Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) C. Boulton
Request for Comments: 6917 NS-Technologies
Category: Standards Track L. Miniero
ISSN: 2070-1721 Meetecho
G. Munson
AT&T
April 2013
Media Resource Brokering
Abstract
The MediaCtrl working group in the IETF has proposed an architecture
for controlling media services. The Session Initiation Protocol
(SIP) is used as the signaling protocol that provides many inherent
capabilities for message routing. In addition to such signaling
properties, a need exists for intelligent, application-level media
service selection based on non-static signaling properties. This is
especially true when considered in conjunction with deployment
architectures that include 1:M and M:N combinations of Application
Servers and Media Servers. This document introduces a Media Resource
Broker (MRB) entity, which manages the availability of Media Servers
and the media resource demands of Application Servers. The document
includes potential deployment options for an MRB and appropriate
interfaces to Application Servers and Media Servers.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/RFC 6917.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................3
2. Conventions and Terminology .....................................6
3. Problem Discussion ..............................................6
4. Deployment Scenario Options .....................................7
4.1. Query MRB ..................................................8
4.1.1. Hybrid Query MRB ....................................9
4.2. In-Line MRB ...............................................11
5. MRB Interface Definitions ......................................12
5.1. Media Server Resource Publish Interface ...................12
5.1.1. Control Package Definition .........................13
5.1.2. Element Definitions ................................15
5.1.3. <mrbrequest> .......................................15
5.1.4. <mrbresponse> ......................................17
5.1.5. <mrbnotification> ..................................19
5.2. Media Service Resource Consumer Interface .................30
5.2.1. Query Mode/HTTP Consumer Interface Usage ...........31
5.2.2. In-Line Aware Mode/SIP Consumer Interface Usage ....32
5.2.3. Consumer Interface Lease Mechanism .................35
5.2.4. <mrbconsumer> ......................................38
5.2.5. Media Service Resource Request .....................39
5.2.6. Media Service Resource Response ....................51
5.3. In-Line Unaware MRB Interface .............................54
6. MRB Acting as a B2BUA ..........................................54
7. Multimodal MRB Implementations .................................55
8. Relative Merits of Query Mode, IAMM, and IUMM ..................56
9. Examples .......................................................58
9.1. Publish Example ...........................................58
9.2. Consumer Examples .........................................64
9.2.1. Query Example ......................................64
9.2.2. IAMM Examples ......................................68
10. Media Service Resource Publisher Interface XML Schema .........83
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11. Media Service Resource Consumer Interface XML Schema .........106
12. Security Considerations ......................................127
13. IANA Considerations ..........................................130
13.1. Media Control Channel Framework Package Registration ....130
13.2. application/mrb-publish+xml Media Type ..................130
13.3. application/mrb-consumer+xml Media Type .................131
13.4. URN Sub-Namespace Registration for mrb-publish ..........132
13.5. URN Sub-Namespace Registration for mrb-consumer .........132
13.6. XML Schema Registration for mrb-publish .................132
13.7. XML Schema Registration for mrb-consumer ................133
14. Acknowledgements .............................................133
15. References ...................................................133
15.1. Normative References ....................................133
15.2. Informative References ..................................135
1. Introduction
As IP-based multimedia infrastructures mature, the complexity and
demands from deployments increase. Such complexity will result in a
wide variety of capabilities from a range of vendors that should all
be interoperable using the architecture and protocols produced by the
MediaCtrl working group. It should be possible for a controlling
entity to be assisted in Media Server selection so that the most
appropriate resource is selected for a particular operation. The
importance increases when one introduces a flexible level of
deployment scenarios, as specified in RFC 5167 [RFC 5167] and RFC 5567
[RFC 5567]. These documents make statements like "it should be
possible to have a many-to-many relationship between Application
Servers and Media Servers that use this protocol". This leads to the
following deployment architectures being possible when considering
media resources, to provide what can be effectively described as
media resource brokering.
The simplest deployment view is illustrated in Figure 1.
+---+-----+---+ +---+-----+---+
| Application | | Media |
| Server |<-------MS Control------>| Server |
+-------------+ +-------------+
Figure 1: Basic Architecture
This simply involves a single Application Server and Media Server.
Expanding on this view, it is also possible for an Application Server
to control multiple (greater than 1) Media Server instances at any
one time. This deployment view is illustrated in Figure 2.
Typically, such architectures are associated with application logic
that requires high-demand media services. It is more than possible
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that each Media Server possesses a different media capability set.
Media Servers may offer different media services as specified in the
MediaCtrl architecture document [RFC 5567]. A Media Server may have
similar media functionality but may have different capacity or media
codec support.
+---+-----+---+
| Media |
+----->| Server |
| +-------------+
|
+---+-----+---+ | +---+-----+---+
| Application | | | Media |
| Server |<--MS Control-----+----->| Server |
+-------------+ | +-------------+
|
| +---+-----+---+
+----->| Media |
| Server |
+-------------+
Figure 2: Multiple Media Servers
Figure 3 conveys the opposite view to that in Figure 2. In this
model, there are a number of (greater than 1) Application Servers,
possibly supporting dissimilar applications, controlling a single
Media Server. Typically, such architectures are associated with
application logic that requires low-demand media services.
+---+-----+---+
| Application |
| Server |<-----+
+-------------+ |
|
+---+-----+---+ | +---+-----+---+
| Application | | | Media |
| Server |<-----+-----MS Control-->| Server |
+-------------+ | +-------------+
|
+---+-----+---+ |
| Application | |
| Server |<-----+
+-------------+
Figure 3: Multiple Application Servers
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The final deployment view is the most complex (Figure 4). In this
model (M:N), there exist any number of Application Servers and any
number of Media Servers. It is again possible in this model that
Media Servers might not be homogeneous, and they might have different
capability sets and capacities.
+---+-----+---+ +---+-----+---+
| Application | | Media |
| Server |<-----+ +---->| Server |
+-------------+ | | +-------------+
| |
+---+-----+---+ | | +---+-----+---+
| Application | | | | Media |
| Server |<-----+-MS Control-+---->| Server |
+-------------+ | | +-------------+
| |
+---+-----+---+ | | +---+-----+---+
| Application | | +---->| Media |
| Server |<-----+ | Server |
+-------------+ +---+-----+---+
Figure 4: Many-to-Many Architecture
The remaining sections in this specification will focus on a new
entity called a Media Resource Broker (MRB), which can be utilized in
the deployment architectures described previously in this section.
The MRB entity provides the ability to obtain media resource
information and appropriately allocate (broker) on behalf of client
applications.
The high-level deployment options discussed in this section rely on
network architecture and policy to prohibit inappropriate use. Such
policies are out of scope for this document.
This document will take a look at the specific problem areas related
to such deployment architectures. It is recognized that the
solutions proposed in this document should be equally adaptable to
all of the previously described deployment models. It is also
recognized that the solution is far more relevant to some of the
previously discussed deployment models and can almost be viewed as
redundant on others.
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2. Conventions and Terminology
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 [RFC 2119].
This document inherits terminology proposed in RFC 5567 [RFC 5567] and
in "Media Control Channel Framework" [RFC 6230]. In addition, the
following terms are defined for use in this document and for use in
the context of the MediaCtrl working group in the IETF:
Media Resource Broker (MRB): A logical entity that is responsible
for both collection of appropriate published Media Server (MS)
information and selecting appropriate Media Server resources on
behalf of consuming entities.
Query MRB: An instantiation of an MRB (see previous definition) that
provides an interface for an Application Server to retrieve the
address of an appropriate Media Server. The result returned to
the Application Server can be influenced by information contained
in the query request.
In-line MRB: An instantiation of an MRB (see previous definition)
that directly receives requests on the signaling path. There is
no separate query.
CFW: Media Control Channel Framework, as specified in [RFC 6230].
Within the context of In-line MRBs, additional terms are defined:
In-line Aware MRB Mode (IAMM): Defined in Section 5.2.2.1.
In-line Unaware MRB Mode (IUMM): Defined in Section 5.3.
The document will often specify when a specific identifier in a
protocol message needs to be unique. Unless stated otherwise, such
uniqueness will always be within the scope of the Media Servers
controlled by the same MRB. The interaction between different MRB
instances, e.g., the partitioning of a logical MRB, is out of scope
for this document.
3. Problem Discussion
As discussed in Section 1, a goal of the MediaCtrl working group is
to produce a solution that will service a wide variety of deployment
architectures. Such architectures range from the simplest 1:1
relationship between Media Servers and Application Servers to
potentially linearly scaling 1:M, M:1, and M:N deployments.
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Managing such deployments is itself non-trivial for the proposed
solution until an additional number of factors that increase
complexity are included in the equation. As Media Servers evolve, it
must be taken into consideration that, where many can exist in a
deployment, they may not have been produced by the same vendor and
may not have the same capability set. It should be possible for an
Application Server that exists in a deployment to select a media
service based on a common, appropriate capability set. In
conjunction with capabilities, it is also important to take available
resources into consideration. The ability to select an appropriate
media service function is an extremely useful feature but becomes
even more powerful when considered with available resources for
servicing a request.
In conclusion, the intention is to create a toolkit that allows
MediaCtrl deployments to effectively utilize the available media
resources. It should be noted that in the simplest deployments where
only a single Media Server exists, an MRB function is probably not
required. Only a single capability set exists, and resource
availability can be handled using the appropriate underlying
signaling, e.g., SIP response. This document does not prohibit such
uses of an MRB; it simply provides the tools for various entities to
interact where appropriate. It is also worth noting that the
functions specified in this document aim to provide a 'best effort'
view of media resources at the time of request for initial Media
Server routing decisions. Any dramatic change in media capabilities
or capacity after a request has taken place should be handled by the
underlying protocol.
It should be noted that there may be additional information that is
desirable for the MRB to have for purposes of selecting a Media
Server resource, such as resource allocation rules across different
applications, planned or unplanned downtime of Media Server
resources, the planned addition of future Media Server resources, or
Media Server resource capacity models. How the MRB acquires such
information is outside the scope of this document. The specific
techniques used for selecting an appropriate media resource by an MRB
is also outside the scope of this document.
4. Deployment Scenario Options
Research into media resource brokering concluded that a couple of
high-level models provided an appropriate level of flexibility. The
general principles of "in-line" and "query" MRB concepts are
discussed in the rest of this section. It should be noted that while
the interfaces are different, they both use common underlying
mechanisms defined in this specification.
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4.1. Query MRB
The "Query" model for MRB interactions provides the ability for a
client of media services (for example, an Application Server) to
"ask" an MRB for an appropriate Media Server, as illustrated in
Figure 5.
+---+-----+---+
+------------>| MRB |<----------+----<-----+---+
| +-------------+ (1)| | |
| | | |
|(2) +---+--+--+---+ | |
| | Media | | |
| +---->| Server | | |
| | +-------------+ | |
| | (1)| |
+---+--+--+---+ | +---+-----+---+ | |
| Application | | | Media | | |
| Server |<-----+-MS Control-+---->| Server |->-+ |
+-------------+ (3) | +-------------+ |
| |
| +---+-----+---+ (1)|
+---->| Media | |
| Server |--->---+
+---+-----+---+
Figure 5: Query MRB
In this deployment, the Media Servers use the Media Server Resource
Publish interface, as discussed in Section 5.1, to convey capability
sets as well as resource information. This is depicted by (1) in
Figure 5. It is then the MRB's responsibility to accumulate all
appropriate information relating to media services in the logical
deployment cluster. The Application Server (or other media services
client) is then able to query the MRB for an appropriate resource (as
identified by (2) in Figure 5). Such a query would carry specific
information related to the media service required and enable the MRB
to provide increased accuracy in its response. This particular
interface is discussed in "Media Service Resource Consumer Interface"
(Section 5.2). The Application Server is then able to direct control
commands (for example, create a conference) and media dialogs to the
appropriate Media Server, as shown by (3) in Figure 5. Additionally,
with Query mode, the MRB is not directly in the signaling path
between the Application Server and the selected Media Server
resource.
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4.1.1. Hybrid Query MRB
As mentioned previously, it is the intention that a toolkit is
provided for MRB functionality within a MediaCtrl architecture. It
is expected that in specific deployment scenarios the role of the MRB
might be co-hosted as a hybrid logical entity with an Application
Server, as shown in Figure 6.
+------------<----------------<---------+----<-----+---+
| (1) | | |
| | | |
| +---+--+--+---+ | |
| | Media | | |
V +---->| Server | | |
+------+------+ | +-------------+ | |
| MRB | | | |
+---+--+--+---+ | +---+-----+---+ | |
| Application | | | Media | | |
| Server |<-----+-MS Control-+---->| Server |->-+ |
+-------------+ | +-------------+ |
| |
| +---+-----+---+ |
+---->| Media | |
| Server |--->---+
+---+-----+---+
Figure 6: Hybrid Query MRB - Application Server Hosted
This diagram is identical to that in Figure 5 with the exception that
the MRB is now hosted on the Application Server. The Media Server
Publish interface is still being used to accumulate resource
information at the MRB, but as it is co-hosted on the Application
Server, the Media Server Consumer interface has collapsed. It might
still exist within the Application Server/MRB interaction, but this
is an implementation issue. This type of deployment suits a single
Application Server environment, but it should be noted that a Media
Server Consumer interface could then be offered from the hybrid if
required.
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In a similar manner, the Media Server could also act as a hybrid for
the deployment cluster, as illustrated in Figure 7.
(1) +---+-----+---+
+---+---+------------->---------------->----------->| MRB |
| | | +---+--+--+---+ +---+-----+---+
| | +-<-| Application | | Media |
| | | Server |<--+-MS Control-+------->| Server |
| | +-------------+ | +-------------+
| | |
| | +---+--+--+---+ |
| +---<---| Application | |
| | Server |<--+-MS Control-+--+
| +-------------+ |
| |
| +---+--+--+---+ |
+---<-------| Application | |
| Server |<--+-MS Control-+--+
+-------------+
Figure 7: Hybrid Query MRB - MS Hosted
In this example, the MRB has collapsed and is co-hosted by the Media
Server. The Media Server Consumer interface is still available to
the Application Servers (1) to query Media Server resources. The
Media Server Publish interface has collapsed onto the Media Server.
It might still exist within the Media Server/MRB interaction, but
this is an implementation issue. This type of deployment suits a
single Media Server environment, but it should be noted that a Media
Server Publish interface could then be offered from the hybrid if
required. A typical use case scenario for such a topology would be a
single Media Server representing a pool of MSs in a cluster. In this
case, the MRB would actually be handling a cluster of Media Servers,
rather than one.
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4.2. In-Line MRB
The "In-line" MRB is architecturally different from the "Query" model
discussed in the previous section. The concept of a separate query
disappears. The client of the MRB simply uses the media resource
control and media dialog signaling to involve the MRB. This type of
deployment is illustrated in Figure 8.
+-------<----------+----<-------+---+
| | (1) | |
| | | |
| +---+--+--+---+ | |
| | Media | | |
| +------>| Server | | |
| |(3) +-------------+ | |
| | (1)| |
+---+--+--+---+ | | +---+-----+---+ | |
| Application | (2) +---+--V--+---+ (3) | Media | | |
| Server |----->| MRB |----->| Server |->-+ |
+-------------+ +---+-----+---+ +-------------+ |
| |
| (3) +---+-----+---+ (1)|
+------>| Media | |
| Server |--->---+
+---+-----+---+
Figure 8: In-Line MRB
The Media Servers still use the Media Server Publish interface to
convey capabilities and resources to the MRB, as illustrated by (1).
The Media Server Control Channels (and media dialogs as well, if
required) are sent to the MRB (2), which then selects an appropriate
Media Server (3) and remains in the signaling path between the
Application Server and the Media Server resources.
The In-line MRB can be split into two distinct logical roles that can
be applied on a per-request basis. They are:
In-line Unaware MRB Mode (IUMM): Allows an MRB to act on behalf of
clients requiring media services who are not aware of an MRB or
its operation. In this case, the Application Server does not
provide explicit information on the kind of Media Server resource
it needs (as in Section 5.2), and the MRB is left to deduce it by
potentially inspecting other information in the request from the
Application Server (for example, Session Description Protocol
(SDP) content, or address of the requesting Application Server, or
additional Request-URI parameters as per RFC 4240 [RFC 4240]).
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In-line Aware MRB Mode (IAMM): Allows an MRB to act on behalf of
clients requiring media services who are aware of an MRB and its
operation. In particular, it allows the Application Server to
explicitly convey matching characteristics to those provided by
Media Servers, as does the Query MRB mode (as in Section 5.2).
In either of the previously described roles, signaling as specified
by the Media Control Channel Framework ([RFC 6230]) would be involved,
and the MRB would deduce that the selected Media Server resources are
no longer needed when the Application Server or Media Server
terminates the corresponding SIP dialog. The two modes are discussed
in more detail in Section 5.3.
5. MRB Interface Definitions
The intention of this specification is to provide a toolkit for a
variety of deployment architectures where media resource brokering
can take place. Two main interfaces are required to support the
differing requirements. The two interfaces are described in the
remainder of this section and have been named the Media Server
Resource Publish and Media Server Resource Consumer interfaces.
It is beyond the scope of this document to define exactly how to
construct an MRB using the interfaces described. It is, however,
important that the two interfaces are complimentary so that
development of appropriate MRB functionality is supported.
5.1. Media Server Resource Publish Interface
The Media Server Resource Publish interface is responsible for
providing an MRB with appropriate Media Server resource information.
As such, this interface is assumed to provide both general and
specific details related to Media Server resources. This information
needs to be conveyed using an industry standard mechanism to provide
increased levels of adoption and interoperability. A Control Package
for the Media Control Channel Framework will be specified to fulfill
this interface requirement. It provides an establishment and
monitoring mechanism to enable a Media Server to report appropriate
statistics to an MRB. The Publish interface is used with both the
Query mode and In-line mode of MRB operation.
As already discussed in Section 1, the MRB view of Media Server
resource availability will in reality be approximate -- i.e., partial
and imperfect. The MRB Publish interface does not provide an
exhaustive view of current Media Server resource consumption; the
Media Server may in some cases provide a best-effort computed view of
resource consumption parameters conveyed in the Publish interface
(e.g., Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) with a fixed number of
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streams versus Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) with CPU
availability). Media resource information may only be reported
periodically over the Publish interface to an MRB.
It is also worth noting that while the scope of the MRB is in
providing interested Application Servers with the available
resources, the MRB also allows for the retrieval of information about
consumed resources. While this is of course a relevant piece of
information (e.g., for monitoring purposes), such functionality
inevitably raises security considerations, and implementations should
take this into account. See Section 12 for more details.
The MRB Publish interface uses the Media Control Channel Framework
([RFC 6230]) as the basis for interaction between a Media Server and
an MRB. The Media Control Channel Framework uses an extension
mechanism to allow specific usages that are known as Control
Packages. Section 5.1.1 defines the Control Package that MUST be
implemented by any Media Server wanting to interact with an MRB
entity.
5.1.1. Control Package Definition
This section fulfills the requirement for information that must be
specified during the definition of a Control Framework package, as
detailed in Section 8 of [RFC 6230].
5.1.1.1. Control Package Name
The Media Channel Control Framework requires a Control Package
definition to specify and register a unique name and version.
The name and version of this Control Package is "mrb-publish/1.0".
5.1.1.2. Framework Message Usage
The MRB Publish interface allows a Media Server to convey available
capabilities and resources to an MRB entity.
This package defines XML elements in Section 5.1.2 and provides an
XML schema in Section 10.
The XML elements in this package are split into requests, responses,
and event notifications. Requests are carried in CONTROL message
bodies; the <mrbrequest> element is defined as a package request.
This request can be used for creating new subscriptions and updating/
removing existing subscriptions. Event notifications are also
carried in CONTROL message bodies; the <mrbnotification> element is
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defined for package event notifications. Responses are carried
either in REPORT message or Control Framework 200 response bodies;
the <mrbresponse> element is defined as a package-level response.
Note that package responses are different from framework response
codes. Framework error response codes (see Section 7 of [RFC 6230])
are used when the request or event notification is invalid; for
example, a request has invalid XML (400) or is not understood (500).
Package-level responses are carried in framework 200 response or
REPORT message bodies. This package's response codes are defined in
Section 5.1.4.
5.1.1.3. Common XML Support
The Media Control Channel Framework [RFC 6230] requires a Control
Package definition to specify if the attributes for media dialog or
conference references are required.
