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Identity Representation for RSVP

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Network Working Group                                           S. Yadav
Request for Comments: 3182                                   R. Yavatkar
Obsoletes: 2752                                                    Intel
Category: Standards Track                                     R. Pabbati
                                                                 P. Ford
                                                                T. Moore
                                                               Microsoft
                                                               S. Herzog
                                                    PolicyConsulting.Com
                                                                 R. Hess
                                                                   Intel
                                                            October 2001


                    Identity Representation for RSVP

Status of this Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document describes the representation of identity information in
   POLICY_DATA object for supporting policy based admission control in
   the Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP).  The goal of identity
   representation is to allow a process on a system to securely identify
   the owner and the application of the communicating process (e.g.,
   user id) and convey this information in RSVP messages (PATH or RESV)
   in a secure manner.  We describe the encoding of identities as RSVP
   policy element.  We describe the processing rules to generate
   identity policy elements for multicast merged flows.  Subsequently,
   we describe representations of user identities for Kerberos and
   Public Key based user authentication mechanisms.  In summary, we
   describe the use of this identity information in an operational
   setting.

   This memo corrects an RSVP POLICY_DATA P-Type codepoint assignment
   error and a field size definition error in ErrorValue in RFC 2752.





Yadav, et al.               Standards Track
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