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draft-ietf-mif-mpvd-ndp-support-02
MIF                                                          J. Korhonen
Internet-Draft                                      Broadcom Corporation
Intended status: Standards Track                             S. Krishnan
Expires: April 21, 2016                                         Ericsson
                                                           S. Gundavelli
                                                           Cisco Systems
                                                        October 19, 2015

  Support for multiple provisioning domains in IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
                                Protocol
                   draft-ietf-mif-mpvd-ndp-support-02

Abstract

   The MIF working group is producing a solution to solve the issues
   that are associated with nodes that can be attached to multiple
   networks.  One part of the solution requires associating
   configuration information with provisioning domains.  This document
   details how configuration information provided through IPv6 Neighbor
   Discovery Protocol can be associated with provisioning domains.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   3.  PVD Container option  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  PVD Identity option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   5.  Set of allowable options  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   6.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   7.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   8.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   9.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     9.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     9.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   Appendix A.  Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     A.1.  One implicit PVD and one explicit PVD . . . . . . . . . .   8
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10

1.  Introduction

   The MIF working group is producing a solution to solve the issues
   that are associated with nodes that can be attached to multiple
   networks based on the Multiple Provisioning Domains (MPVD)
   architecture work [RFC7556].  One part of the solution requires
   associating configuration information with Provisioning Domains
   (PVD).  This document describes an IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol
   (NDP) [RFC4861] mechanism for explicitly indicating provisioning
   domain information along with any configuration which is associated
   with that provisioning domain.  The proposed mechanism uses an NDP
   option that indicates the identity of the provisioning domain and
   encapsulates the options that contain the configuration information
   as well as any accompanying authentication/authorization information.
   The solution defined in this document aligns as much as possible with
   the existing IPv6 Neighbor Discovery security, namely with Secure
   Neighbor Discovery (SeND) [RFC3971].

2.  Terminology

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

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3.  PVD Container option

   The PVD container option (PVD_CO) is used to mark the start of the
   configuration options that belong to the explicitly identified
   provisioning domain.  The PVD container option MUST encapsulate
   exactly one PVD identity option (PVD_ID, see Section 4).  The PVD
   container option MAY occur multiple times in a Router Advertisement
   (RA) message.  In this case each PVD container MUST belong to a
   different provisioning domain.  The PVD container options MUST NOT be
   nested.  The PVD Container option is defined only for the RA and
   Router Solicitation (RS) NDP messages, and intended to be only used
   with IPv6 RA messages.  However, if a host wants to solicit
   information for a specific provisioning domain it can include the PVD
   identity option into an RS message and use the PVD container to sign
   the PVD identity option.

   Since implementations are required to ignore any unrecognized options
   [RFC4861], the backward compatibility and the reuse of existing NDP
   options is implicitly enabled.  Implementations that do not recognize
   the PVD container option will ignore it, and any PVD container option
   "encapsulated" NDP options without associating them into any
   provisioning domain (since the implementation has no notion of
   provisioning domains).  For example, the PVD container could
   "encapsulate" a Prefix Information Option (PIO), which would mark
   that this certain advertised IPv6 prefix belongs and originates from
   a specific provisioning domain.  However, if the implementation does
   not understand provisioning domains, then this specific PIO is also
   skipped and not configured to the interface.

   The optional security for the PVD container is based on X.509
   certificates [RFC6487] and reuses mechanisms already defined for SeND
   [RFC3971] [RFC6495].  However, the use of PVD containers does not
   assume or depend on SeND being deployed or even implemented.  The PVD
   containers SHOULD be signed per PVD certificates, which provides both
   integrity protection and proves that the configuration information
   source is authorized for advertising the given information.  See
   [RFC6494] for discussion how to enable deployments where the
   certificates needed to sign PVD containers belong to different
   administrative domains i.e. to different provisioning domains.

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    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |  Type=PVD_CO  |    Length     |S|  Reserved   |   Name Type   |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   :                                                               :
   :                     Key Hash (optional)                       :
   :                                                               :
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   :                                                               :
   :                Digital Signature (optional)                   :
   :                                                               :
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |       Possible zero padding to ensure 8 octets alignment      |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                      Figure 1: PVD Container Option

   Type

       PVD Container; Set to TBD1.

   Length

       Length of the PVD_CO.  The actual length depends on the number of
       "encapsulated" NDP options, the length of the PVD identifier
       option, and the optional Key Hash/Digital Signature/Padding.

   S

       Security enabled/disabled flag.  If S=0 then security (signing)
       of the PVD_CO is disabled.  If S=1 then security (signing) is
       enabled.

