RFC 7406 · INFORMATIONAL · 2014

Extensions to the Emergency Services Architecture for Dealing With Unauthenticated and Unauthorized Devices

Overview

RFC 7406, “Extensions to the Emergency Services Architecture for Dealing With Unauthenticated and Unauthorized Devices”, is an Informational document published in December 2014 by H. Schulzrinne, S. McCann, G. Bajko, H. Tschofenig, D. Kroeselberg. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document provides a problem statement, introduces terminology, and describes an extension for the base IETF emergency services architecture to address cases where an emergency caller is not authenticated, has no identifiable service provider, or has no remaining credit with which to pay for access to the network.

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What “Informational” means

Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

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