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draft-kucherawy-marf-source-ports-04
Individual submission                                         R. Clayton
Internet-Draft                                   University of Cambridge
Updates: 5965, 6591 (if approved)                           M. Kucherawy
Intended status: Standards Track                         Cloudmark, Inc.
Expires: December 11, 2012                                  June 9, 2012

                      Source Ports in ARF Reports
                  draft-kucherawy-marf-source-ports-04

Abstract

   This document defines an additional header field for use in Abuse
   Reporting Format reports to permit the identification of the source
   port of the connection involved in an abuse incident.

   This document updates RFC5965 and RFC6591.

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   described in the Simplified BSD License.

Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   2.  Keywords  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   3.  Source-Port Field Definition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   4.  Time Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   5.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
   6.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
   7.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
     7.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
     7.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
   Appendix A.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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1.  Introduction

   [ARF] defined the Abuse Reporting Format, an extensible message
   format for Email Feedback Reports.  These reports are used to report
   incidents of email abuse.  ARF was extended by [AUTHFAILURE-REPORT]
   to enable reporting of email authentication failures.  These
   specifications provided for the source IP address to be included in a
   report.  As explained in [LOG], the deployment of IP address sharing
   techniques requires the source port values to be included in reports
   if unambiguous identification of the origin of abuse is to be
   achieved.

   This document defines an ARF reporting field to contain this
   information and provides guidance for its use.

2.  Keywords

   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 [KEYWORDS].

3.  Source-Port Field Definition

   A new ARF header field called "Source-Port" is defined.  When present
   in a report, it MUST contain the TCP source port matching the
   "Source-IP" field in the same report, thereby describing completely
   the origin of the abuse incident.

   Per, [ABNF], the formal syntax is:

     source-port = "Source-Port:" [CFWS] 1*DIGIT [CFWS] CRLF

   "CFWS", which represents email-style comments or folding white space,
   is imported from [MAIL].

   When any report is generated that includes the "Source-IP" reporting
   field (see Section 3.2 of [ARF]), this field SHOULD also be present,
   unless the port number is unavailable.

   Use of this field is RECOMMENDED for reports generated per
   [AUTHFAILURE-REPORT] (see Section 3.1 of that document).

4.  Time Accuracy

   [LOG] underscores the importance of accurate clocks when generating
   reports that include source port information because of the fact that
   source ports can be recycled very quickly in Internet Service
   Provider environments.  The same considerations described there apply

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   here.

   Report generators that include an Arrival-Date report field MAY
   choose to express the value of that date in Universal Coordinated
   Time (UTC) to enable simpler correlation with local records at sites
   that are following the provisions of [LOG].

5.  IANA Considerations

   IANA is requested to add the following entry to the Feedback Report
   Header Fields registry:

   Field Name:  Source-Port

   Description:  TCP source port from which the reported connection
      originated

   Multiple Appearances:  No

   Related Feedback-Type:  any

   Reference:  [this document]

   Status:  current

6.  Security Considerations

   This extension introduces no new security considerations not already
   covered in [ARF].

   Some security considerations related to the general topic of source
   port logging can be found in [LOG].

7.  References

7.1.  Normative References

   [ABNF]                Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for
                         Syntax Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234,
                         January 2008.

   [ARF]                 Shafranovich, Y., Levine, J., and M. Kucherawy,
                         "An Extensible Format for Email Feedback
                         Reports", RFC 5965, August 2010.

   [AUTHFAILURE-REPORT]  Fontana, H., "Authentication Failure Reporting
                         using the Abuse Report Format", RFC 6591,
                         April 2012.

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

   [MAIL]                Resnick, P., Ed., "Internet Message Format",
                         RFC 5322, October 2008.

7.2.  Informative References

   [LOG]                 Durand, A., Gashinsky, I., Lee, D., and S.
                         Sheppard, "Logging Recommendations for
                         Internet-Facing Servers", RFC 6302, June 2011.

Appendix A.  Acknowledgements

   The authors wish to acknowledge the following for their review and
   constructive criticism of this proposal: Steve Atkins, Scott
   Kitterman, John Levine, and Doug Otis.

   The idea for this work originated within the Messaging Anti-Abuse
   Working Group (MAAWG).

Authors' Addresses

   Richard Clayton
   University of Cambridge
   Computer Laboratory
   JJ Thomson Avenue
   Cambridge  CB3 0FD
   United Kingdom

   Phone: +44 1223 763570
   EMail: richard.clayton@cl.cam.ac.uk

   Murray S. Kucherawy
   Cloudmark, Inc.
   128 King St., 2nd Floor
   San Francisco, CA  94107
   US

   Phone: +1 415 946 3800
   EMail: superuser@gmail.com

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