This chapter describes Oracle Communications Evolved Communications Application Server's compliance with the IETF RFC 3588 document.
Table 3-1 represents the Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) for OCECAS with respect to the IETF document RFC 3588, "Diameter Base Protocol."
| Section Number | Section Title | Product Release | Release caveats |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
Introduction |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
1.1 |
Diameter Protocol |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
1.1.1 |
Description of the Document Set |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
1.2 |
Approach to Extensibility |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
1.2.1 |
Defining New AVP Values |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
1.2.2 |
Creating New AVPs |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
1.2.3 |
Creating New Authentication Applications |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
1.2.4 |
Creating New Accounting Applications |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
1.2.5 |
Application Authentication Procedures |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
1.3 |
Terminology |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
2 |
Protocol Overview |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
2.1 |
Transport |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
2.1.1 |
SCTP Guidelines |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
2.2 |
Securing Diameter Messages |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
2.3 |
Diameter Application Compliance |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
2.4 |
Application Identifiers |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
2.5 |
Connections vs. Sessions |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
2.6 |
Peer Table |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
2.7 |
Realm-Based Routing Table |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
2.8 |
Role of Diameter Agents |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
2.8.1 |
Relay Agents |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
2.8.2 |
Proxy Agents |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
2.8.3 |
Redirect Agents |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
2.8.4 |
Translation Agents |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
2.9 |
End-to-End Security Framework |
7.0.0 |
Only TLS or IPSec security is used. |
|
2.10 |
Diameter Path Authorization |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
3 |
Diameter Header |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
3.1 |
Command Codes |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
3.2 |
Command Code ABNF specification |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
3.3 |
Diameter Command Naming Conventions |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
4 |
Diameter AVPs |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
4.1 |
AVP Header |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
4.2 |
Basic AVP Data Formats |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
4.3 |
Derived VP Data Formats |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
4.4 |
Grouped AVP Values |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
4.4.1 |
Example AVP with a Grouped Data type |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
4.5 |
Diameter Base Protocol AVPs |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5 |
Diameter Peers |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.1 |
Peer Connections |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.2 |
Diameter Peer Discovery |
7.0.0 (Partial) |
Only static configuration of peers is supported. |
|
5.3 |
Capabilities Exchange |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.3.1 |
Capabilities-Exchange-Request |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.3.2 |
Capabilities-Exchange-Answer |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.3.3 |
Vendor-Id AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.3.4 |
Firmware-Revision AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.3.5 |
Host-IP-Address AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.3.6 |
Supported-Vendor-Id AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.3.7 |
Product-Name AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.4 |
Disconnecting Peer connections |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.4.1 |
Disconnect-Peer-Request |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.4.2 |
Disconnect-Peer-Answer |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.4.3 |
Disconnect-Cause AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.5 |
Transport Failure Detection |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.5.1 |
Device-Watchdog-Request |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.5.2 |
Device-Watchdog-Answer |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.5.3 |
Transport Failure Algorithm |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.5.4 |
Failover and Failback Procedures |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.6 |
Peer State Machine |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.6.1 |
Incoming connections |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.6.2 |
Events |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.6.3 |
Actions |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
5.6.4 |
The Election Process |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6 |
Diameter message processing |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.1 |
Diameter Request Routing Overview |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.1.1 |
Originating a Request |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.1.2 |
Sending a Request |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.1.3 |
Receiving Requests |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.1.4 |
Processing Local Requests |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.1.5 |
Request Forwarding |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.1.6 |
Request Routing |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.1.7 |
Reidrecting requests |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.1.8 |
Relaying and Proxying Requests |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.2 |
Diameter Answer Processing |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.2.1 |
Processing received Answers |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.2.2 |
Relaying and Proxying Answers |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.3 |
Origin-Host AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.4 |
Origin-Realm AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.5 |
Destination-Host AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.6 |
Destination-Realm AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.7 |
Routing AVPs |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.7.1 |
Route-Record AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.7.2 |
Proxy-Info AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.7.3 |
Proxy-Host AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.7.4 |
Proxy-State AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.8 |
Auth-ApplicationNAId AVP |
7.0.0 |
- |
|
6.9 |
Acct-Application-Id AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.10 |
Inband-Security-Id AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.11 |
Vendor-Specific-Application-Id AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
6.12 |
Redirect-Host AVP |
7.0.0 (Partial) |
OCECAS diameter client treats redirects as generic errors. |
|
6.13 |
Redirect-Host-Usage AVP |
7.0.0 (Partial) |
OCECAS diameter client treats redirects as generic errors. |
|
6.14 |
Redirect-Max-Cache-Time AVP |
7.0.0 (Partial) |
OCECAS diameter client treats redirects as generic errors. |
