Correct. They couple this with a media authentication token (which provides
"gateway authentication" effectively, or "QoS" auth if you want to look at
it that way).
--
Dean
----- Original Message -----
From: "Krishna Sai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jonathan Rosenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Takumi Ohba"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: [RE: [Sip-implementors] billing information]
> 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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