protocol should then return URLs for both, with
      information allowing the querying entity to choose one or the
      other. logical emergency address, etc.  This determination could marking
      mechanism is assumed to be made by either different than a QoS marking mechanism.

   Id4.  Prevention of fraud: If a call is identified as an ESRP, based
      on local policy, or by direct user choice, in emergency
      call, the case of caller-
      based methods.

   Ma7.  Traceable resolution: The mapping protocol SHOULD MUST support the
      ability that call being
      successfully routed to a PSAP.

      Motivation: This prevents use of the mapping client emergency call indication to be able
      gain access to determine the entity call features or entities which provided the emergency address resolution
      information.

      Motivation: It is important authentication override for public safety reasons, that there non-
      emergency purposes.

   Id5.  Extensible emergency identifiers: The mapping protocol MUST
      support an extensible list of emergency identifiers, though it is a method
      not required to provide operational traceability in case mapping for every possible service.

      Motivation: The use of errors. an emergency identifier is locally
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   Ma8.  URI for error reporting:


   Id6.  Discovery of emergency dial string: The mapping protocol MUST
      support
      (i.e., implement for use) a mechanism to return a URI that can be
      used discover an existing location-dependent
      emergency dial string, (e.g., "9-1-1", "1-1-2"), which are
      contextually appropriate for the location of the caller.

      Motivation: Users are trained to report dial the appropriate emergency
      dial string to reach emergency services.  There needs to be a suspected or known error way
      to figure out what the dial string is within the mapping
      database.

   Ma9.  Resilience against failure: local environment
      of the caller.

   Id7.  Home emergency dial string translation: The mapping protocol
      MUST support
      (i.e., implement for use) end device translation (e.g.  SIP UA) of a mechanism to enable home
      emergency dial string into an emergency identifier.

      Motivation: The UA would most likely be pre-provisioned with the mapping client
      appropriate information in order to make such a translation.  The
      mapping protocol would be able to fail over to another replica support either type for those
      clients which may not support dial string translation.

   Id8.  Emergency dial string replacement: The mapping protocol SHOULD
      support replacement of the mapping server,
      so that original dial string with a failure reserved
      emergency identifier for each signaling protocol used for an
      emergency call.  This replacement of a server does not endanger the ability to
      perform the mapping.

   Ma10.  Incrementally deployable: The mapping protocol MUST original dial string
      should be
      designed based on local conventions, regulations, or preference
      (e.g., as in such a way that supports the incremental deployment case of an enterprise).

      Motivation: Any signaling protocol requires the use of some
      identifier to indicate the called party, and the user terminal may
      lack the capability to determine the actual emergency address
      (PSAP URI).  The use of
      mapping services.

      Motivation: It must not local conventions may be necessary, for example, to have required as a
      global street level database before deploying
      transition mechanism.  Note: Such use complicates international
      movement of the system.  It is
      acceptable user terminal.  Evolution to have some misrouting a standardized
      emergency identifier or set of calls when the database does identifiers is preferred.

   Id9.  Emergency identifier not (yet) contain accurate PSAP service area information.

   Ma11.  Mapping requested from anywhere: recognized: The mapping protocol MUST
      support (i.e., implement, though not necessarily use) the ability
      to provide mapping information in response to queries from any
      (earthly) location, regardless of where calls which are initiated as emergency calls even if the mapping client
      specific emergency service requested is
      located, either geographically or by network location.

      Motivation: The mapping client, such as an ESRP, may not
      necessarily be anywhere close to the caller or recognized, based on
      the appropriate
      PSAP, but must still be able emergency identifier used.

      Motivation: In order to obtain have a mapping.

   Ma12.  Extensible protocol: robust system that supports
      incremental service deployment while still maintaining a fallback
      capability.

   Id10.  Discovery of visited emergency dial strings: The mapping
      protocol MUST be designed to support the extensibility of location data elements, both for new
      and existing fields.

