Roaming Operations (roamops) ---------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 01/24/2001 Current Status: Concluded Working Group Chair(s): Glen Zorn Pat Calhoun Operations and Management Area Director(s): Randy Bush Bert Wijnen Operations and Management Area Advisor: Randy Bush Technical Advisor(s): Michael O'Dell Mailing Lists: General Discussion:roamops@tdmx.rutgers.edu To Subscribe: roamops-request@tdmx.rutgers.edu In Body: subscribe 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. Thus far, the group has produced an architectural document describing the basic mechanisms required to support user roaming, a description of several existing roaming implementations and defined a standard username syntax to support roaming. A repository for documentation describing current roaming implementations is also maintained. In the future, 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, authentication and authorization mechanisms and exploring in in depth the security issues involved with roaming. This work is expected to consist mainly of new or revised procedures and application-layer protocols, in addition to recommendations for the fulfillment of the Internet roaming requirements. 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, saag and cat) to identify issues to which the roamops group should attend, as well as to assure that 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 Done Review the charter for additional work required Done Submit the roaming implementations review draft for publication as an Informational RFC. Done Submit the roaming requirements and network authentication identifier drafts for publication as a Proposed Standard. Done Submit Internet-Drafts on phone book attributes and format. AUG 98 Submit the authentication draft for publication as a Proposed Standard. AUG 98 Submit the accounting draft for publication as a Proposed Standard. SEP 98 Submit a BCP on roaming requirements fulfillment Internet-Drafts: No Current Internet-Drafts. Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------ RFC2194 I SEP 97 Review of Roaming Implementations RFC2477 I JAN 99 Criteria for Evaluating Roaming Protocols RFC2486 PS JAN 99 The Network Access Identifier RFC2607 I JUN 99 Proxy Chaining and Policy Implementation in Roaming RFC3017 PS DEC 00 XML DTD for Roaming Access Phone Book