The Publish interface defined in Section 10 does import and make use
of the common XML schema defined in the Media Control Channel
Framework.
The Consumer interface defined in Section 11 does import and make use
of the common XML schema defined in the Media Control Channel
Framework.
5.1.1.4. CONTROL Message Body
A valid CONTROL message body MUST conform to the schema defined in
Section 10 and described in Section 5.1.2. XML messages appearing in
CONTROL messages MUST contain either an <mrbrequest> or
<mrbnotification> element.
5.1.1.5. REPORT Message Body
A valid REPORT message body MUST conform to the schema defined in
Section 10 and described in Section 5.1.2. XML messages appearing in
REPORT messages MUST contain an <mrbresponse> element.
5.1.1.6. Audit
The 'mrb-publish/1.0' Media Control Channel Framework package does
not require any additional auditing capability.
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5.1.2. Element Definitions
This section defines the XML elements for the Publish interface Media
Control Channel package defined in Section 5.1. The formal XML
schema definition for the Publish interface can be found in
Section 10.
The root element is <mrbpublish>. All other XML elements (requests,
responses, notifications) are contained within it. The MRB Publish
interface request element is detailed in Section 5.1.3. The MRB
Publish interface notification element is detailed in Section 5.1.5.
The MRB Publish interface response element is detailed in
Section 5.1.4.
The <mrbpublish> element has the following attributes:
version: a token specifying the mrb-publish package version. The
value is fixed as '1.0' for this version of the package. The
attribute MUST be present.
The <mrbpublish> element has the following child elements, and there
MUST NOT be more than one such child element in any <mrbpublish>
message:
<mrbrequest> for sending an MRB request. See Section 5.1.3.
<mrbresponse> for sending an MRB response. See Section 5.1.4.
<mrbnotification> for sending an MRB notification. See
Section 5.1.5.
5.1.3. <mrbrequest>
This section defines the <mrbrequest> element used to initiate
requests from an MRB to a Media Server. The element describes
information relevant for the interrogation of a Media Server.
The <mrbrequest> element has no defined attributes.
The <mrbrequest> element has the following child element:
<subscription> for initiating a subscription to a Media Server
from an MRB. See Section 5.1.3.1.
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5.1.3.1. <subscription>
The <subscription> element is included in a request from an MRB to a
Media Server to provide the details relating to the configuration of
updates (known as a subscription session). This element can be used
either to request a new subscription or to update an existing one
(e.g., to change the frequency of the updates), and to remove ongoing
subscriptions as well (e.g., to stop an indefinite update). The MRB
will inform the Media Server regarding how long it wishes to receive
updates and the frequency that updates should be sent. Updates
related to the subscription are sent using the <mrbnotification>
element.
The <subscription> element has the following attributes:
id: Indicates a unique token representing the subscription session
between the MRB and the Media Server. The attribute MUST be
present.
seqnumber: Indicates a sequence number to be used in conjunction
with the subscription session ID to identify a specific
subscription command. The first subscription MUST contain a
non-zero number 'seqnumber', and subsequent subscriptions MUST
contain a higher number than the previous 'seqnumber' value. If a
subsequent 'seqnumber' is not higher, a 405 response code is
generated as per Section 5.1.4. The attribute MUST be present.
action: Provides the operation that should be carried out on the
subscription:
* The value of 'create' instructs the Media Server to attempt to
set up a new subscription.
* The value of 'update' instructs the Media Server to attempt to
update an existing subscription.
* The value of 'remove' instructs the Media Server to attempt to
remove an existing subscription and consequently stop any
ongoing related notification.
The attribute MUST be present.
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The <subscription> element has zero or more of the following child
elements:
<expires>: Provides the amount of time in seconds that a
subscription should be installed for notifications at the Media
Server. Once the amount of time has passed, the subscription
expires, and the MRB has to subscribe again if it is still
interested in receiving notifications from the Media Server. The
element MAY be present.
<minfrequency>: Provides the minimum frequency in seconds that the
MRB wishes to receive notifications from the Media Server. The
element MAY be present.
<maxfrequency>: Provides the maximum frequency in seconds that the
MRB wishes to receive notifications from the Media Server. The
element MAY be present.
Please note that these three optional pieces of information provided
by the MRB only act as a suggestion: the Media Server MAY change the
proposed values if it considers the suggestions unacceptable (e.g.,
if the MRB has requested a notification frequency that is too high).
In such a case, the request would not fail, but the updated,
acceptable values would be reported in the <mrbresponse> accordingly.
5.1.4. <mrbresponse>
Responses to requests are indicated by an <mrbresponse> element.
The <mrbresponse> element has the following attributes:
status: numeric code indicating the response status. The attribute
MUST be present.
reason: string specifying a reason for the response status. The
attribute MAY be present.
The <mrbresponse> element has a single child element:
<subscription> for providing details related to a subscription
requested by a Media Server (see below in this section).
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The following status codes are defined for 'status':
+-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| code | description |
+-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| 200 | OK |
| | |
| 400 | Syntax error |
| | |
| 401 | Unable to create Subscription |
| | |
| 402 | Unable to update Subscription |
| | |
| 403 | Unable to remove Subscription |
| | |
| 404 | Subscription does not exist |
| | |
| 405 | Wrong sequence number |
| | |
| 406 | Subscription already exists |
| | |
| 420 | Unsupported attribute or element |
+-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+
Table 1: <mrbresponse> Status Codes
If a new subscription request made by an MRB (action='create') has
been accepted, the Media Server MUST reply with an <mrbresponse> with
status code 200. The same rule applies whenever a request to update
(action='update') or remove (action='remove') an existing transaction
can be fulfilled by the Media Server.
A subscription request, nevertheless, may fail for several reasons.
In such a case, the status codes defined in Table 1 must be used
instead. Specifically, if the Media Server fails to handle a request
due to a syntax error in the request itself (e.g., incorrect XML,
violation of the schema constraints, or invalid values in any of the
attributes/elements), the Media Server MUST reply with an
<mrbresponse> with status code 400. If a syntactically correct
request fails because the request also includes any attribute/element
the Media Server doesn't understand, the Media Server MUST reply with
an <mrbresponse> with status code 420. If a syntactically correct
request fails because the MRB wants to create a new subscription, but
the provided unique 'id' for the subscription already exists, the
Media Server MUST reply with an <mrbresponse> with status code 406.
If a syntactically correct request fails because the MRB wants to
update/remove a subscription that doesn't exist, the Media Server
MUST reply with an <mrbresponse> with status code 404. If the Media
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Server is unable to accept a request for any other reason (e.g., the
MRB has no more resources to fulfill the request), the Media Server
MUST reply with an <mrbresponse> with status code 401/402/403,
depending on the action the MRB provided in its request:
o action='create' --> 401;
o action='update' --> 402;
o action='remove' --> 403;
A response to a subscription request that has a status code of 200
indicates that the request is successful. The response MAY also
contain a <subscription> child that describes the subscription. The
<subscription> child MAY contain 'expires', 'minfrequency', and
'maxfrequency' values even if they were not contained in the request.
The Media Server can choose to change the suggested 'expires',
'minfrequency', and 'maxfrequency' values provided by the MRB in its
<mrbrequest> if it considers them unacceptable (e.g., the requested
frequency range is too high). In such a case, the response MUST
contain a <subscription> element describing the subscription as the
Media Server accepted it, and the Media Server MUST include in the
<subscription> element all of those values that it modified relative
to the request, to inform the MRB about the change.
5.1.5. <mrbnotification>
The <mrbnotification> element is included in a request from a Media
Server to an MRB to provide the details relating to current status.
The Media Server will inform the MRB of its current status as defined
by the information in the <subscription> element. Updates are sent
using the <mrbnotification> element.
The <mrbnotification> element has the following attributes:
id: indicates a unique token representing the session between the
MRB and the Media Server and is the same as the one appearing in
the <subscription> element. The attribute MUST be present.
seqnumber: indicates a sequence number to be used in conjunction
with the subscription session ID to identify a specific
notification update. The first notification update MUST contain a
non-zero number 'seqnumber', and subsequent notification updates
MUST contain a higher number than the previous 'seqnumber' value.
If a subsequent 'seqnumber' is not higher, the situation should be
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considered an error by the entity receiving the notification
update. How the receiving entity deals with this situation is
implementation specific. The attribute MUST be present.
It's important to point out that the 'seqnumber' that appears in an
<mrbnotification> is not related to the 'seqnumber' appearing in a
<subscription>. In fact, the latter is associated with subscriptions
and would increase at every command issued by the MRB, while the
former is associated with the asynchronous notifications the Media
Server would trigger according to the subscription and as such would
increase at every notification message to enable the MRB to keep
track of them.
The following sub-sections provide details of the child elements that
make up the contents of the <mrbnotification> element.
5.1.5.1. <media-server-id>
The <media-server-id> element provides a unique system-wide
identifier for a Media Server instance. The element MUST be present
and MUST be chosen such that it is extremely unlikely that two
different Media Servers would present the same id to a given MRB.
5.1.5.2. <supported-packages>
The <supported-packages> element provides the list of Media Control
Channel packages supported by the Media Server. The element MAY be
present.
The <supported-packages> element has no attributes.
The <supported-packages> element has a single child element:
<package>: Gives the name of a package supported by the Media
Server. The <package> element has a single attribute, 'name',
which provides the name of the supported Media Control Channel
Framework package, compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230].
5.1.5.3. <active-rtp-sessions>
The <active-rtp-sessions> element provides information detailing the
current active Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) sessions. The
element MAY be present.
The <active-rtp-sessions> element has no attributes.
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The <active-rtp-sessions> element has a single child element:
<rtp-codec>: Describes a supported codec and the number of active
sessions using that codec. The <rtp-codec> element has one
attribute. The value of the attribute, 'name', is a media type
(which can include parameters per [RFC 6381]). The <rtp-codec>
element has two child elements. The child element <decoding> has
as content the decimal number of RTP sessions being decoded using
the specified codec, and the child element <encoding> has as
content the decimal number of RTP sessions being encoded using the
specified codec.
5.1.5.4. <active-mixer-sessions>
The <active-mixer-sessions> element provides information detailing
the current active mixed RTP sessions. The element MAY be present.
The <active-mixer-sessions> element has no attributes.
The <active-mixer-sessions> element has a single child element:
<active-mix>: Describes a mixed active RTP session. The
<active-mix> element has one attribute. The value of the
attribute, 'conferenceid', is the name of the mix. The
<active-mix> element has one child element. The child element,
<rtp-codec>, contains the same information relating to RTP
sessions as that defined in Section 5.1.5.3. The element MAY be
present.
5.1.5.5. <non-active-rtp-sessions>
The <non-active-rtp-sessions> element provides information detailing
the currently available inactive RTP sessions, that is, how many more
RTP streams this Media Server can support. The element MAY be
present.
The <non-active-rtp-sessions> element has no attributes.
The <non-active-rtp-sessions> element has a single child element:
<rtp-codec>: Describes a supported codec and the number of
non-active sessions for that codec. The <rtp-codec> element has
one attribute. The value of the attribute, 'name', is a media
type (which can include parameters per [RFC 6381]). The
<rtp-codec> element has two child elements. The child element
<decoding> has as content the decimal number of RTP sessions
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available for decoding using the specified codec, and the child
element <encoding> has as content the decimal number of RTP
sessions available for encoding using the specified codec.
5.1.5.6. <non-active-mixer-sessions>
The <non-active-mixer-sessions> element provides information
detailing the current inactive mixed RTP sessions, that is, how many
more mixing sessions this Media Server can support. The element MAY
be present.
The <non-active-mixer-sessions> element has no attributes.
The <non-active-mixer-sessions> element has a single child element:
<non-active-mix>: Describes available mixed RTP sessions. The
<non-active-mix> element has one attribute. The value of the
attribute, 'available', is the number of mixes that could be used
using that profile. The <non-active-mix> element has one child
element. The child element, <rtp-codec>, contains the same
information relating to RTP sessions as that defined in
Section 5.1.5.5. The element MAY be present.
5.1.5.7. <media-server-status>
The <media-server-status> element provides information detailing the
current status of the Media Server. The element MUST be present. It
can return one of the following values:
active: Indicates that the Media Server is available for service.
deactivated: Indicates that the Media Server has been withdrawn from
service, and as such requests should not be sent to it before it
becomes 'active' again.
unavailable: Indicates that the Media Server continues to process
past requests but cannot accept new requests, and as such should
not be contacted before it becomes 'active' again.
The <media-server-status> element has no attributes.
The <media-server-status> element has no child elements.
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5.1.5.8. <supported-codecs>
The <supported-codecs> element provides information detailing the
current codecs supported by a Media Server and associated actions.
The element MAY be present.
The <supported-codecs> element has no attributes.
The <supported-codecs> element has a single child element:
<supported-codec>: Has a single attribute, 'name', which provides
the name of the codec about which this element provides
information. A valid value is a media type that, depending on its
definition, can include additional parameters (e.g., [RFC 6381]).
The <supported-codec> element then has a further child element,
<supported-codec-package>. The <supported-codec-package> element
has a single attribute, 'name', which provides the name of the
Media Control Channel Framework package, compliant with
Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for which the codec support applies.
The <supported-codec-package> element has zero or more
<supported-action> children, each one of which describes an action
that a Media Server can apply to this codec:
* 'decoding', meaning a decoder for this codec is available;
* 'encoding', meaning an encoder for this codec is available;
* 'passthrough', meaning the Media Server is able to pass a
stream encoded using that codec through, without re-encoding.
5.1.5.9. <application-data>
The <application-data> element provides an arbitrary string of
characters as application-level data. This data is meant to only
have meaning at the application-level logic and as such is not
otherwise restricted by this specification. The set of allowed
characters is the same as those in XML (viz., tab, carriage return,
line feed, and the legal characters of Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646
[ISO.10646.2012] (see also Section 2.2 of
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/>)). The element MAY be present.
The <application-data> element has no attributes.
The <application-data> element has no child elements.
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5.1.5.10. <file-formats>
The <file-formats> element provides a list of file formats supported
for the purpose of playing media. The element MAY be present.
The <file-formats> element has no attributes.
The <file-formats> element has zero of more the following child
elements:
<supported-format>: Has a single attribute, 'name', which provides
the type of file format that is supported. A valid value is a
media type that, depending on its definition, can include
additional parameters (e.g., [RFC 6381]). The <supported-format>
element then has a further child element,
<supported-file-package>. The <supported-file-package> element
provides the name of the Media Control Channel Framework package,
compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for which the file
format support applies.
5.1.5.11. <max-prepared-duration>
The <max-prepared-duration> element provides the maximum amount of
time a media dialog will be kept in the prepared state before timing
out (see Section 4.4.2.2.6 of RFC 6231 [RFC 6231]. The element MAY be
present.
The <max-prepared-duration> element has no attributes.
The <max-prepared-duration> element has a single child element:
<max-time>: Has a single attribute, 'max-time-seconds', which
provides the amount of time in seconds that a media dialog can be
in the prepared state. The <max-time> element then has a further
child element, <max-time-package>. The <max-time-package> element
provides the name of the Media Control Channel Framework package,
compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for which the time
period applies.
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5.1.5.12. <dtmf-support>
The <dtmf-support> element specifies the supported methods to detect
Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) tones and to generate them. The
element MAY be present.
The <dtmf-support> element has no attributes.
The <dtmf-support> element has zero of more of the following child
elements:
<detect>: Indicates the support for DTMF detection. The <detect>
element has no attributes. The <detect> element then has a
further child element, <dtmf-type>. The <dtmf-type> element has
two attributes: 'name' and 'package'. The 'name' attribute
provides the type of DTMF being used, and it can only be a case-
insensitive string containing either 'RFC 4733' [RFC 4733] or
'Media' (detecting tones as signals from the audio stream). The
'package' attribute provides the name of the Media Control Channel
Framework package, compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for
which the DTMF type applies.
<generate>: Indicates the support for DTMF generation. The
<generate> element has no attributes. The <generate> element then
has a further child element, <dtmf-type>. The <dtmf-type> element
has two attributes: 'name' and 'package'. The 'name' attribute
provides the type of DTMF being used, and it can only be a case-
insensitive string containing either 'RFC 4733' [RFC 4733] or
'Media' (generating tones as signals in the audio stream). The
'package' attribute provides the name of the Media Control Channel
Framework package, compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for
which the DTMF type applies.
<passthrough>: Indicates the support for passing DTMF through
without re-encoding. The <passthrough> element has no attributes.
The <passthrough> element then has a further child element,
<dtmf-type>. The <dtmf-type> element has two attributes: 'name'
and 'package'. The 'name' attribute provides the type of DTMF
being used, and it can only be a case-insensitive string
containing either 'RFC 4733' [RFC 4733] or 'Media' (passing tones as
signals through the audio stream). The 'package' attribute
provides the name of the Media Control Channel Framework package,
compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for which the DTMF
type applies.
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5.1.5.13. <mixing-modes>
The <mixing-modes> element provides information about the support for
audio and video mixing of a Media Server, specifically a list of
supported algorithms to mix audio and a list of supported video
presentation layouts. The element MAY be present.
The <mixing-modes> element has no attributes.
The <mixing-modes> element has zero or more of the following child
elements:
<audio-mixing-modes>: Describes the available algorithms for audio
mixing. The <audio-mixing-modes> element has no attributes. The
<audio-mixing-modes> element has one child element. The child
element, <audio-mixing-mode>, contains a specific available
algorithm. Valid values for the <audio-mixing-mode> element are
algorithm names, e.g., 'nbest' and 'controller' as defined in
[RFC 6505]. The element has a single attribute, 'package'. The
attribute 'package' provides the name of the Media Control Channel
Framework package, compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for
which the algorithm support applies.
<video-mixing-modes>: Describes the available video presentation
layouts and the supported functionality related to video mixing.
The <video-mixing-modes> element has two attributes: 'vas' and
'activespeakermix'. The 'vas' attribute is of type boolean with a
value of 'true' indicating that the Media Server supports
automatic Voice Activated Switching. The 'activespeakermix' is of
type boolean with a value of 'true' indicating that the Media
Server is able to prepare an additional video stream for the
loudest speaker participant without its contribution. The
<video-mixing-modes> element has one child element. The child
element, <video-mixing-mode>, contains the name of a specific
video presentation layout. The name may refer to one of the
predefined video layouts defined in the XCON conference
information data model [RFC 6501], or to non-XCON layouts as well,
as long as they are properly prefixed according to the schema they
belong to. The <video-mixing-mode> element has a single
attribute, 'package'. The attribute 'package' provides the name
of the Media Control Channel Framework package, compliant with
Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for which the algorithm support
applies.
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5.1.5.14. <supported-tones>
The <supported-tones> element provides information about which tones
a Media Server is able to play and recognize. In particular, the
support is reported by referring to both support for country codes
(ISO 3166-1 [ISO.3166-1]) and supported functionality (ITU-T
Recommendation Q.1950 [ITU-T.Q.1950]). The element MAY be present.
The <supported-tones> element has no attributes.
The <supported-tones> element has zero or more of the following child
elements:
<supported-country-codes>: Describes the supported country codes
with respect to tones. The <supported-country-codes> element has
no attributes. The <supported-country-codes> element has one
child element. The child element, <country-code>, reports support
for a specific country code, compliant with the ISO 3166-1
[ISO.3166-1] specification. The <country-code> element has a
single attribute, 'package'. The attribute 'package' provides the
name of the Media Control Channel Framework package, compliant
with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], in which the tones from the
specified country code are supported.
<supported-h248-codes>: Describes the supported H.248 codes with
respect to tones. The <supported-h248-codes> element has no
attributes. The <supported-h248-codes> element has one child
element. The child element, <h248-code>, reports support for a
specific H.248 code, compliant with the ITU-T Recommendation
Q.1950 [ITU-T.Q.1950] specification. The codes can be either
specific (e.g., cg/dt to only report the Dial Tone from the Call
Progress Tones package) or generic (e.g., cg/* to report all the
tones from the Call Progress Tones package), using wildcards. The
<h248-code> element has a single attribute, 'package'. The
attribute 'package' provides the name of the Media Control Channel
Framework package, compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], in
which the specified codes are supported.
5.1.5.15. <file-transfer-modes>
The <file-transfer-modes> element allows the Media Server to specify
which scheme names are supported for transferring files to a Media
Server for each Media Control Channel Framework package type, for
example, whether the Media Server supports fetching resources via
HTTP, HTTPS, NFS, etc. The element MAY be present.
