| SIPCORE Working Group | C. Holmberg |
| Internet-Draft | Ericsson |
| Intended status: Standards Track | December 19, 2017 |
| Expires: June 22, 2018 |
Push Notification with the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
draft-ietf-sipcore-sip-push-01
This document describes how push notification mechanisms can be used to wake up suspended Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) User Agents (UAs), in order to be able to receive and generate SIP requests. The document defines new SIP URI parameters, that can be used in a SIP REGISTER request to provide push notification information from the SIP User Agent (UA) to the SIP entity (realized as a SIP proxy in this document) that will send a push request to the push server in order to trigger a push notification towards the SIP UA.
This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79.
Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet-Drafts is at https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/.
Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
This Internet-Draft will expire on June 22, 2018.
Copyright (c) 2017 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved.
This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License.
In order to save resources (e.g, battery life) some devices and operating systems require suspended Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) User Agents (UAs) [RFC3261] to be woken up using a push notification service. Typically each operating system uses a dedicated push notification service. For example, Apple iOS devices use the Apple Push Notification service (APNs).
Due to the restriction above, applications can not be woken up by non-push notification traffic. This means that a suspended SIP UA will not be able to receive an incoming SIP request (e.g., a SIP INVITE request), or to send periodic re-registration requests.
This document describes how push notification mechanisms can be used to wake up suspended SIP UAs, in order to be able to receive and generate SIP requests. The document defines new SIP URI parameters, that can be used in a SIP REGISTER request to provide push notification information from the SIP UA to the SIP entity (realized as a SIP proxy in this document) that will send a push request to the push server in order to trigger a push notification towards the SIP UA.
When a SIP UA registers to a Push Notification Service (PNS), it will receive a unique Push Resource ID (PRID) associated to that registration. The SIP UA will provide the PRID to the SIP network in a SIP REGISTER request. A SIP proxy (e.g., the SIP registrar) will store a mapping between the registered contact and the PRID.
When the SIP proxy receives (or, in case the SIP proxy is also registrar, initiates) a SIP request for a new session, or a stand-alone SIP request, addressed towards a SIP UA, or when the SIP proxy determines that the SIP UA needs to perform a re-registration, the SIP proxy will send a push request to the push notification service used by the SIP UA, using the push resource ID associated with the registered contact of the SIP UA, in order to trigger a push notification towards the SIP UA. The SIP proxy will then forward the SIP request towards the SIP UA using normal SIP routing procedures. Once the SIP UA receives the push notification, it will be to receive the SIP request, and to generate a SIP request (e.g., a SIP REGISTER) itself.
Different push notification mechanisms exist today. Some are based on there standardized mechanism defined in [RFC8030], while others are proprietary (e.g., the Apple Push Notification service). Figure 1 shows the generic push notification architecture supported by the mechanism in this document.
+--------+ +--------------+ +-----------------+
| SIP UA | | Push Service | | SIP Proxy |
+--------+ +--------------+ +-----------------+
| | |
| Subscribe | |
|--------------------->| |
| | |
| Push Resource ID | |
|<---------------------| |
| | |
| SIP REGISTER (Push Resource ID) |
|===============================================>|
| | |
| | Push Message |
| | (Push Resource ID) |
| Push Message |<------------------------|
| (Push Resource ID) | |
|<---------------------| |
| | |
------- Push Notification API
======= SIP
REGISTER sip:alice@example.com SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/TCP alicemobile.example.com:5060;branch=z9hG4bKnashds7
Max-Forwards: 70
To: Alice <sip:alice@example.com>
From: Alice <sip:alice@example.com>;tag=456248
Call-ID: 843817637684230@998sdasdh09
CSeq: 1826 REGISTER
Contact: <sip:alice@alicemobile.example.com;
pn-provider=acme;
pn-param=acme-param;
pn-prid="ZTY4ZDJlMzODE1NmUgKi0K">
Expires: 7200
Content-Length: 0
Figure 1: SIP Push Notification Architecture
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 [RFC2119].
When an entity registers with a PNS it receives a unique Push Resource ID (PRID), which is a value associated with the registration.
The format of the PRID may vary depending on the PNS provider. The PRID may be part of a URI that can be used to retrieve the address and port of the PNS when sending push requests to the PNS. The PRID may also be a token value, in which case the address and port of the PNS needs to be provided using other means.
The details regarding discovery of the PNS, and the procedures for the push notification registration and maintenance are outside the scope of this document. The information needed to contact the PNS is typically pre-configured in the operating system (OS) of the device.