      Motivation: This is needed, for example, a mechanism to accommodate future
      extensions allow the end device to location information learn
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      Motivation: Scenarios exist where a user dials a visited emergency
      dial string that might be included in is different from the
      PIDF-LO (RFC 4119 [3]).

   Ma13.  Split responsibility: The mapping protocol MUST support home emergency dial string:
      If a user (i.e.,
      implement for use) UA operator) visits a foreign country, observes a
      fire truck with 999 on the division side, the expectation is one of data subset handling between
      multiple mapping servers within being
      able to dial that same number to summon a single level of fire truck.  Another use
      case cited is where a civic location
      hierarchy.

      Motivation: For example, two mapping servers for tourist collapses, and a "good Samaritan"
      uses the same city or
      county may handle different streets within tourist's cell phone to enter a home emergency dial
      string appropriate for that city or county. foreign country.











































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   Ma14.  Any time mapping: The


7.  Mapping Protocol

   There are two basic approaches to invoking a mapping service.  We
   refer to these as caller-based and mediated.  In each case, the
   mapping client initiates a request to a mapping server via a mapping
   protocol.  A proposed mapping protocol MUST support (i.e.,
      implement for use) is outlined in the ability of document
   I-D.hardie-ecrit-lost [6].

   For caller-based resolution, the caller's user agent invokes a
   mapping function service to be
      invoked at any time, including while an determine the appropriate PSAP based on the
   location provided.  The resolution may take place well before the
   actual emergency call is in
      process and before an emergency placed, or at the time of the call.

      Motivation: Used as

   For mediated resolution, a fallback mechanism only, if call signaling server, such as a SIP
   (outbound) proxy or redirect server invokes the mapping query
      fails at emergency call time, it service.

   Since servers may be advantageous used as outbound proxy servers by clients that
   are not in the same geographic area as the proxy server, any proxy
   server has to have prior
      knowledge of the PSAP URI.  This prior knowledge would be obtained
      by performing a mapping query at able to translate any time prior caller location to an emergency
      call.

   Ma15.  Baseline query protocol: A mandatory-to-implement protocol
      MUST be specified.

      Motivation: An over-abundance of similarly-capable choices appears
      undesirable the
   appropriate PSAP.  (A traveler may, for interoperability.

   Ma16.  Multiple PSAP URIs: example, accidentally or
   intentionally configure its home proxy server as its outbound proxy
   server, even while far away from home.)

   Ma1.  Appropriate PSAP: The mapping protocol MUST support (i.e.,
      implement, though not necessarily use), a method to be able the routing
      of an emergency call to
      return multiple URIs for different PSAPs that cover the same PSAP responsible for a particular
      geographic area.

   Ma17.  Single URI per contact protocol: Though

      Motivation: Routing to the mapping protocol
      supports wrong PSAP will result in delays in
      handling emergencies as calls are redirected, and result in
      inefficient use of PSAP resources at the return initial point of multiple URIs, it SHOULD return only one
      URI per contact protocol, so contact.
      It is important that clients are the location determination mechanism not required be
      fooled by the location of IP telephony gateways or dial-in lines
      into a corporate LAN (and dispatch emergency help to
      select among different targets for the same contact protocol.

      Motivation: There may be two gateway
      or more URIs returned when multiple
      contact protocols are available (e.g., SIP campus, rather than the caller), multi-site LANs and SMS).  The client
      may select among multiple contact protocols based on its
      capabilities, preference settings, or availability.

   Ma18.  Anonymous mapping: The mapping similar
      arrangements.

   Ma2.  Minimal additional delay: Mapping protocol MUST NOT require execution SHOULD
      minimize the
      true identity amount of delay within the target for which the location information is
      attributed.  Ideally, no identity information is provided via the
      mapping protocol.  Where identity information is provided, it may overall call-setup time.

      Motivation: Since outbound proxies will likely be in asked to resolve
      the form of an unlinked pseudonym (RFC 3693 [9]).

