I-D ACTION:draft-calhoun-diameter-framework-01.txt

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	Title		: DIAMETER Framework Document
	Author(s)	: G. Zorn, P. Pan, P. Calhoun
	Filename	: draft-calhoun-diameter-framework-01.txt
	Pages		: 15
	Date		: 31-Jul-98
	
   As the number of new internet services has increased in the past cou-
   ple of years, routers and network access servers (NAS) have had to
   undergo re-engineering to support them.
 
   These new services could often benefit from an Authentication,
   Authorization and Accounting (AAA) protocol to facilitate off-loading
   policy information to an external server.
 
   The DIAMETER protocol defines a policy protocol used by clients to
   perform Policy, AAA and Resource Control. This allows a single server
   to handle policies for many services.

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