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draft-jiang-softwire-map-radius-01
Network Working Group                             Sheng Jiang (Editor) 
Internet Draft                                                  Yu Fu 
Intended status: Standards Track                             Bing Liu 
Expires: January 14, 2013                 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd 
                                                          Peter Deacon 
                                                    IEA Software, Inc. 
                                                         July 16, 2012 
                                    

                        RADIUS Attribute for MAP 
                                    
                 draft-jiang-softwire-map-radius-01.txt 

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Abstract 

   Mapping of Address and Port (MAP) is a stateless mechanism for 
   running IPv4 over IPv6-only infrastructure. It provides both IPv4 and 
   IPv6 connectivity services simultaneously during the IPv4/IPv6 co-
   existing period. The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 
   (DHCPv6) MAP options has been defined to configure MAP Customer Edge 
   (CE). However, in many networks, the configuration information may be 
   stored in Authentication Authorization and Accounting (AAA) servers 
   while user configuration is mainly from Broadband Network Gateway 
   (BNG) through DHCPv6 protocol. This document defines a Remote 
   Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) attribute that carries 
   MAP configuration information from AAA server to BNG. The MAP RADIUS 
   attribute are designed following the simplify principle. It provides 
   just enough information to form the correspondent DHCPv6 MAP option. 

    

Table of Contents 

   1. Introduction ................................................. 3 
   2. Terminology .................................................. 3 
   3. MAP Configuration process with RADIUS ........................ 3 
   4. Attributes ................................................... 5 
      4.1. IPv6-MAP-Configuration Attribute ........................ 5 
      4.2. IPv6 MAP Options ........................................ 6 
      4.3. Sub Options for MAP Rule Option ......................... 7 
         4.3.1. Rule-IPv6-Prefix Sub Option ........................ 7 
         4.3.2. Rule-IPv4-Prefix Sub Option ........................ 8 
         4.3.3. Encapsulation/Translation Flag Sub Option........... 9 
         4.3.4. Map Port Parameter Sub Option ...................... 9 
      4.4. Table of attributes .................................... 10 
   5. Diameter Considerations ..................................... 10 
   6. Security Considerations ..................................... 11 
   7. IANA Considerations ......................................... 11 
   8. Acknowledgments ............................................. 11 
   9. References .................................................. 11 
      9.1. Normative References ................................... 11 
      9.2. Informative References ................................. 12 
    

 
 
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1. Introduction 

   Recently providers start to deploy IPv6 and consider how to transit 
   to IPv6. Mapping of Address and Port (MAP)  
   [I-D.ietf-softwire-map] is a stateless mechanism for running IPv4 
   over IPv6-only infrastructure. It provides both IPv4 and IPv6 
   connectivity services simultaneously during the IPv4/IPv6 co-existing 
   period. MAP has adopted Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 
   (DHCPv6) [RFC3315] as auto-configuring protocol. The MAP Customer 
   Edge (CE) uses the DHCPv6 extension options  
   [I-D.mdt-softwire-map-dhcp-option] to discover MAP Border Relay (in 
   tunnel model only) and to configure relevant MAP rules. 

   In many networks, user configuration information may be managed by 
   AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting) servers. Current 
   AAA servers communicate using the Remote Authentication Dial In User 
   Service (RADIUS) [RFC2865] protocol. In a fixed line broadband 
   network, the Broadband Network Gateways (BNGs) act as the access 
   gateway of users. The BNGs are assumed to embed a DHCPv6 server 
   function that allows them to locally handle any DHCPv6 requests 
   issued by hosts. 

   Since the MAP configuration information is stored in AAA servers and 
   user configuration is mainly through DHCPv6 protocol between BNGs and 
   hosts/CEs, new RADIUS attributes are needed to propagate the 
   information from AAA servers to BNGs. The MAP RADIUS attribute are 
   designed following the simplify principle, while providing enough 
   information to form the correspondent DHCPv6 MAP option. 
   [I-D.mdt-softwire-map-dhcp-option]. 

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 [RFC2119]. 

   The terms MAP CE and MAP Border Relay are defined in  
   [I-D.ietf-softwire-map]. 

3. MAP Configuration process with RADIUS 

   The below Figure 1 illustrates how the RADIUS protocol and DHCPv6 
   cooperate to provide MAP CE with MAP configuration information. 

