Network Working Group                                           B. Aboba
INTERNET-DRAFT                                                 Microsoft
Category: Standards Track
<draft-aboba-radius-iana-04.txt>
1 April 2003
Updates: RFC 2865


                     IANA Considerations for RADIUS

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Abstract

This document describes the IANA considerations for the Remote
Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS).

This document updates RFC 2865.













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1.  Introduction

This document provides guidance to the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority (IANA) regarding registration of values related to the Remote
Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS), defined in [RFC2865], in
accordance with BCP 26, [RFC2434]. It also reserves Packet Type Codes
that are or have been in use on the Internet.

1.1.  Specification of Requirements

In this document, several words are used to signify the requirements of
the specification.  These words are often capitalized.  The key words
"MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD
NOT", "RECOMMENDED",  "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be
interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

1.2.  Terminology

The following terms are used here with the meanings defined in BCP 26:
"name space", "assigned value", "registration".

The following policies are used here with the meanings defined in BCP
26: "Private Use", "First Come First Served", "Expert Review",
"Specification Required", "IETF Consensus", "Standards Action".

2.  IANA Considerations

There are three name spaces in RADIUS that require registration: Packet
Type Codes, Attribute Types, and Attribute Values (for certain
Attributes). This draft creates no new IANA registries, since a RADIUS
registry was created by [RFC2865].

RADIUS is not intended as a general-purpose protocol, and allocations
SHOULD NOT be made for purposes unrelated to Authentication,
Authorization or Accounting.

2.1.  Recommended Registration Policies

For registration requests where a Designated Expert should be consulted,
the responsible IESG area director should appoint the Designated Expert.
Where a specification is required, this MUST be an Internet-Draft or
RFC.  For Designated Expert with Specification Required, the request is
posted to the AAA WG mailing list (or a successor designated by the Area
Director) for comment and review, and MUST include an Internet-Draft or
RFC. Before a period of 30 days has passed, The Designated Expert will
either approve or deny the registration request and publish a notice of
the decision to the AAA WG mailing list or its successor, as well as
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and, in the cases where it is possible, concrete suggestions on how the
request can be modified so as to become acceptable.

Packet Type Codes have a range from 1 to 253. RADIUS Type Codes 1-5 and
11-13 were allocated in [RFC2865], while Type Codes 40-45, 250-253 are
allocated by this document.  Type Codes 250-253 are allocated for
Experimental Uses, and 254-255 are reserved.  Packet Type Codes 6-10,
12-13, 21-34, 50-51 have no meaning defined by an IETF RFC, but are
reserved until a specification is provided for them.  This is being done
to avoid interoperability problems with software that implements non-
standard RADIUS extensions that are or have been in use on the Internet.
Because a new Packet Type has considerable impact on interoperability, a
new Packet Type Code requires Standards Action.  Type Codes 52-249
should be allocated first; when these are exhausted, Type Codes 14-20,
35-39, 46-49 may be allocated.  For a list of Type Codes, see Appendix
A.

Attribute Types have a range from 1 to 255, and are the scarcest
resource in RADIUS, thus must be allocated with care.  Attributes
1-53,55,60-88,90-91,94-100 have been allocated, with 17 and 21 available
for re-use.  Attributes 17, 21, 54, 56-59, 89, 101-191 may be allocated
by IETF Consensus.  It is recommended that attributes 17 and 21 be used
only after all others are exhausted.

Note that RADIUS defines a mechanism for Vendor-Specific extensions
(Attribute 26) and the use of that should be encouraged instead of
allocation of global attribute types, for functions specific only to one
vendor's implementation of RADIUS, where no interoperability is deemed
useful.

As noted in [RFC2865]:

   Attribute Type Values 192-223 are reserved for experimental
   use, values 224-240 are reserved for implementation-specific use,
   and values 241-255 are reserved and should not be used.

Therefore Attribute Type values 192-240 are considered Private Use, and
values 241-255 require Standards Action.

