Network Working Group F. Baker
Request for Comments: 3924 B. Foster
Category: Informational C. Sharp
Cisco Systems
October 2004
Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks
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Abstract
For the purposes of this document, lawful intercept is the lawfully
authorized interception and monitoring of communications. Service
providers are being asked to meet legal and regulatory requirements
for the interception of voice as well as data communications in IP
networks in a variety of countries worldwide. Although requirements
vary from country to country, some requirements remain common even
though details such as delivery formats may differ. This document
describes Cisco's Architecture for supporting lawful intercept in IP
networks. It provides a general solution that has a minimum set of
common interfaces. This document does not attempt to address any of
the specific legal requirements or obligations that may exist in a
particular country.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Requirements Motivating the Architecture . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. Document Organization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Reference Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1. Reference Model Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2. Operational Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3. Interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1. Content Intercept Request Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2. Intercept Content Interface (f). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4. Applying the Reference Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.1. Voice over IP networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.1.1. Interception of Voice over IP Services. . . . . . . 11
4.1.2. Local Voice Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.2. Data Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.1. Content Request Interface (d) - SNMPv3 Control . . . . . . 14
6. Informative References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7. Acronyms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
8. Authors' Addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
9. Full Copyright Statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
1. Introduction
For the purposes of this document, lawful intercept is the lawfully
authorized interception and monitoring of communications of an
intercept subject. The term "intercept subject", "subject", "target
subscriber" or "target" in this document refers to the subscriber of
a telecommunications service whose communications and/or intercept
related information (IRI) has been lawfully authorized to be
intercepted and delivered to some agency. Note that although the
term "Law Enforcement Agency" (LEA) is used throughout this document,
this may refer to any agency that is able to request lawfully
authorized interception.
By intercept related information (IRI) we mean information related to
the IP traffic of interest. There is currently no standardized
definition for IRI for IP traffic. IRI has been defined for a few
services that might run over IP (e.g., Voice over IP) or that IP runs
on top of (e.g., GPRS). For example, IRI for voice over IP could be
the called and calling phone numbers. The definition of IRI from
[14] is shown below:
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Intercept Related Information: collection of
information or data associated with
telecommunication services involving the target
identity, specifically communication associated
information or data (e.g., unsuccessful
communication attempts), service associated
information or data and location
information.
Service providers are being asked to meet legal and regulatory
requirements for the interception of voice as well as data
communications in IP networks in a variety of countries worldwide.
Although requirements vary from country to country, some requirements
remain common even though details such as delivery formats may
differ. This document describes Cisco's Architecture for supporting
lawful intercept in IP networks. It provides a general solution that
has a minimum set of common interfaces. This document does not deal
with legal requirements or obligations.
This document describes one method for supporting lawful intercept.
Other methods may be available.
The IESG wishes to draw the reader's attention to RFC 2804 [15] for a
description of why architectures such as these are vendor-specific,
rather than a topic of standardization for the IETF.
1.1. Requirements Motivating the Architecture
The purpose of the following list of requirements is to provide an
understanding of the motivation behind the architecture and some of
the requirements imposed on components and interfaces that are
described in the later sections of the document. This does not imply
any legal requirements on service providers or equipment vendors
although such requirements may coincide.
Note that there are a variety of requirements that have been defined
for lawfully authorized intercept throughout the world. Some of
these have been defined by standards bodies (e.g., [13]), while
others are country specific. The following itemized list is a
distillation of some of these, although a given item may or may not
apply to a specific country:
* Lawful Intercept (LI) should be undetectable by the intercept
subject.
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* Mechanisms should be in place to limit unauthorized personnel from
performing or knowing about lawfully authorized intercepts.
* There is often a requirement (especially for telecommunications
services) to provide intercept related information (IRI)
separately from the actual Internet Protocol (IP) traffic (or
content) of interest (Note: some authorizations may be restricted
to IRI).
* If IRI is delivered separately from content, there should be some
means to correlate the IRI and the content with each other.
* If the information being intercepted is encrypted by the service
provider and the service provider has access to the keys, then the
information should be decrypted before delivery to the Law
Enforcement Agency (LEA) or the encryption keys should be passed
to the Law Enforcement Agency to allow them to decrypt the
information.