Once the SIP UA has registered with the PNS and received the PRID (using the protocol and procedures associated with the PNS), and when the UA wants to receive push notifications triggered by the SIP proxy, the UA MUST send a SIP REGISTER using normal SIP registration procedures. The UA MUST add a pn-provider, a pn-prid and a pn-param (if required for the specific PNS provider) SIP URI parameter to the SIP Contact header field URI of the request. The pn-provider URI parameter contains the PNS provider, the pn-prid URI parameter contains the PRID value and the pn-param URI parameter contains additional PNS-specific information.
When the SIP UA receives a push notification, it MUST perform a SIP re-registration [RFC3261] by sending a SIP REGISTER request. If there are Network Address Translators (NATs) between the SIP UA and the SIP proxy, the REGISTER request will create NAT bindings allowing incoming SIP requests to reach the UA. If the SIP proxy triggered the push notification because it wants to forward a SIP request towards the UA, the receival of the REGISTER request can be used by the proxy as a trigger to forward the request.
As long as the SIP UA wants the SIP proxy to continue sending push requests, the UA MUST include a pn-provider, pn-prid and a pn-param (if required for the specific PNS provider) SIP URI parameter in every re-registration SIP REGISTER request sent towards the proxy. Note that, in some cases, the PNS might update the PRID value, in which case the pn-prid URI parameter within the re-registration REGISTER request will contain the new value.
If the SIP UA at some point wants to stop the SIP proxy from sending push requests, the UA MUST send a SIP REGISTER request without the URI parameters described above.
If the SIP UA expects to receive payload in the push notification, the UA MAY add a pn-enckey and a pn-encsec SIP Contact header field SIP URI parameter, in order to allow encryption of the data using the mechanism in [RFC8291]. The pn-enckey URI parameter contains the public key, and the pn-encsec URI parameter contains the authentication secret [RFC8291].
NOTE: End-to-end encryption of the payload between the SIP proxy and the SIP UA cannot be used if the push notification request payload contains information that needs to be accessible by the PNS provider.
The PNS provider is retrieved from the pn-provider SIP URI parameter.
The protocol and format used for the push request depends on the PNS provider, and the details for constructing and sending the messages are outside the scope of this specification.
If the SIP UA needs to perform periodic re-registrations, the proxy needs to have information about when those re-registrations are to be performed. The proxy either needs to contain the SIP registrar functionality, or the proxy needs to retrieve the information from the registrar using some other mechanism.
When the SIP proxy receives an indication that the SIP UA needs to perform a re-registration, the proxy triggers a push request towards the push notification server associated with the PRID.
When the SIP proxy receives a SIP REGISTER request that contains a pn-provider SIP URI parameter value that the proxy does not support, or if the REGISTER request does not contain all information required for the specific PNS provider, the proxy MUST NOT forward the REGISTER request. If the proxy is aware of another proxy that supports the PNS provider, the proxy MAY redirect the SIP request (using a SIP 3xx response code) to that proxy. Otherwise the proxy MUST send a SIP 555 (Push Notification Service Not Supported) response to the REGISTER request.
When the SIP proxy receives (or, in case the proxy is the SIP registrar, creates) a SIP request for a new dialog (e.g., a SIP INVITE request) or a non-dialog SIP request (e.g., a SIP MESSAGE request) aimed for a SIP UA, if the Request-URI of the request contains a pn-provider, a pn-prid and a pn-param (if required for the specific PNS provider) SIP URI parameter, the proxy triggers a push request towards the PNS associated with the PRID. After that, the proxy forwards the SIP request towards the UA using normal SIP procedures.
As the push notification will trigger the SIP UA to perform a re-registration, the SIP proxy can use the receival of the SIP REGISTER request as a trigger to forward SIP request towards the UA.
The SIP proxy MUST NOT transport the SIP request as push request payload, instead of forwarding the request using normal SIP procedures.
If the SIP proxy is not able to contact the push notification provider, or even retrieve the PNS provider, the proxy SHOULD reject the SIP request.
If the SIP proxy is able to assume that the SIP UA is awake, and that the UA is able to receive the SIP request, the proxy MAY choose to not trigger a push notification request before trying to forward the SIP request towards the UA. The proxy can make such assumption e.g., if a TLS connection previously established by the UA is still open.
Whenever the SIP UA receives a push notification, if the UA is located behind a Network Address Translator (NAT), the UA might need to take actions in order to establish a binding in the NAT, in order for an incoming SIP request to reach the UA. By performing the re-registration the UA will establish such NAT binding.
The 555 response code is added to the "Server-Error" Status-Code definition. 555 (Push Notification Service Not Supported) is used to indicate that the server did not support the push notification service specified in a 'pn-provider' SIP URI parameter.
