H.3. Communication and Network Services Standards

Purpose Standard Guidance
Basic connectivity between technical services.

Internet Protocol (IETF Standard 5, September 1981. RFCs 791/950/919/922/792/1112)

Transmission Control Protocol IETF Standard 7, RFC 793:1981 updated by 3168:2001)

Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) (IETF RFC 2460:1998)

Domain Name System (IETF Standard 13, RFC 1034/RFC 1035:1987)

 IP networking. Accommodate both IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and Network Address Translation. Utilize Quality of Service capabilities of the network.
Connectivity between CEMN Core network and TCN networks

IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)

Border Gateway Protocol V4 (IETF RFC 1771, March 1995)

BGP Communities Attribute (IETF RFC 1997, August 1996)

Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) (IETF RFC 3618, October 2003)

Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) (IETF RFC 4601, August 2006)

 National Interconnection Point (NIP) as defined in the CE JMEI Technical Appendix 4.
Service transport protocol Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP 1.1 (RFC 2616:1999)

HTTP shall be used as the transport protocol for information without 'need-to-know' caveats between all service providers and consumers.

HTTPS shall be used as the transport protocol between all service providers and consumers to ensure confidentiality requirements.

Provide communications security over the network above the Transport Layer

Mandatory: Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2 (RFC 5246:2008)

Fading (until Dec 2011): Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.0 (RFC 2246:1999)

Retired: Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Protocol, Version 3.0, 18 Nov 1996

  
Voice communication

VoIP: SIP RFC 3261

  • Audio data compression Codec ITU-T Recommendation G.729 (01/07)

  • The use of G.729 may require a license fee and/ or royalty fee

  • DiffServ,PHB and DSCP defined by IETF RFC 2474

  • ITU-T G.Imp729 (11/09)

  • Interval between Voice packets 40ms

  • RTP protocol ports 16384 and/ or 16385

  • Detailed Interface Control Document for "Voice over Secure IP (VoSIP) Network Service" (C)

Secure Network management Simple Network Management Protocol Version 3 (SNMPv3)  
Facilitate the access and au thorization between CEMN users Directory service: LDAPv3, RFC 4510 Addressed by specific JMEI that facilitates network federation.
  Authentication: Kerberos version 5, RFC 1510 LDAP is a vendor independent standard, in practice Active Directory (AD) is the most used product providing directory services on the CEMN. AD provides additional services aside from LDAP like functionality. The new Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 are likely to be used in future.
Table H.1. Communication and Network Services Standards