AAA Working Group                               Bernard Aboba, Microsoft
INTERNET-DRAFT                                            Pat R. Calhoun
Category: Informational                                  Steven M. Glass
<draft-ietf-aaa-na-reqts-07.txt>                  Sun Microsystems, Inc.
24 August 2000                                                Tom Hiller
                                                             Pete McCann
                                                           Hajime Shiino
                                                                  Lucent
                                                               Glen Zorn
                                                           Gopal Dommety
                                                     Cisco Systems, Inc.
                                                         Charles Perkins
                                                         Basavaraj Patil
                                                Nokia Telecommunications
                                                             Dave Mitton
                                                           Serge Manning
                                                         Nortel Networks
                                            Mark Beadles, SmartPipes Inc
                                                    Pat Walsh, Ameritech
                                                      Xing Chen, Alcatel
                                         Takahiro Ayaki, DDI Corporation
                 Sanjeevan Sivalingham, Ericsson Wireless Communications
                                                    Alan Hameed, Fujitsu
                                               Mark Munson, GTE Wireless
                                         Stuart Jacobs, GTE Laboratories
                                             Takuo Seki, IDO Corporation
                    Byng-Keun Lim, LG Information & Communications, Ltd.
                                               Brent Hirschman, Motorola
                                                 Ray Hsu, Qualcomm, Inc.
                     Haeng Koo, Samsung Telecommunications America, Inc.
                                                Mark Lipford, Sprint PCS
                                                             Yingchun Xu
                                                             Ed Campbell
                                                        3Com Corporation
                           Shinichi Baba, Toshiba America Research, Inc.
                                         Eric Jaques, Vodaphone Airtouch

        Criteria for Evaluating AAA Protocols for Network Access

This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all
provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.

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11..  Copyright Notice

Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000).  All Rights Reserved.

22..  Abstract

This document represents a summary of AAA protocol requirements for
network access. In creating this documents, inputs were taken from
documents produced by the NASREQ, ROAMOPS, and MOBILEIP working groups,
as well as from TIA 45.6. This document summarizes the requirements
collected from those sources, separating requirements for
authentication, authorization and accounting.  Details on the
requirements are available in the original documents.

33..  Introduction

This document represents a summary of AAA protocol requirements for
network access. In creating this documents, inputs were taken from
documents produced by the NASREQ [3], ROAMOPS [2], and MOBILEIP [5]
working groups, as well as from TIA 45.6 [4]. This document summarizes
the requirements collected from those sources, separating requirements
for authentication, authorization and accounting.  Details on the
requirements are available in the original documents.

33..11..  Requirements language

In this document, the key words "MAY", "MUST,  "MUST  NOT",  "optional",
"recommended",  "SHOULD",  and  "SHOULD  NOT",  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



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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."

33..22..  Terminology


Accounting
          The act of collecting information on resource usage for the
          purpose of trend analysis, auditing, billing, or cost
          allocation.

Administrative Domain
          An internet, or a collection of networks, computers, and
          databases under a common administration.  Computer entities
          operating in a common administration may be assumed to share
          administratively created security associations.

Attendant A node designed to provide the service interface between a
          client and the local domain.

Authentication
          The act of verifying a claimed identity, in the form of a pre-
          existing label from a mutually known name space, as the
          originator of a message (message authentication) or as the
          end-point of a channel (entity authentication).

Authorization
          The act of determining if a particular right, such as access
          to some resource, can be granted to the presenter of a
          particular credential.

Billing   The act of preparing an invoice.

Broker    A Broker is an entity that is in a different administrative
          domain from both the home AAA server and the local ISP, and
          which provides services, such as facilitating payments between
          the local ISP and home administrative entities.  There are two
          different types of brokers; proxy and routing.

Client    A node wishing to obtain service from an attendant within an
          administrative domain.

End-to-End
          End-to-End is the security model that requires that security



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          information be able to traverse, and be validated even when an
          AAA message is processed by intermediate nodes such as
          proxies, brokers, etc.

Foreign Domain
          An administrative domain, visited by a Mobile IP client, and
          containing the AAA infrastructure needed to carry out the
          necessary operations enabling Mobile IP registrations.  From
          the point of view of the foreign agent, the foreign domain is
          the local domain.

