Diameter Credit-Control Application
RFC 8506
Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(March 2019; No errata)
Obsoletes RFC 4006
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Authors | Lyle Bertz , David Dolson , Yuval Lifshitz | ||
Last updated | 2019-03-01 | ||
Replaces | draft-bertz-dime-rfc4006bis | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
Reviews | |||
Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | Jouni Korhonen | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2018-01-03) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 8506 (Proposed Standard) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Ben Campbell | ||
Send notices to | Jouni Korhonen <jouni.nospam@gmail.com> | ||
IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) L. Bertz, Ed. Request for Comments: 8506 Sprint Obsoletes: 4006 D. Dolson, Ed. Category: Standards Track Y. Lifshitz, Ed. ISSN: 2070-1721 Sandvine March 2019 Diameter Credit-Control Application Abstract This document specifies a Diameter application that can be used to implement real-time credit-control for a variety of end-user services such as network access, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) services, messaging services, and download services. The Diameter Credit- Control application as defined in this document obsoletes RFC 4006, and it must be supported by all new Diameter Credit-Control application implementations. Status of This Memo This is an Internet Standards Track document. 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 Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8506. Bertz, et al. Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 8506 Diameter Credit-Control Application March 2019 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2019 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 (https://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. 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. Bertz, et al. Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 8506 Diameter Credit-Control Application March 2019 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................6 1.1. Requirements Language ......................................7 1.2. Terminology ................................................7 1.3. Advertising Application Support ............................9 2. Architecture Models .............................................9 3. Credit-Control Messages ........................................11 3.1. Credit-Control-Request (CCR) Command ......................11 3.2. Credit-Control-Answer (CCA) Command .......................12 4. Credit-Control Application Overview ............................13 4.1. Service-Specific Rating Input and Interoperability ........14 4.1.1. Specifying Rating Input AVPs .......................15 4.1.2. Service-Specific Documentation .....................16 4.1.3. Handling of Unsupported/Incorrect Rating Input .....16 4.1.4. RADIUS Vendor-Specific Rating Attributes ...........17 5. Session-Based Credit-Control ...................................17 5.1. General Principles ........................................17 5.1.1. Basic Support for Tariff Time Change ...............18 5.1.2. Credit-Control for Multiple Services within a (Sub-)Session ....................................19 5.2. First Interrogation .......................................23 5.2.1. First Interrogation after Authorization and Authentication .....................................25 5.2.2. First Interrogation Included with Authorization Messages .............................27Show full document text