CONTENTS

 1 Scope 
2 References 
3 Terms and definitions       
4 Abbreviations and conventions     
        4.1 Abbreviations        
        4.2 Conventions          
5 Background      
        5.1 Traditional telephony billing formats
        5.2 Motivation for event‑based billing   
        5.3 Originating/terminating call model to support customer billing and settlements           
        5.4 Real-time billing     
        5.5 Real-time and batch event message delivery           
        5.6 Terminology and concepts 
       5.7 Supporting documentation  
6 IPCablecom objectives    
        6.1 IPCablecom required services and capabilities        
        6.2 Additional IPCablecom supported services and capabilities
        6.3 Assumptions          
7 Event messages architecture         
        7.1 IPCablecom Event Message collection       
        7.2 IPCablecom network elements       
        7.3 General IPCablecom network element requirements           
        7.4 Event Message interfaces   
8 IPCablecom services and their associated Event Messages           
        8.1 IPCablecom call configurations      
        8.2 Specific services    
9 IPCablecom Event Message structure      
        9.1 Event Message structure    
        9.2     Service_Instance   
        9.3 Service_Activation 
        9.4 Signalling_Start      
        9.5 Signalling_Stop      
        9.6 Service_Deactivation         
        9.7 Database_Query   
        9.8 Intelligent_Peripheral_Usage_Start 
        9.9 Intelligent_Peripheral_Usage_Stop 
       9.10 Interconnect_Start
       9.11 Interconnect_Stop
       9.12 Call_Answer        
       9.13 Call_Disconnect   
       9.14 QoS_Reserve       
       9.15 QoS_Release       
       9.16 Time_Change       
       9.17 QoS_Commit       
       9.18 RTP_Connection_Parameters event message        
      9.19 Media_Alive         
       9.20 Media_Statistics   
10     IPCablecom Event Message attributes    
       10.1 EM_Header attribute structure      
       10.2 Call termination cause attribute structure    
       10.3 Trunk group ID attribute structure 
       10.4 QoS descriptor attribute structure 
      10.5 Redirected-from-info attribute structure     
       10.6 Electronic-surveillance-indication attribute structure           
       10.7 Attributes for conference parties    
11 Transport-independent event message attribute TLV format         
12 IPCablecom event message file format    
       12.1 File bit/Byte order 
       12.2 File header           
       12.3 File-naming convention     
       12.4 Configuration items           
      12.5 File EM structure header   
13 Transport protocol          
       13.1 Radius protocol introduction         
       13.2 RADIUS accounting protocol       
       13.3 File transport protocol (FTP)        
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