Home Domain
          An administrative domain, containing the network whose prefix
          matches that of a mobile node's home address, and containing
          the AAA infrastructure needed to carry out the necessary
          operations enabling Mobile IP registrations.  From the point
          of view of the home agent, the home domain is the local
          domain.

Hop-by-hop
          Hop-by-hop is the security model that requires that each
          direct set of peers in a proxy network share a security
          association, and the security information does not traverse a
          AAA entity.

Inter-domain Accounting
          Inter-domain accounting is the collection of information on
          resource usage of an entity within an administrative domain,
          for use within another administrative domain.  In inter-domain
          accounting, accounting packets and session records will
          typically cross administrative boundaries.

Intra-domain Accounting
          Intra-domain accounting is the collection of information on
          resource within an administrative domain, for use within that
          domain.  In intra-domain accounting, accounting packets and
          session records typically do not cross administrative
          boundaries.

Local Domain
          An administrative domain containing the AAA infrastructure of
          immediate interest to a Mobile IP client when it is away from
          home.

Proxy     A AAA proxy is an entity that acts as both a client and a
          server. When a request is received from a client, the proxy
          acts as a AAA server. When the same request needs to be
          forwarded to another AAA entity, the proxy acts as a AAA



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          client.

Local Proxy
          A Local Proxy is a AAA server that satisfies the definition of
          a Proxy, and exists within the same administrative domain as
          the network device (e.g. NAS) that issued the AAA request.
          Typically, a local proxy will enforce local policies prior to
          forwarding responses to the network devices, and are generally
          used to multiplex AAA messages from a large number of network
          devices.

Network Access Identifier
          The Network Access Identifier (NAI) is the userID submitted by
          the client during network access authentication.  In roaming,
          the purpose of the NAI is to identify the user as well as to
          assist in the routing of the authentication request.  The NAI
          may not necessarily be the same as the user's e-mail address
          or the user-ID submitted in an application layer
          authentication.

Routing Broker
          A Routing Broker is a AAA entity that satisfies the definition
          of a Broker, but is NOT in the transmission path of AAA
          messages between the local ISP and the home domain's AAA
          servers. When a request is received by a Routing Broker,
          information is returned to the AAA requester that includes the
          information necessary for it to be able to contact the Home
          AAA server directly. Certain organizations providing Routing
          Broker services MAY also act as a Certificate Authority,
          allowing the Routing Broker to return the certificates
          necessary for the local ISP and the home AAA servers to
          communicate securely.

Non-Proxy Broker
          A Routing Broker is occasionally referred to as a Non-Proxy
          Broker.

Proxy Broker
          A Proxy Broker is a AAA entity that satisfies the definition
          of a Broker, and acts as a Transparent Proxy by acting as the
          forwarding agent for all AAA messages between the local ISP
          and the home domain's AAA servers.

Real-time Accounting
          Real-time accounting involves the processing of information on
          resource usage within a defined time window.  Time constraints
          are typically imposed in order to limit financial risk.




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Roaming Capability
          Roaming capability can be loosely defined as the ability to
          use any one of multiple Internet service providers (ISPs),
          while maintaining a formal, customer-vendor relationship with
          only one. Examples of cases where roaming capability might be
          required include ISP "confederations" and ISP- provided
          corporate network access support.

Session record
          A session record represents a summary of the resource
          consumption of a user over the entire session.  Accounting
          gateways creating the session record may do so by processing
          interim accounting events.

Transparent Proxy
          A Transparent Proxy is a AAA server that satisfies the
          definition of a Proxy, but does not enforce any local policies
          (meaning that it does not add, delete or modify attributes or
          modify information within messages it forwards).

44..  Requirements Summary

The AAA protocol evaluation criteria for network access are summarized
below. For details on the requirements, please consult the documents
referenced in the footnotes.


























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44..11..  General requirements

These requirements apply to all aspects of AAA and thus are considered
general requirements.

