Routing Policy System Replication
RFC 2769
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(February 2000; No errata)
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Network Working Group C. Villamizar
Request for Comments: 2769 Avici Systems
Category: Standards Track C. Alaettinoglu
R. Govindan
ISI
D. Meyer
Cisco
February 2000
Routing Policy System Replication
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.
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.
Abstract
The RIPE database specifications and RPSL define languages used as
the basis for representing information in a routing policy system. A
repository for routing policy system information is known as a
routing registry. A routing registry provides a means of exchanging
information needed to address many issues of importance to the
operation of the Internet. The implementation and deployment of a
routing policy system must maintain some degree of integrity to be of
any use. The Routing Policy System Security RFC [3] addresses the
need to assure integrity of the data by proposing an authentication
and authorization model. This document addresses the need to
distribute data over multiple repositories and delegate authority for
data subsets to other repositories without compromising the
authorization model established in Routing Policy System Security
RFC.
Villamizar, et al. Standards Track [Page 1]
RFC 2769 Routing Policy System Replication February 2000
Table of Contents
1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 Data Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 Authentication and Authorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4 Repository Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5 Additions to RPSL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5.1 repository object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.2 delegated attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.3 integrity attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6 Interactions with a Repository or Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.1 Initial Transaction Submission . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.2 Redistribution of Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.3 Transaction Commit and Confirmation . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7 Data Format Summaries, Transaction Encapsulation and Processing 13
7.1 Transaction Submit and Confirm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.2 Redistribution of Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7.3 Redistribution Protocol Description . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7.3.1 Explicitly Requesting Transactions . . . . . . . . 21
7.3.2 Heartbeat Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
7.4 Transaction Commit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
7.5 Database Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
7.6 Authenticating Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
A Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
A.1 Initial Object Submission and Redistribution . . . . . . 27
A.2 Transaction Redistribution Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . 29
A.3 Transaction Protocol Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
A.4 Transaction Redistribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
B Technical Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
B.1 Server Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
B.1.1 getting connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
B.1.2 rolling transaction logs forward and back . . . . . 35
B.1.3 committing or disposing of transactions . . . . . . 36
B.1.4 dealing with concurrency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
B.2 Repository Mirroring for Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . 36
B.3 Trust Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
B.4 A Router as a Minimal Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
B.5 Dealing with Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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