Internet Engineering Task Force SIP WG Internet Draft J. Loughney Nokia G. Camarillo Ericsson draft-ietf-sipping-aaa-req-03.txt May 26, 2003 Expires: November, 2003 Authentication, Authorization and Accounting Requirements for the Session Initiation Protocol STATUS OF THIS MEMO This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress". The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt To view the list Internet-Draft Shadow Directories, see http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. Abstract As SIP services are deployed on the Internet, there is a need for authentication, authorization and accounting of SIP sessions. This document sets out the basic requirements for this work. J. Loughney et. al. [Page 1] Internet Draft SIP May 26, 2003 Table of Contents 1 Introduction ........................................ 4 1.1 Terminology and Acronyms ............................ 4 1.2 Requirements Language ............................... 5 2 Requirements ........................................ 5 2.1 Common Requirements ................................. 5 2.1.1 Communication within the Same Domain ................ 5 2.1.2 Communication between Different Domains ............. 5 2.1.3 Discovery ........................................... 5 2.1.4 Ability to Integrate Different Networks, Services and Users ........................................... 6 2.1.5 Updating SIP Server Entries ......................... 6 2.1.6 SIP Session Changes ................................. 6 2.1.7 Reliable Transfer of Protocol Messages .............. 6 2.1.8 Call Setup Times .................................... 6 2.1.9 Security ............................................ 6 2.2 Authentication Requirements ......................... 6 2.2.1 Authentication Based on SIP Requests ................ 6 2.2.2 Flexible Authentication of SIP Requests ............. 7 2.2.3 Authentication between SIP Entities and AAA Servers ............................................. 7 2.3 Authorization Requirements .......................... 7 2.3.1 Ability to Authorize SIP Requests ................... 7 2.3.2 Information Transfer ................................ 7 2.3.3 User De-authorization ............................... 8 2.3.4 User Re-authorization ............................... 8 2.4 Accounting Requirements ............................. 8 2.4.1 Separation of Accounting Information ................ 8 2.4.2 Accounting Information Related to Session Progression ......................................... 9 2.4.3 Accounting Information Not Related to Session Progression ......................................... 9 2.4.4 Support for One-Time and Session-based Accounting Records ............................................. 9 2.4.5 Support for Accounting on Different Media Components .......................................... 9 2.4.6 Configuration of Accounting Generation Parameters ... 9 2.4.7 Support for Arbitrary Correlation IDs ............... 9 2.4.8 Support of Accounting with Credit Control ........... 9 2.4.9 Flexible Interface .................................. 10 3 Scenarios ........................................... 10 J. Loughney et. al. [Page 2] Internet Draft SIP May 26, 2003 3.1 WLAN Roaming Using Third Party Service Providers .... 11 3.2 Conditional Authorization ........................... 12 4 Security Considerations ............................. 12 5 Acknowledgements .................................... 12 6 Authors' Addresses .................................. 13 7 Normative References ................................ 13 8 Informative References .............................. 13 J. Loughney et. al. [Page 3] Internet Draft SIP May 26, 2003 1 Introduction The AAA working group is chartered to work on authentication, authorization and accounting solutions for the Internet. This work consists of a base protocol, applications, end-to-end security application and a general architecture for providing these services [3]. The AAA working group has specified applicability of AAA-based solutions for a number of protocols (e.g., AAA requirements for Mobile IP [4]). SIP is a signalling protocol for creating, modifying and terminating different types sessions such as Internet phone calls, multimedia distribution and multimedia conferences [1]. SIP sessions have needs for session authentication, authorization and accounting. In order to perform AAA, SIP entities need to access AAA information (e.g., check if the password provided by a user is correct or store accounting records related to a particular session). Rather than collocating a database with AAA information with every SIP entity in a network, it is desirable to have a common logical AAA server accessible by all the SIP entities. SIP entities use a SIP-AAA interface to access this AAA server. This document outlines some requirements on this SIP-AAA interface between SIP entities and AAA servers. This document is intended as a generic document for SIP AAA requirements. It does not intend to develop a charging and/or billing mechanism for SIP. One possible use of this document would be to create a basic AAA application for SIP needs. The protocol used in the SIP-AAA interface could be any protocol that meets the requirements outlined by this document. Possible candidates, among others, are Diameter and XML- based protocols following the web-services model. 