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|  General                  | NASREQ  | ROAMOPS | MOBILE  |
|  Reqts.                   |         |         |   IP    |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   Scalability             |    M    |   M     |    M    |
|      a                    |   12    |   3     |  30 39  |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   Fail-over               |    M    |         |    M    |
|      b                    |   12    |         |   31    |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   Mutual auth             |    M    |         |    M    |
|   AAA client/server       |   16    |         |   30    |
|      c                    |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   Transmission level      |         |   M     |    S    |
|   security                |         |   6     |  31 39  |
|      d                    |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|  Data object              |    M    |   M     |    M    |
|  Confidentiality          |   26    |   6     |   40    |
|      e                    |         |         |         |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|  Data object              |    M    |   M     |    M    |
|  Integrity                |   16    |   6     |  31 39  |
|      f                    |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|  Certificate transport    |    M    |         |  S/M    |
|      g                    |   42    |         |31,33/46 |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+




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+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|  Reliable AAA transport   |    M    |         |    M    |
|  mechanism                |   22    |         |  31 32  |
|      h                    |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   Run Over IPv4           |    M    |   M     |    M    |
|                           |   11    |   1     |   33    |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   Run Over IPv6           |    M    |         |    S    |
|                           |   11    |   1     |   47    |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|  Support Proxy and        |    M    |         |    M    |
|  Routing Brokers          |   12    |         |  31 39  |
|      i                    |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|  Auditability             |    S    |         |         |
|      j                    |   25    |         |         |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   Dual App and Transport  |         |   O     |     M   |
|    Security not required  |         |   6     |    40   |
|      k                    |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|  Ability to carry         |    M    |         |    S    |
|  service-specific attr.   |   43    |         |  31 33  |
|      l                    |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Key
M = MUST
S = SHOULD
O = MAY
N = MUST NOT
B = SHOULD NOT








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Clarifications

[a]  The AAA protocol must be capable of supporting millions of users
     and tens of thousands of simultaneous requests. The AAA
     architecture and protocol MUST be capable of supporting tens of
     thousands of devices, AAA servers, proxies and brokers.

[b]  In the event of failure to communicate with a given server, the
     protocol must provide a mechanism to change service to another
     backup or secondary server.

[c]  This requirement refers to the ability to support mutual
     authentication between the AAA client and server.

[d]  The AAA protocol requires authentication, integrity protection and
     confidentiality at the transmission layer. This security model is
     also referred to as hop-by-hop security, whereas the security is
     established between two communicating peers. All of the security is
     removed when the AAA message is processed by a receiving AAA
     entity.

[e]  The AAA protocol requires confidentiality at the object level,
     where an object consists of one or more attributes. Object level
     confidentiality implies that only the target AAA entity for whom
     the data is ultimately destined may decrypt the data, regardless of
     the fact that the message may traverse one or more intermediate AAA
     entities (e.g. proxies, brokers).

[f]  The AAA protocol requires authentication and integrity protection
     at the object level, which consists of one or more attributes.
     Object level authentication must be persistent across one or more
     intermediate AAA entity (e.g. proxy, broker, etc), meaning that any
     AAA entity in a proxy chain may verify the authentication. This
     implies that data that is covered by object level security CANNOT
     be modified by intermediate servers.

[g]  The AAA protocol MUST be capable of transporting certificates. This
     requirement is intended as an optimization, in lieu of requiring
     that an out-of-band protocol be used to fetch certificates.

[h]  This requirement refers to resilience against packet loss,
     including:
        1. Hop-by-hop retransmission and fail-over so that reliability
        does not solely depend on single hop transport retransmission.
        2. Control of the retransmission mechanism by the AAA application.
        3. Acknowledgment by the transport that a message was delivered
        successfully, separate from message semantics or syntax evaluation.
        5. Piggy-backing of acknowledgments in AAA messages.



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        6. Timely delivery of AAA responses.

[i]  In the Mobile IP AAA architecture, brokers can be in the forwarding
     path, in which case they act as transparent proxies (proxy
     brokers).  Alternatively, it is also possible to conceive of
     brokers operating as certifying authorities outside of the
     forwarding path (routing brokers).

[j]  An auditable process is one in which it is possible to definitively
     determine what actions have been performed on AAA packets as they
     travel from the home AAA server to the network device and back.