* If the information being intercepted is encrypted by the intercept
subject and its associate and the service provider has access to
the keys, then the service provider may deliver the keys to the
LEA.
* There is often a requirement for a service provider to be able to
do multiple simultaneous intercepts on a single subject. The fact
that there are multiple intercepts should be transparent to the
LEAs.
* There is often a requirement that the service provider should not
deliver any unauthorized information to the LEA.
The architecture and interfaces described in this document attempts
to address these requirements.
1.2. Document Organization
Section 1 of this document lists requirements motivating the
architecture. Section 2 of this document describes a reference model
along with some operation considerations. Section 3 provides more
detailed requirements on the interfaces related to content
interception. Section 4 applies the reference model to voice over IP
and data intercepts and Section 5 examines security considerations.
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2. Reference Model
This section describes a generic reference model (Figure 1) for
lawful intercept.
+--------------------+ +-----+
| LI Administration | HI1(a) | |
| Function |<--------------| |
+--------------------+ | |
| | |
| MD Provisioning | |
| Interface(b) | LEA |
v | |
+-----------+ +--------------------+ | |
| |<---(c)----| | | |
| IRI IAP |--IRI(e)-->| Mediation |----HI2(g)--->| |
| | | Device (MD) | | |
+-----------+ | |----HI3(h)--->| |
+--------------------+ +-----+
| ^
Intercept | | Intercepted
Request(d) | | Content(f)
| |
v |
+--------------------+
User | Content | User
------->| IAP |-------->
Content +--------------------+ Content
Figure 1: Intercept Architecture
A brief description of the interfaces is included in table 1 below.
For a more detailed description of the interfaces refer to section 3.
For a description of the components refer to section 2.1.
Table 1 LI Interfaces
Interface Description
--------------------- -------------------------------------------
(a) HI1 Handover Interface 1 - Administration
Interface: The LEA provides intercept
information to the service provider
administration function.
(b) MD Provisioning Mediation Device provisioning interface.
Parameters include: target identifier,
duration of intercept, type of intercept,
etc.
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(c) IRI IAP Provisioning Specifies Target identifier, duration,
etc. for provisioning of delivery of
Intercept Related Information (IRI).
(d) Content Intercept Provisioning of the Content IAP.
Provisioning
(e) IRI to MD Internal interface between IRI Intercept
Access Point (IAP) and Mediation device
(MD) for delivery of IRI.
(f) Content to MD Internal interface between content
IAP and MD for delivery of Content.
(g) HI2 Handover Interface 2: Interface between
the MD and LEA for delivering IRI. This
interface may vary from country to
country.
(h) HI3 Handover Interface 3: Interface between
the MD and LEA for delivering Content.
This interface may vary from country to
country.
2.1. Reference Model Components
A brief description of the key components in the reference model is
as follows:
Lawful Intercept (LI) Administration Function:
This function provides the (typically manual) provisioning
interface for the intercept as a result of a court order or
warrant delivered by the Law Enforcement Agency (LEA). It could
involve separate provisioning interfaces for several components,
but more typically is a single interface to the Mediation Device
(MD), which then takes care of provisioning of other components in
the network. Because of the requirement in some laws to limit
accessibility to authorized personnel, the provisioning interface
has to be strictly controlled. In many cases, the identity of the
subject received from the LEA has to be translated into an
identity that can be used by the network to enable the intercept.
Intercept Access Point (IAP):
An IAP is a device within the network that is used for
intercepting lawfully authorized intercept information. It may be
an existing device that has intercept capability or it could be a
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special device that is provided for that purpose. Two types of
IAP's are discussed here: IAP's that provide content; and IAP's
that provide intercept related information (IRI).
Content IAP:
A content IAP is an IAP that is used to intercept the IP traffic
of interest.
IRI IAP: This is an IAP that is used to provide intercept related
information (IRI).
Law Enforcement Agency (LEA):
This is the agency that has requested the intercept and to which
the service provider delivers the information.