|
6.15 |
E2E-Sequence AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
7 |
Error Handling |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
7.1 |
Result-Code AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
7.1.1 |
Informational |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
7.1.2 |
Success |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
7.1.3 |
Protocol Errors |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
7.1.4 |
Transient Failures |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
7.1.5 |
Permanent Failures |
7.0.0 (Partial) |
OCECAS treats Permanent and Transient Failures the same, and Control Flow logic may dictate that the request is repeated. |
|
7.2 |
Error Bit |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
7.3 |
Error-Message AVP |
7.0.0 |
Out-Of-The-Box configuration does not have the storing of this AVP configured. |
|
7.4 |
Error-Reporting-Host AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
7.5 |
Failed-AVP AVP |
7.0.0 |
The Failed-AVP is available as an External-Concept string in the Control Flow |
|
7.6 |
Experimental-Result AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
7.7 |
Experimental-Result-Code AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
8 |
Diameter User Sessions |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
8.1 |
Authorization Session State Machine |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
8.2 |
Accounting Session State Machine |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
8.3 |
Server-Initiated Re-Auth |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
8.3.1 |
Re-Auth-Request |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
8.3.2 |
Re-Auth-Answer |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
8.4 |
Session Termination |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
8.4.1 |
Session-Termination-Request |
7.0.0 |
Not used by OCECAS |
|
8.4.2 |
Session-Termination-Answer |
7.0.0 |
Ignored by OCECAS |
|
8.5 |
Aborting a Session |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
8.5.1 |
Abort-Session-Request |
7.0.0 |
OCECAS Out-of-the-box configuration needs adjustment to enact the session termination as per operator policy. |
|
8.5.2 |
Abort-Session-Answer |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
8.6 |
Inferring Session Termination from Origin-State-Id |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
8.7 |
Auth-Request-Type AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
8.8 |
Session-Id AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
8.9 |
Authorization-Lifetime AVP |
Non-compliant |
Not used by OCECAS |
|
8.10 |
Auth-Grace-Period AVP |
Non-compliant |
Not used by OCECAS |
|
8.11 |
Auth-Session-State AVP |
Non-compliant |
Not used by OCECAS |
|
8.12 |
Re-Auth-Request-Type |
Non-compliant |
Not used by OCECAS |
|
8.13 |
Session-Timeout AVP |
Non-compliant |
Not used by OCECAS |
|
8.14 |
User-Name AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
8.15 |
Termination-Cause AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
8.16 |
Origin-State-Id AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
8.17 |
Session-Binding AVP |
Non-compliant |
Not used by OCECAS |
|
8.18 |
Session-Server-Failover AVP |
Non-compliant |
Not used by OCECAS |
|
8.19 |
Multi-Round-Time-Out AVP |
Non-compliant |
Not used by OCECAS |
|
8.20 |
Class AVP |
Non-compliant |
Not used by OCECAS |
|
8.21 |
Event-Timestamp AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
9 |
Accounting |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
9.1 |
Server Directed Model |
7.0.0 (Partial) |
Accounting-Realtime-Required AVP is ignored by OCECAS |
|
9.2 |
Protocol Messages |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
9.3 |
Application document requirements |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
9.4 |
Fault Resilience |
7.0.0 |
Non-volatile memory is used to store a non-Diameter CDR, which is not automatically played back on connection resumption. |
|
9.5 |
Accounting Records |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
9.6 |
Correlation of Accounting Records |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
9.7 |
Accounting Command-Codes |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
9.7.1 |
Accounting-Request |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
9.7.2 |
Accounting-Answer |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
9.8 |
Accounting AVPs |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
9.8.1 |
Accounting-Record-Type AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
9.8.2 |
Acct-Interim-Interval |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
9.8.3 |
Accounting-Record-Number AVP |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
9.8.4 |
Acct-Session-Id AVP |
7.0.0 |
Not configured Out-Of-The-Box |
|
9.8.5 |
Acct-Multi-Session-Id AVP |
7.0.0 |
Not configured Out-Of-The-Box |
|
9.8.6 |
Accounting-Sub-Session-Id AVP |
7.0.0 |
Not configured Out-Of-The-Box |
|
9.8.7 |
Accounting-Realtime-Required AVP |
7.0.0 |
Not configured Out-Of-The-Box |
|
10 |
AVP Occurrence Table |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
10.1 |
Base Protocol Command AVP Table |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
10.2 |
Accounting AVP Table |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11 |
IANA Considerations |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.1 |
AVP Header |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.1.1 |
AVP Codes |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.1.2 |
AVP Flags |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.2 |
Diameter Header |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.2.1 |
Command Codes |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.2.2 |
Command Flags |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.3 |
Application Identifiers |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.4 |
AVP Values |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.4.1 |
Result-Code AVP Values |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.4.2 |
Accounting-Record-Type AVP Values |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.4.3 |
Termination-Cause AVP Values |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.4.4 |
Redirect-Host-Usage AVP Values |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.4.5 |
Session-Server-Failover AVP Values |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.4.6 |
Session-Binding AVP Values |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.4.7 |
Disconnect-Cause AVP Values |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.4.8 |
Auth-Request-Type AVP Values |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.4.9 |
Auth-Session-State AVP Values |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.4.10 |
Re-Auth-Request-Type AVP Values |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.4.11 |
Accounting-Realtime-Required AVP Values |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.4.12 |
Inband-Security-Id AVP Values |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.5 |
Diameter TCP/SCTP Port Numbers |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
11.6 |
NAPTR Service Fields |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
12 |
Diameter protocol related configurable parameters |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
13 |
Security Considerations |
7.0.0 |
TLS is supported. |
|
13.1 |
IPsec Usage |
7.0.0 |
IPSec is implemented at the IP layer, so this is dependent on the OS used to deploy OCECAS. (Or IPSec could be implemented at another IP endpoint) |
|
13.2 |
TLS Usage |
7.0.0 |
Configured by default. |
|
13.3 |
Peer-to-Peer Considerations |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
14 |
References |
7.0.0 |
NA |
|
14.1 |
Normative References |
7.0.0 |
Noted |
|
14.2 |
Informative References |
7.0.0 |
Noted |
|
15 |
Acknowledgements |
7.0.0 |
NA |