Section: B.3 Other RANAP and S1-AP and NGAP IEs
Content: When transparently copying a RANAP/S1AP/NGAP IE, other than the handover/relocation related generic transparent containers (see Annex B.1) into GTP IE, or GTP IE field the following applies: - a transparent copy of a RANAP/S1AP/NGAP IE, which is transported on the Iu/S1/NG-C interface within a "protocol-IE container", neither includes the Information Element Identity ("IE-ID") nor the "criticality" nor the open type field related length indication ("OT-LI"), but only the Information Element itself ("IE"). - "IE" refers to all parts of the encoded type of the Information Element, i.e. including also any related length indication (in case of types with variable length) and preamble (see ITU-T X.691 [49] for the definition of the term "preamble").