1.1 Terminology and Acronyms AAA: Authentication, Authorization and Accounting Accounting: The collection of resource consumption data for the purposes of capacity and trend analysis, cost allocation, auditing, and billing. Accounting management requires that resource consumption be measured, rated, assigned, and communicated between appropriate parties [5]. Accounting with credit control: The application checks the end user's account for coverage for the requested service event charge prior to execution of that service event. Home AAA Server: Server where user with which the user maintains an account relationship. J. Loughney et. al. [Page 4] Internet Draft SIP May 26, 2003 SIP: Session Initiation Protocol SIP proxies: SIP proxies are nodes which forward SIP requests and responses as well as make policy decisions. UAC: User Agent Client UAS: User Agent Server 1.2 Requirements Language In this document, the key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [2]. 2 Requirements In this section, we list the requirements. Protocol solutions are not required to fulfill requirements for services that they do not support. For example, a solution that provides authentication services but not accounting services does not need to fulfill the accounting requirements. It is expected that solutions do fulfill the general requirements plus the requirements for the specific services they are providing. Section 2.1 lists general requirements, Section 2.2 lists requirements related to authentication, Section 2.3 lists requirements related to authorization and Section 2.4 lists requirements related to accounting. 2.1 Common Requirements This section outlines general requirements on the SIP-AAA interface. 2.1.1 Communication within the Same Domain The SIP-AAA interface MUST support communications between a SIP entity and a AAA server that belong to the same domain. 2.1.2 Communication between Different Domains The SIP-AAA interface MUST support communications between a SIP entity in one domain and a AAA server in another domain. 2.1.3 Discovery With the information contained in the SIP messages, the SIP-AAA interface MUST be able to deduce the particular AAA server that has J. Loughney et. al. [Page 5] Internet Draft SIP May 26, 2003 to be queried. 2.1.4 Ability to Integrate Different Networks, Services and Users The basic AAA architecture MUST be access independent. Service providers have to be able to provide AAA services for SIP, irrespective of access method or technology. 2.1.5 Updating SIP Server Entries When required, the SIP-AAA interface MUST allow the AAA server to update the information that a SIP entity has about a user. 2.1.6 SIP Session Changes The SIP-AAA interface MUST allow a SIP entity to inform the AAA server about changes in the SIP session that may affect the authorization, authentication or accounting for that SIP session. 2.1.7 Reliable Transfer of Protocol Messages The SIP-AAA interface MUST provide a reliable transfer of AAA protocol messages between the SIP entity and the AAA server. 2.1.8 Call Setup Times AAA SHOULD not unduly burden call setup times where appropriate. It may be reasonable to support some delay during registration, but delay during on-going sessions (especially real-time) are problematic. 2.1.9 Security AAA data MUST be able to be securely transported. The endpoints MUST be authenticated before data is sent. The endpoints MAY be authorized to access certain types of AAA data. 2.2 Authentication Requirements This section outlines requirements on the SIP-AAA interface related to authentication. 2.2.1 Authentication Based on SIP Requests The home AAA server MUST be able to authenticate a user based on any SIP request, except CANCELs and ACKs for non-2xx final responses. CANCELs and ACKs for non-2xx final response are hop-by-hop J. Loughney et. al. [Page 6] Internet Draft SIP May 26, 2003 requests that can be generated by proxies that do not have the user's credentials. 2.2.2 Flexible Authentication of SIP Requests The SIP-AAA interface MUST be flexible enough to accommodate a variety of authentication mechanisms used to authenticate SIP requests. In particular, the SIP-AAA interface MUST be able to accommodate all the authentication mechanisms mandated by the SIP specs. 2.2.3 Authentication between SIP Entities and AAA Servers The scheme supported for the authentication between the SIP servers and the AAA infrastructure MUST be flexible enough to accommodate a variety of authentication mechanisms. 2.3 Authorization Requirements This section outlines requirements on the SIP-AAA interface related to authorization. 2.3.1 Ability to Authorize SIP Requests The SIP-AAA interface MUST allow AAA servers to authorize any SIP request, except CANCELs and ACKs for non-2xx final responses. CANCELs and ACKs for non-2xx final responses are hop-by-hop requests that can be generated by proxies. SIP servers receiving a CANCEL or a ACK for a non-2xx final response do not challenge them, as they would do with an end-to-end request. Instead, they check at the transport or network layer that the entity sending the CANCEL or the ACK is the same as the one that generated the request being canceled or acked. 2.3.2 Information Transfer The SIP-AAA interface MUST allow transfering a wide range or set of information to be used to make an authorization decision. In particular, the SIP-AAA interface MUST allow a AAA server that is making an authorization decision to deliver the user profile to the SIP entity. Such a user profile may provide further information about the authorization decision to the SIP entity. For instance, a SIP proxy receives an INVITE from user A addressed to user B. The SIP proxy queries a AAA server and gets the following answer: user A is authorized to call user B as long as the requests J. Loughney et. al. [Page 7] Internet Draft SIP May 26, 2003 are routed through a particular SIP proxy server C. In this case, the SIP proxy needs to use SIP loose routing techniques to forward the INVITE so that it traverses SIP proxy C before reaching user B. 2.3.3 User De-authorization The SIP-AAA interface MUST allow the AAA server to inform a SIP entity when a particular user is no longer authorized to perform a particular task, even if it is an ongoing task. 2.3.4 User Re-authorization The SIP-AAA interface MUST allow the AAA server to inform a SIP entity that a particular authorization has been refreshed, and therefore, the user is still authorized to perform a particular task. 2.4 Accounting Requirements This section outlines requirements on the SIP-AAA interface related to accounting. Accounting is more than simple charging. Accounting may be a simple list of services accessed, servers accessed, duration of session, etc. Charging for SIP sessions can be extremely complex and requires some additional study. It is not the intent of this section to focus on charging. The information available to be accounted is different at SIP proxies and at SIP UAs. When end-to-end encryption is used, proxies do not have access to some parts of the SIP messages while UAs have access to the whole messages. In addition to this, UAs typically have information about the session itself (e.g., number of audio packets exchanged during an audio session). Therefore, even if the SIP-AAA interface provides a means to transfer a wide range of data, some SIP nodes may not have access to it. In order to design a network, it is important to analyze which SIP nodes will be able to generate the desired account records. 2.4.1 Separation of Accounting Information AAA accounting messages MUST be able to provide granular information based on different parameters. For example, it should be possible to separate "session duration" information from other information generated via additional services (e.g., 3-way calling). Separating accounting information makes it possible to provide accounting information to different parties based upon different aspects of the session. J. Loughney et. al. [Page 8] Internet Draft SIP May 26, 2003 2.4.2 Accounting Information Related to Session Progression There MUST be support in the SIP-AAA interface for accounting transfers where the information contained in the accounting data has a direct bearing on the establishment, progression and termination of a session (e.g., reception of a BYE request). 2.4.3 Accounting Information Not Related to Session Progression There MUST be support in the SIP-AAA interface for accounting transfers where the information contained in the accounting data does NOT have a direct bearing on the establishment, progression and termination of a session (e.g., an instant MESSAGE that is not related to any session). 2.4.4 Support for One-Time and Session-based Accounting Records The SIP-AAA interface MUST allow SIP servers to provide relevant accounting information for billing and inter-network settlement purpose to the AAA servers. Both one-time event accounting records and session based (START, INTERIM, STOP records) accounting MUST be supported. 2.4.5 Support for Accounting on Different Media Components The SIP-AAA interface MUST support accounting per media component (e.g., voice and video). The SIP-AAA interface MUST enable different parties to be charged per media component. 2.4.6 Configuration of Accounting Generation Parameters The SIP-AAA interface MUST allow AAA servers to communicate parameters for accounting generation. 2.4.7 Support for Arbitrary Correlation IDs Some networks need to be able to relate the accounting to some aspect of the session. Therefore, the SIP-AAA interface MUST support arbitrary correlation IDs. 2.4.8 Support of Accounting with Credit Control The SIP-AAA interface MUST support accounting with credit control. The accounting application has to be able to check the end user's account for coverage for the requested service event charge prior to execution of that service event. Accounting with credit control is useful to implement prepaid J. Loughney et. al. [Page 9] Internet Draft SIP May 26, 2003 services where all chargeable events related to a specific account are prevented from the end user when the credit of that account is exhausted or expired. 2.4.9 Flexible Interface The scheme supported for the accounting between the SIP servers and the AAA infrastructure MUST be flexible enough to accommodate a variety of accounting mechanisms. 3 Scenarios This section outlines some possible scenarios for SIP and AAA interaction. These are purely illustrative examples, and do not impose any requirements. Figure 1 shows the typical call flow between a SIP proxy that communicates to a AAA server that performs authentication and authorization. All the examples are based on this flow. SIP SIP AAA UAC Proxy Server | | | |---METHOD---->| | | |--Is it OK?