Diameter Maintenance and Extensions (DIME)

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Diameter Maintenance and Extensions (DIME)

• John Loughney, Hannes Tschofenig
• IETF 66, Montreal, June 2006

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Administrative Stuff

• Blue Sheets!
• Minute Taker?
• Jabber Scribe?

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Agenda (1/2)

• 1) Agenda Bashing/Status Report
• Presented by the chairs
• 5 min.
• 2) Diameter Base Issues
• Open Issues
• Presented by ext Victor Fajardo
• 20 minutes
• URI schemes for AAA Protocols
• http//www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-garci
  a-dime-aaa-uri-00.txt
• Presented by Miguel Garcia
• 10 min.
• 3) Diameter Mobile IPv6 Application
• http//www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-
  dime-mip6-integrated-00.txt
• http//www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-
  dime-mip6-split-00.txt
• Presented by TBD

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Agenda (2/2)

• 4) Diameter Quality of Service
• http//www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-tscho
  fenig-dime-diameter-qos-00.txt
• Presented by TBD
• 15 min.
• 5) New Work
• DCCA BASE MIBs
• http//www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/dime/draft-
  zorn-dime-diameter-cc-app-mib-00.txt
• http//www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-zorn-
  dime-diameter-base-protocol-mib-00.txt
• Presented by Glen Zorn
• 10 min.
• Requirement for the addition of Auditing
  Functionality to Diameter
• http//www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bodin
  -dime-auditing-reqs-00.txt
• Presented by Avri Doria
• 10 min.
• Diameter Routing Extensions

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Diameter Interop Report (1/3)

• Host Ulticom
• Date April 24-28, 2006
• Meeting Minutes
• http//www.tschofenig.com/dime-interop-2006/meetin
  g-minutes.txt
• Participants
• BEA Systems
• Cisco Systems
• IBM
• Digital Route AB
• Ericsson AB
• IntelliNet Technologies India Private Limited
• Lucent Technologies
• Motorola India Electronics Pvt Ltd
• Nokia Networks
• Openet Telecom
• Siemens AG
• Toshiba America Research
• Ulticom

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Diameter Interop Report (2/3)

• Tests covered
• Diameter Base Protocol
• Diameter Credit Control
• Diameter NASREQ
• Diameter Accounting
• 3GPP specs
• TLS
• 5 companies provided TLS support
• Complicated due to certificate format problems
• SCTP
• 2 companies supported SCTP
• No problems
• We couldnt get Diameter EAP tests working
  properly.
• We used the scenarios from draft-fajardo-dime-inte
  rop-test-suite-00.txt to perform most of the
  tests.

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Diameter Interop Report (3/3)

• YImplemented/Tested
• IImplemented/Not Tested
• NNot Implemented
• NANot Available
• 3.1.1.1 Capabilities Negotiation13 Y
• 3.1.1.2 Election 9 Y, 3 I, 1 N
• 3.1.1.3 Disconnection 13 Y
• 3.1.1.4 Re-Connection Algorithms12 Y, 1 I
• 3.1.1.5 Failover and Failback 3 Y, 6 I, 4 N
• 3.1.2.1 Peer Based Request Routing 7 Y, 2 I, 3
  N, 1 NA
• 3.1.2.2 Realm Based Routing 7 Y, 3 I, 2 N, 1 NA
• 3.1.2.3 Answer Message Routing 9 Y, 1 I, 2 N, 1
  NA
• 3.1.2.4 Loop Detection 5 Y, 4 I, 4 N
• 3.1.3 (Relay Support) 6 Y, 6 N, 1 NA
• 3.1.3 (Proxy Support) 1 Y, 2 I, 9 N, 1 NA
• 3.1.3.1 Redirection 1 Y, 2 I, 10 N
• 3.2.1.1 Connectivity and Peering - General
  Statemachine 6 Y, 5 I, 2 N
• 3.2.1.2 Connectivity and Peering - Dynamic Peer
  Discovery 1 I, 12 N

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Next Interop?

• There was substantial interest at the Interop
  Event to schedule another event.
• Is there interest from other working group
  members as well?
• IntelliNet Technologies has volunteered to host
  towards the end of the year.