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RE: RADEXT charter, Take 8



Bernard,

Looks OK to me. 

I have two editorial comments:
- would be useful to list references for the 'equivalent facilities' in Diameter (as done for the existing RADIUS RFCs)
- the first paragraph in the Quality Control Plan - this WG will not be chartered until...' will become not relevant after the Charter is approved. I have no problem with its content, it just cannot be part of the Charter.

Regards,

Dan



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radiusext@ops.ietf.org 
> [mailto:owner-radiusext@ops.ietf.org]On Behalf Of Bernard Aboba
> Sent: 24 March, 2004 5:34 AM
> To: radiusext@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: RADEXT charter, Take 8
> 
> 
> RADIUS Extensions Working Group (RADEXT) Charter
> Last Modified: 2004-03-23
> 
> Chair(s):
> David Nelson <dnelson@enterasys.com>
> 
> Operations and Management Area Director(s):
> David Kessens <david.kessens@nokia.com>
> Bert Wijnen <bwijnen@lucent.com>
> 
> Operations and Management Area Advisor:
> David Kessens <david.kessens@nokia.com>
> 
> Technical Advisor:
> Paul Congdon <paul_congdon@hp.com>
> 
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> Description of Working Group:
> 
> The RADIUS Extensions Working Group will focus on extensions
> to the RADIUS protocol required to enable its use in applications
> such as IP telephony and Local Area Network authentication, 
> authorization
> and accounting.
> 
> In order to ensure backward compatibility with RADIUS as well as
> Diameter, the following restrictions are imposed on 
> extensions considered
> by the RADIUSEXT WG:
> 
> - All work MUST be backward compatible with existing RADIUS RFCs,
>   including RFCs 2618-2621, 2865-2869, 3162, 3575, 3576, 
> 3579, and 3580.
> - All work MUST be compatible with equivalent facilities in Diameter.
> - The RADIUS maximum packet size (4K) will not be increased.
> - No new RADIUS transports (e.g. TCP, SCTP) will be defined.
> 
> Work Items
> 
> The immediate goals of the RADIUSEXT working group are to address the
> following issues:
> 
> - RADIUS design guidelines.  This document will provide guidelines
>   for design of RADIUS attributes, including discussion of the
>   appropriate use of RADIUS SDO-Specific Attributes (SSAs). This
>   document will also review RADIUS data types and associated
>   backwards compatibility issues.
> 
> - RADIUS/Diameter translation.  This document will describe the
>   best current practices for RADIUS/Diameter translation.
> 
> - Revised NAI specification.  This document, known as "RFC 2486bis"
>   will revise the NAI specification to provide more details on
>   routing as well as handling internationalization.
> 
> - Pre-paid support.  Prepaid services are contemplated in a number
>   of potential applications, including wireless LAN access and IP
>   telephony.  In order to enable support of pre-paid services in an
>   interoperable way, the WG will provide definitions of the
>   attributes required to support operator service models for
>   pre-paid, as documented in liaison communications.  Support
>   will be included for time, volume, and event oriented charging
>   as well as support for limited differential charging.
>   This document will be compatible with Diameter Credit Control.
> 
> - SIP support.  RADIUS is currently used for SIP authentication,
>   authorization and accounting.  Standardization of these attributes
>   will enable improved interoperability.
> 
> - LAN attributes.  New attributes have been proposed to enable use of
>   RADIUS authentication, authorization and accounting in wired and
>   wireless LANs.  Standardization of these attributes will enable
>   improved interoperability.
> 
> - MIB update.  RFC 2618-2621 lack IPv6 compatiblity, and modest
>   changes are required to address this issue.
> 
> Goals and Milestones:
> 
> Dec 04  Updated RADIUS MIBs submitted for publication.
> Dec 04  SIP authentication draft submitted as a Proposed Standard RFC.
> Feb 05  WLAN attributes submitted as a Proposed Standard RFC.
> Feb 05  RFC 2486bis submitted as a Proposed Standard.
> Dec 05  RADIUS design guidelines submitted as an Informational RFC.
> Dec 05  RADIUS/Diameter translation document submitted as a BCP.
> Dec 05  LAN attributes submitted as a Proposed Standard RFC.
> Dec 05  Prepaid draft submitted as a Proposed Standard RFC.
> 
> Quality Control Plan
> 
> In order to ensure quality of work:
> 
> * This WG will not be chartered until sufficient resources can be
>   demonstrated to be available to guarantee a high probability of
>   success.  This includes recruitment of a core of editors and
>   reviewers with significant IETF experience and demonstrated time
>   commitment.
> 
> * All drafts will need to undergo review prior to acceptance 
> as WG work
>   items, which includes demonstration that the drafts are backward
>   compatible with RADIUS RFCs and are compatible with equivalent
>   facilities in Diameter.  Given the backwards compatibility 
> issues, no
>   document including sub-attributes will be considered for 
> publication as
>   an RFC before the RADIUS design guidelines and RADIUS/Diameter
>   translation work items are completed, analyzing the issues in
>   a comprehensive way.
> 
> * The WG will utilize an automated issue tracking system.
> 
> * XML to RFC will be used in production of documents.  This enables
>   production of HTML and text files from a single source file as
>   well as automated production of difference files.
> 
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