School of Specs 24.501v20.0.0

3GPP 24.501 v20.0.0 — the document's own text

9.11.3.33 NAS message container

Taught in 4. Inside TS 24.501, the document at the centre (CT1 — the group that writes what your phone says, overview).

The purpose of the NAS message container IE is to encapsulate a plain REGISTRATION REQUEST, DEREGISTRATION REQUEST, or SERVICE REQUEST message, or to encapsulate non-cleartext IEs of a CONTROL PLANE SERVICE REQUEST message.

The NAS message container information element is coded as shown in figure 9.11.3.33.1 and table 9.11.3.33.1.

The NAS message container is a type 6 information element.

87654321
NAS message container IEIoctet 1
Length of NAS message container contentsoctet 2
octet 3
octet 4
NAS message container contents
octet n

Figure 9.11.3.33.1: NAS message container information element

Table 9.11.3.33.1: NAS message container information element

NAS message container contents (octet 4 to octet n); Max value of 65535 octets
This IE can contain a REGISTRATION REQUEST message as defined in clause 5.5.1, DEREGISTRATION REQUEST message as defined in clause 5.5.2.2.1, or a SERVICE REQUEST message as defined in clause 5.6.1, or non-cleartext IEs of a CONTROL PLANE SERVICE REQUEST message as defined in clause 5.6.1.