: RE: Diameter base protocol messages used by DCCA

Hi Glen,

The DCCA document defines two different approaches to perform the first =
credit control=20
interrogation to be used in different network architectures. The first =
approach=20
uses credit-control messages after the user's authorization and =
authentication=20
takes place. The second approach uses service specific authorization =
messages=20
(such as AAA/AAR) to perform the first interrogation during the user's=20
authorization/authentication phase, and credit-control messages for the=20
intermediate and final interrogations.=20

AA Request/AA Answer are not necessarily equal to AAR/AAA messages in =
NASREQ but=20
they mean in DCCA document a general authorization/authentication =
request/answer=20
in any Diameter authorization/authentication application. Bad name =
example, as it=20
seems to collide with the message name in NASREQ.

If the CCA client supports the second approach and e.g. NASREQ is used =
for service
authorization, then the CCA client sends/receives AAR/AAA messages.

As this "AA Request/AA Answer" is a general message, not explicit NASREQ =
message,=20
we did not include it the table in section 10.=20

regards............Harri


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glen Zorn (gwz) [mailto:[email protected]]=20
> Sent: 15. kes=E4kuuta 2006 3:59
> To: Harri Hakala (TU/LMF); Leena Mattila (TU/LMF);=20
> [email protected]; [email protected];=20
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> Cc: Glen Zorn (gwz); [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Diameter base protocol messages used by DCCA
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> In the process of attempting to construct a MIB for the=20
> credit control application, I have been trying to figure out=20
> which messages from Diameter base are used by DCCA, so that=20
> they can be counted appropriately.  Some are obvious: STR/STA=20
> & RAR/RAA, for example.  One has me rather puzzled, though:=20
> the AAR/AAA exchange is explicitly listed in the first state=20
> machine in section 7 as being sent/received by the CCA=20
> client, but the AVPs allowed in AAR/AAA are not listed in=20
> section 10 (though the APS for RAR/RAA ARE).  Does the CCA=20
> client actually send/receive AAR/AAA (i.e., should the be=20
> counted in the DCCA MIB) or not?
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> ~gwz
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