NETEXT WG R. Pazhyannur
Internet-Draft S. Speicher
Intended status: Standards Track S. Gundavelli
Expires: January 23, 2015 Cisco
J. Korhonen
Broadcom
J. Kaippallimalil
Huawei
July 22, 2014
Extensions to the PMIPv6 Access Network Identifier Option
draft-ietf-netext-ani-location-01.txt
Abstract
Access Network Identifier (ANI) Mobility option was introduced in
[RFC6757] enabling a MAG to convey identifiers like network
identifier, Geo-location, and operator-identifier. This
specification extends the Access Network Identifier mobility option
with sub-options to carry Civic Location and MAG Group Identifier.
This specification also defines a ANI Update timer sub-option that
determines when and how often the ANI will be updated.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Conventions and Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Protocol Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Civic-Location Sub-Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2. MAG Group-Identifier Sub-Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.3. ANI Update-Timer Sub-Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. Protocol Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1. MAG Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. LMA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1. Introduction
[RFC6757] introduced the Access Network Identifier (ANI) mobility
Option. This enabled a MAG to provide the Network Identifier, Geo-
Location, and Operator-Identifier sub options. When the access
network is WLAN, the Network Identifier sub option may contain SSID,
and BSSID of the Access Point (AP), the Geo-Location of the AP, and
the Operator-Identifier may contain the realm of the operator
managing the WLAN. The MAG sends the above information to the LMA.
The LMA may use this information to determine access network specific
policies (in terms of QoS, DPI, etc). Further, the LMA may make this
information available to location based applications.
While the above mentioned sub-options provide a rich set of
information, in this document we describe the need for extending the
ANI sub options, especially for WLAN deployments. In WLAN
deployments (especially indoor AP deployments), it is difficult to
provide Geo-spatial coordinates of APs. However, for many location
based applications the civic location is sufficient. This motivates
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the need for a ANI civic-location sub-option. In many deployments,
operators tend to create groups of APs into "AP-Groups". These
groups have a group identifier. The group-identifier is used a proxy
for coarse location (such as floor of a building, or a small
building). The group identifier may also be used to provide a common
policy (e.g., QoS, charging, DPI) for all APs in that group. This
specification provides a sub-option for the MAG to convey a group-
identifier to the LMA. The provisioning of the group-identifier is
outside the scope of this specification and is typically done via a
configuration mechanism such as CLI (Command line Interface), CAPWAP
([RFC5415], [RFC5416]), etc. This document also provides a new sub-
option that determines how often the MAG will update the ANI. In
typical deployments, it is expected that the MAG will update the ANI
as soon as it changes. This is certainly true when the MAG is co-
located with the AP. When a client roams from one AP to another AP,
the MAG on the roamed (or sometimes referred to as the target) AP
will provide the new ANI (for example the network identifier and Geo-
location of the new AP). However, if the MAG is co-located with an
Access Controller (also known as Wireless LAN Controller), then a
client roaming from one AP to another AP does not necessarily perform
an ANI update. This leads to stale ANI information at the LMA. To
cover the cases where ANI is always fresh, ANI may be stale, we
introduce a new ANI Update Timer option. This enables the MAG to
inform the LMA when and how often the MAG will update the ANI. The
MAG sends an ANI update only if the ANI Update Timer has expired and
the ANI values have changed since the last ANI update. Consequently,
this enables the LMA to determine whether the ANI is stale or not and
when to expect an update. The LMA can use ANI update Timer option to
set the maximum frequency at which it wants to receive ANI updates.
This may be particularly useful in environments where a MAG covers a
large number of Wi-Fi APs and there is high client mobility between
the APs (for example in a stadium Wi-Fi deployment).
[RFC6757] provides ANI sub-options to carry geo-location information.
In this document we provide additional sub-options to carry civic-
location, and AP-Group identifier. This document also defines an ANI
sub-option to enable a MAG to communicate how often the MAG will
update the ANI information.
2. Conventions and Terminology
2.1. Conventions
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 RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
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2.2. Terminology
All the mobility related terms used in this document are to be
interpreted as defined in [RFC5213] and [RFC5844].