Certain attributes (for example, NAS-Port-Type) in RADIUS define a list
of values to correspond with various meanings.  There can be 4 billion
(2^32) values for each attribute. Additional values can be allocated by
Designated Expert with Specification Required.  The exception to this
policy is the Service-Type attribute (6), whose values define new modes
of operation for RADIUS.  Values 1-16 of the Service-Type attribute have
been allocated. Allocation of new Service-Type values are by IETF
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3.  Normative references

[RFC2119]      Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
               Requirement Levels", RFC 2119, March 1997.

[RFC2434]      Alvestrand, H. and Narten, T., "Guidelines for Writing an
               IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 2434,
               October 1998.

[RFC2865]      Rigney, C., Rubens, A., Simpson, W., Willens, S.,
               "Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)",
               RFC 2865, June 2000.

4.  Informative references

[RFC2866]      Rigney, C., "RADIUS Accounting", RFC 2866, June 2000.

[RFC2867]      Zorn, G., Mitton, D., Aboba, B., "RADIUS Accounting
               Modifications for Tunnel Protocol Support", RFC 2867,
               June 2000.

[RFC2868]      Zorn, G., Leifer, D., Rubens, A., Shriver, J., Holdrege,
               M., Goyret, I., "RADIUS Attributes for Tunnel Protocol
               Support", RFC 2868, June 2000.

[RFC2869]      Rigney, C., Willats, W., Calhoun, P., "RADIUS
               Extensions", RFC 2869, June 2000.

[RFC2882]      Mitton, D., "Network Access Servers Requirements:
               Extended RADIUS Practices", RFC 2882, July 2000.

[RFC3162]      Aboba, B., Zorn, G., Mitton, D.,"RADIUS and IPv6", RFC
               3162, August 2001.

[DynAuth]      Chiba, M., et al., "Dynamic Authorization Extensions to
               Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)",
               Internet draft (work in progress), draft-chiba-radius-
               dynamic-authorization-09.txt, March 2003.













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Appendix A - RADIUS Packet Types

A list of RADIUS Packet Type Codes is given below. This document
intructs IANA to list them in the registry of Packet Type Codes.  Note
that Type Codes 40-45, which are defined in [DynAuth] are also listed in
[RFC2882].

#        Message                      Reference
----     -------------------------    ---------
1        Access-Request               [RFC2865]
2        Access-Accept                [RFC2865]
3        Access-Reject                [RFC2865]
4        Accounting-Request           [RFC2865]
5        Accounting-Response          [RFC2865]
6        Accounting-Status            [RFC2882]
         (now Interim Accounting)
7        Password-Request             [RFC2882]
8        Password-Ack                 [RFC2882]
9        Password-Reject              [RFC2882]
10       Accounting-Message           [RFC2882]
11       Access-Challenge             [RFC2865]
12       Status-Server (experimental) [RFC2865]
13       Status-Client (experimental) [RFC2865]
21       Resource-Free-Request        [RFC2882]
22       Resource-Free-Response       [RFC2882]
23       Resource-Query-Request       [RFC2882]
24       Resource-Query-Response      [RFC2882]
25       Alternate-Resource-
         Reclaim-Request              [RFC2882]
26       NAS-Reboot-Request           [RFC2882]
27       NAS-Reboot-Response          [RFC2882]
28       Reserved
29       Next-Passcode                [RFC2882]
30       New-Pin                      [RFC2882]
31       Terminate-Session            [RFC2882]
32       Password-Expired             [RFC2882]
33       Event-Request                [RFC2882]
34       Event-Response               [RFC2882]













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#        Message                      Reference
----     -------------------------    ---------
40       Disconnect-Request           [DynAuth]
41       Disconnect-ACK               [DynAuth]
42       Disconnect-NAK               [DynAuth]
43       CoA-Request                  [DynAuth]
44       CoA-ACK                      [DynAuth]
45       CoA-NAK                      [DynAuth]
50       IP-Address-Allocate          [RFC2882]
51       IP-Address-Release           [RFC2882]
250-253  Experimental Use
254      Reserved
255      Reserved                     [RFC2865]

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Ignacio Goyret of Lucent, Allison Mankin of Lucent Bell Labs,
Glen Zorn and Harald Alvestrand of Cisco for discussions relating to
this document.

Authors' Addresses

Bernard Aboba
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052

EMail: bernarda@microsoft.com
Phone: +1 425 706 6605
Fax:   +1 425 936 7329

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