ETSI TS 102 232-2 V3.12.1 (2020-08)

ETSI TS 102 232-2 V3.12.1 (2020-08)
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
Lawful Interception (LI);
Handover Interface and
Service-Specific Details (SSD) for IP delivery;
Part 2: Service-specific details for messaging services
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2 ETSI TS 102 232-2 V3.12.1 (2020-08)
Reference
RTS/LI-00190-2
Keywords
email, handover, interface, IP, lawful interception,
security, traffic
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Intellectual Property Rights ................................................................................................................................ 6

Foreword ............................................................................................................................................................. 6

Modal verbs terminology .................................................................................................................................... 6

Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................ 6

1 Scope ........................................................................................................................................................ 7

2 References ................................................................................................................................................ 7

2.1 Normative references ......................................................................................................................................... 7

2.2 Informative references ........................................................................................................................................ 9

3 Definition of terms, symbols and abbreviations ....................................................................................... 9

3.1 Terms .................................................................................................................................................................. 9

3.2 Symbols ............................................................................................................................................................ 10

3.3 Abbreviations ................................................................................................................................................... 10

4 General ................................................................................................................................................... 11

4.1 E-mail services ................................................................................................................................................. 11

4.2 Unified messaging ............................................................................................................................................ 11

5 E-mail system model .............................................................................................................................. 11

5.1 Reference network topology............................................................................................................................. 11

5.2 Reference scenarios .......................................................................................................................................... 12

5.2.1 E-mail send failure ...................................................................................................................................... 12

5.2.2 E-mail send success .................................................................................................................................... 13

5.2.3 E-mail download detail ............................................................................................................................... 14

5.2.4 E-mail send detail ....................................................................................................................................... 15

6 E-mail events .......................................................................................................................................... 16

6.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................... 16

6.2 E-mail send event ............................................................................................................................................. 16

6.2.1 Introduction................................................................................................................................................. 16

6.2.2 E-mail send captured content ...................................................................................................................... 17

6.2.3 E-mail send IRI ........................................................................................................................................... 17

6.3 E-mail receive event ......................................................................................................................................... 17

6.3.1 Introduction................................................................................................................................................. 17

6.3.2 E-mail receive captured content .................................................................................................................. 18

6.3.3 E-mail receive IRI ....................................................................................................................................... 18

6.4 E-mail download event ..................................................................................................................................... 18

6.4.1 Introduction................................................................................................................................................. 18

6.4.2 E-mail download captured content ............................................................................................................. 19

6.4.3 E-mail download IRI .................................................................................................................................. 19

7 E-mail attributes ..................................................................................................................................... 19

7.0 Availability of information ............................................................................................................................... 19

7.1 E-mail protocol ID............................................................................................................................................ 20

7.2 E-mail address .................................................................................................................................................. 20

7.3 E-mail recipient list .......................................................................................................................................... 20

7.4 E-mail sender .................................................................................................................................................... 20

7.5 Total recipient count ......................................................................................................................................... 20

7.6 Message ID ....................................................................................................................................................... 20

7.7 Status ................................................................................................................................................................ 20

7.8 Server and client port ....................................................................................................................................... 21

7.9 Server and client octets sent ............................................................................................................................. 21

7.10 AAAInformation .............................................................................................................................................. 21

8 Unified Messaging events ...................................................................................................................... 21

8.0 Generic description........................................................................................................................................... 21

8.1 Delivery of CC ................................................................................................................................................. 22

8.2 Messaging events ............................................................................................................................................. 23

8.3 Messaging box events ...................................................................................................................................... 24

8.4 Messaging notification events .......................................................................................................................... 25

8.5 Messaging call events ....................................................................................................................................... 26

8.6 Signalling of party information ........................................................................................................................ 26

8.7 Messaging properties ........................................................................................................................................ 27

Annex A (normative): SMTP .............................................................................................................. 30

A.1 SMTP introduction ................................................................................................................................. 30

A.2 SMTP HI2 events ................................................................................................................................... 30

A.2.1 E-mail login event ............................................................................................................................................ 30

A.2.2 E-mail send event ............................................................................................................................................. 30

A.2.3 E-mail receive event ......................................................................................................................................... 30

A.3 SMTP HI2 attributes .............................................................................................................................. 31

A.4 SMTP HI2 event-record mapping .......................................................................................................... 31

Annex B (normative): POP3 ............................................................................................................... 32

B.1 POP3 introduction .................................................................................................................................. 32

B.2 POP3 HI2 events .................................................................................................................................... 32

B.2.1 E-mail login event ............................................................................................................................................ 32

B.2.2 E-mail download event ..................................................................................................................................... 32

B.2.3 E-mail partial download event .......................................................................................................................... 32

B.3 POP3 HI2 attributes ............................................................................................................................... 33

B.4 POP3 HI2 event-record mapping ........................................................................................................... 33

B.5 POP3 HI3 delivery of Content of Communication ................................................................................ 34

B.6 POP3 Interception example .................................................................................................................... 34

Annex C (normative): IMAP4 ............................................................................................................. 35

C.1 IMAP4 introduction ............................................................................................................................... 35

C.2 IMAP4 HI2 event-record mapping ......................................................................................................... 35

C.3 IMAP4 HI3 delivery of call content ....................................................................................................... 36

C.4 IMAP4 Interception example ................................................................................................................. 36

Annex D (normative): Messaging ASN.1 ........................................................................................... 38