   Ma19.  Location delivery by-value: same geographic coordinates repeatedly, a suitable time-
      limited caching mechanism should be supported.

   Ma3.  Mapping referral: The mapping protocol MUST support
      (i.e., implement, though not necessarily use) the delivery of
      location information using a by-value method, though it MAY also
      support de-referencing a URL that references a location object.

      Motivation: The mechanism
      for the mapping protocol client to contact any mapping server and be
      referred to another mapping server that is not required more qualified to support
      answer the
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   Ma20.  Alternate community names:


      Motivation: To help avoid the case of relying on incorrect
      configuration data which may cause calls to fail, particularly for
      caller-based mapping queries.

   Ma4.  Multiple response URIs: The mapping protocol MUST support
      both the jurisdictional community name and
      possible inclusion of multiple URIs in a mapping response.

      Motivation: Multiple URIs may be available from the postal community
      name fields within mapping
      server.

   Ma5.  URI alternate contact: In addition to returning a primary
      contact, the PIDF-LO data.

      Motivation: A mapping query must be accepted with either protocol MUST support the return of a URI or both
      community name fields, and provide appropriate responses.  If
      contact method explicitly marked as an alternate contact.

      Motivation: In response to a mapping query is made with only one field present, and if the
      database contains both jurisdictional and postal, request, the mapping
      protocol response should server
      may return both.

   Ma21.  Ubiquitous triggering: an alternate URI.  Implementation details to be
      described within an operational document.

   Ma6.  URL properties: The mapping protocol MUST implement,
      but not necessarily use, support the ability
      to be invoked at any time,
      from any location, by any client which supports provide ancillary information about a contact or URI that
      allows the mapping
      protocol. client to determine relevant properties of the
      URL.

      Motivation: While end devices are In some cases, the typical initiators of
      mapping service requests, it same geographic area is also expected that other mapping
      clients, such as relays, 3rd party devices, served by
      several PSAPs, etc. may also
      trigger for example, a mapping request.

   Ma22.  Validation of civic location: corporate campus might be served by
      both a corporate security department and the municipal PSAP.  The
      mapping protocol MUST
      implement a method via a mapping request, that makes it possible should then return URLs for a mapping server to validate a civic location prior both, with
      information allowing the querying entity to that
      location's use in an actual emergency call.

      Motivation: Location validation provides choose one or the
      other.  This determination could be made by either an opportunity to help
      assure ahead ESRP, based
      on local policy, or by direct user choice, in the case of time, whether successful caller-
      based methods.

   Ma7.  Traceable resolution: The mapping to protocol SHOULD support the
      appropriate PSAP will likely occur when it is required.
      Validation may also help
      ability of the mapping client to avoid delays during be able to determine the entity
      or entities which provided the emergency call
      setup due address resolution
      information.

      Motivation: It is important for public safety reasons, that there
      is a method to invalid locations.

   Ma23.  Validation resolution: provide operational traceability in case of errors.

   Ma8.  URI for error reporting: The mapping protocol MUST support
      (i.e., required to implement, but not required for use) the
      return of additional information which a URI that can be used to determine the
      precision report a suspected or resolution of known
      error within the data elements used to determine a
      PSAP URI.

      Motivation: The mapping server may not use all the data elements
      in the provided location information database.

      Motivation: If an error is returned, for example, there needs to determine a match, or may
      be able to find a match based on all of the information except for
      some specific data elements.  The uniqueness of this information
      set may be used URI which points to differentiate among emergency jurisdictions.
      Precision a resource which can explain or resolution in the context of this requirement might
      mean, for example, explicit identification of the data elements
      that were used successfully in
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   Ma24.  Indication


   Ma9.  Resilience against failure: The mapping protocol MUST support a
      mechanism which enables fail over to different (replica) mapping
      server in order to obtain a successful mapping.

