1. 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)

2. 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
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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
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Policy Parameters
Condition
User ID
IP Address
Service Class
Accounting Type (simple, detailed)
Action
Accounting Record Type
Destination
Report Interval
Storage Time
Access List
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5. 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