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@@ -1,15 +1,22 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY gen_sctp '<seealso marker="kernel:gen_sctp">gen_sctp(3)</seealso>'>
+ <!ENTITY gen_tcp '<seealso marker="kernel:gen_tcp">gen_tcp(3)</seealso>'>
+ <!ENTITY service '<seealso marker="diameter#start_service-2">service</seealso>'>
+ <!ENTITY capabilities '<seealso marker="diameter#capability">capabilities</seealso>'>
+ <!ENTITY events '<seealso marker="diameter#service_event">events</seealso>'>
+ <!ENTITY NA '&#8212;'>
+ <!ENTITY BR '<br/>&nbsp;<br/>'>
<!ENTITY % also SYSTEM "seealso.ent" >
%also;
]>
-<chapter xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
+<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
<year>2011</year>
-<year>2016</year>
+<year>2017</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
@@ -41,63 +48,1285 @@ limitations under the License.
</header>
<p>
-Known points of questionable or non-compliance.</p>
+The table below summarizes the diameter application's compliance with
+&the_rfc;.
+Since the diameter application isn't a Diameter node on its own,
+compliance is strictly the responsibility of the user in many cases,
+diameter providing the means for the user to be compliant
+rather than being compliant on its own.</p>
-<!-- ===================================================================== -->
-
-<section>
-<title>&the_rfc;</title>
-
-<list>
-
-<item>
-<p>
-There is no support for DTLS over SCTP.</p>
-</item>
-
-<item>
<p>
-There is no explicit support for peer discovery (section 5.2).
-It can possibly be implemented on top of diameter as is but this is
-probably something that diameter should do.</p>
-</item>
+The Compliance column notes <em>C</em> (Compliant) if the required
+functionality is implemented, <em>PC</em> (Partially Compliant) if
+there are limitations, <em>NC</em> (Not Compliant) if functionality is
+not implemented, or a dash if text is informational or only places
+requirements that must be met by the user's implementation.</p>
-<item>
<p>
-The peer state machine's election process (section 5.6.4) isn't
-implemented as specified since it assumes knowledge of a
-peer's Origin-Host before sending it a CER. (The identity becoming known
-upon reception of CEA.)
-The possibility of configuring
-the peer's Origin-Host could be added, along with handling of the case
-that it sends something else, but for many applications this will
-just be unnecessary configuration of a value that it has no control over.</p>
-</item>
-<!-- Transport protocol plus address/port, which we do know when
- sending and receiving CER, is enough to definitely identify
- the peer. However, there's nothing stopping a peer from using
- different identities on different transport protocols, even
- if it's maybe a bit far-fetched. -->
-
-</list>
-
-<xi:include href="diameter_soc_rfc6733.xml"/>
-
-</section>
+Capitalized <em>Diameter</em> refers to the protocol, lowercase
+<em>diameter</em> to the Erlang application.</p>
<!-- ===================================================================== -->
<section>
-<title>RFC 3539</title>
+<title>&the_rfc; - Diameter Base Protocol</title>
-<p>
-RFC 3539 is more difficult to comply to since it discusses
-problems as much as it requires functionality but all the MUST's are
-covered, the watchdog state machine being the primary one.
-Of the optional functionality, load balancing is left to the
-diameter user (since it's the one deciding who to send to) and
-there is no Congestion Manager.</p>
+<table>
+<row>
+ <cell><em>Section</em></cell>
+ <cell><em>Title</em></cell>
+ <cell><em>Compliance</em></cell>
+ <cell><em>Notes</em></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>1</cell>
+ <cell>Introduction</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>1.1</cell>
+ <cell>Diameter Protocol</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>1.1.1</cell>
+ <cell>Description of the Document Set</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>1.1.2</cell>
+ <cell>Conventions Used in This Document</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>1.1.3</cell>
+ <cell>Changes from RFC 3588</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell>It is possible to configure a 3588 dictionary in
+ order to get 3588 semantics, where the differ from 6733.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>1.2</cell>
+ <cell>Terminology</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>1.3</cell>
+ <cell>Approach to Extensibility</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell>The dictionary interface documented in &man_dict; provides
+ extensibility, allowing the user to defined new AVPs, commands, and
+ applications.
