Re: [Dime] DIME Charter Update

Hi,

Some comments/questions on the proposed charter.

On Jun 4, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Tschofenig, Hannes (NSN - FI/Espoo) wrote:

> Diameter Maintenance and Extensions (dime)
>
> Description of Working Group:
>
> The Diameter Maintenance and Extensions WG will focus on maintenance
> and extensions to the Diameter protocol required to enable its use for
> authentication, authorization, accounting and provisioning in network
> access as well as for other applications environments
> (e.g., IP telephony, mobility).

What does the provisioning here involve? We had a short discussion in  
SFO about the "desire" of using Diameter for other purposes than just  
auth, authz and acct, mainly because Diameter would make another nice  
general purpose transport protocol for a lot of things. I was  
wondering whether we want to be more strict about the scope of  
extension where diameter is to be used?

>
>
> The IETF has completed work on the Diameter Base protocol and is
> working on revising the base protocol specification. There is on-going
> work on defining RADIUS extensions and the DIME WG will ensure
> that work done in RADEXT is also available for Diameter.

[snip]

>
> Additionally, AAA systems require interoperability in order to work.
> The working group, along with the AD, will need to evaluate
> any potential extensions and require verification that the proposed
> extension is needed. Coordination with other IETF working groups
> and other SDOs will used to ensure this.

Regarding the additional work, should we explicitly mention that we  
could take in new work based on the deployment experiences and needs  
that we hear from the field? We cannot obviously envision all possible  
needs in the current charter items so this kind of limited wildcard  
could be useful.. or can this kind of new work be easily added to the  
charter without full rechartering process?

>
>
> Goals and Milestones:
>

[snip]

Should we add draft-korhonen-dime-mip6-feature-bits-00.txt to charter  
(that contains the extracted parts from mip6-split I-D due identified  
IPRs). Even if this draft is trivial and will be informational, having  
it as a WG item would be nice.. or?

Cheers,
	JOuni

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