Internet Accounting 2 (acct2)




Charter



Status: Concluded January, 1997 







Chair(s):







 Nevil Brownlee 



 Cyndi Mills 







Description of Working Group:



  The Internet Acounting Working Group had the goal of producing 



  standards for the collection of accounting data within the Internet



  to support a wide range of management and cost allocation policies.



  This Internet Accouting 2 Working Group (acct2) continues by



  publishing the Accounting Architecture and Accounting Meter MIB RFCs



  as quickly as possible.







  The 'accounting model' is a generalized model for accounting data,



  covering the adjacent, peer and transport layers for several network



  protocols (IP, IPX, EtherTalk, DECnet and CLNS).  This will be



  developed further to include the application layer.







  File formats for accounting data storage are also of interest.  



  Standardization of these would facilitate data exchange between 



  accounting and billing systems (e.g., telco systems.)   The working



  group will also produce a requirements document for the further use



  of accounting data.







  The RMON Working Group is also interested in monitoring traffic flows 



  between pairs of hosts, an activity which is already covered by the



  accounting meter MIB.  This group will consult with RMON on this



  topic.  Other working groups (such as NASREQ and AAC) are also



  interested in accounting issues; this group will consult with them to



  ensure that such issues are addressed in a consistent way.