Study on impacts of the Diameter Base Protocol specification update.
The IETF RFC 3588 [2] specifying the Diameter base protocol has been obsoleted by the IETF RFC 6733 [3]. This new version of the IETF RFC is not a new version of the Diameter base protocol but a specification update intended to fix issues discovered after early implementations of the protocol.
The aim of the Technical Report is to:
- appraise the differences between the IETF RFC 6733 [3] and the IETF RFC 3588 [2];
- analyze the possible impacts on the 3GPP specifications relying on the Diameter base protocol and then;
- provide guidelines regarding a general update of the normative reference for Diameter base protocol.