The <file-transfer-modes> element has no attributes.
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The <file-transfer-modes> element has a single child element:
<file-transfer-mode>: Has two attributes: 'name' and 'package'. The
'name' attribute provides the scheme name of the protocol that can
be used for file transfer (e.g., HTTP, HTTPS, NFS, etc.); the
value of the attribute is case insensitive. The 'package'
attribute provides the name of the Media Control Channel Framework
package, compliant with the specification in the related IANA
registry (e.g., "msc-ivr/1.0"), for which the scheme name applies.
It is important to point out that this element provides no
information about whether or not the Media Server supports any flavor
of live streaming: for instance, a value of "HTTP" for the IVR
(Interactive Voice Response) Package would only mean the 'http'
scheme makes sense to the Media Server within the context of that
package. Whether or not the Media Server can make use of HTTP to
only fetch resources, or also to attach an HTTP live stream to a
call, is to be considered implementation specific to the Media Server
and irrelevant to the Application Server and/or MRB. Besides, the
Media Server supporting a scheme does not imply that it also supports
the related secure versions: for instance, if the Media Server
supports both HTTP and HTTPS, both the schemes will appear in the
element. A lack of the "HTTPS" value would need to be interpreted as
a lack of support for the 'https' scheme.
5.1.5.16. <asr-tts-support>
The <asr-tts-support> element provides information about the support
for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS)
functionality in a Media Server. The functionality is reported by
referring to the supported languages (using ISO 639-1 [ISO.639.2002]
codes) regarding both ASR and TTS. The element MAY be present.
The <asr-tts-support> element has no attributes.
The <asr-tts-support> element has zero or more of the following child
elements:
<asr-support>: Describes the available languages for ASR. The
<asr-support> element has no attributes. The <asr-support>
element has one child element. The child element, <language>,
reports that the Media Server supports ASR for a specific
language. The <language> element has a single attribute,
'xml:lang'. The attribute 'xml:lang' contains the ISO 639-1
[ISO.639.2002] code of the supported language.
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<tts-support>: Describes the available languages for TTS. The
<tts-support> element has no attributes. The <tts-support>
element has one child element. The child element, <language>,
reports that the Media Server supports TTS for a specific
language. The <language> element has a single attribute,
'xml:lang'. The attribute 'xml:lang' contains the ISO 639-1
[ISO.639.2002] code of the supported language.
5.1.5.17. <vxml-support>
The <vxml-support> element specifies if the Media Server supports
VoiceXML (VXML) and, if it does, through which protocols the support
is exposed (e.g., via the control framework, RFC 4240 [RFC 4240], or
RFC 5552 [RFC 5552]). The element MAY be present.
The <vxml-support> element has no attributes.
The <vxml-support> element has a single child element:
<vxml-mode>: Has two attributes: 'package' and 'support'. The
'package' attribute provides the name of the Media Control Channel
Framework package, compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for
which the VXML support applies. The 'support' attribute provides
the type of VXML support provided by the Media Server (e.g.,
RFC 5552 [RFC 5552], RFC 4240 [RFC 4240], or the IVR Package
[RFC 6231]), and valid values are case-insensitive RFC references
(e.g., "RFC 6231" to specify that the Media Server supports
VoiceXML as provided by the IVR Package [RFC 6231]).
The presence of at least one <vxml-mode> child element would indicate
that the Media Server does support VXML as specified by the child
element itself. An empty <vxml> element would otherwise indicate
that the Media Server does not support VXML at all.
5.1.5.18. <media-server-location>
The <media-server-location> element provides information about the
civic location of a Media Server. Its description makes use of the
Civic Address Schema standardized in RFC 5139 [RFC 5139]. The element
MAY be present. More precisely, this section is entirely optional,
and it's implementation specific to fill it with just the details
each implementer deems necessary for any optimization that may be
needed.
The <media-server-location> element has no attributes.
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The <media-server-location> element has a single child element:
<civicAddress>: Describes the civic address location of the Media
Server, whose representation refers to Section 4 of RFC 5139
[RFC 5139].
5.1.5.19. <label>
The <label> element allows a Media Server to declare a piece of
information that will be understood by the MRB. For example, the
Media Server can declare if it's a blue or green one. It's a string
to allow arbitrary values to be returned to allow arbitrary
classification. The element MAY be present.
The <label> element has no attributes.
The <label> element has no child elements.
5.1.5.20. <media-server-address>
The <media-server-address> element allows a Media Server to provide a
direct SIP URI where it can be reached (e.g., the URI that the
Application Server would call in order to set up a Control Channel
and relay SIP media dialogs). The element MAY be present.
The <media-server-address> element has no attributes.
The <media-server-address> element has no child elements.
5.1.5.21. <encryption>
The <encryption> element allows a Media Server to declare support for
encrypting RTP media streams using RFC 3711 [RFC 3711]. The element
MAY be present. If the element is present, then the Media Server
supports DTLS-SRTP (a Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)
extension for Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)) [RFC 5763].
The <encryption> element has no attributes.
The <encryption> element has no child elements.
5.2. Media Service Resource Consumer Interface
The Media Server Consumer interface provides the ability for clients
of an MRB, such as Application Servers, to request an appropriate
Media Server to satisfy specific criteria. This interface allows a
client to pass detailed meta-information to the MRB to help select an
appropriate Media Server. The MRB is then able to make an informed
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decision and provide the client with an appropriate Media Server
resource. The MRB Consumer interface includes both 1) the In-line
Aware MRB Mode (IAMM), which uses the Session Initiation Protocol
(SIP) and 2) the Query mode, which uses the Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP) [RFC 2616]. The MRB Consumer interface does not
include the In-line Unaware Mode (IUMM), which is further explained
in Section 5.3. The following sub-sections provide guidance on
using the Consumer interface, which is represented by the
'application/mrb-consumer+xml' media type in Section 11, with HTTP
and SIP.
5.2.1. Query Mode/HTTP Consumer Interface Usage
An appropriate interface for such a 'query' style interface is in
fact an HTTP usage. Using HTTP and XML combined reduces complexity
and encourages the use of common tools that are widely available in
the industry today. The following information explains the primary
operations required to request and then receive information from an
MRB, by making use of HTTP [RFC 2616] and HTTPS [RFC 2818] as transport
for a query for a media resource, and the appropriate response.
The media resource query, as defined by the <mediaResourceRequest>
element from Section 11, MUST be carried in the body of an HTTP/HTTPS
POST request. The media type contained in the HTTP/HTTPS request/
response MUST be 'application/mrb-consumer+xml'. This value MUST be
reflected in the appropriate HTTP headers, such as 'Content-Type' and
'Accept'. The body of the HTTP/HTTPS POST request MUST only contain
an <mrbconsumer> root element with only one child
<mediaResourceRequest> element as defined in Section 11.
The media resource response to a query, as defined by the
<mediaResourceResponse> element from Section 11, MUST be carried in
the body of an HTTP/HTTPS 200 response to the original HTTP/HTTPS
POST request. The media type contained in the HTTP/HTTPS request/
response MUST be 'application/mrb-consumer+xml'. This value MUST be
reflected in the appropriate HTTP headers, such as 'Content-Type' and
'Accept'. The body of the HTTP/HTTPS 200 response MUST only contain
an <mrbconsumer> root element with only one child
<mediaResourceResponse> element as defined in Section 11.
When an Application Server wants to release previously awarded media
resources granted through a prior request/response exchange with an
MRB, it will send a new request with an <action> element with value
'remove', as described in Section 5.2.3 ("Consumer Interface Lease
Mechanism").
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5.2.2. In-Line Aware Mode/SIP Consumer Interface Usage
This document provides a complete toolkit for MRB deployment that
includes the ability to interact with an MRB using SIP for the
Consumer interface. The following information explains the primary
operations required to request and then receive information from an
MRB, by making use of SIP [RFC 3261] as transport for a request for
media resources, and the appropriate response when using IAMM as the
mode of operation (as discussed in Section 5.2.2.1).
The use of IAMM, besides having the MRB select appropriate media
resources on behalf of a client application, includes setting up
either a Control Framework Control Channel between an Application
Server and one of the Media Servers (Section 5.2.2.1) or a media
dialog session between an Application Server and one of the Media
Servers (Section 5.2.2.2). Note that in either case the SIP URIs of
the selected Media Servers are made known to the requesting
Application Server in the SIP 200 OK response by means of one or more
<media-server-address> child elements in the <response-session-info>
element (Section 5.2.6).
5.2.2.1. IAMM and Setting Up a Control Framework Control Channel
The media resource request information, as defined by the
<mediaResourceRequest> element from Section 11, is carried in a SIP
INVITE request. The INVITE request will be constructed as it would
have been to connect to a Media Server, as defined by the Media
Control Channel Framework [RFC 6230]. It should be noted that this
specification does not exclude the use of an offerless INVITE as
defined in RFC 3261 [RFC 3261]. Using offerless INVITE messages to an
MRB can potentially cause confusion when applying resource selection
algorithms, and an MRB, like any other SIP device, can choose to
reject with a 4xx response. For an offerless INVITE to be treated
appropriately, additional contextual information would need to be
provided with the request; this is out of scope for this document.
The following additional steps MUST be followed when using the
Consumer interface:
o The Consumer client will include a payload in the SIP INVITE
request of type 'multipart/mixed' [RFC 2046]. One of the parts to
be included in the 'multipart/mixed' payload MUST be the
'application/sdp' format, which is constructed as specified in the
Media Control Channel Framework [RFC 6230].
o Another part of the 'multipart/mixed' payload MUST be of type
'application/mrb-consumer+xml', as specified in this document and
defined in Section 11. The body part MUST be an XML document
without prolog and whose root element is <mediaResourceRequest>.
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o The INVITE request will then be dispatched to the MRB, as defined
by [RFC 6230].
On receiving a SIP INVITE request containing the multipart/mixed
payload as specified previously, the MRB will complete a number of
steps to fulfill the request. It will:
o Extract the multipart MIME payload from the SIP INVITE request.
It will then use the contextual information provided by the client
in the 'application/mrb-consumer+xml' part to determine which
Media Server (or Media Servers, if more than one is deemed to be
needed) should be selected to service the request.
o Extract the 'application/sdp' part from the payload and use it as
the body of a new SIP INVITE request for connecting the client to
one of the selected Media Servers, as defined in the Media Channel
Control Framework [RFC 6230]. The policy the MRB follows to pick a
specific Media Server out of the Media Servers it selects is
implementation specific and out of scope for this document. It is
important to configure the SIP elements between the MRB and the
Media Server in such a way that the INVITE will not fork. In the
case of a failure in reaching the chosen Media Server, the MRB
SHOULD proceed to the next one, if available.
If none of the available Media Servers can be reached, the MRB MUST
reply with a SIP 503 error message that includes a Retry-After header
with a non-zero value. The Application Server MUST NOT attempt to
set up a new session before the time that the MRB asked it to wait
has passed.
If at least one Media Server is reachable, the MRB acts as a Back-to-
Back User Agent (B2BUA) that extracts the 'application/
mrb-consumer+xml' information from the SIP INVITE request and then
sends a corresponding SIP INVITE request to the Media Server it has
selected, to negotiate a Control Channel as defined in the Media
Channel Control Framework [RFC 6230].
In the case of a failure in negotiating the Control Channel with the
Media Server, the MRB SHOULD proceed to the next one, if available,
as explained above. If none of the available Media Servers can be
reached, or the negotiations of the Control Channel with all of them
fail, the MRB MUST reply with a SIP 503 error message that includes a
Retry-After header with a non-zero value. The Application Server
MUST NOT attempt to set up a new session before the time that the MRB
asked it to wait has expired.
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Once the MRB receives the SIP response from the selected media
resource (i.e., Media Server), it will in turn respond to the
requesting client (i.e., Application Server).
The media resource response generated by an MRB to a request, as
defined by the <mediaResourceResponse> element from Section 11, MUST
be carried in the payload of a SIP 200 OK response to the original
SIP INVITE request. The SIP 200 OK response will be constructed as
it would have been to connect from a Media Server, as defined by the
Media Control Channel Framework [RFC 6230]. The following additional
steps MUST be followed when using the Consumer interface:
o Include a payload in the SIP 200 response of type 'multipart/
mixed' as per RFC 2046 [RFC 2046]. One of the parts to be included
in the 'multipart/mixed' payload MUST be the 'application/sdp'
format, which is constructed as specified in the Media Control
Channel Framework [RFC 6230] and based on the incoming response
from the selected media resource.
o Another part of the 'multipart/mixed' payload MUST be of type
'application/mrb-consumer+xml', as specified in this document and
defined in Section 11. Only the <mediaResourceResponse> and its
child elements can be included in the payload.
o The SIP 200 response will then be dispatched from the MRB.
o A SIP ACK to the 200 response will then be sent back to the MRB.
Considering that the use of SIP as a transport for Consumer
transactions may result in failure, the IAMM relies on a successful
INVITE transaction to address the previously discussed sequence
(using the 'seq' XML element) increment mechanism. This means that
if the INVITE is unsuccessful for any reason, the Application Server
MUST use the same 'seq' value as previously used for the next
Consumer request that it may want to send to the MRB for the same
session.
An MRB implementation may be programmed to conclude that the
requested resources are no longer needed when it receives a SIP BYE
from the Application Server or Media Server that concludes the SIP
dialog that initiated the request, or when the lease (Section 5.2.3)
interval expires.
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5.2.2.2. IAMM and Setting Up a Media Dialog
This scenario is identical to the description in the previous section
for setting up a Control Framework Control Channel, with the
exception that the application/sdp payload conveys content
appropriate for setting up the media dialog to the media resource, as
per RFC 3261 [RFC 3261], instead of setting up a Control Channel.
5.2.3. Consumer Interface Lease Mechanism
The Consumer interface defined in Sections 5.2 and 11 allows a client
to request an appropriate media resource based on information
included in the request (either an HTTP POST or SIP INVITE message).
In the case of success, the response that is returned to the client
MUST contain a <response-session-info> element in either the SIP 200
or HTTP 200 response. The success response contains the description
of certain resources that have been reserved to a specific Consumer
client in a (new or revised) "resource session", which is identified
in the <response-session-info>. The resource session is a "lease",
in that the reservation is scheduled to expire at a particular time
in the future, releasing the resources to be assigned for other uses.
The lease may be extended or terminated earlier by future Consumer
client requests that identify and reference a specific resource
session.
Before delving into the details of such a lease mechanism, it is
worth clarifying its role within the context of the Consumer
interface. As explained in Section 5.1, the knowledge the MRB has of
the resources of all the Media Servers it is provisioned to manage is
not real-time. How an MRB actually manages such resources is
implementation specific -- for example, an implementation may choose
to have the MRB keeping track and state of the allocated resources,
or simply rely on the Media Servers themselves to provide the
information using the Publish interface. Further information may
also be inferred by the signaling, in the case where an MRB is in the
path of media dialogs.
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The <mediaResourceResponse> element returned from the MRB contains a
<response-session-info> element if the request is successful. The
<response-session-info> element has zero or more of the following
child elements, which provide the appropriate resource session
information:
o <session-id> is a unique identifier that enables a Consumer client
and MRB to correlate future media resource requests related to an
initial media resource request. The <session-id> MUST be included
in all future related requests (see the <session-id> paragraph
later in this section, where constructing a subsequent request is
discussed).
o <seq> is a numeric value returned to the Consumer client. On
issuing any future requests related to the media resource session
(as determined by the <session-id> element), the Consumer client
MUST increment the value returned in the <seq> element and include
it in the request (see the <seq> paragraph later in this section,
where constructing a subsequent request is discussed). Its value
is a non-negative integer that MUST be limited within the
0..2^31-1 range.
o <expires> provides a value indicating the number of seconds that
the request for media resources is deemed alive. The Consumer
client should issue a refresh of the request, as discussed later
in this section, if the expiry is due to fire and the media
resources are still required.
o <media-server-address> provides information representing an
assigned Media Server. More instances of this element may appear
should the MRB assign more Media Servers to a Consumer request.
The <mediaResourceRequest> element is used in subsequent Consumer
interface requests if the client wishes to manipulate the session.
The Consumer client MUST include the <session-info> element, which
enables the receiving MRB to determine an existing media resource
allocation session. The <session-info> element has the following
child elements, which provide the appropriate resource session
information to the MRB:
o <session-id> is a unique identifier that allows a Consumer client
to indicate the appropriate existing media resource session to be
manipulated by the MRB for this request. The value was provided
by the MRB in the initial request for media resources, as
discussed earlier in this section (<session-id> element included
as part of the <session-info> element in the initial
<mediaResourceResponse>).
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o <seq> is a numeric value returned to the Consumer client in the
initial request for media resources, as discussed earlier in this
section (<seq> element included as part of the <session-info>
element in the initial <mediaResourceResponse>). On issuing any
future requests related to the specific media resource session (as
determined by the <session-id> element), the Consumer client MUST
increment the value returned in the <seq> element from the initial
response (contained in the <mediaResourceResponse>) for every new
request. The value of the <seq> element in requests acts as a
counter and when used in conjunction with the unique <session-id>
allows for unique identification of a request. As anticipated
before, the <seq> value is limited to the 0..2^31-1 range: in the
unlikely case that the counter increases to reach the highest
allowed value, the <seq> value MUST be set to 0. The first
numeric value for the <seq> element is not meant to be '1' but
SHOULD be generated randomly by the MRB: this is to reduce the
chances of a malicious MRB disrupting the session created by this
MRB, as explained in Section 12.
o <action> provides the operation to be carried out by the MRB on
receiving the request:
* The value of 'update' is a request by the Consumer client to
update the existing session on the MRB with alternate media
resource requirements. If the requested resource information
is identical to the existing MRB session, the MRB will attempt
a session refresh. If the information has changed, the MRB
will attempt to update the existing session with the new
information. If the operation is successful, the 200 status
code in the response is returned in the status attribute of the
<mediaResourceResponseType> element. If the operation is not
successful, a 409 status code in the response is returned in
the status attribute of the <mediaResourceResponseType>
element.
* The value of 'remove' is a request by the Consumer client to
remove the session on the MRB. This provides a mechanism for
Consumer clients to release unwanted resources before they
expire. If the operation is successful, a 200 status code in
the response is returned in the status attribute of the
<mediaResourceResponseType> element. If the operation is not
successful, a 410 status code in the response is returned in
the status attribute of the <mediaResourceResponseType>
element.
Omitting the 'action' attribute means requesting a new set of
resources.
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When used with HTTP, the <session-info> element MUST be included in
an HTTP POST message (as defined in [RFC 2616]). When used with SIP,
the <session-info> element MUST instead be included in either a SIP
INVITE or a SIP re-INVITE (as defined in [RFC 3261]), or in a SIP
UPDATE (as defined in [RFC 3311]) request: in fact, any SIP dialog, be
it a new or an existing one, can be exploited to carry leasing
information, and as such new SIP INVITE messages can update other
leases as well as request a new one.
With IAMM, the Application Server or Media Server will eventually
send a SIP BYE to end the SIP session, whether it was for a Control
Channel or a media dialog. That BYE contains no Consumer interface
lease information.
5.2.4. <mrbconsumer>
This section defines the XML elements for the Consumer interface.
The formal XML schema definition for the Consumer interface can be
found in Section 11.
The root element is <mrbconsumer>. All other XML elements (requests,
responses) are contained within it. The MRB Consumer interface
request element is detailed in Section 5.2.5.1. The MRB Consumer
interface response element is detailed in Section 5.2.6.1.
The <mrbconsumer> element has the following attributes:
version: a token specifying the mrb-consumer package version. The
value is fixed as '1.0' for this version of the package. The
attribute MUST be present.
The <mrbconsumer> element may have zero or more children of one of
the following child element types:
<mediaResourceRequest> for sending a Consumer request. See
Section 5.2.5.1.
<mediaResourceResponse> for sending a Consumer response. See
Section 5.2.6.1.
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5.2.5. Media Service Resource Request
This section provides the element definitions for use in Consumer
interface requests. The requests are carried in the
<mediaResourceRequest> element.
5.2.5.1. <mediaResourceRequest>
The <mediaResourceRequest> element provides information for clients
wishing to query an external MRB entity. The <mediaResourceRequest>
element has a single mandatory attribute, 'id': this attribute
contains a random identifier, generated by the client, that will be
included in the response in order to map it to a specific request.
