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Re: [Ecrit] draft-ietf-ecrit-local-emergency-rph-namespace-00.txt: Scope (again)



Agree with Brian.

I certainly would not want to preclude the usage in a public network, and I believe the RFC has all the words needed to cover the interoperation with the Emergency services IP network.

regards

Keith 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ecrit-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:ecrit-bounces at ietf.org] 
> On Behalf Of Brian Rosen
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:56 PM
> To: 'Hannes Tschofenig'; 'ECRIT'
> Subject: Re: [Ecrit] 
> draft-ietf-ecrit-local-emergency-rph-namespace-00.txt: Scope (again)
> 
> There is very little downside to allowing the marking to be 
> used in any network.  It's the behaviors that are implied by 
> the marking that you care about.  In a public network, there 
> may not be any behaviors associated with the marking, while 
> in an Emergency Services IP Network, there most certainly will be.
> 
> The document in question doesn't really address behavior, and 
> it shouldn't.
> NENA would specify behaviors within the networks it 
> standardizes, and is in a much better position to do that.  
> What we need is a namespace.
> 
> You can qualify it if you want: "MAY" is good enough in the 
> origination network and the interconnect between the 
> origination network and the Emergency Services IP network.  I 
> don't want to see it prohibited.  I think it IS a good idea 
> to give emergency calls signaling priority in both the UA to 
> proxy and proxy to ESInet legs.  However, whether those 
> networks do that is up to them.  It's certainly not wrong for 
> the UAC to ask for priority.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ecrit-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:ecrit-bounces at ietf.org] 
> On Behalf Of Hannes Tschofenig
> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 5:57 PM
> To: 'ECRIT'
> Subject: [Ecrit] 
> draft-ietf-ecrit-local-emergency-rph-namespace-00.txt:
> Scope (again)
> 
> (this time with my co-chair hat on)
> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> I reviewed the past presentations of RPH from IETF#72, 
> IETF#70, and IETF#67.
> You can listen into the audio recording yourself -- quite 
> interesting. 
> http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/pub/videolab/media/ietf67/iet
> f67ch4-tue-noo
> n.mp3
> http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/pub/videolab/video/ietf70/iet
> f70-ch1-tue-af
> noon-ecrit-dime-avt.mp3
> http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/pub/videolab/media/ietf72/iet
> f72-ch6-tue-no
> on.mp3
> 
> An essentially issue, as it appears in the entire discussion, 
> is the question of applicability -- where should this SOS RPH 
> mechanism be used.
> There are at the following possible cases: 
> 
>   (a) UA to VSP
>   (b) VSP to PSAP (potentially via another VSP)
>   (c) Within the emergency services network (including PSAP to first
> responders)
>   (d) PSAP callback  
> 
> I briefly summarize the feedback the group got at those meetings: 
> 
>  -- IETF#67
> 
> A lot of the discussion focus on the name of the namespace, 
> i.e. a syntactic issue. 
> Jonathan, Henning, and Ted argue that the usage of RPH 
> particularly for scenario (a) is not a good idea. 
> 
> Janet, James, and Brian like the idea of using RPH for use 
> case (a), (b), and (c). (I am not sure about everyone's 
> position regarding (d)). 
> 
> Brian Stucker believes that RPH is OK for usage for scenario 
> (d). He argues that the authorization problem is simpler to 
> solve with that scenario. 
> 
>  -- IETF#70
> 
> Keith, James and Brian like the document. Brian, for example, 
> says that it is very useful within an IP public safety 
> communication network, i.e., scenario (c). He also thinks 
> that it is useful outside of it in a public network. 
> 
> Jon, Richard, and Henning have concerns regarding the usage 
> of RPH for things other than scenario (c). Particularly 
> scenario (a) seems to be problematic. I also voiced my 
> opinion during that meeting against usage of RPH for scenario (a).
> 
> THIS IS IMPORTANT: At the end of the meeting James asks 
> Henning whether he would be happy with the document if the 
> focus is only on using SOS RPH within the emergency services 
> network, i.e., scenario (c). Henning says that this is fine 
> for him as it reassembles much better the intention of RPH.
> James promises to update the document to reflect this 
> restricted scope. I checked subsequent draft versions: No 
> scope change in any form.  
> 
>  -- IETF#72
> 
> We did not really discuss the document as such. We only asked 
> for a HUM assuming that folks were aware of the current 
> document version. 
> 
> 
> For some reason I must have had the discussions in mind that 
> happened at IETF#70 where the scope limitation of the draft 
> got discussed. As such, my mail to the list 
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ecrit/current/msg05665.ht
> ml was, I believe, not completely off topic. 
> 
> Although I did not recall who had raised objections in 
> previous meetings when I wrote my ECRIT WG status update I 
> think that as a WG co-chair it is fair to hear the opinion of 
> those again that had previously raised concerns.
> Maybe they changed their mind and are now in favor of using 
> RPH for scenario (a). Could be possible. 
> 
> Reading through the mail discussions, the drafts and 
> listening to the meeting recordings helped me again to 
> refresh my memory regarding the purpose of RPH for scenario (c).
> 
> Hope that this was a useful investigation. 
> 
> Ciao
> Hannes
> 
> PS: I also noticed that the justification for the work, as 
> mentioned on the presentation slides, seems to be  "Brian sez 
> NENA wants it", see: 
> http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/07dec/slides/ecrit-2/sld2.htm
> http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/06nov/slides/ecrit-7/sld3.htm 
> 
> It is good that our work finds excitement in other SDOs and 
> groups. Given that NENA focuses largely on the emergency 
> services network itself rather than on the end host to VSP 
> exchanges, I guess it would have been nice to have a better 
> idea what the detailed requirements are. At the IETF#70 
> presentation James furthermore mentions that scenario (b) 
> could be useful in an 3GPP IMS context. I have to check 
> whether there is interest to use RPH there and for what exactly. 
> 
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