Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) M. Jones
Request for Comments: 6408 Bridgewater Systems
Updates: 3588 J. Korhonen
Category: Standards Track Nokia Siemens Networks
ISSN: 2070-1721 L. Morand
Orange Labs
November 2011
Diameter Straightforward-Naming Authority Pointer (S-NAPTR) Usage
Abstract
The Diameter base protocol specifies mechanisms whereby a given realm
may advertise Diameter nodes and the supported transport protocol.
However, these mechanisms do not reveal the Diameter applications
that each node supports. A peer outside the realm would have to
perform a Diameter capability exchange with every node until it
discovers one that supports the required application. This document
updates RFC 3588, "Diameter Base Protocol", and describes an
improvement using an extended format for the Straightforward-Naming
Authority Pointer (S-NAPTR) application service tag that allows for
discovery of the supported applications without doing Diameter
capability exchange beforehand.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
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received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2
2. Terminology .....................................................3
2.1. Requirements Language ......................................3
3. Extended NAPTR Service Field Format .............................3
3.1. IETF Standards Track Diameter Applications .................5
3.2. Vendor-Specific Diameter Applications ......................5
4. Backwards Compatibility .........................................5
5. Extended NAPTR-Based Diameter Peer Discovery ....................6
5.1. Examples ...................................................7
6. Usage Guidelines ................................................8
7. IANA Considerations .............................................9
7.1. IETF Diameter Application Service Tags .....................9
7.2. 3GPP Diameter Application Service Tags .....................9
7.3. WiMAX Forum Diameter Application Service Tags .............10
7.4. Vendor-Specific Diameter Application Service Tags .........10
7.5. Diameter Application Protocol Tags ........................11
8. Security Considerations ........................................11
9. Acknowledgments ................................................11
10. References ....................................................12
10.1. Normative References .....................................12
10.2. Informative References ...................................14
1. Introduction
The Diameter base protocol [RFC3588] specifies three mechanisms for
Diameter peer discovery. One of these involves the Diameter
implementation performing a Naming Authority Pointer (NAPTR) query
[RFC3403] for a server in a particular realm. These NAPTR records
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provide a mapping from a domain to the DNS Service Locator (SRV)
datatracker.ietf.org