+ Ready dictionaries are provided for the &the_rfc; common message, base
+ accounting, and relay applications, as well as for RFC 7683,
+ Diameter Overload Indicator Conveyance.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>1.3.1</cell>
+ <cell>Defining New AVP Values</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>1.3.2</cell>
+ <cell>Creating New AVPs</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell>New AVPs can be defined using the dictionary interface.
+ Both both RFC data formats and extensions are supported.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>1.3.3</cell>
+ <cell>Creating New Commands</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell>New commands can be defined using the dictionary interface.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>1.3.4</cell>
+ <cell>Creating New Diameter Applications</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell>New applications can be defined using the dictionary interface.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>2</cell>
+ <cell>Protocol Overview</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell>Session state is the responsibility of the user.&BR;
+ The role of a Diameter node is determined by the user's
+ implementation.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>2.1</cell>
+ <cell>Transport</cell>
+ <cell>PC</cell>
+ <cell>Ports are configured by the user: diameter places no
+ restrictions.&BR;
+ The transport interface documented in &man_transport;
+ allows the user to implement their own methods.
+ Ready support is provided for TCP, TCP/TLS, and SCTP, but not
+ DTLS/SCTP.&BR;
+ Multiple connections to the same peer is possible.
+ ICMP messages are not interpreted.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>2.1.1</cell>
+ <cell>SCTP Guidelines</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>Unordered sending is configurable in &man_sctp;.
+ There is no special handling of DPR/DPA: since a user that cares
+ about pending answers should wait for them before initiating
+ DPR.&BR;
+ A PPID can be configured with a a gen_sctp sctp_default_send_param
+ option.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>2.2</cell>
+ <cell>Securing Diameter Messages</cell>
+ <cell>PC</cell>
+ <cell>DTLS is not supported by &man_sctp;. See also
+ 2.1.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>2.3</cell>
+ <cell>Diameter Application Compliance</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>2.4</cell>
+ <cell>Application Identifiers</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>The user configures diameter with the identifiers to send at
+ capabilities exchange, along with corresponding dictionaries
+ defining the messages of the applications.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>2.5</cell>
+ <cell>Connections vs. Sessions</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>Connections are realized by configuring transport. Sessions
+ are the responsibility of the user.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>2.6</cell>
+ <cell>Peer Table</cell>
+ <cell>PC</cell>
+ <cell>Routing is implemented by the user in callbacks documented in
+ &man_app;.
+ A peer table of the documented form is not exposed to the user.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>2.7</cell>
+ <cell>Routing Table</cell>
+ <cell>PC</cell>
+ <cell>See 2.6.
+ A routing table of the documented form is not exposed to
+ the user.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>2.8</cell>
+ <cell>Role of Diameter Agents</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>Most role-specific behaviour is implemented by the user.
+ How a node advertises itself at capabilities exchange is determined
+ by user configuration.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>2.8.1</cell>
+ <cell>Relay Agents</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>2.8.2</cell>
+ <cell>Proxy Agents</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>2.8.3</cell>
+ <cell>Redirect Agents</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>2.8.4</cell>
+ <cell>Translation Agents</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>2.9</cell>
+ <cell>Diameter Path Authorization</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell>Authorization is the responsibility of the user.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>3</cell>
+ <cell>Diameter Header</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>Hop-by-Hop and End-to-End Identifiers are set by diameter when
+ sending outgoing requests.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>3.1</cell>
+ <cell>Command Codes</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>3.2</cell>
+ <cell>Command Code Format Specification</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>Commands are defined as CCF specifications in dictionary
+ files.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>3.3</cell>
+ <cell>Diameter Command Naming Conventions</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>4</cell>
+ <cell>Diameter AVPs</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>Any required padding is added by diameter when encoding
+ outgoing messages.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>4.1</cell>
+ <cell>AVP Header</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>4.1.1</cell>
+ <cell>Optional Header Elements</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>4.2</cell>
+ <cell>Basic AVP Data Formats</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>4.3</cell>
+ <cell>Derived AVP Data Formats</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>Arbitrary derived data formats are supported by the dictionary
+ interface.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>4.3.1</cell>
+ <cell>Common Derived AVP Data Formats</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>Beware that RFC 6733 changed the DiameterURI transport/port
+ defaults specified in RFC3588.
