ANIMA WG T. Eckert, Ed. Internet-Draft Futurewei USA Intended status: Standards Track M. Behringer, Ed. Expires: August 6, 2020 S. Bjarnason Arbor Networks February 3, 2020 An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) draft-ietf-anima-autonomic-control-plane-22 Abstract Autonomic functions need a control plane to communicate, which depends on some addressing and routing. This Autonomic Management and Control Plane should ideally be self-managing, and as independent as possible of configuration. This document defines such a plane and calls it the "Autonomic Control Plane", with the primary use as a control plane for autonomic functions. It also serves as a "virtual out-of-band channel" for Operations Administration and Management (OAM) communications over a network that provides automatically configured hop-by-hop authenticated and encrypted communications via automatically configured IPv6 even when the network is not configured, or misconfigured. 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Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 1] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction (Informative) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.1. Applicability and Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2. Acronyms and Terminology (Informative) . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3. Use Cases for an Autonomic Control Plane (Informative) . . . 15 3.1. An Infrastructure for Autonomic Functions . . . . . . . . 15 3.2. Secure Bootstrap over a not configured Network . . . . . 15 3.3. Data-Plane Independent Permanent Reachability . . . . . . 16 4. Requirements (Informative) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 5. Overview (Informative) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 6. Self-Creation of an Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) (Normative) 20 6.1. ACP Domain, Certificate and Network . . . . . . . . . . . 20 6.1.1. ACP Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 6.1.2. ACP Certificate ACP Domain Information Field . . . . 23 6.1.3. ACP domain membership check . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 6.1.4. Trust Points and Trust Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . 29 6.1.5. Certificate and Trust Point Maintenance . . . . . . . 30 6.1.5.1. GRASP objective for EST server . . . . . . . . . 31 6.1.5.2. Renewal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 6.1.5.3. Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) . . . . . . . 32 6.1.5.4. Lifetimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 6.1.5.5. Re-enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 6.1.5.6. Failing Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 6.2. ACP Adjacency Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 6.3. Neighbor Discovery with DULL GRASP . . . . . . . . . . . 36 6.4. Candidate ACP Neighbor Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 6.5. Channel Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 6.6. Candidate ACP Neighbor verification . . . . . . . . . . . 43 6.7. Security Association (Secure Channel) protocols . . . . . 43 6.7.1. ACP via IPsec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 6.7.1.1. Native IPsec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 6.7.1.2. IPsec with GRE encapsulation . . . . . . . . . . 47 6.7.2. ACP via DTLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 6.7.3. ACP Secure Channel Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . 48 6.8. GRASP in the ACP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 6.8.1. GRASP as a core service of the ACP . . . . . . . . . 49 6.8.2. ACP as the Security and Transport substrate for GRASP 50 Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 2] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 6.8.2.1. Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 6.9. Context Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 6.10. Addressing inside the ACP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 6.10.1. Fundamental Concepts of Autonomic Addressing . . . . 54 6.10.2. The ACP Addressing Base Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . 56 6.10.3. ACP Zone Addressing Sub-Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . 57 6.10.3.1. Usage of the Zone-ID Field . . . . . . . . . . . 59 6.10.4. ACP Manual Addressing Sub-Scheme . . . . . . . . . . 60 6.10.5. ACP Vlong Addressing Sub-Scheme . . . . . . . . . . 61 6.10.6. Other ACP Addressing Sub-Schemes . . . . . . . . . . 62 6.10.7. ACP Registrars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 6.10.7.1. Use of BRSKI or other Mechanism/Protocols . . . 63 6.10.7.2. Unique Address/Prefix allocation . . . . . . . . 63 6.10.7.3. Addressing Sub-Scheme Policies . . . . . . . . . 64 6.10.7.4. Address/Prefix Persistence . . . . . . . . . . . 65 6.10.7.5. Further Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 6.11. Routing in the ACP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 6.11.1. RPL Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 6.11.1.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 6.11.1.2. RPL Instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 6.11.1.3. Storing vs. Non-Storing Mode . . . . . . . . . . 68 6.11.1.4. DAO Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 6.11.1.5. Path Metric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 6.11.1.6. Objective Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 6.11.1.7. DODAG Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 6.11.1.8. Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 6.11.1.9. Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 6.11.1.10. P2P communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 6.11.1.11. IPv6 address configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 69 6.11.1.12. Administrative parameters . . . . . . . . . . . 69 6.11.1.13. RPL Data-Plane artifacts . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 6.11.1.14. Unknown Destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 6.12. General ACP Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 6.12.1. Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 6.12.2. Addressing of Secure Channels . . . . . . . . . . . 71 6.12.3. MTU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 6.12.4. Multiple links between nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 6.12.5. ACP interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 7. ACP support on L2 switches/ports (Normative) . . . . . . . . 75 7.1. Why (Benefits of ACP on L2 switches) . . . . . . . . . . 75 7.2. How (per L2 port DULL GRASP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 8. Support for Non-ACP Components (Normative) . . . . . . . . . 78 8.1. ACP Connect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 8.1.1. Non-ACP Controller / NMS system . . . . . . . . . . . 78 8.1.2. Software Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 8.1.3. Auto Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 8.1.4. Combined ACP/Data-Plane Interface (VRF Select) . . . 82 8.1.5. Use of GRASP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 3] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 8.2. ACP through Non-ACP L3 Clouds (Remote ACP neighbors) . . 84 8.2.1. Configured Remote ACP neighbor . . . . . . . . . . . 84 8.2.2. Tunneled Remote ACP Neighbor . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 8.2.3. Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 9. Benefits (Informative) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 9.1. Self-Healing Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 9.2. Self-Protection Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 9.2.1. From the outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 9.2.2. From the inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 9.3. The Administrator View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 10. ACP Operations (Informative) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 10.1. ACP (and BRSKI) Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 10.2. ACP Registrars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 10.2.1. Registrar interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 10.2.2. Registrar Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 10.2.3. Certificate renewal and limitations . . . . . . . . 97 10.2.4. ACP Registrars with sub-CA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 10.2.5. Centralized Policy Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 10.3. Enabling and disabling ACP/ANI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 10.3.1. Filtering for non-ACP/ANI packets . . . . . . . . . 99 10.3.2. Admin Down State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 10.3.2.1. Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 10.3.2.2. Fast state propagation and Diagnostics . . . . . 101 10.3.2.3. Low Level Link Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . 102 10.3.2.4. Power Consumption Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 10.3.3. Interface level ACP/ANI enable . . . . . . . . . . . 103 10.3.4. Which interfaces to auto-enable? . . . . . . . . . . 103 10.3.5. Node Level ACP/ANI enable . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 10.3.5.1. Brownfield nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 10.3.5.2. Greenfield nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 10.3.6. Undoing ANI/ACP enable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 10.3.7. Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 10.4. Configuration and the ACP (summary) . . . . . . . . . . 107 11. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 12. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 13. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 14. Change log [RFC Editor: Please remove] . . . . . . . . . . . 112 14.1. Summary of changes since entering IESG review . . . . . 112 14.1.1. Reviews (while in IESG review status) / status . . . 112 14.1.2. BRSKI / ACP registrar related enhancements . . . . . 113 14.1.3. Normative enhancements since start of IESG review . 113 14.1.4. Explanatory enhancements since start of IESG review 114 14.2. draft-ietf-anima-autonomic-control-plane-22 . . . . . . 115 15. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 15.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 15.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 15.3. URIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Appendix A. Background and Futures (Informative) . . . . . . . . 127 Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 4] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 A.1. ACP Address Space Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 A.2. BRSKI Bootstrap (ANI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 A.3. ACP Neighbor discovery protocol selection . . . . . . . . 129 A.3.1. LLDP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 A.3.2. mDNS and L2 support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 A.3.3. Why DULL GRASP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 A.4. Choice of routing protocol (RPL) . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 A.5. ACP Information Distribution and multicast . . . . . . . 131 A.6. Extending ACP channel negotiation (via GRASP) . . . . . . 132 A.7. CAs, domains and routing subdomains . . . . . . . . . . . 134 A.8. Intent for the ACP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 A.9. Adopting ACP concepts for other environments . . . . . . 136 A.10. Further (future) options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 A.10.1. Auto-aggregation of routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 A.10.2. More options for avoiding IPv6 Data-Plane dependency 138 A.10.3. ACP APIs and operational models (YANG) . . . . . . . 139 A.10.4. RPL enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 A.10.5. Role assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 A.10.6. Autonomic L3 transit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 A.10.7. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 A.10.8. Avoiding and dealing with compromised ACP nodes . . 142 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 1. Introduction (Informative) Autonomic Networking is a concept of self-management: Autonomic functions self-configure, and negotiate parameters and settings across the network. [RFC7575] defines the fundamental ideas and design goals of Autonomic Networking. A gap analysis of Autonomic Networking is given in [RFC7576]. The reference architecture for Autonomic Networking in the IETF is specified in the document [I-D.ietf-anima-reference-model]. Autonomic functions need an autonomically built communications infrastructure. This infrastructure needs to be secure, resilient and re-usable by all autonomic functions. Section 5 of [RFC7575] introduces that infrastructure and calls it the Autonomic Control Plane (ACP). More descriptively it would be the "Autonomic communications infrastructure for Management and Control". For naming consistency with that prior document, this document continues to use the name ACP though. Today, the management and control plane of networks typically uses a routing and forwarding table which is dependent on correct configuration and routing. Misconfigurations or routing problems can disrupt management and control channels. Traditionally, an out-of- band network has been used to avoid or allow recovery from such problems, or personnel are sent on site to access devices through Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 5] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 out-of-band management ports (also called craft ports, serial console, management ethernet port). However, both options are expensive. In increasingly automated networks either centralized management systems or distributed autonomic service agents in the network require a control plane which is independent of the configuration of the network they manage, to avoid impacting their own operations through the configuration actions they take. This document describes a modular design for a self-forming, self- managing and self-protecting Autonomic Control Plane (ACP), which is a virtual in-band network designed to be as independent as possible of configuration, addressing and routing problems. The details how this is achieved are described in Section 6. The ACP is designed to remain operational even in the presence of configuration errors, addressing or routing issues, or where policy could inadvertently affect connectivity of both data packets or control packets. This document uses the term "Data-Plane" to refer to anything in the network nodes that is not the ACP, and therefore considered to be dependent on (mis-)configuration. This Data-Plane includes both the traditional forwarding-plane, as well as any pre-existing control- plane, such as routing protocols that establish routing tables for the forwarding plane. The Autonomic Control Plane serves several purposes at the same time: 1. Autonomic functions communicate over the ACP. The ACP therefore directly supports Autonomic Networking functions, as described in [I-D.ietf-anima-reference-model]. For example, Generic Autonomic Signaling Protocol (GRASP - [I-D.ietf-anima-grasp]) runs securely inside the ACP and depends on the ACP as its "security and transport substrate". 2. A controller or network management system can use it to securely bootstrap network devices in remote locations, even if the (Data- Plane) network in between is not yet configured; no Data-Plane dependent bootstrap configuration is required. An example of such a secure bootstrap process is described in [I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra]. 3. An operator can use it to log into remote devices, even if the network is misconfigured or not configured. This document describes these purposes as use cases for the ACP in Section 3, it defines the requirements in Section 4. Section 5 gives an overview how the ACP is constructed. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 6] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 The normative part of this document starts with Section 6, where the ACP is specified. Section 7 defines normative how to support ACP on L2 switches. Section 8 explains normative how non-ACP nodes and networks can be integrated. The remaining sections are non-normative: Section 9 reviews benefits of the ACP (after all the details have been defined), Section 10 provides operational recommendations, Appendix A provides additional explanations and describes additional details or future standard or propriety extensions that were considered not to be appropriate for standardization in this document but were considered important to document. There are no dependencies against Appendix A to build a complete working and interoperable ACP according to this document. The ACP provides secure IPv6 connectivity, therefore it can be used not only as the secure connectivity for self-management as required for the ACP in [RFC7575], but it can also be used as the secure connectivity for traditional (centralized) management. The ACP can be implemented and operated without any other components of autonomic networks, except for the GRASP protocol. ACP relies on per-link DULL GRASP (see Section 6.3) to autodiscover ACP neighbors, and includes the ACP GRASP instance to provide service discovery for clients of the ACP (see Section 6.8) including for its own maintenance of ACP certificates. The document "Using Autonomic Control Plane for Stable Connectivity of Network OAM" [RFC8368] describes how the ACP alone can be used to provide secure and stable connectivity for autonomic and non- autonomic Operations Administration and Management (OAM) applications. That document also explains how existing management solutions can leverage the ACP in parallel with traditional management models, when to use the ACP and how to integrate with potentially IPv4 only OAM backends. Combining ACP with Bootstrapping Remote Secure Key Infrastructures (BRSKI), see [I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra]) results in the "Autonomic Network Infrastructure" as defined in [I-D.ietf-anima-reference-model], which provides autonomic connectivity (from ACP) with secure zero-touch (automated) bootstrap from BRSKI. The ANI itself does not constitute an Autonomic Network, but it allows the building of more or less autonomic networks on top of it - using either centralized, Software Defined Networking- (SDN-)style (see [RFC7426]) automation or distributed automation via Autonomic Service Agents (ASA) / Autonomic Functions (AF) - or a mixture of both. See [I-D.ietf-anima-reference-model] for more information. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 7] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 1.1. Applicability and Scope Please see the following Terminology section (Section 2) for explanations of terms used in this section. The design of the ACP as defined in this document is considered to be applicable to all types of "professionally managed" networks: Service Provider, Local Area Network (LAN), Metro(politan networks), Wide Area Network (WAN), Enterprise Information Technology (IT) and ->"Operational Technology" () (OT) networks. The ACP can operate equally on layer 3 equipment and on layer 2 equipment such as bridges (see Section 7). The hop-by-hop authentication and confidentiality mechanism used by the ACP is defined to be negotiable, therefore it can be extended to environments with different protocol preferences. The minimum implementation requirements in this document attempt to achieve maximum interoperability by requiring support for multiple options depending on the type of device: IPsec, see [RFC4301], and datagram Transport Layer Security version 1.2 (DTLS), see [RFC6347]). The implementation footprint of the ACP consists of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) code for the ACP certificate, the GRASP protocol, UDP, TCP and TLS (for security and reliability of GRASP), the ACP secure channel protocol used (such as IPsec or DTLS), and an instance of IPv6 packet forwarding and routing via the Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks (RPL), see [RFC6550], that is separate from routing and forwarding for the Data-Plane (user traffic). The ACP uses only IPv6 to avoid complexity of dual-stack ACP operations (IPv6/IPv4). Nevertheless, it can without any changes be integrated into even otherwise IPv4-only network devices. The Data- Plane itself would not need to change, it could continue to be IPv4 only. For such IPv4 only devices, the IPv6 protocol itself would be additional implementation footprint only used for the ACP. The protocol choices of the ACP are primarily based on wide use and support in networks and devices, well understood security properties and required scalability. The ACP design is an attempt to produce the lowest risk combination of existing technologies and protocols to build a widely applicable operational network management solution: RPL was chosen because it requires a smaller routing table footprint in large networks compared to other routing protocols with an autonomically configured single area. The deployment experience of large scale Internet of Things (IoT) networks serves as the basis for wide deployment experience with RPL. The profile chosen for RPL in the ACP does not leverage any RPL specific forwarding plane features Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 8] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 (IPv6 extension headers), making its implementation a pure control plane software requirement. GRASP is the only completely novel protocol used in the ACP, and this choice was necessary because there is no existing suitable protocol to provide the necessary functions to the ACP, so GRASP was developed to fill that gap. The ACP design can be applicable to (cpu, memory) constrained devices and (bitrate, reliability) constrained networks, but this document does not attempt to define the most constrained type of devices or networks to which the ACP is applicable. RPL and DTLS for ACP secure channels are two protocol choices already making ACP more applicable to constrained environments. Support for constrained devices in this specification is opportunistic, but not complete, because the reliable transport for GRASP (see Section 6.8.2) only specifies TCP/ TLS). See Appendix A.9 for discussions about how future standards or proprietary extensions/variations of the ACP could better meet different expectations from those on which the current design is based including supporting constrained devices better. 2. Acronyms and Terminology (Informative) [RFC Editor: WG/IETF/IESG review of the terms below asked for references between these terms when they refer to each other. The only option I could fin RFC/XML to point to a hanging text acronym definition that also displays the actual term is the format="title" version, which leads to references such as '->"ACP domain certificate" ()'. I found no reasonable way to eliminate the trailing '()' generated by this type of cross references. Can you please take care of removing these artefacts during editing (after conversion to nroff ?). I also created a ticket to ask for an xml2rfc enhancement to avoid this in the future: https://trac.tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/trac/ticket/347. [RFC Editor: Question: Is it possible to change the first occurrences of [RFCxxxx] references to "rfcxxx title" [RFCxxxx]? the XML2RFC format does not seem to offer such a format, but I did not want to duplicate 50 first references - one reference for title mentioning and one for RFC number.] In the rest of the document we will refer to systems using the ACP as "nodes". Typically such a node is a physical (network equipment) device, but it can equally be some virtualized system. Therefore, we do not refer to them as devices unless the context specifically calls for a physical system. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 9] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 This document introduces or uses the following terms (sorted alphabetically). Terms introduced are explained on first use, so this list is for reference only. ACP: "Autonomic Control Plane". The Autonomic Function as defined in this document. It provides secure zero-touch (automated) transitive (network wide) IPv6 connectivity for all nodes in the same ACP domain as well as a GRASP instance running across this ACP IPv6 connectivity. The ACP is primarily meant to be used as a component of the ANI to enable Autonomic Networks but it can equally be used in simple ANI networks (with no other Autonomic Functions) or completely by itself. ACP address: An IPv6 address assigned to the ACP node. It is stored in the domain information field of the ->"ACP domain certificate" (). ACP address range/set: The ACP address may imply a range or set of addresses that the node can assign for different purposes. This address range/set is derived by the node from the format of the ACP address called the "addressing sub-scheme". ACP connect interface: An interface on an ACP node providing access to the ACP for non ACP capable nodes without using an ACP secure channel. See Section 8.1.1. ACP domain: The ACP domain is the set of nodes with ->"ACP domain certificates" that allow them to authenticate each other as members of the ACP domain. See also Section 6.1.3. ACP (ANI/AN) Domain Certificate: A [RFC5280] certificate (LDevID) carrying the domain information field which is used by the ACP to learn its address in the ACP and to derive and cryptographically assert its membership in the ACP domain. domain information (field): An rfc822Name information element (e.g., field) in the domain certificate in which the ACP relevant information is encoded: the domain name and the ACP address. ACP Loopback interface: The Loopback interface in the ACP Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) that has the ACP address assigned to it. ACP network: The ACP network constitutes all the nodes that have access to the ACP. It is the set of active and transitively connected nodes of an ACP domain plus all nodes that get access to the ACP of that domain via ACP edge nodes. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 10] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 ACP (ULA) prefix(es): The /48 IPv6 address prefixes used across the ACP. In the normal/simple case, the ACP has one ULA prefix, see Section 6.10. The ACP routing table may include multiple ULA prefixes if the "rsub" option is used to create addresses from more than one ULA prefix. See Section 6.1.2. The ACP may also include non-ULA prefixes if those are configured on ACP connect interfaces. See Section 8.1.1. ACP secure channel: A cryptographically authenticated and encrypted data connection established between (normally) adjacent ACP nodes to carry traffic of the ACP VRF securely and isolated from Data- Plane traffic in-band over the same link/path as the Data-Plane. ACP secure channel protocol: The protocol used to build an ACP secure channel, e.g., Internet Key Exchange Protocol version 2 (IKEv2) with IPsec or Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS). ACP virtual interface: An interface in the ACP VRF mapped to one or more ACP secure channels. See Section 6.12.5. AN "Autonomic Network": A network according to [I-D.ietf-anima-reference-model]. Its main components are ANI, Autonomic Functions and Intent. (AN) Domain Name: An FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) in the domain information field of the Domain Certificate. See Section 6.1.2. ANI (nodes/network): "Autonomic Network Infrastructure". The ANI is the infrastructure to enable Autonomic Networks. It includes ACP, BRSKI and GRASP. Every Autonomic Network includes the ANI, but not every ANI network needs to include autonomic functions beyond the ANI (nor Intent). An ANI network without further autonomic functions can for example support secure zero-touch (automated) bootstrap and stable connectivity for SDN networks - see [RFC8368]. ANIMA: "Autonomic Networking Integrated Model and Approach". ACP, BRSKI and GRASP are products of the IETF ANIMA working group. ASA: "Autonomic Service Agent". Autonomic software modules running on an ANI device. The components making up the ANI (BRSKI, ACP, GRASP) are also described as ASAs. Autonomic Function: A function/service in an Autonomic Network (AN) composed of one or more ASA across one or more ANI nodes. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 11] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 BRSKI: "Bootstrapping Remote Secure Key Infrastructures" ([I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra]. A protocol extending EST to enable secure zero-touch bootstrap in conjunction with ACP. ANI nodes use ACP, BRSKI and GRASP. Data-Plane: The counterpoint to the ACP VRF in an ACP node: all routing and forwarding in the node other than the ACP VRF. In a simple ACP or ANI node, the Data-Plane is typically provisioned by means other than autonomically, for example manually (including across the ACP) or via SDN controllers. In a fully Autonomic Network node, the Data-Plane is managed autonomically via Autonomic Functions and Intent. Note that other (non-ANIMA) RFCs use the Data-Plane to refer to what is better called the forwarding plane. This is not the way the term is used in this document! device: A physical system, or physical node. Enrollment: The process where a node presents identification (for example through keying material such as the private key of an IDevID) to a network and acquires a network specific identity uch as an LDevID and trust anchors such as Certificate Authority (CA) certificates. EST: "Enrollment over Secure Transport" ([RFC7030]). IETF standard- track protocol for enrollment of a node with an LDevID. BRSKI is based on EST. GRASP: "Generic Autonomic Signaling Protocol". An extensible signaling protocol required by the ACP for ACP neighbor discovery. The ACP also provides the "security and transport substrate" for the "ACP instance of GRASP". This instance of GRASP runs across the ACP secure channels to support BRSKI and other NOC/OAM or Autonomic Functions. See [I-D.ietf-anima-grasp]. IDevID: An "Initial Device IDentity" X.509 certificate installed by the vendor on new equipment. Contains information that establishes the identity of the node in the context of its vendor/ manufacturer such as device model/type and serial number. See [AR8021]. IDevID cannot be used for the ACP because they are not provisioned by the owner of the network, so they can not directly indicate an ACP domain they belong to. in-band (management): The type of management used predominantly in IP based networks, not leveraging an ->"out-of-band network" (). In in-band management, access to the managed equipment depends on the configuration of this equipment itself: interface, addressing, Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 12] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 forwarding, routing, policy, security, management. This dependency makes in-band management fragile because the configuration actions performed may break in-band management connectivity. Breakage can not only be unintentional, it can simply be an unavoidable side effect of being unable to create configuration schemes where in-band management connectivity configuration is unaffected by Data-Plane configuration. See also ->"(virtual) out-of-band network" (). Intent: Policy language of an autonomic network according to [I-D.ietf-anima-reference-model]. Loopback interface: The conventional name for an internal IP interface to which addresses may be assigned, but which transmits no external traffic. LDevID: A "Local Device IDentity" is an X.509 certificate installed during "enrollment". The Domain Certificate used by the ACP is an LDevID. See [AR8021]. MIC: "Manufacturer Installed Certificate". This is another word to describe an IDevID in referenced materials. This term is not used in this document. native interface: Interfaces existing on a node without configuration of the already running node. On physical nodes these are usually physical interfaces. On virtual nodes their equivalent. node: A system, e.g., supporting the ACP according to this document. Can be virtual or physical. Physical nodes are called devices. Node-ID: The identifier of an ACP node inside that ACP. It is the last 64 (see Section 6.10.3) or 78-bits (see Section 6.10.5) of the ACP address. Operational Technology (OT): "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Operational_Technology" [1]: "The hardware and software dedicated to detecting or causing changes in physical processes through direct monitoring and/or control of physical devices such as valves, pumps, etc.". OT networks are today in most cases well separated from Information Technology (IT) networks. (virtual) out-of-band network: An out-of-band network is a secondary network used to manage a primary network. The equipment of the primary network is connected to the out-of-band network via dedicated management ports on the primary network equipment. Serial (console) management ports were historically most common, Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 13] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 higher end network equipment now also has ethernet ports dedicated only for management. An out-of-band network provides management access to the primary network independent of the configuration state of the primary network. One of the goals of the ACP is to provide this benefit of out-of-band networks virtually on the primary network equipment. The ACP VRF acts as a virtual out of band network device providing configuration independent management access. The ACP secure channels are the virtual links of the ACP virtual out-of-band network, meant to be operating independent of the configuration of the primary network. See also ->"in-band (management)" (). RPL: "IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks". The routing protocol used in the ACP. See [RFC6550]. MASA (service): "Manufacturer Authorized Signing Authority". A vendor/manufacturer or delegated cloud service on the Internet used as part of the BRSKI protocol. (ACP/ANI/BRSKI) Registrar: An ACP registrar is an entity (software and/or person) that is orchestrating the enrollment of ACP nodes with the ACP domain certificate. ANI nodes use BRSKI, so ANI registrars are also called BRSKI registrars. For non-ANI ACP nodes, the registrar mechanisms are undefined by this document. See Section 6.10.7. Renewal and other maintenance (such as revocation) of ACP domain certificates may be performed by other entities than registrars. EST must be supported for ACP domain certificate renewal (see Section 6.1.5). BRSKI is an extension of EST, so ANI/BRSKI registrars can easily support ACP domain certificate renewal in addition to initial enrollment. sUDI: "secured Unique Device Identifier". This is another word to describe an IDevID in referenced material. This term is not used in this document. UDI: "Unique Device Identifier". In the context of this document unsecured identity information of a node typically consisting of at least device model/type and serial number, often in a vendor specific format. See sUDI and LDevID. ULA: (Global ID prefix) A "Unique Local Address" (ULA) is an IPv6 address in the block fc00::/7, defined in [RFC4193]. It is the approximate IPv6 counterpart of the IPv4 private address ([RFC1918]). The ULA Global ID prefix are the first 48-bits of a ULA address. In this document it is abbreviated as "ULA prefix". (ACP) VRF: The ACP is modeled in this document as a "Virtual Routing and Forwarding" instance (VRF). This means that it is based on a Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 14] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 "virtual router" consisting of a separate IPv6 forwarding table to which the ACP virtual interfaces are attached and an associated IPv6 routing table separate from the Data-Plane. Unlike the VRFs on MPLS/VPN-PE ([RFC4364]) or LISP XTR ([RFC6830]), the ACP VRF does not have any special "core facing" functionality or routing/ mapping protocols shared across multiple VRFs. In vendor products a VRF such as the ACP-VRF may also be referred to as a so called VRF-lite. (ACP) Zone: An ACP zone is a set of ACP nodes using the same zone field value in their ACP address according to Section 6.10.3. Zones are a mechanism to support structured addressing of ACP addresses within the same /48-bit ULA prefix. The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119],[RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here. 3. Use Cases for an Autonomic Control Plane (Informative) This section summarizes the use cases that are intended to be supported by an ACP. To understand how these are derived from and relate to the larger set of use cases for autonomic networks, please refer to [RFC8316]. 3.1. An Infrastructure for Autonomic Functions Autonomic Functions need a stable infrastructure to run on, and all autonomic functions should use the same infrastructure to minimize the complexity of the network. In this way, there is only need for a single discovery mechanism, a single security mechanism, and single instances of other processes that distributed functions require. 3.2. Secure Bootstrap over a not configured Network Today, bootstrapping a new node typically requires all nodes between a controlling node such as an SDN controller ("Software Defined Networking", see [RFC7426]) and the new node to be completely and correctly addressed, configured and secured. Bootstrapping and configuration of a network happens in rings around the controller - configuring each ring of devices before the next one can be bootstrapped. Without console access (for example through an out-of- band network) it is not possible today to make devices securely reachable before having configured the entire network leading up to them. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 15] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 With the ACP, secure bootstrap of new devices and whole new networks can happen without requiring any configuration of unconfigured devices along the path: As long as all devices along the path support ACP and a zero-touch bootstrap mechanism such as BRSKI, the ACP across a whole network of unconfigured devices can be brought up without operator/provisioning intervention. The ACP also provides additional security for any bootstrap mechanism, because it can provide encrypted discovery (via ACP GRASP) of registrars or other bootstrap servers by bootstrap proxies connecting to nodes that are to be bootstrapped and the ACP encryption hides the identities of the communicating entities (pledge and registrar), making it more difficult to learn which network node might be attackable. The ACP domain certificate can also be used to end-to-end encrypt the bootstrap communication between such proxies and server. Note that bootstrapping here includes not only the first step that can be provided by BRSKI (secure keys), but also later stages where configuration is bootstrapped. 3.3. Data-Plane Independent Permanent Reachability Today, most critical control plane protocols and network management protocols are using the Data-Plane of the network. This leads to often undesirable dependencies between control and management plane on one side and the Data-Plane on the other: Only if the forwarding and control plane of the Data-Plane are configured correctly, will the Data-Plane and the management plane work as expected. Data-Plane connectivity can be affected by errors and faults, for example misconfigurations that make AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) servers unreachable or can lock an administrator out of a device; routing or addressing issues can make a device unreachable; shutting down interfaces over which a current management session is running can lock an admin irreversibly out of the device. Traditionally only out-of-band access can help recover from such issues (such as serial console or ethernet management port). Data-Plane dependencies also affect applications in a Network Operations Center (NOC) such as SDN controller applications: Certain network changes are today hard to implement, because the change itself may affect reachability of the devices. Examples are address or mask changes, routing changes, or security policies. Today such changes require precise hop-by-hop planning. Note that specific control plane functions for the Data-Plane often want to depend on forwarding of their packets via the Data-Plane: Aliveness and routing protocol signaling packets across the Data- Plane to verify reachability across the Data-Plane, using IPv4 Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 16] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 signaling packets for IPv4 routing vs. IPv6 signaling packets for IPv6 routing. Assuming appropriate implementation (see Section 6.12.2 for more details), the ACP provides reachability that is independent of the Data-Plane. This allows the control plane and management plane to operate more robustly: o For management plane protocols, the ACP provides the functionality of a Virtual out-of-band (VooB) channel, by providing connectivity to all nodes regardless of their Data-Plane configuration, routing and forwarding tables. o For control plane protocols, the ACP allows their operation even when the Data-Plane is temporarily faulty, or during transitional events, such as routing changes, which may affect the control plane at least temporarily. This is specifically important for autonomic service agents, which could affect Data-Plane connectivity. The document "Using Autonomic Control Plane for Stable Connectivity of Network OAM" [RFC8368] explains this use case for the ACP in significantly more detail and explains how the ACP can be used in practical network operations. 