   Name Type

       Names the algorithm used to identify a specific X.509 certificate
       using the method defined for the Subject Key Identifier (SKI)
       extension for the X.509 certificates.  The usage and the Name
       Type registry aligns with the mechanism defined for SeND
       [RFC6495].  Name Type values starting from 3 are supported and an
       implementation MUST at least support SHA-1 (value 3).  Note that
       if S=0 the Name field serves no use.

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   Key Hash

       This field is only present when S=1.  A hash of the public key
       using the algorithm identified by the Name Type.  The procedure
       how the Key Hash is calculated is defined in [RFC3971] and
       [RFC6495].

   Digital Signature

       This field is only present when S=1.  A signature calculated over
       the PVD_CO option including all option data from the beginning of
       the option until to the end of the container.  The procedure of
       calculating the signature is identical to the one defined for
       SeND [RFC3971].  During the signature calculation the contents of
       the Digital Signature option MUST be treated as all zero.

   Implementations MUST ensure that the PVD container option meets the 8
   octets NDP option alignment requirement as described in [RFC4861].

   If the PVD_CO does not contain a digital signature, then other means
   to secure the integrity of the NDP message SHOULD be provided, such
   as utilizing SeND.  However, the security provided by SeND is for the
   entire NDP message and does not allow verifying whether the sender of
   the NDP message is actually authorized for the information for the
   provisioning domain.

   If the PVD_CO contains a signature and the verification fails, then
   the whole PVD_CO, PVD_ID and other NDP options MUST be silently
   ignored and the event SHOULD be logged.

4.  PVD Identity option

   The PVD identity option (PVD_ID) is used to explicitly identity a
   provisioning domain.  In an RA message the PVD identity option MUST
   be and in an RS message the PVD identity option SHOULD be
   encapsulated into the associated PVD container option.  However, in
   the RS message PVD identity options MAY be included without any PVD
   container options and in this case the PVD identity options serve
   only as a hint for a specific provisioning domains.

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |  Type=PVD_ID  |    Length     | Identity                      ~
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                          Figure 2: PVD_ID Option

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   Type

       PVD identifier; Set to TBD2.

   Length

       Length of the PVD_ID.

   Identity

       The provisioning domain identity.  The contents of this field is
       defined in a separate document [I-D.ietf-mif-mpvd-id].  Note that
       the Identity field may need to be zero padded at the tail to
       meets the natural NDP option's alignment.

   If the receiver of a PVD identity option does not have one (or more)
   of the received ID-Type format's implemented, then all configuration
   and options which are associated with the unimplemented PVD(s) MUST
   be silently discarded.

5.  Set of allowable options

   The PVD container option MAY be used to encapsulate any allocated
   IPv6 NDP options, which may appear more than once in a NDP message.
   The PVD container option MUST NOT be used to encapsulate other PVD_CO
   option(s).

6.  Security Considerations

   An attacker may attempt to modify the information provided inside the
   PVD container option.  These attacks can easily be prevented by using
   SeND [RFC3971] or per PVD container signature that would detect any
   form of tampering with the IPv6 NDP message contents.

   A compromised router may advertise configuration information related
   to provisioning domains it is not authorized to advertise. e.g.  A
   coffee shop router may provide configuration information purporting
   to be from an enterprise and may try to attract enterprise related
   traffic.  The only real way to avoid this is that the provisioning
   domain container contains embedded authentication and authorization
   information from the owner of the provisioning domain.  Then, this
   attack can be detected by the client by verifying the authentication
   and authorization information provided inside the PVD container
   option after verifying its trust towards the provisioning domain
   owner (e.g. a certificate with a well-known/common trust anchor).

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   A compromised configuration source or an on-link attacker may try to
   capture advertised configuration information and replay it on a
   different link or at a future point in time.  This can be avoided by
   including some replay protection mechanism such as a timestamp or a
   nonce inside the PVD container to ensure freshness of the provided
   information.  This specification does not define a replay protection
   solution.  Rather it is assumed that if replay protection is
   required, the access network and hosts also deploy existing security
   solutions such as SeND [RFC3971].

7.  IANA Considerations

   This document defines two new IPv6 NDP options into the "IPv6
   Neighbor Discovery Option Formats" registry.  Options TBD1 and TBD2
   are described in Section 3 and Section 4 respectively.

8.  Acknowledgements

   The authors would like to thank the members of the MIF architecture
   design team for their comments that led to the creation of this
   draft.

9.  References

9.1.  Normative References

   [I-D.ietf-mif-mpvd-id]
              Krishnan, S., Korhonen, J., Bhandari, S., and S.
              Gundavelli, "Identification of provisioning domains",
              draft-ietf-mif-mpvd-id-01 (work in progress), February
              2015.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC3971]  Arkko, J., Ed., Kempf, J., Zill, B., and P. Nikander,
              "SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND)", RFC 3971,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC3971, March 2005,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3971>.

