IP Telephony (iptel)

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Last Modified: 2007-10-15

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Chair(s):

  • Jonathan Rosenberg <jdrosen@cisco.com>

    Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area Director(s):

  • Jon Peterson <jon.peterson@neustar.biz>
  • Cullen Jennings <fluffy@cisco.com>

    Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area Advisor:

  • Cullen Jennings <fluffy@cisco.com>

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    Description of Working Group:

    The focus of the IP Telephony (iptel) group is on the problems related
    to naming and routing for Voice over IP (VoIP) protocols.
    Naming is accomplished through the use of the tel URI, which specifies
    a URI for telephone numbers. The tel URI was originally defined in RFC
    2806, which was developed outside of any IETF working group. The iptel
    working group is responsible for updating the specification based on
    extensive experience with the tel URI. It is chartered to develop any
    extensions to the tel URI, such as support for number portability
    indicators and trunk groups.

    Routing protocols for VoIP allow intermediaries, such as SIP proxies
    and H.323 gatekeepers, to make call routing decisions based on
    reachability information learned from peer elements. The iptel group
    has already defined a protocol, Telephony Routing over IP (TRIP), RFC
    3219, which solves one aspect of this problem. Specifically, it
    handles
    the case where calls need to be routed between domains. It allows for
    the exchange of routing information between these providers, so that
    policies can be applied to the resulting data to create a forwarding
    information base.

    However, this protocol does not address all the scenarios of route
    information exchange between servers. One important scenario is the
    propagation of routing information between gateways and the signaling
    servers in front of them. This is also known as "gateway
    registration".
    It allows the signaling server to make a routing decision about which
    gateway to use based on dynamic information about the gateway
    resources. Vendors have deployed proprietary solutions for this
    communications interface. A standard is needed. The group will
    generate
    a standards track document that defines a protocol (possibly based on
    TRIP) for this interface.

    TRIP and the gateway registration protocol are orthogonal to the
    DNS-based mechanisms specified in ENUM and RFC 3264. Those mechanisms
    are used to translate a URI, representing a name, to an address. If
    that address is a phone number in the telephone network, trip and
    tgrep
    can be used to assist in determining the right route (through various
    gateways) to that number.

    The group will also generate a MIB document for TRIP.

    Note that the group is not working on elevating TRIP to Draft Standard
    at this time.

    Deliverables:

    1. A proposed standard specification for gateway to server route
    exchange.

    2. A proposed standard TRIP MIB specification, based heavily on the
    existing BGP-4 MIB documents.

    3. A standards track update to the tel URI.

    4. Standards track extensions to the tel URI for PSTN
    interoperability,
    such as number portability and trunk group identification.

    Goals and Milestones:

    Done  Submit gateway location framework document to IESG for consideration as an RFC.
    Done  Submit call processing syntax framework document to IESG for consideration as an RFC.
    Done  Submit call processing syntax document to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
    Done  Submit gateway location protocol document to IESG for consideration as an RFC.
    Done  TRIP MIB Document submitted to IESG for consideration as proposed standard
    Done  Tel URI revisions submitted to IESG
    Done  Number portability extensions submitted to IESG for consideration as proposed standard
    Done  Gateway to Server Route Exchange document submitted to IESG for consideration as proposed standard.
    Done  Consider closing

    Internet-Drafts:

    The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) tel Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Parameter Registry (15425 bytes)

    Request For Comments:

    Call Processing Language Framework and Requirements (RFC 2824) (58711 bytes)
    A Framework for a Gateway Location Protocol (RFC 2871) (60664 bytes)
    Telephony Routing over IP (TRIP) (RFC 3219) (184618 bytes)
    Management Information Base for Telephony Routing over IP (TRIP) (RFC 3872) (98614 bytes)
    CPL: A Language for User Control of Internet Telephony Services (RFC 3880) (154991 bytes)
    The tel URI for Telephone Numbers (RFC 3966) (40783 bytes) obsoletes RFC 2806
    Number Portability Parameters for the (RFC 4694) (36910 bytes)
    The ENUM Dip Indicator Parameter for the (RFC 4759) (15062 bytes)
    Representing trunk groups in tel/sip Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) (RFC 4904) (41027 bytes)
    A Telephony Gateway REgistration Protocol (TGREP) (RFC 5140) (59511 bytes)
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