RE: [Dime] Guidelines for Diameter extensions

[<john.loughney at nokia.com>]

Hi Tolga,

>I want to get opinion/feedback -especially from WG-chairs + 
>RFC3588 authors- about quidelines for extensions to Diameter protocol.
>
>In the last couple of months, a few issues have been discussed 
>on the list and some of them may require enhancements on the 
>existing specification -or people may want to propose new 
>procedures about other issues- . I believe it could be useful 
>to have a set of guidelines for such extensions.

So, we have an item about explaining the role of Diameter Applications,
I think we should should discuss this.

However ...

>For example, how acceptable would the following approaches be, 
>when defining new procedures:
>a) New base protocol messages
>b) New error-codes
>c) New AVPs for base protocol messages
>...

The 3588 IANA considerations should have all of this information,
do you have any questions on what is in there?

>BTW, are we going to have a bis document?

When we have some strong consensus on what should be in there, yes, of
course.
But see my next mail.

John

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