3. Protocol Extension
3.1. Civic-Location Sub-Option
The Civic-Location is a mobility sub-option carried in the Access
Network Identifier option defined in [RFC6757]. This sub-option
carries the Civic Location information of the mobile node as known to
the MAG. The format of this option is defined below.
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ANI Type=IANA | ANI Length | Format | Reserved |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Civic-Location ~
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 1: Network-Identifier Sub-option
ANI Type: <IANA-1>
ANI Length: Total length of this sub option in octets, excluding the
ANI Type and ANI length fields.
Format: This specifies the encoding format of the Civic-Location.
Two values (0, and 1) are defined in this as specification as
described below. The remaining values (2 through 255) are
reserved.
0: This value denotes Binary Encoding. The location format is
based on the encoding format defined in Section 3.1 of
[RFC4776], whereby the first 3 octets are not put into the
Civic Location field (i.e., the code for the DHCP option, the
length of the DHCP option, and the 'what' element are not
included).
1: This value denotes XML Encoding. This is specified in the
Presence Information Data Format Location Object [RFC5139].
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Civic-Location: This field will contain the Civic Location. The
format (encoding) type is specified in the format field of this
sub option. Note that the length shall not exceed 253 bytes.
3.2. MAG Group-Identifier Sub-Option
The MAG Group Identifier is a mobility sub-option carried in the
Access Network Identifier option defined in [RFC6757]. The MAG Group
Identifier identifies the group affiliation of the MAG within that
Proxy Mobile IPv6 domain. The Group-Identifier is not assumed to be
globally unique, across different network operators. However, Group-
Identifier should be unique within a network identifier as identifier
by an operator-identifier. In domains spanning multiple operators it
is recommended that the operator-identifier sub-option (defined in
[RFC6757]) be used in addition to group identifier sub-option to
ensure uniqueness. When the MAG is configured with a group
identifier, the MAG should send its Group-Identifier in the PBU.
(The configuration of this identifier is outside the scope of this
specification. The usage of the identifier by the LMA is left to
implementation. ) The format of this sub-option is defined below.
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ANI Type=IANA | ANI Length | Group-Identifier |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 2: MAG Group-Identifier Sub-option
ANI Type: <IANA-2>
ANI Length: Total length of this sub option in octets, excluding the
ANI Type and ANI length fields. The value is always 2.
Group-Identifier: This is a 2 octet integer value assigned to a
group of MAGs.
3.3. ANI Update-Timer Sub-Option
The ANI Update Timer is a mobility sub-option carried in the ANI
option defined in [RFC6757]. Section 4 describes how the MAG and LMA
may use this sub option.
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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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ANI Type=IANA | ANI Length | Update-Timer |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 3: Network-Identifier Sub-option
ANI Type: <IANA-3>
ANI Length: Total length of this sub option in octets, excluding the
ANI Type and ANI length fields is always 2.
Reserved: MUST be set to zero when sending and ignored when
received.
Update-Timer: Update-Timer is a 16 bit unsigned integer. It
indicates the time in seconds before the MAG sends an update value
of ANI mobility options. A value of 0 indicates that the MAG will
send an updated ANI mobility option as soon as it discovers a
change in ANI values.
4. Protocol Considerations
The following considerations apply to the LMA and the MAG.
4.1. MAG Considerations
o The conceptual Binding Update List entry data structure maintained
by the mobile access gateway, described in Section 6.1 of
[RFC5213], MUST be extended to store the access-network-related
information elements associated with the current session.
Specifically, the following parameters MUST be defined:
* Civic-Location
* MAG Group-Identifier
* ANI Update-Timer
o If the mobile access gateway is configured to support the Access
Network Information sub-options defined in this specification, it
SHOULD include this option with the specific sub-options in all
Proxy Binding Update messages (including Proxy Binding Updates for
lifetime extension and for deregistration) that it sends to the
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local mobility anchor. The Access Network Information option MUST
be constructed as specified in Section 3. It SHOULD include the
ANI sub-option(s) that the mobile access gateway is configured to
carry in the Proxy Mobile IPv6 messages.
o ANI Update Timer Considerations: The MAG sets the Update-timer
when it sends a PBU with the ANI Update Timer sub option. When
the Update-timer expires the MAG sends a PBU if and only if any of
the ANI sub options have changed values. That is, a PBU is not
sent if values in the ANI sub options have remained unchanged.