+ Relying on the defaults can result in interoperability
+ problems.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>4.4</cell>
+ <cell>Grouped AVP Values</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>The M-bit on a component AVP of a Grouped AVP that does not
+ set M is ignored: such AVPs are not regarded as erroneous at
+ decode.&BR;
+ Grouped AVPs are defined as CCF specifications in dictionary
+ files.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>4.4.1</cell>
+ <cell>Example AVP with a Grouped Data Type</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>4.5</cell>
+ <cell>Diameter Base Protocol AVPs</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>The base AVPs are defined in the common dictionary provided by
+ diameter.
+ There are common dictionaries for both RFC 3588 and RFC 6733 since
+ the latter made changes to both syntax and semantics.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5</cell>
+ <cell>Diameter Peers</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.1</cell>
+ <cell>Peer Connections</cell>
+ <cell>PC</cell>
+ <cell>A peer's DiameterIdentity is not required when initiating a
+ connection: the identify is received at capabilities exchange, at
+ which time the connection can be rejected if the identity is
+ objectionable.&BR;
+ The number of connections established depends on the user's
+ configuration. Multiple connections per peer is possible.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.2</cell>
+ <cell>Diameter Peer Discovery</cell>
+ <cell>NC</cell>
+ <cell>No form of peer discovery is implemented.
+ The user can implement this independently of diameter if
+ required.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.3</cell>
+ <cell>Capabilities Exchange</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>All supported applications are sent in CEA.
+ The user can reject an incoming CER or CEA in a configured
+ callback.&BR;
+ Both transport security at connection establishment and
+ negotiated via an Inband-Security AVP are supported.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.3.1</cell>
+ <cell>Capabilities-Exchange-Request</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>CER is sent and received by diameter.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.3.2</cell>
+ <cell>Capabilities-Exchange-Answer</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>CEA is sent and received by diameter.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.3.3</cell>
+ <cell>Vendor-Id AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.3.4</cell>
+ <cell>Firmware-Revision AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.3.5</cell>
+ <cell>Host-IP-Address AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.3.6</cell>
+ <cell>Supported-Vendor-Id AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.3.7</cell>
+ <cell>Product-Name AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.4</cell>
+ <cell>Disconnecting Peer Connections</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>DPA will not be answered with error: a peer that wants to a
+ avoid a race can wait for pending answers before sending
+ DPR.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.4.1</cell>
+ <cell>Disconnect-Peer-Request</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>DPR is sent by diameter in response to configuration
+ changes requiring a connection to be broken.
+ The user can also send DPR.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.4.2</cell>
+ <cell>Disconnect-Peer-Answer</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>DPR is answered by diameter.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.4.3</cell>
+ <cell>Disconnect-Cause AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.5</cell>
+ <cell>Transport Failure Detection</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.5.1</cell>
+ <cell>Device-Watchdog-Request</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>DWR is sent and received by diameter.
+ Callbacks notify the user of transitions into and out of the OKAY
+ state.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.5.2</cell>
+ <cell>Device-Watchdog-Answer</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>DWA is sent and received by diameter.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.5.3</cell>
+ <cell>Transport Failure Algorithm</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.5.4</cell>
+ <cell>Failover and Failback Procedures</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.6</cell>
+ <cell>Peer State Machine</cell>
+ <cell>PC</cell>
+ <cell>The election process is modified as described in 5.6.4.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.6.1</cell>
+ <cell>Incoming Connections</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.6.2</cell>
+ <cell>Events</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.6.3</cell>
+ <cell>Actions</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>5.6.4</cell>
+ <cell>The Election Process</cell>
+ <cell>PC</cell>
+ <cell>As documented, the election assumes knowledge of a peer's
+ DiameterIdentity when initiating a connection, which diameter
+ doesn't require. Connections will be accepted if configuration
+ allows multiple connections per peer to be established or there is
+ no existing connection. Note that the election process is only
+ applicable when multiple connections per peer is
+ disallowed.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6</cell>
+ <cell>Diameter Message Processing</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.1</cell>
+ <cell>Diameter Request Routing Overview</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell>Routing is performed by the user.
