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+Network Working Group D. Sun
+Request for Comments: 5431 Alcatel-Lucent
+Category: Informational March 2009
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+ Diameter ITU-T Rw Policy Enforcement Interface Application
+
+Status of This Memo
+
+ This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
+ not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
+ memo is unlimited.
+
+Copyright Notice
+
+ Copyright (c) 2009 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the
+ document authors. All rights reserved.
+
+ This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal
+ Provisions Relating to IETF Documents in effect on the date of
+ publication of this document (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info).
+ Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights
+ and restrictions with respect to this document.
+
+Abstract
+
+ This document describes the need for a new pair of IANA Diameter
+ Command Codes to be used in a vendor-specific new application, namely
+ for the ITU-T Rec. Q.3303.3 - Rw interface used to send a request/
+ response for authorizing network Quality of Service (QoS) resources
+ and policy enforcement in a network element, as one of the
+ recommendations of the International Telecommunication Union -
+ Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T).
+
+Table of Contents
+
+ 1. Introduction ....................................................2
+ 2. Terminology .....................................................2
+ 3. Diameter ITU-T Rw Policy Enforcement Interface ..................3
+ 4. IANA Considerations .............................................3
+ 4.1. Application Identifier .....................................3
+ 4.2. Command Codes ..............................................4
+ 4.3. AVP Codes ..................................................4
+ 5. Security Considerations .........................................4
+ 6. Acknowledgements ................................................4
+ 7. References ......................................................5
+ 7.1. Normative References .......................................5
+ 7.2. Informative References .....................................5
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+1. Introduction
+
+ This document summarizes the use of Diameter codes in a newly defined
+ realization of a specification for authorizing network QoS resources
+ and policy enforcement [Q.3303.3]. A new pair of Command Codes have
+ been assigned by IANA. This document summarizes the uses of newly
+ defined Diameter codes (Command Codes, AVP, vendor-specific
+ application id). When combined with the Diameter Base protocol, this
+ application's specification [Q.3303.3] satisfies the requirements of
+ [Y.2111] of the International Telecommunication Union -
+ Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) to send a request
+ and receive a response for controlling the policy enforcement.
+
+ The Diameter realization of this application assumes the use of the
+ Diameter Base protocol, as per RFC 3588, and extends it only for a
+ specific application using a vendor-id (ITU-T), a vendor-specific
+ application ID (16777256), a new Command Code (315), and new
+ attribute-value pairs (AVPs), which are defined in the vendor-
+ specific namespace.
+
+ This application is used to authorize network QoS resources and
+ policy enforcement (including the amount of bandwidth, QoS class, and
+ traffic flow processing) as an extension of the Diameter application
+ [RFC4006]. The request is based on the Diameter extensibility
+ discussions in the DIME WG that led to the conclusion that it is
+ better to define new Command Codes whenever the ABNF of a command is
+ modified by adding, removing, or semantically changing a required AVP
+ in order to avoid interoperability problems. The document is
+ utilizing authorization and accounting functionality, and the entire
+ exchange is related to users utilizing applications that require QoS
+ treatment. This approach is consistent with the practice and
+ experience gained since the publication of [RFC3588] (see for example
+ [RFC5224]), which is now under revision by the DIME Working Group who
+ will provide a revised set of recommendations and procedures for IANA
+ considerations [DIME].
+
+2. Terminology
+
+ In the base Diameter specification [RFC3588], Section 1.4 defines
+ most of the terminology used in this document. Additionally, the
+ terms and acronyms defined in Section 3 and Section 4 of [Q.3303.3]
+ are used in this document.
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+3. Diameter ITU-T Rw Policy Enforcement Interface
+
+ The Rw interface is used for information exchange to apply policy
+ decisions between the Policy Decision Point (PDP, i.e., in the ITU-T
+ term, Policy Decision Functional Entity (PD-FE)) and the Policy
+ Enforcement Point (PEP, i.e., in the ITU-T term, Policy Enforcement
+ Functional Entity (PE-FE)).
+
+ The interface allows the PDP to push the authorized admission
+ decisions to the PEP. It also allows the PEP to request the
+ authorization of admission decisions from the PDP when path-coupled
+ resource reservation mechanisms are in use. The main information
+ conveyed by the Rw interface is:
+
+ o Resources reservation and/or allocation requests for media flows;
+
+ o QoS handling requests such as packet marking and policing;
+
+ o Gate control (opening/closing) requests for a media flow;
+
+ o NAPT and NAT traversal requests for the necessary address mapping
+ information;
+
+ o Resource usage information requests and reports for media flows.