The <mediaResourceRequest> element has <generalInfo>, <ivrInfo>, and
<mixerInfo> as child elements. These three elements are used to
describe the requirements of a client requesting a Media Server and
are covered in Sections 5.2.5.1.1, 5.2.5.1.2, and 5.2.5.1.3,
respectively.
5.2.5.1.1. <generalInfo>
The <generalInfo> element provides general Consumer request
information that is neither IVR specific nor mixer specific. This
includes session information that can be used for subsequent requests
as part of the leasing mechanism described in Section 5.2.3. The
following sub-sections describe the <session-info> and <packages>
elements, as used by the <generalInfo> element.
5.2.5.1.1.1. <session-info>
The <session-info> element is included in Consumer requests when an
update is being made to an existing media resource session. The
ability to change and remove an existing media resource session is
described in more detail in Section 5.2.3. The element MAY be
present.
The <session-info> element has no attributes.
The <session-info> element has zero or more of the following child
elements:
<session-id>: A unique identifier that explicitly references an
existing media resource session on the MRB. The identifier is
included to update the existing session and is described in more
detail in Section 5.2.3.
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<seq>: Used in association with the <session-id> element in a
subsequent request to update an existing media resource session on
an MRB. The <seq> number is incremented from its original value
returned in response to the initial request for media resources.
Its value is a non-negative integer that MUST be limited within
the 0..2^31-1 range. In the unlikely case that the counter
increases to reach the highest allowed value, the <seq> value MUST
be set to 0. More information about its use is provided in
Section 5.2.3.
<action>: Provides the operation that should be carried out on an
existing media resource session on an MRB:
* The value of 'update' instructs the MRB to attempt to update
the existing media resource session with the information
contained in the <ivrInfo> and <mixerInfo> elements.
* The value of 'remove' instructs the MRB to attempt to remove
the existing media resource session. More information on its
use is provided in Section 5.2.3.
5.2.5.1.1.2. <packages>
The <packages> element provides a list of Media Control Channel
Framework compliant packages that are required by the Consumer
client. The element MAY be present.
The <packages> element has no attributes.
The <packages> element has a single child element:
<package>: Contains a string representing the Media Control Channel
Framework package required by the Consumer client. The <package>
element can appear multiple times. A valid value is a Control
Package name compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230].
5.2.5.1.2. <ivrInfo>
The <ivrInfo> element provides information for general Consumer
request information that is IVR specific. The following sub-sections
describe the elements of the <ivrInfo> element: <ivr-sessions>,
<file-formats>, <dtmf>, <tones>, <asr-tts>, <vxml>, <location>,
<encryption>, <application-data>, <max-prepared-duration>, and
<file-transfer-modes>.
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5.2.5.1.2.1. <ivr-sessions>
The <ivr-sessions> element indicates the number of IVR sessions that
a Consumer client requires from a media resource. The element MAY be
present.
The <ivr-sessions> element has no attributes.
The <ivr-sessions> element has a single child element:
<rtp-codec>: Describes a required codec and the number of sessions
using that codec. The <rtp-codec> element has one attribute. The
value of the attribute, 'name', is a media type (which can include
parameters per [RFC 6381]). The <rtp-codec> element has two child
elements. The child element <decoding> contains the number of RTP
sessions required for decoding using the specified codec, and the
child element <encoding> contains the number of RTP sessions
required for encoding using the specified codec.
5.2.5.1.2.2. <file-formats>
The <file-formats> element provides a list of file formats required
for the purpose of playing media. It should be noted that this
element describes media types and might better have been named
"media-formats", but due to existing implementations the name
"file-formats" is being used. The element MAY be present.
The <file-formats> element has no attributes.
The <file-formats> element has a single child element:
<required-format>: Has a single attribute, 'name', which provides
the type of file format that is required. A valid value is a
media type that, depending on its definition, can include
additional parameters (e.g., [RFC 6381]). The <required-format>
element then has a further child element, <required-file-package>.
The <required-file-package> element has a single attribute,
'required-file-package-name', which contains the name of the Media
Control Channel Framework package, compliant with Section 13.1.1
of [RFC 6230], for which the file format support applies.
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5.2.5.1.2.3. <dtmf>
The <dtmf> element specifies the required methods to detect DTMF
tones and to generate them. The element MAY be present.
The <dtmf> element has no attributes.
The <dtmf> element has zero or more of the following child elements:
<detect>: Indicates the required support for DTMF detection. The
<detect> element has no attributes. The <detect> element has a
further child element, <dtmf-type>. The <dtmf-type> element has
two attributes: 'name' and 'package'. The 'name' attribute
provides the type of DTMF required and is a case-insensitive
string containing either 'RFC 4733' [RFC 4733] or 'Media' (detecting
tones as signals from the audio stream). The 'package' attribute
provides the name of the Media Control Channel Framework package,
compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for which the DTMF
type applies.
<generate>: Indicates the required support for DTMF generation. The
<generate> element has no attributes. The <generate> element has
a single child element, <dtmf-type>. The <dtmf-type> element has
two attributes: 'name' and 'package'. The 'name' attribute
provides the type of DTMF required and is a case-insensitive
string containing either 'RFC 4733' [RFC 4733] or 'Media'
(generating tones as signals in the audio stream). The 'package'
attribute provides the name of the Media Control Channel Framework
package, compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for which the
DTMF type applies.
<passthrough>: Indicates the required support for passing DTMF
through without re-encoding. The <passthrough> element has no
attributes. The <passthrough> element then has a further child
element, <dtmf-type>. The <dtmf-type> element has two attributes:
'name' and 'package'. The 'name' attribute provides the type of
DTMF required and is a case-insensitive string containing either
'RFC 4733' [RFC 4733] or 'Media' (passing tones as signals through
the audio stream). The 'package' attribute provides the name of
the Media Control Channel Framework package, compliant with
Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for which the DTMF type applies.
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5.2.5.1.2.4. <tones>
The <tones> element provides requested tones that a Media Server must
support for IVR. In particular, the request refers to both support
for country codes (ISO 3166-1 [ISO.3166-1]) and requested
functionality (ITU-T Recommendation Q.1950 [ITU-T.Q.1950]). The
element MAY be present.
The <tones> element has no attributes.
The <tones> element has zero or more of the following child elements:
<country-codes>: Describes the requested country codes in relation
to tones. The <country-codes> element has no attributes. The
<country-codes> element has one child element. The child element,
<country-code>, requests a specific country code, compliant with
the ISO 3166-1 [ISO.3166-1] specification. The <country-code>
element has a single attribute, 'package'. The attribute
'package' provides the name of the Media Control Channel Framework
package, compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], in which the
tones from the specified country code are requested.
<h248-codes>: Describes the requested H.248 codes in relation to
tones. The <h248-codes> element has no attributes. The
<h248-codes> element has one child element. The child element,
<h248-code>, requests a specific H.248 code, compliant with the
ITU-T Recommendation Q.1950 [ITU-T.Q.1950] specification. The
codes can be either specific (e.g., cg/dt to only report the Dial
Tone from the Call Progress Tones package) or generic (e.g., cg/*
to report all the tones from the Call Progress Tones package),
using wildcards. The <h248-code> element has a single attribute,
'package'. The attribute 'package' provides the name of the Media
Control Channel Framework package, compliant with Section 13.1.1
of [RFC 6230], in which the specified codes are requested.
5.2.5.1.2.5. <asr-tts>
The <asr-tts> element requests information about the support for
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS)
functionality in a Media Server. The functionality is requested by
referring to the supported languages (using ISO 639-1 [ISO.639.2002]
codes) in relation to both ASR and TTS. The <asr-tts> element has no
attributes. The <asr-tts> element has zero or more of the following
child elements:
<asr-support>: Describes the available languages for ASR. The
<asr-support> element has no attributes. The <asr-support>
element has one child element. The child element, <language>,
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requests that the Media Server supports ASR for a specific
language. The <language> element has a single attribute,
'xml:lang'. The attribute 'xml:lang' contains the ISO 639-1
[ISO.639.2002] code of the supported language.
<tts-support>: Describes the available languages for TTS. The
<tts-support> element has no attributes. The <tts-support>
element has one child element. The child element, <language>,
requests that the Media Server supports TTS for a specific
language. The <language> element has a single attribute,
'xml:lang'. The attribute 'xml:lang' contains the ISO 639-1
[ISO.639.2002] code of the supported language.
5.2.5.1.2.6. <vxml>
The <vxml> element specifies if the Consumer client requires VoiceXML
and, if so, which protocols are supported (e.g., via the control
framework, RFC 4240 [RFC 4240], or RFC 5552 [RFC 5552]). The element
MAY be present.
The <vxml> element has a single child element:
<vxml-mode>: Has two attributes: 'package' and 'require'. The
'package' attribute provides the name of the Media Control Channel
Framework package, compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for
which the VXML support applies. The 'require' attribute specifies
the type of VXML support required by the Consumer client (e.g.,
RFC 5552 [RFC 5552], RFC 4240 [RFC 4240], or IVR Package [RFC 6231]),
and valid values are case-insensitive RFC references (e.g.,
"RFC 6231" to specify that the client requests support for VoiceXML
as provided by the IVR Package [RFC 6231]).
The presence of at least one <vxml> child element would indicate that
the Consumer client requires VXML support as specified by the child
element itself. An empty <vxml> element would otherwise indicate
that the Consumer client does not require VXML support.
5.2.5.1.2.7. <location>
The <location> element requests a civic location for an IVR Media
Server. The request makes use of the Civic Address Schema
standardized in RFC 5139 [RFC 5139]. The element MAY be present.
More precisely, this section is entirely optional and is
implementation specific in its level of population.
The <location> element has no attributes.
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The <location> element has a single child element:
<civicAddress>: Describes the civic address location of the
requested Media Server, whose representation refers to Section 4
of RFC 5139 [RFC 5139].
5.2.5.1.2.8. <encryption>
The <encryption> element allows a Consumer client to request support
for encrypting RTP media streams using RFC 3711 [RFC 3711]. The
element MAY be present. If the element is present, then the Media
Server supports DTLS-SRTP [RFC 5763].
The <encryption> element has no attributes.
The <encryption> element has no child elements.
5.2.5.1.2.9. <application-data>
The <application-data> element provides an arbitrary string of
characters as IVR application-level data. This data is meant to only
have meaning at the application-level logic and as such is not
otherwise restricted by this specification. The set of allowed
characters is the same as those in XML (viz., tab, carriage return,
line feed, and the legal characters of Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646
[ISO.10646.2012] (see also Section 2.2 of
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/>)). The element MAY be present.
The <application-data> element has no attributes.
The <application-data> element has no child elements.
5.2.5.1.2.10. <max-prepared-duration>
The <max-prepared-duration> element indicates the amount of time
required by the Consumer client representing media dialog preparation
in the system before it is executed. The element MAY be present.
The <max-prepared-duration> element has no attributes.
The <max-prepared-duration> element has a single child element:
<max-time>: Has a single attribute, 'max-time-seconds', which
provides the amount of time in seconds that a media dialog can be
in the prepared state. The <max-time> element then has a further
child element, <max-time-package>. The <max-time-package> element
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provides the name of the Media Control Channel Framework package,
compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for which the time
period applies.
5.2.5.1.2.11. <file-transfer-modes>
The <file-transfer-modes> element allows the Consumer client to
specify which scheme names are required for file transfer to a Media
Server for each Media Control Channel Framework package type. For
example, does the Media Server support fetching media resources via
HTTP, HTTPS, NFS, etc.? The element MAY be present.
The <file-transfer-modes> element has no attributes.
The <file-transfer-modes> element has a single child element:
<file-transfer-mode>: Has two attributes: 'name' and 'package'. The
'name' attribute provides the scheme name of the protocol required
for fetching resources: valid values are case-insensitive scheme
names (e.g., HTTP, HTTPS, NFS, etc.). The 'package' attribute
provides the name of the Media Control Channel Framework package,
compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for which the scheme
name applies.
The same considerations relating to file transfer and live streaming
are explained further in Section 5.1.5.15 and apply here as well.
5.2.5.1.3. <mixerInfo>
The <mixerInfo> element provides information for general Consumer
request information that is mixer specific. The following
sub-sections describe the elements of the <mixerInfo> element:
<mixers>, <file-formats>, <dtmf>, <tones>, <mixing-modes>,
<application-data>, <location>, and <encryption>.
5.2.5.1.3.1. <mixers>
The <mixers> element provides information detailing the required
mixed RTP sessions. The element MAY be present.
The <mixers> element has no attributes.
The <mixers> element has a single child element:
<mix>: Describes the required mixed RTP sessions. The <mix> element
has one attribute. The value of the attribute, 'users', is the
number of participants required in the mix. The <mix> element has
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one child element. The child element, <rtp-codec>, contains the
same information relating to RTP sessions as that defined in
Section 5.1.5.3. The element MAY be present.
5.2.5.1.3.2. <file-formats>
The <file-formats> element provides a list of file formats required
by the Consumer client for the purpose of playing media to a mix.
The element MAY be present.
The <file-formats> element has no attributes.
The <file-formats> element has a single child element:
<required-format>: Has a single attribute, 'name', which provides
the type of file format supported. A valid value is a media type
that, depending on its definition, can include additional
parameters (e.g., [RFC 6381]). The <required-format> element has a
child element, <required-file-package>. The
<required-file-package> element contains a single attribute,
'required-file-package-name', which contains the name of the Media
Control Channel Framework package, compliant with Section 13.1.1
of [RFC 6230], for which the file format support applies.
5.2.5.1.3.3. <dtmf>
The <dtmf> element specifies the required methods to detect DTMF
tones and to generate them in a mix. The element MAY be present.
The <dtmf> element has no attributes.
The <dtmf> element has zero or more of the following child elements:
<detect>: Indicates the required support for DTMF detection. The
<detect> element has no attributes. The <detect> element then has
a further child element, <dtmf-type>. The <dtmf-type> element has
two attributes: 'name' and 'package'. The 'name' attribute
provides the type of DTMF being used and is a case-insensitive
string containing either 'RFC 4733' [RFC 4733] or 'Media' (detecting
tones as signals from the audio stream). The 'package' attribute
provides the name of the Media Control Channel Framework package,
compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for which the DTMF
type applies.
<generate>: Indicates the required support for DTMF generation. The
<generate> element has no attributes. The <generate> element has
a single child element, <dtmf-type>. The <dtmf-type> element has
two attributes: 'name' and 'package'. The 'name' attribute
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provides the type of DTMF being used and is a case-insensitive
string containing either 'RFC 4733' [RFC 4733] or 'Media'
(generating tones as signals in the audio stream). The 'package'
attribute provides the name of the Media Control Channel Framework
package, compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for which the
DTMF type applies.
<passthrough>: Indicates the required support for passing DTMF
through without re-encoding. The <passthrough> element has no
attributes. The <passthrough> element has a single child element,
<dtmf-type>. The <dtmf-type> element has two attributes: 'name'
and 'package'. The 'name' attribute provides the type of DTMF
being used and is a case-insensitive string containing either
'RFC 4733' [RFC 4733] or 'Media' (passing tones as signals through
the audio stream). The 'package' attribute provides the name of
the Media Control Channel Framework package, compliant with
Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for which the DTMF type applies.
5.2.5.1.3.4. <tones>
The <tones> element provides requested tones that a Media Server must
support for a mix. In particular, the request refers to both support
for country codes (ISO 3166-1 [ISO.3166-1]) and requested
functionality (ITU-T Recommendation Q.1950 [ITU-T.Q.1950]). The
element MAY be present.
The <tones> element has no attributes.
The <tones> element has zero or more of the following child elements:
<country-codes>: Describes the requested country codes in relation
to tones. The <country-codes> element has no attributes. The
<country-codes> element has a single child element. The child
element, <country-code>, requests a specific country code,
compliant with the ISO 3166-1 [ISO.3166-1] specification. The
<country-code> element has a single attribute, 'package'. The
attribute 'package' provides the name of the Media Control Channel
Framework package, compliant with the specification in the related
IANA registry (e.g., "msc-ivr/1.0"), in which the tones from the
specified country code are requested.
<h248-codes>: Describes the requested H.248 codes with respect to
tones. The <h248-codes> element has no attributes. The
<h248-codes> element has a single child element. The child
element, <h248-code>, requests a specific H.248 code, compliant
with the ITU-T Recommendation Q.1950 [ITU-T.Q.1950] specification.
The codes can be either specific (e.g., cg/dt to only report the
Dial Tone from the Call Progress Tones package) or generic (e.g.,
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cg/* to report all the tones from the Call Progress Tones
package), using wildcards. The <h248-code> element has a single
attribute, 'package'. The attribute 'package' provides the name
of the Media Control Channel Framework package, compliant with
Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], in which the specified codes are
requested.
5.2.5.1.3.5. <mixing-modes>
The <mixing-modes> element requests information relating to support
for audio and video mixing, more specifically a list of supported
algorithms to mix audio and a list of supported video presentation
layouts. The element MAY be present.
The <mixing-modes> element has no attributes.
The <mixing-modes> element has zero or more of the following child
elements:
<audio-mixing-modes>: Describes the requested algorithms for audio
mixing. The <audio-mixing-modes> element has no attributes. The
<audio-mixing-modes> element has one child element. The child
element, <audio-mixing-mode>, contains a requested mixing
algorithm. Valid values for the <audio-mixing-mode> element are
algorithm names, e.g., 'nbest' and 'controller' as defined in
[RFC 6505]. The element has a single attribute, 'package'. The
attribute 'package' provides the name of the Media Control Channel
Framework package, compliant with Section 13.1.1 of [RFC 6230], for
which the algorithm support is requested.
<video-mixing-modes>: Describes the requested video presentation
layouts for video mixing. The <video-mixing-modes> element has
two attributes: 'vas' and 'activespeakermix'. The 'vas' attribute
is of type boolean with a value of 'true' indicating that the
Consumer client requires automatic Voice Activated Switching. The
'activespeakermix' attribute is of type boolean with a value of
'true' indicating that the Consumer client requires an additional
video stream for the loudest speaker participant without its
contribution. The <video-mixing-modes> element has one child
element. The child element, <video-mixing-mode>, contains the
name of a specific video presentation layout. The name may refer
to one of the predefined video layouts defined in the XCON
conference information data model, or to non-XCON layouts as well,
as long as they are appropriately prefixed. The
<video-mixing-mode> element has a single attribute, 'package'.
The attribute 'package' provides the name of the Media Control
Channel Framework package, compliant with Section 13.1.1 of
[RFC 6230], for which the algorithm support is requested.
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5.2.5.1.3.6. <application-data>
The <application-data> element provides an arbitrary string of
characters as mixer application-level data. This data is meant to
only have meaning at the application-level logic and as such is not
otherwise restricted by this specification. The set of allowed
characters is the same as those in XML (viz., tab, carriage return,
line feed, and the legal characters of Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646
[ISO.10646.2012] (see also Section 2.2 of
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/>)). The element MAY be present.
The <application-data> element has no attributes.
The <application-data> element has no child elements.
5.2.5.1.3.7. <location>
The <location> element requests a civic location for a mixer Media
Server. The request makes use of the Civic Address Schema
standardized in RFC 5139 [RFC 5139]. The element MAY be present.
More precisely, this section is entirely optional, and it's
implementation specific to fill it with just the details each
implementer deems necessary for any optimization that may be needed.
The <location> element has no attributes.
The <location> element has a single child element:
<civicAddress>: Describes the civic address location of the
requested Media Server, whose representation refers to Section 4
of RFC 5139 [RFC 5139].
5.2.5.1.3.8. <encryption>
The <encryption> element allows a Consumer client to request support
for encrypting mixed RTP media streams using RFC 3711 [RFC 3711]. The
element MAY be present. If the element is present, then the Media
Server supports DTLS-SRTP [RFC 5763].
The <encryption> element has no attributes.
The <encryption> element has no child elements.
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5.2.6. Media Service Resource Response
This section provides the element definitions for use in Consumer
interface responses. The responses are carried in the
<mediaResourceResponse> element.
5.2.6.1. <mediaResourceResponse>
The <mediaResourceResponse> element provides information for clients
receiving response information from an external MRB entity.
