Current Internet-Drafts This summary sheet provides a short synopsis of each Internet-Draft available within the "internet-drafts" directory at the shadow sites directory. These Internet-Drafts are listed alphabetically by working group acronym and start date. Generated 2023-11-29 17:05:37 UTC. IPv6 over Networks of Resource-constrained Nodes (6lo) ------------------------------------------------------ "IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Multicast and Anycast Address Listener Subscription", Pascal Thubert, 2023-11-10, This document updates the 6LoWPAN extensions to IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (RFC 4861, RFC 8505) to enable a listener to subscribe to an IPv6 anycast or multicast address; the document updates RPL (RFC 6550, RFC 6553) to add a new Non-Storing Multicast Mode and a new support for anycast addresses in Storing and Non-Storing Modes. This document extends RFC 9010 to enable the 6LR to inject the anycast and multicast addresses in RPL. "Transmission of SCHC-compressed packets over IEEE 802.15.4 networks", Carles Gomez, Ana Minaburo, 2023-10-22, A framework called Static Context Header Compression and fragmentation (SCHC) has been designed with the primary goal of supporting IPv6 over Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technologies [RFC8724]. One of the SCHC components is a header compression mechanism. If used properly, SCHC header compression allows a greater compression ratio than that achievable with traditional 6LoWPAN header compression [RFC6282]. For this reason, it may make sense to use SCHC header compression in some 6LoWPAN environments, including IEEE 802.15.4 networks. This document specifies how a SCHC-compressed packet can be carried over IEEE 802.15.4 networks. The document also enables the transmission of SCHC-compressed UDP/ CoAP headers over 6LoWPAN-compressed IPv6 packets. "Path-Aware Semantic Addressing (PASA) for Low power and Lossy Networks", Luigi Iannone, Guangpeng Li, Zhe Lou, Peng Liu, Rong Long, Kiran Makhijani, Pascal Thubert, 2023-10-23, This document specifies a topological addressing scheme, Path-Aware Semantic Addressing (PASA), that enables IP packet stateless forwarding. No routing table needs to be built, rather, the forwarding decision is based solely on the destination address structure. This document focuses on carrying IP packets across an LLN (Low power and Lossy Network), in which the topology is static, the location of the nodes is fixed, and the connection between the nodes is also rather stable. This specifications describes the PASA architecture, along with PASA address allocation, forwarding mechanism, header format design, and IPv6 interconnection support. This document updates RFC 8505. "IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Prefix Registration", Pascal Thubert, 2023-08-14, This document updates IPv6 Neighbor Discovery [RFC4861] and the 6LoWPAN extensions [RFC8505][RFC8928] to enable a node that owns or is directly connected to a prefix to register that prefix to neighbor routers. The registration indicates that the registered prefix can be reached via the advertising node without a loop. The prefix registration also provides a protocol-independent interface for the node to request neighbor router(s) to redistribute the prefix to the larger routing domain using their specific routing protocols. This document extends RPL [RFC6550][RFC6553][RFC9010] to enable the 6LR to inject the registered prefix in RPL. IPv6 Maintenance (6man) ----------------------- "IPv6 Hop-by-Hop Options Processing Procedures", Robert Hinden, Gorry Fairhurst, 2023-11-21, This document specifies procedures for how IPv6 Hop-by-Hop options are processed in IPv6 routers and hosts. It modifies the procedures specified in the IPv6 Protocol Specification (RFC8200) to make processing of the IPv6 Hop-by-Hop Options header practical with the goal of making IPv6 Hop-by-Hop options useful to deploy and use in the Internet. When published, this document updates RFC8200. "Limits on Sending and Processing IPv6 Extension Headers", Tom Herbert, 2023-11-28, This specification defines various limits that may be applied to receiving, sending, and otherwise processing packets that contain IPv6 extension headers. The need for such limits is pragmatic to facilitate interoperability amongst hosts and routers in the presence of extension headers, thereby increasing the feasibility of deployment of extension headers. The limits described herein establish the minimum baseline of support for use of extension headers on the Internet. If it is known that all communicating parties for a particular communication, including destination hosts and any routers in the path, are capable of supporting more than the baseline then these default limits may be freely exceeded. "Carrying Virtual Transport Network (VTN) Information in IPv6 Extension Header", Jie Dong, Zhenbin Li, Chongfeng Xie, Chenhao Ma, Gyan Mishra, 2023-07-06, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) provide different customers with logically separated connectivity over a common network infrastructure. With the introduction and evolvement of 5G and also in some existing network scenarios, some customers may require network connectivity services with advanced features comparing to conventional VPN services. Such kind of network service is called enhanced VPNs (VPN+). VPN+ can be used, for example, to deliver IETF network slice services. A VTN is a virtual underlay network that is associated with a network topology, and is allocated with a set of dedicated or shared resources from the underlay physical network. VPN+ services can be delivered by mapping one or a group of overlay VPNs to the appropriate VTNs as the virtual underlay. For packet forwarding in a specific VTN, some fields in the data packet are used to identify the VTN the packet belongs to, so that VTN-specific processing can be performed on each node along a VTN-specific path. This document specifies a new IPv6 Hop-by-Hop option to carry the VTN related information in data packets, which could be used to identify the VTN-specific processing to be performed on the packets by each network node along a VTN-specific path. "Representing IPv6 Zone Identifiers in Address Literals and Uniform Resource Identifiers", Brian Carpenter, Stuart Cheshire, Robert Hinden, 2023-07-02, This document describes how the zone identifier of an IPv6 scoped address, defined as in the IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture (RFC 4007), can be represented in a literal IPv6 address and in a Uniform Resource Identifier that includes such a literal address. It updates the URI Generic Syntax and Internationalized Resource Identifier specifications (RFC 3986, RFC 3987) accordingly, and obsoletes RFC 6874. "Segment Identifiers in SRv6", Suresh Krishnan, 2023-04-11, The data plane for Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) is built using IPv6 as the underlying forwarding plane. Due to this underlying use of IPv6, Segment Identifiers (SIDs) used by SRv6 can resemble IPv6 addresses and behave like them while exhibiting slightly different behaviors in some situations. This document explores the characteristics of SRv6 SIDs and to clarify the relationship of SRv6 SIDs to the IPv6 Addressing Architecture. "IPv6 Query for Enabled In-situ OAM Capabilities", Xiao Min, Greg Mirsky, 2023-10-23, This document describes the application of the mechanism of discovering IOAM capabilities, described in RFC 9359 "Ping Enabled IOAM Capabilities", in IPv6 networks. IPv6 Node IOAM Request uses the IPv6 Node Information messages, allowing the IOAM encapsulating node to discover the enabled IOAM capabilities of each IOAM transit and IOAM decapsulating node. This document updates RFCs 4620 and 4884. "Architecture and Framework for IPv6 over Non-Broadcast Access", Pascal Thubert, Michael Richardson, 2023-11-20, This document presents an architecture for IPv6 access networks that decouples the network-layer concepts of Links, Interface, and Subnets from the link-layer concepts of links, ports, and broadcast domains, and limits the reliance on link-layer broadcasts. This architecture is suitable for IPv6 over any network, including non-broadcast networks, which is typically the case for intangible media such as wireless and overlays. A study of the issues with IPv6 ND over intangible media is presented, and a framework to solve those issues within the new architecture is proposed. "Preference for IPv6 ULAs over IPv4 addresses in RFC6724", Nick Buraglio, Tim Chown, Jeremy Duncan, 2023-11-21, This document updates [RFC6724] based on operational experience gained since its publication over ten years ago. In particular it updates the precedence of Unique Local Addresses (ULAs) in the default address selection policy table, which as originally defined by [RFC6724] has lower precedence than legacy IPv4 addressing. The update places both IPv6 Global Unicast Addresses (GUAs) and ULAs ahead of all IPv4 addresses on the policy table to better suit operational deployment and management of ULAs in production. In updating the [RFC6724] default policy table, this document also demotes the preference for 6to4 addresses. These changes to default behavior improve supportability of common use cases such as, but not limited to, automatic / unmanaged scenarios. It is recognized that some less common deployment scenarios may require explicit configuration or custom changes to achieve desired operational parameters. "The IPv6 Compact Routing Header (CRH)", Ron Bonica, Yuji Kamite, Andrew Alston, Daniam Henriques, Luay Jalil, 2023-11-20, This document describes an experiment in which two new IPv6 Routing headers are implemented and deployed. Collectively, they are called the Compact Routing Headers (CRH). Individually, they are called CRH-16 and CRH-32. One purpose of this experiment is to demonstrate that the CRH can be implemented and deployed in a production network. Another purpose is to demonstrate that the security considerations, described in this document, can be addressed with access control lists. Finally, this document encourages replication of the experiment. "Signalling DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation Availability to Hosts", Lorenzo Colitti, Jen Linkova, Xiao Ma, David Lamparter, 2023-11-24, This document defines a "P" flag in the Prefix Information Option of IPv6 Router Advertisements (RAs). The flag is used to indicate that the network prefers that clients do not use the prefix provided in the PIO for SLAAC but request a prefix via DHCPv6 PD instead, and use that delegated prefix to form addresses. Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments (ace) ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Key Provisioning for Group Communication using ACE", Francesca Palombini, Marco Tiloca, 2023-10-06, This document defines how to use the Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments (ACE) framework to distribute keying material and configuration parameters for secure group communication. Candidate group members acting as Clients and authorized to join a group can do so by interacting with a Key Distribution Center (KDC) acting as Resource Server, from which they obtain the keying material to communicate with other group members. While defining general message formats as well as the interface and operations available at the KDC, this document supports different approaches and protocols for secure group communication. Therefore, details are delegated to separate application profiles of this document, as specialized instances that target a particular group communication approach and define how communications in the group are protected. Compliance requirements for such application profiles are also specified. "Key Management for OSCORE Groups in ACE", Marco Tiloca, Jiye Park, Francesca Palombini, 2023-03-06, This document defines an application profile of the ACE framework for Authentication and Authorization, to request and provision keying material in group communication scenarios that are based on CoAP and are secured with Group Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (Group OSCORE). This application profile delegates the authentication and authorization of Clients, that join an OSCORE group through a Resource Server acting as Group Manager for that group. This application profile leverages protocol-specific transport profiles of ACE to achieve communication security, server authentication and proof-of-possession for a key owned by the Client and bound to an OAuth 2.0 Access Token. "Publish-Subscribe Profile for Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments (ACE)", Francesca Palombini, Cigdem Sengul, Marco Tiloca, 2023-10-23, This document defines an application profile of the Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments (ACE) framework, to enable secure group communication in the Publish-Subscribe (pub/sub) architecture for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) [draft- ietf-core-coap-pubsub], where Publishers and Subscribers communicate through a Broker. This profile relies on protocol-specific transport profiles of ACE to achieve communication security, server authentication, and proof-of-possession for a key owned by the Client and bound to an OAuth 2.0 Access Token. This document specifies the provisioning and enforcement of authorization information for Clients to act as Publishers and/or Subscribers, as well as the provisioning of keying material and security parameters that Clients use for protecting their communications end-to-end through the Broker. Note to RFC Editor: Please replace "[draft-ietf-core-coap-pubsub]" with the RFC number of that document and delete this paragraph. "Admin Interface for the OSCORE Group Manager", Marco Tiloca, Rikard Hoeglund, Peter van der Stok, Francesca Palombini, 2023-10-23, Group communication for CoAP can be secured using Group Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (Group OSCORE). A Group Manager is responsible to handle the joining of new group members, as well as to manage and distribute the group keying material. This document defines a RESTful admin interface at the Group Manager, that allows an Administrator entity to create and delete OSCORE groups, as well as to retrieve and update their configuration. The ACE framework for Authentication and Authorization is used to enforce authentication and authorization of the Administrator at the Group Manager. Protocol-specific transport profiles of ACE are used to achieve communication security, proof-of- possession, and server authentication. "EAP-based Authentication Service for CoAP", Rafael Marin-Lopez, Dan Garcia-Carrillo, 2023-10-23, This document specifies an authentication service that uses the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) transported employing Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) messages. As such, it defines an EAP lower layer based on CoAP called CoAP-EAP. One of the main goals is to authenticate a CoAP-enabled IoT device (EAP peer) that intends to join a security domain managed by a Controller (EAP authenticator). Secondly, it allows deriving key material to protect CoAP messages exchanged between them based on Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (OSCORE), enabling the establishment of a security association between them. "Notification of Revoked Access Tokens in the Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments (ACE) Framework", Marco Tiloca, Francesca Palombini, Sebastian Echeverria, Grace Lewis, 2023-06-02, This document specifies a method of the Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments (ACE) framework, which allows an Authorization Server to notify Clients and Resource Servers (i.e., registered devices) about revoked access tokens. As specified in this document, the method allows Clients and Resource Servers to access a Token Revocation List on the Authorization Server by using the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), with the possible additional use of resource observation. Resulting (unsolicited) notifications of revoked access tokens complement alternative approaches such as token introspection, while not requiring additional endpoints on Clients and Resource Servers. "Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC) and Object Security for Constrained Environments (OSCORE) Profile for Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments (ACE)", Goeran Selander, John Mattsson, Marco Tiloca, Rikard Hoeglund, 2023-10-23, This document specifies a profile for the Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments (ACE) framework. It utilizes Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC) for achieving mutual authentication between an OAuth 2.0 Client and Resource Server, and it binds an authentication credential of the Client to an OAuth 2.0 access token. EDHOC also establishes an Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (OSCORE) Security Context, which is used to secure communications when accessing protected resources according to the authorization information indicated in the access token. This profile can be used to delegate management of authorization information from a resource-constrained server to a trusted host with less severe limitations regarding processing power and memory. "Protecting EST Payloads with OSCORE", Goeran Selander, Shahid Raza, Martin Furuhed, Malisa Vucinic, Timothy Claeys, 2023-10-23, This document specifies public-key certificate enrollment procedures protected with lightweight application-layer security protocols suitable for Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. The protocols leverage payload formats defined in Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST) and existing IoT standards including the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) and the CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE) format. "Using the Constrained RESTful Application Language (CoRAL) with the Admin Interface for the OSCORE Group Manager", Marco Tiloca, Rikard Hoeglund, 2023-07-14, Group communication for CoAP can be secured using Group Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (Group OSCORE). A Group Manager is responsible to handle the joining of new group members, as well as to manage and distribute the group keying material. The Group Manager can provide a RESTful admin interface that allows an Administrator entity to create and delete OSCORE groups, as well as to retrieve and update their configuration. This document specifies how an Administrator entity interacts with the admin interface at the Group Manager by using the Constrained RESTful Application Language (CoRAL). The ACE framework for Authentication and Authorization is used to enforce authentication and authorization of the Administrator at the Group Manager. Protocol-specific transport profiles of ACE are used to achieve communication security, proof-of-possession and server authentication. Automated Certificate Management Environment (acme) --------------------------------------------------- "ACME End User Client and Code Signing Certificates", Kathleen Moriarty, 2023-08-03, Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) core protocol addresses the use case of web server certificates for TLS. This document extends the ACME protocol to support end user client, device client, and code signing certificates. "ACME Integrations for Device Certificate Enrollment", Owen Friel, Richard Barnes, Rifaat Shekh-Yusef, Michael Richardson, 2023-07-13, This document outlines multiple advanced use cases and integrations that ACME facilitates without any modifications or enhancements required to the base ACME specification. The use cases include ACME integration with EST, BRSKI and TEAP. "Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) Node ID Validation Extension", Brian Sipos, 2023-08-02, This document specifies an extension to the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol which allows an ACME server to validate the Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) Node ID for an ACME client. The DTN Node ID is encoded as a certificate Subject Alternative Name (SAN) of type otherName with a name form of BundleEID and as an ACME Identifier type "bundleEID". "Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Renewal Information (ARI) Extension", Aaron Gable, 2023-08-10, This document specifies how an ACME server may provide suggestions to ACME clients as to when they should attempt to renew their certificates. This allows servers to mitigate load spikes, and ensures clients do not make false assumptions about appropriate certificate renewal periods. "Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Device Attestation Extension", Brandon Weeks, 2023-07-24, This document specifies new identifiers and a challenge for the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol which allows validating the identity of a device using attestation. "Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Extensions for ".onion" Special-Use Domain Names", Q Misell, 2023-10-16, The document defines extensions to the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) to allow for the automatic issuance of certificates to Tor hidden services (".onion" Special-Use Domain Names). Discussion This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/AS207960/acme-onion. The project website and a reference implementation can be found at https://acmeforonions.org. "Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) DNS Labeled With ACME Account ID Challenge", Antonios Chariton, Amir Omidi, James Kasten, Fotis Loukos, Stanislaw Janikowski, 2023-07-11, This document outlines a new challenge for the ACME protocol, enabling an ACME client to answer a domain control validation challenge from an ACME server using a DNS resource linked to the ACME Account ID. This allows multiple systems or environments to handle challenge-solving for a single domain. Adaptive DNS Discovery (add) ---------------------------- "Establishing Local DNS Authority in Validated Split-Horizon Environments", Tirumaleswar Reddy.K, Dan Wing, Kevin Smith, Benjamin Schwartz, 2023-10-13, When split-horizon DNS is deployed by a network, certain domains can be resolved authoritatively by the network-provided DNS resolver. DNS clients that don't always use this resolver might wish to do so for these domains. This specification defines a mechanism for domain owners to inform clients about local resolvers that are authorized to answer authoritatively for certain subdomains. "DNS Resolver Information", Tirumaleswar Reddy.K, Mohamed Boucadair, 2023-11-24, This document specifies a method for DNS resolvers to publish information about themselves. DNS clients can use the resolver information to identify the capabilities of DNS resolvers. How such an information is then used by DNS clients is out of the scope of the document. Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto) --------------------------------------------- "YANG Data Models for the Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Protocol", Jingxuan Zhang, Dhruv Dhody, Kai Gao, Roland Schott, Qiufang Ma, 2023-10-19, This document defines a YANG data model for Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) & Management of the Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Protocol. The operator of an ALTO server can use this data model to (1) set up the ALTO server, (2) configure server discovery, (3) create, update and remove ALTO information resources, (4) manage the access control of each ALTO information resource, and (5) collect statistical data from the ALTO server. The application provider can also use this data model to configure ALTO clients to communicate with known ALTO servers. "The ALTO Transport Information Publication Service", Kai Gao, Roland Schott, Y. Yang, Lauren Delwiche, Lachlan Keller, 2023-11-27, The ALTO Protocol (RFC 7285) leverages HTTP/1.1 and is designed for the simple, sequential request-reply use case, in which an ALTO client requests a sequence of information resources and the server responds with the complete content of each resource one at a time. ALTO incremental updates using Server-Sent Events (SSE) (RFC 8895) defines a multiplexing protocol on top of HTTP/1.x, so that an ALTO server can incrementally push resource updates to clients whenever monitored network information resources change, allowing the clients to monitor multiple resources at the same time. However, HTTP/2 and later versions already support concurrent, non-blocking transport of multiple streams in the same HTTP connection. To take advantage of newer HTTP features, this document introduces the ALTO Transport Information Publication Service (TIPS). TIPS uses an incremental RESTful design to give an ALTO client the new capability to explicitly, concurrently (non-blocking) request (pull) specific incremental updates using native HTTP/2 or HTTP/3, while still functioning for HTTP/1.1. Autonomic Networking Integrated Model and Approach (anima) ---------------------------------------------------------- "Constrained Bootstrapping Remote Secure Key Infrastructure (BRSKI)", Michael Richardson, Peter van der Stok, Panos Kampanakis, Esko Dijk, 2023-11-21, This document defines the Constrained Bootstrapping Remote Secure Key Infrastructure (Constrained BRSKI) protocol, which provides a solution for secure zero-touch bootstrapping of resource-constrained (IoT) devices into the network of a domain owner. This protocol is designed for constrained networks, which may have limited data throughput or may experience frequent packet loss. Constrained BRSKI is a variant of the BRSKI protocol, which uses an artifact signed by the device manufacturer called the "voucher" which enables a new device and the owner's network to mutually authenticate. While the BRSKI voucher is typically encoded in JSON, Constrained BRSKI uses a compact CBOR-encoded voucher. The BRSKI voucher definition is extended with new data types that allow for smaller voucher sizes. The Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST) protocol, used in BRSKI, is replaced with EST-over-CoAPS; and HTTPS used in BRSKI is replaced with DTLS-secured CoAP (CoAPS). This document Updates RFC 8366 and RFC 8995. "Information Distribution over GRASP", Sheng Jiang, Artur Hecker, Bing Liu, Xun Xiao, Xiuli Zheng, Yanyan Zhang, 2023-09-19, This document analyzes the Information distribution models in the Autonomic Networks that are based on the ANI. Most of instantaneous modes and their requirements have been met by GRASP already. However, in order to effectively support the asynchronous information distribution modes, which is newly described in this document, several new GRASP extensions are defined. This document also describes the corresponding behaviors on processing these new extensions. "Join Proxy for Bootstrapping of Constrained Network Elements", Michael Richardson, Peter van der Stok, Panos Kampanakis, 2023-11-06, This document extends the work of Bootstrapping Remote Secure Key Infrastructures (BRSKI) by replacing the Circuit-proxy between Pledge and Registrar by a stateless/stateful constrained Join Proxy. The constrained Join Proxy is a mesh neighbor of the Pledge and can relay a DTLS session originating from a Pledge with only link-local addresses to a Registrar which is not a mesh neighbor of the Pledge. This document defines a protocol to securely assign a Pledge to a domain, represented by a Registrar, using an intermediary node between Pledge and Registrar. This intermediary node is known as a "constrained Join Proxy". An enrolled Pledge can act as a constrained Join Proxy. "BRSKI Cloud Registrar", Owen Friel, Rifaat Shekh-Yusef, Michael Richardson, 2023-08-24, Bootstrapping Remote Secure Key Infrastructures defines how to onboard a device securely into an operator maintained infrastructure. It assumes that there is local network infrastructure for the device to discover and to help the device. This document extends the new device behaviour so that if no local infrastructure is available, such as in a home or remote office, that the device can use a well defined "call-home" mechanism to find the operator maintained infrastructure. To this, this document defines how to contact a well-known Cloud Registrar, and two ways in which the new device may be redirected towards the operator maintained infrastructure. "JWS signed Voucher Artifacts for Bootstrapping Protocols", Thomas Werner, Michael Richardson, 2023-08-29, [TODO: I-D.draft-ietf-anima-rfc8366bis] defines a digital artifact called voucher as a YANG-defined JSON document that is signed using a Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) structure. This document introduces a variant of the voucher artifact in which CMS is replaced by the JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) mechanism described in RFC7515 to support deployments in which JOSE is preferred over CMS. In addition to explaining how the format is created, the "application/voucher-jws+json" media type is registered and examples are provided. "BRSKI with Pledge in Responder Mode (BRSKI-PRM)", Steffen Fries, Thomas Werner, Eliot Lear, Michael Richardson, 2023-11-20, This document defines enhancements to Bootstrapping a Remote Secure Key Infrastructure (BRSKI, RFC8995) to enable bootstrapping in domains featuring no or only limited connectivity between a pledge and the domain registrar. It specifically changes the interaction model from a pledge-initiated mode, as used in BRSKI, to a pledge- responding mode, where the pledge is in server role. For this, BRSKI with Pledge in Responder Mode (BRSKI-PRM) introduces a new component, the Registrar-Agent, which facilitates the communication between pledge and registrar during the bootstrapping phase. To establish the trust relation between pledge and registrar, BRSKI-PRM relies on object security rather than transport security. The approach defined here is agnostic to the enrollment protocol that connects the domain registrar to the domain CA. "A Generic Autonomic Deployment and Management Mechanism for Resource-based Network Services", Sheng Jiang, Joanna Dang, Zongpeng Du, 2023-09-24, This document specifies an autonomic mechanism for resource-based network services deployment and management, using the GeneRic Autonomic Signaling Protocol (GRASP) to dynamically exchange the information among the autonomic nodes. It supports the coordination and consistently operations within an autonomic network domain. This mechanism is generic for most, if not all, of kinds of network resources, although this document only defines the process of quality transmission service deployment and management. It can be easily extended to support network services deployment and management that is based on other types ofnetwork resources. "A Voucher Artifact for Bootstrapping Protocols", Kent Watsen, Michael Richardson, Max Pritikin, Toerless Eckert, Qiufang Ma, 2023-08-22, This document defines a strategy to securely assign a pledge to an owner using an artifact signed, directly or indirectly, by the pledge's manufacturer. This artifact is known as a "voucher". This document defines an artifact format as a YANG-defined JSON or CBOR document that has been signed using a variety of cryptographic systems. The voucher artifact is normally generated by the pledge's manufacturer (i.e., the Manufacturer Authorized Signing Authority (MASA)). This document updates RFC8366, merging a number of extensions into the YANG. The RFC8995 voucher request is also merged into this document. "BRSKI-AE: Alternative Enrollment Protocols in BRSKI", David von Oheimb, Steffen Fries, Hendrik Brockhaus, 2023-11-17, This document defines an enhancement of Bootstrapping Remote Secure Key Infrastructure (BRSKI, RFC 8995) that supports alternative certificate enrollment protocols, such as CMP. This offers the following advantages. Using authenticated self-contained signed objects for certification requests and responses, their origin can be authenticated independently of message transfer. This supports end-to-end authentication (proof of origin) also over multiple hops, as well as asynchronous operation of certificate enrollment. This in turn provides architectural flexibility where to ultimately authenticate and authorize certification requests while retaining full-strength integrity and authenticity of certification requests. Applications and Real-Time Area (art) ------------------------------------- "Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA): Registry Restrictions and Recommendations", John Klensin, Asmus Freytag, 2020-07-13, The IDNA specifications for internationalized domain names combine rules that determine the labels that are allowed in the DNS without violating the protocol itself and an assignment of responsibility, consistent with earlier specifications, for determining the labels that are allowed in particular zones. Conformance to IDNA by registries and other implementations requires both parts. Experience strongly suggests that the language describing those responsibilities was insufficiently clear to promote safe and interoperable use of the specifications and that more details and discussion of circumstances would have been helpful. Without making any substantive changes to IDNA, this specification updates two of the core IDNA documents (RFCs 5890 and 5891) and the IDNA explanatory document (RFC 5894) to provide that guidance and to correct some technical errors in the descriptions. "The Time Zone Information Format (TZif)", Arthur Olson, Paul Eggert, Kenneth Murchison, 2023-11-20, This document specifies the Time Zone Information Format (TZif) for representing and exchanging time zone information, independent of any particular service or protocol. Two media types for this format are also defined. This document replaces and obsoletes RFC 8536. "The LIMITS SMTP Service Extension", Ned Freed, John Klensin, 2023-10-22, This document defines a "Limits" extension for the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), including submission, as well as the Local Mail Transfer Protocol (LMTP). It also defines an associated limit registry. The extension provides the means for an SMTP, submission, or LMTP server to inform the client of limits the server intends to apply to the protocol during the current session. The client is then able to adapt its behavior in order to conform to those limits. "WebP Image Format", James Zern, Pascal Massimino, Jyrki Alakuijala, 2023-10-26, This document defines the WebP image format and registers a media type supporting its use. "Updated Use of the Expires Message Header Field", Benjamin BILLON, John Levine, 2023-05-11, This document allows broader use of the Expires message header field for mail messages. Message creators can then indicate when a message expires, while recipients would use this information to handle an expired message differently. Automatic SIP trunking And Peering (asap) ----------------------------------------- "Automatic Peering for SIP Trunks", Kaustubh Inamdar, Sreekanth Narayanan, Cullen Jennings, 2023-07-31, This document specifies a framework that enables enterprise telephony Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) networks to solicit and obtain a capability set document from a SIP service provider. The capability set document encodes a set of characteristics that enable easy peering between enterprise and service provider SIP networks. A Semantic Definition Format for Data and Interactions of Things (asdf) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Semantic Definition Format (SDF) for Data and Interactions of Things", Michael Koster, Carsten Bormann, Ari Keranen, 2023-11-05, The Semantic Definition Format (SDF) is a format for domain experts to use in the creation and maintenance of data and interaction models that describe Things, i.e., physical objects that are available for interaction over a network. An SDF specification describes definitions of SDF Objects/SDF Things and their associated interactions (Events, Actions, Properties), as well as the Data types for the information exchanged in those interactions. Tools convert this format to database formats and other serializations as needed. // The present revision (-17) addresses additional Working Group Last // Call comments that came in during a grace period added. Audio/Video Transport Core Maintenance (avtcore) ------------------------------------------------ "RTP Payload Format for VP9 Video", Justin Uberti, Stefan Holmer, Magnus Flodman, Danny Hong, Jonathan Lennox, 2021-06-10, This specification describes an RTP payload format for the VP9 video codec. The payload format has wide applicability, as it supports applications from low bit-rate peer-to-peer usage, to high bit-rate video conferences. It includes provisions for temporal and spatial scalability. "Video Frame Marking RTP Header Extension", Mo Zanaty, Espen Berger, Suhas Nandakumar, 2023-07-26, This document describes a Video Frame Marking RTP header extension used to convey information about video frames that is critical for error recovery and packet forwarding in RTP middleboxes or network nodes. It is most useful when media is encrypted, and essential when the middlebox or node has no access to the media decryption keys. It is also useful for codec-agnostic processing of encrypted or unencrypted media, while it also supports extensions for codec- specific information. "RTP Payload Format for Essential Video Coding (EVC)", Shuai Zhao, Stephan Wenger, Youngkwon Lim, 2023-10-30, This document describes an RTP payload format for the Essential Video Coding (EVC) standard, published as ISO/IEC International Standard 23094-1. EVC was developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). The RTP payload format allows for the packetization of one or more Network Abstraction Layer (NAL) units in each RTP packet payload and the fragmentation of a NAL unit into multiple RTP packets. The payload format has broad applicability in videoconferencing, Internet video streaming, and high-bitrate entertainment-quality video, among other applications. "RTP Payload Format for the Secure Communication Interoperability Protocol (SCIP) Codec", Dan Hanson, MikeFaller, Keith Maver, 2023-09-19, This document describes the RTP payload format of the Secure Communication Interoperability Protocol (SCIP). SCIP is an application layer protocol that defines the establishment of reliable SCIP endpoint to SCIP endpoint secure communications over the RTP channel provided by network equipment. The scope of this document is limited to defining the scip codecs and the SDP and RTP parameters to be supported by network devices with minimal description of the SCIP Application Layer Protocol. Since the SCIP RTP payload is encrypted, it is considered "opaque" to network devices. SCIP is considered a tunneling protocol where the contents of the RTP payload will be indeterminant and should not be filtered or altered by the network. SCIP only relies on RTP as a simple transport. "RTP over QUIC (RoQ)", Joerg Ott, Mathis Engelbart, Spencer Dawkins, 2023-10-23, This document specifies a minimal mapping for encapsulating Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) and RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) packets within the QUIC protocol. This mapping is called RTP over QUIC (RoQ). It also discusses how to leverage state from the QUIC implementation in the endpoints, in order to reduce the need to exchange RTCP packets and how to implement congestion control and rate adaptation without relying on RTCP feedback. "RTP Payload Format for Visual Volumetric Video-based Coding (V3C)", Lauri Ilola, Lukasz Kondrad, 2023-07-27, This memo describes an RTP payload format for visual volumetric video-based coding (V3C) [ISO.IEC.23090-5]. A V3C bitstream is composed of V3C units that contain V3C video sub-bitstreams, V3C atlas sub-bitstreams, or a V3C parameter set. The RTP payload format for V3C video sub-bitstreams is defined by relevant Internet Standards for the applicable video codec. The RTP payload format for V3C atlas sub-bitstreams is described by this memo. The V3C RTP payload format allows for packetization of one or more V3C atlas Network Abstraction Layer (NAL) units in an RTP packet payload as well as fragmentation of a V3C atlas NAL unit into multiple RTP packets. The memo also describes the mechanisms for grouping RTP streams of V3C component sub-bitstreams, providing a complete solution for streaming V3C encoded content. "RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Messages for Temporal-Spatial Resolution", Yong He, Christian Herglotz, Edouard Francois, 2023-10-12, This specification describes an RTCP feedback message format for the ISO/IEC International Standard 23001-11, known as Energy Efficient Media Consumption (Green metadata), developed by the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/ WG 3 MPEG System. The RTCP payload format specified in this specification enables receivers to provide feedback to the senders and thus allows for short-term adaptation and feedback-based energy efficient mechanisms to be implemented. The payload format has broad applicability in real-time video communication services. "H.265 Profile for WebRTC", Bernard Aboba, Philipp Hancke, 2023-10-23, RFC 7742 defines WebRTC video processing and codec requirements, including guidance for endpoints supporting the VP8 and H.264 codecs, which are mandatory to implement. With support for H.265 under development in WebRTC browsers, similar guidance is needed for browsers considering support for the H.265 codec, whose RTP payload format is defined in RFC 7798. "RTP Payload Format for SFrame", Peter Thatcher, 2023-11-07, This document describes the RTP payload format of SFrame. "RTP Payload Format for sub-codestream latency JPEG 2000 streaming", Pierre-Anthony Lemieux, David Taubman, 2023-11-17, This RTP payload format defines the streaming of a video signal encoded as a sequence of JPEG 2000 codestreams. The format allows sub-codestream latency, such that the first RTP packet for a given codestream can be emitted before the entire codestream is available. Audio/Video Transport Extensions (avtext) ----------------------------------------- "The Layer Refresh Request (LRR) RTCP Feedback Message", Jonathan Lennox, Danny Hong, Justin Uberti, Stefan Holmer, Magnus Flodman, 2017-07-02, This memo describes the RTCP Payload-Specific Feedback Message "Layer Refresh Request" (LRR), which can be used to request a state refresh of one or more substreams of a layered media stream. It also defines its use with several RTP payloads for scalable media formats. Babel routing protocol (babel) ------------------------------ "YANG Data Model for Babel", Mahesh Jethanandani, Barbara Stark, 2021-09-20, This document defines a data model for the Babel routing protocol. The data model is defined using the YANG data modeling language. "Delay-based Metric Extension for the Babel Routing Protocol", Baptiste Jonglez, Juliusz Chroboczek, 2023-07-26, This document defines an extension to the Babel routing protocol that measures the round-trip time (RTT) between routers and makes it possible to prefer lower latency links over higher latency ones. "Relaxed Packet Counter Verification for Babel MAC Authentication", Juliusz Chroboczek, Toke Hoeiland-Joergensen, 2023-06-12, This document relaxes packet verification rules defined in the Babel MAC Authentication protocol in order to make it more robust in the presence of packet reordering. This document updates RFC 8967 by relaxing the packet validation rules defined therein. BGP Enabled ServiceS (bess) --------------------------- "Optimized Ingress Replication Solution for Ethernet VPN (EVPN)", Jorge Rabadan, Senthil Sathappan, Wen Lin, Mukul Katiyar, Ali Sajassi, 2022-01-25, Network Virtualization Overlay networks using Ethernet VPN (EVPN) as their control plane may use Ingress Replication or PIM (Protocol Independent Multicast)-based trees to convey the overlay Broadcast, Unknown unicast and Multicast (BUM) traffic. PIM provides an efficient solution to avoid sending multiple copies of the same packet over the same physical link, however it may not always be deployed in the Network Virtualization Overlay core network. Ingress Replication avoids the dependency on PIM in the Network Virtualization Overlay network core. While Ingress Replication provides a simple multicast transport, some Network Virtualization Overlay networks with demanding multicast applications require a more efficient solution without PIM in the core. This document describes a solution to optimize the efficiency of Ingress Replication trees. "Updates on EVPN BUM Procedures", Zhaohui Zhang, Wen Lin, Jorge Rabadan, Keyur Patel, Ali Sajassi, 2021-11-18, This document specifies updated procedures for handling broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast (BUM) traffic in Ethernet VPNs (EVPN), including selective multicast, and provider tunnel segmentation. This document updates RFC 7432. "Preference-based EVPN DF Election", Jorge Rabadan, Senthil Sathappan, Wen Lin, John Drake, Ali Sajassi, 2023-10-09, The Designated Forwarder (DF) in Ethernet Virtual Private Networks (EVPN) is defined as the Provider Edge (PE) router responsible for sending Broadcast, Unknown unicast and Multicast traffic (BUM) to a multi-homed device/network in the case of an all-active multi-homing Ethernet Segment (ES), or BUM and unicast in the case of single- active multi-homing. The Designated Forwarder is selected out of a candidate list of PEs that advertise the same Ethernet Segment Identifier (ESI) to the EVPN network, according to the Default Designated Forwarder Election algorithm. While the Default Algorithm provides an efficient and automated way of selecting the Designated Forwarder across different Ethernet Tags in the Ethernet Segment, there are some use cases where a more 'deterministic' and user- controlled method is required. At the same time, Network Operators require an easy way to force an on-demand Designated Forwarder switchover in order to carry out some maintenance tasks on the existing Designated Forwarder or control whether a new active PE can preempt the existing Designated Forwarder PE. This document proposes a Designated Forwarder Election algorithm that meets the requirements of determinism and operation control. This document updates RFC8584 by modifying the definition of the DF Election Extended Community. "EVPN Optimized Inter-Subnet Multicast (OISM) Forwarding", Wen Lin, Zhaohui Zhang, John Drake, Eric Rosen, Jorge Rabadan, Ali Sajassi, 2023-02-21, Ethernet VPN (EVPN) provides a service that allows a single Local Area Network (LAN), comprising a single IP subnet, to be divided into multiple "segments". Each segment may be located at a different site, and the segments are interconnected by an IP or MPLS backbone. Intra-subnet traffic (either unicast or multicast) always appears to the end users to be bridged, even when it is actually carried over the IP or MPLS backbone. When a single "tenant" owns multiple such LANs, EVPN also allows IP unicast traffic to be routed between those LANs. This document specifies new procedures that allow inter-subnet IP multicast traffic to be routed among the LANs of a given tenant, while still making intra-subnet IP multicast traffic appear to be bridged. These procedures can provide optimal routing of the inter- subnet multicast traffic, and do not require any such traffic to egress a given router and then ingress that same router. These procedures also accommodate IP multicast traffic that originates or is destined external to the EVPN domain. "EVPN VPWS Flexible Cross-Connect Service", Ali Sajassi, Patrice Brissette, Jim Uttaro, John Drake, Sami Boutros, Jorge Rabadan, 2022-10-24, This document describes a new EVPN VPWS service type specifically for multiplexing multiple attachment circuits across different Ethernet Segments and physical interfaces into a single EVPN VPWS service tunnel and still providing Single-Active and All-Active multi-homing. This new service is referred to as flexible cross-connect service. After a description of the rationale for this new service type, the solution to deliver such service is detailed. "Fast Recovery for EVPN Designated Forwarder Election", Patrice Brissette, Ali Sajassi, Luc Burdet, John Drake, Jorge Rabadan, 2023-07-10, The Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) solution provides Designated Forwarder (DF) election procedures for multihomed Ethernet Segments. These procedures have been enhanced further by applying Highest Random Weight (HRW) algorithm for Designated Forwarder election in order to avoid unnecessary DF status changes upon a failure. This document improves these procedures by providing a fast Designated Forwarder election upon recovery of the failed link or node associated with the multihomed Ethernet Segment. This document updates Section 2.1 of [RFC8584] by optionally introducing delays between some of the events therein. The solution is independent of the number of EVPN Instances (EVIs) associated with that Ethernet Segment and it is performed via a simple signaling between the recovered node and each of the other nodes in the multihoming group. "EVPN Virtual Ethernet Segment", Ali Sajassi, Patrice Brissette, Rick Schell, John Drake, Jorge Rabadan, 2023-09-23, Etheret VPN (EVPN) and Provider Backbone EVPN (PBB-EVPN) introduce a family of solutions for Ethernet services over MPLS/IP network with many advanced features including multi-homing capabilities. These solutions introduce Single-Active and All-Active redundancy modes for an Ethernet Segment (ES), itself defined as a set of physical links between the multi-homed device/network and a set of PE devices that they are connected to. This document extends the Ethernet Segment concept so that an ES can be associated to a set of Ethernet Virtual Circuits (EVCs e.g., VLANs) or other objects such as MPLS Label Switch Paths (LSPs) or Pseudowires (PWs). Such an ES is referred to as Virtual Ethernet Segments (vES). This draft describes the requirements and the extensions needed to support vES in EVPN and PBB-EVPN. "Per multicast flow Designated Forwarder Election for EVPN", Ali Sajassi, Mankamana Mishra, Samir Thoria, Jorge Rabadan, John Drake, 2023-07-10, [RFC7432] describes mechanism to elect designated forwarder (DF) at the granularity of (ESI, EVI) which is per VLAN (or per group of VLANs in case of VLAN bundle or VLAN-aware bundle service). However, the current level of granularity of per-VLAN is not adequate for some applications.