      Motivation: It is important that the failure of non-existent location: a single mapping
      server does not preclude the mapping client's ability to receive
      mapping from a different mapping server.

   Ma10.  Incrementally deployable: The mapping protocol MUST be
      designed in such a way that supports the incremental deployment of
      mapping services.

      Motivation: It must not be necessary, for example, to have a
      global street level database before deploying the system.  It is
      acceptable to have some misrouting of calls when the database does
      not (yet) contain accurate PSAP service area information.

   Ma11.  Any time mapping: The mapping protocol MUST support the
      ability of the mapping function to be invoked at any time,
      including while an emergency call is in process and before an
      emergency call.

      Motivation: Used as a fallback mechanism to indicate that a location or a part of a location is
      known to not exist, even only, if a valid location-to-PSAP URI mapping
      can query
      fails at emergency call time, it may be provided. advantageous to have prior
      knowledge of the PSAP URI.  This includes prior knowledge would be obtained
      by performing a way mapping query at any time prior to identify a separate
      mechanism an emergency
      call.

   Ma12.  Anywhere mapping: The mapping protocol MUST support the
      ability to resolve provide mapping information in response to an
      individual query from any such discrepancy. (earthly) location, regardless of where
      the mapping client is located, either geographically or by network
      location.

      Motivation: The emergency authority for a given jurisdiction mapping client, such as an ESRP, may
      provide a means to resolve addressing problems, e.g., a URI for a
      web service that can not
      necessarily be used anywhere close to report problems with an address.

   Ma25.  Limits the caller or the appropriate
      PSAP, but must still be able to validation: Successful validation of a civic
      location obtain mapping information.

   Ma13.  Extensible protocol: The mapping protocol MUST NOT be required designed to place an emergency call.
      support the extensibility of location data elements, both for new
      and existing fields.

      Motivation: In some cases, a civic This is needed, for example, to accommodate future
      extensions to location may not information that might be considered
      valid.  This fact should not result included in the call being dropped or
      rejected by any entity along the signaling path to the PSAP.

   Ma26. 3D sensitive mapping:
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   Ma14.  Split responsibility: The mapping protocol MUST implement support for both 2D and 3D the
      division of data subset handling between multiple mapping servers
      within a single level of a civic location information, and hierarchy.

      Motivation: For example, two mapping servers for the same city or
      county may accept
      either a 2D handle different streets within that city or 3D mapping request as input. county.

   Ma15.  Baseline query protocol: A mandatory-to-implement protocol
      MUST be specified.

      Motivation: It is expected that provisioning systems will accept
      both 2D and 3D data.  When An over-abundance of similarly-capable choices appears
      undesirable for interoperability.

   Ma16.  Multiple PSAP URIs: The mapping protocol MUST support a 3D request is presented method
      to an area
      only defined by 2D data, receive multiple PSAP URIs which cover the same geographic
      area.

      Motivation: Two different mapping result would be servers may cover the same as
      if
      geographic area, and therefore have the height/altitude dimension was omitted in same set of coverage
      information.

   Ma17.  Single URI per contact protocol: Though the request. mapping protocol
      supports the return of multiple URIs, it SHOULD return only one
      URI per contact protocol, so that clients are not required to
      select among different targets for the same contact protocol.

      Motivation: There may be two or more URIs returned when multiple
      contact protocols are available (e.g., SIP and SMS).  The client
      may select among multiple contact protocols based on its
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8.  Security Considerations

   Security considerations are discussed in the ECRIT security document
   I-D.taylor-ecrit-security-threats
   I-D.ietf-ecrit-security-threats [4] .















































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9.  Contributors

   The information contained in this document is a result of a joint
   effort based on individual contributions by those involved in the
   ECRIT WG.  The contributors include Nadine Abbott, Hideki Arai,
   Martin Dawson, Motoharu Kawanishi, Brian Rosen, Richard Stastny,
   Martin Thomson, James Winterbottom.