 
 
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      MAP CE                       BNG                       AAA Server 
         |                          |                             | 
         |------DHCPv6 Solicit----->|                             | 
         |                          |--Access-Request(MAP Attr)-->| 
         |                          |                             | 
         |                          |<--Access-Accept(MAP Attr)---| 
         |<---DHCPv6 Advertisement--|                             | 
         |                          |                             | 
         |------DHCPv6  Request---->|                             | 
         |      (MAP Option)        |                             | 
         |<---- -DHCPv6 Reply-------|                             | 
         |      (MAP option)        |                             | 
         |                          |                             | 
                   DHCPv6                        RADIUS  
             Figure 1: the cooperation between DHCPv6 and RADIUS 

   BNGs act as a client of RADIUS and as a DHCPv6 server for DHCPv6 
   protocol. First, a BNG receives a DHCPv6 Solicit message from the MAP 
   CE. It initiates the BNG to request correspondent user authentication 
   relevant from an AAA server using RADIUS protocol. A MAP 
   configuration request may also be sent in the same message. If the 
   user authentication is approved by the AAA server, an Access-Accept 
   message is acknowledged with the IPv6-MAP-Configuration Attribute, 
   defined in the next Section. After the BNG responds to the user with 
   an Advertisement message, the user requests for a MAP Option. Then, 
   the BNG can reply the user using the DHCPv6 protocol. 

   In the abovementioned scenario, the Access-Request packet contains a 
   Service-Type attribute with the value Authorize Only (17), thus 
   according to [RFC5080] the Access-Request packet MUST contain a State 
   attribute. 

   Figure 2 describes another scenario, in which the authentication 
   operation is not coupled with DHCPv6. In the authentication stage, 
   which may be initiated by other user behavior, such as PPP dial-up, 
   the BNG obtains the MAP configuration information from the AAA server 
   through the RADIUS protocol. When the user requests the MAP Option, 
   the BNG replies with a MAP option in DHCPv6 Reply message. 

 
 
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      MAP CE                       BNG                       AAA Server 
         |                          |                             | 
         |                          |--Access-Request(MAP Attr)-->| 
         |                          |                             | 
         |                          |<--Access-Accept(MAP Attr)---| 
         |                          |                             | 
         |------DHCPv6 Request----->|                             | 
         |      (Map Option)        |                             | 
         |<---- -DHCPv6 Reply-------|                             | 
         |      (MAP option)        |                             | 
         |                          |                             | 
                  DHCPv6                         RADIUS  
               Figure 2: the cooperation between DHCPv6 and RADIUS 

   After receiving the IPv6-MAP-Configuration Attribute in the initial 
   Access-Accept, the BNG MUST store the received MAP configuration 
   parameters locally. When the MAP CE sends a DHCPv6 Request message to 
   request an extension of the lifetimes for the assigned address, the 
   BNG does not have to initiate a new Access-Request towards the AAA 
   server to request the MAP configuration parameters. The BNG retrieves 
   the previously stored MAP configuration parameters and use them in 
   its reply. 

   If the DHCPv6 server to which the DHCPv6 Request message was sent at 
   time T1 has not responded, the DHCPv6 client enters the Rebind state 
   and attempts to contact any server. In this scenario the BNG 
   receiving the DHCPv6 message MUST initiate a new Access-Request 
   towards the AAA server. The BNG MAY include the IPv6-MAP-
   Configuration Attribute in its Access-Request. If the BNG does not 
   receive the IPv6-MAP-Configuration Attribute in the Access-Accept it 
   MAY fallback to a pre-configured default MAP configuration, if any. 

4. Attributes 

   This section defines IPv6-MAP-Rule Attribute which is used in the MAP 
   scenario. The attribute design follows [RFC6158]. 

   The MAP RADIUS attribute are designed following the simplify 
   principle. The sub options are organized into two categories: the 
   necessary and the optional. 

4.1. IPv6-MAP-Configuration Attribute 

   The IPv6-MAP-Configuration Attribute is structured as follows: 

 
 
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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     |    Length     |                               | 
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+                               + 
   |                                                               | 
   +                         Rule Option(s)                        + 
   |                                                               | 
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 

       Type 

         TBD 

       Length 

         2 + the length of the Rule option(s) 

       Sub Option 

         a variable field that may contains one or more Rule option(s), 
         defined in Section 4.2. 

4.2. IPv6 MAP Options 

   Depending on deployment scenario, one Default Mapping rule and zero 
   or more other type Mapping Rules MUST be included in one IPv6-MAP-
   Configuration Attribute. 

    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     |    Length     |                               | 
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+                               + 
   |                                                               | 
   +                         Sub Options                           + 
   |                                                               | 
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 

       Type 

         1 Default Mapping Rule 

         2 Basic Mapping Rule (Not Forwarding Mapping Rule) 

         3 Forwarding Mapping Rule (Not Basic Mapping Rule) 

 
 
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         4 Basic & Forwarding Mapping Rule 

       Length 

         2 + the length of the sub options  

       Sub Option 

         a variable field that contains necessary sub options defined in 
         Section 4.3 and zero or several optional sub options, defined 
         in Section 4.4. 