The <mediaResourceResponse> element has two mandatory attributes:
'id' and 'status'. The 'id' attribute must contain the same value
that the client provided in the 'id' attribute in the
<mediaResourceRequest> to which the response is mapped. The 'status'
attribute indicates the status code of the operation. The following
status codes are defined for 'status':
+-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| code | description |
+-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| 200 | OK |
| | |
| 400 | Syntax error |
| | |
| 405 | Wrong sequence number |
| | |
| 408 | Unable to find Resource |
| | |
| 409 | Unable to update Resource |
| | |
| 410 | Unable to remove Resource |
| | |
| 420 | Unsupported attribute or element |
+-----------+-------------------------------------------------------+
Table 2: <mediaResourceResponse> Status Codes
If a new media resource request made by a client application has been
accepted, the MRB MUST reply with a <mediaResourceResponse> with
status code 200. The same rule applies whenever a request to update
(action='update') or remove (action='remove') an existing transaction
can be fulfilled by the MRB.
A media resource request, nevertheless, may fail for several reasons.
In such a case, the status codes defined in Table 2 must be used
instead. Specifically, if the MRB fails to handle a request due to a
syntax error in the request itself (e.g., incorrect XML, violation of
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the schema constraints, or invalid values in any of the attributes/
elements), the MRB MUST reply with a <mediaResourceResponse> with
status code 400. If a syntactically correct request fails because
the request also includes any attribute/element the MRB doesn't
understand, the MRB MUST reply with a <mediaResourceResponse> with
status code 420. If a syntactically correct request fails because it
contains a wrong sequence number, that is, a 'seq' value not
consistent with the increment the MRB expects according to
Section 5.2.3, the MRB MUST reply with a <mediaResourceResponse> with
status code 405. If a syntactically correct request fails because
the MRB couldn't find any Media Server able to fulfill the
requirements presented by the Application Server in its request, the
MRB MUST reply with a <mediaResourceResponse> with status code 408.
If a syntactically correct request fails because the MRB couldn't
update an existing request according to the new requirements
presented by the Application Server in its request, the MRB MUST
reply with a <mediaResourceResponse> with status code 409. If a
syntactically correct request fails because the MRB couldn't remove
an existing request and release the related resources as requested by
the Application Server, the MRB MUST reply with a
<mediaResourceResponse> with status code 410.
Further details on status codes 409 and 410 are included in
Section 5.2.3, where the leasing mechanism, along with its related
scenarios, is described in more detail.
The <mediaResourceResponse> element has <response-session-info> as a
child element. This element is used to describe the response of a
Consumer interface query and is covered in the following sub-section.
5.2.6.1.1. <response-session-info>
The <response-session-info> element is included in Consumer
responses. This applies to responses to both requests for new
resources and requests to update an existing media resource session.
The ability to change and remove an existing media resource session
is described in more detail in Section 5.2.3. If the request was
successful, the <mediaResourceResponse> MUST have one
<response-session-info> child, which describes the media resource
session addressed by the request. If the request was not successful,
the <mediaResourceResponse> MUST NOT have a <response-session-info>
child.
The <response-session-info> element has no attributes.
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The <response-session-info> element has zero or more of the following
child elements:
<session-id>: A unique identifier that explicitly references an
existing media resource session on the MRB. The identifier is
included to update the existing session and is described in more
detail in Section 5.2.3.
<seq>: Used in association with the <session-id> element in a
subsequent request to update an existing media resource session on
an MRB. The <seq> number is incremented from its original value
returned in response to the initial request for media resources.
More information on its use is provided in Section 5.2.3.
<expires>: Includes the number of seconds that the media resources
are reserved as part of this interaction. If the lease is not
refreshed before expiry, the MRB will reclaim the resources and
they will no longer be guaranteed. It is RECOMMENDED that a
minimum value of 300 seconds be used for the value of the
'expires' attribute. It is also RECOMMENDED that a Consumer
client refresh the lease at an interval that is not too close to
the expiry time. A value of 80% of the timeout period could be
used. For example, if the timeout period is 300 seconds, the
Consumer client would refresh the transaction at 240 seconds.
More information on its use is provided in Section 5.2.3.
<media-server-address>: Provides information to reach the Media
Server handling the requested media resource. One or more
instances of these elements may appear. The
<media-server-address> element has a single attribute named 'uri',
which supplies a SIP URI that reaches the specified Media Server.
It also has three optional elements: <connection-id>,
<ivr-sessions>, and <mixers>. The <ivr-sessions> and <mixers>
elements are defined in Sections 5.2.5.1.2.1 and 5.2.5.1.3.1,
respectively, and have the same meaning but are applied to
individual Media Server instances as a subset of the overall
resources reported in the <connection-id> element. If multiple
Media Servers are assigned in an IAMM operation, exactly one
<media-server-address> element, more specifically the Media Server
that provided the media dialog or CFW response, will have a
<connection-id> element. Additional information relating to the
use of the <connection-id> element for media dialogs is included
in Section 6.
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5.3. In-Line Unaware MRB Interface
An entity acting as an In-line MRB can act in one of two roles for a
request, as introduced in Section 4.2: the In-line Unaware MRB Mode
(IUMM) of operation and the In-line Aware MRB Mode (IAMM) of
operation. This section further describes IUMM.
It should be noted that the introduction of an MRB entity into the
network, as specified in this document, requires interfaces to be
implemented by those requesting Media Server resources (for example,
an Application Server). This applies when using the Consumer
interface as discussed in Sections 5.2.1 (Query mode) and 5.2.2
(IAMM). An MRB entity can also act in a client-unaware mode when
deployed into the network. This allows any SIP-compliant client
entity, as defined by RFC 3261 [RFC 3261] and its extensions, to send
requests to an MRB that in turn will select an appropriate Media
Server based on knowledge of Media Server resources it currently has
available transparently to the client entity. Using an MRB in this
mode allows for easy migration of current applications and services
that are unaware of the MRB concept and would simply require a
configuration change resulting in the MRB being set as a SIP outbound
proxy for clients requiring media services.
With IUMM, the MRB may conclude that an assigned media resource is no
longer needed when it receives a SIP BYE from the Application Server
or Media Server that ends the SIP dialog that initiated the request.
As with IAMM, in IUMM the SIP INVITE from the Application Server
could convey the application/sdp payload to either set up a media
dialog or a Control Framework Control Channel. In either case, in
order to permit the Application Server to associate a media dialog
with a Control Channel to the same Media Server, using the procedures
of [RFC 6230] Section 6, the MRB should be acting as a SIP proxy (and
not a B2BUA). This allows the SIP URI of the targeted Media Server
to be transparently passed back to the Application Server in the SIP
response, resulting in a direct SIP dialog between the Application
Server and the Media Server.
While IUMM has the least impact on legacy Application Servers, it
also provides the least versatility. See Section 8.
6. MRB Acting as a B2BUA
An MRB entity can act as a SIP Back-to-Back User Agent (B2BUA) or a
SIP Proxy Server as defined in RFC 3261 [RFC 3261]. When an MRB acts
as a B2BUA, issues can arise when using Media Control Channel
packages such as the IVR [RFC 6231] and mixer [RFC 6505] packages.
Specifically, the framework attribute 'connectionid' as provided in
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Appendix A ("Common Package Components") of [RFC 6230] uses a
concatenation of the SIP dialog identifiers to be used for
referencing SIP dialogs within the Media Control Channel. When a
request traverses an MRB acting as a B2BUA, the SIP dialog
identifiers change, and so the 'connectionid' cannot be used as
intended due to this change. For this reason, when an MRB wishes to
act as a SIP B2BUA when handling a request from an Application Server
to set up a media dialog to a Media Server, it MUST include the
optional <connection-id> element in a Consumer interface response
with a value that provides the equivalent for the 'connectionid'
('Local Dialog Tag' + 'Remote Dialog Tag') for the far side of the
B2BUA. If present, this value MUST be used as the value for the
'connectionid' in packages where the Common Package Components are
used. The <connection-id> element MUST NOT be included in an HTTP
Consumer interface response.
It is important to point out that although more Media Server
instances may be returned in a Consumer response (i.e., the MRB has
assigned more than one Media Server to a Consumer request to fulfill
the Application Server requirements), in IAMM the MRB will only act
as a B2BUA with a single Media Server. In this case, exactly one
<media-server-address> element, describing the media dialog or CFW
response, will have a <connection-id> element that will not be
included in any additional <media-server-address> elements.
7. Multimodal MRB Implementations
An MRB implementation may operate multimodally with a collection of
Application Server clients all sharing the same pool of media
resources. That is, an MRB may be simultaneously operating in Query
mode, IAMM, and IUMM. It knows in which mode to act on any
particular request from a client, depending on the context of the
request:
o If the received request is an HTTP POST message with application/
mrb-consumer+xml content, then the MRB processes it in Query mode.
o If the received request is a SIP INVITE with application/
mrb-consumer+xml content and application/sdp content, then the MRB
processes it in IAMM.
o If the received request is a SIP INVITE without application/
mrb-consumer+xml content but with application/sdp content, then
the MRB processes it in IUMM.
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8. Relative Merits of Query Mode, IAMM, and IUMM
At a high level, the possible Application Server MRB interactions can
be distinguished by the following basic types:
a. Query mode - the client is requesting the assignment by the MRB
of suitable Media Server resources;
b. IAMM/media dialog - the client is requesting the assignment by
the MRB of suitable Media Server resources and the establishment
of a media dialog to one of the Media Servers;
c. IAMM/Control Channel - the client is requesting the assignment by
the MRB of suitable Media Server resources and the establishment
of a CFW Control Channel to one of the Media Servers;
d. IUMM/media dialog - the client is requesting the establishment of
a media dialog to a Media Server resource;
e. IUMM/Control Channel - the client is requesting the establishment
of a CFW Control Channel to a Media Server resource.
Each type of interaction has advantages and disadvantages, where such
considerations relate to the versatility of what the MRB can provide,
technical aspects such as efficiency in different application
scenarios, complexity, delay, use with legacy Application Servers, or
use with the Media Control Channel Framework. Depending on the
characteristics of a particular setting that an MRB is intended to
support, some of the above interaction types may be more appropriate
than others. This section provides a few observations on relative
merits but is not intended to be exhaustive. Some constraints of a
given interaction type may be subtle.
o Operation with other types of media control: Any of the types of
interactions work with the mechanisms described in RFC 4240
[RFC 4240] and RFC 5552 [RFC 5552] where initial control
instructions are conveyed in the SIP INVITE from the Application
Server for the media dialog to the Media Server and subsequent
instructions may be fetched using HTTP. Query mode (a), IAMM/
media dialog (b), and IUMM/media dialog (d) work with the Media
Server Markup Language (MSML) as per RFC 5707 [RFC 5707] or the
Media Server Control Markup Language (MSCML) as per RFC 5022
[RFC 5022].
o As stated previously, IUMM has no interface impacts on an
Application Server. When using IUMM, the Application Server does
not specify the characteristics of the type of media resource it
requires, as the <mediaResourceRequest> element is not passed to
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the MRB. For IUMM/media dialog (d), the MRB can deduce an
appropriate media resource on a best-effort basis using
information gleaned from examining information in the SIP INVITE.
This includes the SDP information for the media dialog, or initial
control information in the SIP Request-URI as per RFC 4240
[RFC 4240]. With IUMM/Control Channel (e), there is even less
information for the MRB to use.
o If using IUMM/Control Channel (e), the subsequent sending of the
media dialog to the Media Server should not be done using IUMM/
media dialog. That is, the SIP signaling to send the media dialog
to the selected Media Server must be directly between the
Application Server and that Media Server, and not through the MRB.
Unless resources can be confidentially identified, the MRB could
send the media dialog to a different Media Server. Likewise, if
using IUMM/media dialog (d), the subsequent establishment of a
Control Channel should not be done with IUMM/Control Channel (e)
unless definitive information is available.
o Query mode (a) and IAMM/Control Channel (c) lend themselves to
requesting a pool of media resources (e.g., a number of IVR or
conferencing ports) in advance of use and retaining use over a
period of time, independent of whether there are media dialogs to
those resources at any given moment, whereas the other types of
interactions do not. This also applies to making a subsequent
request to increase or decrease the amount of resources previously
awarded.
o While Query mode (a) and IAMM/Control Channel (c) are the most
versatile interaction types, the former is completely decoupled
from the use or non-use of a Control Channel, whereas the latter
requires the use of a Control Channel.
o When Media Control Channel Framework Control Channels are to be
used in conjunction with the use of an MRB, Query mode (a) would
typically result in fewer such channels being established over
time, as compared to IAMM/Control Channel (c). That is because
the latter would involve setting up an additional Control Channel
every time an Application Server has a new request for an MRB for
media resources.
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9. Examples
This section provides examples of both the Publish and Consumer
interfaces. Both the Query mode and In-line mode are addressed.
Note that due to RFC formatting conventions, this section often
splits HTTP, SIP/SDP, and CFW across lines whose content would exceed
72 characters. A backslash character marks where this line folding
has taken place. This backslash, and its trailing CRLF and
whitespace, would not appear in the actual protocol contents. Also
note that the indentation of the XML content is only provided for
readability: actual messages will follow strict XML syntax, which
allows for but does not require indentation.
9.1. Publish Example
The following example assumes that a Control Channel has been
established and synced as described in the Media Control Channel
Framework ([RFC 6230]).
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Figure 9 shows the subscription/notification mechanism the Publish
interface is based on, as defined in Section 5.1. The MRB subscribes
for information at the Media Server (message A1.), and the Media
Server accepts the subscription (A2.). Notifications are triggered
by the Media Server (B1.) and acknowledged by the MRB (B2.).
MRB MS
| |
| A1. CONTROL (MRB subscription) |
|--------------------------------------------->|
| A2. 200 OK |
|<---------------------------------------------|
| |
. .
. .
| |
| |--+ collect
| | | up-to-date
| |<-+ info
| B1. CONTROL (MRB notification) |
|<---------------------------------------------|
| B2. 200 OK |
|--------------------------------------------->|
| |
. .
. .
Figure 9: Publish Example: Sequence Diagram
The rest of this section includes a full dump of the messages
associated with the previous sequence diagram, specifically:
1. the subscription (A1.), in an <mrbrequest> (CFW CONTROL);
2. the Media Server accepting the subscription (A2.), in an
<mrbresponse> (CFW 200);
3. a notification (B1.), in an <mrbnotification> (CFW CONTROL);
4. the ack to the notification (B2.), in a framework-level 200
message (CFW 200).
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A1. MRB -> MS (CONTROL, publish request)
----------------------------------------
CFW lidc30BZObiC CONTROL
Control-Package: mrb-publish/1.0
Content-Type: application/mrb-publish+xml
Content-Length: 337
xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<mrbpublish version="1.0" xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-publish">
<mrbrequest>
<subscription action="create" seqnumber="1" id="p0T65U">
<expires>600expires>
<minfrequency>20minfrequency>
<maxfrequency>20maxfrequency>
subscription>
mrbrequest>
mrbpublish>
A2. MRB <- MS (200 to CONTROL, request accepted)
------------------------------------------------
CFW lidc30BZObiC 200
Timeout: 10
Content-Type: application/mrb-publish+xml
Content-Length: 139
<mrbpublish version="1.0" xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-publish">
<mrbresponse status="200" reason="OK: Request accepted"/>
mrbpublish>
B1. MRB <- MS (CONTROL, event notification from MS)
---------------------------------------------------
CFW 03fff52e7b7a CONTROL
Control-Package: mrb-publish/1.0
Content-Type: application/mrb-publish+xml
Content-Length: 4226
xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<mrbpublish version="1.0"
xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-publish">
<mrbnotification seqnumber="1" id="QQ6J3c">
<media-server-id>a1b2c3d4media-server-id>
<supported-packages>
<package name="msc-ivr/1.0"/>
<package name="msc-mixer/1.0"/>
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<package name="mrb-publish/1.0"/>
<package name="msc-example-pkg/1.0"/>
supported-packages>
<active-rtp-sessions>
<rtp-codec name="audio/basic">
<decoding>10decoding>
<encoding>20encoding>
rtp-codec>
active-rtp-sessions>
<active-mixer-sessions>
<active-mix conferenceid="7cfgs43">
<rtp-codec name="audio/basic">
<decoding>3decoding>
<encoding>3encoding>
rtp-codec>
active-mix>
active-mixer-sessions>
<non-active-rtp-sessions>
<rtp-codec name="audio/basic">
<decoding>50decoding>
<encoding>40encoding>
rtp-codec>
non-active-rtp-sessions>
<non-active-mixer-sessions>
<non-active-mix available="15">
<rtp-codec name="audio/basic">
<decoding>15decoding>
<encoding>15encoding>
rtp-codec>
non-active-mix>
non-active-mixer-sessions>
<media-server-status>activemedia-server-status>
<supported-codecs>
<supported-codec name="audio/basic">
<supported-codec-package name="msc-ivr/1.0">
<supported-action>encodingsupported-action>
<supported-action>decodingsupported-action>
supported-codec-package>
<supported-codec-package name="msc-mixer/1.0">
<supported-action>encodingsupported-action>
<supported-action>decodingsupported-action>
supported-codec-package>
supported-codec>
supported-codecs>
<application-data>TestbedPrototypeapplication-data>
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<file-formats>
<supported-format name="audio/x-wav">
<supported-file-package>
msc-ivr/1.0
supported-file-package>
supported-format>
file-formats>
<max-prepared-duration>
<max-time max-time-seconds="3600">
<max-time-package>msc-ivr/1.0max-time-package>
max-time>
max-prepared-duration>
<dtmf-support>
<detect>
<dtmf-type package="msc-ivr/1.0" name="RFC 4733"/>
<dtmf-type package="msc-mixer/1.0" name="RFC 4733"/>
detect>
<generate>
<dtmf-type package="msc-ivr/1.0" name="RFC 4733"/>
<dtmf-type package="msc-mixer/1.0" name="RFC 4733"/>
generate>
<passthrough>
<dtmf-type package="msc-ivr/1.0" name="RFC 4733"/>
<dtmf-type package="msc-mixer/1.0" name="RFC 4733"/>
passthrough>
dtmf-support>
<mixing-modes>
<audio-mixing-modes>
<audio-mixing-mode package="msc-ivr/1.0">
nbest
audio-mixing-mode>
audio-mixing-modes>
<video-mixing-modes activespeakermix="true" vas="true">
<video-mixing-mode package="msc-mixer/1.0">
single-view
video-mixing-mode>
<video-mixing-mode package="msc-mixer/1.0">
dual-view
video-mixing-mode>
<video-mixing-mode package="msc-mixer/1.0">
dual-view-crop
video-mixing-mode>
<video-mixing-mode package="msc-mixer/1.0">
dual-view-2x1
video-mixing-mode>
<video-mixing-mode package="msc-mixer/1.0">
dual-view-2x1-crop
video-mixing-mode>
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<video-mixing-mode package="msc-mixer/1.0">
quad-view
video-mixing-mode>
<video-mixing-mode package="msc-mixer/1.0">
multiple-5x1
video-mixing-mode>
<video-mixing-mode package="msc-mixer/1.0">
multiple-3x3
video-mixing-mode>
<video-mixing-mode package="msc-mixer/1.0">
multiple-4x4
video-mixing-mode>
video-mixing-modes>
mixing-modes>
<supported-tones>
<supported-country-codes>
<country-code package="msc-ivr/1.0">GBcountry-code>
<country-code package="msc-ivr/1.0">ITcountry-code>
<country-code package="msc-ivr/1.0">UScountry-code>
supported-country-codes>
<supported-h248-codes>
<h248-code package="msc-ivr/1.0">cg/*h248-code>
<h248-code package="msc-ivr/1.0">biztn/ofqueh248-code>
<h248-code package="msc-ivr/1.0">biztn/erwth248-code>
<h248-code package="msc-mixer/1.0">conftn/*h248-code>
supported-h248-codes>
supported-tones>
<file-transfer-modes>
<file-transfer-mode package="msc-ivr/1.0" name="HTTP"/>
file-transfer-modes>
<asr-tts-support>
<asr-support>
<language xml:lang="en"/>
asr-support>
<tts-support>
<language xml:lang="en"/>
tts-support>
asr-tts-support>
<vxml-support>
<vxml-mode package="msc-ivr/1.0" support="RFC 6231"/>
vxml-support>
<media-server-location>
<civicAddress xml:lang="it">
<country>ITcountry>
<A1>CampaniaA1>
<A3>NapoliA3>
<A6>Via ClaudioA6>
<HNO>21HNO>
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<LMK>University of Napoli Federico IILMK>
<NAM>Dipartimento di Informatica e SistemisticaNAM>
<PC>80210PC>
civicAddress>
media-server-location>
<label>TestbedPrototype-01label>
<media-server-address>sip:MS1@ms.example.netmedia-server-address>
<encryption/>
mrbnotification>
mrbpublish>
B2. MRB -> MS (200 to CONTROL)
------------------------------
CFW 03fff52e7b7a 200
9.2. Consumer Examples
As specified in Section 5.2, the Consumer interface can be involved
in two different modes: Query and In-line aware. When in Query mode,
Consumer messages are transported in HTTP messages: an example of
such an approach is presented in Section 9.2.1. When in In-line
aware mode, messages are instead transported as part of SIP
negotiations: considering that SIP negotiations may be related to
either the creation of a Control Channel or to a User Agent Client
(UAC) media dialog, two separate examples of such an approach are
presented in Section 9.2.2.
