RFC 7423: Diameter Applications Design Guidelines

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The Diameter base protocol provides facilities for protocol extensibility enabling the definition of new Diameter applications or modification of existing applications. This document is a companion document to the Diameter base protocol that further explains and clarifies the rules to extend Diameter. Furthermore, this document provides guidelines to Diameter application designers reusing/ defining Diameter applications or creating generic Diameter extensions.

Document record

Document ID

RFC7423

Published

November 2014

Authors

L. Morand; V. Fajardo; H. Tschofenig

Status

BEST CURRENT PRACTICE

Stream

IETF

Area

ops

Pages

29

Also known as

BCP193

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• DOI: 10.17487/RFC7423

Topics

• AAA
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Accounting

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Also filed under

• BEST CURRENT PRACTICE
• 2014
• IETF stream
• ops area
• BCP 193