+ A callback from diameter provides a list of available suitable peer
+ connections.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.1.1</cell>
+ <cell>Originating a Request</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>Requests are constructed by the user; diameter sets header
+ fields as defined in the relevant dictionary.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.1.2</cell>
+ <cell>Sending a Request</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.1.3</cell>
+ <cell>Receiving Requests</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>Loops are detected by diameter when the return value of a
+ request callback asks that a request be forwarded.
+ Loop detection in other cases is the responsibility of the
+ user.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.1.4</cell>
+ <cell>Processing Local Requests</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>The user decides whether or not to process a request locally
+ in the request callback from diameter.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.1.5</cell>
+ <cell>Request Forwarding</cell>
+ <cell>PC</cell>
+ <cell>See 2.6.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.1.6</cell>
+ <cell>Request Routing</cell>
+ <cell>PC</cell>
+ <cell>See 2.7.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.1.7</cell>
+ <cell>Predictive Loop Avoidance</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>See 6.1.3.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.1.8</cell>
+ <cell>Redirecting Requests</cell>
+ <cell>PC</cell>
+ <cell>See 2.6.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.1.9</cell>
+ <cell>Relaying and Proxying Requests</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>A Route-Record AVP is appended by diameter when the return
+ value of a request callback asks that a request be forwarded.
+ Appending the AVP in other cases is the responsibility of the
+ user.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.2</cell>
+ <cell>Diameter Answer Processing</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>Answer message are constructed by the user, except in the case
+ of some protocol errors, in which case the procedures are
+ followed.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.2.1</cell>
+ <cell>Processing Received Answers</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>Answers with an unknown Hop-by-Hop Identifier are
+ discarded.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.2.2</cell>
+ <cell>Relaying and Proxying Answers</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell>Modifying answers is the responsibility of the user in
+ callbacks from diameter.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.3</cell>
+ <cell>Origin-Host AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>The order of AVPs in an encoded message is determined by
+ the CCF of the message in question.&BR;
+ AVPs defined in the RFC are defined in dictionaries provided by
+ diameter.
+ Their proper use in application messages is the responsibility of
+ the user.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.4</cell>
+ <cell>Origin-Realm AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.5</cell>
+ <cell>Destination-Host AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.6</cell>
+ <cell>Destination-Realm AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.7</cell>
+ <cell>Routing AVPs</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.7.1</cell>
+ <cell>Route-Record AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.7.2</cell>
+ <cell>Proxy-Info AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.7.3</cell>
+ <cell>Proxy-Host AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.7.4</cell>
+ <cell>Proxy-State AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.8</cell>
+ <cell>Auth-Application-Id AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.9</cell>
+ <cell>Acct-Application-Id AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.10</cell>
+ <cell>Inband-Security-Id AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>See 2.1.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.11</cell>
+ <cell>Vendor-Specific-Application-Id AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>Note that the CCF of this AVP is not the same as in RFC
+ 3588.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.12</cell>
+ <cell>Redirect-Host AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.13</cell>
+ <cell>Redirect-Host-Usage AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>6.14</cell>
+ <cell>Redirect-Max-Cache-Time AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>7</cell>
+ <cell>Error Handling</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>Answers are formulated by the user in most cases.