9.2.1. Query Example
The following example assumes that the interested Application Server
already knows the HTTP URL where an MRB is listening for Consumer
messages.
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Figure 10 shows the HTTP-based transaction between the Application
Server (AS, as shown in the figure) and the MRB. The Application
Server sends a Consumer request as payload of an HTTP POST message
(1.), and the MRB provides an answer in an HTTP 200 OK message (2.).
Specifically, as will be shown in the examples, the Application
Server is interested in 100 IVR ports: the MRB finds two Media
Servers that can satisfy the request (one providing 60 ports and the
other providing 40 ports) and reports them to the Application Server.
AS MRB
| |
| 1. HTTP POST (Consumer request) |
|--------------------------------------------->|
| |
| |
| |--+ Parse request
| | | and see if any
| |<-+ MS applies
| |
| 2. 200 OK (Consumer response) |
|<---------------------------------------------|
| |
|--+ Parse response and |
| | start session (SIP/COMEDIA/CFW) |
|<-+ with first MS reported by MRB |
| |
. .
. .
Figure 10: Consumer Example (Query): Sequence Diagram
The rest of this section includes a full dump of the messages
associated with the previous sequence diagram, specifically:
1. the Consumer request (1.), in a <mediaResourceRequest> (HTTP
POST, Content-Type 'application/mrb-consumer+xml');
2. the Consumer response (2.), in a <mediaResourceResponse> (HTTP
200 OK, Content-Type 'application/mrb-consumer+xml').
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1. AS -> MRB (HTTP POST, Consumer request)
------------------------------------------
POST /Mrb/Consumer HTTP/1.1
Content-Length: 893
Content-Type: application/mrb-consumer+xml
Host: mrb.example.net:8080
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.0.1 (java 1.5)
xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<mrbconsumer version="1.0" xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-consumer">
<mediaResourceRequest id="gh11x23v">
<generalInfo>
<packages>
<package>msc-ivr/1.0package>
<package>msc-mixer/1.0package>
packages>
generalInfo>
<ivrInfo>
<ivr-sessions>
<rtp-codec name="audio/basic">
<decoding>100decoding>
<encoding>100encoding>
rtp-codec>
ivr-sessions>
<file-formats>
<required-format name="audio/x-wav"/>
file-formats>
<file-transfer-modes>
<file-transfer-mode package="msc-ivr/1.0" name="HTTP"/>
file-transfer-modes>
ivrInfo>
mediaResourceRequest>
mrbconsumer>
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2. AS <- MRB (200 to POST, Consumer response)
---------------------------------------------
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Powered-By: Servlet/2.5
Server: Sun GlassFish Communications Server 1.5
Content-Type: application/mrb-consumer+xml;charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Length: 1133
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2011 14:59:26 GMT
xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<mrbconsumer version="1.0" xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-consumer" >
<mediaResourceResponse reason="Resource found" status="200"
id="gh11x23v">
<response-session-info>
<session-id>5t3Y4IQ84gY1session-id>
<seq>9seq>
<expires>3600expires>
<media-server-address
uri="sip:MediaServer@ms.example.com:5080">
<ivr-sessions>
<rtp-codec name="audio/basic">
<decoding>60decoding>
<encoding>60encoding>
rtp-codec>
ivr-sessions>
media-server-address>
<media-server-address
uri="sip:OtherMediaServer@pool.example.net:5080">
<ivr-sessions>
<rtp-codec name="audio/basic">
<decoding>40decoding>
<encoding>40encoding>
rtp-codec>
ivr-sessions>
media-server-address>
response-session-info>
mediaResourceResponse>
mrbconsumer>
As the example shows, the request and response are associated by
means of the 'id' attribute (id="gh11x23v"). The MRB has picked '9'
as the random sequence number that needs to be incremented by the
Application Server for the subsequent request associated with the
same session.
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The rest of the scenario is omitted for brevity. After having
received the 'mediaResourceResponse', the Application Server has the
URIs of two Media Servers able to fulfill its media requirements and
can start a control dialog with one or both of them.
9.2.2. IAMM Examples
Two separate examples are presented for the IAMM case: in fact, IAMM
can take advantage of two different approaches with respect to the
SIP dialogs to be exploited to carry Consumer messages, i.e., i) a
SIP control dialog to create a Control Channel, and ii) a UAC media
dialog to attach to a Media Server. To make things clearer for the
reader, the same Consumer request as the one presented in the Query
mode will be sent, in order to clarify how the behavior of the
involved parties may differ.
9.2.2.1. IAMM Example: CFW-Based Approach
The following example assumes that the interested Application Server
already knows the SIP URI of an MRB.
Figure 11 shows the first approach, i.e., SIP-based transactions
between the Application Server, the MRB, and one Media Server that
the MRB chooses from the two that are allocated to fulfill the
request. The diagram is more complex than before. This is basically
a scenario envisaging the MRB as a B2BUA. The Application Server
sends a SIP INVITE (1.) containing both a CFW-related SDP and a
Consumer request (multipart body). The MRB sends a provisional
response to the Application Server (2.) and starts working on the
request. First of all, it makes use of the Consumer request from the
Application Server to determine which Media Servers should be
exploited. Once the right Media Servers have been chosen (MS1 and
MS2 in the example), the MRB sends a new SIP INVITE (3.) to one of
the Media Servers (MS1 in the example) by just including the SDP part
of the original request. That Media Server negotiates this INVITE as
specified in [RFC 6230] (4., 5., 6.), providing the MRB with its own
CFW-related SDP. The MRB replies to the original Application Server
INVITE preparing a SIP 200 OK with another multipart body (7.): this
multipart body includes the Consumer response used by the MRB to
determine the right Media Servers and the SDP returned by the Media
Server (MS1) in (5.). The Application Server finally acknowledges
the 200 OK (8.), and can start a CFW connection towards that Media
Server (MS1). Since the MRB provided the Application Server with two
Media Server instances to fulfill its requirements, the Application
Server can use the URI in the <media-server-address> element in the
<mediaResourceResponse> that describes the other Media Server to
establish a CFW channel with that Media Server (MS2) as well.
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Please note that to ease the reading of the protocol contents a
simple '=_Part' is used whenever a boundary for a 'multipart/mixed'
payload is provided, instead of the actual boundary that would be
inserted in the SIP messages.
AS MRB MS1 MS2
| | | |
| 1. INVITE | | |
| (multipart/mixed) | | |
|---------------------->| | |
| 2. 100 (Trying) | | |
|<----------------------| | |
| |--+ Extract SDP and | |
| | | MRB payloads; handle | |
| |<-+ Consumer request to | |
| | pick MSs (MS1 and MS2) | |
| | | |
| | 3. INVITE | |
| | (only copy SDP from 1.) | |
| |-------------------------->| |
| | 4. 100 (Trying) | |
| |<--------------------------| |
| | |--+ Negotiate |
| | | | CFW Control |
| | |<-+ Channel |
| | 5. 200 OK | |
| |<--------------------------| |
| | 6. ACK | |
| |-------------------------->| |
| Prepare new +--| | |
| payload with | | | |
| SDP from MS and +->| | |
| Consumer reply | | |
| | | |
| 7. 200 OK | | |
| (multipart/mixed) | | |
|<----------------------| | |
| 8. ACK | | |
|---------------------->| | |
| | | |
|--+ Read Cons. reply | | |
| | and use SDP to | | |
|<-+ create CFW Chn. | | |
| | | |
| | |
| Create TCP CFW channel towards MS1 (if needed) | |
|-------------------------------------------------->| |
| | |
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|<<############## TCP CONNECTION #################>>| |
| | |
| CFW SYNC | |
|++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++>| |
| | |
. . . .
. . . .
| | |
| Negotiate SIP control dialog with MS2 |
|<------------------------------------------------------------------>|
| Create TCP CFW channel towards MS2 as well (if needed) |
|------------------------------------------------------------------->|
| |
|<<######################## TCP CONNECTION ########################>>|
| |
| CFW SYNC |
|+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++>|
| |
| | | |
. . . .
. . . .
Figure 11: Consumer Example (IAMM/Control Channel): Sequence Diagram
The rest of this section includes an almost full trace of the
messages associated with the previous sequence diagram. Only the
relevant SIP messages are shown (both the INVITEs and the 200 OKs),
and only the relevant headers are preserved for brevity (Content-Type
and multipart-related information). Specifically:
1. the original INVITE (1.) containing both a CFW-related SDP
(Connection-Oriented Media (COMEDIA) information to negotiate a
new Control Channel) and a Consumer <mediaResourceRequest>;
2. the INVITE sent by the MRB (acting as a B2BUA) to the Media
Server (3.), containing only the CFW-related SDP from the
original INVITE;
3. the 200 OK sent by the Media Server back to the MRB (5.) to
complete the CFW-related negotiation (SDP only);
4. the 200 OK sent by the MRB back to the Application Server in
response to the original INVITE (7.), containing both the
CFW-related information sent by the Media Server and a Consumer
<mediaResourceRequest> documenting the MRB's decision to use that
Media Server.
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1. AS -> MRB (INVITE multipart/mixed)
-------------------------------------
[..]
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary="=_Part"
=_Part
Content-Type: application/sdp
v=0
o=- 2890844526 2890842807 IN IP4 as.example.com
s=MediaCtrl
c=IN IP4 as.example.com
t=0 0
m=application 48035 TCP cfw
a=connection:new
a=setup:active
a=cfw-id:vF0zD4xzUAW9
a=ctrl-package:msc-mixer/1.0
a=ctrl-package:msc-ivr/1.0
=_Part
Content-Type: application/mrb-consumer+xml
xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<mrbconsumer version="1.0"
xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-consumer">
<mediaResourceRequest id="pz78hnq1">
<generalInfo>
<packages>
<package>msc-ivr/1.0package>
<package>msc-mixer/1.0package>
packages>
generalInfo>
<ivrInfo>
<ivr-sessions>
<rtp-codec name="audio/basic">
<decoding>100decoding>
<encoding>100encoding>
rtp-codec>
ivr-sessions>
<file-formats>
<required-format name="audio/x-wav"/>
file-formats>
<file-transfer-modes>
<file-transfer-mode package="msc-ivr/1.0" name="HTTP"/>
file-transfer-modes>
ivrInfo>
mediaResourceRequest>
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mrbconsumer>
=_Part
3. MRB -> MS (INVITE sdp only)
------------------------------
[..]
Content-Type: application/sdp
v=0
o=- 2890844526 2890842807 IN IP4 as.example.com
s=MediaCtrl
c=IN IP4 as.example.com
t=0 0
m=application 48035 TCP cfw
a=connection:new
a=setup:active
a=cfw-id:vF0zD4xzUAW9
a=ctrl-package:msc-mixer/1.0
a=ctrl-package:msc-ivr/1.0
5. MRB <- MS (200 OK sdp)
-------------------------
[..]
Content-Type: application/sdp
v=0
o=lminiero 2890844526 2890842808 IN IP4 ms.example.net
s=MediaCtrl
c=IN IP4 ms.example.net
t=0 0
m=application 7575 TCP cfw
a=connection:new
a=setup:passive
a=cfw-id:vF0zD4xzUAW9
a=ctrl-package:msc-mixer/1.0
a=ctrl-package:msc-ivr/1.0
a=ctrl-package:mrb-publish/1.0
a=ctrl-package:msc-example-pkg/1.0
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7. AS <- MRB (200 OK multipart/mixed)
-------------------------------------
[..]
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary="=_Part"
=_Part
Content-Type: application/sdp
v=0
o=lminiero 2890844526 2890842808 IN IP4 ms.example.net
s=MediaCtrl
c=IN IP4 ms.example.net
t=0 0
m=application 7575 TCP cfw
a=connection:new
a=setup:passive
a=cfw-id:vF0zD4xzUAW9
a=ctrl-package:msc-mixer/1.0
a=ctrl-package:msc-ivr/1.0
a=ctrl-package:mrb-publish/1.0
a=ctrl-package:msc-example-pkg/1.0
=_Part
Content-Type: application/mrb-consumer+xml
xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<mrbconsumer version="1.0"
xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-consumer" >
<mediaResourceResponse reason="Resource found" status="200"
id="pz78hnq1">
<response-session-info>
<session-id>z1skKYZQ3eFusession-id>
<seq>9seq>
<expires>3600expires>
<media-server-address
uri="sip:MediaServer@ms.example.com:5080">
<connection-id>32pbdxZ8:KQw677BFconnection-id>
<ivr-sessions>
<rtp-codec name="audio/basic">
<decoding>60decoding>
<encoding>60encoding>
rtp-codec>
ivr-sessions>
media-server-address>
<media-server-address
uri="sip:OtherMediaServer@pool.example.net:5080">
<ivr-sessions>
<rtp-codec name="audio/basic">
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<decoding>40decoding>
<encoding>40encoding>
rtp-codec>
ivr-sessions>
media-server-address>
response-session-info>
mediaResourceResponse>
mrbconsumer>
=_Part
As the previous example illustrates, the only difference in the
response that the MRB provides to the Application Server is in the
'connection-id' attribute that is added to the first allocated Media
Server instance: this allows the Application Server to understand
that the MRB has sent the CFW channel negotiation to that specific
Media Server and that the connection-id to be used is the one
provided. This will be described in more detail in the following
section for the media dialog-based approach.
The continuation of the scenario (the Application Server connecting
to MS1 to start the Control Channel and the related SYNC message, the
Application Server connecting to MS2 as well later on, all the media
dialogs being attached to either Media Server) is omitted for
brevity.
9.2.2.2. IAMM Example: Media Dialog-Based Approach
The following example assumes that the interested Application Server
already knows the SIP URI of an MRB.
Figure 12 shows the second approach, i.e., SIP-based transactions
between a SIP client, the Application Server, the MRB, and the Media
Server that the MRB chooses. The interaction is basically the same
as previous examples (e.g., contents of the multipart body), but
considering that a new party is involved in the communication, the
diagram is slightly more complex than before. As before, the MRB
acts as a B2BUA. A UAC sends a SIP INVITE to a SIP URI handled by
the Application Server, since it is interested to its services (1.).
The Application Server sends a provisional response (2.) and, since
it doesn't have the resources yet, sends to the MRB a new SIP INVITE
(3.) containing both the UAC media-related SDP and a Consumer request
(multipart body). The MRB sends a provisional response to the
Application Server (4.) and starts working on the request. First of
all, it makes use of the Consumer request from the Application Server
to determine which Media Servers should be chosen. Once the Media
Server has been chosen, the MRB sends a new SIP INVITE to one of the
Media Servers by including the SDP part of the original request (5.).
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The Media Server negotiates this INVITE as specified in [RFC 6230]
(6., 7., 8.) to allocate the needed media resources to handle the new
media dialog, eventually providing the MRB with its own media-related
SDP. The MRB replies to the original Application Server INVITE
preparing a SIP 200 OK with a multipart body (9.): this multipart
body includes the Consumer response from the MRB indicating the
chosen Media Servers and the SDP returned by the Media Server in
(7.). The Application Server finally acknowledges the 200 OK (10.)
and ends the scenario by eventually providing the UAC with the SDP it
needs to set up the RTP channels with the chosen Media Server: a
separate direct SIP control dialog may be initiated by the
Application Server to the same Media Server in order to set up a
Control Channel to manipulate the media dialog.
As with the IAMM/Control Channel example in the prior section, this
example has the MRB selecting Media Server resources across two Media
Server instances. The convention could be that the MRB sent the SIP
INVITE to the first Media Server in the list provided to the
Application Server in the Consumer response information. For the
sake of brevity, considerations related to connecting to the other
Media Servers as well are omitted, since they have already been
addressed in the previous section.
Please note that to ease the reading of the protocol contents, a
simple '=_Part' is used whenever a boundary for a 'multipart/mixed'
payload is provided, instead of the actual boundary that would be
inserted in the SIP messages.
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UAC AS MRB MS
| | | |
| 1. INVITE | | |
| (media SDP) | | |
|-------------->| | |
| 2. 100 Trying | | |
|<--------------| | |
| | 3. INVITE | |
| | (multipart/mixed) | |
| |---------------------->| |
| | 4. 100 (Trying) | |
| |<----------------------| |
| | |--+ Extract SDP and |
| | | | MRB payloads; handle |
| | |<-+ Consumer request to |
| | | pick Media Servers |
| | | |
| | | 5. INVITE |
| | | (only copy SDP from 3.) |
| | |-------------------------->|
| | | 6. 100 (Trying) |
| | |<--------------------------|
| | | +--|
| | | Handle media dialog | |
| | | (connection-id) +->|
| | | |
| | | 7. 200 OK |
| | |<--------------------------|
| | | 8. ACK |
| | |-------------------------->|
| | Prepare new +--| |
| | payload with | | |
| | SDP from MS and +->| |
| | Consumer reply | |
| | | |
| | 9. 200 OK | |
| | (multipart/mixed) | |
| |<----------------------| |
| | 10. ACK | |
| |---------------------->| |
| | | |
| |--+ Read Cons. reply | |
| | | and send SDP | |
| |<-+ back to UAC | |
| 11. 200 OK | | |
|<--------------| | |
| 12. ACK | | |
|-------------->| | |
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| | | |
|<<*************************** RTP *******************************>>|
| | | |
| |--+ Negotiate | |
| | | CFW channel | |
| |<-+ towards MS | |
| | (if needed) | |
. . . .
. . . .
| | | |
| | |
| | Create TCP CFW channel towards MS (if needed) |
| |-------------------------------------------------->|
| | |
| |<<############## TCP CONNECTION #################>>|
| | |
| | CFW SYNC |
| |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++>|
| | |
. . . .
. . . .
Figure 12: Consumer Example (IAMM/Media Dialog): Sequence Diagram
The rest of this section includes a trace of the messages associated
with the previous sequence diagram. Only the relevant SIP messages
are shown (both the INVITEs and the 200 OKs), and only the relevant
headers are preserved for brevity (Content-Type, From/To, and
multipart-related information). Specifically:
1. the original INVITE (1.) containing the media-related SDP sent by
a UAC;
2. the INVITE sent by the AS to the MRB (3.), containing both the
media-related SDP and a Consumer <mediaResourceRequest>;
3. the INVITE sent by the MRB (acting as a B2BUA) to the Media
Server (5.), containing only the media-related SDP from the
original INVITE;
4. the 200 OK sent by the Media Server back to the MRB (7.) to
complete the media-related negotiation (SDP only);
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5. the 200 OK sent by the MRB back to the Application Server in
response to the original INVITE (9.), containing both the
media-related information sent by the Media Server and a Consumer
<mediaResourceRequest> documenting the MRB's decision to use that
Media Server;
6. the 200 OK sent by the Application Server back to the UAC to have
it set up the RTP channel(s) with the Media Server (11.).
1. UAC -> AS (INVITE with media SDP)
------------------------------------
[..]
From: <sip:lminiero@users.example.com>;tag=1153573888
To: <sip:mediactrlDemo@as.example.com>
[..]
Content-Type: application/sdp
v=0
o=lminiero 123456 654321 IN IP4 203.0.113.2
s=A conversation
c=IN IP4 203.0.113.2
t=0 0
m=audio 7078 RTP/AVP 0 3 8 101
a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000/1
a=rtpmap:3 GSM/8000/1
a=rtpmap:8 PCMA/8000/1
a=rtpmap:101 telephone-event/8000
a=fmtp:101 0-11
m=video 9078 RTP/AVP 98
3. AS -> MRB (INVITE multipart/mixed)
-------------------------------------
[..]
From: <sip:ApplicationServer@as.example.com>;tag=fd4fush5
To: <sip:Mrb@mrb.example.org>
[..]