4.3. Sub Options for MAP Rule Option 

   Different from [I-D.mdt-softwire-map-dhcp-option], EA-Len, Embedded-
   Address (EA) length, is not present at all, because it can be 
   calculated by the combine of prefix4len, prefix6-len, excluded ports 
   and off bits. 

4.3.1. Rule-IPv6-Prefix Sub Option 

   The Rule-IPv6-Prefix Sub Option is necessary for every MAP Rule 
   option. It should appear for once and only once. 

   The IPv6 Prefix sub option is follow the framed IPv6 prefix designed 
   in [RFC3162]. 

    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 
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 
   |    SubType    |    SubLen     |   Reserved    |  prefix6-len  | 
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 
   |                                                               | 
   |                        rule-ipv6-prefix                       | 
   |                                                               | 
   |                                                               | 
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 

      SubType 

         1 (SubType number, for the Rule-IPv6-Prefix6 sub option) 

      SubLen  

         20 (the length of the Rule-IPv6-Prefix6 sub option) 

      Reserved 
 
 
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         Reserved for future usage. It should be set to all zero. 

      prefix6-len 

         length of the IPv6 prefix, specified in the rule-ipv6-prefix  
         field, expressed in bits 

      rule-ipv6-prefix 

         a 128-bits field that specifies an IPv6 prefix that appears in  
         a MAP rule 

   "For the encapsulation mode the Rule IPv6 prefix can be the full IPv6 
   address of the BR." [I-D.ietf-softwire-map] 

4.3.2. Rule-IPv4-Prefix Sub Option 

    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 
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 
   |    SubType    |    SubLen     |   Reserved    |  prefix4-len  | 
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 
   |                       rule-ipv4-prefix                        | 
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 

      SubType 

         2 (SubType number, for the Rule-IPv4-Prefix6 sub option) 

      SubLen  

         8 (the length of the Rule-IPv4-Prefix6 sub option) 

      Reserved 

         Reserved for future usage. It should be set to all zero. 

      Prefix4-len 

         length of the IPv6 prefix, specified in the rule-ipv6-prefix  
         field, expressed in bits 

      rule-ipv4-prefix 

         a 32-bits field that specifies an IPv4 prefix that appears in  
         a MAP rule 

 
 
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4.3.3. Encapsulation/Translation Flag Sub Option 

    0                   1                   2 
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 
   |    SubType    |    SubLen     |    E/T Flag   | 
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 

      SubType 

         3 (SubType number, for the rule-id sub option) 

      SubLen  

         3 (the length of the rule-id sub option) 

      E/T Flag 

         indicate the MAP transport mode: encapsulation or translation. 
         all 0 for encapsulation, all 1 for translation. 

   If this sub option is not present, the following default values are 
   to be assumed: encapsulation mode. 

4.3.4. Map Port Parameter Sub Option 

    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 
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 
   |    SubType    |    SubLen     |  rsv  |offset | rsv | PSID-len| 
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 
   |            PSID               | 
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 

      SubType 

         4 (SubType number, for the Map port parameter sub option) 

      SubLen  

         6 (the length of the Map port parameter sub option) 

      Reserved 

         Reserved for future usage. It should be set to all zero. 

      PSID (Port-set ID) Offset  
 
 
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         4 bits long field that specifies the numeric value for the MAP  
         algorithm's excluded port range/offset bits (A-bits), as per  
         section 5.1.1 in [I-D.ietf-softwire-map]. Default must be set 
         to 4. 

      PSID-len 

         Bit length value of the number of significant bits in the PSID  
         field. (also known as 'k'). When set to 0, the PSID field is to  
         be ignored. After the first 'a' bits, there are k bits in the  
         port number representing valid of PSID. Subsequently, the  
         address sharing ratio would be 2 ^k. 

      PSID 
         Explicit 16-bit (unsigned word) PSID value.  The PSID value 
         algorithmically identifies a set of ports assigned to a CE. The 
         first k-bits on the left of this 2-octets field is the PSID  
         value. The remaining (16-k) bits on the right are padding zeros. 

4.4. Table of attributes 

   The following table provides a guide to which attributes may be found 
   in which kinds of packets, and in what quantity. 

   Request Accept Reject Challenge Accounting  #  Attribute 
                                    Request 
    0-1     0-1     0      0         0-1      TBD1  IPv6-MAP- 
                                                   Configuration 
    

   The following table defines the meaning of the above table entries. 