[RFC8584] improves base line DF election by introducing HRW DF election. [RFC9251] introduces applicability of EVPN to Multicast flows, routes to sync them and a default DF election. This document is an extension to HRW base draft [RFC8584] and further enhances HRW algorithm for the Multicast flows to do DF election at the granularity of (ESI, VLAN, Mcast flow). "Weighted Multi-Path Procedures for EVPN Multi-Homing", Neeraj Malhotra, Ali Sajassi, Jorge Rabadan, John Drake, Avinash Lingala, Samir Thoria, 2023-06-01, EVPN enables all-active multi-homing for a CE device connected to two or more PEs via a LAG, such that bridged and routed traffic from remote PEs to hosts attached to the Ethernet Segment can be equally load balanced (it uses Equal Cost Multi Path) across the multi-homing PEs. EVPN also enables multi-homing for IP subnets advertised in IP Prefix routes, so that routed traffic from remote PEs to those IP subnets can be load balanced. This document defines extensions to EVPN procedures to optimally handle unequal access bandwidth distribution across a set of multi-homing PEs in order to: * provide greater flexibility, with respect to adding or removing individual multi-homed PE-CE links. * handle multi-homed PE-CE link failures that can result in unequal PE-CE access bandwidth across a set of multi-homing PEs. "MVPN/EVPN Tunnel Aggregation with Common Labels", Zhaohui Zhang, Eric Rosen, Wen Lin, Zhenbin Li, IJsbrand Wijnands, 2023-10-04, The MVPN specifications allow a single Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) tunnel to carry traffic of multiple IP VPNs (abbreviated as VPNs). The EVPN specifications allow a single P2MP tunnel to carry traffic of multiple Broadcast Domains (BDs). These features require the ingress router of the P2MP tunnel to allocate an upstream-assigned MPLS label for each VPN or for each BD. A packet sent on a P2MP tunnel then carries the label that is mapped to its VPN or BD (in some cases, a distinct upstream-assigned label is needed for each flow.) Since each ingress router allocates labels independently, with no coordination among the ingress routers, the egress routers may need to keep track of a large number of labels. The number of labels may need to be as large (or larger) than the product of the number of ingress routers times the number of VPNs or BDs. However, the number of labels can be greatly reduced if the association between a label and a VPN or BD is made by provisioning, so that all ingress routers assign the same label to a particular VPN or BD. New procedures are needed in order to take advantage of such provisioned labels. These new procedures also apply to Multipoint-to-Multipoint (MP2MP) tunnels. This document updates RFCs 6514, 7432 and 7582 by specifying the necessary procedures. "EVPN Interworking with IPVPN", Jorge Rabadan, Ali Sajassi, Eric Rosen, John Drake, Wen Lin, Jim Uttaro, Adam Simpson, 2023-10-09, Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) is used as a unified control plane for tenant network intra and inter-subnet forwarding. When a tenant network spans not only EVPN domains but also domains where BGP VPN-IP or IP families provide inter-subnet forwarding, there is a need to specify the interworking aspects between BGP domains of type EVPN, VPN-IP and IP, so that the end to end tenant connectivity can be accomplished. This document specifies how EVPN interworks with VPN-IPv4/VPN-IPv6 and IPv4/IPv6 BGP families for inter-subnet forwarding. The document also addresses the interconnect of EVPN domains for Inter-Subnet Forwarding routes. In addition, this specification defines a new BGP Path Attribute called D-PATH (Domain PATH) that protects gateways against control plane loops. D-PATH modifies the BGP best path selection for multiprotocol BGP routes of SAFI 128 and EVPN IP Prefix routes, and therefore this document updates the BGP best path selection in [RFC4271], but only for IPVPN and EVPN families. "Extended Mobility Procedures for EVPN-IRB", Neeraj Malhotra, Ali Sajassi, Aparna Pattekar, Jorge Rabadan, Avinash Lingala, John Drake, 2023-10-16, The procedure to handle host mobility in a layer 2 Network with EVPN control plane is defined as part of RFC7432. EVPN has since evolved to find wider applicability across various IRB use cases that include distributing both MAC and IP reachability via a common EVPN control plane. MAC Mobility procedures defined in RFC7432 are extensible to IRB use cases if a fixed 1:1 mapping between host IP and MAC is assumed across host moves. Generic mobility support for IP and MAC addresses that allows these bindings to change across moves IS REQUIRED to support a broader set of EVPN IRB use cases. EVPN all- active multi-homing further introduces scenarios that require additional consideration from mobility perspective. This document enumerates a set of design considerations applicable to mobility across these EVPN IRB use cases and updates sequence number assignment procedures defined in RFC7432 to address these IRB use cases. NOTE TO IESG (TO BE DELETED BEFORE PUBLISHING): This draft lists six authors which is above the required limit of five. Given significant and active contributions to the draft from all six authors over the course of six years, we would like to request IESG to allow publication with six authors. Specifically, the three Cisco authors are the original inventors of these procedures and contributed heavily to rev 0 draft, most of which is still intact. AT&T is also a key contributor towards defining the use cases that this document addresses as well as the proposed solution. Authors from Nokia and Juniper have further contributed to revisions and discussions steadily over last six years to enable respective implementations and a wider adoption. "PBB-EVPN ISID-based C-MAC-Flush", Jorge Rabadan, Senthil Sathappan, Kiran Nagaraj, Masahiro Miyake, Taku Matsuda, 2023-10-23, Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) can be combined with Ethernet Virtual Private Networks (EVPN) to deploy Ethernet Local Area Network (ELAN) services in large Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks. That combination is what we refer to as PBB-EVPN. Single- Active Multi-homing and per-I-SID (per Service Instance Identifier) Load-Balancing can be provided to access devices and aggregation networks. In order to speed up the network convergence in case of failures on Single-Active Multi-Homed Ethernet Segments (ES), PBB- EVPN defines a flush mechanism for Customer MACs (C-MAC-flush) that works for different Ethernet Segment Backbone MAC (B-MAC) address allocation models. This document complements those C-MAC-flush procedures for cases in which no PBB-EVPN Ethernet Segments are defined (the attachment circuit is associated to a zero Ethernet Segment Identifier) and a Service Instance Identifier based (I-SID- based) C-MAC-flush granularity is required. "Seamless Multicast Interoperability between EVPN and MVPN PEs", Ali Sajassi, Kesavan Thiruvenkatasamy, Samir Thoria, Ashutosh Gupta, Luay Jalil, 2023-10-23, Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) solution is becoming pervasive for Network Virtualization Overlay (NVO) services in data center (DC) and Enterprise networks as well as the next generation VPN services in service provider (SP) networks. As service providers transform their networks in their Central Offices (COs) towards the next generation data center with Software Defined Networking (SDN) based fabric and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), they want to be able to maintain their offered services including Multicast VPN (MVPN) service between their existing network and their new Service Provider Data Center (SPDC) network seamlessly without the use of gateway devices. They want to have such seamless interoperability between their new SPDCs and their existing networks for a) reducing cost, b) having optimum forwarding, and c) reducing provisioning. This document describes a unified solution based on RFCs 6513 & 6514 for seamless interoperability of Multicast VPN between EVPN and MVPN PEs. Furthermore, it describes how the proposed solution can be used as a routed multicast solution in data centers with only EVPN PEs. "Controller Based BGP Multicast Signaling", Zhaohui Zhang, Robert Raszuk, Dante Pacella, Arkadiy Gulko, 2023-08-21, This document specifies a way that one or more centralized controllers can use BGP to set up multicast distribution trees (identified by either IP source/destination address pair, or mLDP FEC) in a network. Since the controllers calculate the trees, they can use sophisticated algorithms and constraints to achieve traffic engineering. The controllers directly signal dynamic replication state to tree nodes, leading to very simple multicast control plane on the tree nodes, as if they were using static routes. This can be used for both underlay and overlay multicast trees, including replacing BGP-MVPN signaling. "BGP Based Multicast", Zhaohui Zhang, Lenny Giuliano, Keyur Patel, IJsbrand Wijnands, Mankamana Mishra, Arkadiy Gulko, 2023-06-27, This document specifies a BGP address family and related procedures that allow BGP to be used for setting up multicast distribution trees. This document also specifies procedures that enable BGP to be used for multicast source discovery, and for showing interest in receiving particular multicast flows. Taken together, these procedures allow BGP to be used as a replacement for other multicast routing protocols, such as PIM or mLDP. The BGP procedures specified here are based on the BGP multicast procedures that were originally designed for use by providers of Multicast Virtual Private Network service. This document also describes how various signaling mechanisms can be used to set up end-to-end inter-region multiast trees. "EVPN Port-Active Redundancy Mode", Patrice Brissette, Luc Burdet, Bin Wen, Eddie Leyton, Jorge Rabadan, 2023-10-18, The Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation Group (MC-LAG) technology enables establishing a logical link-aggregation connection with a redundant group of independent nodes. The purpose of multi-chassis LAG is to provide a solution to achieve higher network availability while providing different modes of sharing/balancing of traffic. RFC7432 defines EVPN-based MC-LAG with Single-active and All-active multi-homing redundancy modes. This document expands on existing redundancy mechanisms supported by EVPN and introduces a new Port- Active redundancy mode. "Extended Procedures for EVPN Optimized Ingress Replication", Wen Lin, Selvakumar Sivaraj, Vishal Garg, Jorge Rabadan, 2023-10-21, [EVPN-AR] specifies an optimized ingress replication solution for more efficient multicast and broadcast delivery in a Network Virtualization Overlay (NVO) network for EVPN. This document extends the optimized ingress replication procedures specified in [EVPN-AR] to overcome the limitation that an AR- REPLICATOR may have. An AR-REPLICATOR may be unable to retain the source IP address or include the expected ESI label that is required for EVPN split horizon filtering when replicating the packet on behalf of its multihomed AR-LEAF. Under this circumstance, the extended procedures specified in this document allows the support of EVPN multihoming on the AR-LEAFs as well as optimized ingress replication for the rest of the EVPN overlay network. "EVPN Network Layer Fault Management", Vengada Govindan, Mallik Mudigonda, Ali Sajassi, Greg Mirsky, Donald Eastlake, 2023-09-14, This document specifies proactive, in-band network layer OAM mechanisms to detect loss of continuity faults that affect unicast and multi-destination paths (used by Broadcast, Unknown Unicast, and Multicast traffic) in an Ethernet VPN (RFC 7432bis) network. The mechanisms specified in the draft use the widely adopted Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (RFC 5880) protocol and other protocols as necessary. "BGP Usage for SD-WAN Overlay Networks", Linda Dunbar, Ali Sajassi, John Drake, Basil Najem, 2023-11-22, The document discusses the usage and applicability of BGP as the control plane for multiple SD-WAN scenarios. The document aims to demonstrate how the BGP-based control plane is used for large- scale SD-WAN overlay networks with little manual intervention. SD-WAN edge nodes are commonly interconnected by multiple types of underlay networks owned and managed by different network providers. "EVPN Multi-Homing Extensions for Split Horizon Filtering", Jorge Rabadan, Kiran Nagaraj, Wen Lin, Ali Sajassi, 2023-10-23, Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) is commonly used along with Network Virtualization Overlay (NVO) tunnels, as well as MPLS and Segment Routing tunnels. The EVPN multi-homing procedures may be different depending on the tunnel type used in the EVPN Broadcast Domain. In particular, there are two multi-homing Split Horizon procedures to avoid looped frames on the multi-homed CE: ESI Label based and Local Bias. ESI Label based Split Horizon is used for MPLSoX tunnels, E.g., MPLSoUDP, whereas Local Bias is used for other tunnels, E.g., VXLAN tunnels. The existing specifications do not allow the operator to decide which Split Horizon procedure to use for tunnel encapsulations that could support both. Examples of tunnels that may support both procedures are MPLSoGRE, MPLSoUDP, GENEVE or SRv6. This document updates the EVPN Multi-Homing procedures in RFC8365 so that an operator can decide the Split Horizon procedure for a given tunnel depending on their own requirements. "Multicast and Ethernet VPN with Segment Routing P2MP and Ingress Replication", Rishabh Parekh, Clarence Filsfils, Arvind Venkateswaran, Hooman Bidgoli, Dan Voyer, Zhaohui Zhang, 2023-11-06, A Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) Tree in a Segment Routing domain carries traffic from a Root to a set of Leaves. This document describes extensions to BGP encodings and procedures for P2MP trees and Ingress Replication used in BGP/MPLS IP VPNs and Ethernet VPNs in a Segment Routing domain. "Multicast Source Redundancy in EVPN Networks", Jorge Rabadan, Jayant Kotalwar, Senthil Sathappan, Zhaohui Zhang, Wen Lin, Eric Rosen, 2023-06-27, Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) supports intra and inter- subnet IP multicast forwarding. However, EVPN (or conventional IP multicast techniques for that matter) do not have a solution for the case where the following two statements are true at the same time: a) a given multicast group carries more than one flow (i.e., more than one source), and b) it is desired that each receiver gets only one of the several flows. Existing multicast techniques assume there are no redundant sources sending the same flow to the same IP multicast group, and, in case there were redundant sources, the receiver's application would deal with the received duplicated packets. This document extends the existing EVPN specifications and assumes that IP Multicast source redundancy may exist. It also assumes that, in case two or more sources send the same IP Multicast flows into the tenant domain, the EVPN PEs need to avoid that the receivers get packet duplication by following the described procedures. "EVPN Multi-Homing Mechanism for Layer-2 Gateway Protocols", Patrice Brissette, Ali Sajassi, Luc Burdet, Dan Voyer, 2023-07-10, The existing EVPN multi-homing load-balancing modes do not adequately represent ethernet-segments facing access networks with Layer-2 Gateway protocols such as G.8032, (M)STP, etc. This document defines a new multi-homing mechanism to support these loop-preventing Layer-2 protocols. "Cumulative DMZ Link Bandwidth and load-balancing", MOHANTY Satya, Arie Vayner, Akshay Gattani, Ajay Kini, Jeff Tantsura, 2023-06-25, The DMZ Link Bandwidth draft provides a way to load-balance traffic to a destination which is reachable via more than one path according to the weight attahced. Typically, the link bandwidth (either configured on the link of the EBGP egress interface or set via a policy) is encoded in an extended community and then sent to the IBGP peer that employs multi-path. The link-bandwidth value is then extracted from the extended community and is used as a weight in the RIB/FIB, which does the load-balancing. This draft extends the usage of the DMZ link bandwidth to another setting where the ingress BGP speaker requires knowledge of the cumulative bandwidth while doing the load-balancing. The draft also proposes neighbor-level knobs to enable the link bandwidth extended community to be regenerated and then advertised to EBGP peers to override the default behavior of not advertising optional non-transitive attributes to EBGP peers. "AC-Aware Bundling Service Interface in EVPN", Ali Sajassi, Mankamana Mishra, Samir Thoria, Jorge Rabadan, John Drake, 2023-11-15, An EVPN (Ethernet VPNs) provides an extensible and flexible multihoming VPN solution over an MPLS/IP network for intra-subnet connectivity among Tenant Systems and End Devices that can be physical or virtual. EVPN multihoming with Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB) is one of the common deployment scenarios. Some deployments requires the capability to have multiple subnets designated with multiple VLAN IDs in the single broadcast domain. EVPN technology defines three different types of service interface which serve different requirements but none of them address the requirement of supporting multiple subnets within a single broadcast domain. In this document, we define a new service interface type to support multiple subnets in the single broadcast domain. Service interface proposed in this document will be applicable to multihoming cases only. "EVPN-VPWS Seamless Integration with L2VPN VPWS", Patrice Brissette, Wen Lin, Jorge Rabadan, Jim Uttaro, Bin Wen, 2023-06-20, This document presents a solution for migrating L2VPN Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS) to Ethernet VPN Virtual Private Wire Service (EVPN-VPWS) services. The solution allows the coexistence of EVPN and L2VPN services under the same point-to-point VPN instance. By using this seamless integration solution, a service provider can introduce EVPN into their existing L2VPN network or migrate from an existing L2VPN based network to EVPN. The migration may be done per pseudowire or per flexible-crossconnect (FXC) service basis. This document specifies control-plane and forwarding behaviors. "Secure EVPN", Ali Sajassi, Ayan Banerjee, Samir Thoria, David Carrel, Brian Weis, John Drake, 2023-06-22, The applications of EVPN-based solutions (BGP MPLS-based Ethernet VPN and Network Virtualization Overlay Solution using EVPN) have become pervasive in Data Center, Service Provider, and Enterprise segments. It is being used for fabric overlays and inter-site connectivity in the Data Center market segment, for Layer-2, Layer-3, and IRB VPN services in the Service Provider market segment, and for fabric overlay and WAN connectivity in Enterprise networks. For Data Center and Enterprise applications, there is a need to provide inter-site and WAN connectivity over public Internet in a secured manner with same level of privacy, integrity, and authentication for tenant's traffic as IPsec tunneling using IKEv2. This document presents a solution where BGP point-to-multipoint signaling is leveraged for key and policy exchange among PE devices to create private pair-wise IPsec Security Associations without IKEv2 point-to-point signaling or any other direct peer-to-peer session establishment messages. "SRv6 Argument Signaling for BGP Services", Ketan Talaulikar, Syed Raza, Jorge Rabadan, Wen Lin, 2023-10-24, RFC9252 defines procedures and messages for SRv6-based BGP services including L3VPN, EVPN, and Internet services. This document updates RFC9252 and provides more detailed specifications for the signaling and processing of SRv6 SID advertisements for BGP Service routes associated with SRv6 Endpoint Behaviors that support arguments. "IPv4-Only and IPv6-Only PE Design DESIGN ALL SAFI", Gyan Mishra, Mankamana Mishra, Jeff Tantsura, Sudha Madhavi, Qing Yang, Adam Simpson, Shuanglong Chen, 2023-11-06, As Enterprises and Service Providers upgrade their brown field or green field MPLS/SR core to an IPv6 transport, Multiprotocol BGP (MP- BGP)now plays an important role in the transition of their Provider (P) core network as well as Provider Edge (PE) Inter-AS peering network from IPv4 to IPv6. Operators must have flexiblity to continue to support IPv4 customers when both the Core and Edge networks migrate to IPv6. As well as must be able to support IPv6 networks in cases where operators decide to remain on an IPv4 network or during transition. This document details the External BGP (eBGP) PE-PE Inter-AS and PE- CE Edge peering IPv4-Only PE design where both IPv4 and IPv6 all supported SAFI NLRI can be advertised over a single IPv4 peer and IPv6-Only PE Design where all supported SAFI NLRI can be advertised over a single IPv6 peer. This document also defines a new IPv4 BGP next hop encoding standard that uses an IPv4 address as the next hop and not an IPv4 mapped IPv6 address. This document also provides vendor specific test cases for the IPv4-Only peering design and IPv6-Only PE design as well as test results for the five major vendors stakeholders in the routing and switching indusrty, Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Nokia and Huawei. With the test results provided for the IPv6-Only Edge peering design, the goal is that all other vendors around the world that have not been tested will begin to adopt and implement the design. Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (bfd) ---------------------------------------- "Secure BFD Sequence Numbers", Alan DeKok, Mahesh Jethanandani, Sonal Agarwal, Ashesh Mishra, Ankur Saxena, 2023-10-10, This document describes a new BFD Authentication mechanism, Meticulous Keyed ISAAC. This mechanism can be used to authenticate BFD packets with less CPU time cost than using MD5 or SHA1, with the tradeoff of decreased security. This mechanism cannot be used to signal state changes, but it can be used as an authenticated signal to maintain a session in the the "Up" state. This document updates RFC 5880. "Unaffiliated BFD Echo", Weiqiang Cheng, Ruixue Wang, Xiao Min, Reshad Rahman, Raj Boddireddy, 2023-09-28, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is a fault detection protocol that can quickly determine a communication failure between two forwarding engines. This document proposes a use of the BFD Echo where the local system supports BFD but the neighboring system does not support BFD. BFD Control packet and its processing procedures can be executed over the BFD Echo port where the neighboring system only loops packets back to the local system. This document updates RFC 5880. Bit Indexed Explicit Replication (bier) --------------------------------------- "BGP Extensions for BIER", Xiaohu Xu, Mach Chen, Keyur Patel, IJsbrand Wijnands, Tony Przygienda, Zhaohui Zhang, 2023-06-13, Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) is a new multicast forwarding architecture which doesn't require an explicit tree-building protocol and doesn't require intermediate routers to maintain any multicast state. BIER is applicable in a multi-tenant data center network environment for efficient delivery of Broadcast, Unknown-unicast and Multicast (BUM) traffic while eliminating the need for maintaining a huge amount of multicast state in the underlay. This document describes BGP extensions for advertising the BIER-specific information. "Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) Requirements for Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) Layer", Greg Mirsky, Nagendra Nainar, Mach Chen, Santosh Pallagatti, 2023-08-10, This document describes a list of functional requirements toward Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) toolset in Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) layer of a network. "Path Maximum Transmission Unit Discovery (PMTUD) for Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) Layer", Greg Mirsky, Tony Przygienda, Andrew Dolganow, 2023-11-05, This document describes Path Maximum Transmission Unit Discovery (PMTUD) in Bit Indexed Explicit Replication (BIER) layer. "Performance Measurement (PM) with Marking Method in Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) Layer", Greg Mirsky, Lianshu Zheng, Mach Chen, Giuseppe Fioccola, 2023-07-10, This document describes the applicability of a hybrid performance measurement method for packet loss and packet delay measurements of a multicast service through a Bit Index Explicit Replication domain. "BIER Ping and Trace", Nagendra Nainar, Carlos Pignataro, Mach Chen, Greg Mirsky, 2023-07-29, Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) is an architecture that provides optimal multicast forwarding through a "BIER domain" without requiring intermediate routers to maintain any multicast-related per- flow state. BIER also does not require any explicit tree-building protocol for its operation. A multicast data packet enters a BIER domain at a "Bit-Forwarding Ingress Router" (BFIR), and leaves the BIER domain at one or more "Bit-Forwarding Egress Routers" (BFERs). The BFIR router adds a BIER header to the packet. The BIER header contains a bit-string in which each bit represents exactly one BFER to forward the packet to. The set of BFERs to which the multicast packet needs to be forwarded is expressed by setting the bits that correspond to those routers in the BIER header. This document describes the mechanism and basic BIER OAM packet format that can be used to perform failure detection and isolation on the BIER data plane. "YANG Data Model for BIER Protocol", Ran Chen, fangwei hu, Zheng Zhang, dai.xianxian@zte.com.cn, Mahesh Sivakumar, 2023-09-18, This document defines a YANG data model that can be used to configure and manage devices supporting Bit Index Explicit Replication"(BIER). The YANG module in this document conforms to the Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA). "BGP Link-State extensions for BIER", Ran Chen, Zhaohui Zhang, Vengada Govindan, IJsbrand Wijnands, 2023-09-01, Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) is an architecture that provides optimal multicast forwarding through a "BIER domain" without requiring intermediate routers to maintain any multicast related per- flow state. BIER also does not require any explicit tree-building protocol for its operation. A multicast data packet enters a BIER domain at a "Bit-Forwarding Ingress Router" (BFIR), and leaves the BIER domain at one or more "Bit-Forwarding Egress Routers" (BFERs). The BFIR router adds a BIER header to the packet. The BIER header contains a bitstring in which each bit represents exactly one BFER to forward the packet to. The set of BFERs to which the multicast packet needs to be forwarded is expressed by setting the bits that correspond to those routers in the BIER header. BGP Link-State (BGP-LS) enables the collection of various topology informations from the network, and the topology informations are used by the controller to calculate the fowarding tables and then propagate them onto the BFRs(instead of having each node to calculate on its own) and that can be for both inter-as and intra-as situations. This document specifies extensions to the BGP Link-state address- family in order to advertise the BIER informations. "BIER Ingress Multicast Flow Overlay using Multicast Listener Discovery Protocols", Pierre Pfister, IJsbrand Wijnands, Stig Venaas, Cui(Linda) Wang, Zheng Zhang, Markus Stenberg, 2023-07-02, This document specifies the ingress part of a multicast flow overlay for BIER networks. Using existing multicast listener discovery protocols, it enables multicast membership information sharing from egress routers, acting as listeners, toward ingress routers, acting as queriers. Ingress routers keep per-egress-router state, used to construct the BIER bit mask associated with IP multicast packets entering the BIER domain. "EVPN BUM Using BIER", Zhaohui Zhang, Tony Przygienda, Ali Sajassi, Jorge Rabadan, 2023-11-27, This document specifies protocols and procedures for forwarding broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast (BUM) traffic of Ethernet VPNs (EVPN) using Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER). "OSPFv3 Extensions for BIER", Peter Psenak, Nagendra Nainar, IJsbrand Wijnands, 2022-12-01, Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) is an architecture that provides multicast forwarding through a "BIER domain" without requiring intermediate routers to maintain multicast related per-flow state. BIER architecture uses MPLS or other encapsulation to steer the multicast traffic towards the receivers. This document describes the OSPFv3 protocol extensions required for BIER with MPLS encapsulation. Support for other encapsulation types is outside the scope of this document. The use of multiple encapsulation types is outside the scope of this document. "BIER Prefix Redistribute", Zheng Zhang, Bo Wu, Zhaohui Zhang, IJsbrand Wijnands, Yisong Liu, Hooman Bidgoli, 2023-09-07, This document defines a BIER proxy function to support a single BIER sub-domain over multiple underlay routing protocol regions (Autonomous Systems or IGP areas). A new BIER proxy range sub-TLV is defined to redistribute BIER BFR-id information across the routing regions. "Tethering A BIER Router To A BIER incapable Router", Zhaohui Zhang, Nils Warnke, IJsbrand Wijnands, Daniel Awduche, 2023-07-05, This document specifies optional procedures to optimize the handling of Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) incapable routers, by attaching (tethering) a BIER router to a BIER incapable router. "M-LDP Signaling Through BIER Core", Hooman Bidgoli, Jayant Kotalwar, IJsbrand Wijnands, Mankamana Mishra, Zhaohui Zhang, Eddie Leyton, 2023-10-22, Consider an end-to-end Multipoint LDP (mLDP) network, where it is desirable to deploy BIER in a segment of this network. It might be desirable to deploy BIER with minimal disruption to the mLDP network or a redesign of the network. This document describes a procedure needed for mLDP tunnels to be signaled over and stitched through a BIER core, allowing LDP routers to run traditional mLDP services through a BIER core. "BIER BFD", Quan Xiong, Greg Mirsky, fangwei hu, Chang Liu, 2023-09-11, Point to multipoint (P2MP) BFD is designed to verify multipoint connectivity. This document specifies the application of P2MP BFD in BIER network. "BIER (Bit Index Explicit Replication) Redundant Ingress Router Failover", Zheng Zhang, Greg Mirsky, Quan Xiong, Yisong Liu, Huanan Li, 2023-10-08, This document describes a failover in the Bit Index Explicit Replication domain with a redundant ingress router. "Supporting BIER in IPv6 Networks (BIERin6)", Zheng Zhang, Zhaohui Zhang, IJsbrand Wijnands, Mankamana Mishra, Hooman Bidgoli, Gyan Mishra, 2023-09-18, BIER is a multicast forwarding architecture that does not require per-flow state inside the network yet still provides optimal replication. This document describes how the existing BIER encapsulation specified in RFC 8296 works in a non-MPLS IPv6 network, which is referred to as BIERin6. Specifically, like in an IPv4 network, BIER can work over L2 links directly or over tunnels. In case of IPv6 tunneling, a new IP "Next Header" type is to be assigned for BIER. "OSPF Extensions for BIER-TE", Huaimo Chen, Mike McBride, Aijun Wang, Gyan Mishra, Yanhe Fan, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-11-15, This document describes OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 extensions for distributing the BitPositions configured on a Bit-Forwarding Router (BFR) in a "Bit Index Explicit Replication Traffic Engineering" (BIER-TE) domain. "IS-IS Extensions for BIER-TE", Huaimo Chen, Mike McBride, Aijun Wang, Gyan Mishra, Yanhe Fan, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-07-06, This document describes IS-IS extensions for distributing the BitPositions configured on a Bit-Forwarding Router (BFR) in a "Bit Index Explicit Replication Traffic Engineering" (BIER-TE) domain. "OSPFv3 Extensions for BIER-TE", Huaimo Chen, Mike McBride, Aijun Wang, Gyan Mishra, Yanhe Fan, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-07-05, This document describes OSPFv3 extensions for distributing the BitPositions configured on a Bit-Forwarding Router (BFR) in a "Bit Index Explicit Replication Traffic Engineering" (BIER-TE) domain. "BIER Fast ReRoute", Huaimo Chen, Mike McBride, Steffen Lindner, Michael Menth, Aijun Wang, Gyan Mishra, Yisong Liu, Yanhe Fan, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-07-30, BIER is a scalable multicast overlay that utilizes a routing underlay, e.g., IP, to build up its Bit Index Forwarding Tables (BIFTs). This document proposes Fast Reroute for BIER (BIER-FRR). It protects BIER traffic after detecting the failure of a link or node in the core of a BIER domain until affected BIFT entries are recomputed after reconvergence of the routing underlay. BIER-FRR is applied locally at the point of local repair (PLR) and does not introduce any per-flow state. The document specifies nomenclature for BIER-FRR and gives examples for its integration in BIER forwarding. Furthermore, it presents operation modes for BIER-FRR. Link and node protection may be chosen as protection level. Moreover, the backup strategies tunnel-based BIER-FRR and LFA-based BIER-FRR are defined and compared. Benchmarking Methodology (bmwg) ------------------------------- "Benchmarking Methodology for EVPN and PBB-EVPN", sudhin jacob, Kishore Tiruveedhula, 2023-08-17, This document defines methodologies for benchmarking EVPN and PBB- EVPN performance. EVPN is defined in RFC 7432, and is being deployed in Service Provider networks. Specifically, this document defines the methodologies for benchmarking EVPN/PBB-EVPN convergence, data plane performance, and control plane performance. "Multiple Loss Ratio Search", Maciek Konstantynowicz, Vratko Polak, 2023-10-23, This document proposes extensions to [RFC2544] throughput search by defining a new methodology called Multiple Loss Ratio search (MLRsearch). The main objectives of MLRsearch are to minimize the total search duration, to support searching for multiple loss ratios and to improve results repeatability and comparability. The main motivation behind extending [RFC2544] is the new set of challenges and requirements posed by evaluating and testing software based networking systems, specifically their data planes. MLRsearch offers several ways to address these challenges, giving user configuration options to select their preferred way. "A YANG Data Model for Network Tester Management", Vladimir Vassilev, 2023-10-22, This document introduces new YANG model for use in network interconnect testing containing modules of traffic generator and traffic analyzer. "Benchmarking Methodology for Stateful NATxy Gateways using RFC 4814 Pseudorandom Port Numbers", Gabor Lencse, Keiichi Shima, 2023-09-12, RFC 2544 has defined a benchmarking methodology for network interconnect devices. RFC 5180 addressed IPv6 specificities and it also provided a technology update, but excluded IPv6 transition technologies. RFC 8219 addressed IPv6 transition technologies, including stateful NAT64. However, none of them discussed how to apply RFC 4814 pseudorandom port numbers to any stateful NATxy (NAT44, NAT64, NAT66) technologies. We discuss why using pseudorandom port numbers with stateful NATxy gateways is a difficult problem. We recommend a solution limiting the port number ranges and using two test phases (phase 1 and phase 2). We show how the classic performance measurement procedures (e.g. throughput, frame loss rate, latency, etc.) can be carried out. We also define new performance metrics and measurement procedures for maximum connection establishment rate, connection tear down rate and connection tracking table capacity measurements. BPF/eBPF (bpf) -------------- "BPF Instruction Set Specification, v1.0", Dave Thaler, 2023-10-20, This document specifies version 1.0 of the BPF instruction set. Calendaring Extensions (calext) ------------------------------- "VPOLL: Consensus Scheduling Component for iCalendar", Eric York, Michael Douglass, 2023-11-06, This specification introduces a new RFC5545 iCalendar component which allows for consensus scheduling, that is, voting on a number of alternative meeting or task alternatives. "JSContact: A JSON representation of contact data", Robert Stepanek, Mario Loffredo, 2023-11-08, This specification defines a data model and JSON representation of contact card information that can be used for data storage and exchange in address book or directory applications. It aims to be an alternative to the vCard data format and to be unambiguous, extendable and simple to process. In contrast to the JSON-based jCard format, it is not a direct mapping from the vCard data model and expands semantics where appropriate. "JSContact: Converting from and to vCard", Mario Loffredo, Robert Stepanek, 2023-11-08, This document defines how to convert contact information between the JSContact and vCard data formats. To achieve this, it updates RFC I- D.ietf-calext-jscontact (JSContact) by registering new JSContact properties. Similarly, it updates RFC 6350 (vCard) by registering new vCard properties and parameters. "vCard Format Extension for JSContact", Robert Stepanek, Mario Loffredo, 2023-11-08, This document defines a set of new properties for vCard and extends the use of existing ones. Their primary purpose is to align the same set of features between the JSContact and vCard formats, but the new definitions also aim to be useful within just the vCard format. This document updates RFC 6350 (vCard). Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (cats) --------------------------------------- "Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS) Problem Statement, Use Cases, and Requirements", Kehan Yao, Dirk Trossen, Mohamed Boucadair, Luis Contreras, Hang Shi, Yizhou Li, Shuai Zhang, 2023-10-23, Distributed computing is a tool that service providers can use to achieve better service response time and optimized energy consumption. In such a distributed computing environment, providing services by utilizing computing resources hosted in various computing facilities aids support of services such as computationally intensive and delay sensitive services. Ideally, compute services are balanced across servers and network resources to enable higher throughput and lower response times. To achieve this, the choice of server and network resources should consider metrics that are oriented towards compute capabilities and resources instead of simply dispatching the service requests in a static way or optimizing solely on connectivity metrics. The process of selecting servers or service instance locations, and of directing traffic to them on chosen network resources is called "Computing-Aware Traffic Steering" (CATS). This document provides the problem statement and the typical scenarios for CATS, which shows the necessity of considering more factors when steering traffic to the appropriate computing resource to best meet the customer's expectations and deliver the requested service. Concise Binary Object Representation Maintenance and Extensions (cbor) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Packed CBOR", Carsten Bormann, 2023-07-10, The Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR, RFC 8949 == STD 94) is a data format whose design goals include the possibility of extremely small code size, fairly small message size, and extensibility without the need for version negotiation. CBOR does not provide any forms of data compression. CBOR data items, in particular when generated from legacy data models, often allow considerable gains in compactness when applying data compression. While traditional data compression techniques such as DEFLATE (RFC 1951) can work well for CBOR encoded data items, their disadvantage is that the receiver needs to decompress the compressed form to make use of the data. This specification describes Packed CBOR, a simple transformation of a CBOR data item into another CBOR data item that is almost as easy to consume as the original CBOR data item. A separate decompression step is therefore often not required at the receiver. // The present version (-09) provides two table setup tags (common, // split setup) and discusses behavior in case of references to // unpopulated table entries during unpacking. "Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) Tags for Time, Duration, and Period", Carsten Bormann, Ben Gamari, Henk Birkholz, 2023-10-30, The Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR, RFC 8949) is a data format whose design goals include the possibility of extremely small code size, fairly small message size, and extensibility without the need for version negotiation. In CBOR, one point of extensibility is the definition of CBOR tags. RFC 8949 defines two tags for time: CBOR tag 0 (RFC3339 time as a string) and tag 1 (POSIX time as int or float). Since then, additional requirements have become known. The present document defines a CBOR tag for time that allows a more elaborate representation of time, as well as related CBOR tags for duration and time period. This document is intended as the reference document for the IANA registration of the CBOR tags defined. // (This cref will be removed by the RFC editor:) The present // revision (–12) addresses the IESG reviews. "CBOR Extended Diagnostic Notation (EDN): Application-Oriented Literals, ABNF, and Media Type", Carsten Bormann, 2023-11-20, The Concise Binary Object Representation, CBOR (STD 94, RFC 8949), defines a "diagnostic notation" in order to be able to converse about CBOR data items without having to resort to binary data. This document specifies how to add application-oriented extensions to the diagnostic notation. It then defines two such extensions for text representations of epoch-based date/times and of IP addresses and prefixes (RFC 9164). To facilitate tool interoperation, this document also specifies a formal ABNF definition for extended diagnostic notation (EDN) that accommodates application-oriented literals. "More Control Operators for CDDL", Carsten Bormann, 2023-06-14, The Concise Data Definition Language (CDDL), standardized in RFC 8610, provides "control operators" as its main language extension point. RFCs have added to this extension point both in an application-specific and a more general way. The present document defines a number of additional generally application control operators for text conversion (Bytes, Integers, JSON), operations on text, and deterministic encoding. "Updates to the CDDL grammar of RFC 8610", Carsten Bormann, 2023-06-17, At the time of writing, the Concise Data Definition Language (CDDL) is defined by RFC 8610 and RFC 9165. The latter has used the extension point provided in RFC 8610, the _control operator_. As CDDL is being used in larger projects, the need for corrections and additional features has become known that cannot be easily mapped into this single extension point. Hence, there is a need for evolution of the base CDDL specification itself. The present document updates errata and makes other small fixes for the ABNF grammar defined for CDDL in RFC 8610. // Previous versions of the changes in this document were part of // draft-bormann-cbor-cddl-2-draft and previously draft-bormann-cbor- // cddl-freezer. This submission extracts out those grammar changes // that are ready for publication. "CDDL Module Structure", Carsten Bormann, 2023-06-17, At the time of writing, the Concise Data Definition Language (CDDL) is defined by RFC 8610 and RFC 9165. The latter has used the extension point provided in RFC 8610, the _control operator_. As CDDL is being used in larger projects, the need for corrections and additional features has become known that cannot be easily mapped into this single extension point. Hence, there is a need for evolution of the base CDDL specification itself. The present document defines a backward- and forward-compatible way to add a module structure to CDDL. // Previous versions of the changes in this document were part of // draft-bormann-cbor-cddl-2-draft and previously draft-bormann-cbor- // cddl-freezer. This submission extracts out the functionality that // is ready for further WG work. "CBOR Common Deterministic Encoding (CDE)", Carsten Bormann, 2023-11-05, CBOR (STD 94, RFC 8949) defines "Deterministically Encoded CBOR" in its Section 4.2, providing some flexibility for application specific decisions. To facilitate Deterministic Encoding to be offered as a selectable feature of generic encoders, the present document defines a CBOR Common Deterministic Encoding (CDE) Profile that can be shared by a large set of applications with potentially diverging detailed requirements. This document also introduces the concept of Application Profiles, which are layered on top of the CBOR CDE Profile and can address more application specific requirements. To demonstrate how Application Profiles can be built on the CDE, a companion document defines the application profile "dCBOR". "CBOR Common Deterministic Encoding (CDE)", Carsten Bormann, 2023-11-27, CBOR (STD 94, RFC 8949) defines "Deterministically Encoded CBOR" in its Section 4.2, providing some flexibility for application specific decisions. To facilitate Deterministic Encoding to be offered as a selectable feature of generic encoders, the present document defines a CBOR Common Deterministic Encoding (CDE) Profile that can be shared by a large set of applications with potentially diverging detailed requirements. This document also introduces the concept of Application Profiles, which are layered on top of the CBOR CDE Profile and can address more application specific requirements. To demonstrate how Application Profiles can be built on the CDE, a companion document defines the application profile "dCBOR". Common Control and Measurement Plane (ccamp) -------------------------------------------- "A YANG Data Model for Optical Transport Network Topology", Haomian Zheng, Italo Busi, Xufeng Liu, Sergio Belotti, Oscar de Dios, 2023-07-10, This document describes a YANG data model to describe the topologies of an Optical Transport Network (OTN). It is independent of control plane protocols and captures topological and resource-related information pertaining to OTN. This model enables clients, which interact with a transport domain controller, for OTN topology-related operations such as obtaining the relevant topology resource information. "OTN Tunnel YANG Model", Haomian Zheng, Italo Busi, Sergio Belotti, Victor Lopez, Yunbin Xu, 2023-11-24, This document describes the YANG data model for tunnels in OTN TE networks. The model can be used to do the configuration in order to establish the tunnel in OTN network. This work is independent with the control plane protocols. "A YANG Data Model for Flexi-Grid Optical Networks", Universidad de Madrid, Daniel Burrero, Daniel King, Young Lee, Haomian Zheng, 2023-07-10, This document defines a YANG module for managing flexi-grid optical networks. The model defined in this document specifies a flexi-grid traffic engineering database that is used to describe the topology of a flexi-grid network. It is based on and augments existing YANG models that describe network and traffic engineering topologies. The YANG data model defined in this document conforms to the Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA). "Transport Northbound Interface Applicability Statement", Italo Busi, Daniel King, Haomian Zheng, Yunbin Xu, 2023-07-10, This document provides an analysis of the applicability of the YANG models defined by the IETF (in particular in the Traffic Engineering Architecture and Signaling (TEAS) and Common Control and Measurement Plane (CCAMP) working groups) to support ODU transit services, transparent client services, and Ethernet Private Line/Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EPL/EVPL) services over Optical Transport Network (OTN) in single and multi-domain network scenarios. This document also describes how existing YANG models can be used through several worked examples and JSON fragments. "A YANG Data Model for L1 Connectivity Service Model (L1CSM)", Young Lee, Kwang-koog Lee, Haomian Zheng, Oscar de Dios, Daniele Ceccarelli, 2023-04-03, This document provides a YANG Layer 1 Connectivity Service Model (L1CSM). This model can be utilized by a customer network controller to initiate a connectivity service request as well as to retrieve service states for a Layer 1 network controller communicating with its customer network controller. This YANG model is in compliance of Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA). "A YANG Data Model for Microwave Topology", Jonas Ahlberg, Scott Mansfield, Min Ye, Italo Busi, Xi Li, Daniela Spreafico, 2023-10-19, This document defines a YANG data model to describe microwave/ millimeter radio links in a network topology. "Extension to the Link Management Protocol (LMP/DWDM -rfc4209) for Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) Optical Line Systems to manage the application code of optical interface parameters in DWDM application", Dharini Hiremagalur, Gert Grammel, Gabriele Galimberti, Ruediger Kunze, Dieter Beller, 2023-07-25, This memo defines extensions to LMP RFC4209 for managing Optical parameters associated with Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) systems in accordance with the Interface Application Identifier approach defined in ITU-T Recommendation G.694.1 and its extensions. "A YANG model to manage the optical interface parameters for an external transponder in a WDM network", Gabriele Galimberti, Dharini Hiremagalur, Gert Grammel, Roberto Manzotti, Dirk Breuer, 2023-10-23, This memo defines a Yang model related to the Optical Transceiver parameters characterising coherent 100G and above interfaces. 