2.4.12 RADIUS EXTensions (radext)

NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of the 69th IETF Meeting in Chicago, IL USA. It may now be out-of-date.
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Last Modified: 2007-05-21

Chair(s):

David Nelson <d.b.nelson@comcast.net>
Bernard Aboba <Bernard_Aboba@hotmail.com>

Operations and Management Area Director(s):

Dan Romascanu <dromasca@avaya.com>
Ronald Bonica <rbonica@juniper.net>

Operations and Management Area Advisor:

Dan Romascanu <dromasca@avaya.com>

Technical Advisor(s):

Paul Congdon <paul.congdon@hp.com>

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Description of Working Group:

The RADIUS Extensions Working Group will focus on extensions to the
RADIUS protocol required to enable its use in applications such as IP
telephony and Local Area Network authentication, authorization and
accounting.

The IETF has recently completed work on the Diameter Base protocol. In
order to support the deployment of Diameter, and enable interoperation
of heterogeneous RADIUS/Diameter deployments, all RADEXT WG work items
MUST contain a Diameter compatibility section, outlining how
interoperability with Diameter will be maintained.

Furthermore, to ensure backward compatibility with existing RADIUS
implementations, as well as compatibility between RADIUS and Diameter,
the following restrictions are imposed on extensions considered by the
RADEXT WG:

- All RADIUS work MUST be backward compatible with existing RADIUS
RFCs,
including RFCs 2618-2621, 2865-2869, 3162, 3575, 3576, 3579, and 3580.
- All RADIUS work MUST be compatible with equivalent facilities in
Diameter. Where possible, new attributes should be defined so that
the same attribute can be used in both RADIUS and Diameter without
translation. In other cases a translation considerations
section should be included in the specification.
- No new RADIUS transports (e.g. TCP, SCTP) will be defined.
- No new security mechanisms will be defined for protecting RADIUS.
- No new commands will be defined.

Work Items

The immediate goals of the RADEXT working group are to address the
following issues:

- RADIUS design guidelines. This document will provide guidelines for
design of RADIUS attributes. It will specifically consider how
complex data types may be introduced in a robust manner, maintaining
backwards compatibility with existing RADIUS RFCs, across all the
classes of attributes: Standard, Vendor-Specific and SDO-Specific.
In addition, it will review RADIUS data types and associated
backwards compatibility issues.

- RADIUS implementation issues and fixes. This document will address
common RADIUS implementation issues and describe proposed solutions.

- Revised NAI specification. This document, known as "RFC 2486bis"
will revise the NAI specification to correct known errors,
add support for privacy and internationalization, and provide
more details on routing.

- Pre-paid support. Prepaid services are contemplated in a number
of potential applications, including wireless LAN access and IP
telephony. In order to enable support of pre-paid services in
an interoperable way, the WG will provide definitions of the
attributes required to support operator service models for
pre-paid, as documented in liaison communications. This
document will include within it a specification for interoperation
with Diameter Credit Control.

- SIP support. RADIUS is currently used for SIP authentication,
authorization and accounting. Standardization of these attributes
will enable improved interoperability.

This document will be upwards compatible with the Diameter SIP
application, and conform to existing IETF RFCs on HTTP Digest,
including RFC 2617, 3261, and 3310.

- LAN attributes. New attributes have been proposed to enable use of
authentication, authorization and accounting in wired and
wireless LANs. Standardization of these attributes will enable
improved interoperability.

- RADIUS MIB update. RFC 2618-2621 lack IPv6 compatibility, and modest
changes are required to address this issue. MIBs for RFC 3576 are
also needed.

Goals and Milestones:

Done  Updates to RFC 2618-2621 RADIUS MIBs submitted for publication
Done  SIP RADIUS authentication draft submitted as a Proposed Standard RFC
Done  RFC 2486bis submitted as a Proposed Standard RFC
Done  RFC 3576 MIBs submitted as an Informational RFC
Done  RADIUS VLAN and Priority Attributes draft submitted as a Proposed Standard RFC (reduced in scope)
Jun 2006  RADIUS Design Guidelines and Extended Attributes drafts WGLC
Jun 2006  WLAN Attributes draft submitted as a Proposed Standard RFC
Sep 2006  RADIUS Implementation Issues and Fixes draft submitted as an Informational RFC
Oct 2006  RADIUS Design Guidelines submitted as a Best Current Practice RFC
Oct 2006  RADIUS Extended Attributes submitted as a Proposed Standard RFC (split out from Design Guidelines draft)
Oct 2006  RADIUS Filtering Attributes draft submitted as a Proposed Standard RFC (split out from VLAN & Priority draft)
Nov 2006  RFC 3576bis submitted as an Informational RFC (split out from Issues & Fixes draft)
Dec 2006  RADIUS Redirection Attributes draft submitted as a Proposed Standard RFC (split out from VLAN & Priority draft)
Dec 2006  RADIUS Crypto-agility draft (e.g. FIPS 140-2 compliance for RADIUS) submitted as a Proposed Standard RFC (split out from WLAN attributes draft)
Dec 2006  RADIUS Prepaid draft submitted as a Proposed Standard RFC

Internet-Drafts:

  • draft-ietf-radext-filter-rules-03.txt
  • draft-ietf-radext-rfc4590bis-02.txt
  • draft-ietf-radext-fixes-04.txt
  • draft-ietf-radext-rfc3576bis-08.txt

    Request For Comments:

    RFCStatusTitle
    RFC4282 Standard The Network Access Identifier
    RFC4372 Standard Chargeable User Identity
    RFC4590 PS RADIUS Extension for Digest Authentication
    RFC4668 PS RADIUS Authentication Client MIB for IPV6
    RFC4669 PS RADIUS Authentication Server MIB for IPv6
    RFC4670 I RADIUS Accounting Client MIB for IPv6
    RFC4671 I RADIUS Accounting Server MIB for IPv6
    RFC4672 I RADIUS Dynamic Authorization Client MIB
    RFC4673 I RADIUS Dynamic Authorization Server MIB
    RFC4675 PS RADIUS Attributes for Virtual LAN and Priority Support
    RFC4818 PS RADIUS Delegated-IPv6-Prefix Attribute
    RFC4849 PS RADIUS Filter Rule Attribute

    Meeting Minutes


    Slides

    Agenda Slides
    RFC 3576bis Slides
    RFC 4590bis Slides
    RADIUS Issues & Fixes Slides
    RADIUS Traffic Rules Attributes Slides
    RADIUS WLAN Attributes Slides
    RADIUS Design Guidelines Slides
    Crypto-Agility Requirements and Selection Process Slides
    RADIUS over DTLS Slides
    RADIUS Key-Wrap for Crypto-Agility Slides
    RADIUS over TLS (RADSEC) Slides
    RADIUS ERP Attributes Slides
    RADIUS Extented Atrrribute Format Slides