RADIUS EXTensions (radext)
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Charter
Last Modified: 2006-05-19
Current Status: Active Working Group
Chair(s):
David Nelson <dnelson@enterasys.com>
Bernard Aboba <Bernard_Aboba@hotmail.com>
Operations and Management Area Director(s):
Dan Romascanu <dromasca@avaya.com>
David Kessens <david.kessens@nokia.com>
Operations and Management Area Advisor:
David Kessens <david.kessens@nokia.com>
Technical Advisor(s):
Paul Congdon <paul.congdon@hp.com>
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Description of Working Group:
The RADIUS Extensions Working Group will focus on extensions to the
RADIUS protocol required to enable its use in applications such as IP
telephony and Local Area Network authentication, authorization and
accounting.
The IETF has recently completed work on the Diameter Base protocol. In
order to support the deployment of Diameter, and enable interoperation
of heterogeneous RADIUS/Diameter deployments, all RADEXT WG work items
MUST contain a Diameter compatibility section, outlining how
interoperability with Diameter will be maintained.
Furthermore, to ensure backward compatibility with existing RADIUS
implementations, as well as compatibility between RADIUS and Diameter,
the following restrictions are imposed on extensions considered by the
RADEXT WG:
- All RADIUS work MUST be backward compatible with existing RADIUS
RFCs,
including RFCs 2618-2621, 2865-2869, 3162, 3575, 3576, 3579, and 3580.
- All RADIUS work MUST be compatible with equivalent facilities in
Diameter. Where possible, new attributes should be defined so that
the same attribute can be used in both RADIUS and Diameter without
translation. In other cases a translation considerations
section should be included in the specification.
- No new RADIUS transports (e.g. TCP, SCTP) will be defined.
- No new security mechanisms will be defined for protecting RADIUS.
- No new commands will be defined.
Work Items
The immediate goals of the RADEXT working group are to address the
following issues:
- RADIUS design guidelines. This document will provide guidelines for
design of RADIUS attributes. It will specifically consider how
complex data types may be introduced in a robust manner, maintaining
backwards compatibility with existing RADIUS RFCs, across all the
classes of attributes: Standard, Vendor-Specific and SDO-Specific.
In addition, it will review RADIUS data types and associated
backwards compatibility issues.
- RADIUS implementation issues and fixes. This document will address
common RADIUS implementation issues and describe proposed solutions.
- Revised NAI specification. This document, known as "RFC 2486bis"
will revise the NAI specification to correct known errors,
add support for privacy and internationalization, and provide
more details on routing.
- Pre-paid support. Prepaid services are contemplated in a number
of potential applications, including wireless LAN access and IP
telephony. In order to enable support of pre-paid services in
an interoperable way, the WG will provide definitions of the
attributes required to support operator service models for
pre-paid, as documented in liaison communications. This
document will include within it a specification for interoperation
with Diameter Credit Control.
- SIP support. RADIUS is currently used for SIP authentication,
authorization and accounting. Standardization of these attributes
will enable improved interoperability.
This document will be upwards compatible with the Diameter SIP
application, and conform to existing IETF RFCs on HTTP Digest,
including RFC 2617, 3261, and 3310.
- LAN attributes. New attributes have been proposed to enable use of
authentication, authorization and accounting in wired and
wireless LANs. Standardization of these attributes will enable
improved interoperability.
- RADIUS MIB update. RFC 2618-2621 lack IPv6 compatibility, and modest
changes are required to address this issue. MIBs for RFC 3576 are
also needed.
Goals and Milestones:
Done Updates to RFC 2618-2621 RADIUS MIBs submitted for publication
Done SIP RADIUS authentication draft submitted as a Proposed
Standard RFC
Done RFC 2486bis submitted as a Proposed Standard RFC
Done RFC 3576 MIBs submitted as an Informational RFC
Done RADIUS VLAN and Priority Attributes draft submitted as a
Proposed Standard RFC (reduced in scope)
Jun 2006 RADIUS Design Guidelines and Extended Attributes drafts WGLC
Jun 2006 WLAN Attributes draft submitted as a Proposed Standard RFC
Sep 2006 RADIUS Implementation Issues and Fixes draft submitted as an
Informational RFC
Oct 2006 RADIUS Design Guidelines submitted as a Best Current Practice
RFC
Oct 2006 RADIUS Extended Attributes submitted as a Proposed Standard RFC
(split out from Design Guidelines draft)
Oct 2006 RADIUS Filtering Attributes draft submitted as a Proposed
Standard RFC (split out from VLAN & Priority draft)
Nov 2006 RFC 3576bis submitted as an Informational RFC (split out from
Issues & Fixes draft)
Dec 2006 RADIUS Redirection Attributes draft submitted as a Proposed
Standard RFC (split out from VLAN & Priority draft)
Dec 2006 RADIUS Crypto-agility draft (e.g. FIPS 140-2 compliance for
RADIUS) submitted as a Proposed Standard RFC (split out from
WLAN attributes draft)
Dec 2006 RADIUS Prepaid draft submitted as a Proposed Standard RFC
Internet-Drafts:
Posted Revised I-D Title <Filename>
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Feb 2006 Jun 2006 <draft-ietf-radext-filter-rules-01.txt>
RADIUS Attributes for Filtering and Redirection
Mar 2006 Sep 2006 <draft-ietf-radext-delegated-prefix-03.txt>
RADIUS Delegated-IPv6-Prefix Attribute
Jun 2006 Aug 2006 <draft-ietf-radext-filter-01.txt>
RADIUS Filter Rule Attribute
Request For Comments:
RFC Stat Published Title
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RFC4282Standard Dec 2005 The Network Access Identifier
RFC4372Standard Jan 2006 Chargeable User Identity
RFC4590 PS Jul 2006 RADIUS Extension for Digest Authentication
RFC4670 I Aug 2006 RADIUS Accounting Client MIB for IPv6
RFC4671 I Aug 2006 RADIUS Accounting Server MIB for IPv6
RFC4669 PS Aug 2006 RADIUS Authentication Server MIB for IPv6
RFC4668 PS Aug 2006 RADIUS Authentication Client MIB for IPV6
RFC4675 PS Sep 2006 RADIUS Attributes for Virtual LAN and Priority Support
RFC4673 I Sep 2006 RADIUS Dynamic Authorization Server MIB
RFC4672 I Sep 2006 RADIUS Dynamic Authorization Client MIB