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XACCT's Common Reliable Accounting for Network Element (CRANE) Protocol Specification Version 1
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Network Working Group K. Zhang
Request for Comments: 3423 E. Elkin
Category: Informational XACCT Technologies
November 2002
XACCT's Common Reliable Accounting for Network Element (CRANE)
Protocol Specification Version 1.0
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document defines the Common Reliable Accounting for Network
Element (CRANE) protocol that enables efficient and reliable delivery
of any data, mainly accounting data from Network Elements to any
systems, such as mediation systems and Business Support Systems
(BSS)/ Operations Support Systems (OSS). The protocol is developed
to address the critical needs for exporting high volume of accounting
data from NE's with efficient use of network, storage, and processing
resources.
This document specifies the architecture of the protocol and the
message format, which MUST be supported by all CRANE protocol
implementations.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction...................................................2
1.1 Specification of Requirements.............................3
1.2 Terminology...............................................3
2 Protocol Overview..............................................5
2.1 CRANE Architecture........................................6
2.2 CRANE over TCP............................................7
2.3 Alternate servers.........................................7
2.4 Templates.................................................9
2.5 Template Transmission and Negotiation....................10
2.6 Changing Templates.......................................11
2.7 Flow Control.............................................12
2.8 The CRANE Client Query Messages..........................13
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