7.2.59 Envelope AVP

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The Envelope AVP (AVP code 1266) is a grouped AVP which reports the start and end time of one time envelope using the Envelope-Start-Time and Envelope-End-Time AVPs. Further details of its usage are described in clause 6.5.6 and clause 6.5.7.

Envelope :: = < AVP Header: 1266>

{ Envelope-Start-Time }

[ Envelope-End-Time ]

[ CC-Total-Octets ]

[ CC-Input-Octets ]

[ CC-Output-Octets ]

[ CC-Service-Specific-Units ]

If an envelope has not been closed at the time of the usage report, then the Envelope-End-Time AVP shall be absent. If an envelope was started before the reporting interval then the Envelope-Start-Time is nevertheless present and contains the same time as previously reported, i.e. the actual time of the start of the envelope. The client shall include the volume reports (the CC-xxxxx-Octets AVPs) or events (CC-Service-Specific-Units AVP) if these were requested in the corresponding Envelope-Reporting AVP. The reported volume is always the volume from the beginning of the time envelope.

In circumstances, in which an envelope is retrospectively deemed to have been closed, e.g. with Quota-Consumption-Time changes in a CCA, then the client shall include the Envelope AVP for the envelope in the next usage report.

Multiple occurrences of this AVP shall be in chronological order, i.e. the first envelope is listed first in CCR.