   The contributors can be reached at:

   Nadine Abbott          nabbott@telcordia.com

   Hideki Arai            arai859@oki.com

   Martin Dawson          Martin.Dawson@andrew.com

   Motoharu Kawanishi     kawanishi381@oki.com

   Brian Rosen            br@brianrosen.net

   Richard Stastny        Richard.Stastny@oefeg.at

   Martin Thomson         Martin.Thomson@andrew.com

   James Winterbottom     James.Winterbottom@andrew.com


























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10.  Acknowledgments

   In addition to thanking those listed above, we would like to also
   thank Guy Caron, Barry Dingle, Keith Drage, Tim Dunn, Patrik
   Faeltstroem, Clive D.W. Feather, Raymond Forbes, Randall Gellens,
   Michael Haberler, Michael Hammer, Ted Hardie, Gunnar Hellstrom,
   Cullen Jennings, Marc Linsner, Rohan Mahy, Patti McCalmont, Don
   Mitchell, John Morris, Andrew Newton, Steve Norreys, Jon Peterson,
   James Polk, Benny Rodrig, John Rosenberg, Jonathan Rosenberg, John
   Schnizlein, Shida Schubert, James Seng, Byron Smith, Tom Taylor,
   Barbara Stark, Hannes Tschofenig, and Nate Wilcox, for their
   invaluable input.







































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11.  References

11.1.  Normative References

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

   [2]  Polk, J., Schnizlein, J., and M. Linsner, "Dynamic Host
        Configuration Protocol Option for Coordinate-based Location
        Configuration Information", RFC 3825, July 2004.

   [3]  Peterson, J., "A Presence-based GEOPRIV Location Object Format",
        RFC 4119, December 2005.

   [4]  Schulzrinne, H.,  Taylor, T., "Security Threats and Requirements for Emergency
        Call Marking and Mapping",
        draft-taylor-ecrit-security-threats-03 draft-ietf-ecrit-security-threats-01
        (work in progress),
        March April 2006.

   [5]  Schulzrinne, H., "A Uniform Resource Name (URN) for Services",
        draft-ietf-ecrit-service-urn-00
        draft-ietf-ecrit-service-urn-02 (work in progress),
        February April 2006.

   [6]  Hardie, T., "LoST: A Location-to-Service Translation Protocol",
        draft-hardie-ecrit-lost-00 (work in progress), March 2006.

   [7]  Schulzrinne, H., "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCPv4
        and DHCPv6) Option for Civic  Addresses Configuration
        Information", draft-ietf-geopriv-dhcp-civil-09 (work in
        progress), January 2006.

11.2.  Informative References

   [8]   Charlton, N., Gasson, M., Gybels, G., Spanner, M., and A. van
         Wijk, "User Requirements for the Session Initiation Protocol
         (SIP) in Support of Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Speech-impaired
         Individuals", RFC 3351, August 2002.

   [9]   Cuellar, J., Morris, J., Mulligan, D., Peterson, J., and J.
         Polk, "Geopriv Requirements", RFC 3693, February 2004.

   [10]  Hellstrom, G. and P. Jones, "RTP Payload for Text
         Conversation", RFC 4103, June 2005.

   [11]  Wijk, A., "Framework of requirements for real-time text
         conversation over IP using SIP", draft-ietf-sipping-toip-03
         draft-ietf-sipping-toip-04 (work in progress), September 2005. March 2006.







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Authors' Addresses

   Henning Schulzrinne
   Columbia University
   Department of Computer Science
   450 Computer Science Building
   New York, NY  10027
   US

   Phone: +1 212 939 7004
   Email: hgs+ecrit@cs.columbia.edu
   URI:   http://www.cs.columbia.edu


   Roger Marshall (editor)
   TeleCommunication Systems
   2401 Elliott Avenue
   2nd Floor
   Seattle, WA  98121
   US

   Phone: +1 206 792 2424
   Email: rmarshall@telecomsys.com
   URI:   http://www.telecomsys.com



























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