Comparison of DIAMETER Against AAA Network Access Requirements
Pat Calhoun · 2000
The AAA Working Group has completed a document that itemizes their requirements for Network Access Applications (NASREQ, Mobile IP, and ROAMOPS). This specification compares the DIAMETER protocol against the requirements, and is provided to the AAA Working Group as an official submission for an AAA protocol. 1.0 Introduction The AAA Working Group has completed a document that itemizes their requirements for Network Access Applications (NASREQ, Mobile IP, and ROAMOPS). This specification compares the DIAMETER protocol against the requirements, and is provided to the AAA Working Group as an official submission for an AAA protocol. 1.1 Requirements language In this document, the key words MAY, optional, recommended, SHOULD, and are to be interpreted as described in [1]. Please note that the requirements specified in this document are to be used in evaluating AAA protocol submissions. As such, the requirements language refers to capabilities of these protocols; the protocol documents will specify whether these features are required, recommended, or optional. For example, requiring that a protocol support confidentiality is NOT the same thing as requiring that all protocol traffic be encrypted. A protocol submission is not compliant if it fails to satisfy one or more of the MUST or MUST NOT requirements for the capabilities that it implements. A protocol submission that satisfies all the MUST, MUST NOT, SHOULD and SHOULD NOT requirements for its capabilities is said to be unconditionally compliant; one that satisfies all the MUST and MUST NOT requirements but not all the SHOULD or SHOULD NOT requirements for its protocols is said to be conditionally compliant. 2.0 Requirements Summary This section contains the same four sections as found in the AAA Network Access requirements. Each section contains a new column, named DIAMETER. For each requirement, it is noted whether the DIAMETER protocol meets (T), Partially meets (P), or does not ...