[k]  The AAA protocol MUST allow communication to be secured.  However,
     the AAA protocol MUST also allow an underlying security service
     (e.g. IP Security) to be used. When the latter is used, the former
     MUST NOT be required.

[l]  The AAA protocol MUST be extensible by third parties (e.g. other
     IETF Working Groups), in order to define attributes that are
     specific to the service being defined. This requirement simply
     means that the AAA protocol MUST allow groups other than the AAA WG
     to define standard attributes.





























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44..22..  Authentication Requirements

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
| Authentication            | NASREQ  | ROAMOPS | MOBILE  |
| Reqts.                    |         |         |   IP    |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   NAI Support             |    M    |   M     |   S/M   |
|      a                    |    9    |   2     |32,34,39/|
|                           |         |         |   40    |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   CHAP Support            |    M    |   M     |         |
|      b                    |   10    |   3     |         |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   EAP Support             |    M    |   S     |         |
|      c                    |   10    |   3     |         |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   PAP/Clear-Text Support  |    M    |   B     |         |
|      d                    |   26    |   3     |         |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   Re-authentication       |    M    |         |    S    |
|   on demand               |   17    |         |   33    |
|      e                    |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   Authorization Only      |    M    |         |         |
|   without Authentication  |    9    |         |         |
|      f                    |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Key
M = MUST
S = SHOULD
O = MAY
N = MUST NOT
B = SHOULD NOT

Clarifications




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[a]  The AAA protocol MUST allow the use of Network Access Identifiers
     (NAI) [8] to identify users and/or devices.

[b]  The AAA protocol MUST allow CHAP [20] authentication information to
     be transported. This is commonly used by Network Access Servers
     that request authentication of a PPP user.

[c]  The AAA protocol MUST allow for Extensible Authentication Protocol
     (EAP) [14] payload to be transported. Since some EAP authentication
     mechanisms require more than one round trip, the AAA protocol must
     allow for such authentication mechanisms to be used. The actual EAP
     authentication mechanism negotiated MUST be transparent to the AAA
     protocol. When EAP is used, authentication typically occurs between
     the user being authenticated and his/her home AAA server.

[d]  While PAP is deprecated, it is still in widespread use for its
     original intended purpose, which is support of clear-text
     passwords.  As a result, a AAA protocol will need to be able to
     securely transport clear-text passwords. This includes providing
     for confidentiality of clear-text passwords traveling over the
     wire, as well as protecting against disclosure of clear-text
     passwords to proxies in the forwarding path.

[e]  The AAA protocol MUST allow for a user to be re-authenticated on-
     demand. The protocol MUST allow for this event to be triggered by
     either the user, access device (AAA client), or the home or visited
     AAA server.

[f]  The AAA protocol MUST NOT require that credentials of the user be
     provided during authorization. The AAA protocol supports
     authorization by identification or assertion only.




















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44..33..  Authorization Requirements

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
| Authorization             | NASREQ  | ROAMOPS | MOBILE  |
| Reqts.                    |         |         |   IP    |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|   Static and Dynamic      |         |         |         |
|   IPv4/6 Address Assign.  |    M    |   M     |   M     |
|      a                    |   11    |   5     | 32 36   |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   RADIUS gateway          |    M    |   M     |    M    |
|   capability              |   44    |   3     |    45   |
|      b                    |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   Reject                  |    M    |   M     |   M     |
|   capability              |   12    |   4     |  39     |
|      c                    |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   Precludes layer 2       |    N    |   N     |         |
|   tunneling               |   11    |   5     |         |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|  Re-Authorization on      |    M    |         |   S     |
|   demand                  |   18    |         | 30 33   |
|      d                    |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|  Support for Access Rules,|    M    |         |         |
|  Restrictions, Filters    | 11, 19  |         |         |
|      e                    |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|  State Reconciliation     |    M    |         |         |
|      f                    |   20    |         |         |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|  Unsolicited Disconnect   |    M    |         |         |
|      g                    |   18    |         |         |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+



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Key
M = MUST
S = SHOULD
O = MAY
N = MUST NOT
B = SHOULD NOT

Clarifications

[a]  The AAA protocol MUST allow a server to provide a static or dynamic
     address during the authorization phase of a user and/or device. The
     address assigned MUST be either of type IPv4 or IPv6.  If both the
     client AND the server are aware of a pre-configured address, then
     it is considered static. Anything else is dynamic.