   0     This attribute MUST NOT be present in packet. 
   0+    Zero or more instances of this attribute MAY be present in 
         packet. 
   0-1   Zero or one instance of this attribute MAY be present in 
         packet. 
   1     Exactly one instance of this attribute MUST be present in 
         packet. 

5. Diameter Considerations 

   This attribute is usable within either RADIUS or Diameter [RFC3588]. 
   Since the Attributes defined in this document will be allocated from 
   the standard RADIUS type space, no special handling is required by 
   Diameter entities. 

 
 
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6. Security Considerations 

   Known security vulnerabilities of the RADIUS protocol are discussed 
   in RFC 2607 [RFC2607], RFC 2865 [RFC2865], and RFC 2869 [RFC2869]. 
   Use of IPsec [RFC4301] for providing security when RADIUS is carried 
   in IPv6 is discussed in RFC 3162 [RFC3162]. 

   Security considerations for the Diameter protocol are discussed in 
   RFC 3588 [RFC3588]. 

7. IANA Considerations 

   This document requires the assignment of two new RADIUS Attributes 
   Types in the "Radius Types" registry (currently located at 
   http://www.iana.org/assignments/radius-types for the following 
   attributes: 

      o  IPv6-MAP-Configuration     TBD1 

   IANA should allocate the numbers from the standard RADIUS Attributes 
   space using the "IETF Review" policy [RFC5226]. 

8. Acknowledgments 

   The authors would like to thank for valuable comments. 

9. References 

9.1. Normative References 

   [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate 
             Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. 

   [RFC2865] Rigney, C., Willens, S., Rubens, A., and W. Simpson, 
             "Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)", RFC 
             2865, June 2000. 

   [RFC3162] Aboba, B., Zorn, G., and D. Mitton, "RADIUS and IPv6", RFC 
             3162, August 2001. 

   [RFC3315] Droms, R., Bound, J., Volz, B., Lemon, T., Perkins, C., and 
             M. Carney, "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 
             (DHCPv6)", RFC 3315, July 2003. 

   [RFC3588] Calhoun, P., Loughney, J., Guttman, E., Zorn, G., and J., 
             Arkko, "Diameter Base Protocol", RFC 3588, September 2003. 

 
 
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   [RFC4301] Kent, S. and K. Seo, "Security Architecture for the 
             Internet Protocol", RFC 4301, December 2005. 

   [RFC5080] Nelson, D. and DeKok A., "Common Remote Authentication Dial 
             In User Service (RADIUS) Implementation Issues and 
             Suggested Fixes", RFC 5080, December 2007. 

   [RFC5226] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an 
             IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", RFC 5226, May 2008. 

   [RFC6158] DeKok, A. and G. Weber, "RADIUS Design Guidelines", RFC 
             6158, March 2011. 

   [I-D.ietf-softwire-map] 
             O. Troan, et al., "Mapping of Address and Port (MAP)", 
             draft-ietf-softwire-map, working in progress. 

   [I-D.mdt-softwire-map-dhcp-option] 
             T. Mrugalski, et al., "DHCPv6 Options for Mapping of 
             Address and Port", draft-mdt-softwire-map-dhcp-option, 
             working in progress. 

9.2. Informative References 

   [RFC2607] Aboba, B. and J. Vollbrecht, "Proxy Chaining and Policy 
             Implementation in Roaming", RFC 2607, June 1999.  

   [RFC2869] Rigney, C., Willats, W., and P. Calhoun, "RADIUS 
             Extensions", RFC 2869, June 2000. 

 
 
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   Author's Addresses 

    
   Sheng Jiang (Editor) 
   Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd 
   Q14 Huawei Campus, 156 BeiQi Road, 
   ZhongGuan Cun, Hai-Dian District, Beijing 100085 
   P.R. China 
   EMail: jiangsheng@huawei.com 
    
   Yu Fu 
   Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd 
   Q14 Huawei Campus, 156 BeiQi Road, 
   ZhongGuan Cun, Hai-Dian District, Beijing 100085 
   P.R. China 
   EMail: eleven.fuyu@huawei.com 
    
   Bing Liu 
   Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd 
   Q14 Huawei Campus, 156 BeiQi Road, 
   ZhongGuan Cun, Hai-Dian District, Beijing 100085 
   P.R. China 
   EMail: leo.liubing@huawei.com 
    
   Peter Deacon 
   IEA Software, Inc. 
   P.O. Box 1170 
   Veradale, WA 99037 
   USA 
   EMail: peterd@iea-software.com 
    

 
 
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