[Dime] draft-avasarala-diameter-error-invalid-identity-00

["AVASARALA, RANJIT KUMAR" <[e-mail]>]

Hello all

We published a new Internet draft addressing the issue of invalid IMEI in SIP / Diameter requests.

Here is the background

IMEI is used for uniquely identifying the mobile devices.  IMEI is present in SIP REGISTER request (Contact header) and Diameter CCR Request (user-Equipment-Info AVP).   It is always assumed that the IMEI value is correct and also the entities that receive IMEI usually do not validate the value.

This IMEI goes all the way till CCFs which use it as part of records generation that eventually lead to generation of CDRs.  So in scenarios where IMEI is correct, the records are considered good but if the IMEI is invalid or incorrect, then the records that are generated become "bad" and lead to inconsistency in billing.

So there is a need to reduce or prevent the generation of bad records and this can be done by validating the received IMEI and reporting invalid instances of IMEI.

So in order to report the cases of invalid iMEI, this draft proposes a new diameter protocol error code - DIAMETER_INVALID_MOBILE_IDENTITY

We request everyone to review the draft and comment.

The URL of the draft is - https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-avasarala-diameter-error-invalid-identity-00.html

Regards
Ranjit