[b]  This requirement refers to the ability of a new AAA protocol be
     sufficiently compatible with the large installed base of attributes
     for existing approaches (RADIUS), such that a server implementation
     could speak both protocols, or translate between them.

[c]  This requirement refers to the ability of a proxy broker to deny
     access without forwarding the access request to the AAA server, or
     to deny access after receiving an access accept from the AAA
     server.

[d]  This requirement refers to the ability of the AAA client or server
     to trigger re-authorization, or to the ability of the server to
     send updated authorization information to the device, such as "stop
     service." Authorization can allow for a time period, then
     additional authorization can be sought to continue.  A server can
     initially authorize a user to connect and receive services, but
     later decide the user is no longer allowed use of the service, for
     example after N minutes. Authorizations can have a time limit. Re-
     authorization does not necessarily imply re-authentication.

[e]  This requirement refers to the ability to of the protocol to
     describe access operational limitations and authorization
     restrictions to usage to the NAS which includes (but is not limited
     to):
        1. Session expirations and Idle Timeouts
        2. Packet filters
        3. Static routes
        4. QoS parameters

[f]  This requirement refers to the ability of the NAS to use the AAA
     server to manage resource allocation state. This capability can
     assist with, but it is not synonymous with, simultaneous user login
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     The design must provide for recovery from data loss due to a
     variety of faults, including NAS and AAA server reboots, and
     NAS/AAA server communication outages, and MUST be independent of
     the accounting stream.  The granularity of the recovery of state
     information after an outage may be on the order of a fraction of a
     minute. In order to provide for state recovery, explicit
     session/resource status and update and disconnect messages will be
     required.

     Because of potential multi-domain issues, only systems that
     allocate or use a resource should track its state.

[g]  This requirement refers to the ability of the AAA server to request
     the NAS to disconnect an active session for authorization policy
     reasons.




































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44..44..  Accounting Requirements

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
| Accounting                | NASREQ  | ROAMOPS | MOBILE  |
| Reqts.                    |         |         |   IP    |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   Real-time accounting    |    M    |    M    |   M     |
|      a                    |   14    |    7    |  31     |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   Mandatory Compact       |         |    M    |         |
|    Encoding               |         |    7    |         |
|      b                    |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   Accounting Record       |         |    M    |   M     |
|    Extensibility          |         |    7    |  33     |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   Batch Accounting        |    S    |         |         |
|      c                    |   21    |         |         |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   Guaranteed Delivery     |    M    |         |    M    |
|      d                    |   22    |         |   31    |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|   Accounting Time Stamps  |    M    |         |    M    |
|      e                    |   23    |         |   40    |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|  Dynamic Accounting       |    M    |         |         |
|      f                    |   48    |         |         |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Key
M = MUST
S = SHOULD
O = MAY



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N = MUST NOT
B = SHOULD NOT

Clarifications

[a]  This requirement may be loosely defined as reporting synchronously
     with events. Typically the time window is on the order of seconds,
     not milliseconds.

[b]  The AAA protocol's Accounting data format MUST NOT be bloated,
     imposing a large overhead for one or more accounting data elements.

[c]  This requirement refers to the ability to buffer or store multiple
     accounting records, and send them together at some later time.

[d]  This is an application layer acknowledgment. This is sent when the
     receiving server is willing to take responsibility for the message
     data.

[e]  This requirement refers to the ability to reflect the time of
     occurrence of events such as log-on, logoff, authentication,
     authorization and interim accounting. It also implies the ability
     to provide for unambiguous time-stamps.

[f]  This requirement refers to the ability to account for dynamic
     authentication and authorization. To support this, there can be
     multiple accounting records for a single session.
























