RFC - 2975

Introduction to Accounting Management

Original:	ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2975.txt
Authors:	B. Aboba [Microsoft Corporation], J. Arkko [Ericsson], D. Harrington [Cabletron Systems Inc.]
Date:	October 2000
Category:	Informational

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Referred by:	8 RFC
Refers to:	37 RFC

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Status

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 (2000). All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

The field of Accounting Management is concerned with the collection of resource consumption data for the purposes of capacity and trend analysis, cost allocation, auditing, and billing. This document describes each of these problems, and discusses the issues involved in design of modern accounting systems.

Since accounting applications do not have uniform security and reliability requirements, it is not possible to devise a single accounting protocol and set of security services that will meet all needs. Thus the goal of accounting management is to provide a set of tools that can be used to meet the requirements of each application. This document describes the currently available tools as well as the state of the art in accounting protocol design. A companion document, RFC 2924, reviews the state of the art in accounting attributes and record formats.

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