Mediation Device (MD):
The MD requests intercepts from IAPs through interfaces (c) and
(d) in Figure 1. The Mediation Device receives the data from the
IAP, packages it in the correct format (which may vary from
country to country) and delivers it to the LEA. In the case where
multiple law enforcement agencies are intercepting the same
subject, the mediation device may replicate the information
multiple times. The assumption is that the service provider
operates the MD (via specially authorized personnel) and that the
LEA only has access to interfaces (a), (g) and (h) in Figure 1.
2.2. Operational Considerations
In a typical operation, a lawfully authorized surveillance request
arrives for a specified intercept subject. Authorized personnel
provision the intercept using interface (b) in Figure 1, which may be
for content only, IRI only or both. Once the intercept is
provisioned, the IAP's send the IRI and/or content to the MD, which
formats the information into the appropriate format for delivery to
the LEA. Some operational issues that need to be considered:
* Location and Address Information for Content Intercepts: In some
cases where the location and/or addressing information for the
intercept is not known until the subject registers (or makes a
call in the case of voice), the IRI may provide needed information
in order to do the content tap (e.g., the IP address and port for
the content streams).
* Content Encryption: If the intercept content is encrypted and the
service provider has access to the encryption keys (e.g., receives
keys in Session Description Protocol for Voice over IP), then the
keys can be sent via IRI. It is, however, possible for end-users
to exchange keys by some other means without any knowledge of the
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service provider in which case the service provider will not be
able to provide the keys. Content transformations could make
decryption at the LEA impossible. This is why the original
packets are provided on interface (f) rather than attempting to
convert them to some other format.
* Detection by the Intercept Subject: One requirement is to ensure
that the intercept subject is unable to detect that they are being
intercepted. This document assumes a sophisticated subject:
- Able to check IP addresses, use traceroute, etc.
- Able to check if any unusual signaling is occurring on their
customer premises equipment (CPE).
- Able to detect degradation or interruptions in service.
This is why the intercept mechanism described here does not
involve special requests to the CPE, re-routing of packets or
end-to-end changes in IP addresses. Instead, content intercept is
done on a device along the normal content path (i.e., no re-
routing has occurred) that is within the service provider's
network. A convenient content IAP is a router or switch at the
edge of the service provider's network to which the intercept
subject connects. This is illustrated in Figure 2.
|
Customer Premises | Service Provider's Network
|
+-------+
+-----+ | |
| CPE |-------------| Router|----------
+-----+ | (IAP) |
| |
+-------+
Figure 2 Content IAP - Router
Another possibility of course is to provide a special device along
the path to provide the content IAP capabilities.
Note that in the case where there is multi-homing (two or more
routers connected to provide access for the CPE), intercept taps
may have to be installed on more than one access router. If the
CPE is multi-homed to multiple service providers, then the
intercept will have to be installed on each service provider
separately and the LEA will have to correlate the data.
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* Unauthorized Creation and Detection: Another concern is the
prevention of unauthorized creation and detection of intercepts.
This is particularly important when a network element such as a
router is used as a content IAP. Those routers that have the
capability should be carefully controlled with access to intercept
capability and information only via authorized personnel. In one
approach using the reference model in Figure 1, the MD is in a
controlled environment and the MD does the intercept request to
the content IAP over an encrypted link. Logging and auditing are
used to detect unauthorized attempts to access the intercept
capability.
* Capacity: Support for lawful intercept on a network element
supporting customers consumes resources on that equipment.
Therefore, support for lawful intercept requires capacity planning
and engineering to ensure that revenue-producing services are not
adversely affected.
3. Interfaces
This section provides a brief description of the interfaces in the
reference model (Figure 1). A list of these interfaces is included
in Table 1 in Section 2.
One of the objectives in defining these interfaces is to keep the
internal interfaces (b to f) the same regardless of country-specific
requirements. The MD then formats the IRI and the content to meet
the country specific requirements for interfaces (g) and (h).
3.1. Content Intercept Request Interface
This section describes some of the requirements for the content
intercept request interface (d) in Figure 1. It makes use of a
common request protocol (SNMPv3) regardless of the type of
application (e.g., voice, data) and suggests the usage of a TAP-MIB,
which is defined in a separate document [1]. Some of the
considerations that lead to the use of SNMPv3 and to the definition
of the specific Management Information Base (MIB) defined in [1] are
provided here.