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44..55..  Unique Mobile IP requirements

In addition to the above requirements, Mobile IP also has the following
additional requirements:

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|  Encoding of Mobile IP    |         |         |   M     |
|  registration messages    |         |         |   33    |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|  Firewall friendly        |         |         |   M     |
|      a                    |         |         |   35    |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                           |         |         |         |
|  Allocation of local Home |         |         |   S/M   |
|  agent                    |         |         |  37/41  |
|                           |         |         |         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Key
M = MUST
S = SHOULD
O = MAY
N = MUST NOT
B = SHOULD NOT

Clarifications

[a]  A firewall friendly protocol is one which is designed to
     accommodate a firewall acting as a proxy. For example, this would
     permit a Home Agent AAA server situated behind a firewall to be
     reachable from the Internet for the purposes of providing AAA
     services to a Mobile IP Foreign Agent.

     Footnotes

     [1] Section 4.2.1 of [2]
     [2] Section 4.2.2 of [2]. Also see [8].
     [3] Section 4.2.3 of [2]. Also see [14].
     [4] Section 4.2.4 of [2].
     [5] Section 4.2.5 of [2].
     [6] Section 4.2.6 of [2].
     [7] Section 4.3 of [2].
     [8] Section 6 of [3].  Also see [6].
     [9] Section 8.2.2.2 of [3].  Also see [14].



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     [10] Section 8.2.2.1 of [3].  Also see [14].
     [11] Section 8.3.2.2 of [3].  Also see [7].
     [12] Section 8.1.1 of [3].
     [13] Section 8.1.4.4 of [3].
     [14] Section 8.4.1.2 of [3].
     [15] Section 8.4.2 of [3].
     [16] Section 8.1.3 of [3].
     [17] Section 8.2.1.2 of [3].
     [18] Section 8.3.1.1 of [3].
     [19] Section 8.3.2.1 of [3].  Also see [7].
     [20] Section 8.3.2.3 of [3].  Also see [6], [7].
     [21] Section 8.4.1.3 of [3].
     [22] Section 8.4.1.1 of [3].
     [23] Section 8.4.1.4 of [3].
     [24] Section 8.4.3.1 of [3].
     [25] Section 8.4.3.2 of [3].
     [26] Section 8.2.3.1 of [3].
     [27] Section 8.3.3.1 of [3].
     [28] Section 8.1.4.1 of [3].
     [29] Refer [15]
     [30] Section 3 of [5]
     [31] Section 3.1 of [5]
     [32] Section 4 of [5]
     [33] Section 5 of [5]
     [34] Section 5.1 of [5]
     [35] Section 5.2 of [5]
     [36] Section 5.3 of [5]
     [37] Section 5.4 of [5]
     [38] Section 5.5 of [5]
     [39] Section 6 of [5]
     [40] Section 5.1 of [4]
     [41] Section 5.2.2 of [4]
     [42] Section 8.2.2.2 of [3]
     [43] Section 8.1.2.3 of [3]
     [44] Section 8.1.2.2 of [3]
     [45] Section 5.4 of [4]
     [46] Section 7 of [4]
     [47] Section 8 of [5]
     [48] Section 8.4.1.5 of [3]

55..  References


[1]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
     Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

[2]  Aboba, B., Zorn, G., "Criteria for Evaluating Roaming Protocols",
     RFC 2477, January 1999.



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[3]  Beadles, M., Mitton, D. "Criteria for Evaluating Network Access
     Server Protocols", Internet draft (work in progress), draft-ietf-
     nasreq-criteria-05.txt, June 2000.

[4]  Hiller, T., et al., "Cdma2000 Wireless Data Requirements for AAA",
     Internet draft (work in progress), draft-hiller-
     cdma2000-aaa-01.txt, June 2000.

[5]  Glass, S., Hiller, T., Jacobs, S., Perkins, C., "Mobile IP
     Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting Requirements",
     Internet draft (work in progress), draft-ietf-mobileip-aaa-
     reqs-04.txt, June 2000.

[6]  Mitton, D., Beadles, M., "Network Access Server Requirements Next
     Generation (NASREQNG) NAS Model", Internet draft (work in
     progress), draft-ietf-nasreq-nasmodel-02.txt, May 2000.

[7]  Mitton, D., "Network Access Server Requirements: Extended RADIUS
     Practices", Internet draft (work in progress), draft-ietf-nasreq-
     ext-radiuspract-03.txt, May 2000.

[8]  Aboba,  B., Beadles, M.,  "The Network Access Identifier", RFC
     2486, January 1999.

