I think the DCS architecture defines a billing ID, other than the sip Call ID
for correlating billing records.
-- Krishna Sai
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Takumi Ohba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 6:44 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [Sip-implementors] billing information
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > How can SIP carry billing information, such as
> > origination/destination area
> > information, origination/transit/destination network provider
> > identification, or charging rate?
>
> In networks, you bill for services. Thus, you need to be able to obtain
> information from your systems (gateways and proxies) on the services
> provided. For VoIP gateway services, the aspects of the service provided
> include dialed number, calling party number, minutes for the call, packets
> sent, etc. All of this information is known to the gateways. Some of it,
> such as the caller and callee identity, are carried in the SIP messages.
> Call duration is determined by the gateway. Information such as "charging
> rate" is not part of the service provided. This information is known to the
> provider, and would be used to generate the final bill, based on the call
> detail information.
>
> As a result, there are no extra headers or fields defined to carry billing
> information for SIP. Headers have been defined to carry authorization
tokens
> for calls. See:
>
> http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-johnston-sip-osp-token-01.txt
>
> but that is not billing information.
>
> -Jonathan R.
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