In order to provide a generic interface for intercepting,
replicating, encapsulating and transporting content packets to the
MD, the content intercept interface ((d) in Figure 1) should specify:
* A Filter specification for classifying the packets to be
intercepted.
* The destination address of the MD (where to send the packets).
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* Encapsulation and Transport parameters.
In addition, a timeout value for the intercept should also be
specified. This defines a limited lifetime for the intercept so that
failures will not result in intercepts remaining beyond their
authorized lifetime. If a failure of the MD occurs such that it is
not able to supply the refresh to the timeout, then the intercept
will cease to exist after the timeout expires. Similarly, if the IAP
re-boots, then the intercept will not survive the re-boot unless the
IAP is capable of ascertaining that the intercept lifetime
requirements will continue to be met.
In order for this to work, it must be possible for the mediation
device to realize that there is a failure in the IAP such that it
must re-establish the intercept. This may be in the form of an audit
(from the MD to the IAP), or in the form of a heartbeat mechanism in
the content stream, or both.
3.2. Intercept Content Interface (f)
The encapsulation method should retain all of the information in the
original packets (source and destination addresses as well as
payload) and provide an identifier for correlating the packets with
the IRI. One encapsulation that meets those requirements is
described in Section 4 of [2]. For non-voice intercepts, the
"Intercepted Information" field in Table 1 of [2] contains the
original intercepted IP packet.
Note, however, that the interface defined in [2] is based on UDP
which is an unreliable and unordered transport protocol (i.e.,
provides neither retransmission on detection of errors nor ordering
of data). If this transport is used, the underlying network (Layers
1 - - 3) should be engineered to meet the overall reliability
requirements for delivery of content.
If a more reliable transport protocol is required, then a mechanism
that provides timely delivery as well as limits the burden (both
processing and buffering) on the Content IAP should be used. One
mechanism that meets these requirements is a NACK-oriented
retransmission scheme based on [12].
If [12] is used, the call content channel identifier may be placed in
the SSRC field of the encapsulating RTP packet. The payload type may
be used to identify the type of packet encapsulated in RTP (e.g., IP,
PPP, Ethernet MAC). Note that usage of [12] is still under
investigation and may need further specification. Usage of [12] in
the content IAP places more processing burden on the content IAP than
a UDP-based intercept and can affect the capacity of the content IAP.
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4. Applying the Reference Model
This section applies the reference model to some example
applications.
4.1. Voice over IP networks
This section will look at some of the issues surrounding interception
of voice over IP calls, taking local voice services as a specific
service example. The reference model from Figure 1 will be applied
with the use of a common set of interfaces that are independent of
the call signaling protocols in use.
4.1.1. Interception of Voice over IP Services
There are a variety of architectures in use for voice over IP (e.g.,
centralized versus distributed) as well as various protocols (SIP
[6], H.323 [9], MGCP [7], H.248 [8]). There are also a variety of
services that may be offered:
* Local Voice Services (i.e., service to a user that has an IP phone
or a phone connected to a gateway)
* Transit services
* Long distance access services (e.g., calling/debit card).
This document does not address any obligations that a service
provider might or might not have to support intercepts. It simply
describes how intercept might be done using the reference model in
Figure 1.
Note that in the case of services where the intercept subject
accesses the network via a non-IP endpoint (e.g., TDM), the
detectability issue is less acute (e.g., re-routing of packets to
intercept them in a special device is a possible option), since the
intercept subject does not have access to the IP addresses or to
traceroute.
However, in the case of local services, this is a much more difficult
problem. The intercept for a call originating and terminating on-net
(i.e., a call that is voice over IP end-to-end) has to be intercepted
along its normal route in order to be undetectable. In addition, the
call-forwarding feature that is often provided as a local service
feature makes interception even more difficult: If call forwarding is
invoked, a call that was intended to terminate on the intercept
subject may be forwarded anywhere in the network resulting in the
media stream bypassing the original content IAP (since in voice over
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IP, the media stream goes directly from end-to-end). Also, since
call forwarding can often be set up on a call-by-call basis, the
location of the content IAP will often not be known until the call is
set up.