[9]  Rigney, C., Willens, S., Rubens, A., Simpson, W., "Remote
     Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)", RFC  2865, June
     2000.

[10] Rigney, C., "RADIUS  Accounting", RFC 2866, June 2000.

[11] Simpson, W., Editor, "The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)", STD 51,
     RFC 1661, July 1994.

[12] Sklower, K., Lloyd, B., McGregor, G., Carr, D., and T. Coradetti,
     "The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP)", RFC 1990, August 1996.

[13] Simpson, W., Editor, "PPP LCP Extensions", RFC 1570, January 1994.

[14] Blunk, L., Vollbrecht, J., "PPP Extensible Authentication Protocol
     (EAP)", RFC 2284, March 1998.

[15] Solomon, J., Glass, S., "Mobile-IPv4 Configuration Option for PPP
     IPCP" RFC 2290, Feb 1998

[16] Calhoun, P., Perkins, C. "Mobile IP Network Access Identifier
     Extension for IPv4", RFC 2794, March 2000.





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[17] Perkins, C., "IP Mobility Support", RFC 2002, Oct 1996.

[18] Johnson, D., Perkins, C., "Mobility Support in IPv6", draft-ietf-
     mobileip-ipv6-11.txt, March 2000.

[19] Aboba, B., Vollbrecht, J., "Proxy Chaining and Policy
     Implementation in Roaming", RFC 2607, June 1999.

[20] Simpson, W., "PPP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
     (CHAP)", RFC 1994, August 1996.

66..  Security Considerations

This document, being a requirements document, does not have any security
concerns.  The security requirements on protocols to be evaluated using
this document are described in the referenced documents.

77..  IANA Considerations

This draft does not create any new number spaces for IANA
administration.

88..  Acknowledgments

Thanks to the members of the Mobile IP, AAA, and NASREQ working groups
who have discussed and commented on these requirements. We would also
like to thank the members of the AAA evaluation team, Mike St. Johns,
Barney Wolf, Mark Stevens, David Nelson, Dave Mitton, Basavaraj Patil
and Stuart Barkley for their thorough review of this document.

99..  Authors' Addresses

Bernard Aboba
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052

Phone: +1 (425) 936-6605
Fax:   +1 (425) 936-7329
Email: bernarda@microsoft.com

Pat R. Calhoun
Network and Security Research Center, Sun Labs
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
15 Network Circle
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Phone: +1 (650) 786-7733



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Email: pcalhoun@eng.sun.com

Steven M. Glass
Sun Microsystems
1 Network Drive
Burlington, MA. 01845

Phone: +1 (781) 442-0504
Fax: +1 (781) 442-1677
Email: steven.glass@sun.com

Tom Hiller
Wireless Data Standards & Architectures
Lucent Technologies
263 Shuman Drive
Room 1HP2F-218
Naperville, IL 60563

Phone: +1 (630) 976-7673
Email: tom.hiller@lucent.com

Peter J. McCann
Lucent Technologies
Rm 2Z-305
263 Shuman Blvd
Naperville, IL  60566

Phone: +1 (630) 713 9359
Email: mccap@lucent.com

Hajime Shiino
Lucent Technologies Japan Ltd.
25 Mori Bldg. 1-4-30 Roppongi,
Minato-ku Tokyo

Phone:+81-3-5561-3695
Email: hshiino@lucent.com

Glen Zorn
Cisco Systems, Inc.
500 108th Avenue N.E., Suite 500
Bellevue, WA 98004
USA

Phone: +1 425 468 0955
Email: gwz@cisco.com

Gopal Dommety



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IOS Network Protocols
Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134-1706

Phone: +1 (408) 525-1404
Fax: +1 (408) 526-4952
Email: gdommety@cisco.com

Charles E. Perkins
Communications Systems Lab
Nokia Research Center
313 Fairchild Drive
Mountain View, California

