Network Working Group                                           T. Lemon
Internet-Draft                                               Apple, Inc.
Intended status: Informational                              July 8, 2020
Expires: January 9, 2021


           Self-configuring Stub Networks: Problem Statement
                    draft-lemon-stub-networks-ps-00

Abstract

   IETF currently provides protocols for automatically connecting single
   hosts to existing network infrastructure.  This document describes a
   related problem: the problem of connecting a stub network (a
   collection of hosts behind a router) automatically to existing
   network infrastructure in the same manner.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     1.1.  Interoperability Goals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     1.2.  Usability Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     1.3.  State of the Art  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   2.  Possible Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     2.1.  Proxy ND  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
       2.1.1.  Reachability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
       2.1.2.  Addressability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
       2.1.3.  Discoverability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
       2.1.4.  Requirements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
       2.1.5.  Observations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     2.2.  Stub reachability using RA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       2.2.1.  Reachability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       2.2.2.  Addressability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       2.2.3.  Discoverability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       2.2.4.  Requirements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       2.2.5.  Observations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     2.3.  Global reachability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
       2.3.1.  Reachability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
       2.3.2.  Addressability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
       2.3.3.  Discoverability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
       2.3.4.  Requirements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
       2.3.5.  Observations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     2.4.  Support for IPv4  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
       2.4.1.  Reachability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
       2.4.2.  Addressability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
       2.4.3.  Discoverability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
       2.4.4.  Requirements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
       2.4.5.  Observations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   3.  Discoverability Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   4.  Multiple Egress, Multiple Link  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   5.  Management Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   6.  Privacy Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   7.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   8.  IANA considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   9.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15

1.  Introduction

   This document describes the problem of linking stub networks to
   existing networks automatically, in the same way that hosts, when
   connected to an existing network, are able to discover network
   addressing parameters, information about routing, and services that
   are advertised on the network.




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   There are several use cases for stub networks.  Motivating factors
   include:

   o  Transitory connectivity: a mobile device acting as a router for a
      set of co-located devices could connect to a network and gain
      access to services for itself and for the co-located devices.
      Such a stub network is unlikely to have more than one stub router.

   o  Incompatible media: for example, a constrained 802.15.4 network
      connected as a stub network to a WiFi or ethernet infrastructure
      network.  In the case of an 802.15.4 network, it is quite possible
      that the devices used to link the infrastructure network to the
      stub network will not be conceived of by the end user as routers.
      Consequently, we cannot assume that these devices will be on all
      the time.  A solution for this use case will require some sort of
      commissioning process for stub routers, and can't assume that any
      particular stub router will always be available; rather, any stub
      router that is available must be able to adapt to current
      conditions to provide reachability.

   o  Convenience: end users often connect devices to each other in
      order to extend networks

   What makes stub networks a distinct type of network is simply that a
   stub network never provides transit between networks to which it is
   connected.  The term "stub" refers to the way the network is seen by
   the link to which it is connected: there is reachability through a
   stub network router to the stub network from that link, but there is
   no reachability to any link beyond that one.

   Stub networks may be globally reachable, or may be only locally
   reachable.  A host on a globally reachable stub network can
   interoperate with other hosts anywhere on the Internet.  A host on a
   locally reachable stub network can only interoperate with hosts on
   the network link(s) to which it is connected.

   The goal of this document is to describe the minimal set of changes
   or behaviors required to use existing IETF specifications to support
   the stub network use case.  The result should be a small set of
   protocol enhancements (ideally no changes at all to protocols) and
   should be deployable on existing networks without requiring changes
   to those networks.  Both the locally-reachable and globally-reachable
   use case should be able to be made to work, and ideally the globally-
   reachable use case should build on what is used to make the locally-
   reachable use case work, rather than requiring two separate
   solutions.





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1.1.  Interoperability Goals

   What we mean by "interoperate" is that a host on a stub network:

   o  is discoverable by applicable hosts that are not on the stub
      network

   o  is able to acquire an IP address that can be used to communicate
      with applicable hosts not on the stub network

   o  has reachability to the network(s) to which applicable hosts are
      attached

   o  is reachable from the network(s) to which applicable hosts are
      attached

   Discoverability here means "discoverable using DNS, or DNS Service
   Discovery".  As an example, when one host connected to a specific
   WiFi network wishes to discover services on hosts connected to that
   same WiFi network, it can do so using multicast DNS (RFC6762), which
   is an example of DNS Service Discovery.  Similarly, when a host on
   some other network wishes to discover the same service, it must use
   DNS-based DNS Service Discovery [RFC6763].  In both cases,
   "discoverable using DNS" means that the host has an entry in the DNS.

