Roaming Operations (roamops) ---------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 24-Oct-97 Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): G. Zorn Pat Calhoun Operations and Management Area Director(s): John Curran Michael O'Dell Operations and Management Area Advisor: John Curran Technical Advisor(s): Michael O'Dell Mailing Lists: General Discussion:roamops@tdmx.rutgers.edu To Subscribe: roamops-request@tdmx.rutgers.edu In Body: include Archive: ftp://ftp-no.rutgers.edu/misc/IETF/roamops Description of Working Group: The purpose of this group is to develop or adopt procedures, mechanisms and protocols to support user roaming among groups of Internet service providers (ISPs). This is different from, but related to, the work of the IP Routing for Wireless/Mobile Hosts Working Group (mobileip) in that the roamops group is not concerned with the movement of hosts or subnets, but of users. In the near term, the goals of the group will be to produce an architectural document describing the basic mechanisms required to support user roaming. A repository for documentation describing current roaming implementations will also be maintained. In addition, the group will address interoperability among ISPs and roaming users by standardizing such items as network usage data exchange (including the content, format and protocols involved), phone book attributes and exchange/update protocols, inter-ISP authentication mechanisms and exploring in depth the security issues involved with roaming. This work is expected to consist mainly of new or revised procedures and application-layer protocols. Any and all business issues regarding the operation of an ISP roaming network (such as settlement, business and billing methods) are specifically NOT in the scope of the roamops Working Group and will not be discussed. The group will work closely with other IETF Working Groups (including mobileip, radius, nasreqng saag and cat) to identify issuesto which the roamops group should attend, as well as to assure their work does not make roaming unnecessarily difficult or impossible. The utmost goal of the group will to make sure, by any means necessary, that it produces documents of high quality that are useful to the IETF community. Goals and Milestones: Done Re-submit existing Internet-Drafts as work of the ROAMOPS Working Group Jan 97 Submit Internet-Drafts to IESG for publication as RFCs Done Review the charter for additional work required Jul 97 Submit the roaming implementations review draft for publication as an Informational RFC. Sep 97 Submit the roaming requirements and network authentication identifier drafts for publication as a Proposed Standard. Oct 97 Submit Internet-Drafts on phone book attributes and format. Dec 97 Submit the authentication draft for publication as a Proposed Standard. Feb 98 Submit the accounting draft for publication as a Proposed Standard. Internet-Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- ------------------------------------------ Jun 96 Jul 97 Dialup Roaming Requirements Nov 96 Sep 97 The Network Access Identifier Mar 97 Aug 97 Session Record Accounting in Roaming Mar 97 Sep 97 Guidelines for the Operation of RADIUS Proxies in Roaming Oct 97 New Secure Radius Server Operation Guidelines for Dial Roaming Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ---------- ----------------------------------------- RFC2194 Sep 97 Review of Roaming Implementations