RE: NAI decoration: User Identity issues

[Avi Lior <avi@bridgewatersystems.com>]

The Home Network can set the User Alias to a number of values depending on
the business need.

The User-Alias could be a long lived billing account or it could be the
subscribers phone number etc. 

But if privacy is an issue it can be set to some unique short lived value
that the home network asserts represents the user for a some period of time.
Long enough to serve the business purpose, short enough to offer privacy
protection.  This information can be used for business purposes that you
have described while maintain privacy.

The details of what is placed in the User-Alias will be worked out between
the operators when they negotiate their roaming agreements.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nelson, David [mailto:dnelson@enterasys.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 2:19 PM
> To: Avi Lior
> Cc: radiusext@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: RE: NAI decoration: User Identity issues
> 
> 
> > The intent of User-Alias in the draft (note the draft calls it
> User-Alias
> > as opposed to Billable-Identity) is to allow intermediaries to
> associate
> > this AAA transaction with an actual User without revealing the
> identity
> > of the user.  It's a handle to a user.
> 
> And from a business perspective the intermediates do what 
> with the User-Alias?  Use it to prepare a detailed monthly 
> billing statement for each home entity, including session 
> times for all the User-Aliases? Just curious.
> 
> -- Dave
> 
> 

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