RADIUS Design Guidelines
RFC 6158
Document | Type |
RFC - Best Current Practice
(March 2011; No errata)
Also known as BCP 158
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Authors | Alan DeKok , Greg Weber | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Stream | Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized (tools) htmlized bibtex | ||
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Stream | WG state | (None) | |
Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 6158 (Best Current Practice) | |
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Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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Responsible AD | Dan Romascanu | ||
Send notices to | (None) |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) A. DeKok, Ed. Request for Comments: 6158 FreeRADIUS BCP: 158 G. Weber Category: Best Current Practice Individual Contributor ISSN: 2070-1721 March 2011 RADIUS Design Guidelines Abstract This document provides guidelines for the design of attributes used by the Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) protocol. It is expected that these guidelines will prove useful to authors and reviewers of future RADIUS attribute specifications, within the IETF as well as other Standards Development Organizations (SDOs). Status of This Memo This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on BCPs is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6158. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2011 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. DeKok & Weber Best Current Practice [Page 1] RFC 6158 RADIUS Design Guidelines March 2011 This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published or made publicly available before November 10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process. Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other than English. Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................3 1.1. Terminology ................................................4 1.2. Requirements Language ......................................4 1.3. Applicability ..............................................5 1.3.1. Reviews .............................................5 2. Guidelines ......................................................6 2.1. Data Types .................................................8 2.2. Vendor Space ...............................................9 2.3. Service Definitions and RADIUS .............................9 2.4. Translation of Vendor Specifications ......................10 3. Rationale ......................................................11 3.1. RADIUS Operational Model ..................................11 3.2. Data Model Issues .........................................14 3.2.1. Issues with Definitions of Types ...................15 3.2.2. Tagging Mechanism ..................................16 3.2.3. Complex Data Types .................................16 3.2.4. Complex Data Type Exceptions .......................18 3.3. Vendor Space ..............................................19 3.3.1. Interoperability Considerations ....................20 3.3.2. Vendor Allocations .................................20 3.3.3. SDO Allocations ....................................20 3.4. Polymorphic Attributes ....................................21 4. IANA Considerations ............................................22 5. Security Considerations ........................................22 5.1. New Data Types and Complex Attributes .....................23 6. References .....................................................24 6.1. Normative References ......................................24 6.2. Informative References ....................................24 Appendix A. Design Guidelines Checklist ..........................27Show full document text