XEP-0181: Jingle DTMF

This document specifies an XML format for encapsulating DTMF data in informational messages sent within the context of Jingle audio interactions.

WARNING: This Standards-Track document is Experimental. Publication as an XMPP Extension Protocol does not imply approval of this proposal by the Jabber Software Foundation. Implementation of the protocol described herein is encouraged in exploratory implementations, but production systems should not deploy implementations of this protocol until it advances to a status of Draft.

XEP Information

Status: Experimental
Type: Standards Track
Number: 0181
Version: 0.3
Last Updated: 2006-07-12
Publishing Organization: Jabber Software Foundation
Approving Body: XMPP Council
Dependencies: XMPP Core, XEP-0166
Supersedes: None
Superseded By: None
Short Name: jingle-dtmf
Wiki Page: <http://wiki.jabber.org/index.php/Jingle DTMF (XEP-0181)>

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Discussion Venue

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Relation to XMPP

The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is defined in the XMPP Core (RFC 3920) and XMPP IM (RFC 3921) specifications contributed by the Jabber Software Foundation to the Internet Standards Process, which is managed by the Internet Engineering Task Force in accordance with RFC 2026. Any protocol defined in this document has been developed outside the Internet Standards Process and is to be understood as an extension to XMPP rather than as an evolution, development, or modification of XMPP itself.

Conformance Terms

The following keywords as used in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119: "MUST", "SHALL", "REQUIRED"; "MUST NOT", "SHALL NOT"; "SHOULD", "RECOMMENDED"; "SHOULD NOT", "NOT RECOMMENDED"; "MAY", "OPTIONAL".

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Traditional telephony systems use Dual Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) for dialing and to issue commands such as those used in Interactive Voice Response (IVR) applications. Internet telephony systems also use DTMF tones for interoperability with the public switched telephone network (PSTN). XMPP clients that use Jingle [1] for voice chat (see Jingle Audio Content Description Format [2]) MUST use the protocol described in this document if they wish to support DTMF.

2. Tone Format

The format for the XML DTMF format is as follows:

Example 1. Basic DTMF Format

<dtmf xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/info/dtmf'
      action='button-down'
      code='integer'
/>
  

The <dtmf/> element SHOULD possess one 'action' attribute, which MUST be either "button-up" or "button-down", specifying whether the button is being depressed or released. This allows DTMF tones to be reconstructed in real-time. If the 'action' attribute is not included, the recipient MUST assume this to be a "button-down" event, and imply a "button-up" event after a reasonable timeout (100 milliseconds is RECOMMENDED) or when another DMTF event is received.

Unless, the 'action' attribute is 'button-up', the <dmtf/> element MUST possess a 'code' attribute that specifies the tone to be generated. The value of the 'code' attribute SHOULD be one the following characters: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, #, and * -- however, the characters A, B, C, and D MAY be sent as well. [3]

The <dtmf> element SHOULD be sent as the payload of a Jingle content-info message as illustrated in the following example.

Example 2. Entity Sends DTMF Message

<iq from='juliet@capulet.com/balcony'
    to='ivr.shakespeare.lit'
    id='dtmf1'
    type='set'>
  <jingle xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/jingle'
          action='content-info'
          initiator='juliet@capulet.com/balcony'
          sid='a73sjjvkla37jfea'>
    <dtmf xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/jingle/info/dtmf'
          code='7'
          action='button-up'
    />
  </jingle>
</iq>
  

3. Negotiating RFC 2833

Some applications may want to stream Jingle voice RTP directly to a non-XMPP entity, such as a SIP phone. In this scenario, DTMF needs to be sent in the content channel. Jingle DTMF allows to Jingle entities to negotiate whether to send RTP over the XMPP signalling channel as described above, or over the content channel, using RFC 2833.

To request that the voice session switches to RFC 2833, a client sends a <dtmf-method/> element, qualified by the 'http://jabber.org/protocol/info/dmtf' namespace as the payload of a Jingle content-info message:

Example 3. Client requests using RFC 2833

<iq from='juliet@capulet.com/balcony'
    to='ivr.shakespeare.lit'
    id='dtmf2'
    type='set'>
  <jingle xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/jingle'
          action='content-info'
          initiator='juliet@capulet.com/balcony'
          sid='a73sjjvkla37jfea'>
    <dtmf-method xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/jingle/info/dtmf' method='rtp'>
  </jingle>
</iq>
 

The dtmf-method element MUST contain one 'method' attribute, the value of which SHOULD be either 'rtp' or 'xmpp'.

If the recipient supports the requested DTMF method, it SHOULD send an empty IQ result:

Example 4. Recipient acknowledges request

<iq from='ivr.shakespeare.lit'
    to='juliet@capulet.com/balcony'
    id='dtmf2'
    type='result'/>
 

If the recipient does not supoprt the requested DTMF method, it MUST reply with a lt;feature-not-implemented/> error with a DTMF-specific error condition of <unsupported-dtmf-method/>:

Example 5. Recipient refuses request

<iq from='ivr.shakespeare.lit'
    to='juliet@capulet.com/balcony'
    id='dtmf2'
    type='error'>
  <error type='cancel'>
    <feature-not-implemented xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-stanzas'/>
    <unsupported-dtmf-method xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/jingle/info/dtmf#errors'/>
  </error>
</iq>
 

4. Security Considerations

This document introduces no known security vulnerabilities.

5. IANA Considerations

This document requires no interaction with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) [4].

6. XMPP Registrar Considerations

7. XML Schema

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

<xs:schema
    xmlns:xs='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'
    targetNamespace='http://jabber.org/protocol/jingle/info/dtmf'
    xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/jingle/info/dtmf'
    elementFormDefault='qualified'>

  <xs:element name='dtmf'>
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element ref='tone' minOccurs='1' maxOccurs='unbounded'/>
      </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>

  <xs:element name='tone'>
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:simpleContent>
        <xs:extension base='empty'>
          <xs:attribute name='code' type='DTMFString' use='required'/>
          <xs:attribute name='duration' type='xs:positiveInteger' use='optional'/>
        </xs:extension>
      </xs:simpleContent>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>
  </xs:element>

  <xs:simpleType name="DTMFString">
    <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
      <xs:pattern value="(#|\*|0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|A|B|C|D)*" />
    </xs:restriction>
  </xs:simpleType>

  <xs:simpleType name='empty'>
    <xs:restriction base='xs:string'>
      <xs:enumeration value=''/>
    </xs:restriction>
  </xs:simpleType>

</xs:schema>
  

Notes

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