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    <font face="monospace">It looks I have to do more reading in this
      direction...some homework :). But yes, it seems a good point to be
      taken into consideration.<br>
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      Regards,<br>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Bogdan-Andrei Iancu

OpenSIPS Founder and Developer
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29.11.2023 19:45, Giovanni
      Maruzzelli wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="auto">Yes, actually there is a difference between 5g and
        4g infrastructure, that actually often involve different
        interfacing from IMS to it, particularly pcscf and icscf, eg:
        the way they interact with hss and pcf/pcrf.
        <div dir="auto">Problem is that 4g infrastructure is different
          from 5g. When they implement 4g+5g, they implement actually
          both (so, no problem)</div>
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        <div dir="auto">4g+5g is called NSA (not stand alone)</div>
        <div dir="auto"><br>
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        <div dir="auto">A pure 5g is SA (stand alone) and offer
          different interfaces from the ones provided by 4g.</div>
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        <div dir="auto">In NSA you (IMS) can behave like it's pure 4g
          (you use 4g interfaces to do all things, even for the 5g part)</div>
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        <div dir="auto">In SA not at all, you must interface to 5g</div>
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        <div dir="auto">The main difference for what ims is concerned is
          pcf vs pcrf</div>
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        <div dir="auto">Let's note that most private networks
          (enterprise, etc) will be SA</div>
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        <div dir="auto">Most carriers will obviously be NSA</div>
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          <br>
          <div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">answered from
            mobile, please pardon terseness and typos,<br>
            -giovanni</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 18:25
          Bogdan-Andrei Iancu <<a href="mailto:bogdan@opensips.org"
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          wrote:<br>
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          <div> <font face="monospace">Hi Johan,<br>
              <br>
              The lowest point we should address in the whole IMS arch
              is the P-CSCF, so we are agnostic to the actual transport
              layer below us (like the xG stuff). Or am I saying here
              something wrong and there are some implications to the
              upper layers ?<br>
              <br>
              Regards,<br>
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            <pre cols="72">Bogdan-Andrei Iancu

OpenSIPS Founder and Developer
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            <div>On 29.11.2023 18:07, Johan De Clercq wrote:<br>
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              <div dir="ltr">In addition, the IMS should be able to
                handle 4G and 5G calls.   
                <div>In my opinion, we should no longer about 2 and 3 G
                  as they are being phased out everywhere. </div>
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                <div>wkr, </div>
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                <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Op wo 29 nov 2023 om
                  16:39 schreef Bogdan-Andrei Iancu <<a
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                    rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"
                    class="moz-txt-link-freetext">bogdan@opensips.org</a>>:<br>
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                  <div> <font face="monospace">Hi Giovanni,<br>
                      <br>
                      Thanks for the feedback here, a valuable one as
                      usual :).<br>
                      <br>
                      On the HSS, what you are saying aligns with the my
                      own thoughts - that its functioning logic is
                      somehow outside the our scope here, but we need to
                      pay attention to the interfacing (DIAMETER or
                      HTTP2.0).<br>
                      <br>
                      Now, on the AS side - as I understand, it holds
                      whatever custom logic the operator may have in
                      routing and proving services (included VAS's). So
                      to say, I see it as a highly programmable
                      component. And if so, what we need to provide here
                      is probably a very high level interface / API to
                      allow call manipulation in a very abstract way...
                      :-/ ??<br>
                      <br>
                      Best Regards, <br>
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                    <pre cols="72">Bogdan-Andrei Iancu

OpenSIPS Founder and Developer
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                    <div>On 29.11.2023 11:11, Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote:<br>
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                      <div dir="ltr">First of all:<br>
                        CONGRATULATIONS to the OpenSIPS community !!!<br>
                        (I believe this is the first step of a long and
                        satisfying journey)<br>
                        <br>
                        On the topic:<br>
                        in addition to the CSCF component, I would like
                        to see efforts on the AS (Application Server)
                        component of the IMS infrastructure.
                        <div><br>
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                        <div>The AS is probably way the simplest of it
                          all, it will probably require the least
                          modifications/additions to OpenSIPS.</div>
                        <div><br>
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                        <div>But I would say AS will be crucial to a lot
                          of people/use cases.</div>
                        <div><br>
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                        <div>While for sure there will be a lot of cases
                          for our community to build the voice/video
                          complete IMS infrastructure on top of private
                          5G networks in enterprises and public
                          administrations, I see as very much relevant
                          also the use case of building infrastructure
                          to provide additional third party services to
                          big carriers, and to big carriers partners.</div>
                        <div><br>
                        </div>
                        <div>Also, AS is the correct and manageable way
                          to provide additional services even if you
                          build the core IMS infrastructure.</div>
                        <div><br>
                        </div>
                        <div>About HSS: this is the sancta sanctorum of
                          a carrier/provider<br>
                          Apart from the venerable fraunhofer java
                          implementation, now we can count on the
                          flexible java implementation in <a
href="https://github.com/nickvsnetworking/pyhss" target="_blank"
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                            class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/nickvsnetworking/pyhss</a>
                          with a lot of features, good performances, and
                          actually built for production.</div>
                        <div><br>
                        </div>
                        <div>I would say better we concentrate on
                          accessing the various different protocols of
                          HSS (diameter/http2) from the various
                          components (each component in IMS access HSS
                          with a different interface with
                          different vocabularies and actions.<br>
                          <br>
                          MGCF/MGW, if needed, will be a natural
                          extension of our CSCF/AS architecture.</div>
                        <div><br>
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                        <div>Just my two cents, to keep the ball
                          rolling,</div>
                        <div><br>
                          Congratulation again,<br>
                          <br>
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                        <div>-giovanni<br>
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                        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov
                          28, 2023 at 2:02 PM Bogdan-Andrei Iancu <<a
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                          <div> <font face="monospace">Hi all,<br>
                              <br>
                              (disclaimer : cross lists posting is not a
                              good practice - we will do this only to
                              catch the attention and get momentum with
                              this initial topic)<br>
                              <br>
                              As a first step here, is to work out the
                              scope of the IMS implementation in
                              OpenSIPS. IMS is a vast concept, with SIP
                              and non-SIP components, and we want to
                              understand and agree on which components
                              of IMS may be subject of work from the
                              OpenSIPS perspective. For example, we do
                              consider the CSCF as a must here, but we
                              may explore the HSS, AS, MGW or other
                              components.<br>
                              <br>
                              From the OpenSIPS perspective, we look for
                              IMS components which are SIP related. At
                              least as a starting point. So, the first
                              obvious candidate is the <b>Call Session
                                Control Function (CSCF)</b>. And here we
                              need to look into and address the specific
                              functionalities of each sub-component: <br>
                                  * P-CSCF<br>
                                  * I-CSCF<br>
                                  * S-CSCF<br>
                              <br>
                              Again, these are the pretty obvious
                              components, still may look into and
                              evaluate (if of an interest of the
                              OpenSIPS IMS implementation) areas as:<br>
                                  * HSS </font><font face="monospace">
                              (from interconnection perspective)<br>
                            </font><font face="monospace">    * MGCF /
                              MGW  (from interconnection perspective)<br>
                                  * SIP AS<br>
                                  * others ?<br>
                              <br>
                              Any feedback (with explanations and
                              arguments) about what we should consider
                              for our IMS implementation is more the
                              welcome. I set here just a simple starting
                              point, with no limitations or so. Feel
                              free to contribute to the topic<br>
                              <br>
                              <br>
                              Best regards,<br>
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Bogdan-Andrei Iancu

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