School of Specs 24.501v20.0.0

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9.11.4.34 ECS address

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 ECS address information element is to indicate the ECS address (either IPv4 address, IPv6 address, or FQDN) and the associated spatial validity condition.

The ECS address information element is coded as shown in figure 9.11.4.34.1, figure 9.11.4.34.2, figure 9.11.4.34.3, figure 9.11.4.34.4, figure 9.11.4.34.5, figure 9.11.4.34.6, table 9.11.4.34.1, table 9.11.4.34.2, table 9.11.4.34.4 and table 9.11.4.34.5.

The ECS address information element is a type 6 information element with minimum length of 8 octets and a maximum length of 65538 octets.

87654321
ECS address IEIoctet 1
Length of ECS address contentsoctet 2octet 3
Type of ECS addressType of spatial validity conditionoctet 4
ECS addressoctet 5octet a
Spatial validity condition contentsoctet (a+1)*octet n*
0Spare0Spare0Spare0Spare0Spare0SpareESPILIEAMIOctet m*
ECS authentication methodsoctet o*
ECS supported PLMNs information listoctet p*octet w*

Figure 9.11.4.34.1: ECS address information element

87654321
Length of spatial validity condition contentsoctet (a+1)octet (a+2)
Spatial validity information 1octet boctet c
Spatial validity information 2octet (c+1)*octet d*
octet (d+1)*octet e*
Spatial validity information Noctet (e+1)*octet n*

Figure 9.11.4.34.2: Spatial validity condition contents

87654321
0Spare0Spare0Spare0Spare0SpareTLSGITLSAITLSCSCIoctet o*

Figure 9.11.4.34.3: ECS authentication methods

87654321
Length of ECS supported PLMNs information list contentsoctet poctet (p+2)
Supported PLMN information 1octet (p+3)octet q
Supported PLMN information 2octet (q+1)*octet u*
octet (u+1)*octet v*
Supported PLMN information Noctet (v+1)*octet w*

Figure 9.11.4.34.4: ECS supported PLMNs information list contents

87654321
Length of Supported PLMN information contentsoctet (q+1)octet (q+3)
PLMN identityoctet (q+4)octet (q+6)
ECSP information 1octet (q+7)*octet r*
ECSP information 2octet (r+1)*octet s*
octet (s+1)*octet t*
ECSP information Noctet (t+1)*octet u*

Figure 9.11.4.34.5: Supported PLMN information contents

87654321
Length of ECSP identifier contentsoctet (r+1)octet (r+2)
ECSP identifieroctet (r+3)*octet s*

Figure 9.11.4.34.6: ECSP information contents

Table 9.11.4.34.1: ECS address information element

Type of ECS address (octet 4, bit 1 to 4)
Bits
4321
0000IPv4
0001IPv6
0010FQDN
1111Unspecified
All other values are spare. The receiving entity shall ignore an ECS address IE with type of ECS address containing a spare value.
Type of spatial validity condition (octet 4, bit 5 to 8)
Bits
8765
0000No spatial validity condition
0001Geographical service area
0010Tracking area
0011Country-wide
All other values are spare. The receiving entity shall ignore a spatial validity condition with type of spatial validity condition containing an unknown value.
If the type of ECS address indicates IPv4, then the ECS address field contains an IPv4 address in octet 5 to octet 8.
If the type of ECS address indicates IPv6, then the ECS address field contains an IPv6 address in octet 5 to octet 20 and is encoded according to IETF RFC 4291 [66].
If the type of ECS address indicates FQDN, then the ECS address field contains in octet 5 the length of FQDN value and in octet 6 to octet a an FQDN value encoded as defined in clause 19.4.2 in 3GPP TS 23.003 [4].
If the type of ECS address indicates unspecified, then the remaining fields of ECS address information element shall be passed to the upper layers.
Spatial validity condition contents (octet (a+1)* to n*)
The spatial validity condition contents contain a variable number of spatial validity condition information.
ECS authentication methods indicator (EAMI) (octet m*, bit 1)
Bits
1
0ECS authentication methods field is not included
1ECS authentication methods field is included
If the EAMI bit is set to "ECS authentication methods field is included" then the ECS authentication methods field is included otherwise the ECS authentication methods field is not included. ECS authentication methods is an optional field and is included based on operator requirements.
ECS supported PLMNs information list indication (ESPILI) (octet m*, bit 2)Bits2
0ECS supported PLMNs information list field is not included
1ECS supported PLMNs information list field is included
If the ESPILI bit is set to "ECS supported PLMNs information list field is included" then the ECS supported PLMNs information list field is included otherwise the ECS supported PLMNS information list field is not included.ECS supported PLMNs information list (octet p* to w*)The ECS supported PLMNs information list contains a variable number of supported PLMN information field. The supported PLMN information field is coded according to figure 9.11.4.34.5.

Table 9.11.4.34.2: Spatial validity condition contents

If the type of spatial validity condition of the ECS address indicates No spatial validity condition, then the spatial validity condition information field is empty.
If the type of spatial validity condition of the ECS address indicates geographical service area, then the spatial validity condition information field contains a geographical service area which is specified by geographical descriptions as defined in 3GPP TS 23.032 [4B].
If the type of spatial validity condition of the ECS address indicates tracking area, then the spatial validity condition information field contains a TAI as defined in clause 9.11.3.8 starting from octet 2.
If the type of spatial validity condition of the ECS address indicates country-wide, then the spatial validity condition information field contains an MCC as defined in in ITU-T Recommendation E.212 [42], annex A. The first MCC digit is coded in bit 1 to 4 of the octet b, the second MCC digit is coded in bit 5 to 8 of the octet b, and the third MCC digit is coded in bit 1 to 4 of the octet b+1. Bit 5 to bit 8 of the octet b+1 shall be padded with 1. If only two digits are used for for MCC, octet b+1 shall be padded with 1.

Table 9.11.4.34.3: ECS authentication methods contents

ECS authentication methods (octet o*)
TLS client server certificate indicator (TLSCSCI) (octet o*, bit 1)
0TLS client server certificate not supported
1TLS client server certificate supported
TLS with AKMA indicator (TLSAI) (octet o*, bit 2)
0TLS with AKMA not supported
1TLS with AKMA supported
TLS with GBA indicator (TLSGI) (octet o*, bit 3)
0TLS with GBA not supported
1TLS with GBA supported

Table 9.11.4.34.4: Supported PLMN information contents

PLMN identity:The PLMN identity for which the EDN configuration information can be provided by the ECS. This is encoded as octet 3 to octet 5 in figure 9.11.3.85.1.
ECSP information:The identifier of the ECSP(s) associated with the PLMN and whose information is available at the ECS. The ECSP information is coded according to figure 9.11.4.34.6 and table 9.11.4.34.5.

Table 9.11.4.34.5: ECSP information contents

ECSP identifierThis field contains one ECSP identifier. The ECSP identifier is encoded as a UTF-8 string.