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- Internet Accounting (acct)
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- Charter
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- Chair(s):
- Cyndi Mills <cmills@bbn.com>
- Gregory Ruth <gruth@bbn.com>
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- Network Management Area Director(s)
- Marshall Rose <mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us>
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- Mailing lists:
- General Discussion:accounting-wg@wugate.wustl.edu
- To Subscribe: accounting-wg-request@wugate.wustl.edu
- Archive:
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- Description of Working Group:
- The Internet Accounting Working Group has the goal of producing
- standards for the generation of accounting data within the Internet
- that can be used to support a wide range of management and cost
- allocation policies. The introduction of a common set of tools and
- interpretations should ease the implementation of organizational
- policies for Internet components and make them more equitable in a
- multi-vendor environment.
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- In the following accounting model, this Working Group is primarily
- concerned with defining standards for the Meter function and
- recommending protocols for the Collector function. Individual
- accounting applications (billing applications) and organizational
- policies will not be addressed, although examples should be provided.
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- Meter $<$--$>$ Collector $<$--$>$ Application $<$--$>$ Policy
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- First, examine a wide range of existing and hypothetical policies to
- understand what set of information is required to satisfy usage
- reporting requirements. Next, evaluate existing mechanisms to generate
- this information and define the specifications of each accounting
- parameter to be generated. Determine the requirements for local storage
- and how parameters may be aggregated. Recommend a data collection
- protocol and internal formats for processing by accounting applications.
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- This will result in an Internet-Draft suitable for experimental
- verification and implementation.
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- In parallel with the definition of the draft standard, develop a suite
- of test scenarios to verify the model. Identify candidates for
- prototyping and implementation.
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- Goals and Milestones:
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- Done Policy models examined.
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- Done Internet Accounting Background Working Draft written.
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- Done Collection Protocols Working Papers written.
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- Done Internet Accounting Background final draft submitted to the IESG for
- consideration as an Informational RFC.
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- Done Collection protocol recommendation.
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- Done Architecture submission as Internet-Draft.
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- Done Post the Accounting Meter MIB as an Internet-Draft.
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- Jan 93 Architecture document submitted to the IESG for consideration as a
- Proposed Standard.
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- Jan 93 Submit the Accounting Meter MIB to the IESG for consideration as a
- Proposed Standard.
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- Internet Drafts:
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- No Current Internet drafts.
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- Request For Comments:
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- RFC Stat Published Title
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- RFC1272 Nov 91 Internet Accounting: Background
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