Guidance for Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) Key Management

This document provides guidance to designers of Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) key management protocols. The
guidance is also useful to designers of systems and solutions that include AAA key management protocols. Given the complexity and
difficulty in designing secure, long-lasting key management algorithms and protocols by experts in the field, it is almost certainly inappropriate for IETF working groups without deep expertise in the area to be designing their own key management algorithms and protocols based on Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) protocols. The guidelines in this document apply to documents requesting publication as IETF RFCs. Further, these guidelines will be useful to other standards development organizations (SDOs) that specify AAA key management.