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Service in the Public Switched Telephone Network/Intelligent Network (PSTN/IN) Requesting InTernet Service (SPIRITS) Protocol Requirements

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Network Working Group                                I. Faynberg, Editor
Request for Comments: 3298                           Lucent Technologies
Category: Informational                                          J. Gato
                                                               Vodaphone
                                                                   H. Lu
                                                     Lucent Technologies
                                                             L. Slutsman
                                                                    AT&T
                                                             August 2002


  Service in the Public Switched Telephone Network/Intelligent Network
 (PSTN/IN) Requesting InTernet Service (SPIRITS) Protocol Requirements

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document describes the SPIRITS protocol requirements, based on
   the architecture presented in RFC 3136.  (SPIRITS stands for "Service
   in the PSTN/IN Requesting InTernet Service".)  The purpose of the
   protocol is to support services that originate in the Public Switched
   Telephone Network (PSTN) and necessitate the interactions between the
   PSTN and the Internet.  Similarly, such services are called SPIRITS
   services.  (Internet Call Waiting, Internet Caller-ID Delivery, and
   Internet Call Forwarding are examples of SPIRIT services, but the
   protocol is to define the building blocks from which many other
   services can be built.)  On the PSTN side, the SPIRITS services are
   initiated from the Intelligent Network (IN) entities; the earlier
   IETF work on the PSTN/Internet Interworking (PINT) resulted in the
   protocol (RFC 2848) in support of the services initiated the other
   way around--from the Internet to PSTN.

   To this end, this document lists general requirements for the SPIRITS
   protocol as well as those pertinent to IN, Wireless IN, and PINT
   building blocks.  The document also presents the SPIRITS WG consensus
   on the choice of the SPIRITS signaling protocol.






Faynberg, et al.             Informational
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