Roaming Operations (roamops) Charter
NOTE: This charter is accurate as of the 37th IETF Meeting in San Jose. It
may now be out-of-date. (Consider this a "snapshot" of the working
group from that meeting.) Up-to-date charters for all active working
groups can be found elsewhere in this Web server.
Chair(s)
- Glenn Zorn <glennz@microsoft.com>
- Pat Calhoun <pcalhoun@usr.com>
Operational Requirements Area Director(s):
- Scott Bradner <sob@harvard.edu>
- Michael O'Dell <mo@uunet.uu.net>
Area Advisor
- Scott Bradner <sob@harvard.edu>
Mailing List Information
- General Discussion:roamops@tdmx.rutgers.edu
- To Subscribe: roamops-request@tdmx.rutgers.edu
- In Body: include "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. In the near term, the goals of the group will
be to produce an Informational RFC describing existing roaming
implementations and an architectural document describing the basic
mechanisms required to support user roaming. The group will use
draft-zorn-dial-roam-req-01.txt as a starting point for the latter
document. In addition, a repository for documentation describing
current roaming implementations will be maintained.
In the longer term, the group may 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, inter-ISP authentication
mechanisms and exploring in depth the security issues involved with
roaming. This work is expected to consist mainly of new or revised
procedures and application-layer protocols.
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, radius, nasreqng and cat) to identify issues to which the
roamops group should attend, as well as to assure their work does not
make roaming unnecessarily difficult or impossible.
Goals and Milestones
- Nov 96
- Re-submit existing Internet-Drafts as work of the ROAMOPS Working Group
- Jan 97
- Submit Internet-Drafts to IESG for publication as RFCs
- Jan 97
- Review the charter for additional work required
Current Internet-Drafts
No Request for Comments