PCP Working Group M. Boucadair
Internet-Draft France Telecom
Intended status: Standards Track R. Penno
Expires: March 17, 2013 D. Wing
Cisco
September 13, 2012
DHCP Options for the Port Control Protocol (PCP)
draft-ietf-pcp-dhcp-05
Abstract
This document specifies DHCP (IPv4 and IPv6) options to configure
hosts with Port Control Protocol (PCP) Server names. The use of
DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 depends on the PCP deployment scenario.
Requirements Language
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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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. DHCPv6 PCP Server Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.1. Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.2. Client Behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. DHCPv4 PCP Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.1. Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.2. Client Behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. Use of PCP Server Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6. Dual-Stack Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
8.1. DHCPv6 Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
8.2. DHCPv4 Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
9. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Appendix A. Rationale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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1. Introduction
This document defines DHCPv4 [RFC2131] and DHCPv6 [RFC3315] options
which can be used to provision PCP Server [I-D.ietf-pcp-base] names.
Motivations for defining PCP option as a name and not an IP address
are discussed in Appendix A.
In order to make use of these options, this document assumes
appropriate name resolution means (e.g., Section 6.1.1 of [RFC1123])
are available on the host client.
The use of DHCPv4 or DHCPv6 depends on the PCP deployment scenarios.
2. Terminology
This document makes use of the following terms:
o PCP Server denotes a functional element which receives and
processes PCP requests from a PCP Client. A PCP Server can be co-
located with or be separated from the function (e.g., NAT,
Firewall) it controls. Refer to [I-D.ietf-pcp-base].
o PCP Client denotes a PCP software instance responsible for issuing
PCP requests to a PCP Server. Refer to [I-D.ietf-pcp-base].
o DHCPv4 refers to the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol [RFC2131]
for IPv4.
o DHCP refers to both DHCPv4 [RFC2131] and DHCPv6 [RFC3315].
o DHCP client (or client) denotes a node that initiates requests to
obtain configuration parameters from one or more DHCP servers.
o DHCP server (or server) refers to a node that responds to requests
from DHCP clients.
o Name is a domain name that contains one or more labels. In
particular, a PCP name may be structured as DNS qualified name or
be composed of strings such as can be passed to getaddrinfo
(Section 6.1 of [RFC3493]), including address literals, etc.
3. DHCPv6 PCP Server Option
This DHCPv6 option conveys a domain name to be used to retrieve the
IP addresses of PCP Server(s). Appropriate name resolution queries
should be issued to resolve the conveyed name.
3.1. Format
The format of the DHCPv6 PCP Server option is shown in Figure 1.
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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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| OPTION_PCP_SERVER | Option-length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
: PCP Server Domain Name(s) :
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 1: PCP Server Name DHCPv6 Option
The fields of the option shown in Figure 1 are as follows:
o Option-code: OPTION_PCP_SERVER (TBA, see Section 8.1)
o Option-length: Length of the 'PCP Server Domain Name' field in
octets.
o PCP Server Domain Name(s): The domain name s) of the PCP Server to
be used by the PCP Client. The OPTION_PCP_SERVER option can
include multiple PCP Server Domain Names; each Name is treated as
a separate PCP Server. The domain name(s) is encoded as string.
When several names are included, a space character is used as
separator.
3.2. Client Behaviour
To discover a PCP Server [I-D.ietf-pcp-base], the DHCPv6 client MUST
include an Option Request Option (ORO) requesting the DHCPv6 PCP
Server Name option as described in Section 22.7 of [RFC3315] (i.e.,
include OPTION_PCP_SERVER on its OPTION_ORO).
If the DHCPv6 client receives an OPTION_PCP_SERVER option from the
DHCPv6 server, it extracts the Name(s) conveyed in the
OPTION_PCP_SERVER option and proceeds to validate it.
Once each Name conveyed in the OPTION_PCP_SERVER option is validated,
the DHCPv6 client MUST follow the procedure specified in Section 5.
