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I n t e r n a t i o n a l T e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n U n i o n ITU-T J.363 TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDIZATION SECTOR OF ITU (11/2006) SERIES J: CABLE NETWORKS AND TRANSMISSION OF TELEVISION, SOUND PROGRAMME AND OTHER MULTIMEDIA SIGNALS IPCablecom IPCablecom2 data collection to support accounting ITU-T Recommendation J.363 ITU-T Rec. J.363 (11/2006) i ITU-T Recommendation J.363 IPCablecom2 data collection to support accounting Summary This Recommendation defines the requirements and functionality needed to support Accounting functions within this release of the IPCablecom2 Architecture. The main focus is to define how the collection of usage data is done to assure that the required billing functions can be supported, though usage data may also be used for other purposes (e.g., network or service trend analysis, network planning, and traffic engineering). In addition, this Recommendation details the various accounting events and their associated attributes. Source ITU-T Recommendation J.363 was approved on 29 November 2006 by ITU-T Study Group 9 (2005-2008) under the ITU-T Recommendation A.8 procedure. ii ITU-T Rec. J.363 (11/2006) FOREWORD The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the United Nations specialized agency in the field of telecommunications. The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is a permanent organ of ITU. ITU-T is responsible for studying technical, operating and tariff questions and issuing Recommendations on them with a view to standardizing telecommunications on a worldwide basis. The World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA), which meets every four years, establishes the topics for study by the ITU-T study groups which, in turn, produce Recommendations on these topics. The approval of ITU-T Recommendations is covered by the procedure laid down in WTSA Resolution 1. In some areas of information technology which fall within ITU-Ts purview, the necessary standards are prepared on a collaborative basis with ISO and IEC. NOTE In this Recommendation, the expression Administration is used for conciseness to indicate both a telecommunication administration and a recognized operating agency. Compliance with this Recommendation is voluntary. However, the Recommendation may contain certain mandatory provisions (to ensure e.g. interoperability or applicability) and compliance with the Recommendation is achieved when all of these mandatory provisions are met. The words shall or some other obligatory language such as must and the negative equivalents are used to express requirements. The use of such words does not suggest that compliance with the Recommendation is required of any party. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS ITU draws attention to the possibility that the practice or implementation of this Recommendation may involve the use of a claimed Intellectual Property Right. ITU takes no position concerning the evidence, validity or applicability of claimed Intellectual Property Rights, whether asserted by ITU members or others outside of the Recommendation development process. As of the date of approval of this Recommendation, ITU had not received notice of intellectual property, protected by patents, which may be required to implement this Recommendation. However, implementers are cautioned that this may not represent the latest information and are therefore strongly urged to consult the TSB patent database at http:/www.itu.int/ITU-T/ipr/. ITU 2007 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, by any means whatsoever, without the prior written permission of ITU. ITU-T Rec. J.363 (11/2006) iii CONTENTS Page 1 Scope . 1 2 References. 1 3 Terms and definitions. 2 4 Abbreviations and acronyms. 2 5 Conventions. 3 6 Technical overview. 3 6.1 IMS charging architecture. 4 6.2 IPCablecom2 accounting architecture. 5 6.3 Relationship to IPCablecom Multimedia Event Messages . 8 6.4 Relationship to IPCablecom Event Messages. 8 7 IPCablecom2 extensions to IMS charging . 9 7.1 Required Subset of IMS Charging . 9 7.2 Charging identification information in the pkt-qos-1 interface. 9 7.3 Extensions to the SIP P-Charging-Vector header . 10 7.4 Extensions for IMS Charging Reporting. 10 Appendix I IPCablecom2 Accounting functionality example. 12 Bibliography. 15 ITU-T Rec. J.363 (11/2006) 1 ITU-T Recommendation J.363 IPCablecom2 data collection to support accounting 1 Scope This Recommendation defines the requirements and functionality needed to support Accounting functions within this release of the IPCablecom2 Architecture. The main focus is to define how the collection of usage data is done to assure that the required billing functions can be supported, though usage data may also be used for other purposes (e.g., network or service trend analysis, network planning, and traffic engineering). In addition, this Recommendation details the various accounting events and their associated attributes. An Accounting Event message is a data record containing infor