4.1.2. Local Voice Services
This sub-section will look at the specific case in which the
intercept subject under surveillance is being provided with a local
voice service by the same provider that also provides the network
access (e.g., controls the edge router or switch). This is an
important assumption, since in VoIP the entity providing call control
(e.g., SIP server) can be totally separate from the entity providing
network access (e.g., operates edge routers).
Suppose that a subscriber that subscribes to a local (e.g.,
residential) voice service is a target for a lawfully authorized
surveillance. Part of the system providing these services is a
subscriber database that includes addressing information about the
subscriber as well information on what features are in effect (e.g.,
call forwarding). Some call control entity (CCE) accesses that
database in order to provide local services. For example, if the
subject has call forwarding invoked, that fact (and where to forward
the call) is indicated in the subscriber database. A call arriving
at the CCE that "owns" that subscriber can then take the appropriate
action (e.g., forward the call).
The CCE that "owns" the target subscriber (which could be an H.323
gatekeeper, a SIP proxy or a Media Gateway Controller) is provisioned
with the intercept parameters (e.g., subject identification
information such as the telephone number and where to deliver the
IRI). The provisioning of this CCE could be through interface (c) in
Figure 1. The CCE in question is the IRI IAP and once provisioned,
it passes the IRI to the MD. In the scenario being discussed, the
CCE typically remains in the signaling path throughout the call, even
in the call-forwarding case. Part of the IRI it passes to the MD is
the media signaling information (i.e., SDP [11] or H.245 [10]), which
includes endpoint IP address and port information for the media
(content) streams. Armed with this media address information, the MD
can determine the content IAP (e.g., [5]) and make the request via
interface (d). The request identifies the voice stream to be
intercepted based on information received in the call signaling
(i.e., IP addresses and UDP port numbers).
Note that the content IAP in the case of voice over IP could be an
edge router or a PSTN gateway (e.g., a call from the PSTN forwarded
to the PSTN). SIP, H.323, MGCP or H.248 call signaling protocols
could be used. However, the protocol (SNMPv3 [1]) used for interface
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(d), is not dependent on the type of call signaling protocol used;
nor is the encapsulation format and transport protocol (interface
"f"). The same reference model (Figure 1) with the same interfaces
can be used for lawfully authorized surveillance, regardless of the
signaling protocol and regardless of the type of service being
provided (Note: even though a local voice service was used in this
example, other voice services could use the same model and
interfaces).
4.2. Data Services
The same model (Figure 1) can also be used for data services. In
this case the IRI IAP could be a server that acts as registration,
authentication and authorization point for the data service (e.g., a
RADIUS server). If a potential IRI IAP does not have the available
interfaces (c) and (e), the MD may have to do a content tap on
registration signaling in order to obtain the IRI.
The IRI in the case of a data service could include:
* The time that the user registered or de-registered for the
service.
* Addressing information (i.e., given the user identity, what IP
address or other information is available that could be used in
interface (d) to do the content tap).
Once suitable addressing information is available in order to do
content tapping the MD can invoke the tap via interface (d).
Clearly the IRI interfaces (c, e, g) are different for data than they
are for voice services. However, the content IAP is typically the
same (an edge router). Interfaces (d, f, and h) may also be the
same.
5. Security Considerations
Given the sensitive nature of lawful intercept (LI) -- both from the
standpoint of the need to protect sensitive data, as well as conceal
the identities of the intercept subjects, the LI solution should have
the ability to provide stringent security measures to combat threats
such as impersonation of MD's, privacy and confidentiality breaches,
as well as message forgery and replay attacks.
While this document doesn't discuss issues of physical security,
operating system, or application hardening within the principals of
the LI solution, they are clearly important. In particular, the MD
server would be considered a prime target for attacks.
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In general, all interfaces should have the capability of providing
strong cryptographic authentication to establish the identity of the
principals, and be able to correlate the identity of the principal
with the action they are attempting to perform. All interfaces
should be capable of performing some sort of cryptographic message
integrity checking such as, for example, HMAC-MD5. Message integrity
checking can also be used to counter replay attacks. Privacy and
confidentiality considerations, may also require the use of
encryption.