The section defines new SIP URI parameters, by extending the grammar for "uri-parameter" as defined in [RFC3261]. The ABNF is as follows:
uri-parameter =/ pn-provider / pn-param / pn-prid / pn-enccode /
pn-enckey
pn-provider = "pn-provider" EQUAL pvalue
pn-param = "pn-param" EQUAL pvalue
pn-prid = "pn-prid" EQUAL pvalue
pn-enccode = "pn-enccode" EQUAL pvalue
pn-enckey = "pn-enckey" EQUAL pvalue
; pvalue as defined in RFC 3261
; EQUAL as defined in RFC 3261
; COLON as defined in RFC 3261
The format and semantics of pns-param is specific to a given
pns-provider value.
When a new value is registered to the PNS Sub-registry, a reference to a specification which describes the PNS associated with the value is provided. That specification MUST contain the following information:
When the Apple Push Notification service (APNs) is used, the PNS-related SIP URI parameters are set as described below.
The value of the pn-provider URI parameter is "apns".
Example: pn-provider = apns
The value of the pn-param URI parameter is the APNs App ID, which is encoded by two values, separated by a period (.): Team ID and Bundle ID. The Team ID is provided by Apple and is unique to a development team. The Bundle ID is unique to a development team, and is a string that will can match a single application or a group of applications.
Example: pn-param = DEF123GHIJ.com.yourcompany.yourexampleapp
The value of the pn-prid URI parameter is the device token, which is a unique identifier assigned by Apple to a specific app on a specific device.
Example: pn-prid = 00fc13adff78512
For more information on the APNs App ID:
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/General/Conceptual/DevPedia-CocoaCore/AppID.html
For more information on the APNs device token:
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/RemoteNotificationsPG/APNSOverview.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008194-CH8-SW13
When Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) is used, the PNS related URI parameters are set as described below.
The value of the pn-provider URI parameter is "fcm".
The value of the pn-param URI parameter is the Sender ID.
The value of the pn-prid URI parameter is the Registration token, which is generated by the FCM SDK for each client app instance.
For more information on the Sender ID and Registration token:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/concept-options
In addition to the information exchanged between a device and its PNS in order to establish a push notification subscription, the mechanism in this document does not require entities to provide any additional information to the PNS.
Push notification mechanisms provide different methods to ensure that malicious user cannot trigger push notifications to a device. Users of the mechanism in this document MUST take measures to prevent push notifications from being sent to a device from a malicious user.
In case entities do want to include payload in the push notifications, this document defines the means for using end-to-end payload encryption between the entity sending the push request and the entity receiving the associated push notification.
This section defines new SIP URI Parameters that extend the "SIP/SIPS URI Parameters" sub-registry [RFC3969] under the sip-parameters registry: http://www.iana.org/assignments/sip-parameters.
Parameter Name: pn-provider Predefined Values: No Reference: RFC XXXX
Parameter Name: pn-param Predefined Values: No Reference: RFC XXXX
Parameter Name: pn-prid Predefined Values: No Reference: RFC XXXX
Parameter Name: pn-enckey Predefined Values: No Reference: RFC XXXX
Parameter Name: pn-enccode Predefined Values: No Reference: RFC XXXX
This section defines a new SIP response code that extends the "Response Codes" sub-registry [RFC3261] under the sip-parameters registry: http://www.iana.org/assignments/sip-parameters.
Response Code Number: 555 Default Reason Phrase: Push Notification Service Not Supported
This section creates a new sub-registry, "PNS", under the sip-parameters registry: http://www.iana.org/assignments/sip-parameters.
The purpose of the sub-registry is to register SIP URI pn-provider values.
This sub-registry is defined as a table that contains the following three columns: Value: The token under registration Description: The name of the Push Notification Service (PNS) Document: A reference to the document defining the registration
This specification registers the following values:
Value Description Document
------- ---------------------------------- ----------
apns Apple Push Notification service [RFC XXXX]
fcm Firebase Cloud Messaging [RFC XXXX]
| [RFC2119] | Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997. |
| [RFC3261] | Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., Camarillo, G., Johnston, A., Peterson, J., Sparks, R., Handley, M. and E. Schooler, "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261, DOI 10.17487/RFC3261, June 2002. |
| [RFC3969] | Camarillo, G., "The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Parameter Registry for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)", BCP 99, RFC 3969, DOI 10.17487/RFC3969, December 2004. |
| [RFC8030] | Thomson, M., Damaggio, E. and B. Raymor, "Generic Event Delivery Using HTTP Push", RFC 8030, DOI 10.17487/RFC8030, December 2016. |
| [RFC8291] | Thomson, M., "Message Encryption for Web Push", RFC 8291, DOI 10.17487/RFC8291, November 2017. |