   NOTE: it may be tempting to ask, why do we lump discoverability in
   with reachability and addressability, both of which are essentially
   Layer 3 issues?  The answer is that it does us no good to
   automatically set up connectivity between stub network hosts and
   infrastructure hosts if the infrastructure hosts have no mechanism
   for learning about the availability of services provided by stub
   network hosts.  For stub networks that only consume cloud services
   this will not be an issue, but for stub networks that provide
   services, e.g. the incompatible media use case mentioned earlier,
   discoverability is necessary in order for stub network connectivity
   to be useful.

   Ability to acquire an IP address that can be used to communicate
   means that the IP address a host on the stub network acquires can be
   used to communicate with it by hosts on neighbor networks, for
   locally reachable stub networks, or by hosts on any network, for
   globally reachable networks.  Various means of providing such
   addresses are discussed later.

   Reachability to networks on which applicable hosts are attached means
   that when a host on the stub network has the IP address of an
   applicable host with which it intends to communicate, that host knows




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   of a next-hop router to which it can send datagrams, so that they
   will ultimately reach the host with that IP address.

   Reachability from networks on which applicable hosts are attached
   means that when such a host has a datagram destined for an IP address
   on the stub network, a next-hop router is known by that host which,
   when the datagram is sent to that router, will ultimately result in
   the datagram reaching the intended stub network host.

1.2.  Usability Goals

   In addition to the interoperability goals we've described above, the
   additional goal for stub networks is that they be able to be
   connected automatically, with no user intervention.  The experience
   of connecting a stub network to an infrastructure should be as
   straightforward as connecting a new host to the same infrastructure
   network.

1.3.  State of the Art

   Currently there is one known way to accomplish what we are describing
   here [[Michael, does ANIMA have a second way?]].  The Homenet working
   group produced a protocol, HomeNet Configuration Protocol (HNCP), the
   purpose of which is to allow a collection of routers to self-
   configure.  HNCP is not technically constrained to home environments;
   in principle, it can work in any environment.

   The problem with HNCP is twofold.  First, it only works if it is
   deployed on all routers within the network infrastructure for a site.
   Secondly, it attempts to do too much, and invents too much that is
   new.  Let's look at these in order.

   First, HNCP only works when deployed on all routers within the
   network infrastructure.  To be clear, this does not mean that it is
   impossible to use HNCP on a network where, for instance, the edge
   router(s) do not support HNCP.  What it does mean is that if this
   configuration works, the reason it works is that the network supports
   prefix delegation to routers inside the network.  So a router doing
   HNCP can get a prefix using prefix delegation from, for example, an
   edge router, and this will work.

   Unfortunately, the way that such an HNCP server should behave is not
   documented, and it's not actually clear how it should behave.  What
   if the DHCP server allocates it a /64?  HNCP is designed to get a
   larger prefix and subdivide it--there is no provision for requesting
   multiple delegations.  So if we wanted to use HNCP to solve this
   problem, we would need to do additional work.




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   Secondly, HNCP tries to do too much, and invents too much that is
   new.  HNCP is a complicated protocol for propagating network
   configuration information in a mesh.  It does not assume that any
   network is a stub network, and because of that, using it to support
   stub networks is needlessly complicated.

   Despite having been an IETF proposed standard since 2016, and having
   been worked on for quite some time before that, it is not possible to
   purchase a router that implements HNCP.  There exists a prototype
   implementation in OpenWRT, but getting it to actually work is
   problematic, and many problems have been left unsolved, and would be
   quite difficult to solve with additional standards work.

   We know this because several participants in the Homenet Working
   Group have tried to implement make it work, and yet as yet we have
   made no documentable progress, and indeed the Homenet Working Group
   appears to be on the verge of closing.

   Because of the first point--the utter lack of commercial
   implementations of HNCP--any stub network solution that is intended
   to be deployed to arbitrary networks can't rely on the availability
   of HNCP.  This may come in the future, but is not available now, and
   may never be.  Therefore, whatever approach is taken MAY use HNCP if
   available, but MUST work without HNCP.  Therefore, using HNCP
   represents additional implementation complexity; whether this is
   worth doing is something that should be considered, but because using
   HNCP is necessarily optional, it probably makes the most sense to
   assume that any functionality provided by HNCP will be external to
   the stub network router, and that the stub network router itself need
   not participate in the HNCP mesh.