   [RFC4861]  Narten, T., Nordmark, E., Simpson, W., and H. Soliman,
              "Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 4861,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4861, September 2007,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4861>.

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   [RFC6494]  Gagliano, R., Krishnan, S., and A. Kukec, "Certificate
              Profile and Certificate Management for SEcure Neighbor
              Discovery (SEND)", RFC 6494, DOI 10.17487/RFC6494,
              February 2012, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6494>.

   [RFC6495]  Gagliano, R., Krishnan, S., and A. Kukec, "Subject Key
              Identifier (SKI) SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND) Name
              Type Fields", RFC 6495, DOI 10.17487/RFC6495, February
              2012, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6495>.

9.2.  Informative References

   [RFC6487]  Huston, G., Michaelson, G., and R. Loomans, "A Profile for
              X.509 PKIX Resource Certificates", RFC 6487,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6487, February 2012,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6487>.

   [RFC7556]  Anipko, D., Ed., "Multiple Provisioning Domain
              Architecture", RFC 7556, DOI 10.17487/RFC7556, June 2015,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7556>.

Appendix A.  Examples

A.1.  One implicit PVD and one explicit PVD

   Figure 3 shows how the NDP options are laid out in an RA for one
   implicit provisioning domain and one explicit provisioning domain.
   The example does not include security (and signing of the PVD
   container).  The assumption is the PVD identity consumes 14 octets.

   The explicit provisioning domain ("starducks.example.com" in a NAI
   Realm format) contains a specific PIO for 2001:db8:abad:cafe::/64 and
   the MTU of 1337 octets.  The implicit provisioning domain configures
   a prefix 2001:db8:cafe:babe::/64 and the link MTU of 1500 octets.
   There are two cases: 1) the host receiving the RA implements
   provisioning domains and 2) the host does not understand provisioning
   domains.

   1.  The host recognizes the PVD_CO and "starts" a provisioning domain
       specific configuration.  Security is disabled, thus there are no
       Key Hash or Digital Signature fields to process.  The prefix
       2001:db8:abad:cafe::/64 is found and configured on the interface.
       Once the PVD_ID option is located the interface prefix
       configuration for 2001:db8:abad:cafe::/64 and the MTU of 1337
       octets can be associated to the provisioning domain found in the
       PVD_ID option.

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       The rest of the options are parsed and configured into the
       implicit provisioning domain since there is no encapsulating
       provisioning domain.  The interface is configured with prefix
       2001:db8:cafe:babe::/64.  The implicit provisioning domain uses
       the link MTU of 1500 octets, whereas the "starducks.example.com"
       provisioning domain uses the MTU of 1337 octets (this means when
       packets are sourced using 2001:db8:abad:cafe::/64 prefix the link
       MTU is different than when sourcing packets using
       2001:db8:cafe:babe::/64 prefix).

   2.  The host ignores the PVD_CO (including the PVD_ID and other
       options) and ends up configuring one prefix on its interface (
       2001:db8:cafe:babe::/64) with a link MTU of 1500 octets.

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |      134      |       0       |          Checksum             |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | Cur Hop Limit |0|1|  Reserved |       Router Lifetime         |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                         Reachable Time                        |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                          Retrans Timer                        |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ <+
   |  Type=PVD_CO  |      10       |0|  Reserved   |      0        |  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  |
   |                               0                               |  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  |
   |       3       |       4       |      64       |1|1| Reserved1 |  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                         Valid Lifetime                        |  P
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  V
   |                       Preferred Lifetime                      |  D
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                           Reserved2                           |  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  |
   |                      2001:db8:abad:cafe::                     ~  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  |
   |  Type=PVD_ID  |       4       |   id-type=4   |       21      |  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  |
   ~  "starducks.example.com",'\0','\0','\0','\0','\0','\0','\0'   |  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  |
   |        5      |      1        |           Reserved            |  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  |
   |                            1337                               |  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ <+

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   |       3       |       4       | Prefix Length |1|1| Reserved1 |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                         Valid Lifetime                        |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                       Preferred Lifetime                      |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                           Reserved2                           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                      2001:db8:cafe:babe::                     ~
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |        5      |      1        |           Reserved            |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                            1500                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

        Figure 3: An RA with one implicit PVD and one explicit PVD

Authors' Addresses

   Jouni Korhonen
   Broadcom Corporation
   3151 Zanker Road
   San Jose, CA  95134
   USA

   Email: jouni.nospam@gmail.com

   Suresh Krishnan
   Ericsson
   8400 Decarie Blvd.
   Town of Mount Royal, QC
   Canada

   Phone: +1 514 345 7900 x42871
   Email: suresh.krishnan@ericsson.com

   Sri Gundavelli
   Cisco Systems
   170 West Tasman Drive
   San Jose, CA  95134
   USA

   Email: sgundave@cisco.com

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