100G and above Transceivers support coherent modulation, multiple modulation formats, multiple FEC codes including some not yet specified (or in phase of specification by) ITU-T G.698.2 or any other ITU-T recommendation. Use cases are described in RFC7698. Is to be noted that the Transceivers can be located on the Transponders (optical layer) or on the Router (in general packet layer) in form of Pluggable modules. The Yang model defined in this memo can be used for Optical Parameters monitoring and/or configuration of the endpoints of a multi-vendor IaDI optical link. The use of this model does not guarantee interworking of transceivers over a DWDM. Optical path feasibility and interoperability has to be determined by tools and algorithms outside the scope of this document. The purpose of this model is to program interface parameters to consistently configure the mode of operation of transceivers. "A YANG Data Model for Optical Impairment-aware Topology", Dieter Beller, Esther Le Rouzic, Sergio Belotti, Gabriele Galimberti, Italo Busi, 2023-10-23, In order to provision an optical connection through optical networks, a combination of path continuity, resource availability, and impairment constraints must be met to determine viable and optimal paths through the network. The determination of appropriate paths is known as Impairment-Aware Routing and Wavelength Assignment (IA-RWA) for WSON, while it is known as Impairment-Aware Routing and Spectrum Assignment (IA-RSA) for SSON. This document provides a YANG data model for the impairment-aware TE topology in optical networks. "A YANG Data Model for Transport Network Client Signals", Haomian Zheng, Aihua Guo, Italo Busi, Anton Snitser, Francesco Lazzeri, Yunbin Xu, Yang Zhao, Xufeng Liu, Giuseppe Fioccola, Chaode Yu, 2023-10-23, A transport network is a server-layer network to provide connectivity services to its client. The topology and tunnel information in the transport layer has already been defined by generic Traffic- engineered models and technology-specific models (e.g., OTN, WSON). However, how the client signals are accessing to the network has not been described. These information is necessary to both client and provider. This draft describes how the client signals are carried over transport network and defines YANG data models which are required during configuration procedure. More specifically, several client signal (of transport network) models including ETH, STM-n, FC and so on, are defined in this draft. "A YANG Data Model for Layer 1 Types", Haomian Zheng, Italo Busi, 2023-07-10, This document defines a collection of common data types and groupings in the YANG data modeling language for use with layer 1 networks. These derived common types and groupings are intended to be imported by modules that specify OTN networks, such as topology, tunnel, client signal adaptation and service. "A YANG Data Model for Ethernet TE Topology", Chaode Yu, Haomian Zheng, Aihua Guo, Italo Busi, Yunbin Xu, Yang Zhao, Xufeng Liu, 2023-10-09, This document describes a YANG data model for Ethernet networks when used either as a client-layer network of an underlay transport network (e.g., an Optical Transport Network (OTN)) or as a transport network itself. "Framework and Data Model for OTN Network Slicing", Aihua Guo, Luis Contreras, Sergio Belotti, Reza Rokui, Yunbin Xu, Yang Zhao, Xufeng Liu, 2023-07-07, The requirement of slicing network resources with desired quality of service is emerging at every network technology, including the Optical Transport Networks (OTN). As a part of the transport network, OTN can provide hard pipes with guaranteed data isolation and deterministic low latency, which are highly demanded in the Service Level Agreement (SLA). This document describes a framework for OTN network slicing and defines YANG data models with OTN technology-specific augments deployed at both the north and south bound of the OTN network slice controller. Additional YANG data model augmentations will be defined in a future version of this draft. "A YANG Data Model for Layer 0 Types", Sergio Belotti, Italo Busi, Dieter Beller, Haomian Zheng, Esther Le Rouzic, Aihua Guo, Daniel King, 2023-10-23, This document defines a collection of common data types and groupings in the YANG data modeling language. These derived common types and groupings are intended to be imported by modules that model Layer 0 optical Traffic Engineering (TE) configuration and state capabilities such as Wavelength Switched Optical Networks (WSONs) and flexi-grid Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) networks. This document obsoletes RFC 9093. "YANG Data Model for FlexE Management", Minxue Wang, Liuyan Han, Xuesong Geng, Xiaobing NIU, Luis Contreras, Xufeng Liu, 2023-09-12, This document defines a service provider targeted YANG data model for the configuration and management of a Flex Ethernet (FlexE) network, including FlexE group and FlexE client. The YANG module in this document conforms to the Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA). "A YANG Data Model for requesting Path Computation in an Optical Transport Network (OTN)", Italo Busi, Aihua Guo, Sergio Belotti, 2023-10-19, This document provides a mechanism to request path computation in an Optical Transport Network (OTN) by augmenting the Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) defined in RFC YYYY. [RFC EDITOR NOTE: Please replace RFC YYYY with the RFC number of draft-ietf-teas-yang-path-computation once it has been published. "YANG Data Models for requesting Path Computation in Optical Networks", Italo Busi, Aihua Guo, Sergio Belotti, 2023-10-19, This document provides a mechanism to request path computation in Optical Networks (WSON and Flexi-grid) by augmenting the Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) defined in RFC YYYY. [RFC EDITOR NOTE: Please replace RFC YYYY with the RFC number of draft-ietf-teas-yang-path-computation once it has been published. "A YANG Data Model for Network Hardware Inventory", Chaode Yu, Sergio Belotti, Jean-Francois Bouquier, Fabio Peruzzini, Phil Bedard, 2023-07-09, This document defines a YANG data model for network hardware inventory data information. The YANG data model presented in this document is intended to be used as the basis toward a generic YANG data model for network hardware inventory data information which can be augmented, when required, with technology-specific (e.g., optical) inventory data, to be defined either in a future version of this document or in another document. The YANG data model defined in this document conforms to the Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA). "A YANG Data Model for Bandwidth Availability Topology", Jonas Ahlberg, Scott Mansfield, Min Ye, Italo Busi, Xi Li, Daniela Spreafico, 2023-10-18, This document defines a YANG data model to describe bandwidth availability for a link in a network topology. "A YANG Data Model for Interface Reference Topology", Jonas Ahlberg, Scott Mansfield, Min Ye, Italo Busi, Xi Li, Daniela Spreafico, 2023-10-18, This document defines a YANG data model to provide a reference from a termination point in a topology model to interface management information. "A YANG Data Model for WDM Tunnels", Aihua Guo, Sergio Belotti, Gabriele Galimberti, Universidad de Madrid, Daniel Burrero, 2023-11-21, This document defines a YANG data model for the provisioning and management of Traffic Engineering (TE) tunnels and Label Switched Paths (LSPs) in Optical Networks (Wavelength Switched Optical Networks (WSON) and Flexi-Grid Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) Networks). The YANG data model defined in this document conforms to the Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA). Congestion Control Working Group (ccwg) --------------------------------------- "Specifying New Congestion Control Algorithms", Martin Duke, Gorry Fairhurst, 2023-10-23, The IETF's standard congestion control schemes have been widely shown to be inadequate for various environments (e.g., high-speed networks, wireless technologies such as 3GPP and WiFi, long distance satellite links) and also in conflict with the needed, more isochronous, behaviors of VoIP, gaming, and videoconferencing traffic. Recent research has yielded many alternate congestion control schemes that significantly differ from the IETF's congestion control principles. Using these new congestion control schemes in the global Internet has possible ramifications to both the traffic using the new congestion control and to traffic using the currently standardized congestion control. Therefore, the IETF must proceed with caution when dealing with alternate congestion control proposals. The goal of this document is to provide guidance for considering alternate congestion control algorithms within the IETF. Content Delivery Networks Interconnection (cdni) ------------------------------------------------ "Content Delivery Network Interconnection (CDNI) Control Interface / Triggers 2nd Edition", Ori Finkelman, Sanjay Mishra, Nir Sopher, 2023-07-30, This document obsoletes RFC8007. The document describes the part of Content Delivery Network Interconnection (CDNI) Control interface that allows a CDN to trigger activity in an interconnected CDN that is configured to deliver content on its behalf. The upstream CDN MAY use this mechanism to request that the downstream CDN to pre-position metadata or content as well as to request that it invalidate or purge metadata or content. The upstream CDN MAY monitor the status of activity that it has triggered in the downstream CDN. "CDNI Metadata for Delegated Credentials", Frederic Fieau, Stephan Emile, Guillaume Bichot, Christoph Neumann, 2023-10-05, The delivery of content over HTTPS involving multiple CDNs raises credential management issues. This document defines metadata in the CDNI Control and Metadata interface to setup HTTPS delegation using Delegated Credentials from an Upstream CDN (uCDN) to a Downstream CDN (dCDN). "CDNI Capacity Capability Advertisement Extensions", Andrew Ryan, Ben Rosenblum, Nir Sopher, 2023-10-23, Open Caching architecture is a use case of Content Delivery Networks Interconnection (CDNI) in which the commercial Content Delivery Network (CDN) is the upstream CDN (uCDN) and the ISP caching layer serves as the downstream CDN (dCDN). This document supplements to the CDNI Capability Objects defined in RFC 8008 the defined capability objects structure and interface for advertisements and management of a downstream CDN capacity. "CDNI delegation using Automated Certificate Management Environment", Frederic Fieau, Stephan Emile, Sanjay Mishra, 2023-08-24, This document defines metadata to support delegating the delivery of HTTPS content between two or more interconnected CDNs. Specifically, this document defines a CDNI Metadata interface object to enable delegation of X.509 certificates leveraging delegation schemes defined in RFC9115. RFC9115 allows delegating entities to remain in full control of the delegation and be able to revoke it any time and this avoids the need to share private cryptographic key material between the involved entities. "CDNI Cache Control Metadata", Will Power, Glenn Goldstein, 2023-10-17, This specification adds to the basic cache control metadata defined in RFC8006, providing content providers and upstream CDNs (uCDNs) more fine-grained control over downstream CDN (dCDN) caching. Use cases include overriding or adjusting cache control headers from the origin, bypassing caching altogether, or altering cache keys with dynamically generated values. "CDNI Edge Control Metadata", Alfonso Siloniz, Glenn Goldstein, 2023-10-18, This specification defines configuration metadata objects related to controlling edge access to resources via content delivery networks (CDNs) and Open Caching systems. Configuring Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) access rules and the dynamic generation of CORS headers is a key feature of typical configurations, as are the ability to define response body compression rules and client connection timeouts. "CDNI Protected Secrets Metadata", Ben Rosenblum, 2023-10-23, This document defines a simple mechanism for protected secret data (such as salt values or encryption keys) that may be embedded in configuration metadata or capabilities advertisements. Codec Encoding for LossLess Archiving and Realtime transmission (cellar) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "FFV1 Video Coding Format Version 4", Michael Niedermayer, Dave Rice, Jerome Martinez, 2023-06-13, This document defines FFV1, a lossless, intra-frame video encoding format. FFV1 is designed to efficiently compress video data in a variety of pixel formats. Compared to uncompressed video, FFV1 offers storage compression, frame fixity, and self-description, which makes FFV1 useful as a preservation or intermediate video format. "Matroska Media Container Format Specifications", Steve Lhomme, Moritz Bunkus, Dave Rice, 2023-10-22, This document defines the Matroska audiovisual data container structure, including definitions of its structural elements, as well as its terminology, vocabulary, and application. This document updates [RFC8794] to permit the use of a previously reserved EBML Element ID. "Matroska Media Container Codec Specifications", Steve Lhomme, Moritz Bunkus, Dave Rice, 2023-07-02, This document defines the Matroska codec mappings, including the codec ID, layout of data in a Block Element and in an optional CodecPrivate Element. "Matroska Media Container Tag Specifications", Steve Lhomme, Moritz Bunkus, Dave Rice, 2023-10-22, This document defines the Matroska tags, namely the tag names and their respective semantic meaning. "Free Lossless Audio Codec", Martijn van Beurden, Andrew Weaver, 2023-09-27, This document defines the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) format and its streamable subset. FLAC is designed to reduce the amount of computer storage space needed to store digital audio signals without losing information in doing so (i.e., lossless). FLAC is free in the sense that its specification is open and its reference implementation is open-source. Compared to other lossless (audio) coding formats, FLAC is a format with low complexity and can be coded to and from with little computing resources. Decoding of FLAC has seen many independent implementations on many different platforms, and both encoding and decoding can be implemented without needing floating- point arithmetic. "Matroska Media Container Control Track Specifications", Steve Lhomme, Moritz Bunkus, Dave Rice, 2023-07-02, This document defines the Control Track usage found in the Matroska container. "Matroska Media Container Chapter Codecs Specifications", Steve Lhomme, Moritz Bunkus, Dave Rice, 2023-07-02, This document defines common Matroska Chapter Codecs, the basic Matroska Script and the DVD inspired DVD menu [DVD-Video]. Crypto Forum (cfrg) ------------------- "Oblivious Pseudorandom Functions (OPRFs) using Prime-Order Groups", Alex Davidson, Armando Faz-Hernandez, Nick Sullivan, Christopher Wood, 2023-02-21, An Oblivious Pseudorandom Function (OPRF) is a two-party protocol between client and server for computing the output of a Pseudorandom Function (PRF). The server provides the PRF private key, and the client provides the PRF input. At the end of the protocol, the client learns the PRF output without learning anything about the PRF private key, and the server learns neither the PRF input nor output. An OPRF can also satisfy a notion of 'verifiability', called a VOPRF. A VOPRF ensures clients can verify that the server used a specific private key during the execution of the protocol. A VOPRF can also be partially-oblivious, called a POPRF. A POPRF allows clients and servers to provide public input to the PRF computation. This document specifies an OPRF, VOPRF, and POPRF instantiated within standard prime-order groups, including elliptic curves. This document is a product of the Crypto Forum Research Group (CFRG) in the IRTF. "KangarooTwelve and TurboSHAKE", Benoit Viguier, David Wong, Gilles Van Assche, Quynh Dang, Joan Daemen, 2023-06-20, This document defines three eXtendable Output Functions (XOF), hash functions with output of arbitrary length, named TurboSHAKE128, TurboSHAKE256 and KangarooTwelve. All three functions provide efficient and secure hashing primitives, and the last is able to exploit the parallelism of the implementation in a scalable way. This document builds up on the definitions of the permutations and of the sponge construction in [FIPS 202], and is meant to serve as a stable reference and an implementation guide. "Additional Parameter sets for HSS/LMS Hash-Based Signatures", Scott Fluhrer, Quynh Dang, 2023-09-18, This note extends HSS/LMS (RFC 8554) by defining parameter sets by including additional hash functions. These include hash functions that result in signatures with significantly smaller size than the signatures using the current parameter sets, and should have sufficient security. This document is a product of the Crypto Forum Research Group (CFRG) in the IRTF. "CPace, a balanced composable PAKE", Michel Abdalla, Bjoern Haase, Julia Hesse, 2023-09-25, This document describes CPace which is a protocol that allows two parties that share a low-entropy secret (password) to derive a strong shared key without disclosing the secret to offline dictionary attacks. The CPace protocol was tailored for constrained devices and can be used on groups of prime- and non-prime order. "Usage Limits on AEAD Algorithms", Felix Guenther, Martin Thomson, Christopher Wood, 2023-05-31, An Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) algorithm provides confidentiality and integrity. Excessive use of the same key can give an attacker advantages in breaking these properties. This document provides simple guidance for users of common AEAD functions about how to limit the use of keys in order to bound the advantage given to an attacker. It considers limits in both single- and multi-key settings. "The OPAQUE Asymmetric PAKE Protocol", Daniel Bourdrez, Hugo Krawczyk, Kevin Lewi, Christopher Wood, 2023-10-05, This document describes the OPAQUE protocol, a secure asymmetric password-authenticated key exchange (aPAKE) that supports mutual authentication in a client-server setting without reliance on PKI and with security against pre-computation attacks upon server compromise. In addition, the protocol provides forward secrecy and the ability to hide the password from the server, even during password registration. This document specifies the core OPAQUE protocol and one instantiation based on 3DH. "The ristretto255 and decaf448 Groups", Henry de Valence, Jack Grigg, Mike Hamburg, Isis Lovecruft, George Tankersley, Filippo Valsorda, 2023-09-05, This memo specifies two prime-order groups, ristretto255 and decaf448, suitable for safely implementing higher-level and complex cryptographic protocols. The ristretto255 group can be implemented using Curve25519, allowing existing Curve25519 implementations to be reused and extended to provide a prime-order group. Likewise, the decaf448 group can be implemented using edwards448. This document is a product of the Crypto Forum Research Group (CFRG) in the IRTF. "Two-Round Threshold Schnorr Signatures with FROST", Deirdre Connolly, Chelsea Komlo, Ian Goldberg, Christopher Wood, 2023-09-18, This document specifies the Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold (FROST) signing protocol. FROST signatures can be issued after a threshold number of entities cooperate to compute a signature, allowing for improved distribution of trust and redundancy with respect to a secret key. FROST depends only on a prime-order group and cryptographic hash function. This document specifies a number of ciphersuites to instantiate FROST using different prime- order groups and hash functions. One such ciphersuite can be used to produce signatures that can be verified with an Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA, as defined in RFC8032) compliant verifier. However, unlike EdDSA, the signatures produced by FROST are not deterministic. This document is a product of the Crypto Forum Research Group (CFRG) in the IRTF. "Verifiable Distributed Aggregation Functions", Richard Barnes, David Cook, Christopher Patton, Phillipp Schoppmann, 2023-11-20, This document describes Verifiable Distributed Aggregation Functions (VDAFs), a family of multi-party protocols for computing aggregate statistics over user measurements. These protocols are designed to ensure that, as long as at least one aggregation server executes the protocol honestly, individual measurements are never seen by any server in the clear. At the same time, VDAFs allow the servers to detect if a malicious or misconfigured client submitted an measurement that would result in an invalid aggregate result. "Key Blinding for Signature Schemes", Frank Denis, Edward Eaton, Tancrede Lepoint, Christopher Wood, 2023-07-23, This document describes extensions to existing digital signature schemes for key blinding. The core property of signing with key blinding is that a blinded public key and all signatures produced using the blinded key pair are independent of the unblinded key pair. Moreover, signatures produced using blinded key pairs are indistinguishable from signatures produced using unblinded key pairs. This functionality has a variety of applications, including Tor onion services and privacy-preserving airdrop for bootstrapping cryptocurrency systems. "The AEGIS Family of Authenticated Encryption Algorithms", Frank Denis, Samuel Lucas, 2023-11-24, This document describes the AEGIS-128L, AEGIS-256, AEGIS-128X, and AEGIS-256X AES-based authenticated encryption algorithms designed for high-performance applications. The document is a product of the Crypto Forum Research Group (CFRG). It is not an IETF product and is not a standard. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/cfrg/draft-irtf-cfrg-aegis-aead. "The BBS Signature Scheme", Tobias Looker, Vasilis Kalos, Andrew Whitehead, Mike Lodder, 2023-10-30, BBS is a digital signature scheme categorized as a form of short group signature that supports several unique properties. Notably, the scheme supports signing multiple messages whilst producing a single output digital signature. Through this capability, the possessor of a signature is able to generate proofs that selectively disclose subsets of the originally signed set of messages, whilst preserving the verifiable authenticity and integrity of the messages. Furthermore, these proofs are said to be zero-knowledge in nature as they do not reveal the underlying signature; instead, what they reveal is a proof of knowledge of the undisclosed signature. "Deterministic Nonce-less Hybrid Public Key Encryption", Dan Harkins, 2023-10-19, This document describes enhancements to the Hybrid Public Key Encryption standard published by CFRG. These include use of "compact representation" of relevant public keys, support for key-wrapping, and two ways to address the use of HPKE on lossy networks: a determinstic, nonce-less AEAD scheme, and use of a rolling sequence number with existing AEAD schemes. "Properties of AEAD algorithms", Andrey Bozhko, 2023-10-16, Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) algorithms provide confidentiality and integrity of data. The extensive use of AEAD algorithms in various high-level applications has caused the need for AEAD algorithms with additional properties and motivated research in the area. This document gives definitions for the most common of those properties intending to improve consistency in the field. "Guidelines for Writing Cryptography Specifications", Nick Sullivan, Christopher Wood, 2023-07-10, This document provides guidelines and best practices for writing technical specifications for cryptography protocols and primitives, targeting the needs of implementers, researchers, and protocol designers. It highlights the importance of technical specifications and discusses strategies for creating high-quality specifications that cater to the needs of each community, including guidance on representing mathematical operations, security definitions, and threat models. Computing in the Network Research Group (coinrg) ------------------------------------------------ "Use Cases for In-Network Computing", Ike Kunze, Klaus Wehrle, Dirk Trossen, Marie-Jose Montpetit, Xavier de Foy, David Griffin, Miguel Rio, 2023-06-30, Computing in the Network (COIN) comes with the prospect of deploying processing functionality on networking devices, such as switches and network interface cards. While such functionality can be beneficial, it has to be carefully placed into the context of the general Internet communication and it needs to be clearly identified where and how those benefits apply. This document presents some use cases to demonstrate how a number of salient COIN-related applications can benefit from COIN. It further identifies their essential requirements, using normative language to provide a formalized structure for a subsequent analysis. It is a product of the Computing in the Network Research Group (COINRG). It is not an IETF product and it is not a standard. "Use Case Analysis for Computing in the Network", Jungha Hong, Ike Kunze, Klaus Wehrle, Dirk Trossen, Marie-Jose Montpetit, Xavier de Foy, David Griffin, Miguel Rio, 2023-07-10, Computing in the Network (COIN) has the potential to enable a wide variety of use cases. The diversity in use cases makes challenges in defining general considerations. This document analyzes the use cases described in its companion document and potentially explores additional settings, to identify general aspects of interest across all use cases. The insights gained from this analysis will guide future COIN discussions. "Terminology for Computing in the Network", Jungha Hong, Ike Kunze, Klaus Wehrle, Dirk Trossen, Marie-Jose Montpetit, Xavier de Foy, David Griffin, Miguel Rio, 2023-07-10, The term Computing in the Network (COIN) is used for a diverse set of scenarios. Often associated with leveraging richer computing capabilities within network elements, its clear scope is yet unknown. This document tries to bring clarity to the current understanding of COIN by providing an overview of the terminology and definitions to streamline corresponding discussions. "Directions for Computing in the Network", Dirk Kutscher, Teemu Karkkainen, Joerg Ott, 2023-08-08, In-network computing can be conceived in many different ways -- from active networking, data plane programmability, running virtualized functions, service chaining, to distributed computing. This memo proposes a particular direction for Computing in the Networking (COIN) research and lists suggested research challenges. Constrained RESTful Environments (core) --------------------------------------- "A publish-subscribe architecture for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)", Jaime Jimenez, Michael Koster, Ari Keranen, 2023-10-20, This document describes a publish-subscribe architecture for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), extending the capabilities of CoAP communications for supporting endpoints with long breaks in connectivity and/or up-time. CoAP clients publish on and subscribe to a topic via a corresponding topic resource at a CoAP server acting as broker. "YANG Schema Item iDentifier (YANG SID)", Michel Veillette, Alexander Pelov, Ivaylo Petrov, Carsten Bormann, Michael Richardson, 2023-10-30, YANG Schema Item iDentifiers (YANG SID) are globally unique 63-bit unsigned integers used to identify YANG items, as a more compact method to identify YANG items that can be used for efficiency and in constrained environments (RFC 7228). This document defines the semantics, the registration, and assignment processes of YANG SIDs for IETF managed YANG modules. To enable the implementation of these processes, this document also defines a file format used to persist and publish assigned YANG SIDs. // The present version (–23) addresses much of the IESG reviews. It // is intended to serve as a stable basis for the remaining // discussions with IANA and IESG about the registration process. "CoAP Management Interface (CORECONF)", Michel Veillette, Peter van der Stok, Alexander Pelov, Andy Bierman, Carsten Bormann, 2023-09-04, This document describes a network management interface for constrained devices and networks, called CoAP Management Interface (CORECONF). The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is used to access datastore and data node resources specified in YANG, or SMIv2 converted to YANG. CORECONF uses the YANG to CBOR mapping and converts YANG identifier strings to numeric identifiers for payload size reduction. CORECONF extends the set of YANG based protocols, NETCONF and RESTCONF, with the capability to manage constrained devices and networks. "Group Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (Group OSCORE)", Marco Tiloca, Goeran Selander, Francesca Palombini, John Mattsson, Jiye Park, 2023-09-02, This document defines the security protocol Group Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (Group OSCORE), providing end-to-end security of CoAP messages exchanged between members of a group, e.g., sent over IP multicast. In particular, the described protocol defines how OSCORE is used in a group communication setting to provide source authentication for CoAP group requests, sent by a client to multiple servers, and for protection of the corresponding CoAP responses. Group OSCORE also defines a pairwise mode where each member of the group can efficiently derive a symmetric pairwise key with any other member of the group for pairwise OSCORE communication. Group OSCORE can be used between endpoints communicating with CoAP or CoAP-mappable HTTP. "Constrained Resource Identifiers", Carsten Bormann, Henk Birkholz, 2023-07-10, The Constrained Resource Identifier (CRI) is a complement to the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that represents the URI components in Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) instead of a sequence of characters. This simplifies parsing, comparison and reference resolution in environments with severe limitations on processing power, code size, and memory size. // (This "cref" paragraph will be removed by the RFC editor:) The // present revision -13 of this draft picks up some additional // discussion points and is intended as input to the CoRE WG meeting // at IETF 117. "Group Communication for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)", Esko Dijk, Chonggang Wang, Marco Tiloca, 2023-10-23, This document specifies the use of the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) for group communication, including the use of UDP/IP multicast as the default underlying data transport. Both unsecured and secured CoAP group communication are specified. Security is achieved by use of the Group Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (Group OSCORE) protocol. The target application area of this specification is any group communication use cases that involve resource-constrained devices or networks that support CoAP. This document replaces and obsoletes RFC 7390, while it updates RFC 7252 and RFC 7641. "Using Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC) with the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) and Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (OSCORE)", Francesca Palombini, Marco Tiloca, Rikard Hoeglund, Stefan Hristozov, Goeran Selander, 2023-11-29, The lightweight authenticated key exchange protocol Ephemeral Diffie- Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC) can be run over the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) and used by two peers to establish a Security Context for the security protocol Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (OSCORE). This document details this use of the EDHOC protocol, by specifying a number of additional and optional mechanisms. These especially include an optimization approach for combining the execution of EDHOC with the first OSCORE transaction. This combination reduces the number of round trips required to set up an OSCORE Security Context and to complete an OSCORE transaction using that Security Context. "Observe Notifications as CoAP Multicast Responses", Marco Tiloca, Rikard Hoeglund, Christian Amsuess, Francesca Palombini, 2023-10-23, The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) allows clients to "observe" resources at a server, and receive notifications as unicast responses upon changes of the resource state. In some use cases, such as based on publish-subscribe, it would be convenient for the server to send a single notification addressed to all the clients observing a same target resource. This document updates RFC7252 and RFC7641, and defines how a server sends observe notifications as response messages over multicast, synchronizing all the observers of a same resource on a same shared Token value. Besides, this document defines how Group OSCORE can be used to protect multicast notifications end-to-end between the server and the observer clients. "Key Update for OSCORE (KUDOS)", Rikard Hoeglund, Marco Tiloca, 2023-10-23, This document defines Key Update for OSCORE (KUDOS), a lightweight procedure that two CoAP endpoints can use to update their keying material by establishing a new OSCORE Security Context. Accordingly, it updates the use of the OSCORE flag bits in the CoAP OSCORE Option as well as the protection of CoAP response messages with OSCORE, and it deprecates the key update procedure specified in Appendix B.2 of RFC 8613. Thus, this document updates RFC 8613. Also, this document defines a procedure that two endpoints can use to update their OSCORE identifiers, run either stand-alone or during a KUDOS execution. "Attacks on the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)", John Mattsson, John Fornehed, Goeran Selander, Francesca Palombini, Christian Amsuess, 2023-06-11, Being able to securely read information from sensors, to securely control actuators, and to not enable distributed denial-of-service attacks are essential in a world of connected and networking things interacting with the physical world. Using a security protocol such as DTLS, TLS, or OSCORE to protect CoAP is a requirement for secure operation and protects against many attacks. This document summarizes a number of known attacks on CoAP deployments and show that just using CoAP with a security protocol like DTLS, TLS, or OSCORE is not always enough for secure operation. Several of the discussed attacks can be mitigated with a security protocol such as DTLS, TLS, or OSCORE providing confidentiality and integrity combined with the solutions in RFC 9175. "CoAP Protocol Indication", Christian Amsuess, 2023-10-23, The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP, [RFC7252]) is available over different transports (UDP, DTLS, TCP, TLS, WebSockets), but lacks a way to unify these addresses. This document provides terminology and provisions based on Web Linking [RFC8288] to express alternative transports available to a device, and to optimize exchanges using these. "DNS over CoAP (DoC)", Martine Lenders, Christian Amsuess, Cenk Gundogan, Thomas Schmidt, Matthias Waehlisch, 2023-11-17, This document defines a protocol for sending DNS messages over the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP). These CoAP messages are protected by DTLS-Secured CoAP (CoAPS) or Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (OSCORE) to provide encrypted DNS message exchange for constrained devices in the Internet of Things (IoT). "CoRE Target Attributes Registry", Carsten Bormann, 2023-10-11, The Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE) specifications apply Web technologies to constrained environments. One important such technology is Web Linking (RFC 8288), which CoRE specifications use as the basis for a number of discovery protocols, such as the Link Format (RFC 6690) in CoAP's Resource Discovery Protocol (Section 7.2 of RFC7252) and the Resource Directory (RD, RFC 9176). Web Links can have target attributes, the names of which are not generally coordinated by the Web Linking specification (Section 2.2 of RFC 8288). This document introduces an IANA registry for coordinating names of target attributes when used in CoRE. It updates the RD Parameters IANA Registry created by RFC 9176 to coordinate with this registry. "Key Usage Limits for OSCORE", Rikard Hoeglund, Marco Tiloca, 2023-07-10, Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (OSCORE) uses AEAD algorithms to ensure confidentiality and integrity of exchanged messages. Due to known issues allowing forgery attacks against AEAD algorithms, limits should be followed on the number of times a specific key is used for encryption or decryption. Among other reasons, approaching key usage limits requires updating the OSCORE keying material before communications can securely continue. This document defines how two OSCORE peers can follow these key usage limits and what steps they should take to preserve the security of their communications. "Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) Performance Measurement Option", Giuseppe Fioccola, Tianran Zhou, Massimo Nilo, Fabrizio Milan, Fabio Bulgarella, 2023-10-19, This document specifies a method for the Performance Measurement of the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP). A new CoAP option is defined in order to enable network telemetry both end-to-end and hop- by-hop. The endpoints cooperate by marking and, possibly, mirroring information on the round-trip connection. "OSCORE-capable Proxies", Marco Tiloca, Rikard Hoeglund, 2023-10-18, Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (OSCORE) can be used to protect CoAP messages end-to-end between two endpoints at the application layer, also in the presence of intermediaries such as proxies. This document defines how to use OSCORE for protecting CoAP messages also between an origin application endpoint and an intermediary, or between two intermediaries. Also, it defines how to secure a CoAP message by applying multiple, nested OSCORE protections, e.g., both end-to-end between origin application endpoints, as well as between an application endpoint and an intermediary or between two intermediaries. Thus, this document updates RFC 8613. The same approach can be seamlessly used with Group OSCORE, for protecting CoAP messages when group communication with intermediaries is used. CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (cose) ----------------------------------------- "CBOR Encoded X.509 Certificates (C509 Certificates)", John Mattsson, Goeran Selander, Shahid Raza, Joel Hoglund, Martin Furuhed, 2023-10-20, This document specifies a CBOR encoding of X.509 certificates. The resulting certificates are called C509 Certificates. The CBOR encoding supports a large subset of RFC 5280 and all certificates compatible with the RFC 7925, IEEE 802.1AR (DevID), CNSA, RPKI, GSMA eUICC, and CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements profiles. When used to re-encode DER encoded X.509 certificates, the CBOR encoding can in many cases reduce the size of RFC 7925 profiled certificates with over 50%. The CBOR encoded structure can alternatively be signed directly ("natively signed"), which does not require re- encoding for the signature to be verified. The document also specifies C509 COSE headers, a C509 TLS certificate type, and a C509 file format. "Use of Hybrid Public-Key Encryption (HPKE) with CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE)", Hannes Tschofenig, Orie Steele, Ajitomi, Daisuke, Laurence Lundblade, 2023-10-22, This specification defines hybrid public-key encryption (HPKE) for use with CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE). HPKE offers a variant of public-key encryption of arbitrary-sized plaintexts for a recipient public key. HPKE works for any combination of an asymmetric key encapsulation mechanism (KEM), key derivation function (KDF), and authenticated encryption with additional data (AEAD) function. Authentication for HPKE in COSE is provided by COSE-native security mechanisms or by one of the authenticated variants of HPKE. This document defines the use of the HPKE with COSE. "CBOR Web Token (CWT) Claims in COSE Headers", Tobias Looker, Michael Jones, 2023-11-29, This document describes how to include CBOR Web Token (CWT) claims in the header parameters of any COSE structure. This functionality helps to facilitate applications that wish to make use of CBOR Web Token (CWT) claims in encrypted COSE structures and/or COSE structures featuring detached signatures, while having some of those claims be available before decryption and/or without inspecting the detached payload. Another use case is using CWT claims with payloads that are not CWT Claims Sets, including payloads that are not CBOR at all. "Barreto-Lynn-Scott Elliptic Curve Key Representations for JOSE and COSE", Tobias Looker, Michael Jones, 2023-10-22, This specification defines how to represent cryptographic keys for the pairing-friendly elliptic curves known as Barreto-Lynn-Scott (BLS), for use with the key representation formats of JSON Web Key (JWK) and COSE (COSE_Key). Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/tplooker/draft-ietf-cose-bls-key-representations. "JOSE and COSE Encoding for Dilithium", Michael Prorock, Orie Steele, Rafael Misoczki, Michael Osborne, Christine Cloostermans, 2023-07-09, This document describes JSON and CBOR serializations for CRYSTALS Dilithium, a Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) based suite. This document does not define any new cryptography, only seralizations of existing cryptographic systems. This document registers key types for JOSE and COSE, specifically MLWE. Key types in this document are specified by the cryptographic algorithm family in use by a particular algorithm as discussed in RFC7517. This document registers signature algorithms types for JOSE and COSE, specifically CRYDI3 and others as required for use of various parameterizations of the post-quantum signature scheme CRYSTALS Dilithium. Note to RFC Editor: CRYSTALS Dilithium is described and noted as a part of the 2022 PQC Selected Digital Signature Algorithims (https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography/selected- algorithms-2022) As a result, this document should not be proceed to AUTH48 until NIST completes paramter tuning and selection as a part of the PQC (https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography) standardization process. "JOSE and COSE Encoding for Falcon", Michael Prorock, Orie Steele, Rafael Misoczki, Michael Osborne, Christine Cloostermans, 2023-07-09, This document describes JSON and CBOR serializations for Falcon, a Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) signature suite. This document does not define any new cryptography, only seralizations of existing cryptographic systems. This document registers key types for JOSE and COSE, specifically NTRU. Key types in this document are specified by the cryptographic algorithm family in use by a particular algorithm as discussed in RFC7517. This document registers signature algorithms types for JOSE and COSE, specifically FALCON1024 and others as required for use of various parameterizations of the Falcon post-quantum signature scheme. Note to RFC Editor: FALCON is described and noted as a part of the 2022 PQC Selected Digital Signature Algorithims (https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography/selected- algorithms-2022) As a result, this document should not be proceed to AUTH48 until NIST completes paramter tuning and selection as a part of the PQC (https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography) standardization process. "JOSE and COSE Encoding for SPHINCS+", Michael Prorock, Orie Steele, Rafael Misoczki, Michael Osborne, Christine Cloostermans, 2023-07-09, This document describes JSON and CBOR serializations for SPHINCS+, a Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) signature suite. This document does not define any new cryptography, only seralizations of existing cryptographic systems. This document registers key types for JOSE and COSE, specifically HASH. Key types in this document are specified by the cryptographic algorithm family in use by a particular algorithm as discussed in RFC7517. This document registers signature algorithms types for JOSE and COSE, specifically SPHINCS+256s and others as required for use of various parameterizations of the SPHINCS+ post-quantum signature scheme. Note to RFC Editor: SPHINCS+ is described and noted as a part of the 2022 PQC Selected Digital Signature Algorithims (https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography/selected- algorithms-2022) As a result, this document should not be proceed to AUTH48 until NIST completes paramter tuning and selection as a part of the PQC (https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography) standardization process. "CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE) Key Thumbprint", Kohei Isobe, Hannes Tschofenig, Orie Steele, 2023-10-23, This specification defines a method for computing a hash value over a COSE Key. It defines which fields in a COSE Key structure are used in the hash computation, the method of creating a canonical form of the fields, and how to hash the byte sequence. The resulting hash value can be used for identifying or selecting a key that is the subject of the thumbprint. "Concise Encoding of Signed Merkle Tree Proofs", Orie Steele, Henk Birkholz, Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, Cedric Fournet, 2023-11-17, This specification describes verifiable data structures and associated proof types for use with COSE. The extensibility of the approach is demonstrated by providing CBOR encodings for RFC9162. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Discussion of this document takes place on the CBOR Object Signing and Encryption Working Group mailing list (cose@ietf.org), which is archived at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/cose/. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/cose-wg/draft-ietf-cose-merkle-tree-proofs. "COSE "typ" (type) Header Parameter", Michael Jones, Orie Steele, 2023-11-07, This specification adds the equivalent of the JOSE typ (type) header parameter to COSE so that the benefits of explicit typing, as defined in the JSON Web Token Best Current Practices BCP, can be brought to COSE objects. The syntax of the COSE type header parameter value is the same as the existing COSE content type header parameter. "COSE Header parameter for RFC 3161 Time-Stamp Tokens", Henk Birkholz, Thomas Fossati, Maik Riechert, 2023-11-07, RFC 3161 provides a method for timestamping a message digest to prove that the message was created before a given time. This document defines a CBOR Signing And Encrypted (COSE) header parameter that can be used to combine COSE message structures used for signing (i.e., COSE_Sign and COSE_Sign1) with existing RFC 3161-based timestamping infrastructure. DANE Authentication for Network Clients Everywhere (dance) ---------------------------------------------------------- "An Architecture for DNS-Bound Client and Sender Identities", Ash Wilson, Shumon Huque, Olle Johansson, Michael Richardson, 2023-07-23, This architecture document defines terminology, interaction, and authentication patterns, related to the use of DANE DNS records for TLS client and messaging peer identity, within the context of existing object security and TLS-based protocols. Deterministic Networking (detnet) --------------------------------- "Deterministic Networking (DetNet) YANG Model", Xuesong Geng, Yeoncheol Ryoo, Don Fedyk, Reshad Rahman, Zhenqiang Li, 2023-07-10, This document contains the specification for the Deterministic Networking YANG Model for configuration and operational data of DetNet Flows. The model allows for provisioning of end-to-end DetNet service on devices along the path without dependency on any signaling protocol. It also specifies operational status for flows. The YANG module defined in this document conforms to the Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA). "Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) for Deterministic Networks (DetNet) with MPLS Data Plane", Greg Mirsky, Mach Chen, Balazs Varga, 2023-07-06, This document defines format and usage principles of the Deterministic Network (DetNet) service Associated Channel (ACH) over a DetNet network with the MPLS data plane. The DetNet service ACH can be used to carry test packets of active Operations, Administration, and Maintenance protocols that are used to detect DetNet failures and measure performance metrics. "Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) for Deterministic Networks (DetNet) with IP Data Plane", Greg Mirsky, Mach Chen, David Black, 2023-08-01, This document defines the principles for using Operations, Administration, and Maintenance protocols and mechanisms in the Deterministic Networking networks with the IP data plane. "Reliable and Available Wireless Technologies", Pascal Thubert, Dave Cavalcanti, Xavier Vilajosana, Corinna Schmitt, Janos Farkas, 2023-07-10, This document presents a series of recent technologies that are capable of time synchronization and scheduling of transmission, making them suitable to carry time-sensitive flows with high reliability and availability. "Deterministic Networking (DetNet) Controller Plane Framework", Andrew Malis, Xuesong Geng, Mach Chen, Fengwei Qin, Balazs Varga, Carlos Bernardos, 2023-09-26, This document provides a framework overview for the Deterministic Networking (DetNet) controller plane. It discusses concepts and requirements for DetNet controller plane which could be basis for future solution specification. "Framework of Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) for Deterministic Networking (DetNet)", Greg Mirsky, Fabrice Theoleyre, Georgios Papadopoulos, Carlos Bernardos, Balazs Varga, Janos Farkas, 2023-10-05, Deterministic Networking (DetNet), as defined in RFC 8655, aims to provide bounded end-to-end latency on top of the network infrastructure, comprising both Layer 2 bridged and Layer 3 routed segments. This document's primary purpose is to detail the specific requirements of the Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) recommended to maintain a deterministic network. The document will be used in future work that defines the applicability of and extension of OAM protocols for a deterministic network. With the implementation of the OAM framework in DetNet, an operator will have a real-time view of the network infrastructure regarding the network's ability to respect the Service Level Objective, such as packet delay, delay variation, and packet loss ratio, assigned to each DetNet flow. "Reliable and Available Wireless Architecture", Pascal Thubert, 2023-10-20, Reliable and Available Wireless (RAW) provides for high reliability and availability for IP connectivity across any combination of wired and wireless network segments. The RAW Architecture extends the DetNet Architecture and other standard IETF concepts and mechanisms to adapt to the specific challenges of the wireless medium, in particular intermittently lossy connectivity. This document defines a network control loop that optimizes the use of constrained spectrum and energy while maintaining the expected connectivity properties, typically reliability and latency. The loop involves DetNet Operational Plane functions, with a new recovery Function and a new Point of Local Repair operation, that dynamically selects the DetNet path(s) for the future packets to route around local degradations and failures. "Reliable and Available Wireless Framework", Pascal Thubert, Lou Berger, 2023-09-13, Reliable and Available Wireless (RAW) provides for high reliability and availability for IP connectivity over a wireless medium. The wireless medium presents significant challenges to achieve deterministic properties such as low packet error rate, bounded consecutive losses, and bounded latency. This document defines the RAW Architecture following an OODA loop that involves OAM, PCE, PSE and PAREO functions. It builds on the DetNet Architecture and discusses specific challenges and technology considerations needed to deliver DetNet service utilizing scheduled wireless segments and other media, e.g., frequency/time-sharing physical media resources with stochastic traffic. "Deterministic Networking (DetNet): DetNet PREOF via MPLS over UDP/IP", Balazs Varga, Janos Farkas, Andrew Malis, 2023-11-07, This document describes how DetNet IP data plane can support the Packet Replication, Elimination, and Ordering Functions (PREOF) built on the existing MPLS PREOF solution defined for DetNet MPLS Data Plane and the mechanisms defined by MPLS-over-UDP technology. "Deterministic Networking (DetNet): Packet Ordering Function", Balazs Varga, Janos Farkas, Stephan Kehrer, Tobias Heer, 2023-11-08, Replication and Elimination functions of DetNet Architecture can result in out-of-order packets, which is not acceptable for some time-sensitive applications. The Packet Ordering Function (POF) algorithm described herein enables to restore the correct packet order when replication and elimination functions are used in DetNet networks. "Requirements for Scaling Deterministic Networks", Peng Liu, Yizhou Li, Toerless Eckert, Quan Xiong, Jeong-dong Ryoo, zhushiyin, Xuesong Geng, 2023-11-20, Aiming at scaling deterministic networks, this document describes the technical and operational requirements when the network has large variation in latency among hops, great number of flows and/or multiple domains without the same time source. Different deterministic levels of applications co-exist and are transported in such a network. This document also describes the corresponding Deterministic Networking (DetNet) data plane enhancement requirements. Dynamic Host Configuration (dhc) -------------------------------- "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)", Tomek Mrugalski, Bernie Volz, Michael Richardson, Sheng Jiang, Timothy Winters, 2023-10-22, This document describes the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6): an extensible mechanism for configuring nodes with network configuration parameters, IP addresses, and prefixes. Parameters can be provided statelessly, or in combination with stateful assignment of one or more IPv6 addresses and/or IPv6 prefixes. DHCPv6 can operate either in place of or in addition to stateless address autoconfiguration (SLAAC). This document replaces RFC8415 to incorporate reported errata and to obsolete the assignment of temporary addresses (the IA_TA option) and the server unicast capability (the Server Unicast option and UseMulticast status code). "Registering Self-generated IPv6 Addresses using DHCPv6", Warren Kumari, Suresh Krishnan, Rajiv Asati, Lorenzo Colitti, Jen Linkova, Sheng Jiang, 2023-11-11, This document defines a method to inform a DHCPv6 server that a device has a self-generated or statically configured address. Domain Keys Identified Mail (dkim) ---------------------------------- "DKIM Replay Problem Statement", Wei Chuang, Dave Crocker, Allen Robin, Bron Gondwana, 2023-07-28, DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM, RFC6376) permits claiming some responsibility for a message by cryptographically associating a domain name with the message. For data covered by the cryptographic signature, this also enables detecting changes made during transit. DKIM survives basic email relaying. In a Replay Attack, a recipient of a DKIM-signed message re-posts the message to other recipients,while retaining the original, validating signature, and thereby leveraging the reputation of the original signer. This document discusses the resulting damage to email delivery, interoperability, and associated mail flows. A significant challenge to mitigating this problem is that it is difficult for receivers to differentiate between legitimate forwarding flows and a DKIM Replay Attack. Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (dmarc) -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC)", Todd Herr, John Levine, 2023-07-06, This document describes the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) protocol. DMARC permits the owner of an email author's domain name to enable verification of the domain's use, to indicate the Domain Owner's or Public Suffix Operator's message handling preference regarding failed verification, and to request reports about the use of the domain name. Mail receiving organizations can use this information when evaluating handling choices for incoming mail. This document obsoletes RFCs 7489 and 9091. "Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) Failure Reporting", Steven Jones, Alessandro Vesely, 2023-09-14, Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) is a scalable mechanism by which a domain owner can request feedback about email messages using their domain in the From: address field. This document describes "failure reports," or "failed message reports", which provide details about individual messages that failed to authenticate according to the DMARC mechanism. "DMARC Aggregate Reporting", Alex Brotman, 2023-10-02, DMARC allows for domain holders to request aggregate reports from receivers. This report is an XML document, and contains extensible elements that allow for other types of data to be specified later. The aggregate reports can be submitted to the domain holder's specified destination as supported by the receiver. This document (along with others) obsoletes [RFC7489]. Distributed Mobility Management (dmm) ------------------------------------- "Mobility aware Transport Network Slicing for 5G", Uma Chunduri, John Kaippallimalil, Sridhar Bhaskaran, Jeff Tantsura, Praveen Muley, 2023-10-18, Network slicing in 5G supports logical networks for communication services of multiple 5G customers to be multiplexed over the same infrastructure. While 5G slicing covers logical separation of various aspects of 5G services, user's data plane packets over the radio access network (RAN) and mobile core network (5GC) use IP transport in many segments of the end-to-end 5G slice. When end-to- end slices in a 5G system use IP network resources, they are mapped to corresponding IP transport network slice(s) which in turn provide the bandwidth, latency, isolation and other criteria requested by the 5G slice. This document describes mapping of 5G slices to IP or Layer 2 transport network slices when the IP transport network (slice provider) is separated from the networks in which the 5G network functions are deployed, for example, 5G functions that are distributed across data centers. The slice mapping proposed here is supported transparently when a 5G user device moves across 5G attachment points and session anchors. Domain Name System Operations (dnsop) ------------------------------------- "Fragmentation Avoidance in DNS", Kazunori Fujiwara, Paul Vixie, 2023-09-14, EDNS0 enables a DNS server to send large responses using UDP and is widely deployed. Large DNS/UDP responses are fragmented, and IP fragmentation has exposed weaknesses in application protocols. It is possible to avoid IP fragmentation in DNS by limiting response size where possible, and signaling the need to upgrade from UDP to TCP transport where necessary. This document proposes techniques to avoid IP fragmentation in DNS. "Use of GOST 2012 Signature Algorithms in DNSKEY and RRSIG Resource Records for DNSSEC", Dmitry Belyavsky, Vasily Dolmatov, Boris Makarenko, 2022-11-30, This document describes how to produce digital signatures and hash functions using the GOST R 34.10-2012 and GOST R 34.11-2012 algorithms for DNSKEY, RRSIG, and DS resource records, for use in the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). This document obsoletes RFC 5933 and updates RFC 8624. "DNS Terminology", Paul Hoffman, Kazunori Fujiwara, 2023-09-25, The Domain Name System (DNS) is defined in literally dozens of different RFCs. The terminology used by implementers and developers of DNS protocols, and by operators of DNS systems, has changed in the decades since the DNS was first defined. This document gives current definitions for many of the terms used in the DNS in a single document. This document updates RFC 2308 by clarifying the definitions of "forwarder" and "QNAME". It obsoletes RFC 8499 by adding multiple terms and clarifications. Comprehensive lists of changed and new definitions can be found in Appendices A and B. "DNS Error Reporting", Roy Arends, Matt Larson, 2023-11-17, DNS error reporting is a lightweight reporting mechanism that provides the operator of an authoritative server with reports on DNS resource records that fail to resolve or validate. A domain owner or DNS hosting organization can use these reports to improve domain hosting. The reports are based on extended DNS errors as described in RFC 8914. When a domain name fails to resolve or validate due to a misconfiguration or an attack, the operator of the authoritative server may be unaware of this. To mitigate this lack of feedback, this document describes a method for a validating resolver to automatically signal an error to a monitoring agent specified by the authoritative server. The error is encoded in the QNAME, thus the very act of sending the query is to report the error. "The "ZONEVERSION" EDNS option for the version token of a Resource Record's zone", Hugo Salgado, Mauricio Ereche, 2023-08-03, The "ZONEVERSION" EDNS option allows a DNS querier to request a DNS authoritative server to add an EDNS option in the answer of such query with a token field representing the version of the zone which contains the answered Resource Record ("RR"), such as the Start Of Authority ("SOA") serial field in zones when this number corresponds to the zone version. This "ZONEVERSION" data allows to debug and diagnose problems by helping to recognize the data source of an answer in an atomic single DNS query, by associating the response with a respective zone version of such domain name. "Automatic DNSSEC Bootstrapping using Authenticated Signals from the Zone's Operator", Peter Thomassen, Nils Wisiol, 2023-10-02, This document introduces an in-band method for DNS operators to publish arbitrary information about the zones they are authoritative for, in an authenticated fashion and on a per-zone basis. The mechanism allows managed DNS operators to securely announce DNSSEC key parameters for zones under their management, including for zones that are not currently securely delegated. Whenever DS records are absent for a zone's delegation, this signal enables the parent's registry or registrar to cryptographically validate the CDS/CDNSKEY records found at the child's apex. The parent can then provision DS records for the delegation without resorting to out-of-band validation or weaker types of cross-checks such as "Accept after Delay". This document deprecates the DS enrollment methods described in Section 3 of RFC 8078 in favor of Section 4 of this document, and also updates RFC 7344. [ Ed note: This document is being collaborated on at https://github.com/desec-io/draft-ietf-dnsop-dnssec-bootstrapping/ (https://github.com/desec-io/draft-ietf-dnsop-dnssec-bootstrapping/). The authors gratefully accept pull requests. ] "DNSSEC automation", Ulrich Wisser, Shumon Huque, Johan Stenstam, 2023-10-22, This document describes an algorithm and protocol to automate the setup, operations, and decomissioning of Multi-Signer DNSSEC [RFC8901] configurations. It employs Model 2 of the Multi-Signer specification, where each operator has their own distinct KSK and ZSK sets (or CSK sets), Managing DS Records from the Parent via CDS/ CDNSKEY [RFC8078], and Child-to-Parent Synchronization in DNS [RFC7477] to accomplish this. "Negative Caching of DNS Resolution Failures", Duane Wessels, William Carroll, Matthew Thomas, 2023-09-21, In the DNS, resolvers employ caching to reduce both latency for end users and load on authoritative name servers. The process of resolution may result in one of three types of responses: (1) a response containing the requested data; (2) a response indicating the requested data does not exist; or (3) a non-response due to a resolution failure in which the resolver does not receive any useful information regarding the data's existence. This document concerns itself only with the third type. RFC 2308 specifies requirements for DNS negative caching. There, caching of type (2) responses is mandatory and caching of type (3) responses is optional. This document updates RFC 2308 to require negative caching for DNS resolution failures. RFC 4035 allows DNSSEC validation failure caching. This document updates RFC 4035 to require caching for DNSSEC validation failures. RFC 4697 prohibits aggressive requerying for NS records at a failed zone's parent zone. This document updates RFC 4697 to expand this requirement to all query types and to all ancestor zones. "Domain Control Validation using DNS", Shivan Sahib, Shumon Huque, Paul Wouters, Erik Nygren, 2023-10-17, Many application services on the Internet need to verify ownership or control of a domain in the Domain Name System (DNS). The general term for this process is "Domain Control Validation", and can be done using a variety of methods such as email, HTTP/HTTPS, or the DNS itself. This document focuses only on DNS-based methods, which typically involve the application service provider requesting a DNS record with a specific format and content to be visible in the requester's domain. There is wide variation in the details of these methods today. This document proposes some best practices to avoid known problems. "Using DNSSEC Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) with DNS Service Bindings (SVCB) and QUIC", Benjamin Schwartz, Robert Evans, 2023-10-23, Service Binding (SVCB) records introduce a new form of name indirection in DNS. They also convey information about the endpoint's supported protocols, such as whether QUIC transport is available. This document specifies how DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) interacts with Service Bindings to secure connections, including use of port numbers and transport protocols discovered via SVCB queries. The "_quic" transport name label is introduced to distinguish TLSA records for DTLS and QUIC. "Structured Error Data for Filtered DNS", Dan Wing, Tirumaleswar Reddy.K, Neil Cook, Mohamed Boucadair, 2023-11-05, DNS filtering is widely deployed for various reasons, including network security. However, filtered DNS responses lack structured information for end users to understand the reason for the filtering. Existing mechanisms to provide explanatory details to end users cause harm especially if the blocked DNS response is for HTTPS resources. This document updates RFC 8914 by signaling client support for structuring the EXTRA-TEXT field of the Extended DNS Error to provide details on the DNS filtering. Such details can be parsed by the client and displayed, logged, or used for other purposes. "Compact Denial of Existence in DNSSEC", Shumon Huque, Christian Elmerot, Olafur Gudmundsson, 2023-10-23, This document describes a technique to generate a signed DNS response on demand for a non-existent name by claiming that the name exists but doesn't have any data for the queried record type. Such answers require only one minimal NSEC record, allow online signing servers to minimize signing operations and response sizes, and prevent zone content disclosure. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/shuque/id-dnssec-compact-lies. "Initializing a DNS Resolver with Priming Queries", Peter Koch, Matt Larson, Paul Hoffman, 2023-10-05, This document describes the queries that a DNS resolver should emit to initialize its cache. The result is that the resolver gets both a current NS Resource Record Set (RRset) for the root zone and the necessary address information for reaching the root servers. This document, when published, obsoletes RFC 8109. "Consistency for CDS/CDNSKEY and CSYNC is Mandatory", Peter Thomassen, 2023-10-02, Maintenance of DNS delegations requires occasional changes of the DS and NS record sets on the parent side of the delegation. RFC 7344 automates this for DS records by having the child publish CDS and/or CDNSKEY records which hold the prospective DS parameters. Similarly, RFC 7477 specifies CSYNC records to indicate a desired update of the delegation's NS (and glue) records. Parent-side entities (e.g. Registries, Registrars) typically discover these records by querying them from the child, and then use them to update the parent-side RRsets of the delegation accordingly. This document specifies that when performing such queries, parent- side entities MUST ensure that updates triggered via CDS/CDNSKEY and CSYNC records are consistent across the child's authoritative nameservers, before taking any action based on these records. "Generalized DNS Notifications", Johan Stenstam, Peter Thomassen, John Levine, 2023-09-29, Changes in CDS/CDNSKEY, CSYNC, and other records related to delegation maintenance are usually detected through scheduled scans run by the consuming party (e.g. top-level domain registry), incurring an uncomfortable trade-off between scanning cost and update latency. A similar problem exists when scheduling zone transfers, and has been solved using the well-known DNS NOTIFY mechanism ([RFC1996]). This mechanism enables a primary nameserver to proactively inform secondaries about zone changes, allowing the secondary to initiate an ad-hoc transfer independently of when the next SOA check would be due. This document extends the use of DNS NOTIFY beyond conventional zone transfer hints, bringing the benefits of ad-hoc notifications to DNS delegation maintenance in general. Use cases include DNSSEC key rollovers hints via NOTIFY(CDS) and NOTIFY(DNSKEY) messages, and quicker changes to a delegation's NS record set via NOTIFY(CSYNC) messages. Furthermore, this document proposes a new DNS record type, tentatively referred to as "NOTIFY record", which is used to publish details about where generalized notifications should be sent. TO BE REMOVED: This document is being collaborated on in Github at: https://github.com/peterthomassen/draft-ietf-dnsop-generalized-notify (https://github.com/peterthomassen/draft-ietf-dnsop-generalized- notify). The most recent working version of the document, open issues, etc. should all be available there. The authors (gratefully) accept pull requests. "In the DNS, QDCOUNT is (usually) One", Ray Bellis, Joe Abley, 2023-10-23, This document clarifies the allowable values of the QDCOUNT parameter in DNS messages with OPCODE = 0 (QUERY) and specifies the required behaviour when values that are not allowed are encountered. Extensions for Scalable DNS Service Discovery (dnssd) ----------------------------------------------------- "Service Registration Protocol for DNS-Based Service Discovery", Ted Lemon, Stuart Cheshire, 2023-08-04, The Service Registration Protocol for DNS-Based Service Discovery uses the standard DNS Update mechanism to enable DNS-Based Service Discovery using only unicast packets. This makes it possible to deploy DNS Service Discovery without multicast, which greatly improves scalability and improves performance on networks where multicast service is not an optimal choice, particularly IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) and IEEE 802.15.4 networks. DNS-SD Service registration uses public keys and SIG(0) to allow services to defend their registrations. "An EDNS(0) option to negotiate Leases on DNS Updates", Stuart Cheshire, Ted Lemon, 2023-07-07, This document describes an EDNS(0) option that can be used by DNS Update requestors and DNS servers to include a lease lifetime in a DNS Update or response, allowing a server to garbage collect stale resource records that have been added by DNS Updates "Advertising Proxy for DNS-SD Service Registration Protocol", Stuart Cheshire, Ted Lemon, 2023-07-28, An Advertising Proxy advertises the contents of a DNS zone, for example maintained using the DNS-SD Service Registration Protocol (SRP), using multicast DNS. This allows legacy clients to discover services registered with SRP using multicast DNS. DNS PRIVate Exchange (dprive) ----------------------------- "Unilateral Opportunistic Deployment of Encrypted Recursive-to-Authoritative DNS", Daniel Gillmor, Joey Salazar, Paul Hoffman, 2023-10-23, This document sets out steps that DNS servers (recursive resolvers and authoritative servers) can take unilaterally (without any coordination with other peers) to defend DNS query privacy against a passive network monitor. The steps in this document can be defeated by an active attacker, but should be simpler and less risky to deploy than more powerful defenses. The goal of this document is to simplify and speed deployment of opportunistic encrypted transport in the recursive-to-authoritative hop of the DNS ecosystem. Wider easy deployment of the underlying encrypted transport on an opportunistic basis may facilitate the future specification of stronger cryptographic protections against more powerful attacks. Drone Remote ID Protocol (drip) ------------------------------- "DRIP Entity Tag Authentication Formats & Protocols for Broadcast Remote ID", Adam Wiethuechter, Stuart Card, Robert Moskowitz, 2023-11-14, The Drone Remote Identification Protocol (DRIP), plus trust policies and periodic access to registries, augments Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Remote Identification (RID), enabling local real time assessment of trustworthiness of received RID messages and observed UAS, even by Observers then lacking Internet access. This document defines DRIP message types and formats to be sent in Broadcast RID Authentication Messages to verify that attached and recent detached messages were signed by the registered owner of the DRIP Entity Tag (DET) claimed. "DRIP Entity Tag (DET) Identity Management Architecture", Adam Wiethuechter, Jim Reid, 2023-09-18, This document describes the high level architecture for the registration and discovery of DRIP Entity Tags (DETs) using DNS. Discovery of DETs and their artifacts are through DRIP specific DNS structures and standard DNS methods. A general overview of the interfaces required between involved components is described in this document with future supporting documents giving technical specifications. Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (dtn) ------------------------------------------ "DTN Management Architecture", Edward Birrane, Sarah Heiner, Emery Annis, 2023-10-23, The Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) architecture describes a type of challenged network in which communications may be significantly affected by long signal propagation delays, frequent link disruptions, or both. The unique characteristics of this environment require a unique approach to network management that supports asynchronous transport, autonomous local control, and a small footprint (in both resources and dependencies) so as to deploy on constrained devices. This document describes a DTN management architecture (DTNMA) suitable for managing devices in any challenged environment but, in particular, those communicating using the DTN Bundle Protocol (BP). Operating over BP requires an architecture that neither presumes synchronized transport behavior nor relies on query-response mechanisms. Implementations compliant with this DTNMA should expect to successfully operate in extremely challenging conditions, such as over uni-directional links and other places where BP is the preferred transport. "Update to the ipn URI scheme", Rick Taylor, Edward Birrane, 2023-11-22, This document updates both the specification of the ipn URI scheme previously defined in [RFC7116] and the rules for encoding of these URIs when used as an Endpoint Identifier (EID) in Bundle Protocol Version 7 (BPv7) as defined in [RFC9171]. These updates update and clarify the structure and behavior of the ipn URI scheme, define encodings of ipn scheme URIs, and establish the registries necessary to manage this scheme. "Bundle Protocol Version 7 Administrative Record Types Registry", Brian Sipos, 2023-08-10, This document clarifies that a Bundle Protocol Version 7 agent is intended to use an IANA sub-registry for Administrative Record types. It also makes a code point reservation for private or experimental use. "DTN Bundle Protocol Security (BPSec) COSE Context", Brian Sipos, 2023-07-03, This document defines a security context suitable for using CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE) algorithms within Bundle Protocol Security (BPSec) integrity and confidentiality blocks. A profile for COSE, focused on asymmetric-keyed algorithms, and for PKIX certificates are also defined for BPSec interoperation. Emergency Context Resolution with Internet Technologies (ecrit) --------------------------------------------------------------- "A LoST extension to return complete and similar location info", Brian Rosen, Roger Marshall, Jeff Martin, 2022-03-04, This document describes an extension to the LoST protocol of RFC 5222 that allows additional civic location information to be returned in a . This extension supports two use cases: First, when the input location is valid but lacks some Civic Address elements, the LoST server can provide a completed form. Second, when the input location is invalid, the LoST server can identify one or more feasible ("similar") locations. This extension is applicable when the location information in the request uses the Basic Civic profile as described in RFC 5222 or another profile whose definition provides instructions concerning its use with this extension. "Validation of Locations Around a Planned Change", Brian Rosen, 2023-09-05, This document defines an extension to the Location to Service Translation (LoST) protocol (RFC5222) that allows a LoST server to notify a client of planned changes to the data it receives. This extension is only useful for the validation function of LoST. It is beneficial for LoST validation clients to be aware of planned changes, as records that previously were valid may become invalid as of a known future date, and new records may become valid after some future date. This extension adds an element to the request: namely, a date that allows the LoST client to request that the server perform validation as of the date specified. It adds an optional Time-To-Live element to the response, which informs clients of the current expected lifetime of a validation. It also adds a separate interface to the LoST server that allows a client to poll for planned changes. Additionally, this document provides a conventional XML schema for LoST, as a backwards compatible alternative to the RelaxNG schema in RFC5222. Revision of core Email specifications (emailcore) ------------------------------------------------- "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", John Klensin, 2023-11-26, This document is a specification of the basic protocol for Internet electronic mail transport. It (including text carried forward from RFC 5321) consolidates, updates, and clarifies several previous documents, making all or parts of most of them obsolete. It covers the SMTP extension mechanisms and best practices for the contemporary Internet, but does not provide details about particular extensions. The document also provides information about use of SMTP for other than strict mail transport and delivery. This document replaces RFC 5321, the earlier version with the same title. "Internet Message Format", Pete Resnick, 2023-09-20, This document specifies the Internet Message Format (IMF), a syntax for text messages that are sent between computer users, within the framework of "electronic mail" messages. This specification is a revision of Request For Comments (RFC) 5322, itself a revision of Request For Comments (RFC) 2822, all of which supersede Request For Comments (RFC) 822, "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages", updating it to reflect current practice and incorporating incremental changes that were specified in other RFCs. EAP Method Update (emu) ----------------------- "Forward Secrecy for the Extensible Authentication Protocol Method for Authentication and Key Agreement (EAP-AKA' FS)", Jari Arkko, Karl Norrman, John Mattsson, 2023-07-10, Many different attacks have been reported as part of revelations associated with pervasive surveillance. Some of the reported attacks involved compromising the smart card supply chain, such as attacking Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) card manufacturers and operators in an effort to compromise long-term keys stored on these cards. Since the publication of those reports, manufacturing and provisioning processes have received much scrutiny and have improved. However, resourceful attackers are always a cause for concern. Always assuming a breach, such as long-term key compromise, and minimizing the impact of breach are essential zero trust principles. This document updates RFC 9048, the improved Extensible Authentication Protocol Method for 3GPP Mobile Network Authentication and Key Agreement (EAP-AKA'), with an optional extension providing ephemeral key exchange. Similarly, this document also updates the earlier version of the EAP-AKA' specification in RFC 5448. The extension EAP-AKA' Forward Secrecy (EAP-AKA' FS), when negotiated, provides forward secrecy for the session keys generated as a part of the authentication run in EAP-AKA'. This prevents an attacker who has gained access to the long-term key from obtaining session keys established in the past, assuming these have been properly deleted. In addition, EAP-AKA' FS mitigates passive attacks (e.g., large scale pervasive monitoring) against future sessions. This forces attackers to use active attacks instead. "Bootstrapped TLS Authentication with Proof of Knowledge (TLS-POK)", Owen Friel, Dan Harkins, 2023-06-22, This document defines a mechanism that enables a bootstrapping device to establish trust and mutually authenticate against a network. Bootstrapping devices have a public private key pair, and this mechanism enables a network server to prove to the device that it knows the public key, and the device to prove to the server that it knows the private key. The mechanism leverages existing DPP and TLS standards and can be used in an EAP exchange. "Tunnel Extensible Authentication Protocol (TEAP) Version 1", Alan DeKok, 2023-09-04, This document defines the Tunnel Extensible Authentication Protocol (TEAP) version 1. TEAP is a tunnel-based EAP method that enables secure communication between a peer and a server by using the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol to establish a mutually authenticated tunnel. Within the tunnel, TLV objects are used to convey authentication-related data between the EAP peer and the EAP server. This document obsoletes RFC 7170. Email mailstore and eXtensions To Revise or Amend (extra) --------------------------------------------------------- "Sieve Email Filtering: Extension for Processing Calendar Attachments", Kenneth Murchison, Ricardo Signes, Matthew Horsfall, 2023-11-08, This document describes the "processcalendar" extension to the Sieve email filtering language. The "processcalendar" extension gives Sieve the ability to process machine-readable calendar data that is encapsulated in an email message using Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME). "IMAP MESSAGELIMIT Extension", Alexey Melnikov, ArunPrakash Achuthan, Vikram Nagulakonda, Luis Alves, 2023-11-06, The MESSAGELIMIT extension of the Internet Message Access Protocol (RFC 3501/RFC 9051) allows servers to announce a limit on the number of messages that can be processed in a single FETCH/SEARCH/STORE/COPY/MOVE/APPEND/EXPUNGE command. This helps servers to control resource usage when performing various IMAP operations. This helps clients to know the message limit enforced by corresponding IMAP server and avoid issuing commands that would exceed such limit. "The JMAPACCESS Extension for IMAP", Arnt Gulbrandsen, Bron Gondwana, 2023-11-07, This document defines an IMAP extension to let clients know that the messages in this IMAP server are also available via JMAP, and how. It is intended for clients that want to migrate gradually to JMAP or use JMAP extensions within an IMAP client. "IMAP Extension for only using and returning UIDs", Alexey Melnikov, ArunPrakash Achuthan, Vikram Nagulakonda, Ashutosh Singh, Luis Alves, 2023-10-23, The UIDONLY extension to the Internet Message Access Protocol (RFC 3501/RFC 9051) allows clients to enable a mode in which information about mailbox changes is returned using only UIDs. Message numbers are not returned in responses, and can't be used in requests once this extension is enabled. This helps both clients and servers to reduce resource usage required to maintain a map between message numbers and UIDs. "IMAP4 Response Code for Command Progress Notifications.", Marco Bettini, 2023-11-21, This document defines a new IMAP untagged response code, "INPROGRESS", that provides structured numeric progress status indication for long-running commands. "IMAP4 Extension for Returning Mailbox METADATA in Extended LIST", Kenneth Murchison, Bron Gondwana, 2023-10-21, This document defines an extension to the to IMAP LIST command that allows the client to request mailbox annotations (metadata), along with other information typically returned by the LIST command. "Snoozing Email with IMAP, JMAP, and Sieve", Kenneth Murchison, Ricardo Signes, Neil Jenkins, 2023-10-30, This document describes the "snooze" extensions to IMAP, JMAP for Mail, and the Sieve Email Filtering Language. The "snooze" extensions give these protocols the ability to postpone the appearance of an email message in a target mailbox until a later point in time. Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol (gnap) --------------------------------------------------- "Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol", Justin Richer, Fabien Imbault, 2023-10-23, GNAP defines a mechanism for delegating authorization to a piece of software, and conveying the results and artifacts of that delegation to the software. This delegation can include access to a set of APIs as well as subject information passed directly to the software. "Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol Resource Server Connections", Justin Richer, Fabien Imbault, 2023-10-23, GNAP defines a mechanism for delegating authorization to a piece of software, and conveying that delegation to the software. This extension defines methods for resource servers (RS) to connect with authorization servers (AS) in an interoperable fashion. Global Routing Operations (grow) -------------------------------- "Revision to Registration Procedures for Multiple BMP Registries", John Scudder, 2023-09-22, This document updates RFC 7854, BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) by making a change to the registration procedures for several registries. Specifically, any BMP registry with a range of 32768-65530 designated "Specification Required" has that range re- designated as "First Come First Served". "Methods for Detection and Mitigation of BGP Route Leaks", Kotikalapudi Sriram, Alexander Azimov, 2023-07-08, Problem definition for route leaks and enumeration of types of route leaks are provided in RFC 7908. This document describes a new well- known Large Community that provides a way for route-leak prevention, detection, and mitigation. The configuration process for this Community can be automated with the methodology for setting BGP roles that is described in RFC 9234. "BMP Peer Up Message Namespace", John Scudder, Paolo Lucente, 2023-10-23, RFC 7854, BMP, uses different message types for different purposes. Most of these are Type, Length, Value (TLV) structured. One message type, the Peer Up message, lacks a set of TLVs defined for its use, instead sharing a namespace with the Initiation message. Subsequent experience has shown that this namespace sharing was a mistake, as it hampers the extension of the protocol. This document updates RFC 7854 by creating an independent namespace for the Peer Up message. It also updates RFC 8671 and RFC 9069 by moving the defined codepoints in the newly introduced registry. The changes in this document are formal only, compliant implementations of RFC 7854, RFC 8671 and RFC 9069 also comply with this specification. "BMP v4: TLV support for BMP Route Monitoring and Peer Down Messages", Paolo Lucente, Yunan Gu, 2023-10-23, Most of the message types defined by the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) make provision for data in TLV format. However, Route Monitoring messages (which provide a snapshot of the monitored Routing Information Base) and Peer Down messages (which indicate that a peering session was terminated) do not. Supporting (optional) data in TLV format across all BMP message types allows for a homogeneous and extensible surface that would be useful for the most different use-cases that need to convey additional data to a BMP station. While it is not intended for this document to cover any specific utilization scenario, it defines a simple way to support TLV data in all message types. "AS Path Prepending", Mike McBride, Doug Madory, Jeff Tantsura, Robert Raszuk, Hongwei Li, Jakob Heitz, Gyan Mishra, 2023-06-26, AS Path Prepending provides a tool to manipulate the BGP AS_Path attribute through prepending multiple entries of an AS. AS Path Prepending is used to deprioritize a route or alternate path. By prepending the local ASN multiple times, ASs can make advertised AS paths appear artificially longer. Excessive AS Path Prepending has caused routing issues in the Internet. This document provides guidance with the use of AS Path Prepending, including alternative solutions, in order to avoid negatively affecting the Internet. "Support for Enterprise-specific TLVs in the BGP Monitoring Protocol", Paolo Lucente, Yunan Gu, 2023-10-23, Message types defined by the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) do provision for data in TLV - Type, Length, Value - format, either in the shape of a TLV message body, ie. Route Mirroring and Stats Reports, or optional TLVs at the end of a BMP message, ie. Peer Up and Peer Down. However the space for Type value is unique and governed by IANA. To allow the usage of vendor-specific TLVs, a mechanism to define per-vendor Type values is required. In this document we introduce an Enterprise Bit, or E-bit, for such purpose. "Near Real Time Mirroring (NRTM) version 4", Sasha Romijn, Job Snijders, Edward Shryane, Stavros Konstantaras, 2023-11-26, This document specifies a one-way synchronization protocol for Internet Routing Registry (IRR) records. The protocol allows instances of IRR database servers to mirror IRR records, specified in the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL), between each other. "BMP YANG Module", Camilo Cardona, Paolo Lucente, Thomas Graf, Benoit Claise, 2023-07-04, This document proposes a YANG module for the configuration and monitoring of the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP). "A well-known BGP community to denote prefixes used for Anycast", Maximilian Wilhelm, Fredy Kuenzler, 2023-11-26, In theory routing decisions on the Internet and by extension within ISP networks should always use hot-potato routing to reach any given destination. In reality operators sometimes choose to not use the hot-potato paths to forward traffic due to a variety of reasons, mostly motivated by traffic engineering considerations. For prefixes carrying anycast traffic in virtually all situations it is advisable to stick to the hot-potato principle. As operators mostly don't know which prefixes are carrying unicast or anycast traffic, they can't differentiate between them in their routing policies. To allow operators to take well informed decisions on which prefixes are carrying anycast traffic this document proposes a well-known BGP community to denote this property. "BMP Extension for Path Status TLV", Camilo Cardona, Paolo Lucente, Pierre Francois, Yunan Gu, Thomas Graf, 2023-09-13, The BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) provides an interface for obtaining BGP Path information. BGP Path Information is conveyed within BMP Route Monitoring (RM) messages. This document proposes an extension to BMP to convey the status of a path after being processed by the BGP process. This extension makes use of the TLV mechanims described in draft-ietf-grow-bmp-tlv [I-D.ietf-grow-bmp-tlv] and draft-ietf-grow-bmp-tlv-ebit [I-D.ietf-grow-bmp-tlv-ebit]. Home Networking (homenet) ------------------------- "Simple Provisioning of Public Names for Residential Networks", Daniel Migault, Ralf Weber, Michael Richardson, Ray Hunter, 2023-02-08, Home network owners may have devices or services hosted on their home network that they wish to access from the Internet (i.e., from a network outside of the home network). Home networks are increasingly numbered using IPv6 addresses, which in principle makes this access simpler, but their access from the Internet requires the names and IP addresses of these devices and services to be made available in the public DNS. This document describes how an Home Naming Authority (NHA) instructs the outsourced infrastructure to publish these pieces of information in the public DNS. The names and IP addresses of the home network are set in the Public Homenet Zone by the Homenet Naming Authority (HNA), which in turn instructs an outsourced infrastructure to publish the zone on behalf of the home network owner. "DHCPv6 Options for Home Network Naming Authority", Daniel Migault, Ralf Weber, Tomek Mrugalski, 2022-10-31, This document defines DHCPv6 options so a Homenet Naming Authority (HNA) can automatically proceed to the appropriate configuration and outsource the authoritative naming service for the home network. In most cases, the outsourcing mechanism is transparent for the end user. Human Rights Protocol Considerations (hrpc) ------------------------------------------- "Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol and Architecture Considerations", Gurshabad Grover, Niels ten Oever, 2023-10-04, This document sets guidelines for human rights considerations for developers working on network protocols and architectures, similar to the work done on the guidelines for privacy considerations [RFC6973]. This is an updated version of the guidelines for human rights considerations in [RFC8280]. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This informational document has consensus for publication from the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Human Right Protocol Considerations Research (HRPC) Group. It has been reviewed, tried, and tested by both by the research group as well as by researchers and practitioners from outside the research group (for example see: https://gitlab.com/hr-rt/documents). The research group acknowledges that the understanding of the impact of Internet protocols and architecture on society is a developing practice and is a body of research that is still in development. "Intimate Partner Violence Digital Considerations", Sofia Celi, Juliana Guerra, Mallory Knodel, 2023-10-18, This document aims to inform how Internet protocols and their implementations might better mitigate technical attacks at the user endpoint by describing technology-based practices to perpetrate intimate partner violence (IPV). IPV is a pervasive reality that is not limited to, but can be exacerbated with, the usage of technology. The IPV context enables the attacker to access one, some or all of: devices, local networks, authentication mechanisms, identity information, and accounts. These kinds of technical compromise exist in addition to on-path attacks, both active and passive [RFC7624]. In this document we describe the tactics the IPV attacker uses and what kind of counter-measures can be designed in IETF protocols. Building Blocks for HTTP APIs (httpapi) --------------------------------------- "RateLimit header fields for HTTP", Roberto Polli, Alex Ruiz, 2023-06-24, This document defines the RateLimit-Policy and RateLimit HTTP header fields for servers to advertise their service policy limits and the current limits, thereby allowing clients to avoid being throttled. "The Idempotency-Key HTTP Header Field", Jayadeba Jena, Sanjay Dalal, 2023-11-16, The HTTP Idempotency-Key request header field can be used to carry idempotency key in order to make non-idempotent HTTP methods such as POST or PATCH fault-tolerant. "REST API Media Types", Roberto Polli, 2023-09-06, This document registers the following media types used in APIs on the IANA Media Types registry: application/schema+json, application/ schema-instance+json, application/openapi+json, and application/ openapi+yaml. "YAML Media Type", Roberto Polli, Erik Wilde, Eemeli Aro, 2023-08-30, This document registers the application/yaml media type and the +yaml structured syntax suffix on the IANA Media Types registry, intended to be used to identify document components serialized according to the YAML specification. "The Link-Template HTTP Header Field", Mark Nottingham, 2023-01-31, This specification defines the Link-Template HTTP header field, providing a means for describing the structure of a link between two resources, so that new links can be generated. "HTTP Link Hints", Mark Nottingham, 2023-08-29, This memo specifies "HTTP Link Hints", a mechanism for annotating Web links to HTTP(S) resources with information that otherwise might be discovered by interacting with them. "Byte Range PATCH", Austin Wright, 2023-09-06, This document specifies a media type for PATCH payloads that overwrites a specific byte range, to allow random access writes, or allow a resource to be uploaded in several segments. "api-catalog: A well-known URI to help discovery of APIs", Kevin Smith, 2023-09-12, This document defines the "api-catalog" well-known URI. It is intended to facilitate automated discovery and usage of the APIs published by a Web host. HTTP (httpbis) -------------- "Cookies: HTTP State Management Mechanism", Steven Bingler, Mike West, John Wilander, 2023-11-15, This document defines the HTTP Cookie and Set-Cookie header fields. These header fields can be used by HTTP servers to store state (called cookies) at HTTP user agents, letting the servers maintain a stateful session over the mostly stateless HTTP protocol. Although cookies have many historical infelicities that degrade their security and privacy, the Cookie and Set-Cookie header fields are widely used on the Internet. This document obsoletes RFC 6265. "Digest Fields", Roberto Polli, Lucas Pardue, 2023-07-10, This document defines HTTP fields that support integrity digests. The Content-Digest field can be used for the integrity of HTTP message content. The Repr-Digest field can be used for the integrity of HTTP representations. Want-Content-Digest and Want-Repr-Digest can be used to indicate a sender's interest and preferences for receiving the respective Integrity fields. This document obsoletes RFC 3230 and the Digest and Want-Digest HTTP fields. "HTTP Message Signatures", Annabelle Backman, Justin Richer, Manu Sporny, 2023-07-26, This document describes a mechanism for creating, encoding, and verifying digital signatures or message authentication codes over components of an HTTP message. This mechanism supports use cases where the full HTTP message may not be known to the signer, and where the message may be transformed (e.g., by intermediaries) before reaching the verifier. This document also describes a means for requesting that a signature be applied to a subsequent HTTP message in an ongoing HTTP exchange. "Resumable Uploads for HTTP", Marius Kleidl, Guoye Zhang, Lucas Pardue, 2023-10-19, HTTP clients often encounter interrupted data transfers as a result of canceled requests or dropped connections. Prior to interruption, part of a representation may have been exchanged. To complete the data transfer of the entire representation, it is often desirable to issue subsequent requests that transfer only the remainder of the representation. HTTP range requests support this concept of resumable downloads from server to client. This document describes a mechanism that supports resumable uploads from client to server using HTTP. "Structured Field Values for HTTP", Mark Nottingham, Poul-Henning Kamp, 2023-11-06, This document describes a set of data types and associated algorithms that are intended to make it easier and safer to define and handle HTTP header and trailer fields, known as "Structured Fields", "Structured Headers", or "Structured Trailers". It is intended for use by specifications of new HTTP fields that wish to use a common syntax that is more restrictive than traditional HTTP field values. This document obsoletes RFC 8941. "HTTP Proxy-Status Parameter for Next-Hop Aliases", Tommy Pauly, 2023-06-20, This document defines the next-hop-aliases HTTP Proxy-Status Parameter. This parameter carries the list of aliases and canonical names an intermediary received during DNS resolution as part establishing a connection to the next hop. "The Signature HTTP Authentication Scheme", David Schinazi, David Oliver, Jonathan Hoyland, 2023-10-20, Existing HTTP authentication schemes are probeable in the sense that it is possible for an unauthenticated client to probe whether an origin serves resources that require authentication. It is possible for an origin to hide the fact that it requires authentication by not generating Unauthorized status codes, however that only works with non-cryptographic authentication schemes: cryptographic signatures require a fresh nonce to be signed, and there is no existing way for the origin to share such a nonce without exposing the fact that it serves resources that require authentication. This document proposes a new non-probeable cryptographic authentication scheme. "Template-Driven HTTP CONNECT Proxying for TCP", Benjamin Schwartz, 2023-11-06, TCP proxying using HTTP CONNECT has long been part of the core HTTP specification. However, this proxying functionality has several important deficiencies in modern HTTP environments. This specification defines an alternative HTTP proxy service configuration for TCP connections. This configuration is described by a URI Template, similar to the CONNECT-UDP and CONNECT-IP protocols. "Compression Dictionary Transport", Patrick Meenan, Yoav Weiss, 2023-09-11, This specification defines a mechanism for using designated [HTTP] responses as an external dictionary for future HTTP responses for compression schemes that support using external dictionaries (e.g., Brotli [RFC7932] and Zstandard [RFC8878]). "HTTP Cache Groups", Mark Nottingham, 2023-11-06, This specification introduces a means of describing the relationships between stored responses in HTTP caches, "grouping" them by associating a stored response with one or more opaque strings. Interface to Network Security Functions (i2nsf) ----------------------------------------------- "Applicability of Interfaces to Network Security Functions to Network-Based Security Services", Jaehoon Jeong, Sangwon Hyun, Tae-Jin Ahn, Susan Hares, Diego Lopez, 2019-09-16, This document describes the applicability of Interface to Network Security Functions (I2NSF) to network-based security services in Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) environments, such as firewall, deep packet inspection, or attack mitigation engines. "I2NSF Consumer-Facing Interface YANG Data Model", Jaehoon Jeong, Chaehong Chung, Tae-Jin Ahn, Rakesh Kumar, Susan Hares, 2023-05-15, This document describes a YANG data model of the Consumer-Facing Interface of the Security Controller in an Interface to Network Security Functions (I2NSF) system in a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) environment. This document defines various types of managed objects and the relationship among them needed to build the flow policies from users' perspective. The YANG data model is based on the "Event-Condition-Action" (ECA) policy defined by a capability YANG data model for I2NSF. The YANG data model enables different users of a given I2NSF system to define, manage, and monitor flow policies within an administrative domain (e.g., user group). "I2NSF Network Security Function-Facing Interface YANG Data Model", Jinyong Kim, Jaehoon Jeong, J., PARK, Susan Hares, Qiushi Lin, 2022-06-01, This document defines a YANG data model for configuring security policy rules on Network Security Functions (NSF) in the Interface to Network Security Functions (I2NSF) framework. The YANG data model in this document is for the NSF-Facing Interface between a Security Controller and NSFs in the I2NSF framework. It is built on the basis of the YANG data model in the I2NSF Capability YANG Data Model document for the I2NSF framework. "I2NSF Capability YANG Data Model", Susan Hares, Jaehoon Jeong, Jinyong Kim, Robert Moskowitz, Qiushi Lin, 2022-05-23, This document defines an information model and the corresponding YANG data model for the capabilities of various Network Security Functions (NSFs) in the Interface to Network Security Functions (I2NSF) framework to centrally manage the capabilities of the various NSFs. "I2NSF Registration Interface YANG Data Model for NSF Capability Registration", Sangwon Hyun, Jaehoon Jeong, TaeKyun Roh, Sarang Wi, J., PARK, 2023-05-10, This document defines a YANG data model for the Registration Interface between Security Controller and Developer's Management System (DMS) in the Interface to Network Security Functions (I2NSF) framework to register Network Security Functions (NSF) of the DMS with the Security Controller. The objective of this data model is to support NSF capability registration and query via I2NSF Registration Interface. "I2NSF NSF Monitoring Interface YANG Data Model", Jaehoon Jeong, Patrick Lingga, Susan Hares, Liang Xia, Henk Birkholz, 2022-06-01, This document proposes an information model and the corresponding YANG data model of an interface for monitoring Network Security Functions (NSFs) in the Interface to Network Security Functions (I2NSF) framework. If the monitoring of NSFs is performed with the NSF monitoring interface in a standard way, it is possible to detect the indication of malicious activity, anomalous behavior, the potential sign of denial-of-service attacks, or system overload in a timely manner. This monitoring functionality is based on the monitoring information that is generated by NSFs. Thus, this document describes not only an information model for the NSF monitoring interface along with a YANG tree diagram, but also the corresponding YANG data model. Internet Architecture Board (iab) --------------------------------- "Partitioning as an Architecture for Privacy", Mirja Kuehlewind, Tommy Pauly, Christopher Wood, 2023-10-06, This document describes the principle of privacy partitioning, which selectively spreads data and communication across multiple parties as a means to improve privacy by separating user identity from user data. This document describes emerging patterns in protocols to partition what data and metadata is revealed through protocol interactions, provides common terminology, and discusses how to analyze such models. "Report from the IAB Workshop on Environmental Impact of Internet Applications and Systems, 2022", Jari Arkko, Colin Perkins, Suresh Krishnan, 2023-10-23, Internet communications and applications have both environmental costs and benefits. The IAB ran an online workshop in December 2022 on exploring and understanding these impacts. The role of the workshop was to discuss the impacts, discuss the evolving needs from industry, and to identify areas for improvements and future work. A key goal of the workshop was to call further attention to the topic and to bring together a diverse stakeholder community to discuss these issues. This report summarises the workshop inputs and discussions. "Report from the IAB workshop on Management Techniques in Encrypted Networks (M-TEN)", Mallory Knodel, Wes Hardaker, Tommy Pauly, 2023-08-14, The “Management Techniques in Encrypted Networks (M-TEN)” workshop was convened by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) from 17 October 2022 to 19 October 2022 as a three-day online meeting. The workshop was organized in three parts to discuss ways to improve network management techniques in support of even broader adoption of encryption on the Internet. This report summarizes the workshop's discussion and identifies topics that warrant future work and consideration. Note that this document is a report on the proceedings of the workshop. The views and positions documented in this report are those of the expressed during the workshop by participants and do not necessarily reflect IAB views and positions. Internet Congestion Control (iccrg) ----------------------------------- "rLEDBAT: receiver-driven Low Extra Delay Background Transport for TCP", Marcelo Bagnulo, Alberto Garcia-Martinez, Gabriel Montenegro, Praveen Balasubramanian, 2023-06-04, This document specifies the rLEDBAT, a set of mechanisms that enable the execution of a less-than-best-effort congestion control algorithm for TCP at the receiver end. Information-Centric Networking (icnrg) -------------------------------------- "File-Like ICN Collections (FLIC)", Christian Tschudin, Christopher Wood, Marc Mosko, David Oran, 2023-10-22, This document describes a simple "index table" data structure and its associated Information Centric Networking (ICN) data objects for organizing a set of primitive ICN data objects into a large, File- Like ICN Collection (FLIC). At the core of this collection is a _manifest_ which acts as the collection's root node. The manifest contains an index table with pointers, each pointer being a hash value pointing to either a final data block or another index table node. "ICN Ping Protocol Specification", Spyridon Mastorakis, David Oran, Jim Gibson, Ilya Moiseenko, Ralph Droms, 2023-08-28, This document presents the design of an ICN Ping protocol. It includes the operations of both the client and the forwarder. This document is a product of the Information-Centric Networking Research Group (ICNRG) of the IRTF. "ICN Traceroute Protocol Specification", Spyridon Mastorakis, David Oran, Ilya Moiseenko, Jim Gibson, Ralph Droms, 2023-08-17, This document presents the design of an ICN Traceroute protocol. This includes the operation of both the client and the forwarder. This document is a product of the Information-Centric Networking Research Group (ICNRG) of the IRTF. "Alternative Delta Time Encoding for CCNx Using Compact Floating-Point Arithmetic", Cenk Gundogan, Thomas Schmidt, David Oran, Matthias Waehlisch, 2023-10-04, CCNx utilizes delta time for a number of functions. When using CCNx in environments with constrained nodes or bandwidth constrained networks, it is valuable to have a compressed representation of delta time. In order to do so, either accuracy or dynamic range has to be sacrificed. Since the current uses of delta time do not require both simultaneously, one can consider a logarithmic encoding. This document updates RFC 8609 ("CCNx messages in TLV Format") to specify this alternative encoding. This document is a product of the IRTF Information-Centric Networking Research Group (ICNRG). "Path Steering in CCNx and NDN", Ilya Moiseenko, David Oran, 2023-09-29, Path Steering is a mechanism to discover paths to the producers of ICN content objects and steer subsequent Interest messages along a previously discovered path. It has various uses, including the operation of state-of-the-art multipath congestion control algorithms and for network measurement and management. This specification derives directly from the design published in _Path Switching in Content Centric and Named Data Networks_ (4th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking - ICN'17) and therefore does not recapitulate the design motivations, implementation details, or evaluation of the scheme. Some technical details are different however, and where there are differences, the design documented here is to be considered definitive. This document is a product of the IRTF Information-Centric Networking Research Group (ICNRG). It is not an IETF product and is not an Internet Standard. Inter-Domain Routing (idr) -------------------------- "BGP Dissemination of L2 Flow Specification Rules", Hao Weiguo, Donald Eastlake, Stephane Litkowski, Shunwan Zhuang, 2023-10-16, This document defines a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Flow Specification (flowspec) extension to disseminate Ethernet Layer 2 (L2) and Layer 2 Virtual Private Network (L2VPN) traffic filtering rules either by themselves or in conjunction with L3 flowspecs. AFI/ SAFI 6/133 and 25/134 are used for these purposes. New component types and two extended communities are also defined. "YANG Model for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4)", Mahesh Jethanandani, Keyur Patel, Susan Hares, Jeffrey Haas, 2023-07-05, This document defines a YANG data model for configuring and managing BGP, including protocol, policy, and operational aspects, such as RIB, based on data center, carrier, and content provider operational requirements. "BGP Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules for Tunneled Traffic", Donald Eastlake, Hao Weiguo, Shunwan Zhuang, Zhenbin Li, Rong Gu, 2023-07-05, This draft specifies a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) encoding format for flow specifications (RFC 8955) that can match on a variety of tunneled traffic. In addition, flow specification components are specified for certain tunneling header fields. "Advertising Segment Routing Policies in BGP", Stefano Previdi, Clarence Filsfils, Ketan Talaulikar, Paul Mattes, Dhanendra Jain, 2023-10-23, This document introduces a BGP SAFI with two NLRIs to advertise a candidate path of a Segment Routing (SR) Policy. An SR Policy is an ordered list of segments (i.e., instructions) that represent a source-routed policy. An SR Policy consists of one or more candidate paths, each consisting of one or more segment lists. A headend may be provisioned with candidate paths for an SR Policy via several different mechanisms, e.g., CLI, NETCONF, PCEP, or BGP. This document specifies how BGP may be used to distribute SR Policy candidate paths. It defines sub-TLVs for the Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute for signaling information about these candidate paths. This documents updates RFC9012 with extensions to the Color Extended Community to support additional steering modes over SR Policy. "BGP Link State Extensions for SRv6", Gaurav Dawra, Clarence Filsfils, Ketan Talaulikar, Mach Chen, Daniel Bernier, Bruno Decraene, 2023-02-17, Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) allows for a flexible definition of end-to-end paths within various topologies by encoding paths as sequences of topological or functional sub-paths, called "segments". These segments are advertised by various protocols such as BGP, IS-IS and OSPFv3. This document defines extensions to BGP Link-state (BGP-LS) to advertise SRv6 segments along with their behaviors and other attributes via BGP. The BGP-LS address-family solution for SRv6 described in this document is similar to BGP-LS for SR for the MPLS data-plane defined in a separate document. "Deprecation of AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET in BGP", Warren Kumari, Kotikalapudi Sriram, Lilia Hannachi, Jeffrey Haas, 2023-07-10, BCP 172 (i.e., RFC 6472) recommends not using AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET AS_PATH segment types in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). This document advances that recommendation to a standards requirement in BGP; it proscribes the use of the AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET path segment types in the AS_PATH. This is done to simplify the design and implementation of BGP and to make the semantics of the originator of a BGP route clearer. This will also simplify the design, implementation, and deployment of various BGP security mechanisms. This document updates RFC 4271 and RFC 5065, and obsoletes RFC 6472. "Support for Long-lived BGP Graceful Restart", Jim Uttaro, Enke Chen, Bruno Decraene, John Scudder, 2023-07-12, In this document, we introduce a new BGP capability termed "Long- lived Graceful Restart Capability" so that stale routes can be retained for a longer time upon session failure than is provided for by BGP Graceful Restart (RFC 4724). A well-known BGP community "LLGR_STALE" is introduced for marking stale routes retained for a longer time. A second well-known BGP community, "NO_LLGR", is introduced to mark routes for which these procedures should not be applied. We also specify that such long-lived stale routes be treated as the least-preferred, and their advertisements be limited to BGP speakers that have advertised the new capability. Use of this extension is not advisable in all cases, and we provide guidelines to help determine if it is. This memo updates RFC 6368 by specifying that the LLGR_STALE community must be propagated into, or out of, the path attributes exchanged between PE and CE. "Distribution of Link-State and Traffic Engineering Information Using BGP", Ketan Talaulikar, 2023-08-25, In many environments, a component external to a network is called upon to perform computations based on the network topology and the current state of the connections within the network, including Traffic Engineering (TE) information. This is information typically distributed by IGP routing protocols within the network. This document describes a mechanism by which link-state and TE information can be collected from networks and shared with external components using the BGP routing protocol. This is achieved using a BGP Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) encoding format. The mechanism applies to physical and virtual (e.g., tunnel) IGP links. The mechanism described is subject to policy control. Applications of this technique include Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) servers and Path Computation Elements (PCEs). This document obsoletes RFC7752 by completely replacing that document. It makes some small changes and clarifications to the previous specification. This document also obsoletes RFC9029 by incorporating the updates that it made to RFC7752. "BGP BFD Strict-Mode", Mercia Zheng, Acee Lindem, Jeffrey Haas, Albert Fu, 2023-07-03, This document specifies extensions to RFC4271 BGP-4 that enable a BGP speaker to negotiate additional Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) extensions using a BGP capability. This BFD Strict-Mode Capability enables a BGP speaker to prevent a BGP session from being established until a BFD session is established. It is referred to as BGP BFD "strict-mode". BGP BFD strict-mode will be supported when both the local speaker and its remote peer are BFD strict-mode capable. "SR Policy Extensions for Path Segment and Bidirectional Path", Cheng Li, Zhenbin Li, Yuanyang Yin, Weiqiang Cheng, Ketan Talaulikar, 2023-08-16, A Segment Routing (SR) policy is a set of candidate SR paths consisting of one or more segment lists with necessary path attributes. For each SR path, it may also have its own path attributes, and Path Segment is one of them. A Path Segment is defined to identify an SR path, which can be used for performance measurement, path correlation, and end-2-end path protection. Path Segment can be also used to correlate two unidirectional SR paths into a bidirectional SR path which is required in some scenarios, for example, mobile backhaul transport network. This document defines extensions to BGP to distribute SR policies carrying Path Segment and bidirectional path information. "BGP Extensions for Routing Policy Distribution (RPD)", Zhenbin Li, Liang Ou, Yujia Luo, Gyan Mishra, Huaimo Chen, Haibo Wang, 2023-06-30, It is hard to adjust traffic in a traditional IP network from time to time through manual configurations. It is desirable to have a mechanism for setting up routing policies, which adjusts traffic automatically. This document describes BGP Extensions for Routing Policy Distribution (BGP RPD) to support this with a controller. "SR Policies Extensions for Path Segment and Bidirectional Path in BGP-LS", Cheng Li, Zhenbin Li, Yongqing Zhu, Weiqiang Cheng, Ketan Talaulikar, 2023-08-16, This document specifies the way of collecting configuration and states of SR policies carrying Path Segment and bidirectional path information by using BPG-LS. Such information can be used by external conponents for many use cases such as performance measurement, path re-optimization and end-to-end protection. "Segment Routing Path MTU in BGP", Cheng Li, Yongqing Zhu, Ahmed El Sawaf, Zhenbin Li, 2023-10-19, Segment Routing is a source routing paradigm that explicitly indicates the forwarding path for packets at the ingress node. An SR policy is a set of candidate SR paths consisting of one or more segment lists with necessary path attributes. However, the path maximum transmission unit (MTU) information for SR path is not available in the SR policy since the SR does not require signaling. This document defines extensions to BGP to distribute path MTU information within SR policies. "Signaling Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) using BGP-LS", Yongqing Zhu, Zhibo Hu, Shuping Peng, Robbins Mwehair, 2023-07-26, BGP Link State (BGP-LS) describes a mechanism by which link-state and TE information can be collected from networks and shared with external components using the BGP routing protocol. The centralized controller (PCE/SDN) completes the service path calculation based on the information transmitted by the BGP-LS and delivers the result to the Path Computation Client (PCC) through the PCEP or BGP protocol. Segment Routing (SR) leverages the source routing paradigm, which can be directly applied to the MPLS architecture with no change on the forwarding plane and applied to the IPv6 architecture, with a new type of routing header, called SRH. The SR uses the IGP protocol as the control protocol. Compared to the MPLS tunneling technology, the SR does not require additional signaling. Therefore, the SR does not support the negotiation of the Path MTU. Since multiple labels or SRv6 SIDs are pushed in the packets, it is more likely that the packet size exceeds the path mtu of SR tunnel. This document specifies the extensions to BGP Link State (BGP-LS) to carry maximum transmission unit (MTU) messages of link. The PCE/SDN calculates the Path MTU while completing the service path calculation based on the information transmitted by the BGP-LS. "BGP SR Policy Extensions to Enable IFIT", Fengwei Qin, Hang Yuan, Shunxing Yang, Tianran Zhou, Giuseppe Fioccola, 2023-10-20, Segment Routing (SR) policy is a set of candidate SR paths consisting of one or more segment lists and necessary path attributes. It enables instantiation of an ordered list of segments with a specific intent for traffic steering. In-situ Flow Information Telemetry (IFIT) refers to network OAM data plane on-path telemetry techniques, in particular the most popular are In-situ OAM (IOAM) and Alternate Marking. This document defines extensions to BGP to distribute SR policies carrying IFIT information. So that IFIT methods can be enabled automatically when the SR policy is applied. "BGP UPDATE for SD-WAN Edge Discovery", Linda Dunbar, Kausik Majumdar, Susan Hares, Robert Raszuk, Venkit Kasiviswanathan, 2023-10-14, The document describes the encoding of BGP UPDATE messages for the SD-WAN edge node property discovery. In the context of this document, BGP Route Reflector (RR) is the component of the SD-WAN Controller that receives the BGP UPDATE from SD-WAN edges and in turns propagates the information to the intended peers that are authorized to communicate via the SD-WAN overlay network. "BGP Flow Specification for SRv6", Zhenbin Li, Lei Li, Huaimo Chen, Christoph Loibl, Gyan Mishra, Yanhe Fan, Yongqing Zhu, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-10-08, This document proposes extensions to BGP Flow Specification for SRv6 for filtering packets with a SRv6 SID that matches a sequence of conditions. "BGP-LS with Multi-topology for Segment Routing based Virtual Transport Networks", Chongfeng Xie, Cong Li, Jie Dong, Zhenbin Li, 2023-09-10, Enhanced VPN (VPN+) aims to provide enhanced VPN service to support some applications' needs of enhanced isolation and stringent performance requirements. VPN+ requires integration between the overlay VPN and the underlay network. A Virtual Transport Network (VTN) is a virtual underlay network which consists of a subset of the network topology and network resources allocated from the physical network. A VTN could be used as the underlay for one or a group of VPN+ services. When Segment Routing is used as the data plane of VTNs, each VTN can be allocated with a group of Segment Identifiers (SIDs) to identify the topology and resource attributes of network segments in the VTN. The association between the network topology, the network resource attributes and the SR SIDs may need to be distributed to a centralized network controller. In network scenarios where each VTN can be associated with a unique logical network topology, this document describes a mechanism to distribute the information of SR based VTNs using BGP-LS with Multi-Topology. "BGP Flow Specification Version 2", Susan Hares, Donald Eastlake, Chaitanya Yadlapalli, Sven Maduschke, 2023-10-23, BGP flow specification version 1 (FSv1), defined in RFC 8955, RFC 8956, and RFC 9117 describes the distribution of traffic filter policy (traffic filters and actions) distributed via BGP. Multiple applications have used BGP FSv1 to distribute traffic filter policy. These applications include the following: mitigation of denial of service (DoS), enabling traffic filtering in BGP/MPLS VPNs, centralized traffic control of router firewall functions, and SFC traffic insertion. During the deployment of BGP FSv1 a number of issues were detected due to lack of consistent TLV encoding for rules for flow specifications, lack of user ordering of filter rules and/or actions, and lack of clear definition of interaction with BGP peers not supporting FSv1. Version 2 of the BGP flow specification (FSv2) protocol addresses these features. In order to provide a clear demarcation between FSv1 and FSv2, a different NLRI encapsulates FSv2. "BGP-LS Extensions for IS-IS Flood Reflection", Jordan Head, Tony Przygienda, 2023-07-10, IS-IS Flood Reflection is a mechanism that allows flat, single-area IS-IS topologies to scale beyond their traditional limitations. This document defines new BGP-LS (BGP Link-State) TLVs in order to carry IS-IS Flood Reflection information. "BGP for BIER-TE Path", Huaimo Chen, Mike McBride, Ran Chen, Gyan Mishra, Aijun Wang, Yisong Liu, Yanhe Fan, Boris Khasanov, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-07-03, This document describes extensions to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) for distributing a Bit Index Explicit Replication Traffic/Tree Engineering (BIER-TE) path. A new Tunnel Type for BIER-TE path is defined to encode the information about a BIER-TE path. "Advertising In-situ Flow Information Telemetry (IFIT) Capabilities in BGP", Giuseppe Fioccola, Ran Pang, Subin Wang, Bruno Decraene, Shunwan Zhuang, Haibo Wang, 2023-07-10, In-situ Flow Information Telemetry (IFIT) refers to network OAM data plane on-path telemetry techniques, in particular In-situ OAM (IOAM) and Alternate Marking. This document defines a new BGP Router Capability Code to advertise the In-situ Flow Information Telemetry (IFIT) capabilities. Within an IFIT domain, IFIT-capability advertisement from the tail node to the head node assists the head node to determine whether a particular IFIT Option type can be encapsulated in data packets. Such advertisement helps mitigating the leakage threat and facilitating the deployment of IFIT measurements on a per-service and on-demand basis. "BGP Color-Aware Routing (CAR)", Dhananjaya Rao, Swadesh Agrawal, Co-authors, 2023-11-14, This document describes a BGP based routing solution to establish end-to-end intent-aware paths across a multi-domain service provider transport network. This solution is called BGP Color-Aware Routing (BGP CAR). "BGP Classful Transport Planes", Kaliraj Vairavakkalai, Natrajan Venkataraman, 2023-11-05, This document specifies a mechanism, referred to as "Intent Driven Service Mapping", that uses BGP to express intent based association of overlay routes, with underlay routes having specific Traffic Engineering (TE) characteristics, that satisfy a certain Service Level Agreement (SLA). The document achieves this by defining new constructs, to group underlay routes with sufficiently similar TE characteristics into identifiable classes (called, Transport Classes), that overlay routes use as an ordered set to resolve reachability (Resolution Schemes) towards service endpoints. These constructs can be used, e.g., to realize the "IETF Network Slice" defined in TEAS Network Slices framework. This document specifies protocol procedures for BGP that enable dissemination of service mapping information in a network that may span multiple cooperating administrative domains. These domains may be administered either by the same provider or by closely coordinating providers. A new BGP address family that leverages RFC 4364 procedures and follows RFC 8277 NLRI encoding, is defined to advertise underlay routes with its identified class. This new address family is called "BGP Classful Transport", a.k.a., BGP CT. "Traffic Steering using BGP FlowSpec with SR Policy", Jiang Wenying, Yisong Liu, Shunwan Zhuang, Gyan Mishra, Shuanglong Chen, 2023-06-16, BGP Flow Specification (FlowSpec) [RFC8955] and [RFC8956] has been proposed to distribute BGP [RFC4271] FlowSpec NLRI to FlowSpec clients to mitigate (distributed) denial-of-service attacks, and to provide traffic filtering in the context of a BGP/MPLS VPN service. Recently, traffic steering applications in the context of SR-MPLS and SRv6 using FlowSpec also attract attention. This document introduces the usage of BGP FlowSpec to steer packets into an SR Policy. "BGP Next Hop Dependent Capabilities Attribute", Bruno Decraene, John Scudder, Wim Henderickx, Kireeti Kompella, MOHANTY Satya, Jim Uttaro, Bin Wen, 2023-10-09, RFC 5492 allows a BGP speaker to advertise its capabilities to its peer. When a route is propagated beyond the immediate peer, it is useful to allow certain capabilities to be conveyed further. In particular, it is useful to advertise forwarding plane features. This specification defines a BGP transitive attribute to carry such capability information, the "Next Hop Dependent Capabilities Attribute," or NHC. Unlike the capabilities defined by RFC 5492, those conveyed in the NHC apply solely to the routes advertised by the BGP UPDATE that contains the particular NHC. This specification also defines an NHC capability that can be used to advertise the ability to process the MPLS Entropy Label as an egress LSR for all NLRI advertised in the BGP UPDATE. It updates RFC 6790 and RFC 7447 concerning this BGP signaling. "BGP Extension for 5G Edge Service Metadata", Linda Dunbar, Kausik Majumdar, Haibo Wang, Gyan Mishra, Zongpeng Du, 2023-11-27, This draft describes a new Metadata Path Attribute that can be optionally transitive or not and some Sub-TLVs for egress routers to advertise the Metadata about the attached edge services (ES). The edge service Metadata can be used by the ingress routers in the 5G Local Data Network to make path selections not only based on the routing cost but also the running environment of the edge services. The goal is to improve latency and performance for 5G edge services. The extension enables an edge service at one specific location to be more preferred than the others with the same IP address (ANYCAST) to receive data flow from a specific source, like a specific User Equipment (UE). "BGP Extended Community for Identifying the Target Nodes", Jie Dong, Shunwan Zhuang, Gunter Van de Velde, Jeff Tantsura, 2023-07-10, BGP has been used to distribute different types of routing and policy information. In some cases, the information distributed may be only intended for one or a particular group of BGP nodes in the network. Currently BGP does not have a generic mechanism of designating the target nodes of the routing information. This document defines a new type of BGP Extended Community called "Node Target" for this purpose. "VPN Prefix Outbound Route Filter (VPN Prefix ORF) for BGP-4", Wei Wang, Aijun Wang, Haibo Wang, Gyan Mishra, Shunwan Zhuang, Jie Dong, 2023-09-10, This draft defines a new Outbound Route Filter (ORF) type, called the VPN Prefix ORF. The described VPN Prefix ORF mechanism is applicable when the VPN routes from different VRFs are exchanged via one shared BGP session (e.g., routers in a single-domain connect via Route Reflector). "BGP Flowspec for IETF Network Slice Traffic Steering", Jie Dong, Ran Chen, Subin Wang, Jiang Wenying, 2023-07-10, BGP Flow Specification (Flowspec) provides a mechanism to distribute traffic flow specifications and the forwarding actions to be performed to the specific traffic flows. A set of Flowspec components are defined to specify the matching criteria that can be applied to the packet, and a set of BGP extended communities are defined to encode the actions a routing system can take on a packet which matches the flow specification. An IETF Network Slice enables connectivity between a set of Service Demarcation Points (SDPs) with specific Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Expectations (SLEs) over a common underlay network. To meet the connectivity and performance requirements of network slice services, network slice service traffic may need to be mapped to a corresponding Network Resource Partition (NRP). The edge nodes of the NRP needs to identify the traffic flows of specific connectivity constructs of network slices, and steer the matched traffic into the corresponding NRP, or a specific path within the corresponding NRP. BGP Flowspec can be used to distribute the matching criteria and the forwarding actions to be preformed on network slice service traffic. The existing Flowspec components can be reused for the matching of network slice services flows at the edge of an NRP. New components and traffic action may need to be defined for steering network slice service flows into the corresponding NRP. This document defines the extensions to BGP Flowspec for IETF network slice traffic steering (NS-TS). "Advertisement of Segment Routing Policies using BGP Link-State", Stefano Previdi, Ketan Talaulikar, Jie Dong, Hannes Gredler, Jeff Tantsura, 2023-11-05, This document describes a mechanism to collect the Segment Routing Policy information that is locally available in a node and advertise it into BGP Link-State (BGP-LS) updates. Such information can be used by external components for path computation, re-optimization, service placement, network visualization, etc. "Advertisement of Traffic Engineering Paths using BGP Link-State", Stefano Previdi, Ketan Talaulikar, Jie Dong, Hannes Gredler, Jeff Tantsura, 2023-09-29, This document describes a mechanism to collect the Traffic Engineering Path information that is locally available in a node and advertise it into BGP Link-State (BGP-LS) updates. Such information can be used by external components for path computation, re- optimization, service placement, network visualization, etc. "BGP Extension for SR-MPLS Entropy Label Position", Yao Liu, Shaofu Peng, 2023-08-01, This document proposes extensions for BGP to indicate the entropy label position in the SR-MPLS label stack when delivering SR Policy via BGP. "Segment Routing Segment Types