WG Review: Recharter of Resource Allocation Protocol (rap)
The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Fri, 06 April 2001 18:00 UTC
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Subject: WG Review: Recharter of Resource Allocation Protocol (rap)
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 13:45:59 -0400
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The IESG is considering rechartering the Resource Allocation Protocol (rap) working group. The IESG has not made any determination as yet. The following Description was submitted, and is provided for informational purposes only: Resource Allocation Protocol (rap) ----------------------------------- Description of Working Group: Recent works in the IETF have led to the development and standardization of enhanced network services such as QoS and traffic engineering. The complexity of these services and the variations in the capabilities of the devices implementing these services provide a challenge to anyone trying to configure services within medium- and large-scale networks. The working group will define general-purpose objects that facilitate the manipulation of policies and provisioned objects available through COPS and COPS-PR. Where appropriate, these will include frameworks clarifying the applicability of COPS objects and the best practices for the definition of additional objects defined in other working groups. In particular, the group will address the following work items: - A standards track framework document describing the usage of COPS in carrying usage reporting and unsolicited state change information between a PDP and a PEP [FEEDBACKFRWK]. - A standards track document describing an accounting PIB to be used to carry accounting information from the PEP to the PDP [PIB]. - Complete work on the standards track documents for (a) the data definition language for COPS-PR [SPPI] and (b) the set of core data definitions for QoS provisioning [FRWKPIB]. - A standards track document describing a modular architecture for a COPS based Management Framework. The document will address the COPS message processing, security and access control and may specify examples of how the framework may be implemented. [COPSFRWK] - A standards track document describing a framework or PIB to enable the explicit binding of QoS to to authenticated agents, such as corporate entities or individual users. This implies that this framework and/or PIB supports the proxying of authentication requests [BINDFRWK]. - An informational document describing the use of COPS over TLS. [COPSTLS] The working group will continue to document changes to COPS objects needed to support any extensions to RSVP and extensions to RVSP directly related to usage control. Specifically the working group will pursue: - A version of draft-ietf-rap-rsvp-newidentity that addresses security shortcomings with the current document [NEWIDENTITY]. - A standards track document defining new ErrorValues for the RSVP Policy Error Object [RSVPERRVAL]. - A standards track document defining the framework and mechanism for authorizing of RSVP sessions [SESSIONAUTH]. - A standards track document defining an RSVP Local Policy Control Criteria PIB [RSVPPIB]. Documents produced by the working group must fully address all the security aspects of this type of protocol. In particular, theft and denial of service threats must be minimized.