Protocol Action: Mobile IP Network Access Identifier Extension to Proposed Standard
The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Mon, 24 January 2000 14:39 UTC
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Subject: Protocol Action: Mobile IP Network Access Identifier Extension to Proposed Standard
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The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Mobile IP Network Access Identifier Extension' <draft-ietf-mobileip-mn-nai-07.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This document is the product of the IP Routing for Wireless/Mobile Hosts Working Group. The IESG contact persons are David Oran and Rob Coltun. Technical Summary AAA servers are in use within the Internet today to provide authentication and authorization services for dial-up and roaming computers. Such services are likely to be equally valuable for mobile nodes using Mobile IP when the nodes are attempting to connect to foreign domains with AAA servers. AAA servers today identify clients by using the Network Access Identifier (NAI). This specification defines a way for the mobile node to identify itself to the AAA server of the the foreign domain by including the NAI along with the Mobile IP Registration Request it sends to the foreign agent of the domain. Additionally, it allows a mobile node to authenticate itself despite not having a permanently-assigned IP address. Working Group Summary There was no dissent on the technical approach taken. There was some controversy concerning the inclusion of example scenarios employing the DIAMETER AAA protocol, on which consensus has not been reached in the AAA working group. Those examples have been removed. The protocol was originally last-called for Experimental status. At IETF-46 the WG met and there was strong consensus that the protocol should instead be standards track. After discussion with the Area Directors, the specification was deemed mature and solid enough to progress to proposed standard. Protocol Quality At the last bakeoff/interop testing held in July '99 in San Jose there were four implementation of MN-NAI. These implementations were able to sucessfully interoperate with each other. Details of this interop are available at: http://www.diameter.org/mip_results.txt This specification was reviewed for the IESG by Dave Oran.