Extensions for BGP SR Policy", Ketan Talaulikar, Clarence Filsfils, Stefano Previdi, Paul Mattes, Dhanendra Jain, 2023-09-26, This document specifies the signaling of additional Segment Routing Segment Types for BGP SR Policy SAFI. "BGP CT - Adaptation to SRv6 dataplane", Kaliraj Vairavakkalai, Natrajan Venkataraman, 2023-10-20, This document specifies how the mechanisms for "Intent Driven Service Mapping" defined in [BGP-CT] are applied to SRv6 dataplane. The extensions needed for SRv6 dataplane operations are specified. Base procedures of BGP CT are followed unaltered. Illustration of how BGP CT procedures work in SRv6 dataplane is provided in this document. Internet Area Working Group (intarea) ------------------------------------- "IANA Considerations and IETF Protocol and Documentation Usage for IEEE 802 Parameters", Donald Eastlake, Joe Abley, Yizhou Li, 2023-11-06, Some IETF protocols make use of Ethernet frame formats and IEEE 802 parameters. This document discusses several aspects of such parameters and their use in IETF protocols, specifies IANA considerations for assignment of points under the IANA OUI (Organizationally Unique Identifier), and provides some values for use in documentation. This document obsoletes RFC 7042. "Protocol Numbers for SCHC", Robert Moskowitz, Stuart Card, Adam Wiethuechter, Pascal Thubert, 2023-10-12, This document requests an Internet Protocol Number, an Ethertype, and UDP port assignment for SCHC. The Internet Protocol Number request is so that SCHC can be used for IP independent SCHC of other transports such as UDP and ESP. The Ethertype is to support generic use of native SCHC over any IEEE 802 technology for IP and non-IP protocols. The UDP port request is to support End-to-End SCHC through potentially blocking firewalls. IOT Operations (iotops) ----------------------- "Comparison of CoAP Security Protocols", John Mattsson, Francesca Palombini, Malisa Vucinic, 2023-10-23, This document analyzes and compares the sizes of key exchange flights and the per-packet message size overheads when using different security protocols to secure CoAP. The described overheads are independent of the underlying transport. Small message sizes are very important for reducing energy consumption, latency, and time to completion in constrained radio network such as Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs). The analyzed security protocols are DTLS 1.2, DTLS 1.3, TLS 1.2, TLS 1.3, cTLS, EDHOC, OSCORE, and Group OSCORE. The DTLS and TLS record layers are analyzed with and without 6LoWPAN- GHC compression. DTLS is analyzed with and without Connection ID. "A summary of security-enabling technologies for IoT devices", Brendan Moran, 2023-10-23, The IETF has developed security technologies that help to secure the Internet of Things even over constrained networks and when targetting constrained nodes. These technologies can be used independenly or can be composed into larger systems to mitigate a variety of threats. This documents illustrates an overview over these technologies and highlights their relationships. Ultimately, a threat model is presented as a basis to derive requirements that interconnect existing and emerging solution technologies. IP Performance Measurement (ippm) --------------------------------- "Simple Two-way Active Measurement Protocol (STAMP) Data Model", Greg Mirsky, Xiao Min, Wei Luo, Rakesh Gandhi, 2023-11-05, This document specifies the data model for implementations of Session-Sender and Session-Reflector for Simple Two-way Active Measurement Protocol (STAMP) mode using YANG. "A Connectivity Monitoring Metric for IPPM", Ruediger Geib, 2023-11-09, Within a Segment Routing domain, segment routed measurement packets can be sent along pre-determined paths. This enables new kinds of measurements. Connectivity monitoring allows to supervise the state and performance of a connection or a (sub)path from one or a few central monitoring systems. This document specifies a suitable type-P connectivity monitoring metric. "A YANG Data Model for In-Situ OAM", Tianran Zhou, Jim Guichard, Frank Brockners, Srihari Raghavan, 2023-08-05, In-situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (IOAM) is an example of an on-path hybrid measurement method. IOAM defines a method to produce operational and telemetry information that may be exported using the in-band or out-of-band method. RFC9197 and RFC9326 discuss the data fields and associated data types for IOAM. This document defines a YANG module for the configuration of IOAM functions. "Integrity of In-situ OAM Data Fields", Frank Brockners, Shwetha Bhandari, Tal Mizrahi, Justin Iurman, 2023-10-16, In-situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (IOAM) records operational and telemetry information in the packet while the packet traverses a path in the network. IETF protocols require features to ensure their security. This document describes the integrity protection of IOAM-Data-Fields. "Test Protocol for One-way IP Capacity Measurement", Len Ciavattone, Ruediger Geib, 2023-11-29, This memo addresses the problem of protocol support for measuring Network Capacity metrics in RFC 9097, where the method deploys a feedback channel from the receiver to control the sender's transmission rate in near-real-time. This memo defines a simple protocol to perform the RFC 9097 (and other) measurements. "Responsiveness under Working Conditions", Christoph Paasch, Randall Meyer, Stuart Cheshire, Will Hawkins, 2023-10-20, For many years, a lack of responsiveness, variously called lag, latency, or bufferbloat, has been recognized as an unfortunate, but common, symptom in today's networks. Even after a decade of work on standardizing technical solutions, it remains a common problem for the end users. Everyone "knows" that it is "normal" for a video conference to have problems when somebody else at home is watching a 4K movie or uploading photos from their phone. However, there is no technical reason for this to be the case. In fact, various queue management solutions have solved the problem. Our networks remain unresponsive, not from a lack of technical solutions, but rather a lack of awareness of the problem and deployment of its solutions. We believe that creating a tool that measures the problem and matches people's everyday experience will create the necessary awareness, and result in a demand for solutions. This document specifies the "Responsiveness Test" for measuring responsiveness. It uses common protocols and mechanisms to measure user experience specifically when the network is under working conditions. The measurement is expressed as "Round-trips Per Minute" (RPM) and should be included with throughput (up and down) and idle latency as critical indicators of network quality. "IPv6 Performance and Diagnostic Metrics Version 2 (PDMv2) Destination Option", Nalini Elkins, michael ackermann, Ameya Deshpande, Tommaso Pecorella, Adnan Rashid, 2023-10-22, RFC8250 describes an optional Destination Option (DO) header embedded in each packet to provide sequence numbers and timing information as a basis for measurements. As this data is sent in clear-text, this may create an opportunity for malicious actors to get information for subsequent attacks. This document defines PDMv2 which has a lightweight handshake (registration procedure) and encryption to secure this data. Additional performance metrics which may be of use are also defined. "One-way/Two-way Active Measurement Protocol Extensions for Performance Measurement on LAG", Zhenqiang Li, Tianran Zhou, Guo Jun, Greg Mirsky, Rakesh Gandhi, 2023-10-21, This document defines extensions to One-way Active Measurement Protocol (OWAMP), and Two-way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP) to implement performance measurement on every member link of a Link Aggregation Group (LAG). Knowing the measured metrics of each member link of a LAG enables operators to enforce the performance based traffic steering policy across the member links. "Simple Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol Extensions for Performance Measurement on LAG", Zhenqiang Li, Tianran Zhou, Guo Jun, Greg Mirsky, Rakesh Gandhi, 2023-10-17, This document extends Simple Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (STAMP) to implement performance measurement on every member link of a Link Aggregation Group (LAG). Knowing the measured metrics of each member link of a LAG enables operators to enforce a performance based traffic steering policy across the member links. "Precision Availability Metrics for Services Governed by Service Level Objectives (SLOs)", Greg Mirsky, Joel Halpern, Xiao Min, Alexander Clemm, John Strassner, Jerome Francois, 2023-10-18, This document defines a set of metrics for networking services with performance requirements expressed as Service Level Objectives (SLO). These metrics, referred to as Precision Availability Metrics (PAM), are useful for defining and monitoring SLOs. For example, PAM can be used by providers and/or customers of an RFC XXXX Network Slice Service to assess whether the service is provided in compliance with its defined SLOs. Note to the RFC Editor: Please update "RFC XXXX Network Slice" with the RFC number assigned to draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-slices. "Hybrid Two-Step Performance Measurement Method", Greg Mirsky, Wang Lingqiang, Guo Zhui, Haoyu Song, Pascal Thubert, 2023-10-04, Development of, and advancements in, automation of network operations brought new requirements for measurement methodology. Among them is the ability to collect instant network state as the packet being processed by the networking elements along its path through the domain. This document introduces a new hybrid measurement method, referred to as hybrid two-step, as it separates the act of measuring and/or calculating the performance metric from the act of collecting and transporting network state. IP Security Maintenance and Extensions (ipsecme) ------------------------------------------------ "Group Key Management using IKEv2", Valery Smyslov, Brian Weis, 2023-10-19, This document presents an extension to the Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) protocol for the purpose of a group key management. The protocol is in conformance with the Multicast Security (MSEC) key management architecture, which contains two components: member registration and group rekeying. Both components require a Group Controller/Key Server to download IPsec group security associations to authorized members of a group. The group members then exchange IP multicast or other group traffic as IPsec packets. This document obsoletes RFC 6407. This documents also updates RFC 7296 by renaming a transform type 5 from "Extended Sequence Numbers (ESN)" to the "Replay Protection (RP)" and by renaming IKEv2 authentication method 0 from "Reserved" to "NONE". "Announcing Supported Authentication Methods in IKEv2", Valery Smyslov, 2023-11-02, This specification defines a mechanism that allows the Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) implementations to indicate the list of supported authentication methods to their peers while establishing IKEv2 Security Association (SA). This mechanism improves interoperability when IKEv2 partners are configured with multiple different credentials to authenticate each other. "IKEv2 support for per-resource Child SAs", Antony Antony, Tobias Brunner, Steffen Klassert, Paul Wouters, 2023-11-16, This document defines two Notify Message Type Payloads for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2) to support the negotiation of multiple Child SAs with the same Traffic Selectors used on different resources, such as CPUs, to increase bandwidth of IPsec traffic between peers. The SA_RESOURCE_INFO notification is used to convey information that the negotiated Child SA and subsequent new Child SAs with the same Traffic Selectors are a logical group of Child SAs where most or all of the Child SAs are bound to a specific resource, such as a specific CPU. The TS_MAX_QUEUE notify conveys that the peer is unwilling to create more additional Child SAs for this particular negotiated Traffic Selector combination. Using multiple Child SAs with the same Traffic Selectors has the benefit that each resource holding the Child SA has its own Sequence Number Counter, ensuring that CPUs don't have to synchronize their crypto state or disable their packet replay protection. "IKEv2 Optional SA&TS Payloads in Child Exchange", Sandeep Kampati, Wei Pan, Paul Wouters, Bharath Meduri, Meiling Chen, 2023-07-10, This document describes a method for reducing the size of the Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) CREATE_CHILD_SA exchanges used for rekeying of the IKE or Child SA by replacing the SA and TS payloads with a Notify Message payload. Reducing size and complexity of IKEv2 exchanges is especially useful for low power consumption battery powered devices. JSON Mail Access Protocol (jmap) -------------------------------- "JMAP for Calendars", Neil Jenkins, Michael Douglass, 2023-11-06, This document specifies a data model for synchronizing calendar data with a server using JMAP. "JMAP for Sieve Scripts", Kenneth Murchison, 2023-11-07, This document specifies a data model for managing Sieve scripts on a server using the JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP). "JMAP Sharing", Neil Jenkins, 2023-08-28, This document specifies a data model for sharing data between users using JMAP. Specifications for other data types can reference this document to support a consistent model of sharing. "JMAP extension for S/MIME signing and encryption", Alexey Melnikov, 2023-08-03, This document specifies an extension to JMAP for sending S/MIME signed and/or S/MIME encrypted messages, as well as automatic decryption of received S/MIME messages. "JMAP for Contacts", Neil Jenkins, 2023-11-06, This document specifies a data model for synchronising contacts data with a server using JMAP. Javascript Object Signing and Encryption (jose) ----------------------------------------------- "JSON Proof Token", Jeremie Miller, Michael Jones, David Waite, 2023-10-21, JSON Proof Token (JPT) is a compact, URL-safe, privacy-preserving representation of claims to be transferred between three parties. The claims in a JPT are encoded as base64url-encoded JSON objects that are used as the payloads of a JSON Web Proof (JWP) structure, enabling them to be digitally signed and selectively disclosed. JPTs also support reusability and unlinkability when using Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs). "JSON Web Proof", Jeremie Miller, David Waite, Michael Jones, 2023-10-21, The JOSE set of standards established JSON-based container formats for Keys (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7517/), Signatures (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7515/), and Encryption (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7516/). They also established IANA registries (https://www.iana.org/assignments/jose/jose.xhtml) to enable the algorithms and representations used for them to be extended. Since those were created, newer cryptographic algorithms that support selective disclosure and unlinkability have matured and started seeing early market adoption. This document defines a new container format similar in purpose and design to JSON Web Signature (JWS) called a _JSON Web Proof (JWP)_. Unlike JWS, which integrity-protects only a single payload, JWP can integrity-protect multiple payloads in one message. It also specifies a new presentation form that supports selective disclosure of individual payloads, enables additional proof computation, and adds a protected header to prevent replay and support binding mechanisms. "JSON Proof Algorithms", Jeremie Miller, Michael Jones, David Waite, 2023-10-21, The JSON Proof Algorithms (JPA) specification registers cryptographic algorithms and identifiers to be used with the JSON Web Proof and JSON Web Key (JWK) specifications. It defines several IANA registries for these identifiers. JSON Path (jsonpath) -------------------- "JSONPath: Query expressions for JSON", Stefan Gossner, Glyn Normington, Carsten Bormann, 2023-09-24, JSONPath defines a string syntax for selecting and extracting JSON (RFC 8259) values from a JSON value. Common Authentication Technology Next Generation (kitten) --------------------------------------------------------- "SAML Enhanced Client SASL and GSS-API Mechanisms", Scott Cantor, Margaret Cullen, Simon Josefsson, 2021-05-10, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 is a generalized framework for the exchange of security-related information between asserting and relying parties. Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) and the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API) are application frameworks that facilitate an extensible authentication model, among other things. This document specifies a SASL and GSS-API mechanism for SAML 2.0 that leverages the capabilities of a SAML-aware "enhanced client" to address significant barriers to federated authentication in a manner that encourages reuse of existing SAML bindings and profiles designed for non-browser scenarios. "SPAKE Pre-Authentication", Nathaniel McCallum, Simo Sorce, Robbie Harwood, Greg Hudson, 2022-06-08, This document defines a new pre-authentication mechanism for the Kerberos protocol. The mechanism uses a password-authenticated key exchange to prevent brute-force password attacks, and may optionally incorporate a second factor. "Extensions to Salted Challenge Response (SCRAM) for 2 factor authentication", Alexey Melnikov, 2023-08-24, This specification describes an extension to family of Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL; RFC 4422) authentication mechanisms called the Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM), which provides support for 2 factor authentication. It also includes a separate extension for quick reauthentication. This specification also gives 2 examples of second factors: TOTP (RFC 6238) and FIDO CTAP1/U2F. Lightweight Authenticated Key Exchange (lake) --------------------------------------------- "Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC)", Goeran Selander, John Mattsson, Francesca Palombini, 2023-08-25, This document specifies Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC), a very compact and lightweight authenticated Diffie-Hellman key exchange with ephemeral keys. EDHOC provides mutual authentication, forward secrecy, and identity protection. EDHOC is intended for usage in constrained scenarios and a main use case is to establish an OSCORE security context. By reusing COSE for cryptography, CBOR for encoding, and CoAP for transport, the additional code size can be kept very low. "Traces of EDHOC", Goeran Selander, John Mattsson, Marek Serafin, Marco Tiloca, Malisa Vucinic, 2023-09-22, This document contains some example traces of Ephemeral Diffie- Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC). "Lightweight Authorization using Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE", Goeran Selander, John Mattsson, Malisa Vucinic, Michael Richardson, 2023-10-23, This document describes a procedure for authorizing enrollment of new devices using the lightweight authenticated key exchange protocol Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC). The procedure is applicable to zero-touch onboarding of new devices to a constrained network leveraging trust anchors installed at manufacture time. Limited Additional Mechanisms for PKIX and SMIME (lamps) -------------------------------------------------------- "Header Protection for Cryptographically Protected E-mail", Daniel Gillmor, Bernie Hoeneisen, Alexey Melnikov, 2023-10-17, S/MIME version 3.1 introduced a mechanism to provide end-to-end cryptographic protection of e-mail message headers. However, few implementations generate messages using this mechanism, and several legacy implementations have revealed rendering or security issues when handling such a message. This document updates the S/MIME specification to offer a different mechanism that provides the same cryptographic protections but with fewer downsides when handled by legacy clients. The header protection schemes described here are also applicable to messages with PGP/MIME cryptographic protections. Furthermore, this document offers more explicit guidance for clients when generating or handling e-mail messages with cryptographic protection of message headers. "Guidance on End-to-End E-mail Security", Daniel Gillmor, Bernie Hoeneisen, Alexey Melnikov, 2023-09-13, End-to-end cryptographic protections for e-mail messages can provide useful security. However, the standards for providing cryptographic protection are extremely flexible. That flexibility can trap users and cause surprising failures. This document offers guidance for mail user agent implementers to help mitigate those risks, and to make end-to-end e-mail simple and secure for the end user. It provides a useful set of vocabulary as well as suggestions to avoid common failures. It also identifies a number of currently unsolved usability and interoperability problems. "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure -- Certificate Management Protocol (CMP)", Hendrik Brockhaus, David von Oheimb, Mike Ounsworth, John Gray, 2023-06-19, This document describes the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Certificate Management Protocol (CMP). Protocol messages are defined for X.509v3 certificate creation and management. CMP provides interactions between client systems and PKI components such as a Registration Authority (RA) and a Certification Authority (CA). This document obsoletes RFC 4210 by including the updates specified by CMP Updates [RFCAAAA] Section 2 and Appendix A.2 maintaining backward compatibility with CMP version 2 wherever possible and obsoletes both documents. Updates to CMP version 2 are: improving crypto agility, extending the polling mechanism, adding new general message types, and adding extended key usages to identify special CMP server authorizations. Introducing version 3 to be used only for changes to the ASN.1 syntax, which are: support of EnvelopedData instead of EncryptedValue and hashAlg for indicating a hash AlgorithmIdentifier in certConf messages. In addition to the changes specified in CMP Updates [RFCAAAA] this document adds support for management of KEM certificates. "Clarification of RFC7030 CSR Attributes definition", Michael Richardson, Owen Friel, David von Oheimb, Dan Harkins, 2023-10-10, The Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST, RFC7030) is ambiguous in its specification of the CSR Attributes Response. This has resulted in implementation challenges and implementor confusion. This document updates RFC7030 (EST) and clarifies how the CSR Attributes Response can be used by an EST server to specify both CSR attribute OIDs and also CSR attribute values, in particular X.509 extension values, that the server expects the client to include in subsequent CSR request. "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure - Algorithm Identifiers for Kyber", Sean Turner, Panos Kampanakis, Jake Massimo, Bas Westerbaan, 2023-10-23, Kyber is a key-encapsulation mechanism (KEM). This document specifies algorithm identifiers and ASN.1 encoding format for Kyber in public key certificates. The encoding for public and private keys are also provided. \ [EDNOTE: This document is not expected to be finalized before the NIST PQC Project has standardized PQ algorithms. This specification will use object identifiers for the new algorithms that are assigned by NIST, and will use placeholders until these are released. "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure: Algorithm Identifiers for Dilithium", Jake Massimo, Panos Kampanakis, Sean Turner, Bas Westerbaan, 2023-08-07, Digital signatures are used within X.509 certificates, Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), and to sign messages. This document describes the conventions for using Dilithium quantum-resistant signatures in Internet X.509 certificates and certificate revocation lists. The conventions for the associated post-quantum signatures, subject public keys, and private key are also described. "Use of Password Based Message Authentication Code 1 (PBMAC1) in PKCS #12 Syntax", Hubert Kario, 2023-11-06, This document specifies additions and amendments to RFC 7292. It defines a way to use the Password Based Message Authentication Code 1, defined in RFC 8018, inside the PKCS #12 syntax. The purpose of this specification is to permit use of more modern PBKDFs and allow for regulatory compliance. "Use of the SLH-DSA Signature Algorithm in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)", Russ Housley, Scott Fluhrer, Panos Kampanakis, Bas Westerbaan, 2023-11-14, SLH-DSA is a stateless hash-based signature scheme. This document specifies the conventions for using the SLH-DSA signature algorithm with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS). In addition, the algorithm identifier and public key syntax are provided. "Related Certificates for Use in Multiple Authentications within a Protocol", Alison Becker, Rebecca Guthrie, Michael Jenkins, 2023-11-29, This document defines a new CSR attribute, relatedCertRequest, and a new X.509 certificate extension, RelatedCertificate. The use of the relatedCertRequest attribute in a CSR and the inclusion of the RelatedCertificate extension in the resulting certificate together provide additional assurance that two certificates each belong to the same end entity. This mechanism is particularly useful in the context of non-composite hybrid authentication, which enables users to employ the same certificates in hybrid authentication as in authentication done with only traditional or post-quantum algorithms. "Using Key Encapsulation Mechanism (KEM) Algorithms in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)", Russ Housley, John Gray, Tomofumi Okubo, 2023-10-21, The Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) supports key transport and key agreement algorithms. In recent years, cryptographers have been specifying Key Encapsulation Mechanism (KEM) algorithms, including quantum-secure KEM algorithms. This document defines conventions for the use of KEM algorithms by the originator and recipients to encrypt and decrypt CMS content. "Use of KYBER in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)", Julien Prat, Mike Ounsworth, 2023-11-05, This document describes the conventions for using a Key Encapsulation Mechanism algorithm (KEM) within the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS). The CMS specifies the envelopped-data content type, which consists of an encrypted content and encrypted content-encryption keys for one or more recipients. The mechanism proposed here can rely on either post-quantum KEMs, hybrid KEMs or classical KEMs. "Use of the RSA-KEM Algorithm in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)", Russ Housley, Sean Turner, 2023-10-19, The RSA Key Encapsulation Mechanism (RSA-KEM) Algorithm is a one-pass (store-and-forward) cryptographic mechanism for an originator to securely send keying material to a recipient using the recipient's RSA public key. The RSA-KEM Algorithm is specified in Clause 11.5 of ISO/IEC: 18033-2:2006. This document specifies the conventions for using the RSA-KEM Algorithm as a standalone KEM algorithm and the conventions for using the RSA-KEM Algorithm with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) using KEMRecipientInfo as specified in draft- ietf-lamps-cms-kemri. "X.509 Certificate Extended Key Usage (EKU) for 5G Network Functions", Tirumaleswar Reddy.K, Jani Ekman, Daniel Migault, 2023-09-22, RFC 5280 specifies several extended key purpose identifiers (KeyPurposeIds) for X.509 certificates. This document defines encrypting JSON objects in HTTP messages, JSON Web Token (JWT) and signing the OAuth 2.0 access tokens KeyPurposeIds for inclusion in the Extended Key Usage (EKU) extension of X.509 v3 public key certificates used by Network Functions (NFs) for the 5G System. "Updates to X.509 Policy Validation", David Benjamin, 2023-11-21, This document updates RFC 5280 to replace the algorithm for X.509 policy validation with an equivalent, more efficient algorithm. The original algorithm built a structure which scaled exponentially in the worst case, leaving implementations vulnerable to denial-of- service attacks. "Composite KEM For Use In Internet PKI", Mike Ounsworth, John Gray, 2023-10-23, This document defines Post-Quantum / Traditional composite Key Encapsulation Mechanism (KEM) algorithms suitable for use within X.509 and PKIX and CMS protocols. Composite algorithms are provided which combine ML-KEM with RSA-KEM and ECDH-KEM. The provided set of composite algorithms should meet most Internet needs. This document assumes that all component algorithms are KEMs, and therefore it depends on [RFC5990] and [I-D.ounsworth-lamps-cms-dhkem] in order to promote RSA and ECDH respectively into KEMs. For the purpose of combining KEMs, the combiner function from [I-D.ounsworth-cfrg-kem-combiners] is used. For use within CMS, this document is intended to be coupled with the CMS KEMRecipientInfo mechanism in [I-D.housley-lamps-cms-kemri]. "Use of Remote Attestation with Certificate Signing Requests", Mike Ounsworth, Hannes Tschofenig, Henk Birkholz, 2023-10-09, A client requesting a certificate from a Certification Authority (CA) may wish to offer believable claims about the protections afforded to the corresponding private key, such as whether the private key resides on a hardware security module or the protection capabilities provided by the hardware. This document describes how to encode Evidence produced by an Attester for inclusion in Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs), and any certificates necessary for validating it. Including Evidence along with a CSR can help to improve the assessment of the security posture for the private key, and the trustworthiness properties of the submitted key to the requested certificate profile. These Evidence Claims can include information about the hardware component's manufacturer, the version of installed or running firmware, the version of software installed or running in layers above the firmware, or the presence of hardware components providing specific protection capabilities or shielded locations (e.g., to protect keys). "Internationalized Email Addresses in X.509 Certificates", Alexey Melnikov, Wei Chuang, Corey Bonnell, 2023-10-13, This document defines a new name form for inclusion in the otherName field of an X.509 Subject Alternative Name and Issuer Alternative Name extension that allows a certificate subject to be associated with an internationalized email address. This document updates RFC 5280 and obsoletes RFC 8398. "Internationalization Updates to RFC 5280", Russ Housley, 2023-09-14, The updates to RFC 5280 described in this document provide alignment with the 2008 specification for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) and includes support for internationalized email addresses in X.509 certificates. "Updates to Lightweight OCSP Profile for High Volume Environments", Corey Bonnell, Clint Wilson, Tadahiko Ito, Sean Turner, 2023-11-06, This document updates RFC 5019 to allow OCSP clients to use SHA-256. An RFC 5019 compliant OCSP client is still able to use SHA-1, but the use of SHA-1 may become obsolete in the future. "Use of the SHA3 One-way Hash Functions in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)", Russ Housley, 2023-11-28, This document describes the conventions for using the four one-way hash functions in the SHA3 family with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS). Locator/ID Separation Protocol (lisp) ------------------------------------- "LISP YANG Model", Vina Ermagan, Alberto Rodriguez-Natal, Florin Coras, Carl Moberg, Reshad Rahman, Albert Cabellos-Aparicio, Fabio Maino, 2023-10-10, This document describes a YANG data model to use with the Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP). The YANG modules in this document conform to the Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA). "LISP Traffic Engineering Use-Cases", Dino Farinacci, Michael Kowal, Parantap Lahiri, 2023-08-28, This document describes how LISP reencapsulating tunnels can be used for Traffic Engineering purposes. The mechanisms described in this document require no LISP protocol changes but do introduce a new locator (RLOC) encoding. The Traffic Engineering features provided by these LISP mechanisms can span intra-domain, inter-domain, or combination of both. "LISP Mobile Node", Dino Farinacci, Darrel Lewis, David Meyer, Chris White, 2023-07-23, This document describes how a lightweight version of LISP's ITR/ETR functionality can be used to provide seamless mobility to a mobile node. The LISP Mobile Node design described in this document uses standard LISP functionality to provide scalable mobility for LISP mobile nodes. "LISP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)", Victor Moreno, Dino Farinacci, 2023-09-19, This document describes the use of the Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) to create Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). LISP is used to provide segmentation in both the LISP data plane and control plane. These VPNs can be created over the top of the Internet or over private transport networks, and can be implemented by Enterprises or Service Providers. The goal of these VPNs is to leverage the characteristics of LISP - routing scalability, simply expressed Ingress site TE Policy, IP Address Family traversal, and mobility, in ways that provide value to network operators. "LISP L2/L3 EID Mobility Using a Unified Control Plane", Marc Portoles-Comeras, Vrushali Ashtaputre, Fabio Maino, Victor Moreno, Dino Farinacci, 2023-11-06, The LISP control plane offers the flexibility to support multiple overlay flavors simultaneously. This document specifies how LISP can be used to provide control-plane support to deploy a unified L2 and L3 overlay solution for End-point Identifier (EID) mobility, as well as analyzing possible deployment options and models. "LISP Predictive RLOCs", Dino Farinacci, Padma Pillay-Esnault, 2023-08-28, This specification describes a method to achieve near-zero packet loss when an EID is roaming quickly across RLOCs. "LISP EID Anonymity", Dino Farinacci, Padma Pillay-Esnault, Wassim Haddad, 2023-08-28, This specification will describe how ephemeral LISP EIDs can be used to create source anonymity. The idea makes use of frequently changing EIDs much like how a credit-card system uses a different credit-card numbers for each transaction. "LISP Control-Plane ECDSA Authentication and Authorization", Dino Farinacci, Erik Nordmark, 2023-08-28, This draft describes how LISP control-plane messages can be individually authenticated and authorized without a a priori shared- key configuration. Public-key cryptography is used with no new PKI infrastructure required. "LISP Site External Connectivity", Prakash Jain, Victor Moreno, Sanjay Hooda, 2023-09-26, This draft defines how to register/retrieve pETR mapping information in LISP when the destination is not registered/known to the local site and its mapping system (e.g. the destination is an internet or external site destination). "Network-Hexagons:Geolocation Mapping Network Based On H3 and LISP", Sharon Barkai, Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz, Rotem Tamir, Alberto Rodriguez-Natal, Fabio Maino, Albert Cabellos-Aparicio, Jordi Paillisse, Dino Farinacci, 2023-08-05, This specification describes real-time machine-to-machine traffic- ability mapping of any terrain based on the Locator/ID Separation protocol (LISP) and the H3 hierarchical hexagonal grid. Distributed geolocation agents are logically addressed using LISP endpoint identifiers (EID), determined by the agent's geospatial jurisdiction according to the H3 hexagonal grid. Geolocation agents consolidate and propagate data and logic to and from in-vehicle and satellite feeds. In-vehicle agents' EIDs are ephemeral to protect vehicle owners geo- privacy while interacting with geolocation agents. The in-vehicle agents' EIDs are obtained and renewed through an authorization, authentication, and accounting procedure (AAA). Geolocation traffic-ability mapping includes training and notification prompts based on H3 tile traffic-ability key-value enumeration. "LISP Map Server Reliable Transport", Balaji Venkatachalapathy, Marc Portoles-Comeras, Darrel Lewis, Isidor Kouvelas, Chris Cassar, 2023-10-20, The communication between LISP ETRs and Map-Servers is based on unreliable UDP message exchange coupled with periodic message transmission in order to maintain soft state. The drawback of periodic messaging is the constant load imposed on both the ETR and the Map-Server. New use cases for LISP have increased the amount of state that needs to be communicated with requirements that are not satisfied by the current mechanism. This document introduces the use of a reliable transport for ETR to Map-Server communication in order to eliminate the periodic messaging overhead, while providing reliability, flow-control and endpoint liveness detection. "LISP Distinguished Name Encoding", Dino Farinacci, 2023-08-20, This draft defines how to use the AFI=17 Distinguished Names in LISP. "LISP Geo-Coordinate Use-Cases", Dino Farinacci, 2023-11-26, This draft describes how Geo-Coordinates can be used in the LISP Architecture and Protocols. Some use-cases can be geo-fencing and physically locating objects. Link State Routing (lsr) ------------------------ "A YANG Data Model for OSPF Segment Routing", Yingzhen Qu, Acee Lindem, Zhaohui Zhang, Helen Chen, 2023-11-19, This document defines a YANG data module that can be used to configure and manage OSPF Extensions for Segment Routing. "A YANG Data Model for IS-IS Segment Routing", Stephane Litkowski, Yingzhen Qu, Pushpasis Sarkar, Helen Chen, Jeff Tantsura, 2023-11-19, This document defines a YANG data module that can be used to configure and manage IS-IS Segment Routing for MPLS data plane. "Dynamic Flooding on Dense Graphs", Tony Li, Peter Psenak, Huaimo Chen, Luay Jalil, Srinath Dontula, 2023-06-08, Routing with link state protocols in dense network topologies can result in sub-optimal convergence times due to the overhead associated with flooding. This can be addressed by decreasing the flooding topology so that it is less dense. This document discusses the problem in some depth and an architectural solution. Specific protocol changes for IS-IS, OSPFv2, and OSPFv3 are described in this document. "OSPF YANG Model Augmentations for Additional Features - Version 1", Acee Lindem, Yingzhen Qu, 2023-06-28, This document defines YANG data modules augmenting the IETF OSPF YANG model to provide support for Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF Version 3 as defined in RF 5329, OSPF Two-Part Metric as defined in RFC 8042, OSPF Graceful Link Shutdown as defined in RFC 8379, OSPF Link-Local Signaling (LLS) Extensions for Local Interface ID Advertisement as defined in RFC 8510, OSPF MSD as defined in RFC 8476, OSPF Application-Specific Link Attributes as defined in RFC 8920, and OSPF Flexible Algorithm. "YANG Model for OSPFv3 Extended LSAs", Acee Lindem, Sharmila Palani, Yingzhen Qu, 2023-11-29, This document defines a YANG data model augmenting the IETF OSPF YANG model to provide support for OSPFv3 Link State Advertisement (LSA) Extensibility as defined in RFC 8362. OSPFv3 Extended LSAs provide extensible TLV-based LSAs for the base LSA types defined in RFC 5340. "OSPFv3 Extensions for SRv6", Zhenbin Li, Zhibo Hu, Ketan Talaulikar, Peter Psenak, 2023-06-21, The Segment Routing (SR) architecture allows a flexible definition of the end-to-end path by encoding it as a sequence of topological elements called segments. It can be implemented over an MPLS or IPv6 data plane. This document describes the OSPFv3 extensions required to support Segment Routing over the IPv6 data plane (SRv6). "Flooding Topology Minimum Degree Algorithm", Huaimo Chen, Mehmet Toy, Yi Yang, Aijun Wang, Xufeng Liu, Yanhe Fan, Lei Liu, 2023-07-03, This document proposes an algorithm for a node to compute a flooding topology, which is a subgraph of the complete topology per underline physical network. When every node in an area automatically calculates a flooding topology by using a same algorithm and floods the link states using the flooding topology, the amount of flooding traffic in the network is greatly reduced. This would reduce convergence time with a more stable and optimized routing environment. "Area Proxy for IS-IS", Tony Li, Sarah Chen, Vivek Ilangovan, Gyan Mishra, 2023-03-12, Link state routing protocols have hierarchical abstraction already built into them. However, when lower levels are used for transit, they must expose their internal topologies to each other, leading to scale issues. To avoid this, this document discusses extensions to the IS-IS routing protocol that would allow level 1 areas to provide transit, yet only inject an abstraction of the level 1 topology into level 2. Each level 1 area is represented as a single level 2 node, thereby enabling greater scale. "IS-IS Topology-Transparent Zone", Huaimo Chen, Richard Li, Yi Yang, N Anil, Yanhe Fan, Ning So, Vic liu, Mehmet Toy, Lei Liu, Kiran Makhijani, 2023-10-08, This document specifies a topology-transparent zone in an IS-IS area. A zone is a subset (block/piece) of an area, which comprises a group of routers and a number of circuits connecting them. It is abstracted as a virtual entity such as a single virtual node or zone edges mesh. Any router outside of the zone is not aware of the zone. The information about the circuits and routers inside the zone is not distributed to any router outside of the zone. "Extensions to OSPF for Advertising Prefix Administrative Tags", Acee Lindem, Peter Psenak, Yingzhen Qu, 2023-11-20, It is useful for routers in OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 routing domains to be able to associate tags with prefixes. Previously, OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 were relegated to a single tag and only for AS External and Not-So- Stubby-Area (NSSA) prefixes. With the flexible encodings provided by OSPFv2 Prefix/Link Attribute Advertisement and OSPFv3 Extended LSAs, multiple administrative tags may be advertised for all types of prefixes. These administrative tags can be used for many applications including route redistribution policy, selective prefix prioritization, selective IP Fast-ReRoute (IPFRR) prefix protection, and many others. The ISIS protocol supports a similar mechanism that is described in RFC 5130. "IS-IS YANG Model Augmentations for Additional Features - Version 1", Acee Lindem, Stephane Litkowski, Yingzhen Qu, 2023-09-08, This document defines YANG data modules augmenting the IETF IS-IS YANG model to provide support for IS-IS Minimum Remaining Lifetime as defined in RFC 7987, IS-IS Application-Specific Link Attributes as defined in RFC 8919, and IS-IS Flexible Algorithm. "Using IS-IS Multi-Topology (MT) for Segment Routing based Virtual Transport Network", Chongfeng Xie, Chenhao Ma, Jie Dong, Zhenbin Li, 2023-07-10, Enhanced VPN (VPN+) aims to provide enhanced VPN service to support some existing and emerging application's needs of enhanced isolation and stringent performance requirements. VPN+ requires integration between the overlay VPN connectivity and the characteristics provided by the underlay network. A Virtual Transport Network (VTN) is a virtual underlay network that is associated with a network topology, and is allocated with a set of dedicated or shared resources from the underlay physical network. A VTN could be used as the underlay to support one or a group of VPN+ services. In some network scenarios, each VTN can be associated with a unique logical network topology. This document describes a mechanism to build the SR based VTNs using IS-IS Multi-Topology together with other well-defined IS-IS extensions. "OSPF-GT (Generalized Transport)", Acee Lindem, Yingzhen Qu, Abhay Roy, Sina Mirtorabi, 2023-06-26, OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 include a reliable flooding mechanism to disseminate routing topology and Traffic Engineering (TE) information within a routing domain. Given the effectiveness of these mechanisms, it is advantageous to use the same mechanism for dissemination of other types of information within the domain. However, burdening OSPF with this additional information will impact intra-domain routing convergence and possibly jeopardize the stability of the OSPF routing domain. This document presents mechanisms to advertise this non-routing information in separate OSPF Generalized Transport (OSPF-GT) instances. OSPF-GT is not constrained to the semantics as traditional OSPF. OSPF-GT neighbors are not required to be directly attached since they are never used to compute hop-by-hop routing. Consequently, independent sparse topologies can be defined to dissemenate non- routing information only to those OSPF-GT routers requiring it. "Flexible Algorithms: Bandwidth, Delay, Metrics and Constraints", Shraddha Hegde, William Britto, Rajesh Shetty, Bruno Decraene, Peter Psenak, Tony Li, 2023-09-26, Many networks configure the link metric relative to the link capacity. High bandwidth traffic gets routed as per the link capacity. Flexible algorithms provides mechanisms to create constraint based paths in IGP. This draft documents a generic metric type and set of bandwidth related constraints to be used in Flexible Algorithms. "YANG Data Model for OSPF SRv6", Zhibo Hu, Xuesong Geng, Syed Raza, Yingzhen Qu, Acee Lindem, 2023-09-09, This document defines a YANG data model that can be used to configure and manage OSPFv3 Segment Routing over the IPv6 Data Plane. "YANG Data Model for IS-IS SRv6", Zhibo Hu, Dan Ye, Yingzhen Qu, Xuesong Geng, Qiufang Ma, 2023-09-07, This document defines a YANG data model that can be used to configure and manage IS-IS Segment Routing over the IPv6 Data Plane. "IS-IS Fast Flooding", Bruno Decraene, Les Ginsberg, Tony Li, Guillaume Solignac, Marek Karasek, Gunter Van de Velde, Tony Przygienda, 2023-09-05, Current Link State Protocol Data Unit (PDU) flooding rates are much slower than what modern networks can support. The use of IS-IS at larger scale requires faster flooding rates to achieve desired convergence goals. This document discusses the need for faster flooding, the issues around faster flooding, and some example approaches to achieve faster flooding. It also defines protocol extensions relevant to faster flooding. "IS-IS Optimal Distributed Flooding for Dense Topologies", Russ White, Shraddha Hegde, Tony Przygienda, 2023-08-07, In dense topologies (such as data center fabrics based on the Clos and butterfly topologies, though not limited to those exclusively), IGP flooding mechanisms designed originally for sparse topologies can "overflood," or in other words generate too many identical copies of topology and reachability information arriving at a given node from other devices. This normally results in slower convergence times and higher resource utilization to process and discard the superfluous copies. The modifications to the flooding mechanism in the Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) link state protocol described in this document reduce resource utilization significantly, while increaseing convergence performance in dense topologies. Beside reducing the extraneous copies it uses the dense topologies to "load-balance" flooding across different possible paths in the network to prevent build up of flooding hot-spots. Note that a Clos fabric is used as the primary example of a dense flooding topology throughout this document. However, the flooding optimizations described in this document apply to any arbitrary topology. "IGP Flexible Algorithms Reverse Affinity Constraint", Peter Psenak, Jakub Horn, Dhamija, 2023-09-19, An IGP Flexible Algorithm (Flex-Algorithm) allows IGPs to compute constraint-based paths. This document extends IGP Flex-Algorithm with additional constraints. "IGP Unreachable Prefix Announcement", Peter Psenak, Clarence Filsfils, Stephane Litkowski, Dan Voyer, Dhamija, Shraddha Hegde, Gunter Van de Velde, Gyan Mishra, 2023-10-22, In the presence of summarization, there is a need to signal loss of reachability to an individual prefix covered by the summary in order to enable fast convergence away from paths to the node which owns the prefix which is no longer reachable. This document describes how to use the existing protocol mechanisms in IS-IS and OSPF, together with the two new flags, to advertise such prefix reachability loss. Link State Vector Routing (lsvr) -------------------------------- "BGP Link-State Shortest Path First (SPF) Routing", Keyur Patel, Acee Lindem, Shawn Zandi, Wim Henderickx, 2023-11-25, Many Massively Scaled Data Centers (MSDCs) have converged on simplified layer 3 routing. Furthermore, requirements for operational simplicity has led many of these MSDCs to converge on BGP as their single routing protocol for both their fabric routing and their Data Center Interconnect (DCI) routing. This document describes extensions to BGP to use BGP Link-State distribution and the Shortest Path First (SPF) algorithm. In doing this, it allows BGP to be efficiently used as both the underlay protocol and the overlay protocol in MSDCs. "Usage and Applicability of Link State Vector Routing in Data Centers", Keyur Patel, Acee Lindem, Shawn Zandi, Gaurav Dawra, 2023-08-21, This document discusses the usage and applicability of Link State Vector Routing (LSVR) extensions in data center networks utilizing CLOS or Fat-Tree topologies. The document is intended to provide a simplified guide for the deployment of LSVR extensions. "Layer-3 Discovery and Liveness", Randy Bush, Rob Austein, Keyur Patel, 2023-07-25, In Massive Data Centers, BGP-SPF and similar routing protocols are used to build topology and reachability databases. These protocols need to discover IP Layer-3 attributes of links, such as neighbor IP addressing, logical link IP encapsulation abilities, and link liveness. This Layer-3 Discovery and Liveness protocol collects these data, which may then be disseminated using BGP-SPF and similar protocols. "Layer-3 Discovery and Liveness Signing", Randy Bush, Russ Housley, Rob Austein, 2023-07-25, The Layer-3 Discovery and Liveness protocol OPEN PDU may contain a public key and a certificate, which can be used to verify signatures on subsequent PDUs. This document describes two mechanisms based on digital signatures, one that is Trust On First Use (TOFU), and one that uses a trust anchor signture over the public key to provide authentication as well as session integrity. "L3DL Upper-Layer Protocol Configuration", Randy Bush, Keyur Patel, 2023-07-25, This document uses the Layer-3 Liveness and Discovery protocol to communicate the parameters needed to exchange inter-device Upper Layer Protocol Configuration for upper-layer protocols such as the BGP family. "A YANG Model for BGP-LS, BGP-LS-VPN, and BGP-LS-SPF", Mahesh Jethanandani, Keyur Patel, 2023-10-10, This document defines a YANG data model for configuration and management of BGP-LS, BGP-LS-VPN, and BGP-LS-SPF. Light-Weight Implementation Guidance (lwig) ------------------------------------------- "Alternative Elliptic Curve Representations", Rene Struik, 2022-01-21, This document specifies how to represent Montgomery curves and (twisted) Edwards curves as curves in short-Weierstrass form and illustrates how this can be used to carry out elliptic curve computations leveraging existing implementations and specifications of, e.g., ECDSA and ECDH using NIST prime curves. We also provide extensive background material that may be useful for implementers of elliptic curve cryptography. MAC Address Device Identification for Network and Application Services (madinas) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Randomized and Changing MAC Address Use Cases and Requirements", Jerome Henry, Yiu Lee, 2023-07-10, To limit the privacy and security issues created by the association between a device, its traffic, its location and its user, client vendors have started implementing MAC address rotation. When such rotation happens, some in-network states may break, which may affect network efficiency and the user experience. At the same time, devices may continue sending other stable identifiers, defeating the MAC rotation purposes. This document lists various network environments and a set of functional network services that may be affected by such rotation. This document then examines settings where the user experience may be affected by in-network state disruption, and settings where other machine identifiers may help re- identify the user or recover the identity of the user, and locate the device and its associated user. Last, this document examines solutions to maintain user privacy while preserving user quality of experience and network operation efficiency. "Randomized and Changing MAC Address", Juan Zuniga, Carlos Bernardos, Amelia Andersdotter, 2023-11-04, Internet privacy has become a major concern over the past few years. Users are becoming more aware that their online activity leaves a vast digital footprint, that communications are not always properly secured, and that their location and actions can be easily tracked. One of the main factors for the location tracking issue is the wide use of long-lasting identifiers, such as MAC addresses. There have been several initiatives at the IETF and the IEEE 802 standards committees to overcome some of these privacy issues. This document provides an overview of these activities, with the intention to inform the technical community about them, and help coordinate between present and future standardization activities. Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (manet) ------------------------------ "DLEP DiffServ Aware Credit Window Extension", Bow-Nan Cheng, David Wiggins, Lou Berger, 2023-07-10, This document defines an extension to the Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP) that enables a DiffServ aware credit-window scheme for destination-specific and shared flow control. "DLEP Credit-Based Flow Control Messages and Data Items", Bow-Nan Cheng, David Wiggins, Lou Berger, Stan Ratliff, 2023-07-11, This document defines new Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP) Data Items that are used to support credit-based flow control. Credit window control is used to regulate when data may be sent to an associated virtual or physical queue. The Data Items are defined in an extensible and reusable fashion. Their use will be mandated in other documents defining specific DLEP extensions. "DLEP Traffic Classification Data Item", Bow-Nan Cheng, David Wiggins, Lou Berger, 2023-07-10, This document defines a new Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP) Data Item that is used to support traffic classification. Traffic classification information is used to identify traffic flows based on frame/packet content such as destination address. The Data Item is defined in an extensible and reusable fashion. Its use will be mandated in other documents defining specific DLEP extensions. This document also introduces DLEP Sub-Data Items, and Sub-Data Items are defined to support DiffServ and Ethernet traffic classification. "DLEP IEEE 802.1Q Aware Credit Window Extension", David Wiggins, Lou Berger, 2023-07-10, This document defines an extension to the Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP) that enables a Ethernet IEEE 802.1Q aware credit- window scheme for destination-specific and shared flow control. Multiplexed Application Substrate over QUIC Encryption (masque) --------------------------------------------------------------- "QUIC-Aware Proxying Using HTTP", Tommy Pauly, Eric Rosenberg, David Schinazi, 2023-08-17, This document defines an extension to UDP Proxying over HTTP that adds specific optimizations for proxied QUIC connections. This extension allows a proxy to reuse UDP 4-tuples for multiple connections. It also defines a mode of proxying in which QUIC short header packets can be forwarded using an HTTP/3 proxy rather than being re-encapsulated and re-encrypted. "Proxying Listener UDP in HTTP", David Schinazi, Abhijit Singh, 2023-09-08, The mechanism to proxy UDP in HTTP only allows each UDP Proxying request to transmit to a specific host and port. This is well suited for UDP client-server protocols such as HTTP/3, but is not sufficient for some UDP peer-to-peer protocols like WebRTC. This document proposes an extension to UDP Proxying in HTTP that enables such use- cases. "Proxying Ethernet in HTTP", Alejandro Sedeno, 2023-10-19, This document describes how to proxy Ethernet frames in HTTP. This protocol is similar to IP proxying in HTTP, but for Layer 2 instead of Layer 3. More specifically, this document defines a protocol that allows an HTTP client to create Layer 2 Ethernet tunnel through an HTTP server to an attached physical or virtual Ethernet segment. MBONE Deployment (mboned) ------------------------- "Multicast YANG Data Model", Zheng Zhang, Cui(Linda) Wang, Ying Cheng, Xufeng Liu, Mahesh Sivakumar, 2023-09-04, This document provides a general multicast YANG data model, which takes full advantages of existed multicast protocol models to control the multicast network, and guides the deployment of multicast service. "Multicast On-path Telemetry using IOAM", Haoyu Song, Mike McBride, Greg Mirsky, Gyan Mishra, Hitoshi Asaeda, Tianran Zhou, 2023-10-06, This document specifies the requirements of on-path telemetry for multicast traffic using In-situ OAM. While In-situ OAM is advantageous for multicast traffic telemetry, some unique challenges are present. This document provides the solutions based on the In- situ OAM trace option and direct export option to support the telemetry data correlation and the multicast tree reconstruction without incurring data redundancy. "Multicast Redundant Ingress Router Failover", Greg Shepherd, Zheng Zhang, Yisong Liu, Ying Cheng, Gyan Mishra, 2023-07-05, This document discusses multicast redundant ingress router failover issues, include global multicast and Service Provider Network MVPN use case. This document analyzes specification of global multicast and Multicast VPN Fast Upstream Failover and the Ingress PE Standby Modes and the benefits of each mode. "YANG Data Model for Automatic Multicast Tunneling", Yisong Liu, Changwang Lin, Zheng Zhang, Xuesong Geng, Vinod Nagaraj, 2023-07-06, This document defines YANG data models for the configuration and management of Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT) protocol operations. Media Type Maintenance (mediaman) --------------------------------- "The 'haptics' Top-level Media Type", Yeshwant Muthusamy, Chris Ullrich, 2023-07-27, This memo serves to register and document the 'haptics' top-level media type, under which subtypes for representation formats for haptics may be registered. This document also serves as a registration for a set of subtypes, which are representative of some existing subtypes already in use. "Media Types with Multiple Suffixes", Manu Sporny, Amy Guy, 2023-11-05, This document updates RFC 6838 "Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures" to describe how to interpret subtypes with multiple suffixes. "Guidelines for the Definition of New Top-Level Media Types", Martin Duerst, 2023-11-05, This document defines best practices for defining new top-level media types. It also introduces a registry for top-level media types, and contains a short history of top-level media types. It updates RFC 6838. [RFC Editor, please remove this paragraph.] Comments and discussion about this document should be directed to media-types@ietf.org, the mailing list of the Media Type Maintenance (mediaman) WG. Alternatively, issues can be raised on github at https://github.com/ ietf-wg-mediaman/toplevel. "Allowing Community Registrations in the Standards Tree", Mark Nottingham, 2023-07-23, Over time, it has become clear that there are media types which have the character of belonging in the standards tree (because they are not associated with any one vendor or person), but are not published by a standards body. This draft suggests an update to [RFC6838] to allow their registration. "Allowing Community Registrations in the Standards Tree", Mark Nottingham, 2023-10-11, Over time, it has become clear that there are media types which have the character of belonging in the standards tree (because they are not associated with any one vendor or person), but are not published by a standards body. This draft suggests an update to [RFC6838] to allow their registration. More Instant Messaging Interoperability (mimi) ---------------------------------------------- "More Instant Messaging Interoperability (MIMI) message content", Rohan Mahy, 2023-10-23, This document describes content semantics common in Instant Messaging (IM) systems and describes a profile suitable for instant messaging interoperability of messages end-to-end encrypted inside the MLS (Message Layer Security) Protocol. Machine Learning for Audio Coding (mlcodec) ------------------------------------------- "Extension Formatting for the Opus Codec", Timothy Terriberry, Jean-Marc Valin, 2023-10-23, This document updates RFC6716 to extend the Opus codec (RFC6716) in a way that maintains interoperability, while adding optional functionality. Messaging Layer Security (mls) ------------------------------ "The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Architecture", Benjamin Beurdouche, Eric Rescorla, Emad Omara, Srinivas Inguva, Alan Duric, 2023-07-26, The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol (I-D.ietf-mls-protocol) provides a Group Key Agreement protocol for messaging applications. MLS is meant to protect against eavesdropping, tampering, message forgery, and provide Forward Secrecy (FS) and Post-Compromise Security (PCS). This document describes the architecture for using MLS in a general secure group messaging infrastructure and defines the security goals for MLS. It provides guidance on building a group messaging system and discusses security and privacy tradeoffs offered by multiple security mechanisms that are part of the MLS protocol (e.g., frequency of public encryption key rotation). The document also provides guidance for parts of the infrastructure that are not standardized by MLS and are instead left to the application. While the recommendations of this document are not mandatory to follow in order to interoperate at the protocol level, they affect the overall security guarantees that are achieved by a messaging application. This is especially true in the case of active adversaries that are able to compromise clients, the delivery service, or the authentication service. "The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Federation", Emad Omara, Raphael Robert, 2023-09-09, This document describes how the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol can be used in a federated environment. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/mlswg/mls-federation. "The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Extensions", Raphael Robert, 2023-10-23, This document describes extensions to the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/mlswg/mls-extensions. Media OPerationS (mops) ----------------------- "Media Operations Use Case for an Extended Reality Application on Edge Computing Infrastructure", Renan Krishna, Akbar Rahman, 2023-11-26, This document explores the issues involved in the use of Edge Computing resources to operationalize media use cases that involve Extended Reality (XR) applications. In particular, we discuss those applications that run on devices having different form factors and need Edge computing resources to mitigate the effect of problems such as a need to support interactive communication requiring low latency, limited battery power, and heat dissipation from those devices. The intended audience for this document are network operators who are interested in providing edge computing resources to operationalize the requirements of such applications. We discuss the expected behavior of XR applications which can be used to manage the traffic. In addition, we discuss the service requirements of XR applications to be able to run on the network. "TreeDN- Tree-based CDNs for Live Streaming to Mass Audiences", Lenny Giuliano, Chris Lenart, Rich Adam, 2023-10-18, As Internet audience sizes for high-interest live events reach unprecedented levels and bitrates climb to support 4K/8K/AR, live streaming can place a unique type of stress upon network resources. TreeDN is a tree-based CDN architecture designed to address the distinctive scaling challenges of live streaming to mass audiences. TreeDN enables operators to offer Replication-as-a-Service (RaaS) at a fraction the cost of traditional, unicast-based CDNs- in some cases, at no additional cost to the infrastructure. In addition to efficiently utilizing network resources to deliver existing multi- destination traffic, this architecture also enables new types of content and use cases that previously weren’t possible or economically viable using traditional CDN approaches. Finally, TreeDN is a decentralized architecture and a democratizing technology for content distribution. Media Over QUIC (moq) --------------------- "Media Over QUIC - Use Cases and Requirements for Media Transport Protocol Design", James Gruessing, Spencer Dawkins, 2023-09-29, This document describes use cases and requirements that guide the specification of a simple, low-latency media delivery solution for ingest and distribution, using either the QUIC protocol or WebTransport as transport protocols. "Media over QUIC Transport", Luke Curley, Kirill Pugin, Suhas Nandakumar, Victor Vasiliev, 2023-10-23, This document defines the core behavior for Media over QUIC Transport (MOQT), a media transport protocol designed to operate over QUIC and WebTransport, which have similar functionality. MOQT allows a producer of media to publish data and have it consumed via subscription by a multiplicity of endpoints. It supports intermediate content distribution networks and is designed for high scale and low latency distribution. Multiprotocol Label Switching (mpls) ------------------------------------ "Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Directed Return Path for MPLS Label Switched Paths (LSPs)", Greg Mirsky, Jeff Tantsura, Ilya Varlashkin, Mach Chen, 2023-07-02, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is expected to be able to monitor a wide variety of encapsulations of paths between systems. When a BFD session monitors an explicitly routed unidirectional path there may be a need to direct egress BFD peer to use a specific path for the reverse direction of the BFD session. This document describes an extension to the MPLS Label Switched Path (LSP) echo request that allows a BFD system requests that the remote BFD peer transmits BFD control packets over the specified LSP. "Refresh-interval Independent FRR Facility Protection", Chandrasekar R, Tarek Saad, Ina Minei, Dante Pacella, 2023-06-21, RSVP-TE Fast ReRoute extensions specified in RFC 4090 defines two local repair techniques to reroute Label Switched Path (LSP) traffic over pre-established backup tunnel. Facility backup method allows one or more LSPs traversing a connected link or node to be protected using a bypass tunnel. The many-to-one nature of local repair technique is attractive from scalability point of view. This document enumerates facility backup procedures in RFC 4090 that rely on refresh timeout and hence make facility backup method refresh- interval dependent. The RSVP-TE extensions defined in this document will enhance the facility backup protection mechanism by making the corresponding procedures refresh-interval independent and hence compatible with Refresh-interval Independent RSVP (RI-RSVP) specified in RFC 8370. Hence, this document updates RFC 4090 in order to support RI-RSVP capability specified in RFC 8370. "RFC6374 Synonymous Flow Labels", Stewart Bryant, George Swallow, Mach Chen, Giuseppe Fioccola, Greg Mirsky, 2021-03-05, RFC 6374 describes methods of making loss and delay measurements on Label Switched Paths (LSPs) primarily as used in MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) networks. This document describes a method of extending RFC 6374 performance measurements from flows carried over MPLS-TP to flows carried over generic MPLS LSPs. In particular, it extends the technique to allow loss and delay measurements to be made on multi-point to point LSPs and introduces some additional techniques to allow more sophisticated measurements to be made in both MPLS-TP and generic MPLS networks. "Label Switched Path (LSP) Ping/Traceroute for Segment Routing (SR) Egress Peer Engineering Segment Identifiers (SIDs) with MPLS Data Planes", Shraddha Hegde, Mukul Srivastava, Kapil Arora, Samson Ninan, Xiaohu Xu, 2023-09-07, Egress Peer Engineering (EPE) is an application of Segment Routing to solve the problem of egress peer selection. The Segment Routing based BGP-EPE solution allows a centralized controller, e.g. a Software Defined Network (SDN) controller to program any egress peer. The EPE solution requires a node to program the PeerNode Segment Identifier(SID) describing a session between two nodes, the PeerAdj SID describing the link (one or more) that is used by sessions between peer nodes, and the PeerSet SID describing an arbitrary set of sessions or links between a local node and its peers. This document provides new sub-TLVs for EPE Segment Identifiers (SID) that would be used in the MPLS Target stack TLV (Type 1), in MPLS Ping and Traceroute procedures. "Performance Measurement Using RFC 6374 for Segment Routing Networks with MPLS Data Plane", Rakesh Gandhi, Clarence Filsfils, Dan Voyer, Stefano Salsano, Mach Chen, 2023-08-08, Segment Routing (SR) leverages the source routing paradigm. SR is applicable to Multiprotocol Label Switching data plane (SR-MPLS) as specified in RFC 8402. RFC 6374 specifies protocol mechanisms to enable the efficient and accurate measurement of packet loss, one-way and two-way delay, as well as related metrics such as delay variation in MPLS networks. This document utilizes these mechanisms for Performance Delay and Loss Measurements in SR-MPLS networks, for both SR-MPLS links and end-to-end SR-MPLS paths including Policies. In addition, this document defines Return Path TLV and Block Number TLV extensions for RFC 6374. "A Simple Control Protocol for MPLS SFLs", Stewart Bryant, George Swallow, Siva Sivabalan, 2023-11-06, In RFC 8957 the concept of MPLS synonymos flow labels (SFL) was introduced. This document describes a simple control protocol that runs over an associated control header to request, withdraw, and extend the lifetime of such labels. It is not the only control protocol that might be used to support SFL, but it has the benefit of being able to be used without modification of the existing MPLS control protocols. The existence of this design is not intended to restrict the ability to enhance an existing MPLS control protocol to add a similar capability. "Encapsulation For MPLS Performance Measurement with Alternate Marking Method", Weiqiang Cheng, Xiao Min, Tianran Zhou, Jinyou Dai, Yoav Peleg, 2023-11-09, This document defines the encapsulation for MPLS performance measurement with alternate marking method, which performs flow-based packet loss, delay, and jitter measurements on MPLS live traffic. "Egress TLV for Nil FEC in Label Switched Path Ping and Traceroute Mechanisms", Deepti Rathi, Shraddha Hegde, Kapil Arora, Zafar Ali, Nagendra Nainar, 2023-11-05, MPLS ping and traceroute mechanism as described in RFC 8029 and related extensions for SR as defined in RFC 8287 is very useful to precisely validate the control plane and data plane synchronization. There is a possibility that all intermediate or transit nodes may not have been upgraded to support these validation procedures. A simple mpls ping and traceroute mechanism comprises of ability to traverse any path without having to validate the control plane state. RFC 8029 supports this mechanism with Nil FEC. The procedures described in RFC 8029 are mostly applicable when the Nil FEC is used as intermediate FEC in the label stack. When all labels in label stack are represented using single Nil FEC, it poses some challenges. This document introduces new TLV as additional extension to exisiting Nil FEC and describes mpls ping and traceroute procedures using Nil FEC with this additional extensions to overcome these challenges. "PMS/Head-end based MPLS Ping and Traceroute in Inter-domain SR Networks", Shraddha Hegde, Kapil Arora, Mukul Srivastava, Samson Ninan, Nagendra Nainar, 2023-07-07, Segment Routing (SR) architecture leverages source routing and tunneling paradigms and can be directly applied to the use of a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) data plane. A network may consist of multiple IGP domains or multiple ASes under the control of same organization. It is useful to have the Label switched Path (LSP) Ping and traceroute procedures when an SR end-to-end path spans across multiple ASes or domains. This document describes mechanisms to facilitate LSP ping and traceroute in inter-AS/inter-domain SR- MPLS networks in an efficient manner with simple Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) protocol extension which uses dataplane forwarding alone for sending echo reply. "BFD for Multipoint Networks over Point-to-Multi-Point MPLS LSP", Greg Mirsky, Gyan Mishra, Donald Eastlake, 2023-06-19, This document describes procedures for using Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for multipoint networks to detect data plane failures in Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) point-to-multipoint (p2mp) Label Switched Paths (LSPs) and Segment Routing (SR) point-to- multipoint policies with SR-MPLS data plane. Furthermore, this document also updates RFC 8562 and recommends the use of an IPv6 loopback address (:::1/128) and discourages the use of an IPv4 loopback address mapped to IPv6. It also describes the applicability of LSP Ping, as in-band, and the control plane, as out-band, solutions to bootstrap a BFD session. It also describes the behavior of the active tail for head notification. "Use Cases for MPLS Network Action Indicators and MPLS Ancillary Data", Tarek Saad, Kiran Makhijani, Haoyu Song, Greg Mirsky, 2023-09-15, This document presents a number of use cases that have a common need for encoding network action indicators and associated ancillary data inside MPLS packets. There has been significant recent interest in extending the MPLS data plane to carry such indicators and ancillary data to address a number of use cases that are described in this document. The use cases described in this document are not an exhaustive set, but rather the ones that are actively discussed by members of the IETF MPLS, PALS and DETNET working groups participating in the MPLS Open Design Team. "Requirements for MPLS Network Actions", Matthew Bocci, Stewart Bryant, John Drake, 2023-09-18, This document specifies requirements for MPLS network actions which affect the forwarding or other processing of MPLS packets. These requirements are derived from a number of proposals for additions to the MPLS label stack to allow forwarding or other processing decisions to be made, either by a transit or terminating LSR (i.e. the LER). "mLDP Extensions for Multi-Topology Routing", IJsbrand Wijnands, Mankamana Mishra, Syed Raza, Anuj Budhiraja, Zhaohui Zhang, Arkadiy Gulko, 2023-08-02, Multi-Topology Routing (MTR) is a technology to enable service differentiation within an IP network. Flexible Algorithm (FA) is another mechanism of creating a sub-topology within a topology using defined topology constraints and computation algorithm. In order to deploy mLDP (Multipoint label distribution protocol) in a network that supports MTR and/or FA, mLDP is required to become topology and FA aware. This document specifies extensions to mLDP to support MTR with FA such that when building a Multipoint LSPs(Label Switched Paths) it can follow a particular topology and algorithm. "MPLS Network Actions Framework", Loa Andersson, Stewart Bryant, Matthew Bocci, Tony Li, 2023-10-19, This document specifies an architectural framework for the MPLS Network Actions (MNA) technologies. MNA technologies are used to indicate actions for Label Switched Paths (LSPs) and/or MPLS packets and to transfer data needed for these actions. The document provides the foundation for the development of a common set of network actions and information elements supporting additional operational models and capabilities of MPLS networks. Some of these actions are defined in existing MPLS specifications, while others require extensions to existing specifications to meet the requirements found in "Requirements for MPLS Network Actions". "A YANG Model for MPLS MSD", Yingzhen Qu, Acee Lindem, Stephane Litkowski, Jeff Tantsura, 2023-10-22, This document defines a YANG data model augmenting the IETF MPLS YANG model to provide support for MPLS Maximum SID Depths (MSDs) as defined in RFC 8476 and RFC 8491. "MPLS Network Action (MNA) Sub-Stack Solution", Jaganbabu Rajamanickam, Rakesh Gandhi, Royi Zigler, Haoyu Song, Kireeti Kompella, 2023-10-21, This document defines the MPLS Network Action (MNA) sub-stack solution for carrying Network Actions and Ancillary Data in the label stack. MPLS Network Actions can be used to influence packet forwarding decisions, carry additional OAM information in the MPLS packet, or perform user-defined operations. This document addresses the MNA requirements specified in draft-ietf-mpls-mna-requirements. This document follows the MNA framework specified in draft-ietf-mpls- mna-fwk. "Deprecating the Use of Router Alert in LSP Ping", Kireeti Kompella, Ron Bonica, Greg Mirsky, 2023-11-06, The MPLS echo request and MPLS echo response messages, defined in RFC 8029 "Detecting Multiprotocol Label Switched (MPLS) Data-Plane Failures" (usually referred to as LSP ping messages), are encapsulated in IP headers that include a Router Alert Option (RAO). The rationale for using an RAO as the exception mechanism is questionable. Furthermore, RFC 6398 identifies security vulnerabilities associated with the RAO in non-controlled environments, e.g., the case of using the MPLS echo request/reply as inter-area OAM, and recommends against its use outside of controlled environments. Therefore, this document retires the RAO for MPLS Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM). It reclassifies RFC 7506 as Historic and updates RFC 8029 to remove the RAO from LSP ping message encapsulations. This document also recommends the use of an IPv6 loopback address (::1/128) and not the use of an IPv4 loopback address mapped to IPv6. "IANA Registry for the First Nibble Following a Label Stack", Kireeti Kompella, Stewart Bryant, Matthew Bocci, Greg Mirsky, Loa Andersson, Jie Dong, 2023-07-05, The goal of this memo is to create a new IANA registry (called the MPLS First Nibble registry) for the first nibble (4-bit field) immediately following an MPLS label stack. The memo offers a rationale for such a registry, describes how the registry should be managed, and provides some initial entries. Furthermore, this memo sets out some documentation requirements for registering new values. Finally, it provides some recommendations that make processing MPLS packets easier and more robust. The relationship between the IANA IP Version Numbers and the MPLS First Nibble registry is described in this document. This memo, if published, would update [RFC4928]. Network Configuration (netconf) ------------------------------- "YANG Groupings for TLS Clients and TLS Servers", Kent Watsen, 2023-04-17, This document defines three YANG 1.1 modules: the first defines features and groupings common to both TLS clients and TLS servers, the second defines a grouping for a generic TLS client, and the third defines a grouping for a generic TLS server. Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor) This draft contains placeholder values that need to be replaced with finalized values at the time of publication. This note summarizes all of the substitutions that are needed. No other RFC Editor instructions are specified elsewhere in this document. Artwork in this document contains shorthand references to drafts in progress. Please apply the following replacements: * AAAA --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-crypto- types * BBBB --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-trust- anchors * CCCC --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-keystore * DDDD --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-tcp-client- server * FFFF --> the assigned RFC value for this draft Artwork in this document contains placeholder values for the date of publication of this draft. Please apply the following replacement: * 2023-04-17 --> the publication date of this draft The "Relation to other RFCs" section Section 1.1 contains the text "one or more YANG modules" and, later, "modules". This text is sourced from a file in a context where it is unknown how many modules a draft defines. The text is not wrong as is, but it may be improved by stating more directly how many modules are defined. The "Relation to other RFCs" section Section 1.1 contains a self- reference to this draft, along with a corresponding Informative Reference in the Appendix. The following Appendix section is to be removed prior to publication: * Appendix B. Change Log "RESTCONF Client and Server Models", Kent Watsen, 2023-04-17, This document defines two YANG modules, one module to configure a RESTCONF client and the other module to configure a RESTCONF server. Both modules support the TLS transport protocol with both standard RESTCONF and RESTCONF Call Home connections. 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Please apply the following replacements (note: not all may be present): * AAAA --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-crypto- types * BBBB --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-trust- anchors * CCCC --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-keystore * DDDD --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-tcp-client- server * EEEE --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-ssh-client- server * FFFF --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-tls-client- server * GGGG --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-http- client-server * HHHH --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-netconf- client-server * IIII --> the assigned RFC value for this draft Artwork in this document contains placeholder values for the date of publication of this draft. Please apply the following replacement: * 2023-04-17 --> the publication date of this draft The "Relation to other RFCs" section Section 1.1 contains the text "one or more YANG modules" and, later, "modules". This text is sourced from a file in a context where it is unknown how many modules a draft defines. The text is not wrong as is, but it may be improved by stating more directly how many modules are defined. The "Relation to other RFCs" section Section 1.1 contains a self- reference to this draft, along with a corresponding Informative Reference in the Appendix. The following Appendix section is to be removed prior to publication: * Appendix A. Change Log "YANG Groupings for SSH Clients and SSH Servers", Kent Watsen, 2023-04-17, This document defines three YANG 1.1 modules: the first defines features and groupings common to both SSH clients and SSH servers, the second defines a grouping for a generic SSH client, and the third defines a grouping for a generic SSH server. Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor) This draft contains placeholder values that need to be replaced with finalized values at the time of publication. This note summarizes all of the substitutions that are needed. No other RFC Editor instructions are specified elsewhere in this document. Artwork in this document contains shorthand references to drafts in progress. Please apply the following replacements: * AAAA --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-crypto- types * BBBB --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-trust- anchors * CCCC --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-keystore * DDDD --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-tcp-client- server * EEEE --> the assigned RFC value for this draft Artwork in this document contains placeholder values for the date of publication of this draft. Please apply the following replacement: * 2023-04-17 --> the publication date of this draft The "Relation to other RFCs" section Section 1.1 contains the text "one or more YANG modules" and, later, "modules". This text is sourced from a file in a context where it is unknown how many modules a draft defines. The text is not wrong as is, but it may be improved by stating more directly how many modules are defined. The "Relation to other RFCs" section Section 1.1 contains a self- reference to this draft, along with a corresponding Informative Reference in the Appendix. The following Appendix section is to be removed prior to publication: * Appendix B. Change Log "NETCONF Client and Server Models", Kent Watsen, 2023-04-17, This document defines two YANG modules, one module to configure a NETCONF client and the other module to configure a NETCONF server. Both modules support both the SSH and TLS transport protocols, and support both standard NETCONF and NETCONF Call Home connections. 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Please apply the following replacements (note: not all may be present): * AAAA --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-crypto- types * BBBB --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-trust- anchors * CCCC --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-keystore * DDDD --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-tcp-client- server * EEEE --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-ssh-client- server * FFFF --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-tls-client- server * GGGG --> the assigned RFC value for draft-ietf-netconf-http- client-server * HHHH --> the assigned RFC value for this draft Artwork in this document contains placeholder values for the date of publication of this draft. Please apply the following replacement: * 2023-04-17 --> the publication date of this draft The "Relation to other RFCs" section Section 1.1 contains the text "one or more YANG modules" and, later, "modules". This text is sourced from a file in a context where it is unknown how many modules a draft defines. The text is not wrong as is, but it may be improved by stating more directly how many modules are defined. The "Relation to other RFCs" section Section 1.1 contains a self- reference to this draft, along with a corresponding Informative Reference in the Appendix. The following Appendix section is to be removed prior to publication: * Appendix A. Change Log "A YANG Data Model for a Keystore", Kent Watsen, 2023-04-17, This document defines a YANG module called "ietf-keystore" that enables centralized configuration of both symmetric and asymmetric keys. The secret value for both key types may be encrypted or hidden. Asymmetric keys may be associated with certificates. Notifications are sent when certificates are about to expire. "YANG Data Types and Groupings for Cryptography", Kent Watsen, 2023-04-17, This document presents a YANG 1.1 (RFC 7950) module defining identities, typedefs, and groupings useful to cryptographic applications. "A YANG Data Model for a Truststore", Kent Watsen, 2023-04-17, This document defines a YANG module for configuring bags of certificates and bags of public keys that can be referenced by other data models for trust. Notifications are sent when certificates are about to expire. "YANG Groupings for TCP Clients and TCP Servers", Kent Watsen, Michael Scharf, 2023-04-17, This document defines three YANG 1.1 modules to support the configuration of TCP clients and TCP servers. The modules include basic parameters of a TCP connection relevant for client or server applications, as well as client configuration required for traversing proxies. The modules can be used either standalone or in conjunction with configuration of other stack protocol layers. "An HTTPS-based Transport for YANG Notifications", Mahesh Jethanandani, Kent Watsen, 2022-11-04, This document defines a protocol for sending notifications over HTTPS. YANG modules for configuring publishers are also defined. Examples are provided illustrating how to configure various publishers. This document requires that the publisher is a "server" (e.g., a NETCONF or RESTCONF server), but does not assume that the receiver is a server. "YANG Groupings for HTTP 1.1/2.0 Clients and HTTP Servers", Kent Watsen, 2023-04-17, This document defines two YANG modules: the first defines a minimal grouping for configuring an HTTP client, and the second defines a minimal grouping for configuring an HTTP server. It is intended that these groupings will be used to help define the configuration for simple HTTP-based protocols (not for complete web servers or browsers). 