+ Answers setting the E-bit can be sent by diameter itself in response
+ to a request that cannot be handled by the user.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>7.1</cell>
+ <cell>Result-Code AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>7.1.1</cell>
+ <cell>Informational</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>7.1.2</cell>
+ <cell>Success</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>7.1.3</cell>
+ <cell>Protocol Errors</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>Result codes 3001, 3002, 3005, and 3007 can be sent in answers
+ formulated by diameter, if configured to do so.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>7.1.4</cell>
+ <cell>Transient Failures</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>Result code 4003 is sent in CEA if there is an existing
+ connection to the peer in question and configuration does not allow
+ more than one.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>7.1.5</cell>
+ <cell>Permanent Failures</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>Message reception detects 5001, 5004,
+ 5005, 5008, 5009, 5010, 5011, 5014, 5015, and 5017 errors.
+ It ignores 5013 errors at the admonition of sections 3 and 4.1.&BR;
+ Note that RFC 3588 did not allow 5xxx result codes in
+ answers setting the E-bit, while RFC 6733 does.
+ This is a potential interoperability problem since the Diameter
+ protocol version has not changed.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>7.2</cell>
+ <cell>Error Bit</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>7.3</cell>
+ <cell>Error-Message AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>The user can include this AVP as required.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>7.4</cell>
+ <cell>Error-Reporting-Host AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>The user can include this AVP as required.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>7.5</cell>
+ <cell>Failed-AVP AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell>The user constructs application-specific messages, but
+ diameter provides failed AVPs in message callbacks. Failed component AVPs
+ are grouped within the relevant Grouped AVPs.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>7.6</cell>
+ <cell>Experimental-Result AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>7.7</cell>
+ <cell>Experimental-Result-Code AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8</cell>
+ <cell>Diameter User Sessions</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell>Authorization and accounting AVPs are defined in provided
+ dictionaries. Their proper use is the responsibility of the
+ user.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.1</cell>
+ <cell>Authorization Session State Machine</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell>Authorization is the responsibility of the user: diameter does
+ not implement this state machine.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.2</cell>
+ <cell>Accounting Session State Machine</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell>Accounting is the responsibility of the user: diameter does
+ not implement this state machine.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.3</cell>
+ <cell>Server-Initiated Re-Auth</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.3.1</cell>
+ <cell>Re-Auth-Request</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.3.2</cell>
+ <cell>Re-Auth-Answer</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.4</cell>
+ <cell>Session Termination</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell>Session-related messages and AVPs are defined in provided
+ dictionaries. Their proper use is the user's responsibility.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.4.1</cell>
+ <cell>Session-Termination-Request</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.4.2</cell>
+ <cell>Session-Termination-Answer</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.5</cell>
+ <cell>Aborting a Session</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell>Session-related messages and AVPs are defined in provided
+ dictionaries. Their proper use is the user's responsibility.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.5.1</cell>
+ <cell>Abort-Session-Request</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.5.2</cell>
+ <cell>Abort-Session-Answer</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.6</cell>
+ <cell>Inferring Session Termination from Origin-State-Id</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell>Session-related messages and AVPs are defined in provided
+ dictionaries. Their proper use is the user's responsibility.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.7</cell>
+ <cell>Auth-Request-Type AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.8</cell>
+ <cell>Session-Id AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.9</cell>
+ <cell>Authorization-Lifetime AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.10</cell>
+ <cell>Auth-Grace-Period AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.11</cell>
+ <cell>Auth-Session-State AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.12</cell>
+ <cell>Re-Auth-Request-Type AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.13</cell>
+ <cell>Session-Timeout AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.14</cell>
+ <cell>User-Name AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.15</cell>
+ <cell>Termination-Cause AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.16</cell>
+ <cell>Origin-State-Id AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.17</cell>
+ <cell>Session-Binding AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.18</cell>
+ <cell>Session-Server-Failover AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.19</cell>
+ <cell>Multi-Round-Time-Out AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.20</cell>
