Nautilus6 - Security & Access Control Activity

When we consider a real operation of any services for business, we cannot avoid security and AAA mechanisms for those services.

When we operate layer 3 mobility services such as Mobile IPv6 or NEMO, we must protect mobility signaling packets by IPsec. IPsec requires pre-configured associations between nodes. The association can be created even by manual configuration, however, from an operator's point of view, some kind of automatic mechanism must be developed to reduce maintenance cost.

Accounting is another important topic in business. Recently, most of ISPs provide a roaming service to their subscribers so that they can access ISP services via another ISP's access points. In addition to those basic roaming services, a mobility service requires other authorization and accounting mechanisms to permit layer 3 roaming.

The objectives of this activity are: