Next Steps in Signaling (nsis)

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Last Modified: 2009-09-22

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Description of Working Group:

The Next Steps in Signaling Working Group is responsible for
standardizing an IP signaling protocol with QoS signaling as the first
use case.  This working group will concentrate on a two-layer
signaling paradigm.  The intention is to re-use, where appropriate,
the protocol mechanisms of RSVP, while at the same time simplifying it
and applying a more general signaling model.

The existing work on the requirements, the framework and analysis of
existing protocols will be completed and used as input for the
protocol work.

NSIS will develop a transport layer signaling protocol for the
transport of upper layer signaling. In order to support a toolbox or
building block approach, the two-layer model will be used to separate
the transport of the signaling from the application signaling.  This
allows for a more general signaling protocol to be developed to
support signaling for different services or resources, such as NAT &
firewall traversal and QoS resources.  The initial NSIS application
will be an optimized RSVP QoS signaling protocol.  The second
application will be a middle box traversal protocol.  An informational
document detailing how Differentiated Services can be signaled
with the QoS Signaling protocol will be made.

Security is a very important concern for NSIS. The working group will
study and analyze the threats and security requirements for
signaling.  Compatibility with authentication and authorization
mechanisms such as those of Diameter, COPS for RSVP (RFC 2749) and
RSVP Session Authorization (RFC 3250), will be addressed.

It is a non-goal of the working group to develop new resource
allocation protocols. Traffic engineering is out of scope of this
WG. Additionally, third party signaling is out of scope of this WG.
New mobility and AAA protocols are out of scope of the WG.
However, the work produced in this Working Group should work with
existing IETF mobility and AAA protocols, including (but not limited
to)
Mobile IP, Seanoby Context Transfer, etc.  An applicability statement
will be written to discuss the applicability of NSIS protocols in
mobile
environments.

NSIS also welcomes participation and expression of requirements
requirements from non-IETF standards organization members, for
instance 3GPP, 3GPP2 and ITU-T.

Goals and Milestones:

Done  Submit 'Signaling Requirements' to IESG for publication as an Informational RFC.
Done  Submit 'Next Steps in Signaling: Framework' to IESG for publication as Informational RFC
Done  Submit 'Analysis of Existing Signaling Protocols' to IESG as Informational RFC
Done  Submit 'RSVP Security Properties' to IESG as Informational RFC
Done  Submit 'NSIS Threats' to IESG as Informational RFC
Done  Submit 'NSIS Transport Protocol' to IESG for publication for Proposed Standard
Feb 2008  Submit 'NSIS QoS Specification Template' to IESG for publication as an Informational RFC
Feb 2008  Submit 'NSIS QoS Application Protocol' to IESG for publication for Proposed Standard
Mar 2008  Submit 'NSIS Middle Box Signaling Application Protocol' to IESG for publication for Proposed Standard
Sep 2008  Submit 'Y.1541 QoS Model' to the IESG for publication as an Informational RFC
Sep 2008  Submit 'Applicability Statement of NSIS Protocols in Mobile Environments' to the IESG as an Informational RFC
Sep 2008  Submit 'RMD-QOSM - The Resource Management in Diffserv QOS Model' to the IESG for publication as an Informational RFC
Nov 2008  Submit 'GIST State Machine' to the IESG for publication as an Informational RFC
Nov 2008  Submit 'NSIS Operation Over IP Tunnels' to the IESG for publication as an Informational RFC
Dec 2008  Submit 'NSIS Extensibility Model' to the IESG for publication as an Informational RFC

Internet-Drafts:

NSLP for Quality-of-Service Signaling (230991 bytes)
NAT/Firewall NSIS Signaling Layer Protocol (NSLP) (220357 bytes)
GIST: General Internet Signalling Transport (382308 bytes)
QoS NSLP QSPEC Template (154755 bytes)
Applicability Statement of NSIS Protocols in Mobile Environments (94707 bytes)
RMD-QOSM - The Resource Management in Diffserv QOS Model (281976 bytes)
GIST State Machine (44432 bytes)
Y.1541-QOSM -- Model for Networks Using Y.1541 QoS Classes (42544 bytes)
NSIS Operation Over IP Tunnels (71204 bytes)
General Internet Signaling Transport (GIST) over SCTP and Datagram TLS (24998 bytes)
Using and Extending the NSIS Protocol Family (73851 bytes)

Request For Comments:

Requirements of a Quality of Service (QoS)Solution for Mobile IP (RFC 3583) (22541 bytes)
Requirements for Signaling Protocols (RFC 3726) (98020 bytes)
Analysis of Existing Quality of Service Signaling Protocols (RFC 4094) (103146 bytes)
Next Steps in Signaling (NSIS): Framework (RFC 4080) (122470 bytes)
Security Threats for Next Steps in Signaling (NSIS) (RFC 4081) (67786 bytes)
RSVP Security Properties (RFC 4230) (121030 bytes)

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