+ <cell>Class AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>8.21</cell>
+ <cell>Event-Timestamp AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>9</cell>
+ <cell>Accounting</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell>Accounting-related messages and AVPs are defined in provided
+ dictionaries. Their proper use is the user's responsibility.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>9.1</cell>
+ <cell>Server Directed Model</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>9.2</cell>
+ <cell>Protocol Messages</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>9.3</cell>
+ <cell>Accounting Application Extension and Requirements</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>9.4</cell>
+ <cell>Fault Resilience</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>9.5</cell>
+ <cell>Accounting Records</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>9.6</cell>
+ <cell>Correlation of Accounting Records</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>9.7</cell>
+ <cell>Accounting Command Codes</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>9.7.1</cell>
+ <cell>Accounting-Request</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>9.7.2</cell>
+ <cell>Accounting-Answer</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>9.8</cell>
+ <cell>Accounting AVPs</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>9.8.1</cell>
+ <cell>Accounting-Record-Type AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>9.8.2</cell>
+ <cell>Acct-Interim-Interval AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>9.8.3</cell>
+ <cell>Accounting-Record-Number AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>9.8.4</cell>
+ <cell>Acct-Session-Id AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>9.8.5</cell>
+ <cell>Acct-Multi-Session-Id AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>9.8.6</cell>
+ <cell>Accounting-Sub-Session-Id AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>9.8.7</cell>
+ <cell>Accounting-Realtime-Required AVP</cell>
+ <cell>C</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>10</cell>
+ <cell>AVP Occurrence Tables</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>10.1</cell>
+ <cell>Base Protocol Command AVP Table</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>10.2</cell>
+ <cell>Accounting AVP Table</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11</cell>
+ <cell>IANA Considerations</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.1</cell>
+ <cell>AVP Header</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.1.1</cell>
+ <cell>AVP Codes</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.1.2</cell>
+ <cell>AVP Flags</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.2</cell>
+ <cell>Diameter Header</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.2.1</cell>
+ <cell>Command Codes</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.2.2</cell>
+ <cell>Command Flags</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.3</cell>
+ <cell>AVP Values</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.3.1</cell>
+ <cell>Experimental-Result-Code AVP</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.3.2</cell>
+ <cell>Result-Code AVP Values</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.3.3</cell>
+ <cell>Accounting-Record-Type AVP Values</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.3.4</cell>
+ <cell>Termination-Cause AVP Values</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.3.5</cell>
+ <cell>Redirect-Host-Usage AVP Values</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.3.6</cell>
+ <cell>Session-Server-Failover AVP Values</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.3.7</cell>
+ <cell>Session-Binding AVP Values</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.3.8</cell>
+ <cell>Disconnect-Cause AVP Values</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.3.9</cell>
+ <cell>Auth-Request-Type AVP Values</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.3.10</cell>
+ <cell>Auth-Session-State AVP Values</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.3.11</cell>
+ <cell>Re-Auth-Request-Type AVP Values</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.3.12</cell>
+ <cell>Accounting-Realtime-Required AVP Values</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.3.13</cell>
+ <cell>Inband-Security-Id AVP (code 299)</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.4</cell>
+ <cell>_diameters Service Name and Port Number Registration</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.5</cell>
+ <cell>SCTP Payload Protocol Identifiers</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>11.6</cell>
+ <cell>S-NAPTR Parameters</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>12</cell>
+ <cell>Diameter Protocol-Related Configurable Parameters</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>13</cell>
+ <cell>Security Considerations</cell>
+ <cell>PC</cell>
+ <cell>See 2.1.&BR;
+ IPsec is transparent to diameter.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>13.1</cell>
+ <cell>TLS/TCP and DTLS/SCTP Usage</cell>
+ <cell>PC</cell>
+ <cell>See 2.1.</cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>13.2</cell>
+ <cell>Peer-to-Peer Considerations</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>13.3</cell>
+ <cell>AVP Considerations</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>14</cell>
+ <cell>References</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>14.1</cell>
+ <cell>Normative References</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+<row>
+ <cell>14.2</cell>
+ <cell>Informative References</cell>
+ <cell>&NA;</cell>
+ <cell></cell>
+</row>
+
+<tcaption>RFC 6733 Compliance</tcaption>
+</table>
</section>
</chapter>
+
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+-->
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