The content and IRI IAPs also should also provide protection of the
identity of the intercept subject and the existence of an intercept.
5.1. Content Request Interface (d) - SNMPv3 Control
For interface (d,) native SNMPv3 security module mechanism is used.
The additional requirement is that the IAP should support the ability
to protect the TAP MIB's [1] from disclosure or control by
unauthorized USM [3] users. VACM [4] provides the necessary tools to
limit the views to particular USM users, but there are also special
considerations:
* The ability to limit access to the appropriate TAP MIB's by only
those SNMPv3 USM users which have keys established and the proper
VACM views defined.
* Segregation of the TAP MIB such that only operators of sufficient
privilege level can create VACM views that include the TAP MIB
[1].
6. Informative References
[1] Baker, F., "Cisco Lawful Intercept Control MIB", Work in
Progress, April 2004.
[2] PacketCable(TM) Electronic Surveillance Specification, PKT-SP-
ESP-I04-040723, http://www.packetcable.com/specifications/
[3] Blumenthal, U. and B. Wijnen, "User-based Security Model (USM)
for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMPv3)", STD 62, RFC 3414, December 2002.
[4] Wijnen, B., Presuhn, R., and K. McCloghrie, "View-based Access
Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP)", STD 62, RFC 3415, December 2002.
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[5] Warnicke, E., "A Suggested Scheme for DNS Resolution of Networks
and Gateways", Work in Progress.
[6] 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.
[7] Andreasen, F. and B. Foster, "Media Gateway Control Protocol
(MGCP) Version 1.0", RFC 3435, January 2003.
[8] ITU-T Recommendation H.248.1, Gateway Control Protocol: Version
2, May 2002.
[9] ITU-T Recommendation H.323, Packet-based Multimedia
Communications Systems, July 2003.
[10] ITU-T Recommendation H.245, Control Protocol for Multimedia
Communications, July 2003.
[11] Handley, M. and V. Jacobson, "SDP: Session Description
Protocol", RFC 2327, April 1998.
[12] Rey, J., Leon, D., Miyazaki, A., Varsa, V., and R. Hakenber,
"RTP Retransmission Payload Format", Work in Progress.
[13] ETSI TS 101 331, Telecommunications security; Lawful
Interception (LI); Requirements of law enforcement agencies.
[14] ETSI TS 33.108 v6.7.0, 3rd Generation Partnership Project;
Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects; 3G
Security; Handover Interface for Lawful Interception (Release
6).
[15] IAB and IESG, "IETF Policy on Wiretapping", RFC 2804, May 2000.
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7. Acronyms
CCE Call Control Entity
CMTS Cable Modem Termination System
CPE Customer Premises Equipment
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
GPRS Generalized Packet Radio Service
HMAC-MD5 Hash-based Message Authentication Code -
Message Digest 5
IAP Intercept Access Point
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IRI Intercept Related Information
ITU-T International Telecommunications Union -
Telecommunications Sector
LEA Law Enforcement Agency
LI Lawful Intercept
MGCP Media Gateway Control Protocol
MD Mediation Device
MIB Management Information Base
NACK Negative Acknowledgement
PSTN Public Switched Telecommunications Network
RFC Request for Comment
RTP Real-time Transport Protocol
SDP Session Description Protocol
SIP Session Initiation Protocol
SSRC Synchronization Source
TDM Time Division Multiplex
UDP User Datagram Protocol
USM User Service Model
VACM View-based Access Control Model
VoIP Voice over IP
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8. Authors' Addresses
Fred Baker
Cisco Systems
1121 Via Del Rey
Santa Barbara, CA 93117
US
Phone: +1-408-526-4257
Fax: +1-413-473-2403
EMail: fred@cisco.com
Bill Foster
Cisco Systems
Suite 2150
1050 West Pender St.
Vancouver, BC, V6E 3S7
Canada
Phone: +1-604-647-2315
EMail: bfoster@cisco.com
Chip Sharp
Cisco Systems
7025 Kit Creek Road
RTP, NC 27709 USA
Tel:+1.919.392.3121
EMail: chsharp@cisco.com
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