4. Requirements (Informative) The following requirements were identified for the design of the ACP based on the above use-cases (Section 3). These requirements are informative. The ACP as specified in the normative parts of this document is meeting or exceeding these use-case requirements: ACP1: The ACP should provide robust connectivity: As far as possible, it should be independent of configured addressing, configuration and routing. Requirements 2 and 3 build on this requirement, but also have value on their own. ACP2: The ACP must have a separate address space from the Data- Plane. Reason: traceability, debug-ability, separation from Data-Plane, infrastructure security (filtering based on known address space). ACP3: The ACP must use autonomically managed address space. Reason: easy bootstrap and setup ("autonomic"); robustness (admin cannot break network easily). This document suggests using ULA addressing for this purpose ("Unique Local Address", see [RFC4193]). Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 17] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 ACP4: The ACP must be generic, that is it must be usable by all the functions and protocols of the ANI. Clients of the ACP must not be tied to a particular application or transport protocol. ACP5: The ACP must provide security: Messages coming through the ACP must be authenticated to be from a trusted node, and should (very strong should) be encrypted. Explanation for ACP4: In a fully autonomic network (AN), newly written ASA could potentially all communicate exclusively via GRASP with each other, and if that was assumed to be the only requirement against the ACP, it would not need to provide IPv6 layer connectivity between nodes, but only GRASP connectivity. Nevertheless, because ACP also intends to support non-AN networks, it is crucial to support IPv6 layer connectivity across the ACP to support any transport and application layer protocols. The ACP operates hop-by-hop, because this interaction can be built on IPv6 link local addressing, which is autonomic, and has no dependency on configuration (requirement 1). It may be necessary to have ACP connectivity across non-ACP nodes, for example to link ACP nodes over the general Internet. This is possible, but introduces a dependency against stable/resilient routing over the non-ACP hops (see Section 8.2). 5. Overview (Informative) The Autonomic Control Plane is constructed in the following way (for details, see Section 6): 1. An ACP node creates a Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instance, or a similar virtual context. 2. It determines, following a policy, a candidate peer list. This is the list of nodes to which it should establish an Autonomic Control Plane. Default policy is: To all link-layer adjacent nodes supporting ACP. 3. For each node in the candidate peer list, it authenticates that node (according to Section 6.1.3) and negotiates a mutually acceptable channel type. 4. For each node in the candidate peer list, it then establishes a secure tunnel of the negotiated channel type. The resulting tunnels are then placed into the previously set up VRF. This creates an overlay network with hop-by-hop tunnels. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 18] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 5. Inside the ACP VRF, each node assigns its ULA IPv6 address to a Loopback interface assigned to the ACP VRF. 6. Each node runs a lightweight routing protocol, to announce reachability of the virtual addresses inside the ACP (see Section 6.12.5). Note: o Non-ACP NMS ("Network Management Systems") or SDN controllers have to be explicitly configured for connection into the ACP. o Connecting over non-ACP Layer-3 clouds requires explicit configuration. See Section 8.2. o None of the above operations (except explicit configured ones) are reflected in the configuration of the node. The following figure illustrates the ACP. ACP node 1 ACP node 2 ................... ................... secure . . secure . . secure channel: +-----------+ : channel : +-----------+ : channel ..--------| ACP VRF |---------------------| ACP VRF |---------.. : / \ / \ <--routing--> / \ / \ : : \ / \ / \ / \ / : ..--------| Loopback |---------------------| Loopback |---------.. : | interface | : : | interface | : : +-----------+ : : +-----------+ : : : : : : Data-Plane :...............: Data-Plane : : : link : : :.................: :.................: Figure 1: ACP VRF and secure channels The resulting overlay network is normally based exclusively on hop- by-hop tunnels. This is because addressing used on links is IPv6 link local addressing, which does not require any prior set-up. In this way the ACP can be built even if there is no configuration on the node, or if the Data-Plane has issues such as addressing or routing problems. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 19] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 6. Self-Creation of an Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) (Normative) This section describes the components and steps to set up an Autonomic Control Plane (ACP), and highlights the key properties which make it "indestructible" against many inadvertent changes to the Data-Plane, for example caused by misconfigurations. An ACP node can be a router, switch, controller, NMS host, or any other IP capable node. Initially, it must have its ACP domain certificate, as well as an (empty) ACP Adjacency Table (described in Section 6.2). It then can start to discover ACP neighbors and build the ACP. This is described step by step in the following sections: 6.1. ACP Domain, Certificate and Network The ACP relies on group security. An ACP domain is a group of nodes that trust each other to participate in ACP operations such as creating ACP secure channels in an autonomous peer-to-peer fashion between ACP domain members via protocols such as IPsec. To establish trust, each ACP member requires keying material: An ACP node MUST have a certificate (LDevID) and a Trust Anchor (TA) consisting of a certificate (chain) used to sign the LDevID of all ACP domain members. The LDevID is used to cryptographically authenticate the membership of its owner node in the ACP domain to other ACP domain members. The TA is used to authenticate the ACP domain membership of other nodes (see Section 6.1.3). Manual keying via shared secrets is not usable for an ACP domain because it would require a single shared secret across all current and future ACP domain members to meet the expectation of autonomous, peer-to-peer establishment of ACP secure channels between any ACP domain members. Such a single shared secret would be an inacceptable security weakness. Asymmetric keying material (public keys) without certificates does not provide the mechanisms to authenticate ACP domain membership in an autonomous, peer-to-peer fashion for current and future ACP domain members. The LDevID is called the ACP domain certificate, the TA is the Certificate Authority (CA) of the ACP domain. The ACP does not mandate specific mechanisms by which this keying material is provisioned into the ACP node. It only requires the certificate to comply with Section 6.1.1, specifically the Domain information field as specified in Section 6.1.2 in its domain certificate as well as those of candidate ACP peers. See Appendix A.2 for more information about enrollment or provisioning options. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 20] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 This document uses the term ACP in many places where the Autonomic Networking reference documents [RFC7575] and [I-D.ietf-anima-reference-model] use the word autonomic. This is done because those reference documents consider (only) fully autonomic networks and nodes, but support of ACP does not require support for other components of autonomic networks except for relying on GRASP and providing security and transport for GRASP. Therefore the word autonomic might be misleading to operators interested in only the ACP. [RFC7575] defines the term "Autonomic Domain" as a collection of autonomic nodes. ACP nodes do not need to be fully autonomic, but when they are, then the ACP domain is an autonomic domain. Likewise, [I-D.ietf-anima-reference-model] defines the term "Domain Certificate" as the certificate used in an autonomic domain. The ACP domain certificate is that domain certificate when ACP nodes are (fully) autonomic nodes. Finally, this document uses the term ACP network to refer to the network created by active ACP nodes in an ACP domain. The ACP network itself can extend beyond ACP nodes through the mechanisms described in Section 8.1. 6.1.1. ACP Certificates ACP domain certificates MUST be [RFC5280] compliant X.509 certificates. ACP nodes MUST support RSA and Elliptic Curve (ECC) public keys in ACP certificates. ACP certificates wth ECC keys MUST indicate to be Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman capable (ECDH) if X.509 v3 keyUsage and extendedKeyUsage are included in the certificate. ACP nodes MUST support Certificates RSA keys with no less than 2048 bit key length and ECC keys with NIST P-256, P-384 and P-521 key length (and curve) or better. ACP nodes MUST support SHA-256, SHA- 384, SHA-512 or better signatures for ACP certificates with RSA key and the same RSA signatures plus ECDSA signatures for ACP certificates with ECC key. The ACP certificate SHOULD use an RSA key and an RSA signature when the ACP certificate is intended to be used not only for ACP authentication but also for other purposes. The ACP certificate MAY use an ECC key and an ECDSA signature if the ACP certificate is only used for ACP and ANI authentication and authorization. Any secure channel protocols used for the ACP as specified in this document or extensions of this document MUST therefore support authentication (e.g.:signing) starting with these type of certificates. See [RFC4492] for more information. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 21] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 The reason for these choices are as follows: As of 2020, RSA is still more widely used than ECC, therefore the MUST for RSA. ECC offers equivalent security at (logarithmically) shorter key lengths (see [RFC4492]). This can be beneficial especially in the presence of constrained bandwidth or constrained nodes in an ACP/ANI network. Some ACP functions such as GRASP peer-2-peer across the ACP require end-to-end/any-to-any authentication/authorization, therefore ECC can only reliably be used in the ACP when it MUST be supported on all ACP nodes. RSA signatures are mandatory to be supported also for ECC certificates because CAs themselves may not support ECC yet. For further certificate details, ACP certificates may follow the recommendations from [CABFORUM]. The ACP domain certificate SHOULD be used for any authentication between nodes with ACP domain certificates (ACP nodes and NOC nodes) where the required authorization condition is ACP domain membership, such as ACP node to NOC/OAM end-to-end security and ASA to ASA end- to-end security. Section 6.1.3 defines this "ACP domain membership check". The uses of this check that are standardized in this document are for the establishment of hop-by-hop ACP secure channels (Section 6.6) and for ACP GRASP (Section 6.8.2) end-to-end via TLS ([RFC5246]). The ACP domain membership check requires a minimum amount of elements in a certificate as described in Section 6.1.3. All elements are [RFC5280] compliant. The identity of a node in the ACP is carried via the ACP Domain Information Field as defined in Section 6.1.2 which is encoded as an rfc822Name field. Any other field of the ACP domain certificate is to be populated as required by [RFC5280] or desired by the operator of the ACP domain ACP registrars/CA and required by other purposes that the ACP domain certificate is intended to be used for. For diagnostic and other operational purposes, it is beneficial to copy the device identifying fields of the node's IDevID into the ACP domain certificate, such as the "serialNumber" (see [I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra] section 2.3.1). Inclusion of this information makes it easier to potentially attack the node though, for example by learning the device model, which may help to select a fitting subset of attacks. Neighboring attackers can retrieve the certificate through an otherwise unsuccessful initiation of a secure channel association. Note that there is no intention to constrain authorization within the ACP or autonomic networks using the ACP to just the ACP domain membership check as defined in this document. It can be extended or Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 22] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 modified with future requirements. Such future authorizations can use and require additional elements in certificates or policies or even additional certificates. For an example, see Appendix A.10.5. 6.1.2. ACP Certificate ACP Domain Information Field Information about the domain MUST be encoded in the domain certificate in a subjectAltName / rfc822Name field according to the following ABNF ([RFC5234]) definition: [RFC Editor: Please substitute SELF in all occurrences of rfcSELF in this document with the RFC number assigned to this document and remove this comment line] domain-information = local-part "@" acp-domain-name local-part = key [ "+" local-info ] key = "rfcSELF" local-info = [ acp-address ] [ "+" rsub extensions ] acp-address = 32HEXDIG | 0 ; HEXDIG as of RFC5234 section B.1 rsub = [ ] ; as of RFC1034, section 3.5 acp-domain-name = ; ; as of RFC 1034, section 3.5 extensions = *( "+" extension ) extension = ; future standard definition. ; Must fit RFC5322 simple dot-atom format. routing-subdomain = [ rsub " ." ] acp-domain-name Example: given an ACP address of fd89:b714:f3db:0:200:0:6400:0000 and an ACP domain-name of acp.example.com and an rsub extenstion of area51.research then this results in: domain-information = rfcSELF+FD89B714F3DB00000200000064000000 +area51.research@acp.example.com acp-domain-name = acp.example.com routing-subdomain = area51.research.acp.example.com Figure 2: ACP Domain Information Field ABNF domain-information is the encoded information that is put into the ACP domain certificates subjectAltName / rfc822Name field. routing- subdomain is a string that can be constructed from the domain- information, and it is used in the hash-creation of the ULA (see below). The requirements and sementics of the parts of this information are explained in the following paragraphs: Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 23] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 Nodes complying with this specification MUST be able to receive their ACP address through the domain certificate, in which case their own ACP domain certificate MUST have the 32HEXDIG "acp-address" field. Nodes complying with this specification MUST also be able to authenticate nodes as ACP domain members or ACP secure channel peers when they have a 0-value acp-address field and as ACP domain members (but not as ACP secure channel peers) when they have an empty acp- address field. See Section 6.1.3. "acp-domain-name" is used to indicate the ACP Domain across which all ACP nodes trust each other and are willing to build ACP channels to each other. See Section 6.1.3. Acp-domain-name SHOULD be the FQDN of a DNS domain owned by the operator assigning the certificate. This is a simple method to ensure that the domain is globally unique and collision of ACP addresses would therefore only happen due to ULA hash collisions (see Section 6.10.2). If the operator does not own any FQDN, it should choose a string (in FQDN format) that it intends to be equally unique. To keep the encoding simple, there is no consideration for internationalized acp-domain-names. The ACP domain information is not intended for enduser consumption, and there is no protection against someone not owning a domain name to simpy choose it. Instead, it only serves as a hash seed for the ULA and for diagnostics to the operator. Therefore, any operator owning only an internationalized domain name should be able to pick an equivalently unique 7-bit ASCII acp-domain-name string representing the internationalized domain name. "routing-subdomain" is a heuristic that allows a Registrar to consistently generate a unique 48-bit ULA prefix for ACP addresses. The presence of the "rsub" component allows to a single ACP domain to employ multiple /48 ULA prefixes. See Appendix A.7 for example use- cases. The optional "extensions" field is used for future standardized extensions to this specification. It MUST be ignored if present and not understood. Formatting notes: o "rsub" needs to be in the "local-part": If the format just had routing-subdomain as the domain part of the domain-information, rsub and acp-domain-name could not be separated from each other. It also makes domain-information a valid e-mail target across all routing-subdomains. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 24] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 o "acp-address" cannot use standard IPv6 address formats because it must match the simple dot-atom format of [RFC5322]. The character ":" is not allowed in that format. o If "acp-address" is empty, and "rsub" is empty too, the "local- part" will have the format "rfcSELF++extension(s)". The two plus characters are necessary so the node can unambiguously parse that both "acp-address" and "rsub" are empty. o The maximum size of "domain-information" is 254 characters and the maximum size of local-part is 64 characters according to [RFC5280] that is referring to [RFC2821] (superseded by [RFC5321]). The subjectAltName / rfc822Name encoding of the ACP domain name and ACP address is used for the following reasons: Rfc822name encoding for the ACP domain information was choosen for the following reasons. o The ACP domain information field is the identifier of a node's ACP. It includes the the necessary components to identify a nodes ACP both from within the ACP as well as from the outside of the ACP. o For manual and/or automated diagnostics and backend management of devices and ACPs, it is necessary to have an easily human readible and software parsed standard, single string representation of the ACP domain information. For example, inventory or other backend systems can always identify an entity by one unique string field but not by a combination of multiple fields, which would be necessary if there was no single string representation. o If the encoding of the ACP domain information into the ACP domains certificate was not that of such a string, it would be necessary to define a second standard encoding to provide this format (standard string encoding). o Rfc822 addresses have become standard identifiers of entities in many systems, including the majority of user identification in web or mobile applications, where in many cases, e-mail is not even part of the service for which an rfc822 address is used as an entities identifier. In single-sign-on systems for example, @ is instead used to indicate a with which authentication and authorization of is performend without any other use of RFC822 than its address format (e.g.: no rfc822 formatted message exchanges). Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 25] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 o Encoding the ACP nodes identity/name in the format of an rfc822address is therefore following common practices for how rfc822 addresses are used in other contexts. It also very well matches the format of rfc822 address structure @ because the ACP domain information does logically also consist of a identifying the ACP, and a identifying a nodes ACP. o subjectAltName / rfc822Name is the standard, mandatory to implement certificate attribute to encode the certificate subjects rfc822 address and can be the only subjects name. Compatibilities: o It should be possible to use the ACP domain certificate as an LDevID on the system for other uses beside the ACP. Therefore, the information element required for the ACP should be encoded so that it minimizes the possibility of creating incompatibilities with such other uses. The subjectName for example is for example often used as an entity identifier in non-ACP uses. o The element should not require additional ASN.1 en/decoding, because libraries to access certificate information especially for embedded devices may not support extended ASN.1 decoding beyond predefined, manadatory fields. subjectAltName / rfc822Name is such a mandatory predefined field. subjectAlName / otherName for example is not. o Encoding of the ACP domain information as a human readable string in a manadatory certificate field also has the benefit that it can be diagnosed/decoded in any pre-existing certificate diagnostic software. o The element required for the ACP should not be misinterpreted by any other uses of the LDevID. If the element used for the ACP is interpreted by other components than the ACP, the impact should be benign. By using fully rfc822address compliant encoding, the benign side effect of non-ACP software using the ACP rfc822address would be emails sent to the mailbox identified by the rfc822address. If it is desired to receive such emails, suitable email software may also support assigning all rfc822addresses for an ACP domain to a single mailbox rfcSELF@. This is possible when "+" (which follows rfcSELF) is supported by the Mail User Agent as a separator between mail subscriber and sub-mailbox. See section 4.2.1.6 of [RFC5280] for details on the subjectAltName field. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 26] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 6.1.3. ACP domain membership check The following points constitute the ACP domain membership check of a candidate peer via its certificate: 1: The peer certificate is valid (lifetime). 2: The peer has proved ownership of the private key associated with the certificate's public key. This check is performed by the security association protocol used, for example [RFC7296], section 2.15. 3: The peer's certificate passes certificate path validation as defined in [RFC5280], section 6 against one of the Trust Anchors associated with the ACP node's ACP domain certificate (see Section 6.1.4 below). 4: If the node certificate indicates a Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Distribution Point (CDP) ([RFC5280], section 4.2.1.13) or Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) responder ([RFC5280], section 4.2.2.1), then the peer's certificate must be valid according to those criteria: An OCSP check for the peer's certificate across the ACP must succeed or the peer certificate must not be listed in the CRL retrieved from the CDP. This rule has to be skipped for ACP secure channel peer authentication when the node has no ACP or non-ACP connectivity to retrieve current CRL or access an OCSP responder (and the security association protocol itself has also no way to communicate CRL or OCSP check). 5: The peer's certificate has a syntactically valid ACP domain information field (encoded as subjectAltName / rfc822Name) and the acp-domain-name in that peer's domain information field is the same as in this ACP node's certificate (lowercase normalized). Note: When an ACP node learns later via OCSP/CRL that an ACP peer's certificate for which rule 4 had to be skipped during ACP secure channel establishment is invalid, then the ACP secure channel to that peer SHOULD be closed even if this peer is the only connectivity to access CRL/OCSP. The ACP secure channel connection MUST be retried periodically to support the case that the neighbor aquires a new, valid certificate. When checking a candidate peer's certificate for the purpose of establishing an ACP secure channel, one additional check is performed: Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 27] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 6: The candidate peer certificate's ACP domain information field has a non-empty acp-address field (either 32HEXDIG or 0, according to Figure 2). Technically, ACP secure channels can only be built with nodes that have an acp-address. Rule 6 ensures that this is taken into account during ACP domain membership check. Nodes with an empty acp-address field can only use their ACP domain certificate for non-ACP-secure channel authentication purposes. This includes for example NMS type nodes permitted to communicate into the ACP via ACP connect (Section 8.1) The special value 0 in an ACP certificates acp-address field is used for nodes that can and should determine their ACP address through other mechanisms than learning it through the acp-address field in their ACP domain certificate. These ACP nodes are permitted to establish ACP secure channels. Mechanisms for those nodes to determine their ACP address are outside the scope of this specification, but this option is defined here so that any ACP nodes can build ACP secure channels to them according to Rule 6. In summary: Steps 1...4 constitute standard certificate validity verification and private key authentication as defined by [RFC5280] and security association protocols (such as IKEv2 [RFC7296] when leveraging certificates. Steps 1...4 do not include verification of any pre-existing form of non-public-key-only based identity elements of a certificate such as a web servers domain name prefix often encoded in certificate common name. Steps 5 and 6 are the equivalent steps. Step 4 Constitutes standard CRL/OCSP checks refined for the case of missing connectivity and limited functionality security association protocols. Step 5 Checks for the presence of an ACP identity for the peer. Steps 1...5 authorize to build any secure connection between members of the same ACP domain except for ACP secure channels. Step 6 is the additional verification of the presence of an ACP address. Steps 1...6 authorize to build an ACP secure channel. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 28] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 For brevity, the remainder of this document refers to this process only as authentication instead of as authentication and authorization. 6.1.4. Trust Points and Trust Anchors ACP nodes need Trust Point (TP) certificates to perform certificate path validation as required by Section 6.1.3, rule 3. Trust Point(s) must be provisioned to an ACP node (together with its ACP domain certificate) by an ACP Registrar during initial enrolment of a candidate ACP node. ACP nodes MUST also support renewal of TPs via EST as described below in Section 6.1.5. Trust Point is the term used in this document for a certificate authority (CA) and its associated set of certificates. Multiple certificates are required for a CA to deal with CA certificate renewals as explained in Section 4.4 of CMP ([RFC4210]). A certificate path is a chain of certificates starting at the ACP certificate (leaf/end-entity) followed by zero or more intermediate Trust Point or sub-CA certificates and ending with a self-signed certificate of a so called root-CA or Trust Anchor. Certificate path validation authenticates that the ACP certificate is signed by a Trust Anchor, directly or indirectly via one or more intermediate Trust Points. Note that different ACP nodes may have different Trust Points and even different Trust Anchors in their certificate path, as long as the set of Trust Points for all ACP node includes the same set of Trust Anchors (usually 1), and each ACP nodes set of Trust Anchors includes the intermediate Trust Points for its own ACP domain certificate. The protocols through which ACP domain membership check rules 1-4 are performed therefore need to support the exchange not only of the ACP nodes certificates, but also their intermediate Trust Points. ACP nodes MUST support for the ACP domain membership check the certificate path validation with 0 or 1 intermediate Trust Points. They SHOULD support 2 intermediate Trust Points and two Trust Anchors (to permit migration to different root-CAs). Trust Points for ACP domain certificates must be trusted to sign certificates with valid ACP domain information fields only for trusted ACP registrars of that domain. This can be achieved by using Trust Anchors private to the owner of the ACP domain or potentially through appropriate contractual agreements between the involved parties. Public CA without such obligations and guarantees can not be used. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 29] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 A single owner can operate multiple independent ACP domains from the same set of private trust anchors (CAs) when the ACP Registrars are trusted not to permit certificates with incorrect ACP information fields to be signed, such as ACP information with a wrong acp-domain field. In this case, CAs can be completely unaware of ACP specifics, so that it should be possible to use any existing CA software. When ACP Registrars are not to be trusted, the correctness of the ACP domain information field for the candidate ACP node has to be verified by the CA signing the ACP domain certificate. 6.1.5. Certificate and Trust Point Maintenance ACP nodes MUST support renewal of their Certificate and Trust Points (TP) via EST ("Enrollment over Secure Transport", see [RFC7030]) and MAY support other mechanisms. An ACP network MUST have at least one ACP node supporting EST server functionality across the ACP so that EST renewal is useable. ACP nodes SHOULD be able to remember the EST server from which they last renewed their ACP domain certificate and SHOULD provide the ability for this remembered EST server to also be set by the ACP Registrar (see Section 6.10.7) that initially enrolled the ACP device with its ACP domain certificate. When BRSKI (see [I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra]) is used, the ACP address of the BRSKI registrar from the BRSKI TLS connection SHOULD be remembered and used for the next renewal via EST if that registrar also announces itself as an EST server via GRASP (see next section) on its ACP address. The EST server MUST present a certificate that is passing ACP domain membership check in its TLS connection setup (Section 6.1.3, rules 1..5, not rule 6 as this is not for an ACP secure channel setup). The EST server certificate MUST also contain the id-kp-cmcRA [RFC6402] extended key usage extension and the EST client must check its presence. The additional check against the id-kp-cmcRA extended key usage extension field ensures that clients do not fall prey to an illicit EST server. While such illicit EST servers should not be able to support certificate signing requests (as they are not able to elicit a signing response from a valid CA), such an illicit EST server would be able to provide faked CA certificates to EST clients that need to renew their CA certificates when they expire. Note that EST servers supporting multiple ACP domains will need to have for each of these ACP domains a separate certificate and respond on a different transport address (IPv6 address and/or TCP port), but this is easily automated on the EST server as long as the CA does not Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 30] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 restrict registrars to request certificates with the id-kp-cmcRA extended usage extension for themselves. 6.1.5.1. GRASP objective for EST server ACP nodes that are EST servers MUST announce their service via GRASP in the ACP through M_FLOOD messages. See [I-D.ietf-anima-grasp], section 2.8.11 for the definition of this message type: Example: [M_FLOOD, 12340815, h'fd89b714f3db0000200000064000001', 210000, ["SRV.est", 4, 255 ], [O_IPv6_LOCATOR, h'fd89b714f3db0000200000064000001', TCP, 443] ] Figure 3: GRASP SRV.est example The formal definition of the objective in Concise data definition language (CDDL) (see [I-D.ietf-cbor-cddl]) is as follows: flood-message = [M_FLOOD, session-id, initiator, ttl, +[objective, (locator-option / [])]] ; see example above and explanation ; below for initiator and ttl objective = ["SRV.est", objective-flags, loop-count, objective-value] objective-flags = sync-only ; as in GRASP spec sync-only = 4 ; M_FLOOD only requires synchronization loop-count = 255 ; recommended as there is no mechanism ; to discover network diameter. objective-value = any ; reserved for future extensions Figure 4: GRASP SRV.est definition The objective name "SRV.est" indicates that the objective is an [RFC7030] compliant EST server because "est" is an [RFC6335] registered service name for [RFC7030]. Objective-value MUST be ignored if present. Backward compatible extensions to [RFC7030] MAY be indicated through objective-value. Non [RFC7030] compatible certificate renewal options MUST use a different objective-name. Non-recognized objective-values (or parts thereof if it is a structure partially understood) MUST be ignored. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 31] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 The M_FLOOD message MUST be sent periodically. The default SHOULD be 60 seconds, the value SHOULD be operator configurable but SHOULD be not smaller than 60 seconds. The frequency of sending MUST be such that the aggregate amount of periodic M_FLOODs from all flooding sources cause only negligible traffic across the ACP. The time-to- live (ttl) parameter SHOULD be 3.5 times the period so that up to three consecutive messages can be dropped before considering an announcement expired. In the example above, the ttl is 210000 msec, 3.5 times 60 seconds. When a service announcer using these parameters unexpectedly dies immediately after sending the M_FLOOD, receivers would consider it expired 210 seconds later. When a receiver tries to connect to this dead service before this timeout, it will experience a failing connection and use that as an indication that the service instance is dead and select another instance of the same service instead (from another GRASP announcement). 6.1.5.2. Renewal When performing renewal, the node SHOULD attempt to connect to the remembered EST server. If that fails, it SHOULD attempt to connect to an EST server learned via GRASP. The server with which certificate renewal succeeds SHOULD be remembered for the next renewal. Remembering the last renewal server and preferring it provides stickiness which can help diagnostics. It also provides some protection against off-path compromised ACP members announcing bogus information into GRASP. Renewal of certificates SHOULD start after less than 50% of the domain certificate lifetime so that network operations has ample time to investigate and resolve any problems that causes a node to not renew its domain certificate in time - and to allow prolonged periods of running parts of a network disconnected from any CA. 6.1.5.3. Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) The ACP node SHOULD support Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL) via HTTP from one or more CRL Distribution Points (CDPs). The CDP(s) MUST be indicated in the Domain Certificate when used. If the CDP URL uses an IPv6 address (ULA address when using the addressing rules specified in this document), the ACP node will connect to the CDP via the ACP. If the CDP uses a domain name, the ACP node will connect to the CDP via the Data-Plane. It is common to use domain names for CDP(s), but there is no requirement for the ACP to support DNS. Any DNS lookup in the Data- Plane is not only a possible security issue, but it would also not Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 32] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 indicate whether the resolved address is meant to be reachable across the ACP. Therefore, the use of an IPv6 address versus the use of a DNS name doubles as an indicator whether or not to reach the CDP via the ACP. A CDP can be reachable across the ACP either by running it on a node with ACP or by connecting its node via an ACP connect interface (see Section 8.1). The CDP SHOULD use an ACP domain certificate for its HTTPs connections. The connecting ACP node SHOULD verify that the CDP certificate used during the HTTPs connection has the same ACP address as indicated in the CDP URL of the node's ACP domain certificate if the CDP URL uses an IPv6 address. 6.1.5.4. Lifetimes Certificate lifetime may be set to shorter lifetimes than customary (1 year) because certificate renewal is fully automated via ACP and EST. The primary limiting factor for shorter certificate lifetimes is load on the EST server(s) and CA. It is therefore recommended that ACP domain certificates are managed via a CA chain where the assigning CA has enough performance to manage short lived certificates. See also Section 10.2.4 for discussion about an example setup achieving this. See also [I-D.ietf-acme-star]. When certificate lifetimes are sufficiently short, such as few hours, certificate revocation may not be necessary, allowing to simplify the overall certificate maintenance infrastructure. See Appendix A.2 for further optimizations of certificate maintenance when BRSKI can be used ("Bootstrapping Remote Secure Key Infrastructures", see [I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra]). 6.1.5.5. Re-enrollment An ACP node may determine that its ACP domain certificate has expired, for example because the ACP node was powered down or disconnected longer than its certificate lifetime. In this case, the ACP node SHOULD convert to a role of a re-enrolling candidate ACP node. In this role, the node does maintain the trust anchor and certificate chain associated with its ACP domain certificate exclusively for the purpose of re-enrollment, and attempts (or waits) to get re-enrolled with a new ACP certificate. The details depend on the mechanisms/ protocols used by the ACP registrars. Please refer to Section 6.10.7 and [I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra] for explanations about ACP Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 33] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 registrars and vouchers as used in the following text. When ACP is intended to be used without BRSKI, the details about BRSKI and vouchers in the following text can be skipped. When BRSKI is used (i.e.: on ACP nodes that are ANI nodes), the re- enrolling candidate ACP node would attempt to enroll like a candidate ACP node (BRSKI pledge), but instead of using the ACP nodes IDevID, it SHOULD first attempt to use its ACP domain certificate in the BRSKI TLS authentication. The BRSKI registrar MAY honor this certificate beyond its expiration date purely for the purpose of re- enrollment. Using the ACP node's domain certificate allows the BRSKI registrar to learn that node's ACP domain information field, so that the BRSKI registrar can re-assign the same ACP address information to the ACP node in the new ACP domain certificate. If the BRSKI registrar denies the use of the old ACP domain certificate, the re-enrolling candidate ACP node MUST re-attempt re- enrollment using its IDevID as defined in BRSKI during the TLS connection setup. Both when the BRSKI connection is attempted with the old ACP domain certificate or the IDevID, the re-enrolling candidate ACP node SHOULD authenticate the BRSKI registrar during TLS connection setup based on its existing trust anchor/certificate chain information associated with its old ACP certificate. The re-enrolling candidate ACP node SHOULD only fall back to requesting a voucher from the BRSKI registrar when this authentication fails during TLS connection setup. When other mechanisms than BRSKI are used for ACP domain certificate enrollment, the principles of the re-enrolling candidate ACP node are the same. The re-enrolling candidate ACP node attempts to authenticate any ACP registrar peers during re-enrollment protocol/ mechanisms via its existing certificate chain/trust anchor and provides its existing ACP domain certificate and other identification (such as the IDevID) as necessary to the registrar. Maintaining existing trust anchor information is especially important when enrollment mechanisms are used that unlike BRSKI do not leverage a voucher mechanism to authenticate the ACP registrar and where therefore the injection of certificate failures could otherwise make the ACP node easily attackable remotely. When using BRSKI or other protocol/mechanisms supporting vouchers, maintaining existing trust anchor information allows for re- enrollment of expired ACP certificates to be more lightweight, especially in environments where repeated acquisition of vouchers during the lifetime of ACP nodes may be operationally expensive or otherwise undesirable. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 34] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 6.1.5.6. Failing Certificates An ACP domain certificate is called failing in this document, if/when the ACP node to which the certificate was issued can determine that it was revoked (or explicitly not renewed), or in the absence of such explicit local diagnostics, when the ACP node fails to connect to other ACP nodes in the same ACP domain using its ACP certificate. For connection failures to determine the ACP domain certificate as the culprit, the peer should pass the domain membership check (Section 6.1.3) and other reasons for the connection failure can be excluded because of the connection error diagnostics. This type of failure can happen during setup/refresh of a secure ACP channel connections or any other use of the ACP domain certificate, such as for the TLS connection to an EST server for the renewal of the ACP domain certificate. Example reasons for failing certificates that the ACP node can only discover through connection failure are that the domain certificate or any of its signing certificates could have been revoked or may have expired, but the ACP node cannot self-diagnose this condition directly. Revocation information or clock synchronization may only be available across the ACP, but the ACP node cannot build ACP secure channels because ACP peers reject the ACP node's domain certificate. ACP nodes SHOULD support the option to determines whether its ACP certificate is failing, and when it does, put itself into the role of a re-enrolling candidate ACP node as explained above (Section 6.1.5.5). 6.2. ACP Adjacency Table To know to which nodes to establish an ACP channel, every ACP node maintains an adjacency table. The adjacency table contains information about adjacent ACP nodes, at a minimum: Node-ID (identifier of the node inside the ACP, see Section 6.10.3 and Section 6.10.5), interface on which neighbor was discovered (by GRASP as explained below), link-local IPv6 address of neighbor on that interface, certificate (including domain information field). An ACP node MUST maintain this adjacency table. This table is used to determine to which neighbor an ACP connection is established. Where the next ACP node is not directly adjacent (i.e., not on a link connected to this node), the information in the adjacency table can be supplemented by configuration. For example, the Node-ID and IP address could be configured. See Section 8.2. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 35] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 The adjacency table MAY contain information about the validity and trust of the adjacent ACP node's certificate. However, subsequent steps MUST always start with the ACP domain membership check against the peer (see Section 6.1.3). The adjacency table contains information about adjacent ACP nodes in general, independently of their domain and trust status. The next step determines to which of those ACP nodes an ACP connection should be established. 6.3. Neighbor Discovery with DULL GRASP [RFC Editor: GRASP draft is in RFC editor queue, waiting for dependencies, including ACP. Please ensure that references to I- D.ietf-anima-grasp that include section number references (throughout this document) will be updated in case any last-minute changes in GRASP would make those section references change. Discovery Unsolicited Link-Local (DULL) GRASP is a limited subset of GRASP intended to operate across an insecure link-local scope. See section 2.5.2 of [I-D.ietf-anima-grasp] for its formal definition. The ACP uses one instance of DULL GRASP for every L2 interface of the ACP node to discover link level adjacent candidate ACP neighbors. Unless modified by policy as noted earlier (Section 5 bullet point 2.), native interfaces (e.g., physical interfaces on physical nodes) SHOULD be initialized automatically to a state in which ACP discovery can be performed and any native interfaces with ACP neighbors can then be brought into the ACP even if the interface is otherwise not configured. Reception of packets on such otherwise not configured interfaces MUST be limited so that at first only IPv6 StateLess Address Auto Configuration (SLAAC - [RFC4862]) and DULL GRASP work and then only the following ACP secure channel setup packets - but not any other unnecessary traffic (e.g., no other link-local IPv6 transport stack responders for example). Note that the use of the IPv6 link-local multicast address (ALL_GRASP_NEIGHBORS) implies the need to use Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2, see [RFC3810]) to announce the desire to receive packets for that address. Otherwise DULL GRASP could fail to operate correctly in the presence of MLD snooping, non-ACP enabled L2 switches - because those would stop forwarding DULL GRASP packets. Switches not supporting MLD snooping simply need to operate as pure L2 bridges for IPv6 multicast packets for DULL GRASP to work. ACP discovery SHOULD NOT be enabled by default on non-native interfaces. In particular, ACP discovery MUST NOT run inside the ACP across ACP virtual interfaces. See Section 10.3 for further, non- normative suggestions on how to enable/disable ACP at node and Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 36] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 interface level. See Section 8.2.2 for more details about tunnels (typical non-native interfaces). See Section 7 for how ACP should be extended on devices operating (also) as L2 bridges. Note: If an ACP node also implements BRSKI to enroll its ACP domain certificate (see Appendix A.2 for a summary), then the above considerations also apply to GRASP discovery for BRSKI. Each DULL instance of GRASP set up for ACP is then also used for the discovery of a bootstrap proxy via BRSKI when the node does not have a domain certificate. Discovery of ACP neighbors happens only when the node does have the certificate. The node therefore never needs to discover both a bootstrap proxy and ACP neighbor at the same time. An ACP node announces itself to potential ACP peers by use of the "AN_ACP" objective. This is a synchronization objective intended to be flooded on a single link using the GRASP Flood Synchronization (M_FLOOD) message. In accordance with the design of the Flood message, a locator consisting of a specific link-local IP address, IP protocol number and port number will be distributed with the flooded objective. An example of the message is informally: [M_FLOOD, 12340815, h'fe80000000000000c0011001FEEF0000, 210000, ["AN_ACP", 4, 1, "IKEv2" ], [O_IPv6_LOCATOR, h'fe80000000000000c0011001FEEF0000, UDP, 15000] ["AN_ACP", 4, 1, "DTLS" ], [O_IPv6_LOCATOR, h'fe80000000000000c0011001FEEF0000, UDP, 17000] ] Figure 5: GRASP AN_ACP example The formal CDDL definition is: flood-message = [M_FLOOD, session-id, initiator, ttl, +[objective, (locator-option / [])]] objective = ["AN_ACP", objective-flags, loop-count, objective-value] objective-flags = sync-only ; as in the GRASP specification sync-only = 4 ; M_FLOOD only requires synchronization loop-count = 1 ; limit to link-local operation objective-value = method method = "IKEv2" / "DTLS" ; or future standard methods Figure 6: GRASP AN_ACP definition Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 37] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 The objective-flags field is set to indicate synchronization. The loop-count is fixed at 1 since this is a link-local operation. In the above example the RECOMMENDED period of sending of the objective is 60 seconds. The indicated ttl of 210000 msec means that the objective would be cached by ACP nodes even when two out of three messages are dropped in transit. The session-id is a random number used for loop prevention (distinguishing a message from a prior instance of the same message). In DULL this field is irrelevant but must still be set according to the GRASP specification. The originator MUST be the IPv6 link local address of the originating ACP node on the sending interface. The 'objective-value' parameter is a string indicating the protocol available at the specified or implied locator. It must be a protocol supported by the node to negotiate a secure channel. IKEv2 as shown above is the protocol used to negotiate an IPsec secure channel. The locator-option is optional and only required when the secure channel protocol is not offered at a well-defined port number, or if there is no well-defined port number. "IKEv2" is the abbreviation for "Internet Key Exchange protocol version 2". It is the main protocol used by the Internet IP security architecture (IPsec). We therefore use the term "IKEv2" and not "IPsec" in the GRASP definitions and example above. "IKEv2" has a well-defined port number 500, but in the above example, the candidate ACP neighbor is offering ACP secure channel negotiation via IKEv2 on port 15000 (for the sake of creating a non-standard example). "DTLS" indicates datagram Transport Layer Security version 1.2. There is no default UDP port, it must always be locally assigned by the node. See Section 6.7.2. If a locator is included, it MUST be an O_IPv6_LOCATOR, and the IPv6 address MUST be the same as the initiator address (these are DULL requirements to minimize third party DoS attacks). The secure channel methods defined in this document use the objective-values of "IKEv2" and "DTLS". There is no distinction between IKEv2 native and GRE-IKEv2 because this is purely negotiated via IKEv2. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 38] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 A node that supports more than one secure channel protocol method needs to flood multiple versions of the "AN_ACP" objective so that each method can be accompanied by its own locator-option. This can use a single GRASP M_FLOOD message as shown in Figure 5. Note that a node serving both as an ACP node and BRSKI Join Proxy may choose to distribute the "AN_ACP" objective and the respective BRSKI in the same M_FLOOD message, since GRASP allows multiple objectives in one message. This may be impractical though if ACP and BRSKI operations are implemented via separate software modules / ASAs. The result of the discovery is the IPv6 link-local address of the neighbor as well as its supported secure channel protocols (and non- standard port they are running on). It is stored in the ACP Adjacency Table (see Section 6.2), which then drives the further building of the ACP to that neighbor. Note that the DULL GRASP objective described does intentionally not include ACP nodes ACP domain certificate even though this would be useful for diagnostics and to simplify the security exchange in ACP secure channel security association protocols (see Section 6.7). The reason is that DULL GRASP messages are periodically multicasted across IPv6 subnets and full certificates could easily lead to fragmented IPv6 DULL GRASP multicast packets due to the size of a certificate. This would be highly undesirable. 6.4. Candidate ACP Neighbor Selection An ACP node must determine to which other ACP nodes in the adjacency table it should build an ACP connection. This is based on the information in the ACP Adjacency table. The ACP is established exclusively between nodes in the same domain. This includes all routing subdomains. Appendix A.7 explains how ACP connections across multiple routing subdomains are special. The result of the candidate ACP neighbor selection process is a list of adjacent or configured autonomic neighbors to which an ACP channel should be established. The next step begins that channel establishment. 6.5. Channel Selection To avoid attacks, initial discovery of candidate ACP peers cannot include any non-protected negotiation. To avoid re-inventing and validating security association mechanisms, the next step after discovering the address of a candidate neighbor can only be to try Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 39] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 first to establish a security association with that neighbor using a well-known security association method. From the use-cases it seems clear that not all type of ACP nodes can or need to connect directly to each other or are able to support or prefer all possible mechanisms. For example, code space limited IoT devices may only support DTLS because that code exists already on them for end-to-end security, but low-end in-ceiling L2 switches may only want to support Media Access Control Security (MacSec, see 802.1AE ([MACSEC]) because that is also supported in their chips. Only a flexible gateway device may need to support both of these mechanisms and potentially more. Note that MacSec is not required by any profiles of the ACP in this specification but just mentioned as a likely next interesting secure channel protocol. To support extensible secure channel protocol selection without a single common MTI protocol, ACP nodes must try all the ACP secure channel protocols it supports and that are feasible because the candidate ACP neighbor also announced them via its AN_ACP GRASP parameters (these are called the "feasible" ACP secure channel protocols). To ensure that the selection of the secure channel protocols always succeeds in a predictable fashion without blocking, the following rules apply: o An ACP node may choose to attempt to initiate the different feasible ACP secure channel protocols it supports according to its local policies sequentially or in parallel, but it MUST support acting as a responder to all of them in parallel. o Once the first secure channel protocol succeeds, the two peers know each other's certificates because they must be used by all secure channel protocols for mutual authentication. The node with the lower Node-ID in the ACP address of its ACP domain certificate becomes Bob, the one with the higher Node-ID in the certificate Alice. A peer with an empty ACP address field in its ACP domain certificate becomes Bob (this specification does not define such peers, only the interoperability with them). o Bob becomes passive, he does not attempt to further initiate ACP secure channel protocols with Alice and does not consider it to be an error when Alice closes secure channels. Alice becomes the active party, continues to attempt setting up secure channel protocols with Bob until she arrives at the best one from her view that also works with Bob. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 40] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 For example, originally Bob could have been the initiator of one ACP secure channel protocol that Bob prefers and the security association succeeded. The roles of Bob and Alice are then assigned and the connection setup is completed. The protocol could for example be IPsec via IKEv2 ("IP security", see [RFC4301] and "Internet Key Exchange protocol version 2", see [RFC7296]. It is now up to Alice to decide how to proceed. Even if the IPsec connection from Bob succeeded, Alice might prefer another secure protocol over IPsec (e.g., FOOBAR), and try to set that up with Bob. If that preference of Alice succeeds, she would close the IPsec connection. If no better protocol attempt succeeds, she would keep the IPsec connection. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 41] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 The following sequence of steps show this example in more detail: [1] Node 1 sends GRASP AN_ACP message to announce itself [2] Node 2 sends GRASP AN_ACP message to announce itself [3] Node 2 receives [1] from Node 1 [4:C1] Because of [3], Node 2 starts as initiator on its preferred secure channel protocol towards Node 1. Connection C1. [5] Node 1 receives [2] from Node 2 [6:C2] Because of [5], Node 1 starts as initiator on its preferred secure channel protocol towards Node 2. Connection C2. [7:C1] Node1 and Node2 have authenticated each others certificate on connection C1 as valid ACP peers. [8:C1] Node 1 certificate has lower ACP Node-ID than Node2, therefore Node 1 considers itself Bob and Node 2 Alice on connection C1. Connection setup C1 is completed. [9] Node 1 (Bob)) refrains from attempting any further secure channel connections to Node 2 (Alice) as learned from [2] because it knows from [8:C1] that it is Bob relative to Node 1. [10:C2] Node1 and Node2 have authenticated each others certificate on connection C2 (like [7:C1]). [11:C2] Node 1 certificate has lower ACP Node-ID than Node2, therefore Node 1 considers itself Bob and Node 2 Alice on connection C1, but they also identify that C2 is to the same mutual peer as their C1, so this has no further impact. [12:C2] Node 1 (Alice) closes C1. Because of [8:C1], Node 2 (Bob) expected this. [13] Node 1 (Alice) and Node 2 (Bob) start data transfer across C2, which makes it become a secure channel for the ACP. Figure 7: Secure Channel sequence of steps All this negotiation is in the context of an "L2 interface". Alice and Bob will build ACP connections to each other on every "L2 Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 42] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 interface" that they both connect to. An autonomic node MUST NOT assume that neighbors with the same L2 or link-local IPv6 addresses on different L2 interfaces are the same node. This can only be determined after examining the certificate after a successful security association attempt. 6.6. Candidate ACP Neighbor verification Independent of the security association protocol chosen, candidate ACP neighbors need to be authenticated based on their domain certificate. This implies that any secure channel protocol MUST support certificate based authentication that can support the ACP domain membership check as defined in Section 6.1.3. If it fails, the connection attempt is aborted and an error logged. Attempts to reconnect MUST be throttled. The RECOMMENDED default is exponential base 2 backoff with a minimum delay of 10 seconds and a maximum delay of 640 seconds. 6.7. Security Association (Secure Channel) protocols Due to Channel Selection (Section 6.5), ACP can support an evolving set of security association protocols. These protocols only need to be used to establish secure channels with L2 adjacent ACP neighbors and only optionally (where needed) across non-ACP capable L3 network (see Section 8.2). Therefore, there is architecturally no need for any network wide mandatory to implement (MTI) security association protocols. Instead, ACP nodes only need to implement those protocols required to be supported by their neighbors. See Section 6.7.3 for an example of this. The authentication of peers in any security association protocol MUST use the ACP domain certificate according to Section 6.1.3. Because auto-discovery of candidate ACP neighbors via GRASP (see Section 6.3) as specified in this document does not communicate the neighbors ACP domain certificate, and ACP nodes may not (yet) have any other network connectivity to retrieve certificates, any security association protocol MUST use a mechanism to communicate the certificate directly instead of relying on a referential mechanism such as communicating only a hash and/or URL for the certificate. Any security association protocol MUST provide Forward Secrecy (whether inherently or as part of a profile of the security association protocol). The degree of security required on every hop of an ACP network needs to be consistent across the network so that there is no designated "weakest link" because it is that "weakest link" that would otherwise become the designated point of attack. When the secure channel Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 43] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 protection on one link is compromised, it can be used to send/receive packets across the whole ACP network. This principle does not imply that the requirements against ACP security association protocols have to be the same across all subnets in an ACP network: o Underlying L2 mechanisms such as strong encrypted radio technologies or [MACSEC] may offer equivalent encryption and the ACP security association protocol may only be required to authenticate ACP domain membership of a peer and/or derive a key for the L2 mechanism. Mechanisms to auto-discover and associate ACP peers leveraging such underlying L2 security are possible and desirable to avoid duplication of encryption, but none are specified in this document. o Strong physical security of a link may stand in where cryptographic security is infeasible. As there is no secure mechanism to automatically discover strong physical security solely between two peers, it can only be used with explicit configuration and that configuration too could become an attack vector. This document therefore only specifies with ACP connect (Figure 15) one explicitly configured mechanism without any secure channel association protocol - for the case where both the link and the nodes attached to it have strong physical security. The following sub-sections define the security association protocols that are considered to be important and feasible to specify in this document. 6.7.1. ACP via IPsec An ACP node announces its ability to support IPsec, negotiated via IKEv2, as the ACP secure channel protocol using the "IKEv2" objective-value in the "AN_ACP" GRASP objective. The ACP usage of IPsec and IKEv2 mandates a narrow profile of the current standards-track usage guidance for IPsec [RFC8221] and IKEv2 [RFC8247]. This profile provides for stringent security properties and can exclude deprecated/legacy algorithms because there is no need for interoperability with legacy equipment for ACP secure channels. Any such backward compatibility would lead only to increased attack surface and implementation complexity, for no benefit. 6.7.1.1. Native IPsec To run ACP via IPsec natively, no further IANA assignments/ definitions are required. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 44] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 An ACP node that is supporting native IPsec MUST use IPsec in tunnel mode, negotiated via IKEv2, and with IPv6 payload (e.g., ESP Next Header of 41). It MUST use local and peer link-local IPv6 addresses for encapsulation. Manual keying MUST NOT be used, see Section 6.1. IPsec tunnel mode is required because the ACP will route/forward packets received from any other ACP node across the ACP secure channels, and not only its own generated ACP packets. With IPsec transport mode, it would only be possible to send packets originated by the ACP node itself. 6.7.1.1.1. RFC8221 (IPsec/ESP) ACP IPsec implementations MUST comply with [RFC8221] (and its updates), with the following modifications to simplify hardware accelerated ACP IPsec implementation requirements by eliminating requirements for legacy or cryptographically weak options. ACP MUST NOT use any NULL encryption option due to the confidentiality of ACP payload that may not be encrypted by itself when carrying legacy management protocol traffics as well as hop-by- hop GRASP, which is designed to rely on the ACP for confidentiality of hop-by-hop distributed information. Therefore, IPsec MUST support ESP and MUST NOT use AH. For ESP, ENCR_NULL MUST NOT be used for ACP secure channels. Only ENCR_AES_GCM_16 is REQUIRED as an encryption algorithm for ACP secure channels with ESP. If an ACP node can perform ENCR_AES_CBC, ENCR_AES_CCM_8 at higher performance than ENCR_AES_GCM_16 or ENCR_CHACHA20_POLY1305 at equal or higher performance than ENCR_AES_GCM_16 then that ACP node SHOULD support such an encryption algorithm and prefer it in the IKEv2 negotiation if its performance is higher than that of ENCR_AES_GCM_16. Otherwise there are no normative requirements against either of these options. These requirements are overriding the MUST/SHOULD/SHOULD requirements of [RFC8221] for these three algorithms for the following reasons: o There is no unconditional requirement against ENCR_AES_CBC because * ENCR_AES_GCM_16 is assumed to be feasible with less cost/higher higher performance in modern devices hardware accelerated implementations compared to ENCR-AES_CBC. * AES-GCM is an authenticated encryption with associated data (AEAD) cipher mode, so no ESP authentication algorithm Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 45] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 requirement is needed (unless further encryption algorithms are supported), further simplifying ACP IPsec implementations. * there is no requirement to interoperate with legacy equipment in ACP secure channels, so a single MTI encryption algorithm for IPsec in ACP secure channels is sufficient for interoperability. o There is no unconditional requirement against ENCR_AES_CCM_8 because it is currently not likely that it would be preferrable in ACP secure channels for more constrained IoT devices over options such as DTLS. In [RFC8221] this algorithm is more desirable, because of solutions relying only on IPsec without such non-IPsec alternatives. o There is no unconditional requirement against ENCR_CHACHA20_POLY1305 because there is currently no mechanism in the ACP to migrate all secure channels in an ACP domain to a different preferred encryption algorithm in the case of future discovered crypto weaknesses of AES. Once such mechanisms are defined, ENCR_CHACHA20_POLY1305 would be a good encryption algorithm, but due to the transitive traffic through ACP secure channels only when this does not result in an unexpected drop in performance. When using AES for encryption, keys less than 256 bits MUST NOT be used, and 256-bit keys MUST be supported. Once there are updates to [RFC8221], these should accordingly be reflected in updates to these ACP requirements, for example if ENCR_AES_GCM_16 was to be superceeded in the future. 6.7.1.1.2. RFC847 (IKEv2) IKEv2 for ACP secure channels MUST support the requirements of [RFC8247] (as necessary to support the above described modified [RFC8221] requirements for IPsec via ESP). Because IKEv2 for ACP secure channels is sufficient to be implemented in control plane software as opposed to ESP (which may need to be implemented in accelerated forwarding plane for sufficient performance), there are no restrictions on the requirements of [RFC8247] for ACP secure channels. Instead, the following paragraphs describe additional or stricter requirements necessary for the authentication of ACP secure channels in IKEv2 via ACP domain certificates. IKEv2 Diffie-Hellman key exchange group 19 (256-bit random ECP) MUST be supported (in addition to 2048-bit MODP). ECC provides a similar Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 46] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 security level to finite-field (MODP) key exchange with a shorter key length, so is generally preferred absent other considerations. IKEv2 authentication MUST use the ACP domain certificates. The Certificate Encoding "PKCS #7 wrapped X.509 certificate" (1) MUST be supported (see [IKEV2IANA] for this and other IANA IKEv2 parameter names used in this text). If certificate chains are used, all intermediate certificates up to, but not including the locally provisioned trust anchor certificate must be signaled. A certificate payload with the ACP certificate MUST be included during IKEv2 authentication to support the ACP domain membership check as described in Section 6.1.3, because it is using additional elements of the ACP certificates. ACP peers are expected to have the same set of Trust Anchors (TA), so a certificate path MUST only be included in the signaled payload when the path contains intermediate certificates not in the TA set, such as sub-CAs (see Section 6.10.7). In IKEv2, ACP nodes are identified by their ACP address. The ID_IPv6_ADDR IKEv2 identification payload MUST be used and MUST convey the ACP address. If the peer's ACP domain certificate includes an ACP address in the ACP domain information field (not "0" or empty), the address in the IKEv2 identification payload must match it. See Section 6.1.3 for more information about "0" or empty ACP address fields in the ACP domain information field. IKEv2 authentication MUST use authentication method 14 ("Digital Signature") for ACP certificates; this authentication method can be used with both RSA and ECDSA certificates, as indicated by a PKIX- style OID. The Digital Signature hash SHA2-512 MUST be supported (in addition to SHA2-256). 6.7.1.2. IPsec with GRE encapsulation In network devices it is often more common to implement high performance virtual interfaces on top of GRE encapsulation than on top of a "native" IPsec association (without any other encapsulation than those defined by IPsec). On those devices it may be beneficial to run the ACP secure channel on top of GRE protected by the IPsec association. To run ACP via GRE/IPsec, no further IANA assignments/definitions are required. The requirements for ESP/IPsec/IKEv2 are the same as for native IPsec (see Section 6.7.1.1) except that IPsec transport mode and next Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 47] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 protocol GRE (47) are to be negotiated. Tunnel mode is not required because of GRE. If IKEv2 initiator and responder support IPsec over GRE, it has to be preferred over native IPsec. The ACP IPv6 traffic has to be carried across GRE according to [RFC7676]. 6.7.2. ACP via DTLS We define the use of ACP via DTLS in the assumption that it is likely the first transport encryption supported in some classes of constrained devices. An ACP node announces its ability to support DTLS (as described here) as an ACP secure channel protocol in GRASP through the "DTLS" objective-value in the "AN_ACP" objective. To run ACP via UDP and DTLS v1.2 [RFC6347] a locally assigned UDP port is used that is announced as a parameter in the GRASP AN_ACP objective to candidate neighbors. All ACP nodes supporting DTLS as a secure channel protocol MUST adhere to the DTLS implementation recommendations and security considerations of BCP 195 [RFC7525] except with respect to the DTLS version. ACP nodes supporting DTLS MUST implement only DTLS 1.2 or later. For example, implementing DTLS-1.3 ([I-D.ietf-tls-dtls13]) is also an option. There is no additional session setup or other security association besides this simple DTLS setup. As soon as the DTLS session is functional, the ACP peers will exchange ACP IPv6 packets as the payload of the DTLS transport connection. Any DTLS defined security association mechanisms such as re-keying are used as they would be for any transport application relying solely on DTLS. 6.7.3. ACP Secure Channel Requirements As explained in the beginning of Section 6.5, there is no single secure channel mechanism mandated for all ACP nodes. Instead, this section defines two ACP profiles (baseline and constrained) for ACP nodes that do introduce such requirements. A baseline ACP node MUST support IPsec natively and MAY support IPsec via GRE. A constrained ACP node that cannot support IPsec MUST support DTLS. An ACP node connecting an area of constrained ACP nodes with an area of baseline ACP nodes must therefore support IPsec and DTLS and supports therefore the baseline and constrained profile. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 48] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 Explanation: Not all type of ACP nodes can or need to connect directly to each other or are able to support or prefer all possible secure channel mechanisms. For example, code space limited IoT devices may only support DTLS because that code exists already on them for end-to-end security, but high-end core routers may not want to support DTLS because they can perform IPsec in accelerated hardware but would need to support DTLS in an underpowered CPU forwarding path shared with critical control plane operations. This is not a deployment issue for a single ACP across these type of nodes as long as there are also appropriate gateway ACP nodes that support sufficiently many secure channel mechanisms to allow interconnecting areas of ACP nodes with a more constrained set of secure channel protocols. On the edge between IoT areas and high-end core networks, general-purpose routers that act as those gateways and that can support a variety of secure channel protocols is the norm already. ACP nodes need to specify in documentation the set of secure ACP mechanisms they support and should declare which profile they support according to above requirements. An ACP secure channel MUST immediately be terminated when the lifetime of any certificate in the chain used to authenticate the neighbor expires or becomes revoked. Note that this is not standard behavior in secure channel protocols such as IPsec because the certificate authentication only influences the setup of the secure channel in these protocols. 6.8. GRASP in the ACP 6.8.1. GRASP as a core service of the ACP The ACP MUST run an instance of GRASP inside of it. It is a key part of the ACP services. The function in GRASP that makes it fundamental as a service of the ACP is the ability to provide ACP wide service discovery (using objectives in GRASP). ACP provides IP unicast routing via the RPL routing protocol (see Section 6.11). The ACP does not use IP multicast routing nor does it provide generic IP multicast services (the handling of GRASP link-local multicast messages is explained in Section 6.8.2). Instead, the ACP provides service discovery via the objective discovery/announcement and negotiation mechanisms of the ACP GRASP instance (services are a form of objectives). These mechanisms use hop-by-hop reliable flooding of GRASP messages for both service discovery (GRASP M_DISCOVERY messages) and service announcement (GRASP M_FLOOD messages). Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 49] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 See Appendix A.5 for discussion about this design choice of the ACP. 6.8.2. ACP as the Security and Transport substrate for GRASP In the terminology of GRASP ([I-D.ietf-anima-grasp]), the ACP is the security and transport substrate for the GRASP instance run inside the ACP ("ACP GRASP"). This means that the ACP is responsible for ensuring that this instance of GRASP is only sending messages across the ACP GRASP virtual interfaces. Whenever the ACP adds or deletes such an interface because of new ACP secure channels or loss thereof, the ACP needs to indicate this to the ACP instance of GRASP. The ACP exists also in the absence of any active ACP neighbors. It is created when the node has a domain certificate, and continues to exist even if all of its neighbors cease operation. In this case ASAs using GRASP running on the same node would still need to be able to discover each other's objectives. When the ACP does not exist, ASAs leveraging the ACP instance of GRASP via APIs MUST still be able to operate, and MUST be able to understand that there is no ACP and that therefore the ACP instance of GRASP cannot operate. The way ACP acts as the security and transport substrate for GRASP is visualized in the following picture: Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 50] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 ..............................ACP.............................. . . . /-GRASP-flooding-\ ACP GRASP instance . . / \ A . GRASP GRASP GRASP C . link-local unicast link-local P . multicast messages multicast . . messages | messages . . | | | . ............................................................... . v v v ACP security and transport . . | | | substrate for GRASP . . | | | . . | ACP GRASP | - ACP GRASP A . | Loopback | Loopback interface C . | interface | - ACP-cert auth P . | TLS | . . ACP GRASP | ACP GRASP - ACP GRASP virtual . . subnet1 | subnet2 virtual interfaces . . TCP | TCP . . | | | . ............................................................... . | | | ^^^ Users of ACP (GRASP/ASA) . . | | | ACP interfaces/addressing . . | | | . . | | | A . | ACP-Loopback Interf.| <- ACP Loopback interface C . | ACP-address | - address (global ULA) P . subnet1 | subnet2 <- ACP virtual interfaces . . link-local | link-local - link-local addresses . ............................................................... . | | | ACP VRF . . | RPL-routing | virtual routing and forwarding . . | /IP-Forwarding\ | A . | / \ | C . ACP IPv6 packets ACP IPv6 packets P . |/ \| . . IPsec/DTLS IPsec/DTLS - ACP-cert auth . ............................................................... | | Data-Plane | | | | - ACP secure channel link-local link-local - encapsulation addresses subnet1 subnet2 - Data-Plane interfaces | | ACP-Nbr1 ACP-Nbr2 Figure 8: ACP as security and transport substrate for GRASP Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 51] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 GRASP unicast messages inside the ACP always use the ACP address. Link-local addresses from the ACP VRF must not be used inside objectives. GRASP unicast messages inside the ACP are transported via TLS according to [RFC7525] execept that only TLS version 1.2 ([RFC5246]) or higher MUST be used - because there is no need for backward compatibility in the new use-case of ACP. Mutual authentication MUST use the ACP domain membership check defined in (Section 6.1.3). GRASP link-local multicast messages are targeted for a specific ACP virtual interface (as defined Section 6.12.5) but are sent by the ACP into an ACP GRASP virtual interface that is constructed from the TCP connection(s) to the IPv6 link-local neighbor address(es) on the underlying ACP virtual interface. If the ACP GRASP virtual interface has two or more neighbors, the GRASP link-local multicast messages are replicated to all neighbor TCP connections. TLS for GRASP MUST offer TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 and TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 and MUST NOT offer options with less than 256bit AES or less than SHA384. TLS for GRASP MUST also include the "Supported Elliptic Curves" extension, it MUST support support the NIST P-256 (secp256r1) and P-384 (secp384r1(24)) curves [RFC4492]. In addition, GRASP TLS clients SHOULD send an ec_point_formats extension with a single element, "uncompressed". For further interoperability recommendations, GRASP TLS implementations SHOULD follow [RFC7525]. TCP and TLS connections for GRASP in the ACP use the IANA assigned TCP port for GRASP (7107). Effectively the transport stack is expected to be TLS for connections from/to the ACP address (e.g., global scope address(es)) and TCP for connections from/to link-local addresses on the ACP virtual interfaces. The latter ones are only used for flooding of GRASP messages. 6.8.2.1. Discussion TCP encapsulation for GRASP M_DISCOVERY and M_FLOOD link local messages is used because these messages are flooded across potentially many hops to all ACP nodes and a single link with even temporary packet loss issues (e.g., WiFi/Powerline link) can reduce the probability for loss free transmission so much that applications would want to increase the frequency with which they send these messages. Such shorter periodic retransmission of datagrams would result in more traffic and processing overhead in the ACP than the hop-by-hop reliable retransmission mechanism by TCP and duplicate elimination by GRASP. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 52] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 TLS is mandated for GRASP non-link-local unicast because the ACP secure channel mandatory authentication and encryption protects only against attacks from the outside but not against attacks from the inside: Compromised ACP members that have (not yet) been detected and removed (e.g., via domain certificate revocation / expiry). If GRASP peer connections were to use just TCP, compromised ACP members could simply eavesdrop passively on GRASP peer connections for whom they are on-path ("Man In The Middle" - MITM) or intercept and modify them. With TLS, it is not possible to completely eliminate problems with compromised ACP members, but attacks are a lot more complex: Eavesdropping/spoofing by a compromised ACP node is still possible because in the model of the ACP and GRASP, the provider and consumer of an objective have initially no unique information (such as an identity) about the other side which would allow them to distinguish a benevolent from a compromised peer. The compromised ACP node would simply announce the objective as well, potentially filter the original objective in GRASP when it is a MITM and act as an application level proxy. This of course requires that the compromised ACP node understand the semantics of the GRASP negotiation to an extent that allows it to proxy it without being detected, but in an ACP environment this is quite likely public knowledge or even standardized. The GRASP TLS connections are run the same as any other ACP traffic through the ACP secure channels. This leads to double authentication/encryption, which has the following benefits: o Secure channel methods such as IPsec may provide protection against additional attacks, for example reset-attacks. o The secure channel method may leverage hardware acceleration and there may be little or no gain in eliminating it. o There is no different security model for ACP GRASP from other ACP traffic. Instead, there is just another layer of protection against certain attacks from the inside which is important due to the role of GRASP in the ACP. 6.9. Context Separation The ACP is in a separate context from the normal Data-Plane of the node. This context includes the ACP channels' IPv6 forwarding and routing as well as any required higher layer ACP functions. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 53] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 In classical network system, a dedicated so called Virtual routing and forwarding instance (VRF) is one logical implementation option for the ACP. If possible by the systems software architecture, separation options that minimize shared components are preferred, such as a logical container or virtual machine instance. The context for the ACP needs to be established automatically during bootstrap of a node. As much as possible it should be protected from being modified unintentionally by ("Data-Plane") configuration. Context separation improves security, because the ACP is not reachable from the Data-Plane routing or forwarding table(s). Also, configuration errors from the Data-Plane setup do not affect the ACP. 6.10. Addressing inside the ACP The channels explained above typically only establish communication between two adjacent nodes. In order for communication to happen across multiple hops, the autonomic control plane requires ACP network wide valid addresses and routing. Each ACP node must create a Loopback interface with an ACP network wide unique address inside the ACP context (as explained in in Section 6.9). This address may be used also in other virtual contexts. With the algorithm introduced here, all ACP nodes in the same routing subdomain have the same /48 ULA prefix. Conversely, ULA global IDs from different domains are unlikely to clash, such that two ACP networks can be merged, as long as the policy allows that merge. See also Section 9.1 for a discussion on merging domains. Links inside the ACP only use link-local IPv6 addressing, such that each node's ACP only requires one routable virtual address. 6.10.1. Fundamental Concepts of Autonomic Addressing o Usage: Autonomic addresses are exclusively used for self- management functions inside a trusted domain. They are not used for user traffic. Communications with entities outside the trusted domain use another address space, for example normally managed routable address space (called "Data-Plane" in this document). o Separation: Autonomic address space is used separately from user address space and other address realms. This supports the robustness requirement. o Loopback-only: Only ACP Loopback interfaces (and potentially those configured for "ACP connect", see Section 8.1) carry routable address(es); all other interfaces (called ACP virtual interfaces) Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 54] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 only use IPv6 link local addresses. The usage of IPv6 link local addressing is discussed in [RFC7404]. o Use-ULA: For Loopback interfaces of ACP nodes, we use Unique Local Addresses (ULA), as defined in [RFC4193] with L=1 (as defined in section 3.1 of [RFC4193]). Note that the random hash for ACP Loopback addresses uses the definition in Section 6.10.2 and not the one of [RFC4193] section 3.2.2. o No external connectivity: They do not provide access to the Internet. If a node requires further reaching connectivity, it should use another, traditionally managed address scheme in parallel. o Addresses in the ACP are permanent, and do not support temporary addresses as defined in [RFC4941]. o Addresses in the ACP are not considered sensitive on privacy grounds because ACP nodes are not expected to be end-user host. All ACP nodes are in one (potentially federated) administrative domain. They are assumed to be to be candidate hosts of ACP traffic amongst each other or transit thereof. There are no transit nodes less privileged to know about the identity of other hosts in the ACP. Therefore, ACP addresses do not need to be pseudo-random as discussed in [RFC7721]. Because they are not propagated to untrusted (non ACP) nodes and stay within a domain (of trust), we also consider them not to be subject to scanning attacks. The ACP is based exclusively on IPv6 addressing, for a variety of reasons: o Simplicity, reliability and scale: If other network layer protocols were supported, each would have to have its own set of security associations, routing table and process, etc. o Autonomic functions do not require IPv4: Autonomic functions and autonomic service agents are new concepts. They can be exclusively built on IPv6 from day one. There is no need for backward compatibility. o OAM protocols do not require IPv4: The ACP may carry OAM protocols. All relevant protocols (SNMP, TFTP, SSH, SCP, Radius, Diameter, ...) are available in IPv6. See also [RFC8368] for how ACP could be made to interoperate with IPv4 only OAM. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 55] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 6.10.2. The ACP Addressing Base Scheme The Base ULA addressing scheme for ACP nodes has the following format: 8 40 2 78 +--+-------------------------+------+------------------------------+ |fd| hash(routing-subdomain) | Type | (sub-scheme) | +--+-------------------------+------+------------------------------+ Figure 9: ACP Addressing Base Scheme The first 48-bits follow the ULA scheme, as defined in [RFC4193], to which a type field is added: o "fd" identifies a locally defined ULA address. o The 40-bits ULA "global ID" (term from [RFC4193]) for ACP addresses carried in the domain information field of domain certificates are the first 40-bits of the SHA256 hash of the routing subdomain from the same domain information field. In the example of Section 6.1.2, the routing subdomain is "area51.research.acp.example.com" and the 40-bits ULA "global ID" 89b714f3db. o When creating a new routing-subdomain for an existing autonomic network, it MUST be ensured, that rsub is selected so the resulting hash of the routing-subdomain does not collide with the hash of any pre-existing routing-subdomains of the autonomic network. This ensures that ACP addresses created by registrars for different routing subdomains do not collide with each others. o To allow for extensibility, the fact that the ULA "global ID" is a hash of the routing subdomain SHOULD NOT be assumed by any ACP node during normal operations. The hash function is only executed during the creation of the certificate. If BRSKI is used then the BRSKI registrar will create the domain information field in response to the EST Certificate Signing Request (CSR) Attribute Request message by the pledge. o Establishing connectivity between different ACP (different acp- domain-name) is outside the scope of this specification. If it is being done through future extensions, then the rsub of all routing-subdomains across those autonomic networks need to be selected so the resulting routing-subdomain hashes do not collide. For example a large cooperation with its own private Trust Anchor may want to create different autonomic networks that initially should not be able to connect but where the option to do so should Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 56] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 be kept open. When taking this future possibility into account, it is easy to always select rsub so that no collisions happen. o Type: This field allows different address sub-schemes. This addresses the "upgradability" requirement. Assignment of types for this field will be maintained by IANA. The sub-scheme may imply a range or set of addresses assigned to the node, this is called the ACP address range/set and explained in each sub-scheme. Please refer to Section 6.10.7 and Appendix A.1 for further explanations why the following Sub-Addressing schemes are used and why multiple are necessary. The following summarizes the addressing schemes: +------+-----+----------------+-------+------------+ | type | Z | name | F-bit | V-bit size | +------+-----+----------------+-------+------------+ | 0x00 | 0 | ACP Zone | N/A | 1 bit | +------+-----+----------------+-------+------------+ | 0x00 | 1 | ACP Manual | N/A | 1 bit | +------+-----+----------------+-------+------------+ | 0x01 | N/A | VLong-ASA | 0 | 8-bits | +------+-----+----------------+-------+------------+ | 0x01 | N/A | VLong-ACP-edge | 1 | 16-bits | +------+-----+----------------+-------+------------+ Figure 10: Addressing schemes 6.10.3. ACP Zone Addressing Sub-Scheme The sub-scheme defined here is defined by the Type value 00b (zero) in the base scheme and 0 in the Z bit. 64 64 +-----------------+---+---------++-----------------------------+---+ | (base scheme) | Z | Zone-ID || Node-ID | | | | || Registrar-ID | Node-Number| V | +-----------------+---+---------++--------------+--------------+---+ 50 1 13 48 15 1 Figure 11: ACP Zone Addressing Sub-Scheme The fields are defined as follows: Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 57] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 o Zone-ID: If set to all zero bits: The Node-ID bits are used as an identifier (as opposed to a locator). This results in a non- hierarchical, flat addressing scheme. Any other value indicates a zone. See Section 6.10.3.1 on how this field is used in detail. o Z: MUST be 0. o Node-ID: A unique value for each node. The 64-bit Node-ID is derived and composed as follows: o Registrar-ID (48-bit): A number unique inside the domain that identifies the ACP registrar which assigned the Node-ID to the node. A MAC address of the ACP registrar can be used for this purpose. o Node-Number: A number which is unique for a given ACP registrar, to identify the node. This can be a sequentially assigned number. o V (1-bit): Virtualization bit: 0: Indicates the ACP itself ("ACP node base system); 1: Indicates the optional "host" context on the ACP node (see below). In the ACP Zone Addressing Sub-Scheme, the ACP address in the certificate has Zone-ID and V fields as all zero bits. The ACP address set includes addresses with any Zone-ID value and any V value. The "Node-ID" itself is unique in a domain (i.e., the Zone-ID is not required for uniqueness). Therefore, a node can be addressed either as part of a flat hierarchy (Zone-ID = 0), or with an aggregation scheme (any other Zone-ID). An address with Zone-ID = 0 is an identifier, with a Zone-ID !=0 it is a locator. See Section 6.10.3.1 for more details. The Virtual bit in this sub-scheme allows the easy addition of the ACP as a component to existing systems without causing problems in the port number space between the services in the ACP and the existing system. V:0 is the ACP router (autonomic node base system), V:1 is the host with pre-existing transport endpoints on it that could collide with the transport endpoints used by the ACP router. The ACP host could for example have a p2p virtual interface with the V:0 address as its router into the ACP. Depending on the software design of ASAs, which is outside the scope of this specification, they may use the V:0 or V:1 address. The location of the V bit(s) at the end of the address allows the announcement of a single prefix for each ACP node. For example, in a Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 58] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 network with 20,000 ACP nodes, this avoid 20,000 additional routes in the routing table. 6.10.3.1. Usage of the Zone-ID Field The Zone-ID allows for the introduction of route prefixes in the addressing scheme. Zone-ID = 0 is the default addressing scheme in an ACP domain. Every ACP node with a Zone Addressing Sub-Scheme address MUST respond to its ACP address with Zone-ID = 0. Used on its own this leads to a non-hierarchical address scheme, which is suitable for networks up to a certain size. Zone-ID = 0 addresses act as identifiers for the nodes, and aggregation of these address in the ACP routing table is not possible. If aggregation is required, the 13-bit Zone-ID value allows for up to 8191 zones. The allocation of Zone-ID's may either happen automatically through a to-be-defined algorithm; or it could be configured and maintained explicitly. If a node learns (see Appendix A.10.1) that it is part of a zone, it MUST also respond to its ACP address with that Zone-ID. In this case the ACP Loopback is configured with two ACP addresses: One for Zone- ID = 0 and one for the assigned Zone-ID. This method allows for a smooth transition between a flat addressing scheme and a hierarchical one. A node knowing it is in a zone MUST use that Zone-ID != 0 address in GRASP locator fields. This eliminates the use of the identifier address (Zone-ID = 0) in forwarding and the need for network wide reachability of those non-aggregable identifier addresses. Zone-ID != 0 addresses are assumed to be aggregable in routing/forwarding based on how they are allocated in the ACP topology. Note: The Zone-ID is one method to introduce structure or hierarchy into the ACP. Another way is the use of the routing subdomain field in the ACP that leads to multiple /48 Global IDs within an ACP domain. Note: Zones and Zone-ID as defined here are not related to [RFC4007] zones or zone_id. ACP zone addresses are not scoped (reachable only from within an RFC4007 zone) but reachable across the whole ACP. An RFC4007 zone_id is a zone index that has only local significance on a node, whereas an ACP Zone-ID is an identifier for an ACP zone that is unique across that ACP. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 59] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 6.10.4. ACP Manual Addressing Sub-Scheme The sub-scheme defined here is defined by the Type value 00b (zero) in the base scheme and 1 in the Z bit. 64 64 +---------------------+---+----------++-----------------------------+ | (base scheme) | Z | Subnet-ID|| Interface Identifier | +---------------------+---+----------++-----------------------------+ 50 1 13 Figure 12: ACP Manual Addressing Sub-Scheme The fields are defined as follows: o Subnet-ID: Configured subnet identifier. o Z: MUST be 1. o Interface Identifier. This sub-scheme is meant for "manual" allocation to subnets where the other addressing schemes cannot be used. The primary use case is for assignment to ACP connect subnets (see Section 8.1.1). "Manual" means that allocations of the Subnet-ID need to be done today with pre-existing, non-autonomic mechanisms. Every subnet that uses this addressing sub-scheme needs to use a unique Subnet-ID (unless some anycast setup is done). The Z bit field was added to distinguish Zone addressing and manual addressing sub-schemes without requiring one more bit in the base scheme and therefore allowing for the Vlong scheme (described below) to have one more bit available. Manual addressing sub-scheme addresses SHOULD NOT be used in ACP domain certificates. Any node capable to build ACP secure channels and permitted by Registrar policy to participate in building ACP secure channels SHOULD receive an ACP address (prefix) from one of the other ACP addressing sub-schemes. Nodes not capable (or permitted) to participate in ACP secure channels can connect to the ACP via ACP connect interfaces of ACP edge nodes (see Section 8.1), without setting up an ACP secure channel. Their ACP domain certificate MUST include an empty acp-address to indicate that their ACP domain certificate is only usable for non- ACP secure channel Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 60] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 authentication, such as end-to-end transport connections across the ACP or Data-Plane. Address management of ACP connect subnets is done using traditional assignment methods and existing IPv6 protocols. See Section 8.1.3 for details. 6.10.5. ACP Vlong Addressing Sub-Scheme The sub-scheme defined here is defined by the Type value 01b (one) in the base scheme. 50 78 +---------------------++-----------------------------+----------+ | (base scheme) || Node-ID | | || Registrar-ID |F| Node-Number| V | +---------------------++--------------+--------------+----------+ 50 46 1 23/15 8/16 Figure 13: ACP Vlong Addressing Sub-Scheme This addressing scheme foregoes the Zone-ID field to allow for larger, flatter routed networks (e.g., as in IoT) with 8421376 Node- Numbers (2^23+2^15). It also allows for up to 2^16 (i.e. 65536) different virtualized addresses within a node, which could be used to address individual software components in an ACP node. The fields are the same as in the Zone-ID sub-scheme with the following refinements: o F: format bit. This bit determines the format of the subsequent bits. o V: Virtualization bit: this is a field that is either 8 or 16 bits. For F=0, it is 8 bits, for F=1 it is 16 bits. The V bits are assigned by the ACP node. In the ACP certificate's ACP address Section 6.1.2, the V-bits are always set to 0. o Registrar-ID: To maximize Node-Number and V, the Registrar-ID is reduced to 46-bits. This still permits the use of the MAC address of an ACP registrar by removing the V and U bits from the 48-bits of a MAC address (those two bits are never unique, so they cannot be used to distinguish MAC addresses). o The Node-Number is unique to each ACP node. There are two formats for the Node-Number. When F=0, the node-number is 23 bits, for Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 61] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 F=1 it is 15 bits. Each format of node-number is considered to be in a unique number space. The F=0 bit format addresses are intended to be used for "general purpose" ACP nodes that would potentially have a limited number (< 256) of clients (ASA/Autonomic Functions or legacy services) of the ACP that require separate V(irtual) addresses. The F=1 bit Node-Numbers are intended for ACP nodes that are ACP edge nodes (see Section 8.1.1) or that have a large number of clients requiring separate V(irtual) addresses. For example large SDN controllers with container modular software architecture (see Section 8.1.2). In the Vlong addressing sub-scheme, the ACP address in the certificate has all V field bits as zero. The ACP address set for the node includes any V value. 6.10.6. Other ACP Addressing Sub-Schemes Before further addressing sub-schemes are defined, experience with the schemes defined here should be collected. The schemes defined in this document have been devised to allow hopefully sufficiently flexible setup of ACPs for a variety of situation. These reasons also lead to the fairly liberal use of address space: The Zone Addressing Sub-Scheme is intended to enable optimized routing in large networks by reserving bits for Zone-ID's. The Vlong addressing sub-scheme enables the allocation of 8/16-bit of addresses inside individual ACP nodes. Both address spaces allow distributed, uncoordinated allocation of node addresses by reserving bits for the registrar-ID field in the address. IANA is asked need to assign a new "type" for each new addressing sub-scheme. With the current allocations, only 2 more schemes are possible, so the last addressing scheme MUST provide further extensions (e.g., by reserving bits from it for further extensions). 6.10.7. ACP Registrars ACP registrars are responsible to enroll candidate ACP nodes with ACP domain certificates and associated trust point(s). They are also responsible that an ACP domain information field is included in the ACP domain certificate carrying the ACP domain name and the ACP nodes ACP address prefix. This address prefix is intended to persist unchanged through the lifetime of the ACP node. Because of the ACP addressing sub-schemes, an ACP domain can have multiple distributed ACP registrars that do not need to coordinate Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 62] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 for address assignment. ACP registrars can also be sub-CAs, in which case they can also assign ACP domain certificates without dependencies against a (shared) root-CA (except during renewals of their own certificates). ACP registrars are PKI registration authorities (RA) enhanced with the handling of the ACP domain certificate specific fields. They request certificates for ACP nodes from a Certificate Authority through any appropriate mechanism (out of scope in this document, but required to be BRSKI for ANI registrars). Only nodes that are trusted to be compliant with the requirements against registrar described in this section must be given the necessary credentials to perform this RA function, such as credentials for the BRSKI connection to the CA for ANI registrars. 6.10.7.1. Use of BRSKI or other Mechanism/Protocols Any protocols or mechanisms may be used as ACP registrars, as long as the resulting ACP certificate and trust anchors allow to perform the ACP domain membership described in Section 6.1.3 with other ACP domain members, and meet the ACP addressing requirements for its ACP domain information field as described further below in this section. An ACP registrar could be a person deciding whether to enroll a candidate ACP node and then orchestrating the enrollment of the ACP certificate and associated trust anchor, using command line or web based commands on the candidate ACP node and trust anchor to generate and sign the ACP domain certificate and configure certificate and trust anchors onto the node. The only currently defined protocol for ACP registrars is BRSKI ([I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra]). When BRSKI is used, the ACP nodes are called ANI nodes, and the ACP registrars are called BRSKI or ANI registrars. The BRSKI specification does not define the handling of the ACP domain information field because the rules do not depend on BRSKI but apply equally to any protocols/mechanisms an ACP registrar may use. 6.10.7.2. Unique Address/Prefix allocation ACP registrars MUST NOT allocate ACP address prefixes to ACP nodes via the ACP domain information field that would collide with the ACP address prefixes of other ACP nodes in the same ACP domain. This includes both prefixes allocated by the same ACP registrar to different ACP nodes as well as prefixes allocated by other ACP registrars for the same ACP domain. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 63] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 For this purpose, an ACP registrar MUST have one or more unique 46-bit identifiers called Registrar-IDs used to allocate ACP address prefixes. The lower 46-bits of a EUI-48 MAC addresses are globally unique 46 bit identifiers, so ACP registrars with known unique EUI-48 MAC addresses can use these as Registrar-IDs. Registrar-IDs do not need to be globally unique but only unique across the set of ACP registrars for an ACP domain, so other means to assign unique Registrar-IDs to ACP registrars can be used, such as configuration on the ACP registrars. When the candidate ACP device (called Pledge in BRSKI) is to be enrolled into an ACP domain, the ACP registrar needs to allocate a unique ACP address to the node and ensure that the ACP certificate gets a domain information field (Section 6.1.2) with the appropriate information - ACP domain-name, ACP-address, and so on. If the ACP registrar uses BRSKI, it signals the ACP domain information field to the Pledge via the EST /csrattrs command (see [I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra], section 5.9.2 - "EST CSR Attributes"). [RFC Editor: please update reference to section 5.9.2 accordingly with latest BRSKI draft at time of publishing, or RFC] 6.10.7.3. Addressing Sub-Scheme Policies The ACP registrar selects for the candidate ACP node a unique address prefix from an appropriate ACP addressing sub-scheme, either a zone addressing sub-scheme prefix (see Section 6.10.3), or a Vlong addressing sub-scheme prefix (see Section 6.10.5). The assigned ACP address prefix encoded in the domain information field of the ACP domain certificate indicates to the ACP node its ACP address information. The sub-addressing scheme indicates the prefix length: /127 for zone address sub-scheme, /120 or /112 for Vlong address sub- scheme. The first address of the prefix is the ACP address. All other addresses in the prefix are for other uses by the ACP node as described in the zone and Vlong addressing sub scheme sections. The ACP address prefix itself is then signaled by the ACP node into the ACP routing protocol (see Section 6.11) to establish IPv6 reachability across the ACP. The choice of addressing sub-scheme and prefix-length in the Vlong address sub-scheme is subject to ACP registrar policy. It could be an ACP domain wide policy, or a per ACP node or per ACP node type policy. For example, in BRSKI, the ACP registrar is aware of the IDevID of the candidate ACP node, which contains a "serialNnumber" that is typically indicating the node's vendor and device type and can be used to drive a policy selecting an appropriate addressing sub-scheme for the (class of) node(s). Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 64] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 ACP registrars SHOULD default to allocate ACP zone sub-address scheme addresses with Zone-ID 0. Allocation and use of zone sub-addresses with Zone-ID != 0 is outside the scope of this specification because it would need to go along with rules for extending ACP routing to multiple zones, which is outside the scope of this specification. ACP registrars that can use the IDevID of a candidate ACP device SHOULD be able to choose the zone vs. Vlong sub-address scheme for ACP nodes based on the "serialNumber" of the IDevID, for example by the PID (Product Identifier) part which identifies the product type, or the complete "serialNumber". In a simple allocation scheme, an ACP registrar remembers persistently across reboots its currently used Registrar-ID and for each addressing scheme (zone with Zone-ID 0, Vlong with /112, Vlong with /120), the next Node-Number available for allocation and increases it during successful enrollment to an ACP node. In this simple allocation scheme, the ACP registrar would not recycle ACP address prefixes from no longer used ACP nodes. 6.10.7.4. Address/Prefix Persistence When an ACP domain certificate is renewed or rekeyed via EST or other mechanisms, the ACP address/prefix in the ACP domain information field MUST be maintained unless security issues or violations of the unique address assignment requirements exist or are suspected by the ACP registrar. ACP address information SHOULD be maintained even when the renewing/ rekeying ACP registrar is not the same as the one that enrolled the prior ACP certificate. See Section 10.2.4 for an example. ACP address information SHOULD also be maintained even after an ACP certificate did expire or failed. See Section 6.1.5.5 and Section 6.1.5.6. 6.10.7.5. Further Details Section 10.2 discusses further informative details of ACP registrars: What interactions registrars need, what parameters they require, certificate renewal and limitations, use of sub-CAs on registrars and centralized policy control. 6.11. Routing in the ACP Once ULA address are set up all autonomic entities should run a routing protocol within the autonomic control plane context. This routing protocol distributes the ULA created in the previous section Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 65] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 for reachability. The use of the autonomic control plane specific context eliminates the probable clash with Data-Plane routing tables and also secures the ACP from interference from the configuration mismatch or incorrect routing updates. The establishment of the routing plane and its parameters are automatic and strictly within the confines of the autonomic control plane. Therefore, no explicit configuration is required. All routing updates are automatically secured in transit as the channels of the ACP are encrypted, and this routing runs only inside the ACP. The routing protocol inside the ACP is RPL ([RFC6550]). See Appendix A.4 for more details on the choice of RPL. RPL adjacencies are set up across all ACP channels in the same domain including all its routing subdomains. See Appendix A.7 for more details. 6.11.1. RPL Profile The following is a description of the RPL profile that ACP nodes need to support by default. The format of this section is derived from draft-ietf-roll-applicability-template. 6.11.1.1. Overview The choosen RPL profile is one that expects a fairly reliable network with reasonably fast links so that RPL convergence will be triggered immediately upon recognition of link failure/recovery. The profile is also designed to not require any RPL Data-Plane artifacts (such as defined in [RFC6553]). This is largely driven by the desire to avoid introducing the required Hop-by-Hop headers into the ACP forwarding plane, especially to support devices with silicon forwarding planes that cannot support insertion/removal of these headers in silicon or hop-by-hop forwarding based on them. Note: Insertion/removal of headers by a (potentially silicon based) ACP node would be be necessary when senders/receivers of ACP packets are legacy NOC devices connected via ACP connect (see Section 8.1.1 to the ACP. Their connectivity can be handled in RPL as non-RPL-aware leafs (or "Internet") according to the Data-Plane architecture explained in [I-D.ietf-roll-useofrplinfo]. To avoid Data-Plane artefacts, the profile uses a simple destination prefix based routing/forwarding table. To achieve this, the profiles uses only one RPL instanceID. This single instanceID can contain Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 66] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 only one Destination Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph (DODAG), and the routing/forwarding table can therefore only calculate a single class of service ("best effort towards the primary NOC/root") and cannot create optimized routing paths to accomplish latency or energy goals between any two nodes. Consider a network that has multiple NOCs in different locations. Only one NOC will become the DODAG root. Traffic to and from other NOCs has to be sent through the DODAG (shortest path tree) rooted in the primary NOC. Depending on topology, this can be an annoyance from a latency point of view or from minimizing network path resources, but this is deemed to be acceptable given how ACP traffic is "only" network management/control traffic. Using a single instanceID/DODAG does not introduce a single point of failure, as the DODAG will reconfigure itself when it detects data- plane forwarding failures including choosing a different root when the primary one fails. See Appendix A.10.4 for more details. The benefit of this profile, especially compared to other IGPs is that it does not calculate routes for node reachable through the same interface as the DODAG root. This RPL profile can therefore scale to much larger number of ACP nodes in the same amount of compute and memory than other routing protocols. Especially on nodes that are leafs of the topology or those close to those leafs. The lack of RPL Packet Information (RPI, the IPv6 header for RPL defined by [RFC6553]), means that the Data-Plane will have no rank value that can be used to detect loops. As a result, traffic may loop until the time-to-live (TTL) of the packet reaches zero. This is the same behavior as that of other IGPs that do not have the Data- Plane options of RPL. Since links in the ACP are assumed to be mostly reliable (or have link layer protection against loss) and because there is no stretch according to Section 6.11.1.7, loops caused by RPL routing packet loss should be exceedingly rare. There are a variety of mechanisms possible in RPL to further avoid temporary loops: DODAG Information Objects (DIOs) SHOULD be sent 2...3 times to inform children when losing the last parent. The technique in [RFC6550] section 8.2.2.6. (Detaching) SHOULD be favored over that in section 8.2.2.5., (Poisoning) because it allows local connectivity. Nodes SHOULD select more than one parent, at least 3 if possible, and send Destination Advertisement Objects (DAO)s to all of them in parallel. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 67] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 Additionally, failed ACP tunnels can be quickly discovered trough the secure channel protocol mechanisms such as IKEv2 Dead Peer Detection. This can function as a replacement for a Low-power and Lossy Networks' (LLN's) Expected Transmission Count (ETX) feature that is not used in this profile. A failure of an ACP tunnel should imediately signal the RPL control plane to pick a different parent. 6.11.1.2. RPL Instances Single RPL instance. Default RPLInstanceID = 0. 6.11.1.3. Storing vs. Non-Storing Mode RPL Mode of Operations (MOP): MUST support mode 2 - "Storing Mode of Operations with no multicast support". Implementations MAY support mode 3 ("... with multicast support" as that is a superset of mode 2). Note: Root indicates mode in DIO flow. 6.11.1.4. DAO Policy Proactive, aggressive DAO state maintenance: o Use K-flag in unsolicited DAO indicating change from previous information (to require DAO-ACK). o Retry such DAO DAO-RETRIES(3) times with DAO- ACK_TIME_OUT(256ms) in between. 6.11.1.5. Path Metric Hopcount. 6.11.1.6. Objective Function Objective Function (OF): Use OF0 [RFC6552]. No use of metric containers. rank_factor: Derived from link speed: <= 100Mbps: LOW_SPEED_FACTOR(5), else HIGH_SPEED_FACTOR(1) 6.11.1.7. DODAG Repair Global Repair: we assume stable links and ranks (metrics), so no need to periodically rebuild DODAG. DODAG version only incremented under catastrophic events (e.g., administrative action). Local Repair: As soon as link breakage is detected, send No-Path DAO for all the targets that were reachable only via this link. As soon Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 68] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 as link repair is detected, validate if this link provides you a better parent. If so, compute your new rank, and send new DIO that advertises your new rank. Then send a DAO with a new path sequence about yourself. stretch_rank: none provided ("not stretched"). Data Path Validation: Not used. Trickle: Not used. 6.11.1.8. Multicast Not used yet but possible because of the selected mode of operations. 6.11.1.9. Security [RFC6550] security not used, substituted by ACP security. Because the ACP links already include provisions for confidentiality and integrity protection, their usage at the RPL layer would be redundant, and so RPL security is not used. 6.11.1.10. P2P communications Not used. 6.11.1.11. IPv6 address configuration Every ACP node (RPL node) announces an IPv6 prefix covering the address(es) used in the ACP node. The prefix length depends on the chosen addressing sub-scheme of the ACP address provisioned into the certificate of the ACP node, e.g., /127 for Zone Addressing Sub- Scheme or /112 or /120 for Vlong addressing sub-scheme. See Section 6.10 for more details. Every ACP node MUST install a black hole (aka null) route for whatever ACP address space that it advertises (i.e.: the /96 or /127). This is avoid routing loops for addresses that an ACP node has not (yet) used. 6.11.1.12. Administrative parameters Administrative Preference ([RFC6550], 3.2.6 - to become root): Indicated in DODAGPreference field of DIO message. o Explicit configured "root": 0b100 Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 69] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 o ACP registrar (Default): 0b011 o ACP-connect (non-registrar): 0b010 o Default: 0b001. 6.11.1.13. RPL Data-Plane artifacts RPI (RPL Packet Information [RFC6553]): Not used as there is only a single instance, and data path validation is not being used. SRH (RPL Source Routing - RFC6552): Not used. Storing mode is being used. 6.11.1.14. Unknown Destinations Because RPL minimizes the size of the routing and forwarding table, prefixes reachable through the same interface as the RPL root are not known on every ACP node. Therefore traffic to unknown destination addresses can only be discovered at the RPL root. The RPL root SHOULD have attach safe mechanisms to operationally discover and log such packets. As this requirement raises additional data plane requirements, it does not apply to nodes where the administrative parameter to become root (Section 6.11.1.12) can always only be 0b001, e.g.: the node does not support explicit configuration to be root, or to be ACP registrar or to have ACP-connect functionality. If an ACP network is degraded to the point where there are no nodes that could be configured roots, ACP registrars or ACP-connect nodes, traffic to unknown destinations could not be diagnosed, but in the absence of any intelligent nodes supporting other than 0b001 administrative preference, there is likely also no diagnostic function possible. 6.12. General ACP Considerations Since channels are by default established between adjacent neighbors, the resulting overlay network does hop-by-hop encryption. Each node decrypts incoming traffic from the ACP, and encrypts outgoing traffic to its neighbors in the ACP. Routing is discussed in Section 6.11. 6.12.1. Performance There are no performance requirements against ACP implementations defined in this document because the performance requirements depend on the intended use case. It is expected that full autonomic node with a wide range of ASA can require high forwarding plane performance in the ACP, for example for telemetry. Implementations Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 70] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 of ACP to solely support traditional/SDN style use cases can benefit from ACP at lower performance, especially if the ACP is used only for critical operations, e.g., when the Data-Plane is not available. The design of the ACP as specified in this document is intended to support a wide range of performance options: It is intended to allow software-only implementations at potentially low performance, but can also support high performance options. See [RFC8368] for more details. 