Subject: WG Review: Recharter of Diameter Maintenance and Extensions (dime)

From: IESG Secretary <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:30:01 -0700 (PDT)

A modified charter has been submitted for the Diameter Maintenance and
Extensions (dime) working group in the Operations and Management Area of
the IETF.  The IESG has not made any determination as yet.  The modified
charter is provided below for informational purposes only.  Please send
your comments to the IESG mailing list ([email-masked]) by Tuesday, June
30, 2009.

Diameter Maintenance and Extensions (dime)
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Last Modified: 2009-06-10

Current Status: Working Group

Chair(s):
 Hannes Tschofenig <[email-masked]>
 Victor Fajardo <[email-masked]>

Operations and Management Area Director(s):
 Dan Romascanu <[email-masked]>
 Ronald Bonica <[email-masked]>

Operations and Management Area Advisor:
 Dan Romascanu <[email-masked]>

Mailing Lists:
 General Discussion: [email-masked]
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 Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dime/current/maillist.html

Description of Working Group:

The Diameter Maintenance and Extensions WG will focus on maintenance
and extensions to the Diameter protocol required to enable its use for
authentication, authorization, accounting and provisioning in network
access as well as for other applications environments
(e.g., IP telephony, mobility).

The IETF has completed work on the Diameter Base protocol and is
working on revising the base protocol specification. There is on-going
work on defining RADIUS extensions and the DIME WG will ensure
that work done in RADEXT is also available for Diameter.

The DIME working group plains to address the following items:

- Maintaining and/or progressing, along the standards track, the
Diameter Base protocol and Diameter Applications. This includes
extensions to Diameter Base protocol that can be considered as enhanced
features or bug fixes, such NAI routing or capability update extensions.

- Diameter application design guideline. This document will provide
guidelines for design of Diameter extensions. It will detail when to
consider reusing an existing application and when to develop a new
application.

- Diameter QoS extensions. This work focuses on extensions to
Diameter to support QoS information to be authorized and provisioned
in AAA deployments.

- Protocol extensions for the management of Diameter entities. This work

focuses on the standardization of Management Information Bases (MIBs)
to configure Diameter entities (such as the Diameter Base protocol or
Diameter Credit Control nodes). The usage of other management protocols
for configuring Diameter entities may be future work within the group.

- Diameter extensions for mobility protocols, such as Mobile IPv6 and
Proxy Mobile IPv6. Diameter extensions to support handover keying
developed in the HOKEY WG are part of this effort.

- New Diameter applications, such as the Diameter NAT control
application.
This group will also conduct work on new Diameter applications with
a Diameter application for configuring NATs as the first item.

Additionally, AAA systems require interoperability in order to work.
The working group, along with the AD, will need to evaluate
any potential extensions and require verification that the proposed
extension is needed. Coordination with other IETF working groups
and other SDOs will used to ensure this.

Goals and Milestones:

Done Submit 'Diameter Mobile IPv6: Support for Home Agent to
Diameter Server Interaction' to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed
Standard
Done Submit 'Diameter Mobile IPv6: Support for Network Access
Server to Diameter Server Interaction' to the IESG for consideration as
a Proposed Standard
Done Submit 'Diameter API' to the IESG for consideration as
an Informational RFC
Done Submit 'Quality of Service Parameters for Usage with
Diameter' to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
Nov 2009 Submit 'Revision of Diameter Base Protocol' to
the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard
Done Submit 'Diameter QoS Application' to the IESG for
consideration as a Proposed Standard
Done Submit 'Diameter Support for EAP Re-authentication
Protocol' as DIME working group item
Done Submit 'Diameter User-Name and Realm Based Request
Routing Clarifications' as DIME working group item
Done Submit 'Diameter Proxy Mobile IPv6' as DIME working
group item
Done Submit 'Quality of Service Attributes for Diameter' to
the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard
Aug 2009 Submit 'Diameter Application Design Guidelines'
to the IESG for consideration as a BCP document
Done Submit 'Diameter Proxy Mobile IPv6' to the IESG for
consideration as a Proposed Standard
Done Submit 'Diameter User-Name and Realm Based Request
Routing Clarifications' to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed
Standard
Jan 2010 Submit 'Diameter Support for EAP
Re-authentication Protocol' to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed
Standard
Jun 2009 Submit new DIME charter to the IESG
Jun 2009 Submit 'Updated IANA Considerations for Diameter
Command Code Allocations' as DIME working group item
Jul 2009 Submit 'Updated IANA Considerations for Diameter
Command Code Allocations' to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed
Standard
Jul 2009 Submit 'Diameter NAT Control Application' as
DIME working group item
Jul 2009 Submit 'Diameter Capabilities Update' as DIME
working group item
Nov 2009 Submit ' Diameter Credit Control Application
MIB' to the IESG for consideration as an Informational RFC
Nov 2009 Submit 'Diameter Base Protocol MIB' to the IESG
for consideration as an Informational RFC
Nov 2009 Submit 'Diameter Capabilities Update' to the
IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard
Jan 2010 Submit 'Diameter NAT Control Application' to the
IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard