[SIPForum-discussion] SIP billing confusion

[neeraj kumar]

Well, a lot depends on the actual deployment scenario as well. Packet or
data based charging increasingly being the norm, this "per call charging"
becomes redundant there.

On 10/06/2010, Vivek Talwar <vivek.talwar at aricent.com> wrote:
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>  Suppose INVITE is send without SDP, in this case SDP Offer will come in
> 200 or 180 and SDP Answer will in ACK. In this scenario, no charging can be
> done on 200 OK. So, always better to start charging on ACK
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> Thanks and Regards,
>
> Vivek Talwar
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> *From:* discussion-bounces at sipforum.org [mailto:
> discussion-bounces at sipforum.org] *On Behalf Of *Roy, Nishant Kishore
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 08, 2010 10:22 AM
> *To:* shibli ahamed; discussion at sipforum.org
> *Subject:* Re: [SIPForum-discussion] SIP billing confusion
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> Hi Shibli,
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> When  case 4 is over you will have your port open for data transfer , it
> means two party is connected so you must start charging from case 4 onwards
> and as soon as bye accepted i.e case 06 ,you should stop charging , because
> after accepting bye this party will close the socket at tcp level .
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> Regards
>
> Nishant kishore roy
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> *From:* discussion-bounces at sipforum.org [mailto:
> discussion-bounces at sipforum.org] *On Behalf Of *shibli ahamed
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 08, 2010 9:21 AM
> *To:* discussion at sipforum.org
> *Subject:* [SIPForum-discussion] SIP billing confusion
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>
> please consider this sip call flow:
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> A                                        B
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> 01        INVITE
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>      ----------------------------------->
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> 02       100 TRYING
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>     <------------------------------------
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> 03       180 Ringing
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>     <------------------------------------
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> 04       200OK With SDP
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>    <----------------------------------------
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> 05       ACK
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>    ------------------------------------------>
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> 06             BYE
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>    <------------------------------------------
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> 07           200 OK
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>    ------------------------------------------->
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>
> Query:
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> 1. Is there any rfc recommendation when to start bill and stop it, some
> says its start after 4 and stop at 06 some says its start after 5 and stop
> at 7?
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> 2. is it ok if someone start bill after 05 and stop after 06?
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