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary="=_Part"
=_Part
Content-Type: application/sdp
v=0
o=lminiero 123456 654321 IN IP4 203.0.113.2
s=A conversation
c=IN IP4 203.0.113.2
t=0 0
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m=audio 7078 RTP/AVP 0 3 8 101
a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000/1
a=rtpmap:3 GSM/8000/1
a=rtpmap:8 PCMA/8000/1
a=rtpmap:101 telephone-event/8000
a=fmtp:101 0-11
m=video 9078 RTP/AVP 98
=_Part
Content-Type: application/mrb-consumer+xml
xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<mrbconsumer version="1.0"
xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-consumer">
<mediaResourceRequest id="ns56g1x0">
<generalInfo>
<packages>
<package>msc-ivr/1.0package>
<package>msc-mixer/1.0package>
packages>
generalInfo>
<ivrInfo>
<ivr-sessions>
<rtp-codec name="audio/basic">
<decoding>100decoding>
<encoding>100encoding>
rtp-codec>
ivr-sessions>
<file-formats>
<required-format name="audio/x-wav"/>
file-formats>
<file-transfer-modes>
<file-transfer-mode package="msc-ivr/1.0" name="HTTP"/>
file-transfer-modes>
ivrInfo>
mediaResourceRequest>
mrbconsumer>
=_Part
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5. MRB -> MS (INVITE sdp only)
------------------------------
[..]
From: <sip:Mrb@mrb.example.org:5060>;tag=32pbdxZ8
To: <sip:MediaServer@ms.example.com:5080>
[..]
Content-Type: application/sdp
v=0
o=lminiero 123456 654321 IN IP4 203.0.113.2
s=A conversation
c=IN IP4 203.0.113.2
t=0 0
m=audio 7078 RTP/AVP 0 3 8 101
a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000/1
a=rtpmap:3 GSM/8000/1
a=rtpmap:8 PCMA/8000/1
a=rtpmap:101 telephone-event/8000
a=fmtp:101 0-11
m=video 9078 RTP/AVP 98
7. MRB <- MS (200 OK sdp)
-------------------------
[..]
From: <sip:Mrb@mrb.example.org:5060>;tag=32pbdxZ8
To: <sip:MediaServer@ms.example.com:5080>;tag=KQw677BF
[..]
Content-Type: application/sdp
v=0
o=lminiero 123456 654322 IN IP4 203.0.113.1
s=MediaCtrl
c=IN IP4 203.0.113.1
t=0 0
m=audio 63442 RTP/AVP 0 3 8 101
a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000
a=rtpmap:3 GSM/8000
a=rtpmap:8 PCMA/8000
a=rtpmap:101 telephone-event/8000
a=fmtp:101 0-15
a=ptime:20
a=label:7eda834
m=video 33468 RTP/AVP 98
a=rtpmap:98 H263-1998/90000
a=fmtp:98 CIF=2
a=label:0132ca2
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9. AS <- MRB (200 OK multipart/mixed)
-------------------------------------
[..]
From: <sip:ApplicationServer@as.example.com>;tag=fd4fush5
To: <sip:Mrb@mrb.example.org>;tag=117652221
[..]
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary="=_Part"
=_Part
Content-Type: application/sdp
v=0
o=lminiero 123456 654322 IN IP4 203.0.113.1
s=MediaCtrl
c=IN IP4 203.0.113.1
t=0 0
m=audio 63442 RTP/AVP 0 3 8 101
a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000
a=rtpmap:3 GSM/8000
a=rtpmap:8 PCMA/8000
a=rtpmap:101 telephone-event/8000
a=fmtp:101 0-15
a=ptime:20
a=label:7eda834
m=video 33468 RTP/AVP 98
a=rtpmap:98 H263-1998/90000
a=fmtp:98 CIF=2
a=label:0132ca2
=_Part
Content-Type: application/mrb-consumer+xml
xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<mrbconsumer version="1.0"
xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-consumer" >
<mediaResourceResponse reason="Resource found" status="200"
id="ns56g1x0">
<response-session-info>
<session-id>z1skKYZQ3eFusession-id>
<seq>9seq>
<expires>3600expires>
<media-server-address
uri="sip:MediaServer@ms.example.com:5080">
<connection-id>32pbdxZ8:KQw677BFconnection-id>
<ivr-sessions>
<rtp-codec name="audio/basic">
<decoding>60decoding>
<encoding>60encoding>
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rtp-codec>
ivr-sessions>
media-server-address>
<media-server-address
uri="sip:OtherMediaServer@pool.example.net:5080">
<ivr-sessions>
<rtp-codec name="audio/basic">
<decoding>40decoding>
<encoding>40encoding>
rtp-codec>
ivr-sessions>
media-server-address>
response-session-info>
mediaResourceResponse>
mrbconsumer>
=_Part
11. UAC <- AS (200 OK sdp)
--------------------------
[..]
From: <sip:lminiero@users.example.com>;tag=1153573888
To: <sip:mediactrlDemo@as.example.com>;tag=bcd47c32
[..]
Content-Type: application/sdp
v=0
o=lminiero 123456 654322 IN IP4 203.0.113.1
s=MediaCtrl
c=IN IP4 203.0.113.1
t=0 0
m=audio 63442 RTP/AVP 0 3 8 101
a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000
a=rtpmap:3 GSM/8000
a=rtpmap:8 PCMA/8000
a=rtpmap:101 telephone-event/8000
a=fmtp:101 0-15
a=ptime:20
a=label:7eda834
m=video 33468 RTP/AVP 98
a=rtpmap:98 H263-1998/90000
a=fmtp:98 CIF=2
a=label:0132ca2
As the examples illustrate, as in the IAMM/Control Channel example,
the MRB provides the Application Server with a <media-server-address>
element in the Consumer response: the 'uri' attribute identifies the
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specific Media Server to which the MRB has sent the SDP media
negotiation, and the 'connection-id' enables the Application Server
to identify to the Media Server the dialog between the MRB and Media
Server. This attribute is needed, since according to the framework
specification [RFC 6230] the connection-id is built out of the From/To
tags of the dialog between the MRB and Media Server; since the MRB
acts as a B2BUA in this scenario, without that attribute the
Application Server does not know the relevant tags, thus preventing
the CFW protocol from working as expected.
The continuation of the scenario (the Application Server connecting
to the Media Server to start the Control Channel, the SYNC message,
etc.) is omitted for brevity.
10. Media Service Resource Publisher Interface XML Schema
This section gives the XML Schema Definition
[W3C.REC-xmlschema-1-20041028] [W3C.REC-xmlschema-2-20041028] of the
"application/mrb-publish+xml" format.
xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsd:schema targetNamespace="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-publish"
elementFormDefault="qualified" blockDefault="#all"
xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-publish"
xmlns:fw="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:control:framework-attributes"
xmlns:ca="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:geopriv10:civicAddr"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xsd:annotation>
<xsd:documentation>
IETF MediaCtrl MRB 1.0
This is the schema of the IETF MediaCtrl MRB package.
The schema namespace is urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-publish
xsd:documentation>
xsd:annotation>
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<xsd:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"
schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd">
<xsd:annotation>
<xsd:documentation>
This import brings in the XML attributes for
xml:base, xml:lang, etc.
xsd:documentation>
xsd:annotation>
xsd:import>
<xsd:import
namespace="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:control:framework-attributes"
schemaLocation="framework.xsd">
<xsd:annotation>
<xsd:documentation>
This import brings in the framework attributes for
conferenceid and connectionid.
xsd:documentation>
xsd:annotation>
xsd:import>
<xsd:import
namespace="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:geopriv10:civicAddr"
schemaLocation="civicAddress.xsd">
<xsd:annotation>
<xsd:documentation>
This import brings in the civicAddress specification
from RFC 5139.
xsd:documentation>
xsd:annotation>
xsd:import>
<xsd:complexType name="Tcore">
<xsd:annotation>
<xsd:documentation>
This type is extended by other (non-mixed) component types to
allow attributes from other namespaces.
xsd:documentation>
xsd:annotation>
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<xsd:sequence/>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:complexType name="mrbpublishType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:choice>
<xsd:element ref="mrbrequest" />
<xsd:element ref="mrbresponse" />
<xsd:element ref="mrbnotification" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:choice>
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="version" type="version.datatype"
use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="mrbpublish" type="mrbpublishType" />
<xsd:complexType name="mrbrequestType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
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<xsd:element ref="subscription" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="mrbrequest" type="mrbrequestType" />
<xsd:complexType name="subscriptionType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="expires" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:element name="minfrequency" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:element name="maxfrequency" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="id" type="id.datatype" use="required" />
<xsd:attribute name="seqnumber" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger"
use="required" />
<xsd:attribute name="action" type="action.datatype"
use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="subscription" type="subscriptionType" />
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<xsd:complexType name="mrbresponseType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="subscription" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="status" type="status.datatype"
use="required" />
<xsd:attribute name="reason" type="xsd:string" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="mrbresponse" type="mrbresponseType" />
<xsd:complexType name="mrbnotificationType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="media-server-id"
type="subscriptionid.datatype"/>
<xsd:element ref="supported-packages" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="active-rtp-sessions" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="active-mixer-sessions" minOccurs="0" />
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<xsd:element ref="non-active-rtp-sessions" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="non-active-mixer-sessions" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="media-server-status" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="supported-codecs" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="application-data" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:element ref="file-formats" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="max-prepared-duration" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="dtmf-support" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="mixing-modes" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="supported-tones" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="file-transfer-modes" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="asr-tts-support" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="vxml-support" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="media-server-location" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="label" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="media-server-address" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="encryption" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="id" type="subscriptionid.datatype"
use="required" />
<xsd:attribute name="seqnumber" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger"
use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="mrbnotification" type="mrbnotificationType" />
<xsd:complexType name="supported-packagesType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="package" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
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<xsd:element name="supported-packages" type="supported-packagesType"/>
<xsd:complexType name="packageType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="package" type="packageType" />
<xsd:complexType name="active-rtp-sessionsType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="rtp-codec" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="active-rtp-sessions" type="active-rtp-sessionsType"/>
<xsd:complexType name="rtp-codecType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="decoding" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger" />
<xsd:element name="encoding" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
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<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="rtp-codec" type="rtp-codecType" />
<xsd:complexType name="active-mixer-sessionsType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="active-mix" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="active-mixer-sessions"
type="active-mixer-sessionsType" />
<xsd:complexType name="active-mixType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="rtp-codec" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attributeGroup ref="fw:framework-attributes" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="active-mix" type="active-mixType" />
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<xsd:complexType name="non-active-rtp-sessionsType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="rtp-codec" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="non-active-rtp-sessions"
type="non-active-rtp-sessionsType" />
<xsd:complexType name="non-active-mixer-sessionsType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="non-active-mix" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="non-active-mixer-sessions"
type="non-active-mixer-sessionsType" />
<xsd:complexType name="non-active-mixType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="rtp-codec" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="available" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger"
use="required" />
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<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="non-active-mix" type="non-active-mixType" />
<xsd:element name="media-server-status" type="msstatus.datatype" />
<xsd:complexType name="supported-codecsType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="supported-codec"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="supported-codecs" type="supported-codecsType" />
<xsd:complexType name="supported-codecType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="supported-codec-package"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="supported-codec" type="supported-codecType" />
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<xsd:complexType name="supported-codec-packageType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="supported-action" type="actions.datatype"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="supported-codec-package"
type="supported-codec-packageType" />
<xsd:element name="application-data" type="appdata.datatype" />
<xsd:complexType name="file-formatsType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="supported-format"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="file-formats" type="file-formatsType" />
<xsd:complexType name="supported-formatType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="supported-file-package"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
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maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="supported-format" type="supported-formatType" />
<xsd:element name="supported-file-package"
type="xsd:string" />
<xsd:complexType name="max-prepared-durationType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="max-time" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="max-prepared-duration"
type="max-prepared-durationType" />
<xsd:complexType name="max-timeType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="max-time-package" type="xsd:string" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="max-time-seconds" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger"
use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="max-time" type="max-timeType" />
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<xsd:complexType name="dtmf-supportType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="detect" />
<xsd:element ref="generate" />
<xsd:element ref="passthrough" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="dtmf-support" type="dtmf-supportType" />
<xsd:complexType name="detectType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="dtmf-type"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="detect" type="detectType" />
<xsd:complexType name="generateType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="dtmf-type"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
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<xsd:element name="generate" type="generateType" />
<xsd:complexType name="passthroughType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="dtmf-type"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="passthrough" type="passthroughType" />
<xsd:complexType name="dtmf-typeType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="name" type="dtmf.datatype" use="required" />
<xsd:attribute name="package" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="dtmf-type" type="dtmf-typeType" />
<xsd:complexType name="mixing-modesType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="audio-mixing-modes"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:element ref="video-mixing-modes"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
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xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="mixing-modes" type="mixing-modesType" />
<xsd:complexType name="audio-mixing-modesType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="audio-mixing-mode"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="audio-mixing-modes" type="audio-mixing-modesType" />
<xsd:complexType name="audio-mixing-modeType" mixed="true">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="package" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="audio-mixing-mode" type="audio-mixing-modeType" />
<xsd:complexType name="video-mixing-modesType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="video-mixing-mode"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="vas" type="boolean.datatype"
default="false" />
<xsd:attribute name="activespeakermix" type="boolean.datatype"
default="false" />
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<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="video-mixing-modes" type="video-mixing-modesType" />
<xsd:complexType name="video-mixing-modeType" mixed="true">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="package" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="video-mixing-mode" type="video-mixing-modeType" />
<xsd:complexType name="supported-tonesType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="supported-country-codes"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:element ref="supported-h248-codes"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="supported-tones" type="supported-tonesType" />
<xsd:complexType name="supported-country-codesType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="country-code"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
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<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="supported-country-codes"
type="supported-country-codesType" />
<xsd:complexType name="country-codeType" mixed="true">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="package" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="country-code" type="country-codeType" />
<xsd:complexType name="supported-h248-codesType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="h248-code"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="supported-h248-codes"
type="supported-h248-codesType" />
<xsd:complexType name="h248-codeType" mixed="true">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="package" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="h248-code" type="h248-codeType" />
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<xsd:complexType name="file-transfer-modesType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="file-transfer-mode"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="file-transfer-modes"
type="file-transfer-modesType" />
<xsd:complexType name="file-transfer-modeType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="name" type="transfermode.datatype"
use="required" />
<xsd:attribute name="package" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="file-transfer-mode" type="file-transfer-modeType" />
<xsd:complexType name="asr-tts-supportType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="asr-support"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:element ref="tts-support"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
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xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="asr-tts-support" type="asr-tts-supportType" />
<xsd:complexType name="asr-supportType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="language"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="asr-support" type="asr-supportType" />
<xsd:complexType name="tts-supportType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="language"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="tts-support" type="tts-supportType" />
<xsd:complexType name="languageType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute ref="xml:lang" />
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<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="language" type="languageType" />
<xsd:complexType name="media-server-locationType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="civicAddress" type="ca:civicAddress"
minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="media-server-location"
type="media-server-locationType" />
<xsd:complexType name="vxml-supportType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="vxml-mode"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="vxml-support" type="vxml-supportType" />
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<xsd:complexType name="vxml-modeType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="package" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:attribute name="support" type="vxml.datatype" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="vxml-mode" type="vxml-modeType" />
<xsd:element name="label" type="label.datatype" />
<xsd:element name="media-server-address" type="xsd:anyURI" />
<xsd:complexType name="encryptionType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="encryption" type="encryptionType" />
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<xsd:simpleType name="version.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN">
<xsd:enumeration value="1.0" />
xsd:restriction>
xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:simpleType name="id.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN" />
xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:simpleType name="status.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:positiveInteger">
<xsd:pattern value="[0-9][0-9][0-9]" />
xsd:restriction>
xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:simpleType name="msstatus.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN">
<xsd:enumeration value="active" />
<xsd:enumeration value="deactivated" />
<xsd:enumeration value="unavailable" />
xsd:restriction>
xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:simpleType name="action.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN">
<xsd:enumeration value="create" />
<xsd:enumeration value="update" />
<xsd:enumeration value="remove" />
xsd:restriction>
xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:simpleType name="actions.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN">
<xsd:enumeration value="encoding" />
<xsd:enumeration value="decoding" />
<xsd:enumeration value="passthrough" />
xsd:restriction>
xsd:simpleType>
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<xsd:simpleType name="appdata.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:string" />
xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:simpleType name="dtmf.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN"/>
xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:simpleType name="transfermode.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN" />
xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:simpleType name="boolean.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN">
<xsd:enumeration value="true" />
<xsd:enumeration value="false" />
xsd:restriction>
xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:simpleType name="vxml.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN"/>
xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:simpleType name="label.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN" />
xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:simpleType name="subscriptionid.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN" />
xsd:simpleType>
xsd:schema>
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11. Media Service Resource Consumer Interface XML Schema
This section gives the XML Schema Definition
[W3C.REC-xmlschema-1-20041028] [W3C.REC-xmlschema-2-20041028] of the
"application/mrb-consumer+xml" format.
xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsd:schema targetNamespace="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-consumer"
elementFormDefault="qualified" blockDefault="#all"
xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-consumer"
xmlns:ca="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:geopriv10:civicAddr"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xsd:annotation>
<xsd:documentation>
IETF MediaCtrl MRB 1.0
This is the schema of the IETF MediaCtrl MRB Consumer interface.
