Policy-based Accounting Draft Status Update <draft-irtf-aaaarch-pol-acct-02.txt> Georg Carle, Sebastian Zander, Tanja Zseby GMD FOKUS - German National Research Institute for Information Technology Competence Center Global Networking (GloNe) http://www.fokus.gmd.de

Policy-based Accounting Overview Accounting Policies Definition of rules for generation, transport and storage of accounting data Used for the configuration of the accounting process in the Generic AAA architecture Key Features Support for variety of accounting services Flexible configuration of accounting process Configuration of heterogeneous accounting components Definition of common parameters for metering and collection Translation of policies into device specific configuration Inter-Provider exchange of configuration information March 22, 2001 50th IETF Meeting - AAAARCH RG

50th IETF Meeting - AAAARCH RG Version 01 to 02 Changes Clarification of reference model section Policy translation and data processing Expansion of accounting policies section* Push and pull model for policy distribution Parameters in policy condition and policy action Fixed errors and added accounting message sequences with respect to the different Authorization schemes (RFC2904) Aligned message terminology with draft-spense-aaaarch-objmsg-00.txt Fixed a couple of pictures (aligned with RFC2903) Numerous clarifications and small fixes * = more slides follow March 22, 2001 50th IETF Meeting - AAAARCH RG

50th IETF Meeting - AAAARCH RG Policy Parameters Condition User ID IP Address Service Class Accounting Type (simple, detailed) Action Accounting Record Type Destination Report Interval Storage Time Access List March 22, 2001 50th IETF Meeting - AAAARCH RG

Future Work and Open Issues Check alignment with draft-irtf-aaaarch-aaa-pol-01.txt and draft-irtf-aaaarch-generic-struct-00.txt Clarification where accounting policies are stored and evaluated within the generic architecture Revise example section Other Issues? Version 03 in April/May (before next interim meeting) Ready to go for WG Last Call then? March 22, 2001 50th IETF Meeting - AAAARCH RG