Further, the Update timer is reset only when the PBU is sent. If
any of the ANI sub-option values have changed and the Update-Timer
has expired then the MAG MUST send a PBU immediately. When the
Update-Timer Sub option is carried in a PBU, it is considered as a
proposed value for the Update-timer. The LMA may change the value
of the Update-timer in Update-Timer sub option sent in a PBA.
When the LMA provided value for the Update-timer is different than
what is sent by the MAG, the MAG should use the LMA provided
value. If the MAG does not receive a Update-timer sub option in
PBA (in response to sending the sub-option in the PBU), then MAG
behavior is in accordance to [RFC6757].
o If the mobile access gateway had any of the Access Network
Information mobility options included the Proxy Binding Update
sent to a local mobility anchor, then the Proxy Binding
Acknowledgement received from the local mobility anchor SHOULD
contain the Access Network Information mobility option with the
specific sub-options. If the mobile access gateway receives a
Proxy Binding Acknowledgement with a successful Status Value but
without an Access Network Information mobility option, then the
mobile access gateway SHOULD log the event and, based on its local
policy, MAY proceed to terminate the mobility session. In this
case, the mobile access gateway knows the local mobility anchor
does not understand the Access Network Information mobility option
and therefore MAY consider it as a misconfiguration of the Proxy
Mobile IPv6 domain.
4.2. LMA Considerations
o The conceptual Binding Cache entry data structure maintained by
the local mobility anchor, described in Section 5.1 of [RFC5213],
MUST be extended to store the access-network-related information
elements associated with the current session. Specifically, the
following parameters MUST be defined:
* Civic-Location
* MAG Group-Identifier
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* ANI Update-Timer
o On receiving a Proxy Binding Update message from a MAG with the
ANI option, the LMA must process the option and update the
corresponding fields in the Binding Cache entry. If the option is
not understood by that LMA implementation, it will skip the option
and process the PBU without these options.
o If the received Proxy Binding Update message does not include the
Access Network Information option, then the mobility session
associated with that Proxy Binding Update MUST be updated to
remove any access network information elements.
o If the local mobility anchor understands/supports the Access
Network Identifier mobility sub-options defined in this
specification, then the local mobility anchor MUST echo the Access
Network Identifier mobility option with the specific sub-option(s)
that it accepted back to the mobile access gateway in a Proxy
Binding Acknowledgement. The Civic location and Group-Identifier
sub-options defined in this specification MUST NOT be altered by
the local mobility anchor. The LMA may change the value of the
Update-Timer sub option. It may choose to either echo the same
value, or increase or decrease the timer value. For example, if
the LMA does not want to receive frequent updates (as implied by
the timer value) it may choose to increase the value. Similarly,
if the LMA needs to receive ANI updates as soon as possible then
it may set the value to zero (0) in the PBA.
5. IANA Considerations
This document requires the following IANA action.
o Action-1: This specification defines a new Access Network
Identifier sub-option called Civic-Location Sub-option. This
mobility sub-option is described in Section 3.1 and this sub-
option can be carried in Access Network Identifier mobility
option. The type value <IANA-1> for this sub-option needs to be
allocated from the registry "Access Network Information (ANI) Sub-
Option Type Values". RFC Editor: Please replace <IANA-1> in
Section 3.1 with the assigned value, and update this section
accordingly.
o Action-2: This specification defines a new Access Network
Identifier sub-option called MAG Group-Identifier Sub-option.