The schema namespace is urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-consumer
xsd:documentation>
xsd:annotation>
<xsd:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"
schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd">
<xsd:annotation>
<xsd:documentation>
This import brings in the XML attributes for
xml:base, xml:lang, etc.
xsd:documentation>
xsd:annotation>
xsd:import>
<xsd:import
namespace="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:geopriv10:civicAddr"
schemaLocation="civicAddress.xsd">
<xsd:annotation>
<xsd:documentation>
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This import brings in the civicAddress specification
from RFC 5139.
xsd:documentation>
xsd:annotation>
xsd:import>
<xsd:complexType name="Tcore">
<xsd:annotation>
<xsd:documentation>
This type is extended by other (non-mixed) component types to
allow attributes from other namespaces.
xsd:documentation>
xsd:annotation>
<xsd:sequence/>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:complexType name="mrbconsumerType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:choice>
<xsd:element ref="mediaResourceRequest" />
<xsd:element ref="mediaResourceResponse" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:choice>
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="version" type="version.datatype"
use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
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xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="mrbconsumer" type="mrbconsumerType" />
<xsd:complexType name="mediaResourceRequestType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="generalInfo" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="ivrInfo" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="mixerInfo" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="id" type="xsd:string"
use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="mediaResourceRequest"
type="mediaResourceRequestType" />
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<xsd:complexType name="generalInfoType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="session-info" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="packages" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="generalInfo" type="generalInfoType" />
<xsd:complexType name="session-infoType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="session-id" type="id.datatype"/>
<xsd:element name="seq" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger"/>
<xsd:element name="action" type="action.datatype"/>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="session-info" type="session-infoType" />
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<xsd:complexType name="packagesType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="package" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="packages" type="packagesType"/>
<xsd:complexType name="ivrInfoType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="ivr-sessions" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="file-formats" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="dtmf-type" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="tones" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="asr-tts" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="vxml" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="location" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="encryption" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="application-data" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="max-prepared-duration" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:element ref="file-transfer-modes" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
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xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="ivrInfo" type="ivrInfoType" />
<xsd:complexType name="mixerInfoType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="mixers" minOccurs="0"/>
<xsd:element ref="file-formats" minOccurs="0"/>
<xsd:element ref="dtmf-type" minOccurs="0"/>
<xsd:element ref="tones" minOccurs="0"/>
<xsd:element ref="mixing-modes" minOccurs="0"/>
<xsd:element ref="application-data" minOccurs="0"/>
<xsd:element ref="location" minOccurs="0"/>
<xsd:element ref="encryption" minOccurs="0"/>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="mixerInfo" type="mixerInfoType" />
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<xsd:complexType name="mediaResourceResponseType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="response-session-info" minOccurs="0" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="id" type="xsd:string"
use="required" />
<xsd:attribute name="status" type="status.datatype"
use="required" />
<xsd:attribute name="reason" type="xsd:string" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="mediaResourceResponse"
type="mediaResourceResponseType" />
<xsd:complexType name="response-session-infoType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="session-id" type="id.datatype"/>
<xsd:element name="seq" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger"/>
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<xsd:element name="expires" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger"/>
<xsd:element ref="media-server-address"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="response-session-info"
type="response-session-infoType" />
<xsd:complexType name="media-server-addressTYPE">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="connection-id" type="xsd:string"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:element ref="ivr-sessions" minOccurs="0"/>
<xsd:element ref="mixers" minOccurs="0"/>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="uri" type="xsd:anyURI" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="media-server-address"
type="media-server-addressTYPE" />
<xsd:complexType name="ivr-sessionsType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="rtp-codec" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
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xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="ivr-sessions" type="ivr-sessionsType" />
<xsd:complexType name="rtp-codecType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="decoding" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger" />
<xsd:element name="encoding" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="rtp-codec" type="rtp-codecType" />
<xsd:complexType name="file-formatsType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="required-format"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="file-formats" type="file-formatsType" />
<xsd:complexType name="required-formatType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="required-file-package"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
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<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="required-format" type="required-formatType" />
<xsd:complexType name="required-file-packageType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="required-file-package-name" type="xsd:string"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="required-file-package"
type="required-file-packageType" />
<xsd:complexType name="dtmfType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="detect" />
<xsd:element ref="generate" />
<xsd:element ref="passthrough" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="dtmf" type="dtmfType" />
<xsd:complexType name="detectType">
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<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="dtmf-type"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="detect" type="detectType" />
<xsd:complexType name="generateType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="dtmf-type"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="generate" type="generateType" />
<xsd:complexType name="passthroughType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="dtmf-type"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="passthrough" type="passthroughType" />
<xsd:complexType name="dtmf-typeType">
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<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="name" type="dtmf.datatype" use="required" />
<xsd:attribute name="package" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="dtmf-type" type="dtmf-typeType" />
<xsd:complexType name="required-tonesType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="country-codes"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:element ref="h248-codes"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="tones" type="required-tonesType" />
<xsd:complexType name="required-country-codesType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="country-code"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
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<xsd:element name="country-codes"
type="required-country-codesType" />
<xsd:complexType name="country-codeType" mixed="true">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="package" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="country-code" type="country-codeType" />
<xsd:complexType name="required-h248-codesType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="h248-code"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="h248-codes"
type="required-h248-codesType" />
<xsd:complexType name="h248-codeType" mixed="true">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="package" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="h248-code" type="h248-codeType" />
<xsd:complexType name="asr-ttsType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
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<xsd:element ref="asr-support"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:element ref="tts-support"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="asr-tts" type="asr-ttsType" />
<xsd:complexType name="asr-supportType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="language"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="asr-support" type="asr-supportType" />
<xsd:complexType name="tts-supportType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="language"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="tts-support" type="tts-supportType" />
<xsd:complexType name="languageType">
<xsd:complexContent>
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<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute ref="xml:lang" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="language" type="languageType" />
<xsd:complexType name="vxmlType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="vxml-mode"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="vxml" type="vxmlType" />
<xsd:complexType name="vxml-modeType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="package" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:attribute name="require" type="vxml.datatype" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="vxml-mode" type="vxml-modeType" />
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<xsd:complexType name="locationType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="ca:civicAddress"
minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="location" type="locationType" />
<xsd:complexType name="encryptionType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="encryption" type="encryptionType" />
<xsd:element name="application-data" type="appdata.datatype" />
<xsd:complexType name="max-prepared-durationType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="max-time" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
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xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="max-prepared-duration"
type="max-prepared-durationType" />
<xsd:complexType name="max-timeType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="max-time-package" type="xsd:string" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="max-time-seconds" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger"
use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="max-time" type="max-timeType" />
<xsd:complexType name="file-transfer-modesType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="file-transfer-mode"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="file-transfer-modes"
type="file-transfer-modesType" />
<xsd:complexType name="file-transfer-modeType">
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<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="name" type="transfermode.datatype"
use="required" />
<xsd:attribute name="package" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="file-transfer-mode" type="file-transfer-modeType" />
<xsd:complexType name="mixerssessionsType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="mix" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="mixers" type="mixerssessionsType" />
<xsd:complexType name="mixType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="rtp-codec" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="users" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger"
use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
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xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="mix" type="mixType" />
<xsd:complexType name="mixing-modesType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="audio-mixing-modes"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:element ref="video-mixing-modes"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="mixing-modes" type="mixing-modesType" />
<xsd:complexType name="audio-mixing-modesType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="audio-mixing-mode"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="audio-mixing-modes" type="audio-mixing-modesType" />
<xsd:complexType name="audio-mixing-modeType" mixed="true">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="package" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:complexType>
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<xsd:element name="audio-mixing-mode" type="audio-mixing-modeType" />
<xsd:complexType name="video-mixing-modesType">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="Tcore">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="video-mixing-mode"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="vas" type="boolean.datatype"
default="false" />
<xsd:attribute name="activespeakermix" type="boolean.datatype"
default="false" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:extension>
xsd:complexContent>
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="video-mixing-modes" type="video-mixing-modesType" />
<xsd:complexType name="video-mixing-modeType" mixed="true">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:any namespace="##other" minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded" processContents="lax" />
xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="package" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
<xsd:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name="video-mixing-mode" type="video-mixing-modeType" />
<xsd:simpleType name="version.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN">
<xsd:enumeration value="1.0" />
xsd:restriction>
xsd:simpleType>
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<xsd:simpleType name="id.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN" />
xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:simpleType name="status.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:positiveInteger">
<xsd:pattern value="[0-9][0-9][0-9]" />
xsd:restriction>
xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:simpleType name="transfermode.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN"/>
xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:simpleType name="action.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN">
<xsd:enumeration value="remove" />
<xsd:enumeration value="update" />
xsd:restriction>
xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:simpleType name="dtmf.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN"/>
xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:simpleType name="boolean.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN">
<xsd:enumeration value="true" />
<xsd:enumeration value="false" />
xsd:restriction>
xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:simpleType name="vxml.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:NMTOKEN"/>
xsd:simpleType>
<xsd:simpleType name="appdata.datatype">
<xsd:restriction base="xsd:string" />
xsd:simpleType>
xsd:schema>
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12. Security Considerations
The MRB network entity has two primary interfaces -- Publish and
Consumer -- that carry sensitive information and must therefore be
appropriately protected and secured.
The Publish interface, as defined in and described in Section 5.1,
uses the Media Control Channel Framework [RFC 6230] as a mechanism to
connect an MRB to a Media Server. It is very important that the
communication between the MRB and the Media Server is secured: a
malicious entity may change or even delete subscriptions to a Media
Server, thus affecting the view the MRB has of the resources actually
available on a Media Server, leading it to incorrect selection when
media resources are being requested by an Application Server. A
malicious entity may even manipulate available resources on a Media
Server, for example, to make the MRB think no resources are available
at all. Considering that the Publish interface is a CFW Control
Package, the same security considerations included in the Media
Control Channel Framework specification apply here to protect
interactions between an MRB and a Media Server.
The Publish interface also allows a Media Server, as explained in
Section 5.1.5.18, to provide more or less accurate information about
its geographic location, should Application Servers be interested in
such details when looking for services at an MRB. While the usage of
this information is entirely optional and the level of detail to be
provided is implementation specific, it is important to draw
attention to the potential security issues that the disclosure of
such addresses may introduce. As such, it is important to make sure
MRB implementations don't disclose this information as is to
interested Application Servers but only exploit those addresses as
part of computation algorithms to pick the most adequate resources
Application Servers may be looking for.
The Consumer interface, as defined in and described in Section 5.2,
conceives transactions based on a session ID. These transactions may
be transported either by means of HTTP messages or SIP dialogs. This
means that malicious users could be able to disrupt or manipulate an
MRB session should they have access to the above-mentioned session ID
or replicate it somehow: for instance, a malicious entity could
modify an existing session between an Application Server and the MRB,
e.g., requesting less resources than originally requested to cause
media dialogs to be rejected by the Application Server, or requesting
many more resources instead to try and lock as many of (if not all)
the resources an MRB can provide, thus making them unavailable to
other legitimate Application Servers in subsequent requests. In
order to prevent this, it is strongly advised that MRB
implementations generate session identifiers that are very hard to
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replicate, in order to minimize the chances that malicious users
could gain access to valid identifiers by just guessing or by means
of brute-force attacks. It is very important, of course, to also
secure the way that these identifiers are transported by the involved
parties, in both requests and responses, in order to prevent network
attackers from intercepting Consumer messages and having access to
session IDs. The Consumer interface uses either the Hypertext
Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) as
the mechanism for clients to connect to an MRB to request media
resources. In the case where HTTP is used, any binding using the
Consumer interface MUST be capable of being transacted over Transport
Layer Security (TLS), as described in RFC 2818 [RFC 2818]. In the
case where SIP is used, the same security considerations included in
the Media Control Channel Framework specification apply here to
protect interactions between a client requesting media resources and
an MRB.
Should a valid session ID be compromised somehow (that is,
intercepted or just guessed by a malicious user), as a further means
to prevent disruption the Consumer interface also prescribes the use
of a sequence number in its transactions. This sequence number is to
be increased after each successful transaction, starting from a first
value randomly generated by the MRB when the session is first
created, and it must match in every request/response. While this
adds complexity to the protocol (implementations must pay attention
to those sequence numbers, since wrong values will cause "Wrong
sequence number" errors and the failure of the related requests), it
is an important added value for security. In fact, considering that
different transactions related to the same session could be
transported in different, unrelated HTTP messages (or SIP INVITEs in
cases where the In-line mode is being used), this sequence number
protection prevents the chances of session replication or disruption,
especially in cases where the session ID has been compromised: that
is, it should make it harder for malicious users to manipulate or
remove a session for which they have obtained the session ID. It is
strongly advised that the MRB doesn't choose 1 as the first sequence
number for a new session but rather picks a random value to start
from. The reaction to transactions that are out of sequence is left
to MRB implementations: a related error code is available, but
implementations may decide to enforce further limitations or actions
upon the receipt of too many failed attempts in a row or of what
looks like blatant attempts to guess what the current, valid sequence
number is.
It is also worth noting that in In-line mode (both IAMM and IUMM) the
MRB may act as a Back-to-Back User Agent (B2BUA). This means that
when acting as a B2BUA the MRB may modify SIP bodies: it is the case,
for instance, for the IAMM handling multipart/mixed payloads. This
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impacts the ability to use any SIP security feature that protects the
body (e.g., RFC 4474 [RFC 4474], S/MIME, etc.), unless the MRB acts as
a mediator for the security association. This should be taken into
account when implementing an MRB compliant with this specification.
Both the Publishing interface and Consumer interface may address the
location of a Media Server: the Publishing interface may be used to
inform the MRB where a Media Server is located (approximately or
precisely), and the Consumer interface may be used to ask for a Media
Server located somewhere in a particular region (e.g., a conference
bridge close to San Francisco). Both Media Server and MRB
implementers need to take this into account when deciding whether or
not to make this location information available, and if so how many
bits of information really need to be made available for brokering
purposes.
It is worthwhile to cover authorization issues related to this
specification. Neither the Publishing interface nor the Consumer
interface provides an explicit means for implementing authentication,
i.e., they do not contain specific protocol interactions to ensure
that authorized Application Servers can make use of the services
provided by an MRB instance. Considering that both interfaces are
transported using well-established protocols (HTTP, SIP, CFW),
support for such functionality can be expressed by means of the
authentication mechanisms provided by the protocols themselves.
Therefore, any MRB-aware entity (Application Servers, Media Servers,
MRBs themselves) MUST support HTTP and SIP Digest access
authentication. The usage of such Digest access authentications is
recommended and not mandatory, which means MRB-aware entities MAY
exploit it in deployment.
An MRB may want to enforce further constraints on the interactions
between an Application Server/Media Server and an MRB. For example,
it may choose to only accept requests associated with a specific
session ID from the IP address that originated the first request or
may just make use of pre-shared certificates to assess the identity
of legitimate Application Servers and/or Media Servers.
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13. IANA Considerations
There are several IANA considerations associated with this
specification.
13.1. Media Control Channel Framework Package Registration
This section registers a new Media Control Channel Framework package,
per the instructions in Section 13.1 of [RFC 6230].
Package Name: mrb-publish/1.0
Published Specification(s): RFC 6917
Person and email address to contact for further information: IETF
MediaCtrl working group (mediactrl@ietf.org), Chris Boulton
(chris@ns-technologies.com).
13.2. application/mrb-publish+xml Media Type
To: application
Subject: Registration of media type application/mrb-publish+xml
Type name: application
Subtype name: mrb-publish+xml
Required parameters: none
Optional parameters: Same as charset parameter of application/xml as
specified in RFC 3023 [RFC 3023].
Encoding considerations: Same as encoding considerations of
application/xml as specified in RFC 3023 [RFC 3023].
Security considerations: See Section 10 of RFC 3023 [RFC 3023] and
Section 12 of RFC 6917.
Interoperability considerations: none.
Published specification: Section 10 of RFC 6917.
Applications that use this media type: This media type is used to
support a Media Resource Broker (MRB) entity.
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Additional Information:
Magic Number: None
File Extension: .xdf
Macintosh file type code: "TEXT"
Person and email address to contact for further information: Chris
Boulton (chris@ns-technologies.com).
Intended usage: COMMON
Author/Change controller: The IETF.
13.3. application/mrb-consumer+xml Media Type
To: application
Subject: Registration of media type application/mrb-consumer+xml
Type name: application
Subtype name: mrb-consumer+xml
Mandatory parameters: none
Optional parameters: Same as charset parameter of application/xml as
specified in RFC 3023 [RFC 3023].
Encoding considerations: Same as encoding considerations of
application/xml as specified in RFC 3023 [RFC 3023].
Security considerations: See Section 10 of RFC 3023 [RFC 3023] and
Section 12 of RFC 6917.
Interoperability considerations: none.
Published specification: Section 11 of RFC 6917.
Applications that use this media type: This media type is used to
support a Media Resource Broker (MRB) entity.
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Additional Information:
Magic Number: None
File Extension: .xdf
Macintosh file type code: "TEXT"
Person and email address to contact for further information: Chris
Boulton (chris@ns-technologies.com).
Intended usage: COMMON
Author/Change controller: The IETF.
13.4. URN Sub-Namespace Registration for mrb-publish
IANA has registered the URN "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-publish",
with the ID of "mrb-publish". The schema of the XML namespace named
urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-publish is in Section 10.
13.5. URN Sub-Namespace Registration for mrb-consumer
IANA has registered the URN "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-consumer",
with the ID of "mrb-consumer". The schema of the XML namespace named
urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:mrb-consumer is in Section 11.
13.6. XML Schema Registration for mrb-publish
IANA has registered the schema for mrb-publish:
URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:schema:mrb-publish
ID: mrb-publish
Filename: mrb-publish
Registrant Contact: IETF MediaCtrl working group
(mediactrl@ietf.org)
Schema: The XML for the schema is in Section 10 of this document.
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13.7. XML Schema Registration for mrb-consumer
Please register the schema for mrb-consumer:
URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:schema:mrb-consumer
ID: mrb-consumer
Filename: mrb-consumer
Registrant Contact: IETF MediaCtrl working group
(mediactrl@ietf.org)
Schema: The XML for the schema is in Section 11 of this document.
14. Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the members of the Publish Interface
design team, who provided valuable input into this document. The
design team consisted of Adnan Saleem, Michael Trank, Victor
Paulsamy, Martin Dolly, and Scott McGlashan. The authors would also
like to thank John Dally, Bob Epley, Simon Romano, Henry Lum,
Christian Groves, and Jonathan Lennox for input into this
specification.
Ben Campbell carried out the RAI expert review on an early version of
this specification and provided a great deal of invaluable input.
15. References
15.1. Normative References
[ISO.10646.2012]
International Organization for Standardization,
"Information technology -- Universal Coded Character Set
(UCS)", ISO Standard 10646, 2012.
[ISO.3166-1]
International Organization for Standardization, "Codes for
the representation of names of countries and their
subdivisions - Part 1: Country codes", ISO Standard
3166-1:2006, 2006.
[ISO.639.2002]
International Organization for Standardization, "Codes for
the representation of names of languages -- Part 1:
Alpha-2 code", ISO Standard 639, 2002.
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[ITU-T.Q.1950]
International Telecommunication Union, "Bearer independent
call bearer control protocol", ITU-T Recommendation
Q.1950, December 2002.
[RFC 2046] Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types", RFC 2046,
November 1996.
[RFC 2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC 2616] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H.,
Masinter, L., Leach, P., and T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext
Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2616, June 1999.
[RFC 3023] Murata, M., St. Laurent, S., and D. Kohn, "XML Media
Types", RFC 3023, January 2001.
[RFC 3261] 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.
[RFC 3311] Rosenberg, J., "The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
UPDATE Method", RFC 3311, October 2002.
[RFC 3711] Baugher, M., McGrew, D., Naslund, M., Carrara, E., and K.
Norrman, "The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)",
RFC 3711, March 2004.
[RFC 5139] Thomson, M. and J. Winterbottom, "Revised Civic Location
Format for Presence Information Data Format Location
Object (PIDF-LO)", RFC 5139, February 2008.
[RFC 5763] Fischl, J., Tschofenig, H., and E. Rescorla, "Framework
for Establishing a Secure Real-time Transport Protocol
(SRTP) Security Context Using Datagram Transport Layer
Security (DTLS)", RFC 5763, May 2010.
[W3C.REC-xmlschema-1-20041028]
Thompson, H., Beech, D., Maloney, M., and N. Mendelsohn,
"XML Schema Part 1: Structures Second Edition", World Wide
Web Consortium Recommendation REC-xmlschema-1-20041028,
October 2004,
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-1-20041028>.
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[W3C.REC-xmlschema-2-20041028]
Biron, P. and A. Malhotra, "XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes
Second Edition", World Wide Web Consortium
Recommendation REC-xmlschema-2-20041028, October 2004,
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-2-20041028>.
15.2. Informative References
[RFC 2818] Rescorla, E., "HTTP Over TLS", RFC 2818, May 2000.
[RFC 4240] Burger, E., Van Dyke, J., and A. Spitzer, "Basic Network
Media Services with SIP", RFC 4240, December 2005.
[RFC 4474] Peterson, J. and C. Jennings, "Enhancements for
Authenticated Identity Management in the Session
Initiation Protocol (SIP)", RFC 4474, August 2006.
[RFC 4733] Schulzrinne, H. and T. Taylor, "RTP Payload for DTMF
Digits, Telephony Tones, and Telephony Signals", RFC 4733,
December 2006.
[RFC 5022] Van Dyke, J., Burger, E., and A. Spitzer, "Media Server
Control Markup Language (MSCML) and Protocol", RFC 5022,
September 2007.
[RFC 5167] Dolly, M. and R. Even, "Media Server Control Protocol
Requirements", RFC 5167, March 2008.
[RFC 5552] Burke, D. and M. Scott, "SIP Interface to VoiceXML Media
Services", RFC 5552, May 2009.
[RFC 5567] Melanchuk, T., "An Architectural Framework for Media
Server Control", RFC 5567, June 2009.
[RFC 5707] Saleem, A., Xin, Y., and G. Sharratt, "Media Server Markup
Language (MSML)", RFC 5707, February 2010.
[RFC 6230] Boulton, C., Melanchuk, T., and S. McGlashan, "Media
Control Channel Framework", RFC 6230, May 2011.
[RFC 6231] McGlashan, S., Melanchuk, T., and C. Boulton, "An
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Control Package for the
Media Control Channel Framework", RFC 6231, May 2011.
[RFC 6381] Gellens, R., Singer, D., and P. Frojdh, "The 'Codecs' and
'Profiles' Parameters for "Bucket" Media Types", RFC 6381,
August 2011.
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[RFC 6501] Novo, O., Camarillo, G., Morgan, D., and J. Urpalainen,
"Conference Information Data Model for Centralized
Conferencing (XCON)", RFC 6501, March 2012.
[RFC 6505] McGlashan, S., Melanchuk, T., and C. Boulton, "A Mixer
Control Package for the Media Control Channel Framework",
RFC 6505, March 2012.
Authors' Addresses
Chris Boulton
NS-Technologies
EMail: chris@ns-technologies.com
Lorenzo Miniero
Meetecho
Via Carlo Poerio 89
Napoli 80100
Italy
EMail: lorenzo@meetecho.com
Gary Munson
AT&T
200 Laurel Avenue South
Middletown, New Jersey 07748
USA
EMail: gamunson@gmail.com
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