Annex E (informative): E-mail LI requirements ................................................................................. 46

E.1 HI2 requirements .................................................................................................................................... 46

E.2 HI3 requirements .................................................................................................................................... 47

E.3 General requirements ............................................................................................................................. 48

E.4 Requirements mapping ........................................................................................................................... 48

Annex F (informative): SMTP characteristics .................................................................................... 49

F.1 SMTP service characteristics ................................................................................................................. 49

F.2 SMTP protocol characteristics ............................................................................................................... 49

Annex G (informative): POP3 characteristics ...................................................................................... 50

G.1 POP3 service characteristics .................................................................................................................. 50

G.2 POP3 protocol characteristics ................................................................................................................ 50

Annex H (informative): Discussion of webmail interception .............................................................. 51

H.1 Webmail network topology .................................................................................................................... 51

H.2 Webmail protocols ................................................................................................................................. 51

H.3 Webmail interception ............................................................................................................................. 52

Annex I (informative): Discussion for Driving HI2 of HI3 ................................................................ 53

I.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 53

I.2 Discussion .............................................................................................................................................. 53

I.2.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................... 53

I.2.2 IP packets ......................................................................................................................................................... 54

I.2.3 TCP packets...................................................................................................................................................... 54

I.2.4 SMTP packets .................................................................................................................................................. 54

I.2.5 E-mail messages ............................................................................................................................................... 54

I.3 Conclusion .............................................................................................................................................. 55

Annex J (informative): Change Request History ................................................................................ 56

Annex K (informative): Bibliography ................................................................................................... 60

History .............................................................................................................................................................. 61

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The present document describes what information is required for the handover of intercepted IP-based messaging traffic

from a Communications Service Provider to an LEMF. The present document covers a stage 2 description of the data,

but does not specify any functionality within the scope of ETSI TS 102 232-1 [3].

The Recommendation ITU-T I.130 [6] method for characterizing a service will be used as a general framework for the

present document. The modified concept of a "stage 1" will be called the "attributes" of the interface. The attributes of

the interface are the sum total of the entire constituent attributes that an interface may need to communicate. The

modified concept of a "stage 2" will be called the "events" of the interface. The events of the interface define the rules

of the relationships between the attributes that are required to arrange the disjoint attributes into meaningful information

The present document is intended to be general enough to be used in a variety of messaging services. It should be

recognized that a side effect of this approach is some IRI fields identified may be difficult to extract or non-existent

depending on the messaging service being intercepted. In such cases it may be completely reasonable that the delivered

The present document contains a stage 1 like description of the interception information in relation to the process of

sending and receiving asynchronous messages. The present document also contains a stage 2 like description of when

Intercept Related Information (IRI) and Content of Communication (CC) need to be sent, and what information it needs

Examples of asynchronous messages include: email, unified messaging and chat applications.

The definition of handover transport and encoding of HI2 and HI3 is outside the scope of the present document. Refer

The present document is designed to be used where appropriate in conjunction with other deliverables that define the

service specific IRI data formats. The present document aligns with 3GPP TS 33.108 [5], ETSI TS 101 671 [4], ETSI

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The following referenced documents are necessary for the application of the present document.

[1] ETSI TS 101 331: "Lawful Interception (LI); Requirements of Law Enforcement Agencies".

[3] ETSI TS 102 232-1: "Lawful Interception (LI); Handover Interface and Service-Specific Details

[4] ETSI TS 101 671: "Lawful Interception (LI); Handover interface for the lawful interception of

NOTE: Periodically ETSI TS 101 671 is published as ETSI ES 201 671. A reference to the latest version of the

[5] ETSI TS 133 108: "Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); LTE; Digital cellular

telecommunications system (Phase 2+) (GSM); 3G security; Handover interface for Lawful

[6] Recommendation ITU-T I.130: "Method for the characterization of telecommunication services

NOTE 2: IETF RFC 2822 obsoletes IETF RFC 0822: "Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text messages".

[11] Recommendation ITU-T X.680/ISO/IEC 8824-1: "Information technology - Abstract Syntax

[12] ISO 3166-1: "Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions -- Part 1:

NOTE: IETF RFC 4954 obsoletes IETF RFC 2554: "SMTP Service Extension for Authentication".

NOTE: IETF RFC 4422 obsoletes IETF RFC 2222: "Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)".

[17] IETF RFC 3207: "SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over Transport Layer Security".

[19] IETF RFC 4616: "The PLAIN Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Mechanism".

[20] IETF RFC 2045: "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet

[21] IETF RFC 2046: "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types".

[23] ETSI EN 300 356 (all parts): "Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN); Signalling System

[25] Recommendation ITU-T E.164: "The international public telecommunication numbering plan".

[26] IETF RFC 3696: "Application Techniques for Checking and Transformation of Names".

[27] Recommendation ITU-T E.212: "The international identification plan for public networks and

[30] ETSI TS 124 229: "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+) (GSM); Universal

Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); LTE; 5G; IP multimedia call control protocol based

on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Session Description Protocol (SDP); Stage 3

[35] IETF RFC 6335: "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management

[36] ETSI TS 129 002: "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+) (GSM); Universal

[37] ETSI TS 123 003: "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+) (GSM); Universal

Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); LTE; 5G; Numbering, addressing and identification

[38] ETSI TS 102 232-5: "Lawful Interception (LI); Handover Interface and Service-Specific Details

(SSD) for IP delivery; Part 5: Service-specific details for IP Multimedia Services".