2.  Possible Approaches

2.1.  Proxy ND

2.1.1.  Reachability

   Proxy Neighbor Discovery provides reachability to hosts on the stub
   network by simply pretending that they are on the infrastructure
   network.  This reachability can be local or global depending on what
   IPv6 service (if any) is available on the infrastructure link.  The
   use of Proxy ND for providing connectivity to stub networks is
   described in [I-D.ietf-6lo-backbone-router].








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2.1.2.  Addressability

   If IPv6 service is available on the infrastructure link, this service
   can be used to provide addressability on the stub network, and also
   provides addressability on the infrastructure link.

   If IPv6 service is not available on the infrastructure link,
   addressability for proxy ND can be provided by advertising an on-link
   autoconfigurable prefix in a Router Advertisement offered by the stub
   router.

2.1.3.  Discoverability

   Discoverability for stub network hosts can be provided using DNS-SD
   service registration protocol on the stub network, in combination
   with an Advertising Proxy on the stub router which would advertise
   registered services to the infrastructure link.

   Discoverability of infrastructure link hosts by stub network hosts
   can be provided using a DNS-SD discovery proxy and/or regular DNS.
   As long as the stub network requires that each stub router provide a
   DNS-SD Discovery Proxy and also provide name resolution, this will
   work even in the multiple stub router case.

2.1.4.  Requirements

   o  The infrastructure must either provide IPv6 service, or not block
      the provision of IPv6 service by the stub router.

   o  Hosts on the infrastructure link must support IPv6 and must
      support IPv6 neighbor discovery.

   o  Every stub host must register with at least one stub router that
      will do proxy ND for it.

   o  Routers must share proxy ND information, or else each router is a
      single point of failure for the set of hosts that have registered
      with it.

   o  Sharing proxy ND information requires new protocol work

2.1.5.  Observations

   Can definitely work in specific circumstances, but probably doesn't
   lend itself to full automation.






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2.2.  Stub reachability using RA

2.2.1.  Reachability

   Reachability to the stub network is provided using the Route
   Information Option [RFC4191] in a router advertisement [RFC4861]
   issued by the stub router.  Since the stub router does not provide
   IPv6 connectivity, it must not advertise itself as a default router.
   Each stub router can provide a default route to the stub network.

2.2.2.  Addressability

   Addressability on the stub network is provided using a ULA prefix
   generated by the stub router.  Addressibility on the infrastructure
   link is either provided by the infrastructure, or else must be
   provided by the stub router.

2.2.3.  Discoverability

   Discoverability for this approach is the same as for the Proxy ND
   approach.

2.2.4.  Requirements

   o  Infrastructure network must not block router advertisements.

   o  Hosts on the infrastructure network must support IPv6, must
      support the use of non-default routes as described in [RFC4191],
      and must support routing through non-default routers (routers with
      a router lifetime of 0).

   o  Stub routers must cooperate with other stub routers in announcing
      an on-link prefix to the stub network.

   o  Stub routers must cooperate with infrastructure routers in
      announcing an on-link prefix for the infrastructure network.  Stub
      routers must not advertise an on-link prefix when an on-link
      prefix is already present.

2.2.5.  Observations

   This option has the advantage of relying primarily on ordinary IPv6
   routing, as opposed to workarounds like proxy neighbor discovery or
   NAT64.  The cooperation that is required between stub routers is
   minimal: they need simply minimize the advertising of redundant
   information.  When redundant information is advertised, this is an
   aesthetic issue rather than an operational issue, and can be allowed
   to heal gradually.



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   Additionally, this option does not require any new behavior on the
   part of existing hosts or routers.  It does assume that
   infrastructure hosts actually implement [RFC4191], but it is not
   unreasonable to expect that this either is already the case, or can
   easily be accomplished.  It also assumes that the infrastructure does
   not enforce RA Guard [RFC6105].  This is compatible with the
   recommendations in RFC6105, which indicates that RA guard needs to be
   configured before it is enabled.

   The approach described in this section only makes it possible for
   stub network hosts to interoperate with hosts on the link to which
   the stub router is directly attached.  The "Global Reachability"
   approach talks about how to establish interoperability between stub
   network hosts and hosts on links to which the stub network is not
   directly attached.

2.3.  Global reachability

   Global reachability for stub networks requires either the use of
   NAT64, or else the presence of global IPv6 service on the link.  As
   such it is more of an add-on approach than a different approach.
   This section talks about a specific example of global reachability:
   how to make global reachability work for the "Stub Reachability using
   RA" approach mentioned earlier.

   The "global reachability" approach has applicability both in the
   literal sense, and also in the sense of "reachability beyond the link
   to which the stub router is directly attached."  The behavior of the
   stub router is the same in both cases: it is up to the network
   infrastructure what prefix is delegated to the stub router, and what
   reachability is provided.

2.3.1.  Reachability

   Reachability in this case requires integration into the routing
   infrastructure.  This is most easily accomplished by having the
   DHCPv6 prefix delegation server add an entry in the routing table
   pointing to the stub router to which the prefix has been delegated.
   Stub routers can also advertise reachability to the stub network
   using router advertisements, but these will only work on the local
   link.

2.3.2.  Addressability

   Addressability in this case for hosts on the infrastructure link is
   assumed to be provided by the infrastructure, since we are relying on
   the infrastructure to provide DHCPv6 prefix delegation.




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   Addressibility on the stub network is provided using the prefix
   acquired with prefix delegation.

2.3.3.  Discoverability

   Discoverability for devices on the link to which the stub network is
   attached can be done as described earlier under the "Proxy ND"
   approach.

2.3.4.  Requirements

   o  Infrastructure network must support prefix allocation using DHCPv6
      prefix delegation.

   o  Infrastructure network must install routes to prefixes provided
      using DHCPv6 prefix delegation.

   o  In the case of multiple stub routers, stub routers must cooperate
      both in acquiring and renewing prefixes acquired using prefix
      delegation.  Stub routers must communicate complete routing
      information to the DHCPv6 prefix delegation server so that it can
      install routes.

2.3.5.  Observations

   This approach should be a proper superset of the "Stub Reachability
   using RA" approach.  The primary technical challenge here is
   specifying how multiple stub routers cooperate in doing prefix
   delegation.

2.4.  Support for IPv4

   This document generally assumes that stub networks only support IPv6.
   Bidirectional reachability for IPv4 can be provided using a
   combination of NAT44 and Port Control Protocol [RFC6887].  The use of
   NAT44 and PCP in this way has already been solved and need not be
   discussed here.

2.4.1.  Reachability

   Reachability is complicated for NAT64.  Typical NAT64 deployments
   provide reachability from the stub network to the rest of the
   Internet, but do not provide reachability from the rest of the
   internet to the stub network.  As with NAT44 and PCP, this type of
   reachability is a solved problem and need not be discussed here.  To
   provide complete reachability to the IPv4 internet, a stub router
   must not only provide reachability to the cloud, but also
   reachability from the cloud.  That additional work is discussed here.



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   To provide reachability from the cloud to devices on the network,
   devices on the network will need to obtain static mappings from the
   external IPv4 address and a port to the internal IPv6 address and a
   port.  There are three ways to do this:

   o  The stub host can use Port Control Protocol to register a port,
      and then advertise that using SRP.

   o  The stub host can simply register using SRP, and then SRP can
      establish a port mapping.

   The first option has the advantage that the stub host is in complete
   control over what is advertised.  However, it places an additional
   burden on the stub host which may not be desirable: the host has to
   implement PCP and link the PCP port allocation to the SRP
   registration.

   For a constrained network device, it is most likely preferable to
   combine the two transactions: the SRP server can receive the
   registration from the stub host and acquire a PCP mapping for it, and
   then register an AAAA and A record for the host along with an SRV
   record for the IPv4 and IPv6 mappings.  The hostname mapping would
   need to be different for the A record and the AAAA record in order to
   avoid spurious connections to the IPv4 port on the IPv6 address and
   vice versa.

2.4.2.  Addressability

   Addressability on the stub network can be provided using a ULA prefix
   specific to the stub network or, if NAT64 is being used in addition
   to one of the other solutions discussed here, the prefix allocated on
   the stub network for that purpose can also be used for NAT64.

   IPv4 addressability on the infrastructure network is provided by the
   infrastructure network.  It is also possible that the infrastructure
   network is an IPv6 network.  In that case, the NAT64 edge router may
   be provided by the infrastructure as well.

2.4.3.  Discoverability

   The discoverability described for the "ND Proxy" approach should work
   here as well, except for the caveat mentioned above under
   "reachability".








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2.4.4.  Requirements

   o  TBD

2.4.5.  Observations

   Support for NAT64 may be required for some deployments.  NAT64
   support requires either close cooperation between stub routers, or
   else requires that the NAT64 translation be done externally.  The
   latter choice is likely quite a bit easier; solutions that provide
   load balancing and high availability are already available on the
   market, and hence do not require that the stub routers perform this
   function.  This is expected to be the best approach to serve the
   needs of consumers of this capability.