6.12.2. Addressing of Secure Channels In order to be independent of the Data-Plane (routing and addressing) the GRASP discovered (autonomic) ACP secure channels use IPv6 link local addresses between adjacent neighbors. Note: Section 8.2 specifies extensions in which secure channels are configured tunnels operating over the Data-Plane, so those secure channels cannot be independent of the Data-Plane. To avoid that Data-Plane configuration can impact the operations of the IPv6 (link-local) interface/address used for ACP channels, appropriate implementation considerations are required. If the IPv6 interface/link-local address is shared with the Data-Plane it needs to be impossible to unconfigure/disable it through configuration. Instead of sharing the IPv6 interface/link-local address, a separate (virtual) interface with a separate IPv6 link-local address can be used. For example, the ACP interface could be run over a separate MAC address of an underlying L2 (Ethernet) interface. For more details and options, see Appendix A.10.2. Note that other (non-ideal) implementation choices may introduce additional undesired dependencies against the Data-Plane. For example shared code and configuration of the secure channel protocols (IPsec / DTLS). 6.12.3. MTU The MTU for ACP secure channels must be derived locally from the underlying link MTU minus the secure channel encapsulation overhead. ACP secure Channel protocols do not need to perform MTU discovery because they are built across L2 adjacencies - the MTU on both sides connecting to the L2 connection are assumed to be consistent. Extensions to ACP where the ACP is for example tunneled need to consider how to guarantee MTU consistency. This is an issue of tunnels, not an issue of running the ACP across a tunnel. Transport stacks running across ACP can perform normal PMTUD (Path MTU Discovery). Because the ACP is meant to be prioritize reliability over performance, they MAY opt to only expect IPv6 minimum MTU (1280) Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 71] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 to avoid running into PMTUD implementation bugs or underlying link MTU mismatch problems. 6.12.4. Multiple links between nodes If two nodes are connected via several links, the ACP SHOULD be established across every link, but it is possible to establish the ACP only on a sub-set of links. Having an ACP channel on every link has a number of advantages, for example it allows for a faster failover in case of link failure, and it reflects the physical topology more closely. Using a subset of links (for example, a single link), reduces resource consumption on the node, because state needs to be kept per ACP channel. The negotiation scheme explained in Section 6.5 allows Alice (the node with the higher ACP address) to drop all but the desired ACP channels to Bob - and Bob will not re- try to build these secure channels from his side unless Alice shows up with a previously unknown GRASP announcement (e.g., on a different link or with a different address announced in GRASP). 6.12.5. ACP interfaces The ACP VRF has conceptually two type of interfaces: The "ACP Loopback interface(s)" to which the ACP ULA address(es) are assigned and the "ACP virtual interfaces" that are mapped to the ACP secure channels. The term "Loopback interface" was introduced initially to refer to an internal interface on a node that would allow IP traffic between transport endpoints on the node in the absence or failure of any or all external interfaces, see [RFC4291] section 2.5.3. Even though Loopback interfaces were originally designed to hold only Loopback addresses not reachable from outside the node, these interfaces are also commonly used today to hold addresses reachable from the outside. They are meant to be reachable independent of any external interface being operational, and therefore to be more resilient. These addresses on Loopback interfaces can be thought of as "node addresses" instead of "interface addresses", and that is what ACP address(es) are. This construct makes it therefore possible to address ACP nodes with a well-defined set of addresses independent of the number of external interfaces. For these reason, the ACP (ULA) address(es) are assigned to Loopback interface(s). Any type of ACP secure channels to another ACP node can be mapped to ACP virtual interfaces in following ways. This is independent of the Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 72] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 chosen secure channel protocol (IPsec, DTLS or other future protocol - standards or non-standards): ACP point-to-point virtual interface: Each ACP secure channel is mapped into a separate point-to-point ACP virtual interface. If a physical subnet has more than two ACP capable nodes (in the same domain), this implementation approach will lead to a full mesh of ACP virtual interfaces between them. ACP multi-access virtual interface: In a more advanced implementation approach, the ACP will construct a single multi-access ACP virtual interface for all ACP secure channels to ACP capable nodes reachable across the same underlying (physical) subnet. IPv6 link-local multicast packets sent into an ACP multi- access virtual interface are replicated to every ACP secure channel mapped into the ACP multicast-access virtual interface. IPv6 unicast packets sent into an ACP multi-access virtual interface are sent to the ACP secure channel that belongs to the ACP neighbor that is the next-hop in the ACP forwarding table entry used to reach the packets destination address. There is no requirement for all ACP nodes on the same multi-access subnet to use the same type of ACP virtual interface. This is purely a node local decision. ACP nodes MUST perform standard IPv6 operations across ACP virtual interfaces including SLAAC (Stateless Address Auto-Configuration) - [RFC4862]) to assign their IPv6 link local address on the ACP virtual interface and ND (Neighbor Discovery - [RFC4861]) to discover which IPv6 link-local neighbor address belongs to which ACP secure channel mapped to the ACP virtual interface. This is independent of whether the ACP virtual interface is point-to-point or multi-access. "Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (DAD)" according to [RFC4429] is RECOMMENDED because the likelihood for duplicates between ACP nodes is highly improbable as long as the address can be formed from a globally unique local assigned identifier (e.g., EUI-48/EUI-64, see below). ACP nodes MAY reduce the amount of link-local IPv6 multicast packets from ND by learning the IPv6 link-local neighbor address to ACP secure channel mapping from other messages such as the source address of IPv6 link-local multicast RPL messages - and therefore forego the need to send Neighbor Solicitation messages. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 73] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 The ACP virtual interface IPv6 link local address can be derived from any appropriate local mechanism such as node local EUI-48 or EUI-64 ("EUI" stands for "Extended Unique Identifier"). It MUST NOT depend on something that is attackable from the Data-Plane such as the IPv6 link-local address of the underlying physical interface, which can be attacked by SLAAC, or parameters of the secure channel encapsulation header that may not be protected by the secure channel mechanism. The link-layer address of an ACP virtual interface is the address used for the underlying interface across which the secure tunnels are built, typically Ethernet addresses. Because unicast IPv6 packets sent to an ACP virtual interface are not sent to a link-layer destination address but rather an ACP secure channel, the link-layer address fields SHOULD be ignored on reception and instead the ACP secure channel from which the message was received should be remembered. Multi-access ACP virtual interfaces are preferable implementations when the underlying interface is a (broadcast) multi-access subnet because they do reflect the presence of the underlying multi-access subnet into the virtual interfaces of the ACP. This makes it for example simpler to build services with topology awareness inside the ACP VRF in the same way as they could have been built running natively on the multi-access interfaces. Consider also the impact of point-to-point vs. multi-access virtual interface on the efficiency of flooding via link local multicasted messages: Assume a LAN with three ACP neighbors, Alice, Bob and Carol. Alice's ACP GRASP wants to send a link-local GRASP multicast message to Bob and Carol. If Alice's ACP emulates the LAN as one point-to-point virtual interface to Bob and one to Carol, The sending applications itself will send two copies, if Alice's ACP emulates a LAN, GRASP will send one packet and the ACP will replicate it. The result is the same. The difference happens when Bob and Carol receive their packet. If they use ACP point-to-point virtual interfaces, their GRASP instance would forward the packet from Alice to each other as part of the GRASP flooding procedure. These packets are unnecessary and would be discarded by GRASP on receipt as duplicates (by use of the GRASP Session ID). If Bob and Carol's ACP would emulate a multi- access virtual interface, then this would not happen, because GRASPs flooding procedure does not replicate back packets to the interface that they were received from. Note that link-local GRASP multicast messages are not sent directly as IPv6 link-local multicast UDP messages into ACP virtual interfaces, but instead into ACP GRASP virtual interfaces, that are Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 74] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 layered on top of ACP virtual interfaces to add TCP reliability to link-local multicast GRASP messages. Nevertheless, these ACP GRASP virtual interfaces perform the same replication of message and, therefore, result in the same impact on flooding. See Section 6.8.2 for more details. RPL does support operations and correct routing table construction across non-broadcast multi-access (NBMA) subnets. This is common when using many radio technologies. When such NBMA subnets are used, they MUST NOT be represented as ACP multi-access virtual interfaces because the replication of IPv6 link-local multicast messages will not reach all NBMA subnet neighbors. In result, GRASP message flooding would fail. Instead, each ACP secure channel across such an interface MUST be represented as a ACP point-to-point virtual interface. See also Appendix A.10.4. Care must also be taken when creating multi-access ACP virtual interfaces across ACP secure channels between ACP nodes in different domains or routing subdomains. If for example future inter-domain ACP policies are defined as "peer-to-peer" policies, it is easier to create ACP point-to-point virtual interfaces for these inter-domain secure channels. 7. ACP support on L2 switches/ports (Normative) 7.1. Why (Benefits of ACP on L2 switches) ANrtr1 ------ ANswitch1 --- ANswitch2 ------- ANrtr2 .../ \ \ ... ANrtrM ------ \ ------- ANrtrN ANswitchM ... Figure 14: Topology with L2 ACP switches Consider a large L2 LAN with ANrtr1...ANrtrN connected via some topology of L2 switches. Examples include large enterprise campus networks with an L2 core, IoT networks or broadband aggregation networks which often have even a multi-level L2 switched topology. If the discovery protocol used for the ACP is operating at the subnet level, every ACP router will see all other ACP routers on the LAN as neighbors and a full mesh of ACP channels will be built. If some or all of the AN switches are autonomic with the same discovery protocol, then the full mesh would include those switches as well. A full mesh of ACP connections can create fundamental scale challenges. The number of security associations of the secure Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 75] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 channel protocols will likely not scale arbitrarily, especially when they leverage platform accelerated encryption/decryption. Likewise, any other ACP operations (such as routing) needs to scale to the number of direct ACP neighbors. An ACP router with just 4 physical interfaces might be deployed into a LAN with hundreds of neighbors connected via switches. Introducing such a new unpredictable scaling factor requirement makes it harder to support the ACP on arbitrary platforms and in arbitrary deployments. Predictable scaling requirements for ACP neighbors can most easily be achieved if in topologies such as these, ACP capable L2 switches can ensure that discovery messages terminate on them so that neighboring ACP routers and switches will only find the physically connected ACP L2 switches as their candidate ACP neighbors. With such a discovery mechanism in place, the ACP and its security associations will only need to scale to the number of physical interfaces instead of a potentially much larger number of "LAN-connected" neighbors. And the ACP topology will follow directly the physical topology, something which can then also be leveraged in management operations or by ASAs. In the example above, consider ANswitch1 and ANswitchM are ACP capable, and ANswitch2 is not ACP capable. The desired ACP topology is that ANrtr1 and ANrtrM only have an ACP connection to ANswitch1, and that ANswitch1, ANrtr2, ANrtrN have a full mesh of ACP connection amongst each other. ANswitch1 also has an ACP connection with ANswitchM and ANswitchM has ACP connections to anything else behind it. 7.2. How (per L2 port DULL GRASP) To support ACP on L2 switches or L2 switched ports of an L3 device, it is necessary to make those L2 ports look like L3 interfaces for the ACP implementation. This primarily involves the creation of a separate DULL GRASP instance/domain on every such L2 port. Because GRASP has a dedicated link-local IPv6 multicast address (ALL_GRASP_NEIGHBORS), it is sufficient that all packets for this address are being extracted at the port level and passed to that DULL GRASP instance. Likewise the IPv6 link-local multicast packets sent by that DULL GRASP instance need to be sent only towards the L2 port for this DULL GRASP instance. If the device with L2 ports is supporting per L2 port ACP DULL GRASP as well as MLD snooping ([RFC4541]), then MLD snooping must be changed to never forward packets for ALL_GRASP_NEIGHBORS because that would cause the problem that per L2 port ACP DULL GRASP is meant to overcome (forwarding DULL GRASP packets across L2 ports). Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 76] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 The rest of ACP operations can operate in the same way as in L3 devices: Assume for example that the device is an L3/L2 hybrid device where L3 interfaces are assigned to VLANs and each VLAN has potentially multiple ports. DULL GRASP is run as described individually on each L2 port. When it discovers a candidate ACP neighbor, it passes its IPv6 link-local address and supported secure channel protocols to the ACP secure channel negotiation that can be bound to the L3 (VLAN) interface. It will simply use link-local IPv6 multicast packets to the candidate ACP neighbor. Once a secure channel is established to such a neighbor, the virtual interface to which this secure channel is mapped should then actually be the L2 port and not the L3 interface to best map the actual physical topology into the ACP virtual interfaces. See Section 6.12.5 for more details about how to map secure channels into ACP virtual interfaces. Note that a single L2 port can still have multiple ACP neighbors if it connect for example to multiple ACP neighbors via a non-ACP enabled switch. The per L2 port ACP virtual interface can therefore still be a multi-access virtual LAN. For example, in the above picture, ANswitch1 would run separate DULL GRASP instances on its ports to ANrtr1, ANswitch2 and ANswitchI, even though all those three ports may be in the data plane in the same (V)LAN and perform L2 switching between these ports, ANswitch1 would perform ACP L3 routing between them. The description in the previous paragraph was specifically meant to illustrate that on hybrid L3/L2 devices that are common in enterprise, IoT and broadband aggregation, there is only the GRASP packet extraction (by Ethernet address) and GRASP link-local multicast per L2-port packet injection that has to consider L2 ports at the hardware forwarding level. The remaining operations are purely ACP control plane and setup of secure channels across the L3 interface. This hopefully makes support for per-L2 port ACP on those hybrid devices easy. This L2/L3 optimized approach is subject to "address stealing", e.g., where a device on one port uses addresses of a device on another port. This is a generic issue in L2 LANs and switches often already have some form of "port security" to prohibit this. They rely on NDP or DHCP learning of which port/MAC-address and IPv6 address belong together and block duplicates. This type of function needs to be enabled to prohibit DoS attacks. Likewise the GRASP DULL instance needs to ensure that the IPv6 address in the locator-option matches the source IPv6 address of the DULL GRASP packet. In devices without such a mix of L2 port/interfaces and L3 interfaces (to terminate any transport layer connections), implementation details will differ. Logically most simply every L2 port is Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 77] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 considered and used as a separate L3 subnet for all ACP operations. The fact that the ACP only requires IPv6 link-local unicast and multicast should make support for it on any type of L2 devices as simple as possible. A generic issue with ACP in L2 switched networks is the interaction with the Spanning Tree Protocol. Without further L2 enhancements, the ACP would run only across the active STP topology and the ACP would be interrupted and re-converge with STP changes. Ideally, ACP peering should be built also across ports that are blocked in STP so that the ACP does not depend on STP and can continue to run unaffected across STP topology changes, where re-convergence can be quite slow. The above described simple implementation options are not sufficient to achieve this. 8. Support for Non-ACP Components (Normative) 8.1. ACP Connect 8.1.1. Non-ACP Controller / NMS system The Autonomic Control Plane can be used by management systems, such as controllers or network management system (NMS) hosts (henceforth called simply "NMS hosts"), to connect to devices (or other type of nodes) through it. For this, an NMS host must have access to the ACP. The ACP is a self-protecting overlay network, which allows by default access only to trusted, autonomic systems. Therefore, a traditional, non-ACP NMS system does not have access to the ACP by default, such as any other external node. If the NMS host is not autonomic, i.e., it does not support autonomic negotiation of the ACP, then it can be brought into the ACP by explicit configuration. To support connections to adjacent non-ACP nodes, an ACP node must support "ACP connect" (sometimes also called "autonomic connect"): "ACP connect" is an interface level configured workaround for connection of trusted non-ACP nodes to the ACP. The ACP node on which ACP connect is configured is called an "ACP edge node". With ACP connect, the ACP is accessible from those non-ACP nodes (such as NOC systems) on such an interface without those non-ACP nodes having to support any ACP discovery or ACP channel setup. This is also called "native" access to the ACP because to those (NOC) systems the interface looks like a normal network interface (without any encryption/novel-signaling). Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 78] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 Data-Plane "native" (no ACP) . +--------+ +----------------+ . +-------------+ | ACP | |ACP Edge Node | . | | | Node | | | v | | | |-------|...[ACP VRF]....+-----------------| |+ | | ^ |. | | NOC Device || | | . | .[Data-Plane]..+-----------------| "NMS hosts" || | | . | [ ] | . ^ | || +--------+ . +----------------+ . . +-------------+| . . . +-------------+ . . . Data-Plane "native" . ACP "native" (unencrypted) + ACP auto-negotiated . "ACP connect subnet" and encrypted . ACP connect interface e.g., "VRF ACP native" (config) Figure 15: ACP connect ACP connect has security consequences: All systems and processes connected via ACP connect have access to all ACP nodes on the entire ACP, without further authentication. Thus, the ACP connect interface and (NOC) systems connected to it must be physically controlled/ secured. For this reason the mechanisms described here do explicitly not include options to allow for a non-ACP router to be connected across an ACP connect interface and addresses behind such a router routed inside the ACP. An ACP connect interface provides exclusively access to only the ACP. This is likely insufficient for many NMS hosts. Instead, they would require a second "Data-Plane" interface outside the ACP for connections between the NMS host and administrators, or Internet based services, or for direct access to the Data-Plane. The document "Using Autonomic Control Plane for Stable Connectivity of Network OAM" [RFC8368] explains in more detail how the ACP can be integrated in a mixed NOC environment. An ACP connect interface SHOULD use an IPv6 address/prefix from the ACP Manual Addressing Sub-Scheme (Section 6.10.4), letting the operator configure for example only the Subnet-ID and having the node automatically assign the remaining part of the prefix/address. It SHOULD NOT use a prefix that is also routed outside the ACP so that the addresses clearly indicate whether it is used inside the ACP or not. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 79] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 The prefix of ACP connect subnets MUST be distributed by the ACP edge node into the ACP routing protocol (RPL). The NMS hosts MUST connect to prefixes in the ACP routing table via its ACP connect interface. In the simple case where the ACP uses only one ULA prefix and all ACP connect subnets have prefixes covered by that ULA prefix, NMS hosts can rely on [RFC6724] to determine longest match prefix routes towards its different interfaces, ACP and data-plane. With RFC6724, The NMS host will select the ACP connect interface for all addresses in the ACP because any ACP destination address is longest matched by the address on the ACP connect interface. If the NMS hosts ACP connect interface uses another prefix or if the ACP uses multiple ULA prefixes, then the NMS hosts require (static) routes towards the ACP interface for these prefixes. When an ACP Edge node receives a packet from an ACP connect interface, the ACP Edge node MUST only forward the packet into the ACP if the packet has an IPv6 source address from that interface. This is sometimes called "RPF filtering". This MAY be changed through administrative measures. To limit the security impact of ACP connect, nodes supporting it SHOULD implement a security mechanism to allow configuration/use of ACP connect interfaces only on nodes explicitly targeted to be deployed with it (those in physically secure locations such as a NOC). For example, the registrar could disable the ability to enable ACP connect on devices during enrollment and that property could only be changed through re-enrollment. See also Appendix A.10.5. 8.1.2. Software Components The ACP connect mechanism be only be used to connect physically external systems (NMS hosts) to the ACP but also other applications, containers or virtual machines. In fact, one possible way to eliminate the security issue of the external ACP connect interface is to collocate an ACP edge node and an NMS host by making one a virtual machine or container inside the other; and therefore converting the unprotected external ACP subnet into an internal virtual subnet in a single device. This would ultimately result in a fully ACP enabled NMS host with minimum impact to the NMS hosts software architecture. This approach is not limited to NMS hosts but could equally be applied to devices consisting of one or more VNF (virtual network functions): An internal virtual subnet connecting out-of-band management interfaces of the VNFs to an ACP edge router VNF. The core requirement is that the software components need to have a network stack that permits access to the ACP and optionally also the Data-Plane. Like in the physical setup for NMS hosts this can be realized via two internal virtual subnets. One that is connecting to Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 80] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 the ACP (which could be a container or virtual machine by itself), and one (or more) connecting into the Data-Plane. This "internal" use of ACP connect approach should not considered to be a "workaround" because in this case it is possible to build a correct security model: It is not necessary to rely on unprovable external physical security mechanisms as in the case of external NMS hosts. Instead, the orchestration of the ACP, the virtual subnets and the software components can be done by trusted software that could be considered to be part of the ANI (or even an extended ACP). This software component is responsible for ensuring that only trusted software components will get access to that virtual subnet and that only even more trusted software components will get access to both the ACP virtual subnet and the Data-Plane (because those ACP users could leak traffic between ACP and Data-Plane). This trust could be established for example through cryptographic means such as signed software packages. 8.1.3. Auto Configuration ACP edge nodes, NMS hosts and software components that as described in the previous section are meant to be composed via virtual interfaces SHOULD support on the ACP connect subnet StateLess Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC - [RFC4862]) and route auto configuration according to [RFC4191]. The ACP edge node acts as the router on the ACP connect subnet, providing the (auto-)configured prefix for the ACP connect subnet to NMS hosts and/or software components. The ACP edge node uses route prefix option of RFC4191 to announce the default route (::/) with a lifetime of 0 and aggregated prefixes for routes in the ACP routing table with normal lifetimes. This will ensure that the ACP edge node does not become a default router, but that the NMS hosts and software components will route the prefixes used in the ACP to the ACP edge node. Aggregated prefix means that the ACP edge node needs to only announce the /48 ULA prefixes used in the ACP but none of the actual /64 (Manual Addressing Sub-Scheme), /127 (ACP Zone Addressing Sub- Scheme), /112 or /120 (Vlong Addressing Sub-Scheme) routes of actual ACP nodes. If ACP interfaces are configured with non ULA prefixes, then those prefixes cannot be aggregated without further configured policy on the ACP edge node. This explains the above recommendation to use ACP ULA prefix covered prefixes for ACP connect interfaces: They allow for a shorter list of prefixes to be signaled via RFC4191 to NMS hosts and software components. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 81] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 The ACP edge nodes that have a Vlong ACP address MAY allocate a subset of their /112 or /120 address prefix to ACP connect interface(s) to eliminate the need to non-autonomically configure/ provision the address prefixes for such ACP connect interfaces. 8.1.4. Combined ACP/Data-Plane Interface (VRF Select) Combined ACP and Data-Plane interface . +--------+ +--------------------+ . +--------------+ | ACP | |ACP Edge No | . | NMS Host(s) | | Node | | | . | / Software | | | | [ACP ]. | . | |+ | | | .[VRF ] .[VRF ] | v | "ACP address"|| | +-------+. .[Select].+--------+ "Date Plane || | | ^ | .[Data ]. | | Address(es)"|| | | . | [Plane] | | || | | . | [ ] | +--------------+| +--------+ . +--------------------+ +--------------+ . Data-Plane "native" and + ACP auto-negotiated/encrypted Figure 16: VRF select Using two physical and/or virtual subnets (and therefore interfaces) into NMS Hosts (as per Section 8.1.1) or Software (as per Section 8.1.2) may be seen as additional complexity, for example with legacy NMS Hosts that support only one IP interface. To provide a single subnet into both ACP and Data-Plane, the ACP Edge node needs to de-multiplex packets from NMS hosts into ACP VRF and Data-Plane. This is sometimes called "VRF select". If the ACP VRF has no overlapping IPv6 addresses with the Data-Plane (it should have no overlapping addresses), then this function can use the IPv6 Destination address. The problem is Source Address Selection on the NMS Host(s) according to RFC6724. Consider the simple case: The ACP uses only one ULA prefix, the ACP IPv6 prefix for the Combined ACP and Data-Plane interface is covered by that ULA prefix. The ACP edge node announces both the ACP IPv6 prefix and one (or more) prefixes for the Data-Plane. Without further policy configurations on the NMS Host(s), it may select its ACP address as a source address for Data-Plane ULA destinations because of Rule 8 of RFC6724. The ACP edge node can pass on the packet to the Data-Plane, but the ACP source address should not be used for Data-Plane traffic, and return traffic may fail. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 82] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 If the ACP carries multiple ULA prefixes or non-ULA ACP connect prefixes, then the correct source address selection becomes even more problematic. With separate ACP connect and Data-Plane subnets and RFC4191 prefix announcements that are to be routed across the ACP connect interface, RFC6724 source address selection Rule 5 (use address of outgoing interface) will be used, so that above problems do not occur, even in more complex cases of multiple ULA and non-ULA prefixes in the ACP routing table. To achieve the same behavior with a Combined ACP and Data-Plane interface, the ACP Edge Node needs to behave as two separate routers on the interface: One link-local IPv6 address/router for its ACP reachability, and one link-local IPv6 address/router for its Data- Plane reachability. The Router Advertisements for both are as described above (Section 8.1.3): For the ACP, the ACP prefix is announced together with RFC4191 option for the prefixes routed across the ACP and lifetime=0 to disqualify this next-hop as a default router. For the Data-Plane, the Data-Plane prefix(es) are announced together with whatever dafault router parameters are used for the Data-Plane. In result, RFC6724 source address selection Rule 5.5 may result in the same correct source address selection behavior of NMS hosts without further configuration on it as the separate ACP connect and Data-Plane interfaces. As described in the text for Rule 5.5, this is only a MAY, because IPv6 hosts are not required to track next-hop information. If an NMS Host does not do this, then separate ACP connect and Data-Plane interfaces are the preferable method of attachment. Hosts implementing [RFC8028] should (instead of may) implement [RFC6724] Rule 5.5, so it is preferred for hosts to support [RFC8028]. ACP edge nodes MAY support the Combined ACP and Data-Plane interface. 8.1.5. Use of GRASP GRASP can and should be possible to use across ACP connect interfaces, especially in the architectural correct solution when it is used as a mechanism to connect Software (e.g., ASA or legacy NMS applications) to the ACP. Given how the ACP is the security and transport substrate for GRASP, the requirements for devices connected via ACP connect is that those are equivalently (if not better) secured against attacks and run only software that is equally (if not better) protected, known (or Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 83] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 trusted) not to be malicious and accordingly designed to isolate access to the ACP against external equipment. The difference in security is that cryptographic security of the ACP secure channel is replaced by required physical security of the network connection between an ACP edge node and the NMS or other host reachable via the ACP connect interface. Node integrity too is expected to be easier because the ACP connect node, the ACP connect link and the nodes connecting to it must be in a contiguous secure location, hence assuming there can be no physical attack against the devices. When using "Combined ACP and Data-Plane Interfaces", care must be taken that only GRASP messages intended for the ACP GRASP domain received from Software or NMS Hosts are forwarded by ACP edge nodes. Currently there is no definition for a GRASP security and transport substrate beside the ACP, so there is no definition how such Software/NMS Host could participate in two separate GRASP Domains across the same subnet (ACP and Data-Plane domains). At current it is assumed that all GRASP packets on a Combined ACP and Data-Plane interface belong to the GRASP ACP Domain. They must all use the ACP IPv6 addresses of the Software/NMS Hosts. The link-local IPv6 addresses of Software/NMS Hosts (used for GRASP M_DISCOVERY and M_FLOOD messages) are also assumed to belong to the ACP address space. 8.2. ACP through Non-ACP L3 Clouds (Remote ACP neighbors) Not all nodes in a network may support the ACP. If non-ACP Layer-2 devices are between ACP nodes, the ACP will work across it since it is IP based. However, the autonomic discovery of ACP neighbors via DULL GRASP is only intended to work across L2 connections, so it is not sufficient to autonomically create ACP connections across non-ACP Layer-3 devices. 8.2.1. Configured Remote ACP neighbor On the ACP node, remote ACP neighbors are configured explicitly. The parameters of such a "connection" are described in the following ABNF. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 84] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 connection = [ method , local-addr, remote-addr, ?pmtu ] method = [ "IKEv2" , ?port ] method //= [ "DTLS", port ] local-addr = [ address , ?vrf ] remote-addr = [ address ] address = ("any" | ipv4-address | ipv6-address ) vrf = tstr ; Name of a VRF on this node with local-address Figure 17: Parameters for remote ACP neighbors Explicit configuration of a remote-peer according to this ABNF provides all the information to build a secure channel without requiring a tunnel to that peer and running DULL GRASP inside of it. The configuration includes the parameters otherwise signaled via DULL GRASP: local address, remote (peer) locator and method. The differences over DULL GRASP local neighbor discovery and secure channel creation are as follows: o The local and remote address can be IPv4 or IPv6 and are typically global scope addresses. o The VRF across which the connection is built (and in which local- addr exists) can to be specified. If vrf is not specified, it is the default VRF on the node. In DULL GRASP the VRF is implied by the interface across which DULL GRASP operates. o If local address is "any", the local address used when initiating a secure channel connection is decided by source address selection ([RFC6724] for IPv6). As a responder, the connection listens on all addresses of the node in the selected VRF. o Configuration of port is only required for methods where no defaults exist (e.g., "DTLS"). o If remote address is "any", the connection is only a responder. It is a "hub" that can be used by multiple remote peers to connect simultaneously - without having to know or configure their addresses. Example: Hub site for remote "spoke" sites reachable over the Internet. o Pmtu should be configurable to overcome issues/limitations of Path MTU Discovery (PMTUD). o IKEv2/IPsec to remote peers should support the optional NAT Traversal (NAT-T) procedures. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 85] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 8.2.2. Tunneled Remote ACP Neighbor An IPinIP, GRE or other form of pre-existing tunnel is configured between two remote ACP peers and the virtual interfaces representing the tunnel are configured for "ACP enable". This will enable IPv6 link local addresses and DULL on this tunnel. In result, the tunnel is used for normal "L2 adjacent" candidate ACP neighbor discovery with DULL and secure channel setup procedures described in this document. Tunneled Remote ACP Neighbor requires two encapsulations: the configured tunnel and the secure channel inside of that tunnel. This makes it in general less desirable than Configured Remote ACP Neighbor. Benefits of tunnels are that it may be easier to implement because there is no change to the ACP functionality - just running it over a virtual (tunnel) interface instead of only native interfaces. The tunnel itself may also provide PMTUD while the secure channel method may not. Or the tunnel mechanism is permitted/possible through some firewall while the secure channel method may not. 8.2.3. Summary Configured/Tunneled Remote ACP neighbors are less "indestructible" than L2 adjacent ACP neighbors based on link local addressing, since they depend on more correct Data-Plane operations, such as routing and global addressing. Nevertheless, these options may be crucial to incrementally deploy the ACP, especially if it is meant to connect islands across the Internet. Implementations SHOULD support at least Tunneled Remote ACP Neighbors via GRE tunnels - which is likely the most common router-to-router tunneling protocol in use today. 9. Benefits (Informative) 9.1. Self-Healing Properties The ACP is self-healing: o New neighbors will automatically join the ACP after successful validation and will become reachable using their unique ULA address across the ACP. o When any changes happen in the topology, the routing protocol used in the ACP will automatically adapt to the changes and will continue to provide reachability to all nodes. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 86] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 o The ACP tracks the validity of peer certificates and tears down ACP secure channels when a peer certificate has expired. When short-lived certificates with lifetimes in the order of OCSP/CRL refresh times are used, then this allows for removal of invalid peers (whose certificate was not renewed) at similar speeds as when using OCSP/CRL. The same benefit can be achieved when using CRL/OCSP, periodically refreshing the revocation information and also tearing down ACP secure channels when the peer's (long-lived) certificate is revoked. There is no requirement against ACP implementations to require this enhancement though to keep the mandatory implementations simpler. The ACP can also sustain network partitions and mergers. Practically all ACP operations are link local, where a network partition has no impact. Nodes authenticate each other using the domain certificates to establish the ACP locally. Addressing inside the ACP remains unchanged, and the routing protocol inside both parts of the ACP will lead to two working (although partitioned) ACPs. There are few central dependencies: A certificate revocation list (CRL) may not be available during a network partition; a suitable policy to not immediately disconnect neighbors when no CRL is available can address this issue. Also, an ACP registrar or Certificate Authority might not be available during a partition. This may delay renewal of certificates that are to expire in the future, and it may prevent the enrollment of new nodes during the partition. Highly resilient ACP designs can be built by using ACP registrars with embedded sub-CA, as outlined in Section 10.2.4. As long as a partition is left with one or more of such ACP registrars, it can continue to enroll new candidate ACP nodes as long as the ACP registrar's sub-CA certificate does not expire. Because the ACP addressing relies on unique Registrar-IDs, a later re-merge of partitions will also not cause problems with ACP addresses assigned during partitioning. After a network partition, a re-merge will just establish the previous status, certificates can be renewed, the CRL is available, and new nodes can be enrolled everywhere. Since all nodes use the same trust anchor(s), a re-merge will be smooth. Merging two networks with different trust anchors requires the ACP nodes to trust the union of Trust Anchors. As long as the routing- subdomain hashes are different, the addressing will not overlap, which only happens in the unlikely event of a 40-bit hash collision in SHA256 (see Section 6.10). Note that the complete mechanisms to merge networks is out of scope of this specification. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 87] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 It is also highly desirable for implementation of the ACP to be able to run it over interfaces that are administratively down. If this is not feasible, then it might instead be possible to request explicit operator override upon administrative actions that would administratively bring down an interface across which the ACP is running. Especially if bringing down the ACP is known to disconnect the operator from the node. For example any such down administrative action could perform a dependency check to see if the transport connection across which this action is performed is affected by the down action (with default RPL routing used, packet forwarding will be symmetric, so this is actually possible to check). 9.2. Self-Protection Properties 9.2.1. From the outside As explained in Section 6, the ACP is based on secure channels built between nodes that have mutually authenticated each other with their domain certificates. The channels themselves are protected using standard encryption technologies such as DTLS or IPsec which provide additional authentication during channel establishment, data integrity and data confidentiality protection of data inside the ACP and in addition, provide replay protection. An attacker will not be able to join the ACP unless having a valid domain certificate, also packet injection and sniffing traffic will not be possible due to the security provided by the encryption protocol. The ACP also serves as protection (through authentication and encryption) for protocols relevant to OAM that may not have secured protocol stack options or where implementation or deployment of those options fail on some vendor/product/customer limitations. This includes protocols such as SNMP ([RFC3411]), NTP ([RFC5905]), PTP ([IEEE-1588-2008]), DNS ([RFC1886]), DHCPv6 ([RFC3315]), syslog ([RFC3164]), Radius ([RFC2865]), Diameter ([RFC6733]), TACACS ([RFC1492]), IPFIX ([RFC7011]), Netflow ([RFC3954]) - just to name a few. Protection via the ACP secure hop-by-hop channels for these protocols is meant to be only a stopgap though: The ultimate goal is for these and other protocols to use end-to-end encryption utilizing the domain certificate and rely on the ACP secure channels primarily for zero-touch reliable connectivity, but not primarily for security. The remaining attack vector would be to attack the underlying ACP protocols themselves, either via directed attacks or by denial-of- service attacks. However, as the ACP is built using link-local IPv6 addresses, remote attacks from the data-plane are impossible as long as the data-plane has no facilities to remotely sent IPv6 link-local Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 88] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 packets. The only exception are ACP connected interfaces which require higher physical protection. The ULA addresses are only reachable inside the ACP context, therefore, unreachable from the Data-Plane. Also, the ACP protocols should be implemented to be attack resistant and not consume unnecessary resources even while under attack. 9.2.2. From the inside The security model of the ACP is based on trusting all members of the group of nodes that receive an ACP domain certificate for the same domain. Attacks from the inside by a compromised group member are therefore the biggest challenge. Group members must be protected against attackers so that there is no easy way to compromise them, or use them as a proxy for attacking other devices across the ACP. For example, management plane functions (transport ports) should only be reachable from the ACP but not the Data-Plane. Especially for those management plane functions that have no good protection by themselves because they do not have secure end-to-end transport and to whom ACP not only provides automatic reliable connectivity but also protection against attacks. Protection across all potential attack vectors is typically easier to do in devices whose software is designed from the ground up with security in mind than with legacy software based systems where the ACP is added on as another feature. As explained above, traffic across the ACP SHOULD still be end-to-end encrypted whenever possible. This includes traffic such as GRASP, EST and BRSKI inside the ACP. This minimizes man in the middle attacks by compromised ACP group members. Such attackers cannot eavesdrop or modify communications, they can just filter them (which is unavoidable by any means). See Appendix A.10.8 for further considerations how to avoid and deal with compromised nodes. 9.3. The Administrator View An ACP is self-forming, self-managing and self-protecting, therefore has minimal dependencies on the administrator of the network. Specifically, since it is (intended to be) independent of configuration, there is only limited scope for configuration errors on the ACP itself. The administrator may have the option to enable or disable the entire approach, but detailed configuration is not possible. This means that the ACP must not be reflected in the running configuration of nodes, except a possible on/off switch (and even that is undesirable). Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 89] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 While configuration (except for Section 8 and Section 10.2) is not possible, an administrator must have full visibility of the ACP and all its parameters, to be able to do trouble-shooting. Therefore, an ACP must support all show and debug options, as for any other network function. Specifically, a network management system or controller must be able to discover the ACP, and monitor its health. This visibility of ACP operations must clearly be separated from visibility of Data-Plane so automated systems will never have to deal with ACP aspects unless they explicitly desire to do so. Since an ACP is self-protecting, a node not supporting the ACP, or without a valid domain certificate cannot connect to it. This means that by default a traditional controller or network management system cannot connect to an ACP. See Section 8.1.1 for more details on how to connect an NMS host into the ACP. 10. ACP Operations (Informative) The following sections document important operational aspects of the ACP. They are not normative because they do not impact the interoperability between components of the ACP, but they include recommendations/requirements for the internal operational model beneficial or necessary to achieve the desired use-case benefits of the ACP (see Section 3). o Section 10.1 describes recommended operator diagnostics capabilities of ACP nodes. The have been derived from diagnostic of a commercially available ACP implementation. o Section 10.2 describes high level how an ACP registrar needs to work, what its configuration parameters are and specific issues impacting the choices of deployment design due to renewal and revocation issues. It describes a model where ACP Registrars have their own sub-CA to provide the most distributed deployment option for ACP Registrars, and it describes considerations for centralized policy control of ACP Registrar operations. o Section 10.3 describes suggested ACP node behavior and operational interfaces (configuration options) to manage the ACP in so-called greenfield devices (previously unconfigured) and brownfield devices (preconfigured). The recommendations and suggestions of this chapter were derived from operational experience gained with a commercially available pre- standard ACP implementation. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 90] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 10.1. ACP (and BRSKI) Diagnostics Even though ACP and ANI in general are taking out many manual configuration mistakes through their automation, it is important to provide good diagnostics for them. The basic diagnostics is support of (yang) data models representing the complete (auto-)configuration and operational state of all components: BRSKI, GRASP, ACP and the infrastructure used by them: TLS/DTLS, IPsec, certificates, trust anchors, time, VRF and so on. While necessary, this is not sufficient: Simply representing the state of components does not allow operators to quickly take action - unless they do understand how to interpret the data, and that can mean a requirement for deep understanding of all components and how they interact in the ACP/ANI. Diagnostic supports should help to quickly answer the questions operators are expected to ask, such as "is the ACP working correctly?", or "why is there no ACP connection to a known neighboring node?" In current network management approaches, the logic to answer these questions is most often built as centralized diagnostics software that leverages the above mentioned data models. While this approach is feasible for components utilizing the ANI, it is not sufficient to diagnose the ANI itself: o Developing the logic to identify common issues requires operational experience with the components of the ANI. Letting each management system define its own analysis is inefficient. o When the ANI is not operating correctly, it may not be possible to run diagnostics from remote because of missing connectivity. The ANI should therefore have diagnostic capabilities available locally on the nodes themselves. o Certain operations are difficult or impossible to monitor in real- time, such as initial bootstrap issues in a network location where no capabilities exist to attach local diagnostics. Therefore it is important to also define means of capturing (logging) diagnostics locally for later retrieval. Ideally, these captures are also non-volatile so that they can survive extended power-off conditions - for example when a device that fails to be brought up zero-touch is being sent back for diagnostics at a more appropriate location. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 91] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 The most simple form of diagnostics answering questions such as the above is to represent the relevant information sequentially in dependency order, so that the first non-expected/non-operational item is the most likely root cause. Or just log/highlight that item. For example: Q: Is ACP operational to accept neighbor connections: o Check if any potentially necessary configuration to make ACP/ANI operational are correct (see Section 10.3 for a discussion of such commands). o Does the system time look reasonable, or could it be the default system time after clock chip battery failure (certificate checks depend on reasonable notion of time). o Does the node have keying material - domain certificate, trust anchors. o If no keying material and ANI is supported/enabled, check the state of BRSKI (not detailed in this example). o Check the validity of the domain certificate: * Does the certificate validate against the trust anchor? * Has it been revoked? * Was the last scheduled attempt to retrieve a CRL successful (e.g., do we know that our CRL information is up to date). * Is the certificate valid: validity start time in the past, expiration time in the future? * Does the certificate have a correctly formatted ACP domain information field? o Was the ACP VRF successfully created? o Is ACP enabled on one or more interfaces that are up and running? If all this looks good, the ACP should be running locally "fine" - but we did not check any ACP neighbor relationships. Question: why does the node not create a working ACP connection to a neighbor on an interface? Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 92] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 o Is the interface physically up? Does it have an IPv6 link-local address? o Is it enabled for ACP? o Do we successfully send DULL GRASP messages to the interface (link layer errors)? o Do we receive DULL GRASP messages on the interface? If not, some intervening L2 equipment performing bad MLD snooping could have caused problems. Provide e.g., diagnostics of the MLD querier IPv6 and MAC address. o Do we see the ACP objective in any DULL GRASP message from that interface? Diagnose the supported secure channel methods. o Do we know the MAC address of the neighbor with the ACP objective? If not, diagnose SLAAC/ND state. o When did we last attempt to build an ACP secure channel to the neighbor? o If it failed, why: * Did the neighbor close the connection on us or did we close the connection on it because the domain certificate membership failed? * If the neighbor closed the connection on us, provide any error diagnostics from the secure channel protocol. * If we failed the attempt, display our local reason: + There was no common secure channel protocol supported by the two neighbors (this could not happen on nodes supporting this specification because it mandates common support for IPsec). + The ACP domain certificate membership check (Section 6.1.3) fails: - The neighbor's certificate does not have the required trust anchor. Provide diagnostics which trust anchor it has (can identify whom the device belongs to). - The neighbor's certificate does not have the same domain (or no domain at all). Diagnose domain-name and potentially other cert info. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 93] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 - The neighbor's certificate has been revoked or could not be authenticated by OCSP. - The neighbor's certificate has expired - or is not yet valid. * Any other connection issues in e.g., IKEv2 / IPsec, DTLS?. Question: Is the ACP operating correctly across its secure channels? o Are there one or more active ACP neighbors with secure channels? o Is the RPL routing protocol for the ACP running? o Is there a default route to the root in the ACP routing table? o Is there for each direct ACP neighbor not reachable over the ACP virtual interface to the root a route in the ACP routing table? o Is ACP GRASP running? o Is at least one SRV.est objective cached (to support certificate renewal)? o Is there at least one BRSKI registrar objective cached (in case BRSKI is supported) o Is BRSKI proxy operating normally on all interfaces where ACP is operating? o ... These lists are not necessarily complete, but illustrate the principle and show that there are variety of issues ranging from normal operational causes (a neighbor in another ACP domain) over problems in the credentials management (certificate lifetimes), explicit security actions (revocation) or unexpected connectivity issues (intervening L2 equipment). The items so far are illustrating how the ANI operations can be diagnosed with passive observation of the operational state of its components including historic/cached/counted events. This is not necessary sufficient to provide good enough diagnostics overall: The components of ACP and BRSKI are designed with security in mind but they do not attempt to provide diagnostics for building the network itself. Consider two examples: Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 94] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 1. BRSKI does not allow for a neighboring device to identify the pledges certificate (IDevID). Only the selected BRSKI registrar can do this, but it may be difficult to disseminate information about undesired pledges from those BRSKI registrars to locations/ nodes where information about those pledges is desired. 2. The Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP, [LLDP]) disseminates information about nodes to their immediate neighbors, such as node model/type/software and interface name/number of the connection. This information is often helpful or even necessary in network diagnostics. It can equally considered to be too insecure to make this information available unprotected to all possible neighbors. An "interested adjacent party" can always determine the IDevID of a BRSKI pledge by behaving like a BRSKI proxy/registrar. Therefore the IDevID of a BRSKI pledge is not meant to be protected - it just has to be queried and is not signaled unsolicited (as it would be in LLDP) so that other observers on the same subnet can determine who is an "interested adjacent party". 10.2. ACP Registrars As described in Section 6.10.7, the ACP addressing mechanism is designed to enable lightweight, distributed and uncoordinated ACP registrars that are providing ACP address prefixes to candidate ACP nodes by enrolling them with an ACP domain certificate into an ACP domain via any appropriate mechanism/protocol, automated or not. This section discusses informatively more details and options for ACP registrars. 10.2.1. Registrar interactions This section summarizes and discusses the interactions with other entities required by an ACP registrar. In a simple instance of an ACP network, no central NOC component beside a trust anchor (root CA) is required. One or more uncoordinated acting ACP registrar can be set up, performing the following interactions: To orchestrate enrolling a candidate ACP node autonomically, the ACP registrar can rely on the ACP and use Proxies to reach the candidate ACP node, therefore allowing minimum pre-existing (auto-)configured network services on the candidate ACP node. BRSKI defines the BRSKI proxy, a design that can be adopted for various protocols that Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 95] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 Pledges/candidate ACP nodes could want to use, for example BRSKI over CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol), or proxying of Netconf. To reach a trust anchor unaware of the ACP, the ACP registrar would use the Data-Plane. ACP and Data-Plane in an ACP registrar could (and by default should be) completely isolated from each other at the network level. Only applications such as the ACP registrar would need the ability for their transport stacks to access both. In non-autonomic enrollment options, the Data-Plane between a ACP registrar and the candidate ACP node needs to be configured first. This includes the ACP registrar and the candidate ACP node. Then any appropriate set of protocols can be used between ACP registrar and candidate ACP node to discover the other side, and then connect and enroll (configure) the candidate ACP node with an ACP domain certificate. Netconf ZeroTouch ([I-D.ietf-netconf-zerotouch]) is an example protocol that could be used for this. BRSKI using optional discovery mechanisms is equally a possibility for candidate ACP nodes attempting to be enrolled across non-ACP networks, such as the Internet. When candidate ACP nodes have secure bootstrap, such as BRSKI Pledges, they will not trust to be configured/enrolled across the network, unless being presented with a voucher (see [RFC8366]) authorizing the network to take possession of the node. An ACP registrar will then need a method to retrieve such a voucher, either offline, or online from a MASA (Manufacturer Authorized Signing Authority). BRSKI and Netconf ZeroTouch are two protocols that include capabilities to present the voucher to the candidate ACP node. An ACP registrar could operate EST for ACP certificate renewal and/or act as a CRL Distribution point. A node performing these services does not need to support performing (initial) enrollment, but it does require the same above described connectivity as an ACP registrar: via the ACP to ACP nodes and via the Data-Plane to the trust anchor and other sources of CRL information. 10.2.2. Registrar Parameter The interactions of an ACP registrar outlined Section 6.10.7 and Section 10.2.1 above depend on the following parameters: A URL to the trust anchor (root CA) and credentials so that the ACP registrar can let the trust anchor sign candidate ACP member certificates. The ACP domain-name. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 96] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 The Registrar-ID to use. This could default to a MAC address of the ACP registrar. For recovery, the next-useable Node-IDs for zone (Zone-ID=0) sub- addressing scheme, for Vlong /112 and for Vlong /1120 sub- addressing scheme. These IDs would only need to be provisioned after recovering from a crash. Some other mechanism would be required to remember these IDs in a backup location or to recover them from the set of currently known ACP nodes. Policies if candidate ACP nodes should receive a domain certificate or not, for example based on the devices IDevID as in BRSKI. The ACP registrar may have a whitelist or blacklist of devices "serialNumbers" from their IDevID. Policies what type of address prefix to assign to a candidate ACP devices, based on likely the same information. For BRSKI or other mechanisms using vouchers: Parameters to determine how to retrieve vouchers for specific type of secure bootstrap candidate ACP nodes (such as MASA URLs), unless this information is automatically learned such as from the IDevID of candidate ACP nodes (as defined in BRSKI). 10.2.3. Certificate renewal and limitations When an ACP node renews/rekeys its certificate, it may end up doing so via a different registrar (e.g., EST server) than the one it originally received its ACP domain certificate from, for example because that original ACP registrar is gone. The ACP registrar through which the renewal/rekeying is performed would by default trust the ACP domain information from the ACP nodes current ACP domain certificate and maintain this information so that the ACP node maintains its ACP address prefix. In EST renewal/rekeying, the ACP nodes current ACP domain certificate is signaled during the TLS handshake. This simple scenario has two limitations: 1. The ACP registrars cannot directly assign certificates to nodes and therefore needs an "online" connection to the trust anchor (root CA). 2. Recovery from a compromised ACP registrar is difficult. When an ACP registrar is compromised, it can insert for example conflicting ACP domain information and create thereby an attack against other ACP nodes through the ACP routing protocol. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 97] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 Even when such a malicious ACP registrar is detected, resolving the problem may be difficult because it would require identifying all the wrong ACP domain certificates assigned via the ACP registrar after it was compromised. And without additional centralized tracking of assigned certificates there is no way to do this. 10.2.4. ACP Registrars with sub-CA In situations, where either of the above two limitations are an issue, ACP registrars could also be sub-CAs. This removes the need for connectivity to a root-CA whenever an ACP node is enrolled, and reduces the need for connectivity of such an ACP registrar to a root- CA to only those times when it needs to renew its own certificate. The ACP registrar would also now use its own (sub-CA) certificate to enroll and sign the ACP nodes certificates, and therefore it is only necessary to revoke a compromised ACP registrars sub-CA certificate. Alternatively one can let it expire and not renew it, when the certificate of the sub-CA is appropriately short-lived. As the ACP domain membership check verifies a peer ACP node's ACP domain certificate trust chain, it will also verify the signing certificate which is the compromised/revoked sub-CA certificate. Therefore ACP domain membership for an ACP node enrolled from a compromised and discovered ACP registrar will fail. ACP nodes enrolled by a compromised ACP registrar would automatically fail to establish ACP channels and ACP domain certificate renewal via EST and therefore revert to their role as a candidate ACP members and attempt to get a new ACP domain certificate from an ACP registrar - for example, via BRSKI. In result, ACP registrars that have an associated sub-CA makes isolating and resolving issues with compromised registrars easier. Note that ACP registrars with sub-CA functionality also can control the lifetime of ACP domain certificates easier and therefore also be used as a tool to introduce short lived certificates and not rely on CRL, whereas the certificates for the sub-CAs themselves could be longer lived and subject to CRL. 10.2.5. Centralized Policy Control When using multiple, uncoordinated ACP registrars, several advanced operations are potentially more complex than with a single, resilient policy control backend, for example including but not limited to: Which candidate ACP node is permitted or not permitted into an ACP domain. This may not be a decision to be taken upfront, so that a per-"serialNumber" policy can be loaded into every ACP registrar. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 98] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 Instead, it may better be decided in real-time including potentially a human decision in a NOC. Tracking of all enrolled ACP nodes and their certificate information. For example in support of revoking individual ACP nodes certificates. More flexible policies what type of address prefix or even what specific address prefix to assign to a candidate ACP node. These and other operations could be introduced more easily by introducing a centralized Policy Management System (PMS) and modifying ACP registrar behavior so that it queries the PMS for any policy decision occurring during the candidate ACP node enrollment process and/or the ACP node certificate renewal process. For example, which ACP address prefix to assign. Likewise the ACP registrar would report any relevant state change information to the PMS as well, for example when a certificate was successfully enrolled onto a candidate ACP node. 10.3. Enabling and disabling ACP/ANI Both ACP and BRSKI require interfaces to be operational enough to support sending/receiving their packets. In node types where interfaces are by default (e.g., without operator configuration) enabled, such as most L2 switches, this would be less of a change in behavior than in most L3 devices (e.g.: routers), where interfaces are by default disabled. In almost all network devices it is common though for configuration to change interfaces to a physically disabled state and that would break the ACP. In this section, we discuss a suggested operational model to enable/ disable interfaces and nodes for ACP/ANI in a way that minimizes the risk of operator action to break the ACP in this way, and that also minimizes operator surprise when ACP/ANI becomes supported in node software. 10.3.1. Filtering for non-ACP/ANI packets Whenever this document refers to enabling an interface for ACP (or BRSKI), it only requires to permit the interface to send/receive packets necessary to operate ACP (or BRSKI) - but not any other Data- Plane packets. Unless the Data-Plane is explicitly configured/ enabled, all packets not required for ACP/BRSKI should be filtered on input and output: Both BRSKI and ACP require link-local only IPv6 operations on interfaces and DULL GRASP. IPv6 link-local operations means the Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 99] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 minimum signaling to auto-assign an IPv6 link-local address and talk to neighbors via their link-local address: SLAAC (Stateless Address Auto-Configuration - [RFC4862]) and ND (Neighbor Discovery - [RFC4861]). When the device is a BRSKI pledge, it may also require TCP/TLS connections to BRSKI proxies on the interface. When the device has keying material, and the ACP is running, it requires DULL GRASP packets and packets necessary for the secure-channel mechanism it supports, e.g., IKEv2 and IPsec ESP packets or DTLS packets to the IPv6 link-local address of an ACP neighbor on the interface. It also requires TCP/TLS packets for its BRSKI proxy functionality, if it does support BRSKI. 10.3.2. Admin Down State Interfaces on most network equipment have at least two states: "up" and "down". These may have product specific names. "down" for example could be called "shutdown" and "up" could be called "no shutdown". The "down" state disables all interface operations down to the physical level. The "up" state enables the interface enough for all possible L2/L3 services to operate on top of it and it may also auto-enable some subset of them. More commonly, the operations of various L2/L3 services is controlled via additional node-wide or interface level options, but they all become only active when the interface is not "down". Therefore an easy way to ensure that all L2/L3 operations on an interface are inactive is to put the interface into "down" state. The fact that this also physically shuts down the interface is in many cases just a side effect, but it may be important in other cases (see below, Section 10.3.2.2). To provide ACP/ANI resilience against operators configuring interfaces to "down" state, this document recommends to separate the "down" state of interfaces into an "admin down" state where the physical layer is kept running and ACP/ANI can use the interface and a "physical down" state. Any existing "down" configurations would map to "admin down". In "admin down", any existing L2/L3 services of the Data-Plane should see no difference to "physical down" state. To ensure that no Data-Plane packets could be sent/received, packet filtering could be established automatically as described above in Section 10.3.1. As necessary (see discussion below) new configuration options could be introduced to issue "physical down". The options should be provided with additional checks to minimize the risk of issuing them in a way that breaks the ACP without automatic restoration. For example they could be denied to be issued from a control connection (netconf/ssh) that goes across the interface itself ("do not disconnect yourself"). Or they could be performed only temporary and only be made permanent with additional later reconfirmation. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 100] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 In the following sub-sections important aspects to the introduction of "admin down" state are discussed. 10.3.2.1. Security Interfaces are physically brought down (or left in default down state) as a form of security. "Admin down" state as described above provides also a high level of security because it only permits ACP/ ANI operations which are both well secured. Ultimately, it is subject to security review for the deployment whether "admin down" is a feasible replacement for "physical down". The need to trust the security of ACP/ANI operations needs to be weighed against the operational benefits of permitting this: Consider the typical example of a CPE (customer premises equipment) with no on-site network expert. User ports are in physical down state unless explicitly configured not to be. In a misconfiguration situation, the uplink connection is incorrectly plugged into such as user port. The device is disconnected from the network and therefore no diagnostics from the network side is possible anymore. Alternatively, all ports default to "admin down". The ACP (but not the Data-Plane) would still automatically form. Diagnostics from the network side is possible and operator reaction could include to either make this port the operational uplink port or to instruct re- cabling. Security wise, only ACP/ANI could be attacked, all other functions are filtered on interfaces in "admin down" state. 10.3.2.2. Fast state propagation and Diagnostics "Physical down" state propagates on many interface types (e.g., Ethernet) to the other side. This can trigger fast L2/L3 protocol reaction on the other side and "admin down" would not have the same (fast) result. Bringing interfaces to "physical down" state is to the best of our knowledge always a result of operator action, but today, never the result of (autonomic) L2/L3 services running on the nodes. Therefore one option is to change the operator action to not rely on link-state propagation anymore. This may not be possible when both sides are under different operator control, but in that case it is unlikely that the ACP is running across the link and actually putting the interface into "physical down" state may still be a good option. Ideally, fast physical state propagation is replaced by fast software driven state propagation. For example a DULL GRASP "admin-state" objective could be used to auto configure a Bidirectional Forwarding Protocol (BFD, [RFC5880]) session between the two sides of the link that would be used to propagate the "up" vs. admin down state. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 101] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 Triggering physical down state may also be used as a mean of diagnosing cabling in the absence of easier methods. It is more complex than automated neighbor diagnostics because it requires coordinated remote access to both (likely) sides of a link to determine whether up/down toggling will cause the same reaction on the remote side. See Section 10.1 for a discussion about how LLDP and/or diagnostics via GRASP could be used to provide neighbor diagnostics, and therefore hopefully eliminating the need for "physical down" for neighbor diagnostics - as long as both neighbors support ACP/ANI. 10.3.2.3. Low Level Link Diagnostics "Physical down" is performed to diagnose low-level interface behavior when higher layer services (e.g., IPv6) are not working. Especially Ethernet links are subject to a wide variety of possible wrong configuration/cablings if they do not support automatic selection of variable parameters such as speed (10/100/1000 Mbps), crossover (Auto-MDIX) and connector (fiber, copper - when interfaces have multiple but can only enable one at a time). The need for low level link diagnostic can therefore be minimized by using fully auto configuring links. In addition to "Physical down", low level diagnostics of Ethernet or other interfaces also involve the creation of other states on interfaces, such as physical Loopback (internal and/or external) or bringing down all packet transmissions for reflection/cable-length measurements. Any of these options would disrupt ACP as well. In cases where such low-level diagnostics of an operational link is desired but where the link could be a single point of failure for the ACP, ASA on both nodes of the link could perform a negotiated diagnostics that automatically terminates in a predetermined manner without dependence on external input ensuring the link will become operational again. 10.3.2.4. Power Consumption Issues Power consumption of "physical down" interfaces, may be significantly lower than those in "admin down" state, for example on long-range fiber interfaces. Bringing up interfaces, for example to probe reachability, may also consume additional power. This can make these type of interfaces inappropriate to operate purely for the ACP when they are not currently needed for the Data-Plane. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 102] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 10.3.3. Interface level ACP/ANI enable The interface level configuration option "ACP enable" enables ACP operations on an interface, starting with ACP neighbor discovery via DULL GRAP. The interface level configuration option "ANI enable" on nodes supporting BRSKI and ACP starts with BRSKI pledge operations when there is no domain certificate on the node. On ACP/BRSKI nodes, "ACP enable" may not need to be supported, but only "ANI enable". Unless overridden by global configuration options (see later), "ACP/ ANI enable" will result in "down" state on an interface to behave as "admin down". 10.3.4. Which interfaces to auto-enable? (Section 6.3) requires that "ACP enable" is automatically set on native interfaces, but not on non-native interfaces (reminder: a native interface is one that exists without operator configuration action such as physical interfaces in physical devices). Ideally, ACP enable is set automatically on all interfaces that provide access to additional connectivity that allows to reach more nodes of the ACP domain. The best set of interfaces necessary to achieve this is not possible to determine automatically. Native interfaces are the best automatic approximation. Consider an ACP domain of ACP nodes transitively connected via native interfaces. A Data-Plane tunnel between two of these nodes that are non-adjacent is created and "ACP enable" is set for that tunnel. ACP RPL sees this tunnel as just as a single hop. Routes in the ACP would use this hop as an attractive path element to connect regions adjacent to the tunnel nodes. In result, the actual hop-by-hop paths used by traffic in the ACP can become worse. In addition, correct forwarding in the ACP now depends on correct Data-Plane forwarding config including QoS, filtering and other security on the Data-Plane path across which this tunnel runs. This is the main issue why "ACP/ ANI enable" should not be set automatically on non-native interfaces. If the tunnel would connect two previously disjoint ACP regions, then it likely would be useful for the ACP. A Data-Plane tunnel could also run across nodes without ACP and provide additional connectivity for an already connected ACP network. The benefit of this additional ACP redundancy has to be weighed against the problems of relying on the Data-Plane. If a tunnel connects two separate ACP regions: how many tunnels should be created to connect these ACP regions reliably enough? Between which nodes? These are all standard tunneled network design questions not specific to the ACP, and there are no generic fully automated answers. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 103] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 Instead of automatically setting "ACP enable" on these type of interfaces, the decision needs to be based on the use purpose of the non-native interface and "ACP enable" needs to be set in conjunction with the mechanism through which the non-native interface is created/ configured. In addition to explicit setting of "ACP/ANI enable", non-native interfaces also need to support configuration of the ACP RPL cost of the link - to avoid the problems of attracting too much traffic to the link as described above. Even native interfaces may not be able to automatically perform BRSKI or ACP because they may require additional operator input to become operational. Example include DSL interfaces requiring PPPoE credentials or mobile interfaces requiring credentials from a SIM card. Whatever mechanism is used to provide the necessary config to the device to enable the interface can also be expanded to decide on whether or not to set "ACP/ANI enable". The goal of automatically setting "ACP/ANI enable" on interfaces (native or not) is to eliminate unnecessary "touches" to the node to make its operation as much as possible "zero-touch" with respect to ACP/ANI. If there are "unavoidable touches" such a creating/ configuring a non-native interface or provisioning credentials for a native interface, then "ACP/ANI enable" should be added as an option to that "touch". If a wrong "touch" is easily fixed (not creating another high-cost touch), then the default should be not to enable ANI/ACP, and if it is potentially expensive or slow to fix (e.g., parameters on SIM card shipped to remote location), then the default should be to enable ACP/ANI. 10.3.5. Node Level ACP/ANI enable A node level command "ACP/ANI enable [up-if-only]" enables ACP or ANI on the node (ANI = ACP + BRSKI). Without this command set, any interface level "ACP/ANI enable" is ignored. Once set, ACP/ANI will operate an interface where "ACP/ANI enable" is set. Setting of interface level "ACP/ANI enable" is either automatic (default) or explicit through operator action as described in the previous section. If the option "up-if-only" is selected, the behavior of "down" interfaces is unchanged, and ACP/ANI will only operate on interfaces where "ACP/ANI enable" is set and that are "up". When it is not set, then "down" state of interfaces with "ACP/ANI enable" is modified to behave as "admin down". Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 104] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 10.3.5.1. Brownfield nodes A "brownfield" node is one that already has a configured Data-Plane. Executing global "ACP/ANI enable [up-if-only]" on each node is the only command necessary to create an ACP across a network of brownfield nodes once all the nodes have a domain certificate. When BRSKI is used ("ANI enable"), provisioning of the certificates only requires set-up of a single BRSKI registrar node which could also implement a CA for the network. This is the most simple way to introduce ACP/ANI into existing (== brownfield) networks. The need to explicitly enable ACP/ANI is especially important in brownfield nodes because otherwise software updates may introduce support for ACP/ANI: Automatic enablement of ACP/ANI in networks where the operator does not only not want ACP/ANI but where the operator likely never even heard of it could be quite irritating to the operator. Especially when "down" behavior is changed to "admin down". Automatically setting "ANI enable" on brownfield nodes where the operator is unaware of BRSKI and MASA operations could also be an unlikely but then critical security issue. If an attacker could impersonate the operator and register as the operator at the MASA or otherwise get hold of vouchers and can get enough physical access to the network so pledges would register to an attacking registrar, then the attacker could gain access to the network through the ACP that the attacker then has access to. In networks where the operator explicitly wants to enable the ANI this could not happen, because the operator would create a BRSKI registrar that would discover attack attempts, and the operator would be setting up his registrar with the MASA. Nodes requiring "ownership vouchers" would not be subject to that attack. See [I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra] for more details. Note that a global "ACP enable" alone is not subject to these type of attacks, because it always depends on some other mechanism first to provision domain certificates into the device. 10.3.5.2. Greenfield nodes A "greenfield" node is one that did not have any prior configuration. For greenfield nodes, only "ANI enable" is relevant. If another mechanism than BRSKI is used to (zero-touch) bootstrap a node, then it is up to that mechanism to provision domain certificates and to set global "ACP enable" as desired. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 105] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 Nodes supporting full ANI functionality set "ANI enable" automatically when they decide that they are greenfield, e.g., that they are powering on from factory condition. They will then put all native interfaces into "admin down" state and start to perform BRSKI pledge functionality - and once a domain certificate is enrolled they automatically enable ACP. Attempts for BRSKI pledge operations in greenfield state should terminate automatically when another method of configuring the node is used. Methods that indicate some form of physical possession of the device such as configuration via the serial console port could lead to immediate termination of BRSKI, while other parallel auto configuration methods subject to remote attacks might lead to BRSKI termination only after they were successful. Details of this may vary widely over different type of nodes. When BRSKI pledge operation terminates, this will automatically unset "ANI enable" and should terminate any temporarily needed state on the device to perform BRSKI - DULL GRASP, BRSKI pledge and any IPv6 configuration on interfaces. 10.3.6. Undoing ANI/ACP enable Disabling ANI/ACP by undoing "ACP/ANI enable" is a risk for the reliable operations of the ACP if it can be executed by mistake or unauthorized. This behavior could be influenced through some additional (future) property in the certificate (e.g., in the domain information extension field): In an ANI deployment intended for convenience, disabling it could be allowed without further constraints. In an ANI deployment considered to be critical more checks would be required. One very controlled option would be to not permit these commands unless the domain certificate has been revoked or is denied renewal. Configuring this option would be a parameter on the BRSKI registrar(s). As long as the node did not receive a domain certificate, undoing "ANI/ACP enable" should not have any additional constraints. 10.3.7. Summary Node-wide "ACP/ANI enable [up-if-only]" commands enable the operation of ACP/ANI. This is only auto-enabled on ANI greenfield devices, otherwise it must be configured explicitly. If the option "up-if-only" is not selected, interfaces enabled for ACP/ANI interpret "down" state as "admin down" and not "physical down". In "admin-down" all non-ACP/ANI packets are filtered, but the physical layer is kept running to permit ACP/ANI to operate. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 106] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 (New) commands that result in physical interruption ("physical down", "loopback") of ACP/ANI enabled interfaces should be built to protect continuance or reestablishment of ACP as much as possible. Interface level "ACP/ANI enable" control per-interface operations. It is enabled by default on native interfaces and has to be configured explicitly on other interfaces. Disabling "ACP/ANI enable" global and per-interface should have additional checks to minimize undesired breakage of ACP. The degree of control could be a domain wide parameter in the domain certificates. 10.4. Configuration and the ACP (summary) There is no desirable configuration for the ACP. Instead, all parameters that need to be configured in support of the ACP are limitations of the solution, but they are only needed in cases where not all components are made autonomic. Whereever this is necessary, it relies on pre-existing mechanisms for configuration such as CLI or YANG ([RFC7950]) data models. The most important examples of such configuration include: o When ACP nodes do not support an autonomic way to receive an ACP domain certificate, for example BRSKI, then such certificate needs to be configured via some pre-existing mechanisms outside the scope of this specification. Today, router have typically a variety of mechanisms to do this. o Certificate maintenance requires PKI functions. Discovery of these functions across the ACP is automated (see Section 6.1.5), but their configuration is not. o When non-ACP capable nodes such as pre-existing NMS need to be physically connected to the ACP, the ACP node to which they attach needs to be configured with ACP-connect according to Section 8.1. It is also possible to use that single physical connection to connect both to ACP and the data-plane of the network as explained in Section 8.1.4. o When devices are not autonomically bootstrapped, explicit configuration to enable the ACP needs to be applied. See Section 10.3. o When the ACP needs to be extended across interfacess other than L2, the ACP as defined in this document can not autodiscover Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 107] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 candidate neighbors automatically. Remote neighbors need to be configured, see Section 8.2. Once the ACP is operating, any further configuration for the data- plane can be configured more reliably across the ACP itself because the ACP provides addressing and connectivity (routing) independent of the data-plane itself. For this, the configuration methods simply need to also allow to operate across the ACP VRF - netconf, ssh or any other method. The ACP also provides additional security through its hop-by-hop encryption for any such configuration operations: Some legacy configuration methods (SNMP, TFTP, HTTP) may not use end-to-end encryption, and most of the end-to-end secured configuration methods still allow for easy passive observation along the path about configuration taking place (transport flows, port numbers, IP addresses). The ACP can and should equally be used as the transport to configure any of the aforemention non-automic components of the ACP, but in that case, the same caution needs to be exercised as with data-plane configuration without ACP: Misconfiguration may cause the configuring entity to be disconnected from the node it configures - for example when incorrectly unconfiguring a remote ACP neighbor through which the configured ACP node is reached. 11. Security Considerations After seeding an ACP by configuring at least one ACP registrar with routing-subdomain and a CA, an ACP is self-protecting and there is no need to apply configuration to make it secure (typically the ACP Registrar doubles as EST server for certificate renewal). Its security therefore does not depend on configuration. This does not include workarounds for non-autonomic components as explained in Section 8. See Section 9.2 for details of how the ACP protects itself against attacks from the outside and to a more limited degree from the inside as well. However, the security of the ACP depends on a number of other factors: o The usage of domain certificates depends on a valid supporting PKI infrastructure. If the chain of trust of this PKI infrastructure is compromised, the security of the ACP is also compromised. This is typically under the control of the network administrator. o Every ACP registrar is criticial infrastructure that needs to be hardened against attacks, similar to a CA. A malicious registrar Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 108] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 can enroll enemy plegdes to an ACP network or break ACP routing by duplicate ACP address assignment to pledges via their ACP domain certificates. o Security can be compromised by implementation errors (bugs), as in all products. There is no prevention of source-address spoofing inside the ACP. This implies that if an attacker gains access to the ACP, it can spoof all addresses inside the ACP and fake messages from any other node. The ACP is designed to enable automation of current network management and future autonomic peer-to-peer/distributed network automation. Any ACP member can send ACP IPv6 packet to other ACP members and announce via ACP GRASP services to all ACP members without depenency against centralized components. The ACP relies on peer-to-peer authentication and authorization using ACP certificates. This security model is necessary to enable the autonomic ad-hoc any-to-any connectivity between ACP nodes. It provides infrastructure protection through hop by hop authentication and encryption - without relying on third parties. For any services where this complete autonomic peer-to-peer group security model is appropriate, the ACP domain certificate can also be used unchanged. For example for any type of data-plane routing protocol security. This ACP security model is designed primarily to protect against attack from the outside, but not against attacks from the inside. To protect against spoofing attacks from compromised on-path ACP nodes, end-to-end encryption inside the ACP is used by new ACP signaling: GRASP across the ACP using TLS. The same is expected from any non- legacy services/protocols using the ACP. Because no group-keys are used, there is no risk for impacted nodes to access end-to-end encrypted traffic from other ACP nodes. Attacks from impacted ACP nodes against the ACP are more difficult than against the data-plane because of the autoconfiguration of the ACP and the absence of configuration options that could be abused that allow to change/break ACP behavior. This is excluding configuration for workaround in support of non-autonomic components. Mitigation against compromised ACP members is possible through standard automated certificate management mechanisms including revocation and non-renewal of short-lived certificates. In this version of the specification, there are no further optimization of these mechanisms defined for the ACP (but see Appendix A.10.8). Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 109] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 Higher layer service built using ACP domain certificates should not solely rely on undifferentiated group security when another model is more appropriate/more secure. For example central network configuration relies on a security model where only few especially trusted nodes are allowed to configure the data-plane of network nodes (CLIL, Netconf). This can be done through ACP domain certificates by differentiating them and introduce roles. See Appendix A.10.5. Fundamentally, security depends on avoiding operator and network operations automation mistakes, implementation and architecture. Autonomic approaches such as the ACP largely eliminate operator mistakes and make it easier to recover from network operations mistakes. Implementation and architectural mistakes are still possible, as in all networking technologies. Many details of ACP are designed with security in mind and discussed elsewhere in the document: IPv6 addresses used by nodes in the ACP are covered as part of the node's domain certificate as described in Section 6.1.2. This allows even verification of ownership of a peer's IPv6 address when using a connection authenticated with the domain certificate. The ACP acts as a security (and transport) substrate for GRASP inside the ACP such that GRASP is not only protected by attacks from the outside, but also by attacks from compromised inside attackers - by relying not only on hop-by-hop security of ACP secure channels, but adding end-to-end security for those GRASP messages. See Section 6.8.2. ACP provides for secure, resilient zero-touch discovery of EST servers for certificate renewal. See Section 6.1.5. ACP provides extensible, auto-configuring hop-by-hop protection of the ACP infrastructure via the negotiation of hop-by-hop secure channel protocols. See Section 6.5. The ACP is designed to minimize attacks from the outside by minimizing its dependency against any non-ACP (Data-Plane) operations/configuration on a node. See also Section 6.12.2. In combination with BRSKI, ACP enables a resilient, fully zero-touch network solution for short-lived certificates that can be renewed or re-enrolled even after unintentional expiry (e.g., because of interrupted connectivity). See Appendix A.2. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 110] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 Because ACP secure channels can be long lived, but certificates used may be short lived, secure channels, for example built via IPsec need to be terminated when peer certificates expire. See Section 6.7.3. The ACP is designed to minimize attacks from the outside by minimizing its dependency against any non-ACP (Data-Plane) operations/configuration on a node. See also Section 6.12.2. 12. IANA Considerations This document defines the "Autonomic Control Plane". The IANA is requested to register the value "AN_ACP" (without quotes) to the GRASP Objectives Names Table in the GRASP Parameter Registry. The specification for this value is this document, Section 6.3. The IANA is requested to register the value "SRV.est" (without quotes) to the GRASP Objectives Names Table in the GRASP Parameter Registry. The specification for this value is this document, Section 6.1.5. Explanation: This document chooses the initially strange looking format "SRV." because these objective names would be in line with potential future simplification of the GRASP objective registry. Today, every name in the GRASP objective registry needs to be explicitly allocated with IANA. In the future, this type of objective names could considered to be automatically registered in that registry for the same service for which is registered according to [RFC6335]. This explanation is solely informational and has no impact on the requested registration. The IANA is requested to create an ACP Parameter Registry with currently one registry table - the "ACP Address Type" table. "ACP Address Type" Table. The value in this table are numeric values 0...3 paired with a name (string). Future values MUST be assigned using the Standards Action policy defined by [RFC8126]. The following initial values are assigned by this document: 0: ACP Zone Addressing Sub-Scheme (ACP RFC Figure 11) / ACP Manual Addressing Sub-Scheme (ACP RFC Section 6.10.4) 1: ACP Vlong Addressing Sub-Scheme (ACP RFC Section 6.10.5) 13. Acknowledgements This work originated from an Autonomic Networking project at Cisco Systems, which started in early 2010. Many people contributed to this project and the idea of the Autonomic Control Plane, amongst Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 111] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 which (in alphabetical order): Ignas Bagdonas, Parag Bhide, Balaji BL, Alex Clemm, Yves Hertoghs, Bruno Klauser, Max Pritikin, Michael Richardson, Ravi Kumar Vadapalli. Special thanks to Brian Carpenter, Elwyn Davies, Joel Halpern and Sheng Jiang for their thorough reviews and to Pascal Thubert and Michael Richardson to provide the details for the recommendations of the use of RPL in the ACP. Thanks to Valery Smyslov for review of the IPsec and IKEv2 configuration parameters. Further input, review or suggestions were received from: Rene Struik, Brian Carpenter, Benoit Claise, William Atwood and Yongkang Zhang. 14. Change log [RFC Editor: Please remove] 14.1. Summary of changes since entering IESG review This text replaces the prior changelog with a summary to provide guidance for further IESG review. Please see revision -21 for the individual changelogs of prior versions . 14.1.1. Reviews (while in IESG review status) / status This document entered IESG review with version -13. It has since seen the following reviews: IESG: Original owner/Yes: Terry Manderson (INT). IESG: No Objection: Deborah Brungard (RTG), Alissa Cooper (GEN), Warren Kumari (OPS), Mirja Kuehlewind (TSV), Alexey Melnikov (ART), Adam Roach (ART). IESG: No Objection, not counted anymore as they have left IESG: Ben Campbell (ART), Spencer Dawkins (TSV). IESG: Open DISCUSS hopefully resolved by this version: Eric Rescorla (SEC, left IESG), Benjamin Kaduk (SEC). Other: Michael Richardson (WG), Brian Carpenter (WG), Pascal Thubert (WG), Frank Xialiang (WG), Elwyn Davies (GEN), Joel Halpern (RTGdir), Yongkang Zhang (WG), William Atwood (WG). Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 112] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 14.1.2. BRSKI / ACP registrar related enhancements Only after ACP entered IESG review did it become clear that the in- progress BRSKI document would not provide all the explanations needed for ACP registrars as expected earlier by ACP authors. Instead, BRSKI will only specify a subset of required ACP behavior related to certificate handling and registrar. There, it became clear that the ACP draft should specify generic ACP registrar behavior independent of BRSKI so ACP could be implemented with or without BRSKI and any manual/proprietary or future standardized BRSKI alternatives (for example via NetConf) would understand the requirements for ACP registrars and its certificate handling. This lead to additional text about ACP registrars in the ACP document: 1. Defined relationship ACP / ANI (ANI = ACP + BRSKI). 6.1.4 (new) Overview of trust points and trust anchors required for ACP. 6.1.5.5 Added explanations/requirements for Re-enrolment. 6.10.7 Normative requirements for ACP registrars (BRSKI or not). 10.2 Operational expectations against ACP registrars (BRSKI or not). 14.1.3. Normative enhancements since start of IESG review In addition to above ACP registrar / BRSKI related enhancements there is a range of minor normative (also explanatory) enhancements since the start of IESG review: 6.1.1 Hex digits in ACP domain information field now upper-case (no specific reason except that both options are equally good, but capitalized ones are used in rfc5234). 6.1.5.3 Added explanations about CRLs. 6.1.5.6 Added explanations of behavior under failing certificates. 6.1.2 Allow ACP adddress '0' in ACP domain information field: presence of address indicates permission to build ACP secure channel to node, 0 indicates that the address of the node is assigned by (future) other means than certificate. Non-autonomic nodes have no address at all (that was in -13), and can only connect via ACP connect interfaces to ACP. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 113] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 6.1.3 Distinction of real ACP nodes (with address) and those with domain certificate without address added as a new rule to ACP domain membership check. 6.6 Added throttling of secure-channel setup attempts. 6.11.1.14 Removed requirement to handle unknown destination ACP traffic in low-end nodes that would never be RPL roots. 6.12.5 Added recommendation to use IPv6 DAD. 6.1.1, 6.7.1.1, 6.7.2, 6.7.3, 6.8.2 Various refined additional certificate, secure channel protocol (IPsec/IKEv2 and DTLS) and ACP GRASP TLS protocol parameter requirements to ensure interoperating implementations (from SEC-AD review). 14.1.4. Explanatory enhancements since start of IESG review Beyond the functional enhancements from the previous two sections, the mayority of changes since -13 are additional explanations from review feedback, textual nits and restructuring - with no functional requirement additions/changes. 1.1 Added "applicability and scope" section with summarized explanations. 2.Added in-band vs. out-of-band management definitions. 6.1.2 (was 6.1.1) expanded explanations of reasoning for elements of the ACP domain information field. 6.1.3 refined explanations of ACP domain membership check and justifications for it. 6.5 Elaborated step-by-step secure channel setup. 6.10 Additional explanations for addressing modes, additional table of addressing formats (thanks MichaelR). 6.10.5 introduced 'F' bit position as a better visual representation in the Vlong address space. 6.11.1.1 extensive overhaul to improve readability of use of RPL (from IESG feedback of non-routing/RPL experts). 6.12.2 Added caution about unconfiguring data-plane IPv6 addresses and impact to ACP (limitation of current ACP design, and pointint to more details in 10.2). Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 114] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 10.4 New explanations / summary of configurations for ACP (aka: all config is undesirable and only required for integrating with non- autonomic components, primarily ACP-connect and Registrars). 11. Textually enhanced / better structured security considerations section after IESG security review. A. (new) Moved all explanations and discussions about futures from section 10 into this new appendix. This text should not be removed because it captures a lot of repeated asked questions in WG and during reviews and from users, and also captures ideas for some likely important followup work. But none of this is relevant to implementing (section 6) and operating (section 10) the ACP. 14.2. draft-ietf-anima-autonomic-control-plane-22 Ben Kaduk review of -21: RFC822 encoding of ACP domain information: 6.1.2 rewrote text for explaining / justifying use of rfc822name as identifier for node CP in certificate (was discussed in thread, but badly written in prior versions). 6.1.2 Changed EBNF syntax to use "+" after rfcSELF because that is the known primary name to extensions separator in many email systems ("." was wrong in prior versions). 6.1.2 Rewrote/improved explanations for use of rfc822name field to explain better why it is PKIX compliant and the right thing to do. Crypto parameters for IPsec: 6.1 - Added explanation of why manual keying for ACP is not feasible for ACP. Surprisingly, that text did not exist. Referred to by IPsec text (6.7.1), but here is the right place to describe the reasoning. 6.1.2 - Small textual refinement referring to requirements to authenticate peers (for the special cases of empty or '0' ACP address in ACP domain information field. 6.3 - To better justify Bens proposed change of secure channel protocol being IPsec vs. GRASP objective being IKEv2, better explained how protocol indicated in GRASP objective-value is name of protocol used to negotiate secure channel, use example of IKEv2 to negotiate IPsec. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 115] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 6.7.1 - refinemenet similar to 6.3. - moved new paragraph from Bens pull request up from 6.7.1.1 to 6.7.1 as it equally applies to GRE encapped IPsec (looks nicer one level up). - created subsections 6.7.1.1 (IPsec/ESP) / 6.7.1.2 (IKEv2) to clearer distinguish between these two requirements blocks. - Refined the text in these two sections to hopefully be a good answer to Valery's concern of not randomnly mocking with existing requirements docs (rfc8247 / rfc8221). 6.7.1.1.1 - IPsec/ESP requirements section: - MUST support rfc8221 mandatory EXCEPT for the superceeding requirements in this section. Previously, this was not quite clear from the text. - Hopefully persuasive explanations about the requirements levels for ENCR_AES_GCM_16, ENCR_AES_CBC, ENCR_AES_CCM_8 and ENCR_CHACHA20_POLY1305: Restructured text for why not ENCR_AES_CBC (was in prior version, just not well structured), added new expanations for ENCR_AES_CCM_8 and ENCR_CHACHA20_POLY130. - In simple terms, requirements for ENCR_AES_CBC, ENCR_AES_CCM_8, ENCR_CHACHACHA are SHOULD when they are implementable with rqual or faster performancce than ENCR_AES_GCM_16. - Removed text about "additional rfc8221" reqiurements MAY be used. Now the logic is that all other requirements apply. Hopefully we have written enough so that we prohibited downgrades. 6.7.1.1.2 - RFC8247 requirements: - Added mandate to support rfc8247, added explanation that there is no "stripping down" requirement, just additional stronger requirements to mandate correct use of ACP certificartes during authentication. - refined text on identifying ACP by IPv6 address to be clearer: Identifying in the context of IKEv2 and cases for '0' in ACP domain information. - removed last two paragraphs about relationship to rfc8247, as his is now written in first paragraph of the section. End of Ben Kaduk review related fixes. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 116] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 Other: Forgot to update example of ACP domain information to use capitalized hex-digits as required by HEXDIGIT used. Added reference to RFC8316 (AN use-cases) to beginning of section 3 (ACP use cases). Small Enhanced IPsec parameters description / requirements fixes (from Michael Richardson). 15. References 15.1. Normative References [I-D.ietf-anima-grasp] Bormann, C., Carpenter, B., and B. Liu, "A Generic Autonomic Signaling Protocol (GRASP)", draft-ietf-anima- grasp-15 (work in progress), July 2017. [I-D.ietf-cbor-cddl] Birkholz, H., Vigano, C., and C. Bormann, "Concise data definition language (CDDL): a notational convention to express CBOR and JSON data structures", draft-ietf-cbor- cddl-08 (work in progress), March 2019. [IKEV2IANA] IANA, "Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2) Parameters", . [RFC1034] Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - concepts and facilities", STD 13, RFC 1034, DOI 10.17487/RFC1034, November 1987, . [RFC3810] Vida, R., Ed. and L. Costa, Ed., "Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6", RFC 3810, DOI 10.17487/RFC3810, June 2004, . [RFC4106] Viega, J. and D. McGrew, "The Use of Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) in IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)", RFC 4106, DOI 10.17487/RFC4106, June 2005, . [RFC4191] Draves, R. and D. Thaler, "Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes", RFC 4191, DOI 10.17487/RFC4191, November 2005, . Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 117] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 [RFC4193] Hinden, R. and B. Haberman, "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses", RFC 4193, DOI 10.17487/RFC4193, October 2005, . [RFC4291] Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture", RFC 4291, DOI 10.17487/RFC4291, February 2006, . [RFC4301] Kent, S. and K. Seo, "Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol", RFC 4301, DOI 10.17487/RFC4301, December 2005, . [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, . [RFC4862] Thomson, S., Narten, T., and T. Jinmei, "IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration", RFC 4862, DOI 10.17487/RFC4862, September 2007, . [RFC5234] Crocker, D., Ed. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, DOI 10.17487/RFC5234, January 2008, . [RFC5246] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, DOI 10.17487/RFC5246, August 2008, . [RFC5280] Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S., Housley, R., and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, DOI 10.17487/RFC5280, May 2008, . [RFC5322] Resnick, P., Ed., "Internet Message Format", RFC 5322, DOI 10.17487/RFC5322, October 2008, . [RFC6347] Rescorla, E. and N. Modadugu, "Datagram Transport Layer Security Version 1.2", RFC 6347, DOI 10.17487/RFC6347, January 2012, . Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 118] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 [RFC6550] Winter, T., Ed., Thubert, P., Ed., Brandt, A., Hui, J., Kelsey, R., Levis, P., Pister, K., Struik, R., Vasseur, JP., and R. Alexander, "RPL: IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks", RFC 6550, DOI 10.17487/RFC6550, March 2012, . [RFC6552] Thubert, P., Ed., "Objective Function Zero for the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL)", RFC 6552, DOI 10.17487/RFC6552, March 2012, . [RFC6553] Hui, J. and JP. Vasseur, "The Routing Protocol for Low- Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) Option for Carrying RPL Information in Data-Plane Datagrams", RFC 6553, DOI 10.17487/RFC6553, March 2012, . [RFC7030] Pritikin, M., Ed., Yee, P., Ed., and D. Harkins, Ed., "Enrollment over Secure Transport", RFC 7030, DOI 10.17487/RFC7030, October 2013, . [RFC7296] Kaufman, C., Hoffman, P., Nir, Y., Eronen, P., and T. Kivinen, "Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)", STD 79, RFC 7296, DOI 10.17487/RFC7296, October 2014, . [RFC7525] Sheffer, Y., Holz, R., and P. Saint-Andre, "Recommendations for Secure Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)", BCP 195, RFC 7525, DOI 10.17487/RFC7525, May 2015, . [RFC7676] Pignataro, C., Bonica, R., and S. Krishnan, "IPv6 Support for Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)", RFC 7676, DOI 10.17487/RFC7676, October 2015, . [RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174, May 2017, . Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 119] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 [RFC8221] Wouters, P., Migault, D., Mattsson, J., Nir, Y., and T. Kivinen, "Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation Requirements and Usage Guidance for Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and Authentication Header (AH)", RFC 8221, DOI 10.17487/RFC8221, October 2017, . [RFC8247] Nir, Y., Kivinen, T., Wouters, P., and D. Migault, "Algorithm Implementation Requirements and Usage Guidance for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)", RFC 8247, DOI 10.17487/RFC8247, September 2017, . 15.2. Informative References [AR8021] Group, W. -. H. L. L. P. W., "IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks - Secure Device Identity", December 2009, . [CABFORUM] CA/Browser Forum, "Certificate Contents for Baseline SSL", Nov 2019, . [I-D.eckert-anima-noc-autoconfig] Eckert, T., "Autoconfiguration of NOC services in ACP networks via GRASP", draft-eckert-anima-noc-autoconfig-00 (work in progress), July 2018. [I-D.ietf-acme-star] Sheffer, Y., Lopez, D., Dios, O., Pastor, A., and T. Fossati, "Support for Short-Term, Automatically-Renewed (STAR) Certificates in Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME)", draft-ietf-acme-star-11 (work in progress), October 2019. [I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra] Pritikin, M., Richardson, M., Eckert, T., Behringer, M., and K. Watsen, "Bootstrapping Remote Secure Key Infrastructures (BRSKI)", draft-ietf-anima-bootstrapping- keyinfra-34 (work in progress), January 2020. [I-D.ietf-anima-prefix-management] Jiang, S., Du, Z., Carpenter, B., and Q. Sun, "Autonomic IPv6 Edge Prefix Management in Large-scale Networks", draft-ietf-anima-prefix-management-07 (work in progress), December 2017. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 120] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 [I-D.ietf-anima-reference-model] Behringer, M., Carpenter, B., Eckert, T., Ciavaglia, L., and J. Nobre, "A Reference Model for Autonomic Networking", draft-ietf-anima-reference-model-10 (work in progress), November 2018. [I-D.ietf-netconf-zerotouch] Watsen, K., Abrahamsson, M., and I. Farrer, "Secure Zero Touch Provisioning (SZTP)", draft-ietf-netconf- zerotouch-29 (work in progress), January 2019. [I-D.ietf-roll-applicability-template] Richardson, M., "ROLL Applicability Statement Template", draft-ietf-roll-applicability-template-09 (work in progress), May 2016. [I-D.ietf-roll-useofrplinfo] Robles, I., Richardson, M., and P. Thubert, "Using RPI Option Type, Routing Header for Source Routes and IPv6-in- IPv6 encapsulation in the RPL Data Plane", draft-ietf- roll-useofrplinfo-34 (work in progress), January 2020. [I-D.ietf-tls-dtls13] Rescorla, E., Tschofenig, H., and N. Modadugu, "The Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Protocol Version 1.3", draft-ietf-tls-dtls13-34 (work in progress), November 2019. [IEEE-1588-2008] IEEE, "IEEE Standard for a Precision Clock Synchronization Protocol for Networked Measurement and Control Systems", December 2008, . [IEEE-802.1X] Group, W. -. H. L. L. P. W., "IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Port-Based Network Access Control", February 2010, . [LLDP] Group, W. -. H. L. L. P. W., "IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Station and Media Access Control Connectivity Discovery", June 2016, . Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 121] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 [MACSEC] Group, W. -. H. L. L. P. W., "IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Media Access Control (MAC) Security", June 2006, . [RFC1112] Deering, S., "Host extensions for IP multicasting", STD 5, RFC 1112, DOI 10.17487/RFC1112, August 1989, . [RFC1492] Finseth, C., "An Access Control Protocol, Sometimes Called TACACS", RFC 1492, DOI 10.17487/RFC1492, July 1993, . [RFC1886] Thomson, S. and C. Huitema, "DNS Extensions to support IP version 6", RFC 1886, DOI 10.17487/RFC1886, December 1995, . [RFC1918] Rekhter, Y., Moskowitz, B., Karrenberg, D., de Groot, G., and E. Lear, "Address Allocation for Private Internets", BCP 5, RFC 1918, DOI 10.17487/RFC1918, February 1996, . [RFC2315] Kaliski, B., "PKCS #7: Cryptographic Message Syntax Version 1.5", RFC 2315, DOI 10.17487/RFC2315, March 1998, . [RFC2821] Klensin, J., Ed., "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", RFC 2821, DOI 10.17487/RFC2821, April 2001, . [RFC2865] Rigney, C., Willens, S., Rubens, A., and W. Simpson, "Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)", RFC 2865, DOI 10.17487/RFC2865, June 2000, . [RFC3164] Lonvick, C., "The BSD Syslog Protocol", RFC 3164, DOI 10.17487/RFC3164, August 2001, . [RFC3315] Droms, R., Ed., Bound, J., Volz, B., Lemon, T., Perkins, C., and M. Carney, "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)", RFC 3315, DOI 10.17487/RFC3315, July 2003, . Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 122] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 [RFC3411] Harrington, D., Presuhn, R., and B. Wijnen, "An Architecture for Describing Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Frameworks", STD 62, RFC 3411, DOI 10.17487/RFC3411, December 2002, . [RFC3954] Claise, B., Ed., "Cisco Systems NetFlow Services Export Version 9", RFC 3954, DOI 10.17487/RFC3954, October 2004, . [RFC4007] Deering, S., Haberman, B., Jinmei, T., Nordmark, E., and B. Zill, "IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture", RFC 4007, DOI 10.17487/RFC4007, March 2005, . [RFC4210] Adams, C., Farrell, S., Kause, T., and T. Mononen, "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Management Protocol (CMP)", RFC 4210, DOI 10.17487/RFC4210, September 2005, . [RFC4364] Rosen, E. and Y. Rekhter, "BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)", RFC 4364, DOI 10.17487/RFC4364, February 2006, . [RFC4429] Moore, N., "Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) for IPv6", RFC 4429, DOI 10.17487/RFC4429, April 2006, . [RFC4492] Blake-Wilson, S., Bolyard, N., Gupta, V., Hawk, C., and B. Moeller, "Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)", RFC 4492, DOI 10.17487/RFC4492, May 2006, . [RFC4541] Christensen, M., Kimball, K., and F. Solensky, "Considerations for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping Switches", RFC 4541, DOI 10.17487/RFC4541, May 2006, . [RFC4604] Holbrook, H., Cain, B., and B. Haberman, "Using Internet Group Management Protocol Version 3 (IGMPv3) and Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol Version 2 (MLDv2) for Source- Specific Multicast", RFC 4604, DOI 10.17487/RFC4604, August 2006, . Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 123] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 [RFC4607] Holbrook, H. and B. Cain, "Source-Specific Multicast for IP", RFC 4607, DOI 10.17487/RFC4607, August 2006, . [RFC4610] Farinacci, D. and Y. Cai, "Anycast-RP Using Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)", RFC 4610, DOI 10.17487/RFC4610, August 2006, . [RFC4941] Narten, T., Draves, R., and S. Krishnan, "Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6", RFC 4941, DOI 10.17487/RFC4941, September 2007, . [RFC5321] Klensin, J., "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", RFC 5321, DOI 10.17487/RFC5321, October 2008, . [RFC5790] Liu, H., Cao, W., and H. Asaeda, "Lightweight Internet Group Management Protocol Version 3 (IGMPv3) and Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) Protocols", RFC 5790, DOI 10.17487/RFC5790, February 2010, . [RFC5880] Katz, D. and D. Ward, "Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)", RFC 5880, DOI 10.17487/RFC5880, June 2010, . [RFC5905] Mills, D., Martin, J., Ed., Burbank, J., and W. Kasch, "Network Time Protocol Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms Specification", RFC 5905, DOI 10.17487/RFC5905, June 2010, . [RFC6241] Enns, R., Ed., Bjorklund, M., Ed., Schoenwaelder, J., Ed., and A. Bierman, Ed., "Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)", RFC 6241, DOI 10.17487/RFC6241, June 2011, . [RFC6335] Cotton, M., Eggert, L., Touch, J., Westerlund, M., and S. Cheshire, "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry", BCP 165, RFC 6335, DOI 10.17487/RFC6335, August 2011, . [RFC6402] Schaad, J., "Certificate Management over CMS (CMC) Updates", RFC 6402, DOI 10.17487/RFC6402, November 2011, . Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 124] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 [RFC6724] Thaler, D., Ed., Draves, R., Matsumoto, A., and T. Chown, "Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 6724, DOI 10.17487/RFC6724, September 2012, . [RFC6733] Fajardo, V., Ed., Arkko, J., Loughney, J., and G. Zorn, Ed., "Diameter Base Protocol", RFC 6733, DOI 10.17487/RFC6733, October 2012, . [RFC6762] Cheshire, S. and M. Krochmal, "Multicast DNS", RFC 6762, DOI 10.17487/RFC6762, February 2013, . [RFC6763] Cheshire, S. and M. Krochmal, "DNS-Based Service Discovery", RFC 6763, DOI 10.17487/RFC6763, February 2013, . [RFC6830] Farinacci, D., Fuller, V., Meyer, D., and D. Lewis, "The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)", RFC 6830, DOI 10.17487/RFC6830, January 2013, . [RFC7011] Claise, B., Ed., Trammell, B., Ed., and P. Aitken, "Specification of the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Protocol for the Exchange of Flow Information", STD 77, RFC 7011, DOI 10.17487/RFC7011, September 2013, . [RFC7404] Behringer, M. and E. Vyncke, "Using Only Link-Local Addressing inside an IPv6 Network", RFC 7404, DOI 10.17487/RFC7404, November 2014, . [RFC7426] Haleplidis, E., Ed., Pentikousis, K., Ed., Denazis, S., Hadi Salim, J., Meyer, D., and O. Koufopavlou, "Software- Defined Networking (SDN): Layers and Architecture Terminology", RFC 7426, DOI 10.17487/RFC7426, January 2015, . [RFC7575] Behringer, M., Pritikin, M., Bjarnason, S., Clemm, A., Carpenter, B., Jiang, S., and L. Ciavaglia, "Autonomic Networking: Definitions and Design Goals", RFC 7575, DOI 10.17487/RFC7575, June 2015, . Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 125] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 [RFC7576] Jiang, S., Carpenter, B., and M. Behringer, "General Gap Analysis for Autonomic Networking", RFC 7576, DOI 10.17487/RFC7576, June 2015, . [RFC7721] Cooper, A., Gont, F., and D. Thaler, "Security and Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation Mechanisms", RFC 7721, DOI 10.17487/RFC7721, March 2016, . [RFC7761] Fenner, B., Handley, M., Holbrook, H., Kouvelas, I., Parekh, R., Zhang, Z., and L. Zheng, "Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)", STD 83, RFC 7761, DOI 10.17487/RFC7761, March 2016, . [RFC7950] Bjorklund, M., Ed., "The YANG 1.1 Data Modeling Language", RFC 7950, DOI 10.17487/RFC7950, August 2016, . [RFC8028] Baker, F. and B. Carpenter, "First-Hop Router Selection by Hosts in a Multi-Prefix Network", RFC 8028, DOI 10.17487/RFC8028, November 2016, . [RFC8126] Cotton, M., Leiba, B., and T. Narten, "Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 8126, DOI 10.17487/RFC8126, June 2017, . [RFC8316] Nobre, J., Granville, L., Clemm, A., and A. Gonzalez Prieto, "Autonomic Networking Use Case for Distributed Detection of Service Level Agreement (SLA) Violations", RFC 8316, DOI 10.17487/RFC8316, February 2018, . [RFC8366] Watsen, K., Richardson, M., Pritikin, M., and T. Eckert, "A Voucher Artifact for Bootstrapping Protocols", RFC 8366, DOI 10.17487/RFC8366, May 2018, . [RFC8368] Eckert, T., Ed. and M. Behringer, "Using an Autonomic Control Plane for Stable Connectivity of Network Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM)", RFC 8368, DOI 10.17487/RFC8368, May 2018, . Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 126] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 15.3. URIs [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_Technology [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-root_input/ output_virtualization Appendix A. Background and Futures (Informative) The following sections discuss additional background information about aspects of the normative parts of this document or associated mechanisms such as BRSKI (such as why specific choices were made by the ACP) and they provide discussion about possible future variations of the ACP. A.1. ACP Address Space Schemes This document defines the Zone, Vlong and Manual sub address schemes primarily to support address prefix assignment via distributed, potentially uncoordinated ACP registrars as defined in Section 6.10.7. This costs 48/46-bit identifier so that these ACP registrar can assign non-conflicting address prefixes. This design does not leave enough bits to simultaneously support a large number of nodes (Node-ID) plus a large prefix of local addresses for every node plus a large enough set of bits to identify a routing Zone. In result, Zone, Vlong 8/16 attempt to support all features, but in via separate prefixes. In networks that always expect to rely on a centralized PMS as described above (Section 10.2.5), the 48/46-bits for the Registrar-ID could be saved. Such variations of the ACP addressing mechanisms could be introduced through future work in different ways. If the prefix rfcSELF in the ACP information field was changed, incompatible ACP variations could be created where every design aspect of the ACP could be changed. Including all addressing choices. If instead a new addressing sub-type would be defined, it could be a backward compatible extension of this ACP specification. Information such as the size of a zone-prefix and the length of the prefix assigned to the ACP node itself could be encoded via the extension field of the ACP domain information. Note that an explicitly defined "Manual" addressing sub-scheme is always beneficial to provide an easy way for ACP nodes to prohibit incorrect manual configuration of any non-"Manual" ACP address spaces and therefore ensure that "Manual" operations will never impact correct routing for any non-"Manual" ACP addresses assigned via ACP domain certificates. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 127] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 A.2. BRSKI Bootstrap (ANI) [I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra] (BRSKI) describes how nodes with an IDevID certificate can securely and zero-touch enroll with a domain certificate (LDevID) to support the ACP. BRSKI also leverages the ACP to enable zero-touch bootstrap of new nodes across networks without any configuration requirements across the transit nodes (e.g., no DHCP/DNS forwarding/server setup). This includes otherwise not configured networks as described in Section 3.2. Therefore BRSKI in conjunction with ACP provides for a secure and zero-touch management solution for complete networks. Nodes supporting such an infrastructure (BRSKI and ACP) are called ANI nodes (Autonomic Networking Infrastructure), see [I-D.ietf-anima-reference-model]. Nodes that do not support an IDevID but only an (insecure) vendor specific Unique Device Identifier (UDI) or nodes whose manufacturer does not support a MASA could use some future security reduced version of BRSKI. When BRSKI is used to provision a domain certificate (which is called enrollment), the BRSKI registrar (acting as an enhanced EST server) must include the subjectAltName / rfc822Name encoded ACP address and domain name to the enrolling node (called pledge) via its response to the pledges EST CSR Attribute request that is mandatory in BRSKI. The Certificate Authority in an ACP network must not change the subjectAltName / rfc822Name in the certificate. The ACP nodes can therefore find their ACP address and domain using this field in the domain certificate, both for themselves, as well as for other nodes. The use of BRSKI in conjunction with the ACP can also help to further simplify maintenance and renewal of domain certificates. Instead of relying on CRL, the lifetime of certificates can be made extremely small, for example in the order of hours. When a node fails to connect to the ACP within its certificate lifetime, it cannot connect to the ACP to renew its certificate across it (using just EST), but it can still renew its certificate as an "enrolled/expired pledge" via the BRSKI bootstrap proxy. This requires only that the BRSKI registrar honors expired domain certificates and that the pledge attempts to perform TLS authentication for BRSKI bootstrap using its expired domain certificate before falling back to attempting to use its IDevID for BRSKI. This mechanism could also render CRLs unnecessary because the BRSKI registrar in conjunction with the CA would not renew revoked certificates - only a "Do-not-renew" list would be necessary on BRSKI registrars/CA. In the absence of BRSKI or less secure variants thereof, provisioning of certificates may involve one or more touches or non-standardized automation. Node vendors usually support provisioning of Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 128] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 certificates into nodes via PKCS#7 (see [RFC2315]) and may support this provisioning through vendor specific models via Netconf ([RFC6241]). If such nodes also support Netconf Zero-Touch ([I-D.ietf-netconf-zerotouch]) then this can be combined to zero- touch provisioning of domain certificates into nodes. Unless there are equivalent integration of Netconf connections across the ACP as there is in BRSKI, this combination would not support zero-touch bootstrap across a not configured network though. A.3. ACP Neighbor discovery protocol selection This section discusses why GRASP DULL was chosen as the discovery protocol for L2 adjacent candidate ACP neighbors. The contenders considered where GRASP, mDNS or LLDP. A.3.1. LLDP LLDP and Cisco's earlier Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) are example of L2 discovery protocols that terminate their messages on L2 ports. If those protocols would be chosen for ACP neighbor discovery, ACP neighbor discovery would therefore also terminate on L2 ports. This would prevent ACP construction over non-ACP capable but LLDP or CDP enabled L2 switches. LLDP has extensions using different MAC addresses and this could have been an option for ACP discovery as well, but the additional required IEEE standardization and definition of a profile for such a modified instance of LLDP seemed to be more work than the benefit of "reusing the existing protocol" LLDP for this very simple purpose. A.3.2. mDNS and L2 support Multicast DNNS (mDNS) [RFC6762] with DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD) Resource Records (RRs) as defined in [RFC6763] is a key contender as an ACP discovery protocol. because it relies on link-local IP multicast, it does operates at the subnet level, and is also found in L2 switches. The authors of this document are not aware of mDNS implementation that terminate their mDNS messages on L2 ports instead of the subnet level. If mDNS was used as the ACP discovery mechanism on an ACP capable (L3)/L2 switch as outlined in Section 7, then this would be necessary to implement. It is likely that termination of mDNS messages could only be applied to all mDNS messages from such a port, which would then make it necessary to software forward any non- ACP related mDNS messages to maintain prior non-ACP mDNS functionality. Adding support for ACP into such L2 switches with mDNS could therefore create regression problems for prior mDNS functionality on those nodes. With low performance of software forwarding in many L2 switches, this could also make the ACP risky to support on such L2 switches. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 129] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 A.3.3. Why DULL GRASP LLDP was not considered because of the above mentioned issues. mDNS was not selected because of the above L2 mDNS considerations and because of the following additional points: If mDNS was not already existing in a node, it would be more work to implement than DULL GRASP, and if an existing implementation of mDNS was used, it would likely be more code space than a separate implementation of DULL GRASP or a shared implementation of DULL GRASP and GRASP in the ACP. A.4. Choice of routing protocol (RPL) This section motivates why RPL - "IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks ([RFC6550] was chosen as the default (and in this specification only) routing protocol for the ACP. The choice and above explained profile was derived from a pre-standard implementation of ACP that was successfully deployed in operational networks. Requirements for routing in the ACP are: o Self-management: The ACP must build automatically, without human intervention. Therefore routing protocol must also work completely automatically. RPL is a simple, self-managing protocol, which does not require zones or areas; it is also self- configuring, since configuration is carried as part of the protocol (see Section 6.7.6 of [RFC6550]). o Scale: The ACP builds over an entire domain, which could be a large enterprise or service provider network. The routing protocol must therefore support domains of 100,000 nodes or more, ideally without the need for zoning or separation into areas. RPL has this scale property. This is based on extensive use of default routing. o Low resource consumption: The ACP supports traditional network infrastructure, thus runs in addition to traditional protocols. The ACP, and specifically the routing protocol must have low resource consumption both in terms of memory and CPU requirements. Specifically, at edge nodes, where memory and CPU are scarce, consumption should be minimal. RPL builds a destination-oriented directed acyclic graph (DODAG), where the main resource consumption is at the root of the DODAG. The closer to the edge of the network, the less state needs to be maintained. This adapts nicely to the typical network design. Also, all changes below a common parent node are kept below that parent node. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 130] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 o Support for unstructured address space: In the Autonomic Networking Infrastructure, node addresses are identifiers, and may not be assigned in a topological way. Also, nodes may move topologically, without changing their address. Therefore, the routing protocol must support completely unstructured address space. RPL is specifically made for mobile ad-hoc networks, with no assumptions on topologically aligned addressing. o Modularity: To keep the initial implementation small, yet allow later for more complex methods, it is highly desirable that the routing protocol has a simple base functionality, but can import new functional modules if needed. RPL has this property with the concept of "objective function", which is a plugin to modify routing behavior. o Extensibility: Since the Autonomic Networking Infrastructure is a new concept, it is likely that changes in the way of operation will happen over time. RPL allows for new objective functions to be introduced later, which allow changes to the way the routing protocol creates the DAGs. o Multi-topology support: It may become necessary in the future to support more than one DODAG for different purposes, using different objective functions. RPL allow for the creation of several parallel DODAGs, should this be required. This could be used to create different topologies to reach different roots. o No need for path optimization: RPL does not necessarily compute the optimal path between any two nodes. However, the ACP does not require this today, since it carries mainly non-delay-sensitive feedback loops. It is possible that different optimization schemes become necessary in the future, but RPL can be expanded (see point "Extensibility" above). A.5. ACP Information Distribution and multicast IP multicast is not used by the ACP because the ANI (Autonomic Networking Infrastructure) itself does not require IP multicast but only service announcement/discovery. Using IP multicast for that would have made it necessary to develop a zero-touch auto configuring solution for ASM (Any Source Multicast - the original form of IP multicast defined in [RFC1112]), which would be quite complex and difficult to justify. One aspect of complexity where no attempt at a solution has been described in IETF documents is the automatic- selection of routers that should be PIM Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) Rendezvous Points (RPs) (see [RFC7761]). The other aspects of complexity are the implementation of MLD ([RFC4604]), PIM-SM and Anycast-RP (see [RFC4610]). If those implementations already exist Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 131] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 in a product, then they would be very likely tied to accelerated forwarding which consumes hardware resources, and that in return is difficult to justify as a cost of performing only service discovery. Some future ASA may need high performance in-network data replication. That is the case when the use of IP multicast is justified. Such an ASA can then use service discovery from ACP GRASP, and then they do not need ASM but only SSM (Source Specific Multicast, see [RFC4607]) for the IP multicast replication. SSM itself can simply be enabled in the Data-Plane (or even in an update to the ACP) without any other configuration than just enabling it on all nodes and only requires a simpler version of MLD (see [RFC5790]). LSP (Link State Protocol) based IGP routing protocols typically have a mechanism to flood information, and such a mechanism could be used to flood GRASP objectives by defining them to be information of that IGP. This would be a possible optimization in future variations of the ACP that do use an LSP routing protocol. Note though that such a mechanism would not work easily for GRASP M_DISCOVERY messages which are intelligently (constrained) flooded not across the whole ACP, but only up to a node where a responder is found. We do expect that many future services in ASA will have only few consuming ASA, and for those cases, M_DISCOVERY is the more efficient method than flooding across the whole domain. Because the ACP uses RPL, one desirable future extension is to use RPLs existing notion of loop-free distribution trees (DODAG) to make GRASPs flooding more efficient both for M_FLOOD and M_DISCOVERY) See Section 6.12.5 how this will be specifically beneficial when using NBMA interfaces. This is not currently specified in this document because it is not quite clear yet what exactly the implications are to make GRASP flooding depend on RPL DODAG convergence and how difficult it would be to let GRASP flooding access the DODAG information. A.6. Extending ACP channel negotiation (via GRASP) [RFC Editor: This section to be removed before RFC. [This section kept for informational purposes up until the last draft version as that would be the version that readers interested in the changelog would also go to to revisit it.] The mechanism described in the normative part of this document to support multiple different ACP secure channel protocols without a single network wide MTI protocol is important to allow extending secure ACP channel protocols beyond what is specified in this Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 132] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 document, but it will run into problem if it would be used for multiple protocols: The need to potentially have multiple of these security associations even temporarily run in parallel to determine which of them works best does not support the most lightweight implementation options. The simple policy of letting one side (Alice) decide what is best may not lead to the mutual best result. The two limitations can easier be solved if the solution was more modular and as few as possible initial secure channel negotiation protocols would be used, and these protocols would then take on the responsibility to support more flexible objectives to negotiate the mutually preferred ACP security channel protocol. IKEv2 is the IETF standard protocol to negotiate network security associations. It is meant to be extensible, but it is unclear whether it would be feasible to extend IKEv2 to support possible future requirements for ACP secure channel negotiation: Consider the simple case where the use of native IPsec vs. IPsec via GRE is to be negotiated and the objective is the maximum throughput. Both sides would indicate some agreed upon performance metric and the preferred encapsulation is the one with the higher performance of the slower side. IKEv2 does not support negotiation with this objective. Consider DTLS and some form of MacSec are to be added as negotiation options - and the performance objective should work across all IPsec, DTLS and MacSec options. In the case of MacSEC, the negotiation would also need to determine a key for the peering. It is unclear if it would be even appropriate to consider extending the scope of negotiation in IKEv2 to those cases. Even if feasible to define, it is unclear if implementations of IKEv2 would be eager to adopt those type of extension given the long cycles of security testing that necessarily goes along with core security protocols such as IKEv2 implementations. A more modular alternative to extending IKEv2 could be to layer a modular negotiation mechanism on top of the multitude of existing or possible future secure channel protocols. For this, GRASP over TLS could be considered as a first ACP secure channel negotiation protocol. The following are initial considerations for such an approach. A full specification is subject to a separate document: To explicitly allow negotiation of the ACP channel protocol, GRASP over a TLS connection using the GRASP_LISTEN_PORT and the node's and peer's link-local IPv6 address is used. When Alice and Bob support Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 133] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 GRASP negotiation, they do prefer it over any other non-explicitly negotiated security association protocol and should wait trying any non-negotiated ACP channel protocol until after it is clear that GRASP/TLS will not work to the peer. When Alice and Bob successfully establish the GRASP/TSL session, they will negotiate the channel mechanism to use using objectives such as performance and perceived quality of the security. After agreeing on a channel mechanism, Alice and Bob start the selected Channel protocol. Once the secure channel protocol is successfully running, the GRASP/TLS connection can be kept alive or timed out as long as the selected channel protocol has a secure association between Alice and Bob. When it terminates, it needs to be re-negotiated via GRASP/ TLS. Notes: o Negotiation of a channel type may require IANA assignments of code points. o TLS is subject to reset attacks, which IKEv2 is not. Normally, ACP connections (as specified in this document) will be over link- local addresses so the attack surface for this one issue in TCP should be reduced (note that this may not be true when ACP is tunneled as described in Section 8.2.2. o GRASP packets received inside a TLS connection established for GRASP/TLS ACP negotiation are assigned to a separate GRASP domain unique to that TLS connection. A.7. CAs, domains and routing subdomains There is a wide range of setting up different ACP solution by appropriately using CAs and the domain and rsub elements in the domain information field of the domain certificate. We summarize these options here as they have been explained in different parts of the document in before and discuss possible and desirable extensions: An ACP domain is the set of all ACP nodes using certificates from one or more Trust Anchors (TA) (typically one CA) using the same domain field. GRASP inside the ACP is run across all transitively connected ACP nodes in a domain. The rsub element in the domain information field permits the use of addresses from different ULA prefixes. One use case is to create multiple physical networks that initially may be separated with one ACP domain but different routing subdomains, so that all nodes can mutual trust their ACP domain certificates (not depending on rsub) Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 134] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 and so that they could connect later together into a contiguous ACP network. One instance of such a use case is an ACP for regions interconnected via a non-ACP enabled core, for example due to the absence of product support for ACP on the core nodes. ACP connect configurations as defined in this document can be used to extend and interconnect those ACP islands to the NOC and merge them into a single ACP when later that product support gap is closed. Note that RPL scales very well. It is not necessary to use multiple routing subdomains to scale ACP domains in a way it would be possible if other routing protocols where used. They exist only as options for the above mentioned reasons. If different ACP domains are to be created that should not allow to connect to each other by default, these ACP domains simply need to have different domain elements in the domain information field. These domain elements can be arbitrary, including subdomains of one another: Domains "example.com" and "research.example.com" are separate domains if both are domain elements in the domain information element of certificates. It is not necessary to have a separate CA for different ACP domains: an operator can use a single CA to sign certificates for multiple ACP domains that are not allowed to connect to each other because the checks for ACP adjacencies includes comparison of the domain part. If multiple independent networks choose the same domain name but had their own CA, these would not form a single ACP domain because of CA mismatch. Therefore there is no problem in choosing domain names that are potentially also used by others. Nevertheless it is highly recommended to use domain names that one can have high probability to be unique. It is recommended to use domain names that start with a DNS domain names owned by the assigning organization and unique within it. For example "acp.example.com" if you own "example.com". A.8. Intent for the ACP Intent is the architecture component of autonomic networks according to [I-D.ietf-anima-reference-model] that allows operators to issue policies to the network. Its applicability for use is quite flexible and freeform, with potential applications including policies flooded across ACP GRASP and interpreted on every ACP node. One concern for future definitions of Intent solutions is the problem of circular dependencies when expressing Intent policies about the ACP itself. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 135] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 For example, Intent could indicate the desire to build an ACP across all domains that have a common parent domain (without relying on the rsub/routing-subdomain solution defined in this document). For example ACP nodes with domain "example.com", "access.example.com", "core.example.com" and "city.core.example.com" should all establish one single ACP. If each domain has its own source of Intent, then the Intent would simply have to allow adding the peer domains trust anchors (CA) and domain names to the ACP domain membership check (Section 6.1.3) so that nodes from those other domains are accepted as ACP peers. If this Intent was to be originated only from one domain, it could likely not be made to work because the other domains will not build any ACP connection amongst each other, whether they use the same or different CA due to the ACP domain membership check. If the domains use the same CA one could change the ACP setup to permit for the ACP to be established between two ACP nodes with different acp-domain-names, but only for the purpose of disseminating limited information, such as Intent, but not to set up full ACP connectivity, specifically not RPL routing and passing of arbitrary GRASP information. Unless the Intent policies permit this to happen across domain boundaries. This type of approach where the ACP first allows Intent to operate and only then sets up the rest of ACP connectivity based on Intent policy could also be used to enable Intent policies that would limit functionality across the ACP inside a domain, as long as no policy would disturb the distribution of Intent. For example to limit reachability across the ACP to certain type of nodes or locations of nodes. A.9. Adopting ACP concepts for other environments The ACP as specified in this document is very explicit about the choice of options to allow interoperable implementations. The choices made may not be the best for all environments, but the concepts used by the ACP can be used to build derived solutions: The ACP specifies the use of ULA and deriving its prefix from the domain name so that no address allocation is required to deploy the ACP. The ACP will equally work not using ULA but any other /48 IPv6 prefix. This prefix could simply be a configuration of the ACP registrars (for example when using BRSKI) to enroll the domain certificates - instead of the ACP registrar deriving the /48 ULA prefix from the AN domain name. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 136] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 Some solutions may already have an auto-addressing scheme, for example derived from existing unique device identifiers (e.g., MAC addresses). In those cases it may not be desirable to assign addresses to devices via the ACP address information field in the way described in this document. The certificate may simply serve to identify the ACP domain, and the address field could be empty/unused. The only fix required in the remaining way the ACP operate is to define another element in the domain certificate for the two peers to decide who is Alice and who is Bob during secure channel building. Note though that future work may leverage the acp address to authenticate "ownership" of the address by the device. If the address used by a device is derived from some pre-existing permanent local ID (such as MAC address), then it would be useful to store that address in the certificate using the format of the access address information field or in a similar way. The ACP is defined as a separate VRF because it intends to support well managed networks with a wide variety of configurations. Therefore, reliable, configuration-indestructible connectivity cannot be achieved from the Data-Plane itself. In solutions where all transit connectivity impacting functions are fully automated (including security), indestructible and resilient, it would be possible to eliminate the need for the ACP to be a separate VRF. Consider the most simple example system in which there is no separate Data-Plane, but the ACP is the Data-Plane. Add BRSKI, and it becomes a fully autonomic network - except that it does not support automatic addressing for user equipment. This gap can then be closed for example by adding a solution derived from [I-D.ietf-anima-prefix-management]. TCP/TLS as the protocols to provide reliability and security to GRASP in the ACP may not be the preferred choice in constrained networks. For example, CoAP/DTLS (Constrained Application Protocol) may be preferred where they are already used, allowing to reduce the additional code space footprint for the ACP on those devices. Hop- by-hop reliability for ACP GRASP messages could be made to support protocols like DTLS by adding the same type of negotiation as defined in this document for ACP secure channel protocol negotiation. End- to-end GRASP connections can be made to select their transport protocol in future extensions of the ACP meant to better support constrained devices by indicating the supported transport protocols (e.g.: TLS/DTLS) via GRASP parameters of the GRASP objective through which the transport endpoint is discovered. The routing protocol chosen by the ACP design (RPL) does explicitly not optimize for shortest paths and fastest convergence. Variations of the ACP may want to use a different routing protocol or introduce more advanced RPL profiles. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 137] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 Variations such as what routing protocol to use, or whether to instantiate an ACP in a VRF or (as suggested above) as the actual Data-Plane, can be automatically chosen in implementations built to support multiple options by deriving them from future parameters in the certificate. Parameters in certificates should be limited to those that would not need to be changed more often than certificates would need to be updated anyhow; Or by ensuring that these parameters can be provisioned before the variation of an ACP is activated in a node. Using BRSKI, this could be done for example as additional follow-up signaling directly after the certificate enrollment, still leveraging the BRSKI TLS connection and therefore not introducing any additional connectivity requirements. Last but not least, secure channel protocols including their encapsulations are easily added to ACP solutions. ACP hop-by-hop network layer secure channels could also be replaced by end-to-end security plus other means for infrastructure protection. Any future network OAM should always use end-to-end security anyhow and can leverage the domain certificates and is therefore not dependent on security to be provided for by ACP secure channels. A.10. Further (future) options A.10.1. Auto-aggregation of routes Routing in the ACP according to this specification only leverages the standard RPL mechanism of route optimization, e.g. keeping only routes that are not towards the RPL root. This is known to scale to networks with 20,000 or more nodes. There is no auto-aggregation of routes for /48 ULA prefixes (when using rsub in the domain information field) and/or Zone-ID based prefixes. Automatic assignment of Zone-ID and auto-aggregation of routes could be achieved for example by configuring zone-boundaries, announcing via GRASP into the zones the zone parameters (zone-ID and /48 ULA prefix) and auto-aggegating routes on the zone-boundaries. Nodes would assign their Zone-ID and potentially even /48 prefix based on the GRASP announcements. A.10.2. More options for avoiding IPv6 Data-Plane dependency As described in Section 6.12.2, the ACP depends on the Data-Plane to establish IPv6 link-local addressing on interfaces. Using a separate MAC address for the ACP allows to fully isolate the ACP from the data-plane in a way that is compatible with this specification. It is also an ideal option when using Single-root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single- root_input/output_virtualization [2]) in an implementation to isolate Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 138] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 the ACP because different SR-IOV interfaces use different MAC addresses. When additional MAC address(es) are not available, separation of the ACP could be done at different demux points. The same subnet interface could have a separate IPv6 interface for the ACP and Data- Plane and therefore separate link-local addresses for both, where the ACP interface is non-configurable on the Data-Plane. This too would be compatible with this specification and not impact interoperability. An option that would require additional specification is to use a different Ethertype from 0x86DD (IPv6) to encapsulate IPv6 packets for the ACP. This would be a similar approach as used for IP authentication packets in [IEEE-802.1X] which use the Extensible Authentication Protocol over Local Area Network (EAPoL) ethertype (0x88A2). Note that in the case of ANI nodes, all the above considerations equally apply to the encapsulation of BRSKI packets including GRASP used for BRSKI. A.10.3. ACP APIs and operational models (YANG) Future work should define YANG ([RFC7950]) data model and/or node internal APIs to monitor and manage the ACP. Support for the ACP Adjacency Table (Section 6.2) and ACP GRASP need to be included into such model/API. A.10.4. RPL enhancements Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 139] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 ..... USA ...... ..... Europe ...... NOC1 NOC2 | | | metric 100 | ACP1 --------------------------- ACP2 . | | . WAN | metric 10 metric 20 | . Core | | . ACP3 --------------------------- ACP4 . | metric 100 | | | . | | . Sites ACP10 ACP11 . Figure 18: Dual NOC The profile for RPL specified in this document builds only one spanning-tree path set to a root (NOC). In the presence of multiple NOCs, routing toward the non-root NOCs may be suboptimal. Figure 18 shows an extreme example. Assuming that node ACP1 becomes the RPL root, traffic between ACP11 and NOC2 will pass through ACP4-ACP3-ACP1-ACP2 instead of ACP4-ACP2 because the RPL calculated DODAG/routes are shortest paths towards the RPL root. To overcome these limitations, extensions/modifications to the RPL profile can provide optimality for multiple NOCs. This requires utilizing Data-Plane artifact including IPinIP encap/decap on ACP routers and processing of IPv6 RPI headers. Alternatively, (Src,Dst) routing table entries could be used. Flooding of ACP GRASP messages can be further constrained and therefore optimized by flooding only via links that are part of the RPL DODAG. A.10.5. Role assignments ACP connect is an explicit mechanism to "leak" ACP traffic explicitly (for example in a NOC). It is therefore also a possible security gap when it is easy to enable ACP connect on arbitrary compromised ACP nodes. One simple solution is to define an extension in the ACP certificates ACP information field indicating the permission for ACP connect to be configured on that ACP node. This could similarly be done to decide whether a node is permitted to be a registrar or not. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 140] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 Tying the permitted "roles" of an ACP node to the ACP domain certificate provides fairly strong protection against misconfiguration, but is still subject to code modifications. Another interesting role to assign to certificates is that of a NOC node. This would allow to limit certain type of connections such as OAM TLS connections to only NOC initiator or responders. A.10.6. Autonomic L3 transit In this specification, the ACP can only establish autonomic connectivity across L2 hops and only explicitly configured options to tunnel across L3. Future work should specify mechanisms to automatically tunnel ACP across L3 networks. A hub&spoke option would allow to tunnel across the Internet to a cloud or central instance of the ACP, a peer-to-peer tunneling mechanism could tunnel ACP islands across an L3VPN infrastructure. A.10.7. Diagnostics Section 10.1 describes diagnostics options that can be done without changing the external, interoperability affecting characteristics of ACP implementations. Even better diagnostics of ACP operations is possible with additional signaling extensions, such as: 1. Consider if LLDP should be a recommended functionality for ANI devices to improve diagnostics, and if so, which information elements it should signal (noting that such information is conveyed in an insecure manner). Includes potentially new information elements. 2. In alternative to LLDP, A DULL GRASP diagnostics objective could be defined to carry these information elements. 3. The IDevID of BRSKI pledges should be included in the selected insecure diagnostics option. This may be undesirable when exposure of device information is seen as too much of a security issue (ability to deduce possible attack vectors from device model for example). 4. A richer set of diagnostics information should be made available via the secured ACP channels, using either single-hop GRASP or network wide "topology discovery" mechanisms. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 141] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 A.10.8. Avoiding and dealing with compromised ACP nodes Compromised ACP nodes pose the biggest risk to the operations of the network. The most common type of compromise is leakage of credentials to manage/configure the device and the application of malicious configuration including the change of access credentials, but not the change of software. Most of todays networking equipment should have secure boot/software infrastructure anyhow, so attacks that introduce malicious software should be a lot harder. The most important aspect of security design against these type of attacks is to eliminate password based configuration access methods and instead rely on certificate based credentials handed out only to nodes where it is clear that the private keys can not leak. This limits unexpected propagation of credentials. If password based credentials to configure devices still need to be supported, they must not be locally configurable, but only be remotely provisioned or verified (through protocols like Radius or Diameter), and there must be no local configuration permitting to change these authentication mechanisms, but ideally they should be autoconfiguring across the ACP. See [I-D.eckert-anima-noc-autoconfig]. Without physical access to the compromised device, attackers with access to configuration should not be able to break the ACP connectivity, even when they can break or otherwise manipulate (spoof) the data-plane connectivity through configuration. To achieve this, it is necessary to avoid providing configuration options for the ACP, such as enabling/disabling it on interfaces. For example there could be an ACP configuration that locks down the current ACP config unless factory reseet is done. With such means, the valid administration has the best chances to maintain access to ACP nodes, discover malicious configuration though ongoing configuration tracking from central locations for example, and to react accordingly. The primary reaction is withdrawal/change of credentials, terminate malicious existing management sessions and fixing the configuration. Ensuring that management sessions using invalidated credentials are terminated automatically without recourse will likely require new work. Only when these steps are not feasible would it be necessary to revoke or expire the ACP domain certificate credentials and consider the node kicked off the network - until the situation can be further rectified, likely requiring direct physical access to the node. Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 142] Internet-Draft An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) February 2020 Without extensions, compromised ACP nodes can only be removed from the ACP at the speed of CRL/OCSP information refresh or expiry (and non-removal) of short lived certificates. Future extensions to the ACP could for example use GRASP flooding distribution of triggered updates of CRL/OCSP or explicit removal indication of the compromised nodes domain certificate. Authors' Addresses Toerless Eckert (editor) Futurewei Technologies Inc. USA 2330 Central Expy Santa Clara 95050 USA Email: tte+ietf@cs.fau.de Michael H. Behringer (editor) Email: michael.h.behringer@gmail.com Steinthor Bjarnason Arbor Networks 2727 South State Street, Suite 200 Ann Arbor MI 48104 United States Email: sbjarnason@arbor.net Eckert, et al. Expires August 6, 2020 [Page 143]