Diameter Maintenance and Extensions (dime)
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Charter
Last Modified: 2009-07-07

Current Status: Active Working Group

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

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

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

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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 the following two Diameter Mobility documents to the
               IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standards:* 'Diameter
               Mobile IPv6: Support for Home Agent to Diameter Server
               Interaction' * 'Diameter Mobile IPv6: Support for Network
               Access Server to Diameter Server Interaction'

  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.

  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

  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

  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

  Aug 2009       Submit 'Diameter Application Design Guidelines' to the IESG for
               consideration as a BCP document

  Nov 2009       Submit Revision of 'Diameter Base Protocol' to the IESG for
               consideration as a Proposed Standard

  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 Support for EAP Re-authentication Protocol' 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


Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised         I-D Title   <Filename>
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Feb 2007 Mar 2010   <draft-ietf-dime-diameter-qos-15.txt>
               Diameter Quality of Service Application

May 2007 Mar 2010   <draft-ietf-dime-app-design-guide-11.txt>
               Diameter Applications Design Guidelines

Jan 2009 Mar 2010   <draft-ietf-dime-erp-03.txt>
               Diameter support for the EAP Re-authentication Protocol (ERP)

May 2009 Jan 2010   <draft-ietf-dime-diameter-cc-appl-mib-03.txt>
               Diameter Credit Control Application MIB

May 2009 Jan 2010   <draft-ietf-dime-diameter-base-protocol-mib-04.txt>
               Diameter Base Protocol MIB

Jul 2009 Feb 2010   <draft-ietf-dime-capablities-update-03.txt>
               The Diameter Capabilities Update Application

Jul 2009 Oct 2009   <draft-ietf-dime-realm-based-redirect-02.txt>
               Realm-Based Redirection In Diameter

Aug 2009 Mar 2010   <draft-ietf-dime-nat-control-02.txt>
               Diameter Network Address and Port Translation Control
               Application

Jan 2010 Dec 2009   <draft-ietf-dime-extended-naptr-00.txt>
               Diameter Extended NAPTR

Jan 2010 Jan 2010   <draft-ietf-dime-ikev2-psk-diameter-00.txt>
               Diameter IKEv2: Support for Interaction between IKEv2 Server
               and Diameter Server

Jan 2010 Mar 2010   <draft-ietf-dime-local-keytran-02.txt>
               Diameter Attribute-Value Pairs for Cryptographic Key Transport

Feb 2010 Feb 2010   <draft-ietf-dime-pmip6-lr-00.txt>
               Diameter Support for Proxy Mobile IPv6 Localized Routing

Feb 2010 Feb 2010   <draft-ietf-dime-priority-avps-00.txt>
               Diameter Priority Attribute Value Pairs

Request For Comments:

 RFC   Stat Published     Title
------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------
RFC5447 PS   Feb 2009    Diameter Mobile IPv6: Support for Network Access Server
                      to Diameter Server Interaction

RFC5624 PS   Aug 2009    Quality of Service Parameters for Usage with Diameter

RFC5729 PS   Dec 2009    Clarifications on the Routing of Diameter Requests Based
                      on the Username and the Realm

RFC5719 PS   Jan 2010    Updated IANA Considerations for Diameter Command Code
                      Allocations

RFC5777 PS   Feb 2010    Traffic Classification and Quality of Service (QoS)
                      Attributes for Diameter

RFC5778 PS   Feb 2010    Diameter Mobile IPv6: Support for Home Agent to Diameter
                      Server Interaction

RFC5779 PS   Feb 2010    Diameter Proxy Mobile IPv6: Mobile Access Gateway and
                      Local Mobility Anchor Interaction with Diameter Server