4. DHCPv4 PCP Option
4.1. Format
The PCP Server Name DHCPv4 option can be used to configure a name to
be used by the PCP Client to contact a PCP Server. The format of
this option is illustrated in Figure 2.
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Code Length PCP Server Domain Name
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+--
| TBA | n | s1 | s2 | s3 | s4 | s5 | ...
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+--
Figure 2: PCP Server Name DHCPv4 Option
The description of the fields is as follows:
o Code: OPTION_PCP_SERVER (TBA, see Section 8.2);
o Length: Includes the length of the "PCP Server Domain Name" field
in octets; The maximum length is 255 octets.
o PCP Server Domain Name(s): The domain name(s) of the PCP Server to
be used by the PCP Client when issuing PCP messages. The
OPTION_PCP_SERVER option can include multiple PCP Server Domain
Names; each Name is treated as a separate PCP Server. The domain
name(s) is encoded as strings. When several names are included, a
space character is used as separator.
The OPTION_PCP_SERVER DHCPv4 option is a concatenation-requiring
option. As such, the mechanism specified in [RFC3396] MUST be used
if the PCP Server Name option exceeds the maximum DHCPv4 option size
of 255 octets.
4.2. Client Behaviour
DHCPv4 client expresses the intent to get OPTION_PCP_SERVER by
specifying it in Parameter Request List Option [RFC2132].
If the DHCPv4 client receives an OPTION_PCP_SERVER option from the
DHCPv4 server, it extracts the Name(s) conveyed in the option and
proceeds to validating it.
Once each Name conveyed in the OPTION_PCP_SERVER option is validated,
the DHCPv4 client MUST follow the procedure specified in Section 5.
5. Use of PCP Server Names
Each configured Name is passed to the name resolution library (e.g.,
Section 6.1.1 of [RFC1123] or [RFC6055]) to retrieve the
corresponding IP address(es) (IPv4 or IPv6). It is out of scope of
this document to specify how the PCP Client selects the PCP Server(s)
to contact.
Multiple Names may be configured to a PCP Client in some deployment
contexts such as multi-homing. It is out of scope of this document
to enumerate all deployment scenarios which require multiple Names to
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be configured.
A host may have multiple network interfaces (e.g, 3G, WiFi, etc.);
each configured differently. Each PCP Server learned MUST be
associated with the interface via which it was learned.
6. Dual-Stack Hosts
In some deployment contexts, the PCP Server may be reachable with an
IPv4 address but DHCPv6 is used to provision the PCP Client. In such
scenarios, a plain IPv4 address or an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address can be
configured to reach the PCP Server.
A Dual-Stack host may receive OPTION_PCP_SERVER via both DHCPv4 and
DHCPv6. The content of these OPTION_PCP_SERVER options may refer to
the same or distinct PCP Servers. This is deployment-specific and as
such it is out of scope of this document.
7. Security Considerations
The security considerations in [RFC2131], [RFC3315] and
[I-D.ietf-pcp-base] are to be considered.
8. IANA Considerations
8.1. DHCPv6 Option
Authors of this document request the following DHCPv6 option code:
Option Name Value
----------------- -----
OPTION_PCP_SERVER TBA
8.2. DHCPv4 Option
Authors of this document request the following DHCPv4 option code:
Option Name Value
----------------- -----
OPTION_PCP_SERVER TBA
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9. Acknowledgements
Many thanks to B. Volz, C. Jacquenet, R. Maglione, D. Thaler, T.
Mrugalski, T. Lemon and M. Wasserman for their review and comments.
10. References
10.1. Normative References
[I-D.ietf-pcp-base]
Wing, D., Cheshire, S., Boucadair, M., Penno, R., and P.
Selkirk, "Port Control Protocol (PCP)",
draft-ietf-pcp-base-26 (work in progress), June 2012.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC2131] Droms, R., "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol",
RFC 2131, March 1997.
[RFC2132] Alexander, S. and R. Droms, "DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor
Extensions", RFC 2132, March 1997.
