Accounting Attributes and Record Formats
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Network Working Group N. Brownlee
Request for Comments: 2924 The University of Auckland
Category: Informational A. Blount
MetraTech Corp.
September 2000
Accounting Attributes and Record Formats
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document summarises Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and
International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) documents related to
Accounting. A classification scheme for the Accounting Attributes in
the summarised documents is presented. Exchange formats for
Accounting data records are discussed, as are advantages and
disadvantages of integrated versus separate record formats and
transport protocols. This document discusses service definition
independence, extensibility, and versioning. Compound service
definition capabilities are described.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Terminology and Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Architecture Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. IETF Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.1. RADIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.1.1. RADIUS Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.2. DIAMETER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2.1. DIAMETER Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.3. ROAMOPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.4. RTFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.4.1. RTFM Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.5. ISDN MIB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.5.1. ISDN Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.6. AToMMIB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.6.1. AToMMIB Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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4.7. QoS: RSVP and DIFFSERV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.7.1. QoS: RSVP and DIFFSERV Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5. ITU-T Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.1. Q.825: Call Detail Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.2. Q.825 Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6. Other Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.1. TIPHON: ETSI TS 101 321 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.2. MSIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7. Accounting File and Record Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.1. ASN.1 Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.1.1. RTFM and AToMMIB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.1.2. Q.825 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
7.2. Binary Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
7.2.1. RADIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
7.2.2. DIAMETER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
7.3. Text Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7.3.1. ROAMOPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
8. AAA Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
8.1. A Well-defined Set of Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
8.2. A Simple Interchange Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
9. Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
9.1. Record Format vs. Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
9.2. Tagged, Typed Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
9.2.1. Standard Type Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
9.3. Transaction Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
9.4. Service Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
9.4.1. Service Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
9.4.2. Versioned Service Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
9.4.3. Relationships Among Usage Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
9.4.4. Service Namespace Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
10. Encodings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
11. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
12. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
13. Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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