Phone: +1 (650) 625-2986
Fax: +1 (650) 691-2170
Email: charliep@iprg.nokia.com

Basavaraj Patil
Nokia Networks
6000 Connection Dr.
Irving, Texas 75039

Phone: +1 972-894-6709
Fax: +1 972-894-5349
Email: Basavaraj.Patil@nokia.com

David Mitton
Nortel Networks
8 Federal St
Billerica, MA 01821

Phone: 978-288-4570
Fax:   978-288-3030
Email: dmitton@nortelnetworks.com

Serge Manning
Nortel Networks
2201 Lakeside Blvd
Richardson, TX  75082-4399

Phone: +1 (972) 684-7277
Email: smanning@nortelnetworks.com

Mark Anthony Beadles
SmartPipes, Inc.
545 Metro Place South



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Suite 100
Dublin, OH 43017

Phone: 614-327-8046
Email: mbeadles@smartpipes.com

Pat Walsh
Ameritech
2000 W. Ameritech Ctr. Dr.
Hoffman Estates, IL  60195

Phone: +1 (847) 765-5845
Email: pwalsh@ameritechcell.com

Xing Chen
Alcatel USA
1000 Coit Road
Plano, TX 75075, USA

Phone: +1 (972) 519-4142
Fax: +1 (972) 519-4843
Email: xing.chen@usa.alcatel.com

Takahiro Ayaki
DDI corporation
Ichibancho FS Bldg.
8, Ichibancho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo

Phone: +81-3-3221-9682
Email: ayaki@ddi.co.jp

Sanjeevan Sivalingham
Ericsson Wireless Communications Inc.,
Rm Q-356C
6455 Lusk Blvd
San Diego, CA 92126

Phone: +1 (858) 332-5670
Email:  s.sivalingham@ericsson.com

Alan Hameed
Fujitsu
2801 Telecom Parkway
Richardson, Texas 75082

Phone: +1 (972) 479-2089

Mark Munson



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GTE Wireless
One GTE Place
Alpharetta, GA  30004

Phone: +1 (678) 339-4439
Email: mmunson@mobilnet.gte.com

Stuart Jacobs
Secure Systems Department
GTE Laboratories
40 Sylvan Road,
Waltham, MA 02451-1128

Phone: +1 (781) 466-3076
Fax: +1 (781)466-2838
Email: sjacobs@gte.com

Takuo Seki
IDO Corporation
Gobancho YS Bldg.
12-3, Gobancho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo

Phone: +81-3-3263-9660
Email: t-seli@ido.co.jp

Byng-Keun Lim
LG Information & Communications, Ltd.
533, Hogye-dong, Dongan-ku, Anyang-shi,
Kyungki-do,431-080, Korea

Phone: +82-343-450-7199
Fax: +82-343-450-7050
Email: bklim@lgic.co.kr

Brent Hirschman
1501 Shure Dr.
Arlington Hieghts, IL 60006

Phone: +1 (847) 632-1563
Email: qa4053@email.mot.com

Raymond T. Hsu
Qualcomm Inc.
6455 Lusk Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92121

Phone: +1 (619) 651-3623
Email: rhsu@qualcomm.com



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Haeng Koo
Samsung Telecommunications America, Inc.
1130 E. Arapaho Road
Richardson, TX, USA  75025

Phone: +1 (972) 761-7735
Email: hkoo@telecom.sna.samsung.com

Mark A. Lipford
Sprint PCS
8001 College Blvd.; Suite 210
Overland Park, KS  66210

Phone: +1 (913) 664-8335
Email: mlipfo01@sprintspectrum.com

Ed Campbell
3Com Corporation
1800 W. Central Rd.
Mount Prospect, IL 60056

Phone: +1 (847) 342-6769
Email: ed_campbell@3com.com

Yingchun Xu
3Com Corporation
1800 W. Central Rd.
Mount Prospect, IL 60056

Phone: +1 (847) 342-6814
Email: Yingchun_Xu@3com.com

Shinichi Baba
Toshiba America Research, Inc.
PO Box 136,
Convent Station, NJ 07961-0136

Phone: +1 (973) 829-4795
Email: sbaba@tari.toshiba.com

Eric Jaques
Vodafone AirTouch
2999 Oak Road, MS-750
Walnut Creek, CA 94596

Phone: +1 (925) 279-6142
Email: ejaques@akamail.com




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1122..  Expiration Date

This memo is filed as <draft-ietf-aaa-na-reqts-07.txt>,  and  expires
March 1, 2001.















































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