[RFC3315] Droms, R., Bound, J., Volz, B., Lemon, T., Perkins, C.,
and M. Carney, "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for
IPv6 (DHCPv6)", RFC 3315, July 2003.
[RFC3396] Lemon, T. and S. Cheshire, "Encoding Long Options in the
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCPv4)", RFC 3396,
November 2002.
10.2. Informative References
[I-D.ietf-behave-lsn-requirements]
Perreault, S., Yamagata, I., Miyakawa, S., Nakagawa, A.,
and H. Ashida, "Common requirements for Carrier Grade NATs
(CGNs)", draft-ietf-behave-lsn-requirements-09 (work in
progress), August 2012.
[I-D.ietf-dhc-option-guidelines]
Hankins, D., Mrugalski, T., Siodelski, M., Jiang, S., and
S. Krishnan, "Guidelines for Creating New DHCPv6 Options",
draft-ietf-dhc-option-guidelines-08 (work in progress),
June 2012.
[RFC1123] Braden, R., "Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application
and Support", STD 3, RFC 1123, October 1989.
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[RFC3493] Gilligan, R., Thomson, S., Bound, J., McCann, J., and W.
Stevens, "Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6",
RFC 3493, February 2003.
[RFC6055] Thaler, D., Klensin, J., and S. Cheshire, "IAB Thoughts on
Encodings for Internationalized Domain Names", RFC 6055,
February 2011.
[RFC6146] Bagnulo, M., Matthews, P., and I. van Beijnum, "Stateful
NAT64: Network Address and Protocol Translation from IPv6
Clients to IPv4 Servers", RFC 6146, April 2011.
[RFC6333] Durand, A., Droms, R., Woodyatt, J., and Y. Lee, "Dual-
Stack Lite Broadband Deployments Following IPv4
Exhaustion", RFC 6333, August 2011.
[RFC6334] Hankins, D. and T. Mrugalski, "Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) Option for Dual-Stack Lite",
RFC 6334, August 2011.
Appendix A. Rationale
Both IP Address and Name DHCP options have been considered in early
stages of this specification. This flexibility aims to let service
providers to make their own engineering choices and use the
convenient option according to their deployment context.
Nevertheless, DHC WG's position is this flexibility has some
drawbacks such as inducing errors (See Section 7 of
[I-D.ietf-dhc-option-guidelines]). Therefore, only the Name option
is maintained within this document.
This document defines an option to carry a name rather than an IP
address. This choice is motivated by operational considerations: In
particular, some Service Providers are considering two levels of
redirection:
(1) The first level is national-wise and undertaken by DHCP: a
regional-specific Name will be returned;
(2) The second level is done during the resolution of the regional-
specific Name to redirect the customer to a regional PCP server
among a pool deployed regionally.
Distinct operational teams are responsible for each of the above
mentioned levels. A clear separation between the functional
perimeter of each team is a sensitive task for the maintenance of the
offered services. Regional teams will require to introduce new
resources (e.g., new PCP-controlled devices such as Carrier Grade
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NATs (CGNs, [I-D.ietf-behave-lsn-requirements])) to meet an increase
of customer base. Operations related to the introduction of these
new devices (e.g., addressing, redirection, etc.) are implemented
locally. Having this regional separation provides flexibility to
manage portions of network operated by dedicated teams. This two-
level redirection can not be met by the IP Address option.
In addition to the operational considerations:
o The use of the Name for NAT64 [RFC6146] might be suitable for
load-balancing purposes;
o For the DS-Lite case [RFC6333], if the encapsulation mode is used
to send PCP messages, an IP address may be used since the AFTR
selection is already done via the AFTR_NAME DHCPv6 option
[RFC6334]. Of course, this assumes that the PCP Server is co-
located with the AFTR function. If these functions are not co-
located, conveying the Name would be more convenient.
Authors' Addresses
Mohamed Boucadair
France Telecom
Rennes, 35000
France
Email: mohamed.boucadair@orange.com
Reinaldo Penno
Cisco
USA
Email: repenno@cisco.com
Dan Wing
Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, California 95134
USA
Email: dwing@cisco.com
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