Some AVPs are used by the Diameter base protocol; other AVPs are The Diameter protocol was initially developed by Pat R. Calhoun, Glen Zorn, and Ping Pan in to provide a framework for authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) that could overcome the limitations of RADIUS. Extensible and extended. Data is carried within a Diameter message as a collection of Attribute Value Pairs (AVPs). This chapter describes how to use the Diameter Rf interface application, based on the Oracle Communic