IETF Accounting Management

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IETF Accounting RFC:	Abstract:
Accounting Attributes and Record Formats (September 2000) RFC-2924	This document summarises Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) documents related to Accounting. A classification scheme for the Accounting Attributes in the summarised documents is presented. Exchange formats for Accounting data records are discussed, as are advantages and disadvantages of integrated versus separate record formats and transport protocols. This document discusses service definition independence, extensibility, and versioning. Compound service definition capabilities are described.
Policy-Based Accounting (October 2002) RFC-3334 exp	This document describes policy-based accounting which is an approach to provide flexibility to accounting architectures. Accounting policies describe the configuration of an accounting architecture in a standardized way. They are used to instrument the accounting architecture and can be exchanged between Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) entities in order to share configuration information. This document describes building blocks and message sequences for policy-based accounting in the generic AAA architecture (RFC 2903^exp). Examples are given for the usage of accounting policies in different scenarios. It is also shown how accounting components can be integrated into the AAA authorization framework (RFC 2904).
Introduction to Accounting Management Sept 2000 RFC-2975	The field of Accounting Management is concerned with the collection of resource consumption data for the purposes of capacity and trend analysis, cost allocation, auditing, and billing. This document describes each of these problems, and discusses the issues involved in design of modern accounting systems. Since accounting applications do not have uniform security and reliability requirements, it is not possible to devise a single accounting protocol and set of security services that will meet all needs. Thus the goal of accounting management is to provide a set of tools that can be used to meet the requirements of each application. This document describes the currently available tools as well as the state of the art in accounting protocol design. A companion document, RFC 2924, reviews the state of the art in accounting attributes and record formats.
Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) (June 2000) (Updated by RFC-2868) RFC-2865 draft	This document describes a protocol for carrying authentication, authorization, and configuration information between a Network Access Server which desires to authenticate its links and a shared Authentication Server.
RADIUS Accounting (Updated by RFC-2867) (June 2000) RFC-2866	This document describes a protocol for carrying accounting information between a Network Access Server and a shared Accounting Server.
RADIUS Attributes for Tunnel Protocol Support (June 2000) RFC-2868	This document defines a set of RADIUS attributes designed to support the provision of compulsory tunneling in dial-up networks.
RADIUS Extensions June 2000 RFC-2869	This document describes additional attributes for carrying authentication, authorization and accounting information between a Network Access Server (NAS) and a shared Accounting Server using the Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) protocol described in RFC 2865^draft [1] and RFC 2866 [2].
Criteria for Evaluating AAA Protocols for Network Access (November 2000) RFC-2989	This document represents a summary of Authentication, Authorization, Accounting (AAA) protocol requirements for network access. In creating this document, inputs were taken from documents produced by the Network Access Server Requirements Next Generation (NASREQ), Roaming Operations (ROAMOPS), and MOBILEIP working groups, as well as from TIA 45.6. This document summarizes the requirements collected from those sources, separating requirements for authentication, authorization and accounting. Details on the requirements are available in the original documents.
RFC-2513 prop	Managed Objects for Controlling the Collection and Storage of Accounting Information for Connection-Oriented Networks
RFC-2512 prop	Accounting Information for ATM Networks
2511 prop	CRMF Internet X.509 Certificate Request Message Format
2510 prop	PKICMP Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate
RFC-3423	XACCT's Common Reliable Accounting for Network Element (CRANE) Protocol Specification Version 1.0
Internet Accounting: Background 1991 RFC-1272	This document provides background information for the "Internet Accounting Architecture"... This document provides background and tutorial information on issues surrounding the architecture.

Area	Working Groups	Research Groups
Scheduling and Resource Management	Scheduling Attributes (SA-WG) Scheduling Dictionary (SD-WG) Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA-WG) Grid Resource Allocation Agreement Protocol (GRAAP-WG) OGSA Resource Usage Service (RUS-WG) Grid Economic Services Architecture (GESA-WG) Usage Record (UR-WG)

(More IETF RFCs: )	Abstract:
RFC-2741 draft	Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1
RFC-2580 std58	Conformance Statements for SMIv2
RFC-2579 std58	Textual Conventions for SMIv2
RFC-2578 std58	Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2) (April 1999)
RFC-2576 prop	Coexistence between Version 1, Version 2, and Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework
RFC-2575 draft	View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
RFC-2574 draft	User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3)
RFC-2573 draft	SNMP Applications
RFC-2572 draft	Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
RFC-2571 draft	An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks
RFC-2570	Introduction to Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework
RFC-2486 prop	The Network Access Identifier
RFC-2477	Criteria for Evaluating Roaming Protocols
RFC-2393	IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (Obsoleted by RFC-3173 prop)
RFC-2298 prop	An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications
RFC-2194	Review of Roaming Implementations
RFC-2139	RADIUS Accounting (Obsoleted by RFC-2866)
RFC-2138	Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) (Obsoleted by RFC-2865 draft)
RFC-2119 bcp14	Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
RFC-2015 prop	MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) (Updated by RFC-3156 prop)
RFC-1906 draft	Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
RFC-1905 draft	Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
RFC-1901 exp	Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2
RFC-1892 prop	The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages
RFC-1847 prop	Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted
RFC-1767 prop	MIME Encapsulation of EDI Objects
RFC-1521	MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies (Obsoleted by RFC-2045 draft, RFC-2046 draft, RFC-2047 draft, RFC-2048 bcp13, RFC-2049 draft) (Updated by RFC-1590)
RFC-1215	Convention for defining traps for use with the SNMP
RFC-1212 std16	Concise MIB definitions
RFC-1157 std15	Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
RFC-1155 std16	Structure and identification of management information for TCP/IP-based internets
RFC-0793 std7	Transmission Control Protocol (Updated by RFC-3168 prop)
RFC-3300 std1	Internet Official Protocol Standards
RFC-3162 prop	RADIUS and IPv6
RFC-3000	Internet Official Protocol Standards (Obsoleted by RFC-3300 std1)
RFC-2900	Internet Official Protocol Standards (Obsoleted by RFC-3000 -> RFC-3300 std1)
RFC-2899	Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2800-2899
RFC-2882	Network Access Servers Requirements: Extended RADIUS Practices
RFC-2881	Network Access Server Requirements Next Generation (NASREQNG) NAS Model
RFC-2486 prop	The Network Access Identifier
RFC-2434 bcp26	Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
RFC-2279 draft	UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646
RFC-2138	Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) (Obsoleted by RFC-2865 draft)
RFC-2119 bcp14	Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
RFC-1990 draft	The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP)
RFC-1700hist	Assigned Numbers (Obsoleted by RFC-3232)
RFC-1352hist	SNMP Security Protocols
RFC-1321	The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm
RFC-1144 prop	Compressing TCP/IP headers for low-speed serial links
RFC-0768 std6	User Datagram Protocol
RFC-2960 prop	Stream Control Transmission Protocol (Updated by RFC-3309 prop)
RFC-2401 prop	Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol (Updated by RFC-3168 prop)
RFC-2246 prop	The TLS Protocol Version 1.0
RFC-2119 bcp14	Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels