Subject: nasreq FW: A few words on AAA WG relationship with other WGs and standar ds bodies

From: "Beadles, Mark A." <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:47:34 -0400

FYI from co-chair of AAA WG.

+ Mark Anthony Beadles + Co-chair, IETF NASREQ WG   + 
+  [email-masked]   + http://nasreq.rutgers.edu/ +
+  Voice 614.723.1941  +       Fax 614.723.8407     +

-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard Aboba [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Wednesday, 06 October 1999 3:55 PM
To: [email-masked]
Subject: A few words on AAA WG relationship with other WGs and standards
bodies

I thought I'd say a few words outlining the
documents we will be incorporating from other
WGs and standards bodies, and describing the
process for incorporating that comments on
those submissions.  

The idea behind incorporating the work of other
groups is to leverage their expertise and energy
as well as to ensure that the requirements 
represent the consensus of those groups. This
ensures that we will design a base protocol
that those groups can then use in their own
work. It also provides a way of ensuring
proper coordination between AAA WG and other
groups. That is, we see AAA WG as a supplier to
those other groups, not an outside force 
re-designing their architecture. Defining a 
clear supplier-customer relationship lessens
our work load,  prevents duplication of
effort and reduces the likelihood of potential
conflicts with other groups. 

The external documents to be incorporated
include:

From NASREQ:
draft-ietf-nasreq-criteria-02.txt

From ROAMOPS:
RFC 2477

From Mobile IP (joint discussion with AAA):
draft-ietf-aaa-mobile-ip-req-00.txt

From TIA 45.6: 
Work in progress, not submitted yet.
contact: Tom Hiller, [email-masked]. 

In order to allow discussion of the
above inputs, it is highly desirable that
they get in some time before the Oct. 22
deadline. Getting them in by Oct. 15 would
both permit some time for AAA WG discussion
as well as possibly allow time for composition
of a summary document. 

Since the authors of the above documents 
may not necessarily be closely following 
the AAA WG mailing list, it makes sense 
to post comments to the relevant WG 
mailing list as well as possibly
to cc: the authors.  

Please note that if you are developing 
requirements that relate to the above
areas, and intend this to be taken into
account by the AAA WG, then you MUST get
your input incorporated by the authors of
the above documents. 

Note that the decision on whether to accept
your input is up to the WG and authors in
question. If your input is rejected by the
WG in question, you should not expect to
get that decision overturned in an appeal
to the AAA WG. Since we will focus on
incorporating documents from other WGs,
if you wish to present alternatives or
contest decisions of other WGs, then
the place to focus those energies is
within the other bodies, not AAA WG.