Network Working Group                                           J. Arkko
Internet-Draft                                                  Ericsson
Intended status: Informational                                S. Farrell
Expires: August 26, 2021                          Trinity College Dublin
                                                       February 22, 2021


        RFC 7258 additions due to evolving Internet thread model
           draft-arkko-farrell-arch-model-t-7258-additions-02

Abstract

   Communications security has been at the center of many security
   improvements in the Internet.  The goal has been to ensure that
   communications are protected against outside observers and attackers.

   RFC 7258 is the IETF guidance on taking into account pervasive
   monitoring threats in Internet technology development work.  This
   memo suggests additions to RFC 7258 to cater for the evolving
   threats.  For instance, it may be necessary to also worry about
   information collected by a legitimate protocol participant being
   misused for pervasive monitoring purposes.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Potential Changes in BCP 188/RFC 7258 . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   3.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   5.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     5.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     5.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   Appendix A.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4

1.  Introduction

   Communications security has been at the center of many security
   improvements in the Internet.  The goal has been to ensure that
   communications are protected against outside observers and attackers.
   At the IETF, this approach has been formalized in BCP 72 [RFC3552],
   which defined the Internet threat model in 2003.  Additional guidance
   to take into account dangers posed by pervasive monitoring were
   covered in BCP 188 [RFC7258].

   However, threats in the Internet continue to evolve, as discussed in
   [I-D.arkko-farrell-arch-model-t-redux].

   The rest of this document tentatively suggests a small (but our view,
   important) change to the BCP.

   Comments are solicited on this document.  The best place for
   discussion is on the model-t list.
   (https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/model-t)

2.  Potential Changes in BCP 188/RFC 7258

   Additional guidelines may be necessary also in BCP 188/RFC
   7258[RFC7258], which specifies how IETF work should take into account
   pervasive monitoring.

   An initial, draft suggestion for starting point of those changes
   could be adding the following paragraph after the 2nd paragraph in
   Section 2:



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   NEW:

      PM attacks include those cases where information collected by a
      legitimate protocol participant is misused for PM purposes.  The
      attacks also include those cases where a protocol or network
      architecture results in centralized data storage or control
      functions relating to many users, raising the risk of said misuse.

3.  Security Considerations

   The entire memo covers the security considerations.

4.  IANA Considerations

   There are no IANA considerations in this work.

5.  References

5.1.  Normative References

   [RFC3552]  Rescorla, E. and B. Korver, "Guidelines for Writing RFC
              Text on Security Considerations", BCP 72, RFC 3552,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC3552, July 2003,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3552>.

   [RFC7258]  Farrell, S. and H. Tschofenig, "Pervasive Monitoring Is an
              Attack", BCP 188, RFC 7258, DOI 10.17487/RFC7258, May
              2014, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7258>.

5.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.arkko-farrell-arch-model-t-redux]
              Arkko, J. and S. Farrell, "Internet Threat Model
              Evolution: Background and Principles", draft-arkko-
              farrell-arch-model-t-redux-00 (work in progress), November
              2020.

Appendix A.  Acknowledgements

   The authors would like to thank the IAB:

   Alissa Cooper, Wes Hardaker, Ted Hardie, Christian Huitema, Zhenbin
   Li, Erik Nordmark, Mark Nottingham, Melinda Shore, Jeff Tantsura,
   Martin Thomson, Brian Trammel, Mirja Kuhlewind, and Colin Perkins.

   The authors would also like to thank the participants of the IETF
   SAAG meeting where this topic was discussed:




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   Harald Alvestrand, Roman Danyliw, Daniel Kahn Gilmore, Wes Hardaker,
   Bret Jordan, Ben Kaduk, Dominique Lazanski, Eliot Lear, Lawrence
   Lundblade, Kathleen Moriarty, Kirsty Paine, Eric Rescorla, Ali
   Rezaki, Mohit Sethi, Ben Schwartz, Dave Thaler, Paul Turner, David
   Waltemire, and Jeffrey Yaskin.

   The authors would also like to thank the participants of the IAB 2019
   DEDR workshop:

   Tuomas Aura, Vittorio Bertola, Carsten Bormann, Stephane Bortzmeyer,
   Alissa Cooper, Hannu Flinck, Carl Gahnberg, Phillip Hallam-Baker, Ted
   Hardie, Paul Hoffman, Christian Huitema, Geoff Huston, Konstantinos
   Komaitis, Mirja Kuhlewind, Dirk Kutscher, Zhenbin Li, Julien
   Maisonneuve, John Mattson, Moritz Muller, Joerg Ott, Lucas Pardue,
   Jim Reid, Jan-Frederik Rieckers, Mohit Sethi, Melinda Shore, Jonne
   Soininen, Andrew Sullivan, and Brian Trammell.

   The authors would also like to thank the participants of the November
   2016 meeting at the IETF:

   Carsten Bormann, Randy Bush, Tommy C, Roman Danyliw, Ted Hardie,
   Christian Huitema, Ben Kaduk, Dirk Kutscher, Dominique Lazanski, Eric
   Rescorla, Ali Rezaki, Mohit Sethi, Melinda Shore, Martin Thomson, and
   Robin Wilton

   Finally, the authors would like to thank numerous other people for
   insightful comments and discussions in this space.

Authors' Addresses

   Jari Arkko
   Ericsson
   Valitie 1B
   Kauniainen
   Finland

   Email: jari.arkko@piuha.net


   Stephen Farrell
   Trinity College Dublin
   College Green
   Dublin
   Ireland

   Email: stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie





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