AAA Resources on the web (links)

This page contains several links to sources for AAA information on the web. Most of these links were used in my study in this subject.
Note: these links may not be accurate, since they are not regularly checked.
Note: this is work in progress and not yet complete.

Articles

     Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting for the Internet

http://www.computer.org/internet/v3n6/w6onwire.htm
Internet computing online acticle by Christopher Metz of Cisco Systems about AAA protocols.

     Internet billing starts ticking

http://www.internettelephony.com/archive/6.22.98/Cover/cover.htm
Cover Story June 22, 1998 by Frank Barbetta.

Research Groups

     The Internet Engineering Task Force

http://www.ietf.org/
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual.
Workgroups of the IETF and other indiduals produce internet-drafts and requests for comments (RFCs).
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf-announce/
Mailinglist archive of IETF Announcements such as apearing internet-drafts and RFCs.
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/
Mailinglist archive of the IETF Discussion mailinglist.

     IRTF AAAarch research group

http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~wwwfi/aaaarch/
Authentication Authorisation Accounting ARCHitecture Research Group (AAAarch) home page.
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/research/aaaarch/
Mail archive of the IRTF AAAarch research group.

     IETF Authentication, Authorization and Accounting Working Group

http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/aaa-charter.html
IETF Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (aaa) Working Group charter.
http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/aaa-wg/
Archive of the IETF AAA Working Group mailing list.

     IETF AAA-BOF Working Group

http://www.merit.edu/working.groups/aaa-bof/
IETF AAA-BOF Home Page. Seems outdated.

RADIUS

     Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2138.txt
RFC 2138 proposed standard describing a protocol for carrying authentication, authorization, and configuration information between a Network Access Server which desires to authenticate its links and a shared Authentication Server. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-radius-radius-v2-06.txt
Internet-draft (draft-ietf-radius-radius-v2-06.txt) describing radius v2.

     RADIUS Accounting

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2139.txt
RFC 2138 informational document describing a protocol for carrying accounting information between a Network Access Server and a shared Accounting Server. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-radius-accounting-v2-05.txt
Internet-draft (draft-ietf-radius-accounting-v2-05.txt) describing accounting extensions to radius v2.

     RADIUS Whitepaper

http://www.livingston.com/marketing/whitepapers/radius_paper.html

     Radius for First-time Users

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/480/radius.html
Cisco document intended to assist the first-time Radius user in setting up and debugging a Radius configuration.

     Index of /doc/radius

http://www.rest.ru/doc/radius/
A directory containing some documents regarding RADIUS.

     Guarding The Flank With RADIUS & TACACS+

http://www.nwc.com/902/902ws1.html

     Cistron RADIUS server, version 1.6.2

http://www.miquels.cistron.nl/radius/

     RADIUS for UNIX Administrator's Guide

http://www.livingston.com/tech/docs/radius/1185title.html
Lucent Technologies guide for setting up a RADIUS server on a UNIX machine.

     RADIUS for Windows NT Administrator's Guide

http://vineyard.net/vni/docs/pm3/html/manuals/RadiusNT/1274atitle.html
Lucent Technologies guide for setting up a RADIUS server on a NT machine.

DIAMETER

     DIAMETER Web Page

http://www.diameter.org/
The official DIAMETER Web Site with the latest information regarding the status of the protocol, the latest Internet-Drafts, and other DIAMETER related presentations.

MSIX

     MSIX Web Page

http://www.msix.org/
Page containing white paper, drafts, etc.

     MSIX Turns on the ISP Meter

http://www.wired.com/news/topstories/0,1287,3224,00.html
Wired article by Chris Oakes Apr. 17, 1997.

     Compaq And NetCentric Introduce New Metering Spec

http://www5.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/inwo/0408/inwo0003.html
ZDNet article by Randy Barrett April 8, 1997.

     There's A Way To Bill Bandwidth Hogs

http://www.techweb.com/wire/news/1997/09/0922hog.html
TechWeb article by Kate Gerwig, InternetWeek, Sept. 22 1997.

     Metered Service Management Protocol Unveiled

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/inwk/0428/inwk0010.html
ZDNet article by Peter Lambert August 20, 1997.

     Geek of the Week - Alan Blount

http://www.geekweek.com/geekarch/blount.htm
Geek of the week, January 25, 1999.

     Alan Blount - MSIX

http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/html/aaa-wg/msg00281.html
Mail from Alan Blount to the IETF AAA Working Group mailing list regarding MSIX, July 1, 1999.

     Compaq bids to speed Internet diversification

http://eetimes.com/news/97/950news/bidsto.html
EETimes.com article by Rick Boyd-Merritt.

     NetCentric, Compaq push metering protocol

http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/97/44/t10-44.6.htm
Infoworld article by Matthew Nelson November 3, 1997 (Vol. 19, Issue 44). (not visible with all browsers).

Unasigned links

     Station Message Detail Recording to Premises

http://www.bell-atl.com/largebiz/cent_plus_smdr.htm

     WTI PollCat Call Accounting SMDR Call Record Buffers

http://www.wti.com/pollcat.htm

     Merit Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) Server

http://www.merit.edu/aaa/

     Requirements for AAA

http://www.merit.edu/working.groups/i2-qbone-bb/html/aaa-req/
Presentation 11/29/1998 by Susan Hares on requirements for AAA.

     Ultimate! Call Accounting

http://www.ask-tig.com/call.htm

     NTXacs - Windows NT Extended Authentication Control Services

http://www.itrans.com/ntxacsserver.html

     Extent RBS product family

http://www.extent.com/products/rbs-isp/

     QoS in ETSI TIPHON and the Internet

http://www.eurescom.de/~public-seminars/1998/QUTE98/09Castle/index.htm

     Tutorial on Internet Monitoring & PingER at SLAC

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/net/wan-mon/tutorial.html