This mobility sub-option is described in Section 3.2 and this sub-
option can be carried in Access Network Identifier mobility
option. The type value <IANA-2> for this sub-option needs to be
allocated from the registry "Access Network Information (ANI) Sub-
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Option Type Values". RFC Editor: Please replace <IANA-2> in
Section 3.2 with the assigned value, and update this section
accordingly.
o Action-3: This specification defines a new Access Network
Identifier sub-option called ANI-Update-Timer Sub-option. This
sub-option is described in Section 3.3 and this sub-option can be
carried in Access Network Identifier mobility option. The type
value <IANA-3> for this sub-option needs to be allocated from the
registry "Access Network Information (ANI) Sub-Option Type
Values". RFC Editor: Please replace <IANA-3> in Section 3.3 with
the assigned value, and update this section accordingly.
6. Security Considerations
The Civic-Location sub-option defined in this specification is
carried in the Access Network Identifier option defined in [RFC6757].
This sub-option is carried in Proxy Binding Update and Proxy Binding
Acknowledgement messages. This sub-option is carried like any other
Access Network Identifier sub-option as defined in [RFC6757].
Therefore, it inherits from [RFC5213] and [RFC6757], its security
guidelines and does not require any additional security
considerations.
The Civic-Location sub-option carried in the Access Network
Information option exposes the civic location of the network to which
the mobile node is attached. This information is considered to be
very sensitive, so care must be taken to secure the Proxy Mobile IPv6
signaling messages when carrying this sub-option. The base Proxy
Mobile IPv6 specification [RFC5213] specifies the use of IPSec for
securing the signaling messages, and those mechanisms can be enabled
for protecting this information. Operators can potentially apply
IPSec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) with confidentiality and
integrity protection for protecting the location information.
Access-network-specific information elements that the mobile access
gateway sends may have been dynamically learned over DHCP or using
other protocols. If proper security mechanisms are not in place, the
exchanged information between the MAG and LMA may be compromised.
This situation may result in incorrect service policy enforcement at
the local mobility anchor and impact to other services that depend on
this access network information. This threat can be mitigated by
ensuring the communication path between the mobile access gateway and
the access points is properly secured by the use of IPSec, Transport
Layer Security (TLS), or other security protocols.
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7. Acknowledgements
TBD
8. References
8.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC4776] Schulzrinne, H., "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
(DHCPv4 and DHCPv6) Option for Civic Addresses
Configuration Information", RFC 4776, November 2006.
[RFC5139] Thomson, M. and J. Winterbottom, "Revised Civic Location
Format for Presence Information Data Format Location
Object (PIDF-LO)", RFC 5139, February 2008.
[RFC5213] Gundavelli, S., Leung, K., Devarapalli, V., Chowdhury, K.,
and B. Patil, "Proxy Mobile IPv6", RFC 5213, August 2008.
[RFC5844] Wakikawa, R. and S. Gundavelli, "IPv4 Support for Proxy
Mobile IPv6", RFC 5844, May 2010.
[RFC6757] Gundavelli, S., Korhonen, J., Grayson, M., Leung, K., and
R. Pazhyannur, "Access Network Identifier (ANI) Option for
Proxy Mobile IPv6", RFC 6757, October 2012.
8.2. Informative References
[RFC5415] Calhoun, P., Montemurro, M., and D. Stanley, "Control And
Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) Protocol
Specification", RFC 5415, March 2009.
[RFC5416] Calhoun, P., Montemurro, M., and D. Stanley, "Control and
Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) Protocol
Binding for IEEE 802.11", RFC 5416, March 2009.
Authors' Addresses
Rajesh S. Pazhyannur
Cisco
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
USA
Email: rpazhyan@cisco.com
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Sebastian Speicher
Cisco
Richtistrasse 7
Wallisellen, Zurich 8304
Switzerland
Email: sespeich@cisco.com
Sri Gundavelli
Cisco
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
USA
Email: sgundave@cisco.com
Jouni Korhonen
Broadcom
Porkkalankatu 24
Helsinki FIN-00180
Finland
Email: jouni.nospam@gmail.com
John Kaippallimalil
Huawei
5340 Legacy Drive, Suite 175
Plano, Texas 75024
USA
Email: john.kaippallimalil@huawei.com
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