-->| | | | | |<-----OK------| | | | | | | Figure 1: Call flow over the SIP-AAA interface The SIP proxy receives a request with certain credentials. The SIP UAC that generated the request may have included the credentials after having been challenged by the proxy using a 407 (Proxy Authentication Required) response. The SIP proxy sends a request to the AAA server asking if it is OK to provide a particular service for this request. The service may be simply routing forward the request or may consist of a more complex service. The AAA server checks that the credentials are correct (authentication), and checks the user J. Loughney et. al. [Page 10] Internet Draft SIP May 26, 2003 profile. The user profile indicates that it is OK to provide the service, and responds to the SIP proxy. The SIP proxy provides the service requested by the SIP UAC. 3.1 WLAN Roaming Using Third Party Service Providers User A wants to establish a voice session over the Internet with user B. User A wants its SIP signalling to be routed through SIP proxy C, because it provides a call log service (i.e., SIP proxy C sends an email to user A once a month with the duration of all the calls made during the month.) SIP AAA User A Proxy C Server User B | | | | |----INVITE----->| | | | | | | |<-----407-------| | | | | | | |------ACK------>| | | | | | | |----INVITE----->| | | | |---Is this OK?-->| | | | | | | |<------OK--------| | | | | | | |---------INVITE------------------>| | | | | | |-Accounting msg->| | | | | | Figure 2: WLAN roaming user User A accesses the Internet using a WLAN access outside his home domain. User A, user B, SIP proxy C and the home AAA server of user A are all in different domains. SIP proxy C challenges the initial INVITE from user A with a 407 (Proxy Authentication Required) response, and user A reissues the INVITE including his credentials. SIP proxy C consults user's A home AAA server, which confirms that the credentials belong to user A and J. Loughney et. al. [Page 11] Internet Draft SIP May 26, 2003 that SIP proxy C can go ahead and provide its service for that call. SIP proxy C routes the INVITE forward towards user B and sends an accounting message to the AAA server, which will be used later to charge user A for the service provided by SIP proxy C. 3.2 Conditional Authorization User A is not in his home domain, but he still uses SIP proxy C (which is in user's A home domain) as the outbound proxy for an INVITE. SIP proxy C consults the home AAA server, which indicates that requests from user A have to be routed through SIP proxy D. SIP proxy C uses SIP loose routing so that the INVITE traverses D before reaching its destination. SIP proxy D will provide call log service for user A. SIP AAA SIP User A Proxy C Server Proxy D | | | | |----INVITE----->| | | | | | | |<-----407-------| | | | | | | |------ACK------>| | | | | | | |----INVITE----->| | | | |------Is this OK?---->| | | | | | | |<-OK if routed thru D-| | | | | | | |---------INVITE------------------>| | | | | Figure 3: Conditional Authorization 4 Security Considerations This document is informational in nature, so it does not directly affect the security of the Internet. However, security is a basic requirement of this work. 5 Acknowledgements J. Loughney et. al. [Page 12] Internet Draft SIP May 26, 2003 The authors would like to thank the participants of the SIP interim meeting, May 2002 for their comments. The authors would also thank Harri Hakala, Mary Barns, Pete McCann, Jari Arkko, Aki Niemi, Juha Heinanen and Henry Sinnreich for their comments. The authors would like to thank the authors of the "AAA Requirements for IP Telephony/Multimedia" draft, which some of the information in this document is based on. 6 Authors' Addresses John Loughney Nokia Itamerenkatu 11-13 00180 Helsinki Finland electronic mail: John.Loughney@nokia.com Gonzalo Camarillo Ericsson Advanced Signalling Research Lab. FIN-02420 Jorvas Finland electronic mail: Gonzalo.Camarillo@ericsson.com 7 Normative References [1] J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne, G. Camarillo, A. R. Johnston, J. Peterson, R. Sparks, M. Handley, and E. Schooler, "SIP: session initiation protocol," RFC 3261, Internet Engineering Task Force, June 2002. [2] S. Bradner, "Key words for use in RFCs to indicate requirement levels," RFC 2119, Internet Engineering Task Force, Mar. 1997. 8 Informative References [3] P. Calhoun et al. , "AAA problem statements," internet draft, Internet Engineering Task Force, Nov. 2000. Work in progress. [4] S. Glass, T. Hiller, S. Jacobs, and C. E. Perkins, "Mobile IP authentication, authorization, and accounting requirements," RFC 2977, Internet Engineering Task Force, Oct. 2000. [5] B. Aboba, J. Arkko, and D. Harrington, "Introduction to accounting management," RFC 2975, Internet Engineering Task Force, Oct. 2000. J. Loughney et. al. [Page 13] Internet Draft SIP May 26, 2003 The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any intellectual property or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in this document or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; neither does it represent that it has made any effort to identify any such rights. Information on the IETF's procedures with respect to rights in standards-track and standards-related documentation can be found in BCP-11. 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