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Private Identity Interrelationships to Public User Identities in IMS Deployments
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 Note
The Transparency Profile is the recommended method of configuring transparency on the SBC Core for
new deployments as well as when applying additional transparency configurations to existing deployments.
Do not use IPSP flags in these scenarios because the flags will be retired in upcoming releases.

Refer to the SBC SIP Transparency Implementation Guide for additional information.

An IMS Subscription stores the subscription data for an IMS user. This data is assumed to indicate the association
of public and private identities and which Public User Identities within a subscription are shared and which are not.
An IMS subscription supports multiple IMS users.

Identity Types
The SBC Core supports the following identity types:

IP Multimedia Private Identity (IMPI) is a unique permanently allocated global identity assigned by the
home network operator, and is used, for example, for Registration, Authorization, Administration, and
Accounting purposes. Every IMS user shall have one IMPI.

IP Multimedia Public Identity (IMPU) is used by any user for requesting communications to other users
(e.g. this might be included on a business card). There can be multiple IMPUs per IMPI. The IMPU can also
be shared with another phone, so that both are reachable using the same identity (e.g. a single phone-
number for an entire family).

Figure 1: Relationship between Private and Public User Identities

Public identities can be grouped together to form an implicit registration set. The public identities in this set get

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implicitly registered via single IMS registration of one of the Public User Identity's in that set. No single public identity
shall be considered as a master to the other Public User Identities. A simple diagram of implicit registration of Public
User Identities is depicted below.

Figure 2: Implicit Registration Set

Public User Identities may be shared among multiple Private User Identities within the same IMS subscription.
Hence a Public User Identity may be simultaneously registered from multiple UEs that use different Private User
Identities and different contact addresses.

The following relationships are possible between Public User Identities and Private User Identities in IMS
deployments:

Single Private Identity Bound to Multiple PUIDs in Implicit Set

Single Private Identity Bound to Implicit Set Plus Additional PUID
Multiple Private Identities Bound to Single PUID
Multiple Private Identities Bound to Implicit Set of Multiple PUIDs

Private Identity Interrelationships to Public User Identities in IMS

Deployments
Single Private Identity Bound to Multiple PUIDs in Implicit Set
Figure 3: Single Contact Bound to Implicit Set

Single Private Identity Bound to Implicit Set Plus Additional PUID

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Figure 4: Additional Public User Identity

Multiple Private Identities Bound to Single PUID

Figure 5: Multiple Contacts Bound to Single PUID

Multiple Private Identities Bound to Implicit Set of Multiple PUIDs

Figure 6: Multiple Contacts Bound to Implicit Set

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