+
+ The detailed descriptions of the Diameter Policy Enforcement
+ interface ITU-T Rw can be found in Section 5 of [Q.3303.3].
+
+4. IANA Considerations
+
+ This section provides guidance to the Internet Assigned Numbers
+ Authority (IANA) regarding registration of values related to the
+ Diameter protocol, in accordance with BCP 26 [RFC5226].
+
+ This document defines values in the namespaces that have been created
+ and defined in [RFC3588]. The IANA Considerations section of that
+ document details the assignment criteria. Values assigned in this
+ document, or by future IANA action, must be coordinated within this
+ shared namespace.
+
+4.1. Application Identifier
+
+ A vendor-specific application ID (16777256) for the application of
+ [Q.3303.3] has been assigned by the IANA.
+
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+ Registry:
+ ID values Name Reference
+ ----------------------------------------------------------
+ 16777256 ITU-T Rw 7.2.1 of ITU-T Q.3303.3
+
+
+4.2. Command Codes
+
+ IANA has allocated Command Code values for the following commands
+ defined in Section 7.4 of [Q.3303.3] from the Command Code namespace
+ defined in [RFC3588].
+
+ Registry:
+ Code Value Name Reference
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------
+ 315 Policy-Install-Request(PIR) 7.4.1 of ITU-T Q.3303.3
+ 315 Policy-Install-Answer (PIA) 7.4.2 of ITU-T Q.3303.3
+
+4.3. AVP Codes
+
+ The values 1010~1018 are assigned by the ITU-T to the following AVPs
+ within the ITU-T vendor-ID 11502 namespace: PI-Request-Type AVP, PI-
+ Request-Number AVP, Traffic-Descriptor-UL AVP, Traffic-Descriptor-DL
+ AVP, Maximum-Burst-Size AVP, Committed-Data-Rate AVP, Committed-
+ Burst-Size AVP, Excess-Burst-Size, Removal-Cause AVP.
+
+ See Table 1/Q.3303.3 in Section 7.3.1 of [Q.3303.3] for detailed
+ information on AVP codes, value types, and flag rules.
+
+5. Security Considerations
+
+ This document describes the Diameter Policy Enforcement Application.
+ It builds on top of the Diameter Base protocol and the same security
+ considerations described in [RFC3588] are applicable to this
+ document. No further extensions are required beyond the security
+ mechanisms offered by [RFC3588].
+
+6. Acknowledgements
+
+ The author would like to thank Dan Romascanu, Hannes Tschofenig, and
+ Tina Tsou for their help and support. Finally, the author would like
+ to thank Alcatel-Lucent, as most of the effort put into this document
+ was done while he was in their employ.
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+7. References
+
+7.1. Normative References
+
+ [Q.3303.3] ITU-T Recommendation Q.3303.3, "Resource control protocol
+ no. 3 (rcp3): Protocol at the Rw interface between the
+ Policy Decision Physical Entity (PD-PE) and the Policy
+ Enforcement Physical Entity (PE-PE): Diameter", 2008.
+
+ [RFC3588] Calhoun, P., Loughney, J., Guttman, E., Zorn, G., and J.
+ Arkko, "Diameter Base Protocol", RFC 3588,
+ September 2003.
+
+7.2. Informative References
+
+ [DIME] Fajardo, V., Arkko, J., Loughney, J., and G. Zorn,
+ "Diameter Base Protocol", Work in Progress,
+ November 2008.
+
+ [RFC4006] Hakala, H., Mattila, L., Koskinen, J-P., Stura, M., and
+ J. Loughney, "Diameter Credit-Control Application",
+ RFC 4006, August 2005.
+
+ [RFC5224] Brenner, M., "Diameter Policy Processing Application",
+ RFC 5224, March 2008.
+
+ [RFC5226] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
+ IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
+ May 2008.
+
+ [Y.2111] ITU-T Recommedation Y.2111, "Resource and admission
+ control functions in Next Generation Networks",
+ September 2006.
+
+Author's Address
+
+ Dong Sun
+ Alcatel-Lucent
+ 600 Mountain Ave
+ Murray Hill, NJ 07974
+ USA
+
+ Phone: +1 908 582 2617
+ EMail: dongsun@alcatel-lucent.com
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