3.  Discoverability Options

   We can divide the set of hosts needing to be discovered and the set
   of hosts needing to discover them into four categories:

   o  Stub network hosts (stub hosts)

   o  Hosts that are on the link to which the stub network is directly
      connected (direct hosts)

   o  Hosts that are on other links within the same infrastructure
      (infrastructure hosts)

   o  Hosts that are on other links not within the same infrastructure
      (cloud hosts)

   To enable stub hosts to discover direct hosts, a Discovery Proxy
   [RFC8766] can be used.  This must be resident on any stub network
   router that is seen by the stub host as a resolver.

   To enable stub hosts to discover infrastructure hosts using DNS-SD
   [RFC6763], the infrastructure must provide support for RFC6763
   service discover using DNS.

   To enable stub hosts to discover infrastructure hosts and cloud hosts
   using DNS, DNS resolution must be provided by the stub router, and
   the infrastructure must additionally provide the stub router with the
   ability to resolve names.

   To enable direct hosts to discover stub hosts, stub routers must
   implement a DNS-SD Advertising Proxy.  Stub hosts must register with
   the advertising proxy using SRP.




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   To enable infrastructure hosts to discover stub hosts, stub routers
   must provide authoritative DNS service for the stub network link so
   that it can be integrated into the infrastructure DNS-SD service.  To
   do this automatically will require additional protocol work.

   To enable cloud hosts to discover stub hosts, stub hosts would need
   to register with the DNS, and the infrastructure would need to make
   those registrations available globally, perhaps with whitelisting.
   This is probably not a very widely applicable use case, and we do not
   consider specifying how this works to be part of the work of this
   document.

4.  Multiple Egress, Multiple Link

   In the case of a stub network that has multiple stub routers, it is
   possible that, either when the stub network is initially set up, or
   subsequently, one or more stub routers might be connected to a
   different infrastructure link than one or more other stub routers.
   There are two viable approaches to this problem:

   o  declare it out of scope and have the stub routers prevent such
      configurations

   o  make sure that stub routers attached to each infrastructure link
      provide complete service on that link

   Explain further.

5.  Management Considerations

   TBD

6.  Privacy Considerations

   In the locally reachable case, privacy is protected in the sense that
   names published locally are only visible to devices connected
   locally.  This may be insufficient privacy in some cases.

   In the globally reachable case, discoverability has privacy
   implications.  Unfiltered automatic discoverability is probably not a
   good idea in the globally reachable case.  If automatic
   discoverability is provided, some filtering mechanism would need to
   be specified.








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7.  Security Considerations

   TBD

8.  IANA considerations

   No new actions are required by IANA for this document.

9.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-6lo-backbone-router]
              Thubert, P., Perkins, C., and E. Levy-Abegnoli, "IPv6
              Backbone Router", draft-ietf-6lo-backbone-router-20 (work
              in progress), March 2020.

   [I-D.sctl-service-registration]
              Cheshire, S. and T. Lemon, "Service Registration Protocol
              for DNS-Based Service Discovery", draft-sctl-service-
              registration-02 (work in progress), July 2018.

   [RFC4191]  Draves, R. and D. Thaler, "Default Router Preferences and
              More-Specific Routes", RFC 4191, DOI 10.17487/RFC4191,
              November 2005, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4191>.

   [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,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4861>.

   [RFC6105]  Levy-Abegnoli, E., Van de Velde, G., Popoviciu, C., and J.
              Mohacsi, "IPv6 Router Advertisement Guard", RFC 6105,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6105, February 2011,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6105>.

   [RFC6763]  Cheshire, S. and M. Krochmal, "DNS-Based Service
              Discovery", RFC 6763, DOI 10.17487/RFC6763, February 2013,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6763>.

   [RFC6887]  Wing, D., Ed., Cheshire, S., Boucadair, M., Penno, R., and
              P. Selkirk, "Port Control Protocol (PCP)", RFC 6887,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6887, April 2013,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6887>.

   [RFC8766]  Cheshire, S., "Discovery Proxy for Multicast DNS-Based
              Service Discovery", RFC 8766, DOI 10.17487/RFC8766, June
              2020, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8766>.





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Author's Address

   Ted Lemon
   Apple, Inc.
   One Apple Park Way
   Cupertino, California  95014
   United States of America

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