Network Working Group M. Garcia-Martin
Internet-Draft Nokia
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Private Header (P-Header) Extensions to the Session Initiation Protocol
(SIP) in support of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute
(ETSI) Next Generation Networks (NGN)
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Abstract

This document describes a private SIP header field (P-header) used by
the European Telecommunications Standards Institte (ETSI) in Next
Generation Networks (NGN). The P-header is used for triggering
services.






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Table of Contents

1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Overall Applicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. SIP Private Headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4.1 The SIP P-AoC header field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4.1.1 Applicability statement of the P-AoC header field . . 4
4.1.2 Usage of the SIP P-AoC header field . . . . . . . . . 4
4.1.3 Syntax of the P-AoC header field . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1.4 Table of methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2 Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.3 IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.4 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.1 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.2 Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . 9