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Please apply the following replacement: * 2023-04-17 --> the publication date of this draft The "Relation to other RFCs" section Section 1.1 contains the text "one or more YANG modules" and, later, "modules". This text is sourced from a file in a context where it is unknown how many modules a draft defines. The text is not wrong as is, but it may be improved by stating more directly how many modules are defined. The "Relation to other RFCs" section Section 1.1 contains a self- reference to this draft, along with a corresponding Informative Reference in the Appendix. The following Appendix section is to be removed prior to publication: * Appendix A. Change Log "Conveying a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) in a Secure Zero Touch Provisioning (SZTP) Bootstrapping Request", Kent Watsen, Russ Housley, Sean Turner, 2022-03-02, This draft extends the input to the "get-bootstrapping-data" RPC defined in RFC 8572 to include an optional certificate signing request (CSR), enabling a bootstrapping device to additionally obtain an identity certificate (e.g., an LDevID from IEEE 802.1AR) as part of the "onboarding information" response provided in the RPC-reply. "Subscription to Distributed Notifications", Tianran Zhou, Guangying Zheng, Eric Voit, Thomas Graf, Pierre Francois, 2023-10-06, This document describes extensions to the YANG notifications subscription to allow metrics being published directly from processors on line cards to target receivers, while subscription is still maintained at the route processor in a distributed forwarding system. "UDP-based Transport for Configured Subscriptions", Guangying Zheng, Tianran Zhou, Thomas Graf, Pierre Francois, Alex Feng, Paolo Lucente, 2023-10-11, This document describes a UDP-based protocol for YANG notifications to collect data from network nodes. A shim header is proposed to facilitate the data streaming directly from the publishing process on network processor of line cards to receivers. The objective is to provide a lightweight approach to enable higher frequency and less performance impact on publisher and receiver processes compared to already established notification mechanisms. "Adaptive Subscription to YANG Notification", Qin WU, Wei Song, Peng Liu, Qiufang Ma, Wei Wang, Zhixiong Niu, 2023-05-30, This document defines a YANG data model and associated mechanism that enable adaptive subscription to a publisher's event streams. The periodic update interval for the event streams can be set adaptively. Applying these elements allows servers to automatically adjust the rate and volume of telemetry traffic sent from a publisher to receivers. "List Pagination for YANG-driven Protocols", Kent Watsen, Qin WU, Olof Hagsand, Hongwei Li, Per Andersson, 2023-10-22, In some circumstances, instances of YANG modeled "list" and "leaf- list" nodes may contain numerous entries. Retrieval of all the entries can lead to inefficiencies in the server, the client, and the network in between. This document defines a model for list pagination that can be implemented by YANG-driven management protocols such as NETCONF and RESTCONF. The model supports paging over optionally filtered and/or sorted entries. The solution additionally enables servers to constrain query expressions on some "config false" lists or leaf- lists. "NETCONF Extensions to Support List Pagination", Kent Watsen, Qin WU, Olof Hagsand, Hongwei Li, Per Andersson, 2023-10-22, This document defines a mapping of the list pagination mechanism defined in [I-D.ietf-netconf-list-pagination] to NETCONF [RFC6241]. This document updates [RFC6241], to augment the and "rpc" statements, and [RFC8526], to augment the "rpc" statement, to define input parameters necessary for list pagination. "RESTCONF Extensions to Support List Pagination", Kent Watsen, Qin WU, Olof Hagsand, Hongwei Li, Per Andersson, 2023-10-22, This document defines a mapping of the list pagination mechanism defined in [I-D.ietf-netconf-list-pagination] to RESTCONF [RFC8040]. This document updates RFC 8040, to declare "list" and "leaf-list" as valid resource targets for the RESTCONF GET and DELETE operations, to define GET query parameters necessary for list pagination, and to define a media-type for XML-based lists. "Updates to Using the NETCONF Protocol over Transport Layer Security (TLS) with Mutual X.509 Authentication", Sean Turner, Russ Housley, 2023-10-23, RFC 7589 defines how to protect NETCONF messages with TLS 1.2. This document updates RFC 7589 to update support requirements for TLS 1.2 and add TLS 1.3 support requirements, including restrictions on the use of TLS 1.3's early data. "Transaction ID Mechanism for NETCONF", Jan Lindblad, 2023-10-10, NETCONF clients and servers often need to have a synchronized view of the server's configuration data stores. The volume of configuration data in a server may be very large, while data store changes typically are small when observed at typical client resynchronization intervals. Rereading the entire data store and analyzing the response for changes is an inefficient mechanism for synchronization. This document specifies an extension to NETCONF that allows clients and servers to keep synchronized with a much smaller data exchange and without any need for servers to store information about the clients. "Support of Versioning in YANG Notifications Subscription", Thomas Graf, Benoit Claise, Alex Feng, 2023-10-20, This document extends the YANG notifications subscription mechanism to specify the YANG module semantic version at the subscription. Then, a new extension with the revision and the semantic version of the YANG push subscription state change notification is proposed. "NETCONF Private Candidates", James Cumming, Robert Wills, 2023-10-20, This document provides a mechanism to extend the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) and RESTCONF protocol to support multiple clients making configuration changes simultaneously and ensuring that they commit only those changes that they defined. This document addresses two specific aspects: The interaction with a private candidate over the NETCONF and RESTCONF protocols and the methods to identify and resolve conflicts between clients. Network Modeling (netmod) ------------------------- "Common Interface Extension YANG Data Models", Robert Wilton, Scott Mansfield, 2023-10-18, This document defines two YANG modules that augment the Interfaces data model defined in the "YANG Data Model for Interface Management" with additional configuration and operational data nodes to support common lower layer interface properties, such as interface MTU. The YANG modules in this document conform to the Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA) defined in RFC 8342. "Sub-interface VLAN YANG Data Models", Robert Wilton, Scott Mansfield, 2023-10-18, This document defines YANG modules to add support for classifying traffic received on interfaces as Ethernet/VLAN framed packets to sub-interfaces based on the fields available in the Ethernet/VLAN frame headers. These modules allow configuration of Layer 3 and Layer 2 sub-interfaces (e.g. L2VPN attachment circuits) that can interoperate with IETF based forwarding protocols; such as IP and L3VPN services; or L2VPN services like VPWS, VPLS, and EVPN. The sub-interfaces also interoperate with VLAN tagged traffic orignating from an IEEE 802.1Q compliant bridge. The model differs from an IEEE 802.1Q bridge model in that the configuration is interface/sub-interface based as opposed to being based on membership of an 802.1Q VLAN bridge. The YANG data models in this document conforms to the Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA) defined in RFC 8342. "YANG Module Versioning Requirements", Joe Clarke, 2023-06-26, This document describes the problems that can arise because of the YANG language module update rules, that require all updates to YANG module preserve strict backwards compatibility. It also defines the requirements on any solution designed to solve the stated problems. This document does not consider possible solutions, nor endorse any particular solution. "Common YANG Data Types", Juergen Schoenwaelder, 2023-01-23, This document defines a collection of common data types to be used with the YANG data modeling language. This version of the document adds several new type definitions and obsoletes RFC 6991. "Updated YANG Module Revision Handling", Robert Wilton, Reshad Rahman, Balazs Lengyel, Joe Clarke, Jason Sterne, 2023-10-17, This document refines the RFC 7950 module update rules. It specifies a new YANG module update procedure that can document when non- backwards-compatible changes have occurred during the evolution of a YANG module. It extends the YANG import statement with a minimum revision suggestion to help document inter-module dependencies. It provides guidelines for managing the lifecycle of YANG modules and individual schema nodes. It provides a mechanism, via the revision label YANG extension, to specify a revision identifier for YANG modules and submodules. This document updates RFC 7950, RFC 6020, RFC 8407 and RFC 8525. "YANG Semantic Versioning", Joe Clarke, Robert Wilton, Reshad Rahman, Balazs Lengyel, Jason Sterne, Benoit Claise, 2023-10-02, This document specifies a scheme and guidelines for applying an extended set of semantic versioning rules to revisions of YANG artifacts (e.g., modules and packages). Additionally, this document defines an RFCAAAA-compliant revision-label-scheme for this YANG semantic versioning scheme. "Node Tags in YANG Modules", Qin WU, Benoit Claise, Mohamed Boucadair, Peng Liu, Zongpeng Du, 2023-10-21, This document defines a method to tag nodes that are associated with the operation and management data in YANG modules. This method for tagging YANG nodes is meant to be used for classifying either data nodes or instances of data nodes from different YANG modules and identifying their characteristic data. Tags may be registered as well as assigned during the definition of the module, assigned by implementations, or dynamically defined and set by users. This document also provides guidance to future YANG data model writers; as such, this document updates RFC 8407. "System-defined Configuration", Qiufang Ma, Qin WU, Chong Feng, 2023-11-05, This document describes how a management client and server handle YANG-modeled configuration data that is defined by the server itself. The system-defined configuration can be referenced (e.g. leafref) by configuration explicitly created by a client. The Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA) defined in RFC 8342 is updated with a read-only conventional configuration datastore called "system" to hold system-defined configuration. As an alternative to clients explicitly copying referenced system-defined configuration into the target configuration datastore (e.g., ) so that the datastore is valid, a "resolve-system" parameter is defined to allow the server acting as a "system client" to copy referenced system-defined nodes automatically. This solution enables clients manipulating the target configuration datastore (e.g., ) to overlay (e.g., copy system configuration using the same key value as in ) and reference nodes defined in , override values of configurations defined in , and configure descendant nodes of system-defined nodes. This document updates RFC 8342, RFC 6241, RFC 8526 and RFC 8040. "Extensions to the Access Control Lists (ACLs) YANG Model", Oscar de Dios, Samier Barguil, Mohamed Boucadair, Qin WU, 2023-10-17, RFC 8519 defines a YANG data model for Access Control Lists (ACLs). This document discusses a set of extensions that fix many of the limitations of the ACL model as initially defined in RFC 8519. The document also defines IANA-maintained modules for ICMP types and IPv6 extension headers. "Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers of Documents Containing YANG Data Models", Mohamed Boucadair, Qin WU, 2023-11-23, This memo provides guidelines for authors and reviewers of specifications containing YANG modules, including IANA-maintained modules. Recommendations and procedures are defined, which are intended to increase interoperability and usability of Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) and RESTCONF protocol implementations that utilize YANG modules. This document obsoletes RFC 8407. Also, this document updates RFC 8126 by providing additional guidelines for writing the IANA considerations for RFCs that specify IANA-maintained modules. Network File System Version 4 (nfsv4) ------------------------------------- "Extending the Opening of Files in NFSv4.2", Thomas Haynes, Trond Myklebust, 2023-07-06, The Network File System v4 (NFSv4) allows a client to both open a file and be granted a delegation of that file. This delegation provides the client the right to authoritatively cache metadata on the file locally. This document presents several extensions to RFC8881 for both the opening and delegating of the file to the client. "Internationalization for the NFSv4 Protocols", David Noveck, 2023-11-20, This document describes the handling of internationalization for all NFSv4 protocols, including NFSv4.0, NFSv4.1, NFSv4.2 and extensions thereof, and future minor versions. It updates RFC7530 and RFC8881. "Using the Parallel NFS (pNFS) SCSI Layout to access NVMe storage devices", Christoph Hellwig, Chuck Lever, Sorin Faibish, David Black, 2023-10-17, This document specifies how to use the Parallel Network File System (pNFS) Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) Layout Type to access storage devices using the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol family. "Network File System (NFS) Version 4 Minor Version 1 Protocol", David Noveck, 2023-06-24, This document describes the Network File System (NFS) version 4 minor version 1, including features retained from the base protocol (NFS version 4 minor version 0, which is specified in RFC 7530) and protocol extensions made subsequently. The later minor version has no dependencies on NFS version 4 minor version 0, and was, until recently, documented as a completely separate protocol. This document is part of a set of documents which collectively obsolete RFC 8881. In addition to many corrections and clarifications, it will rely on NFSv4-wide documents to substantially revise the treatment of protocol extension, internationalization, and security, superseding the descriptions of those aspects of the protocol appearing in RFCs 5661 and 8881. "Reporting of Errors via LAYOUTRETURN in NFSv4.2", Thomas Haynes, Trond Myklebust, 2023-08-26, The Parallel Network File System (pNFS) allows for a file's metadata (MDS) and data (DS) to be on different servers. When the metadata server is restarted, the client can still modify the data file component. During the recovery phase of startup, the metadata server and the data servers work together to recover state (which files are open, last modification time, size, etc). A problem with servers which do client side mirroring there is no means by which the client can report errors to the metadata server. As such, the metadata server has to assume that file needs resilvering. This document presents a refinement to RFC8435 to allow the client to update the metadata Network Management (nmrg) ------------------------- "Digital Twin Network: Concepts and Reference Architecture", Cheng Zhou, Hongwei Yang, Xiaodong Duan, Diego Lopez, Antonio Pastor, Qin WU, Mohamed Boucadair, Christian Jacquenet, 2023-10-23, Digital Twin technology has been seen as a rapid adoption technology in Industry 4.0. The application of Digital Twin technology in the networking field is meant to develop various rich network applications and realize efficient and cost effective data driven network management and accelerate network innovation. This document presents an overview of the concepts of Digital Twin Network, provides the basic definitions and a reference architecture, lists a set of application scenarios, and discusses the benefits and key challenges of such technology. "Research Challenges in Coupling Artificial Intelligence and Network Management", Jerome Francois, Alexander Clemm, Dimitri Papadimitriou, Stenio Fernandes, Stefan Schneider, 2023-07-10, This document is intended to introduce the challenges to overcome when Network Management (NM) problems may require to couple with Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions. On the one hand, there are many difficult problems in NM that to this date have no good solutions, or where any solutions come with significant limitations and constraints. Artificial Intelligence may help produce novel solutions to those problems. On the other hand, for several reasons (computational costs of AI solutions, privacy of data), distribution of AI tasks became primordial. It is thus also expected that network are operated efficiently to support those tasks. To identify the right set of challenges, the document defines a method based on the evolution and nature of NM problems. This will be done in parallel with advances and the nature of existing solutions in AI in order to highlight where AI and NM have been already coupled together or could benefit from a higher integration. So, the method aims at evaluating the gap between NM problems and AI solutions. Challenges are derived accordingly, assuming solving these challenges will help to reduce the gap between NM and AI. "Challenges and Opportunities in Management for Green Networking", Alexander Clemm, Cedric Westphal, Jeff Tantsura, Laurent Ciavaglia, Marie-Paule Odini, 2023-10-23, Reducing mankind's carbon footprint and making technology more sustainable are among the big challenges of our age. While networks are an enabler of applications that help to reduce this footprint, they also contribute to this footprint in no insignificant way themselves. Methods to make networking technology itself "greener" and to manage networks in ways that reduces their carbon footprint without impacting their utility therefore need to be explored. This document outlines a corresponding set of opportunities, along with associated research challenges, for networking technology in general and management technology in particular to become "greener", i.e. more sustainable, with reduced greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint. Individual Submissions (none) ----------------------------- "Mapping Between MIME Types, Content-Types, and URIs", Donald Eastlake, 2023-06-05, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) Content-Type headers, the MIME types used therein, and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) are being used, in different contexts, to label entities. A mapping is specified from each kind of label into the other. This makes it possible to express the meaning of almost any URI or Content-Type in the syntax of the other. "The ARK Identifier Scheme", John Kunze, Emmanuelle Bermes, 2023-11-06, The ARK (Archival Resource Key) naming scheme is designed to facilitate the high-quality and persistent identification of information objects. The label "ark:" marks the start of a core ARK identifier that can be made actionable by prepending the beginning of a URL. Meant to be usable after today's networking technologies become obsolete, that core should be recognizable in the future as a globally unique ARK independent of the URL hostname, HTTP, etc. A founding principle of ARKs is that persistence is purely a matter of service and neither inherent in an object nor conferred on it by a particular naming syntax. The best any identifier can do is lead users to services that support robust reference. A full-functioning ARK leads the user to the identified object and, with the "?info" inflection appended, returns a metadata record and a commitment statement that is both human- and machine-readable. Tools exist for minting, binding, and resolving ARKs. Responsibility for this Document The ARK Alliance Technical Working Group [ARKAtech] is responsible for the content of this Internet Draft. The group homepage lists monthly meeting notes and agendas starting from March 2019. Revisions of the spec are maintained on github at [ARKdrafts]. "An IPv4 Flowlabel Option", Thomas Dreibholz, 2023-09-27, This draft defines an IPv4 option containing a flowlabel that is compatible to IPv6. It is required for simplified usage of IntServ and interoperability with IPv6. "Prepaid Extensions to Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS)", Avi Lior, Parviz Yegani, Kuntal Chowdhury, Hannes Tschofenig, Andreas Pashalidis, 2013-02-25, This document specifies an extension to the Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) protocol that enables service providers to charge for prepaid services. The supported charging models supported are volume-based, duration-based, and based on one-time events. "Applicability of Reliable Server Pooling for Real-Time Distributed Computing", Thomas Dreibholz, 2023-09-27, This document describes the applicability of the Reliable Server Pooling architecture to manage real-time distributed computing pools and access the resources of such pools. "Secure SCTP", Carsten Hohendorf, Esbold Unurkhaan, Thomas Dreibholz, 2023-09-27, This document explains the reason for the integration of security functionality into SCTP, and gives a short description of S-SCTP and its services. S-SCTP is fully compatible with SCTP defined in RFC4960, it is designed to integrate cryptographic functions into SCTP. "Applicability of Reliable Server Pooling for SCTP-Based Endpoint Mobility", Thomas Dreibholz, Jobin Pulinthanath, 2023-09-27, This document describes a novel mobility concept based on a combination of SCTP with Dynamic Address Reconfiguration extension and Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool). "Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) Bakeoff Scoring", Thomas Dreibholz, Michael Tuexen, 2023-09-27, This memo describes some of the scoring to be used in the testing of Reliable Server Pooling protocols ASAP and ENRP at upcoming bakeoffs. "Considerations for Information Services and Operator Services Using SIP", John Haluska, Richard Ahern, Marty Cruze, Chris Blackwell, 2011-08-15, Information Services are services whereby information is provided in response to user requests, and may include involvement of a human or automated agent. A popular existing Information Service is Directory Assistance (DA). Moving ahead, Information Services providers envision exciting multimedia services that support simultaneous voice and data interactions with full operator backup at any time during the call. Information Services providers are planning to migrate to SIP based platforms, which will enable such advanced services, while continuing to support traditional DA services. Operator Services are traditional PSTN services which often involve providing human or automated assistance to a caller, and often require the specialized capabilities traditionally provided by an operator services switch. Market and/or regulatory factors in some jurisdictions dictate that some subset of Operator Services continue to be provided going forward. This document aims to identify how Operator and Information Services can be implemented using existing or currently proposed SIP mechanisms, to identity existing protocol gaps, and to provide a set of Best Current Practices to facilitate interoperability. For Operator Services, the intention is to describe how current operator services can continue to be provided to PSTN based subscribers via a SIP based operator services architecture. It also looks at how current operator services might be provided to SIP based subscribers via such an architecture, but does not consider the larger question of the need for or usefulness or suitability of each of these services for SIP based subscribers. This document addresses the needs of current Operator and Information Services providers; as such, the intended audience includes vendors of equipment and services to such providers. "Handle Resolution Option for ASAP", Thomas Dreibholz, 2023-09-27, This document describes the Handle Resolution option for the ASAP protocol. "Definition of a Delay Measurement Infrastructure and Delay-Sensitive Least-Used Policy for Reliable Server Pooling", Thomas Dreibholz, Xing Zhou, 2023-09-27, This document contains the definition of a delay measurement infrastructure and a delay-sensitive Least-Used policy for Reliable Server Pooling. "Takeover Suggestion Flag for the ENRP Handle Update Message", Thomas Dreibholz, Xing Zhou, 2023-09-27, This document describes the Takeover Suggestion Flag for the ENRP_HANDLE_UPDATE message of the ENRP protocol. "A Record of Discussions of Graceful Restart Extensions for Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)", Palanivelan Appanasamy, 2011-11-17, This document is a historical record of discussions about extending the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol to provide additional capabilities to handle Graceful Restart. These discussions took place in the context of the IETF's BFD working group, and the consensus in that group was that these extensions should not be made. This document presents a summary of the challenges to BFD in surviving a graceful restart, and outlines a potential protocol solution that was discussed and rejected within the BFD working group. The purpose of this document is to provide a record of the work done so that future effort will not be wasted. This document does not propose or document any extensions to BFD, and there is no intention that it should be implemented in its current form. "The i;codepoint collation", Bjoern Hoehrmann, 2010-09-14, This memo describes the "i;codepoint" collation. Character strings are compared based on the Unicode scalar values of the characters. The collation supports equality, substring, and ordering operations. "A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Sources of Law (LEX)", PierLuigi Spinosa, Enrico Francesconi, Caterina Lupo, 2023-11-14, This document describes a Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace Identification (NID) convention for identifying, naming, assigning, and managing persistent resources in the legal domain. This specification is published to allow adoption of a common convention by multiple jurisdictions to facilitate ease of reference and access to resources in the legal domain. "Xon/Xoff State Control for Telnet Com Port Control Option", Grant Edwards, 2010-03-23, This document defines new values for use with the telnet com port control option's SET-CONTROL sub-command defined in RFC2217. These new values provide a mechanism for the telnet client to control and query the outbound Xon/Xoff flow control state of the telnet server's physical serial port. This capability is exposed in the serial port API on some operating systems and is needed by telnet clients that implement a port-redirector service which provides applications local to the redirector/telnet-client with transparent access to the remote serial port on the telnet server. "Load Sharing for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)", Paul Amer, Martin Becke, Thomas Dreibholz, Nasif Ekiz, Jana Iyengar, Preethi Natarajan, Randall Stewart, Michael Tuexen, 2023-08-28, The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) supports multi-homing for providing network fault tolerance. However, mainly one path is used for data transmission. Only timer-based retransmissions are carried over other paths as well. This document describes how multiple paths can be used simultaneously for transmitting user messages. "Clarification of Proper Use of "@" (at sign) in URI-style Components", Robert Simpson, 2010-07-30, Defacto standards have evolved that conflict with existing standards, specifically RFC 3986. This document clarifies the use of the "@" (at sign) in URIs and partial URI-like addresses. "Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Digest Authentication Using GSM 2G Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA)", Lionel Morand, 2014-04-14, This document specifies a one-time password generation mechanism for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Digest access authentication based on Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) authentication and key generation functions A3 and A8, also known as GSM AKA or 2G AKA. The HTTP Authentication Framework includes two authentication schemes: Basic and Digest. Both schemes employ a shared secret based mechanism for access authentication. The GSM AKA mechanism performs user authentication and session key distribution in GSM and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) networks. GSM AKA is a challenge-response based mechanism that uses symmetric cryptography. "Extensions to Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) for Backup Ingress of a Traffic Engineering Label Switched Path", Huaimo Chen, 2023-07-09, This document presents extensions to the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) for a PCC to send a request for computing a backup ingress for an MPLS TE P2MP LSP or an MPLS TE P2P LSP to a PCE and for a PCE to compute the backup ingress and reply to the PCC with a computation result for the backup ingress. "Extensions to the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) for Backup Egress of a Traffic Engineering Label Switched Path", Huaimo Chen, 2023-07-09, This document presents extensions to the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) for a PCC to send a request for computing a backup egress for an MPLS TE P2MP LSP or an MPLS TE P2P LSP to a PCE and for a PCE to compute the backup egress and reply to the PCC with a computation result for the backup egress. "OSPF Abnormal State Information", Huaimo Chen, 2023-07-31, This document describes a couple of options for an OSPF router to advertise its abnormal state information in a routing domain. "Sender Queue Info Option for the SCTP Socket API", Thomas Dreibholz, Robin Seggelmann, Martin Becke, 2023-09-27, This document describes an extension to the SCTP sockets API for querying information about the sender queue. "SCTP Socket API Extensions for Concurrent Multipath Transfer", Thomas Dreibholz, Martin Becke, Hakim Adhari, 2023-09-27, This document describes extensions to the SCTP sockets API for configuring the CMT-SCTP and CMT/RP-SCTP extensions. "Encoding the graphemes of the SignWriting Script with the x-ISWA-2010", Stephen Slevinski, Valerie Sutton, 2011-01-03, For concreteness, because the universal character set is not yet universal, because an undocumented and unlabeled coded character set hampers information interchange, a 12-bit coded character set has been created that encodes the graphemes of the SignWriting script as described in the open standard of the International SignWriting Alphabet 2010. The x-ISWA-2010 coded character set is defined with hexadecimal characters and described with Unicode characters, either proposed characters on plane 1 or interchange characters on plane 15. This memo defines a standard coded character set for the Internet community. It is published for reference, examination, implementation, and evaluation. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. "Explicit Congestion Notification for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol", Randall Stewart, Michael Tuexen, 2023-10-20, This document describes the addition of the Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). "The FNV Non-Cryptographic Hash Algorithm", Glenn Fowler, Landon Noll, Kiem-Phong Vo, Donald Eastlake, Tony Hansen, 2023-07-10, FNV (Fowler/Noll/Vo) is a fast, non-cryptographic hash algorithm with good dispersion. The purpose of this document is to make information on FNV and open source code performing FNV conveniently available to the Internet community. "A Forward-Search P2P TE LSP Inter-Domain Path Computation", Huaimo Chen, 2023-07-09, This document presents a forward search procedure for computing paths for Point-to-Point (P2P) Traffic Engineering (TE) Label Switched Paths (LSPs) crossing a number of domains using multiple Path Computation Elements (PCEs). In addition, extensions to the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) for supporting the forward search procedure are described. "Route Flap Damping Deployment Status Survey", Shishio Tsuchiya, Seiichi Kawamura, Randy Bush, Cristel Pelsser, 2012-06-21, BGP Route Flap Damping [RFC2439] is a mechanism that targets route stability. It penalyzes routes that flap with the aim of reducing CPU load on the routers. But it has side-effects. Thus, in 2006, RIPE recommended not to use Route Flap Damping (see [RIPE-378]). Now, some researchers propose to turn RFD, with less aggressive parameters, back on [draft-ymbk-rfd-usable]. This document describes results of a survey conducted among service provider on their use of BGP Route Flap Damping. "A Forward-Search P2MP TE LSP Inter-Domain Path Computation", Huaimo Chen, 2023-07-09, This document presents a forward search procedure for computing a path for a Point-to-MultiPoint (P2MP) Traffic Engineering (TE) Label Switched Path (LSP) crossing a number of domains through using multiple Path Computation Elements (PCEs). In addition, extensions to the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) for supporting the forward search procedure are described. "Unified User-Agent String", Mateusz Karcz, 2014-11-10, User-Agent is a HTTP request-header field. It contains information about the user agent originating the request, which is often used by servers to help identify the scope of reported interoperability problems, to work around or tailor responses to avoid particular user agent limitations, and for analytics regarding browser or operating system use. Over the years contents of this field got complicated and ambiguous. That was the reaction for sending altered version of websites to web browsers other than popular ones. During the development of the WWW, authors of the new web browsers used to construct User-Agent strings similar to Netscape's one. Nowadays contents of the User-Agent field are much longer than 15 years ago. This Memo proposes the Uniform User-Agent String as a way to simplify the User-Agent field contents, while maintaining the previous possibility of their use. "SNMPD to use cache and shared database based on MIB Classification", Haresh Khandelwal, 2012-03-29, This memo defines classification of SNMP MIBs to either use SNMP cache database and shared database (SDB) mechanism to reduce high CPU usage while SNMP GET REQUEST, GETNEXT REQUEST, GETBULK REQUEST are continuously performed from network management system (NMS)/SNMP manager/SNMP MIB browser to managed device. "Analysis of Algorithms For Deriving Port Sets", Tina Tsou, Tetsuya Murakami, Simon Perreault, 2013-05-17, This memo analyzes some port set definition algorithms used for stateless IPv4 to IPv6 transition technologies. The transition technologies using port set algorithms can be divided into two categories: fully stateless approach and binding approach. Some algorithms can work for both approaches. "The Applicability of the PCE to Computing Protection and Recovery Paths for Single Domain and Multi-Domain Networks.", Huaimo Chen, 2023-10-08, The Path Computation Element (PCE) provides path computation functions in support of traffic engineering in Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) networks. A link or node failure can significantly impact network services in large-scale networks. Therefore it is important to ensure the survivability of large scale networks which consist of various connections provided over multiple interconnected networks with varying technologies. This document examines the applicability of the PCE architecture, protocols, and procedures for computing protection paths and restoration services, for single and multi-domain networks. This document also explains the mechanism of Fast Re-Route (FRR) where a point of local repair (PLR) needs to find the appropriate merge point (MP) to do bypass path computation using PCE. "DNS Multiple QTYPEs", Ray Bellis, 2023-11-14, This document specifies a method for a DNS client to request additional DNS record types to be delivered alongside the primary record type specified in the question section of a DNS query. "JSON Hypertext Application Language", Mike Kelly, 2023-10-19, This document proposes a media type for representing resources and their relations with hyperlinks. "An FTP Application Layer Gateway (ALG) for IPv4-to-IPv6 Translation", Tina Tsou, Simon Perreault, Jing Huang, 2013-09-16, An FTP ALG for NAT64 was defined in RFC 6384. Its scope was limited to an IPv6 client connecting to an IPv4 server. This memo supports the case of an IPv4 client connecting to an IPv6 server. "A Framework for Energy Aware Control Planes", Alvaro Retana, Russ White, Manuel Paul, 2023-08-24, Energy is a primary constraint in large-scale network design, particularly in cloud-scale data center fabrics. While compute and storage clearly consume the largest amounts of energy in large-scale networks, the optics and electronics used in transporting data also contribute to energy usage and heat generation. This document provides an overview of various areas of concern in the interaction between network performance and efforts at energy aware control planes, as a guide for those working on modifying current control planes or designing new ones to improve the energy efficiency of high density, highly complex, network deployments. "Web Cache Communication Protocol V2, Revision 1", Douglas McLaggan, 2012-08-02, This document describes version 2 of the Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP). The WCCP V2 protocol specifies interactions between one or more routers and one or more web-caches. The interaction may take place within an IPv4 or IPv6 network. The purpose of the interaction is to establish and maintain the transparent redirection of selected types of traffic flowing through a group of routers (or similar devices). The selected traffic is redirected to a group of web-caches (or other traffic optimisation devices) with the aim of optimising resource usage and lowering response times. The protocol does not specify any interaction between the web-caches within a group or between a web-cache and a web-server. "The application/stream+json Media Type", James Snell, 2012-10-11, This specification defines and registers the application/stream+json Content Type for the JSON Activity Streams format. "Cryptographic Security Characteristics of 802.11 Wireless LAN Access Systems", Stephen Orr, Anthony Grieco, Dan Harkins, 2012-10-15, This note identifies all of the places that cryptography is used in Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) architectures, to simplify the task of selecting the protocols, algorithms, and key sizes needed to achieve a consistent security level across the entire architecture. "I-PAKE: Identity-Based Password Authenticated Key Exchange", Hyojin Yoon, Sang Kim, 2013-05-03, Although password authentication is the most widespread user authentication method today, cryptographic protocols for mutual authentication and key agreement, i.e., password authenticated key exchange (PAKE), in particular authenticated key exchange (AKE) based on a password only, are not actively used in the real world. This document introduces a quite novel form of PAKE protocols that employ a particular concept of ID-based encryption (IBE). The resulting cryptographic protocol is the ID-based password authenticated key exchange (I-PAKE) protocol which is a secure and efficient PAKE protocol in both soft- and hard-augmented models. I-PAKE achieves the security goals of AKE, PAKE, and hard-augmented PAKE. I-PAKE also achieves the great efficiency by allowing the whole pre-computation of the ephemeral Diffie-Hellman public keys by both server and client. "remoteStorage", Michiel de Jong, F. Kooman, S. Kippe, 2023-06-26, This draft describes a protocol by which client-side applications, running inside a web browser, can communicate with a data storage server that is hosted on a different domain name. This way, the provider of a web application need not also play the role of data storage provider. The protocol supports storing, retrieving, and removing individual documents, as well as listing the contents of an individual folder, and access control is based on bearer tokens. "Ruoska Encoding", Jukka-Pekka Makela, 2013-10-12, This document describes hierarchically structured binary encoding format called Ruoska Encoding (later RSK). The main design goals are minimal resource usage, well defined structure with good selection of widely known data types, and still extendable for future usage. The main benefit when compared to non binary hierarchically structured formats like XML is simplicity and minimal resource demands. Even basic XML parsing is time and memory consuming operation. When compared to other binary formats like BER encoding of ASN.1 the main benefit is simplicity. ASN.1 with many different encodings is complex and even simple implementation needs a lot of effort. RSK is also more efficient than BER. "ICANN Registry Interfaces", Gustavo Ibarra, Eduardo Alvarez, 2023-10-05, This document describes the technical details of the interfaces provided by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to its contracted parties to fulfill reporting requirements. The interfaces provided by ICANN to Data Escrow Agents and Registry Operators to fulfill the requirements of Specifications 2 and 3 of the gTLD Base Registry Agreement are described in this document. Additionally, interfaces for retrieving the IP addresses of the probe nodes used in the SLA Monitoring System (SLAM) and interfaces for supporting maintenance window objects are described in this document. "HTTP Link Hints", Mark Nottingham, 2023-07-23, This memo specifies "HTTP Link Hints", a mechanism for annotating Web links to HTTP(S) resources with information that otherwise might be discovered by interacting with them. About This Document This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Status information for this document may be found at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nottingham-link-hint/. information can be found at https://mnot.github.io/I-D/. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/mnot/I-D/labels/link-hint. "Binary Encodings for JavaScript Object Notation: JSON-B, JSON-C, JSON-D", Phillip Hallam-Baker, 2023-06-28, Three binary encodings for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) are presented. JSON-B (Binary) is a strict superset of the JSON encoding that permits efficient binary encoding of intrinsic JavaScript data types. JSON-C (Compact) is a strict superset of JSON-B that supports compact representation of repeated data strings with short numeric codes. JSON-D (Data) supports additional binary data types for integer and floating-point representations for use in scientific applications where conversion between binary and decimal representations would cause a loss of precision. This document is also available online at http://mathmesh.com/Documents/draft-hallambaker-jsonbcd.html. "QoS-level aware Transmission Protocol (QTP) for virtual networks", Julong Lan, Dongnian Cheng, Yuxiang Hu, Guozhen Cheng, Tong Duan, 2023-10-01, This document provides a QoS-level aware Transmission Protocol (QTP) for virtual networks. "Use of the WebSocket Protocol as a Transport for the Remote Framebuffer Protocol", Nicholas Wilson, 2013-10-07, The Remote Framebuffer protocol (RFB) enables clients to connect to and control remote graphical resources. This document describes a transport for RFB using the WebSocket protocol, and defines a corresponding WebSocket subprotocol, enabling an RFB server to offer resources to clients with WebSocket connectivity, such as web- browsers. "Metadata Query Protocol", Ian Young, 2023-07-08, This document defines a simple protocol for retrieving metadata about named entities, or named collections of entities. The goal of the protocol is to profile various aspects of HTTP to allow requesters to rely on certain, rigorously defined, behaviour. This document is a product of the Research and Education Federations (REFEDS) Working Group process. "Ideas for a Next Generation of the Reliable Server Pooling Framework", Thomas Dreibholz, 2023-09-27, This document collects some idea for a next generation of the Reliable Server Pooling framework. "Extensions to PCEP for Distributing Label Cross Domains", Huaimo Chen, Autumn Liu, Mehmet Toy, Vic liu, 2023-07-09, This document specifies extensions to PCEP for distributing labels crossing domains for an inter-domain Point-to-Point (P2P) or Point- to-Multipoint (P2MP) Traffic Engineering (TE) Label Switched Path (LSP). "Informational Add-on for HTTP over the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Protocol and/or the Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol", Walter Hoehlhubmer, 2013-11-25, This document describes an Add-on for websites providing encrypted connectivity (HTTP over TLS). The Add-on has two parts, one for the Domain Name System (DNS) - storing the X.509 certificate hashes - and one for the webserver itself - an additional webpage providing specific informations. "Generic Fault-Avoidance Routing Protocol for Data Center Networks", Bin Liu, Yantao Sun, Jing Cheng, Yichen Zhang, Bhumip Khasnabish, 2023-06-24, This document describes a generic routing method and protocol for a regular data center network, named the Fault-Avoidance Routing (FAR) protocol. The FAR protocol provides a generic routing method for all types of regular topology network architectures that have been proposed for large-scale cloud-based data centers over the past few years. The FAR protocol is designed to leverage any regularity in the topology and compute its routing table in a concise manner. Fat- tree is taken as an example architecture to illustrate how the FAR protocol can be applied in real operational scenarios. "SAML Profile for the Metadata Query Protocol", Ian Young, 2023-07-08, This document profiles the Metadata Query Protocol for use with SAML metadata. This document is a product of the Research and Education Federations (REFEDS) Working Group process. Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor before publication) Discussion of this draft takes place on the MDX mailing list (mdx@lists.iay.org.uk), which is accessed from [MDX.list]. XML versions, latest edits and the issues list for this document are available from [md-query]. The changes in this draft are summarized in Appendix A.20. "ESP Header Compression Profile", Daniel Migault, Tobias Guggemos, Carsten Bormann, David Schinazi, 2023-06-29, ESP Header Compression Profile (EHCP) defines a profile to compress communications protected with IPsec/ESP. "Passive DNS - Common Output Format", Alexandre Dulaunoy, Aaron Kaplan, Paul Vixie, Henry Stern, 2023-06-09, This document describes a common output format of Passive DNS Servers which clients can query. The output format description includes also in addition a common semantic for each Passive DNS system. By having multiple Passive DNS Systems adhere to the same output format for queries, users of multiple Passive DNS servers will be able to combine result sets easily. "Just because it's an Internet-Draft doesn't mean anything... at all...", Warren Kumari, 2023-10-22, Anyone can publish an Internet Draft (ID). This doesn't mean that the "IETF thinks" or that "the IETF is planning..." or anything similar. "A JSON Encoding for HTTP Field Values", Julian Reschke, 2023-09-01, This document establishes a convention for use of JSON-encoded field values in new HTTP fields. "Ideas for a Next Generation of the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)", Thomas Dreibholz, 2023-09-27, This document collects some ideas for a next generation of the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) for further discussion. It is a result of lessons learned from more than one decade of SCTP deployment. "Service Function Path Establishment", Julong Lan, Yuxiang Hu, Guozhen Cheng, Peng Wang, Tong Duan, 2023-10-01, Service Function Chain architecture leads to more adaptive network nodes. It allows splitting the network function into fine-grained build blocks --- service function, and combining the network functions into service function chain to formulate complicated services. Further, the service function chain should be instantiated by selecting the optimal instance from the candidates for each service function in it. This document discusses the required components during the instantiation of service function chain in the network. "Egress Peer Engineering using BGP-LU", Hannes Gredler, Kaliraj Vairavakkalai, Chandrasekar R, Balaji Rajagopalan, Ebben Aries, Luyuan Fang, 2023-06-16, The MPLS source routing paradigm provides path control for both intra- and inter- Autonomous System (AS) traffic. RSVP-TE is utilized for intra-AS path control. This documents outlines how MPLS routers may use the BGP labeled unicast protocol (BGP-LU) for doing traffic-engineering on inter-AS links. "Multiple Upstream Interface Support for IGMP/MLD Proxy", Hitoshi Asaeda, Luis Contreras, 2023-10-23, This document describes the way of supporting multiple upstream interfaces for an IGMP/MLD proxy device. The proposed extension enables an IGMP/MLD proxy device to receive multicast sessions/ channels through the different upstream interfaces. The upstream interface can be selected based on multiple criteria, such as the subscriber address prefixes, channel/session IDs, and interface priority values. A mechanism for upstream interface takeover that enables to switch from an inactive upstream interface to an active upstream interface is also described. "Encapsulating IP in UDP", Xiaohu Xu, Hamid Assarpour, Shaowen Ma, Daniel Bernier, Darren Dukes, Shraddha Hegde, Yiu Lee, Fan Yongbing, 2023-09-14, Existing IP-in-IP encapsulation technologies are not adequate for efficient load balancing of IP-in-IP traffic across IP networks. This document specifies additional IP-in-IP encapsulation technology, referred to as IP-in-UDP (User Datagram Protocol), which can facilitate the load balancing of IP-in-IP traffic across IP networks. "SMTP Service Extension for Client Identity", William Storey, 2023-05-29, This document defines an extension for the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) called "CLIENTID" to provide a method for clients to indicate an identity to the server. This identity is an additional token that may be used for security and/or informational purposes, and with it a server may optionally apply heuristics using this token. "PCE-initiated IP Tunnel", Xia Chen, Hang Shi, Zhenbin Li, 2023-07-10, This document specifies a set of extensions to PCEP to support PCE- initiated IP Tunnel to satisfy the requirement which is introduced in [I-D.li-spring-tunnel-segment]. The extensions include the setup, maintenance and teardown of PCE-initiated IP Tunnels, without the need for local configuration on the PCC. "PCEP extensions for Distribution of Link-State and TE Information", Dhruv Dhody, Shuping Peng, Young Lee, Daniele Ceccarelli, Aijun Wang, 2023-08-27, In order to compute and provide optimal paths, a Path Computation Elements (PCEs) require an accurate and timely Traffic Engineering Database (TED). Traditionally, this TED has been obtained from a link state (LS) routing protocol supporting the traffic engineering extensions. This document extends the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) with Link-State and TE Information as an experimental extension. "Node Potential Oriented Multi-NextHop Routing Protocol", Julong Lan, Jianhui Zhang, Bin Wang, Wenfen Liu, Tong Duan, 2023-10-01, The Node Potential Oriented Multi-Nexthop Routing Protocol (NP-MNRP) bases on the idea of "hop-by-hop routing forwarding, multi-backup next hop" and combines with the phenomena that water flows from higher place to lower. NP-MNRP defines a metric named as node potential, which is based on hop count and the actual link bandwidth, and calculates multiple next-hops through the potential difference between the nodes. "Multiple Ethernet - IPv6 address mapping encapsulation - fixed prefix", Naoki Matsuhira, 2023-10-03, This document specifies Multiple Ethernet - IPv6 address mapping encapsulation - fixed prefix (ME6E-FP) base specification. ME6E-FP makes expantion ethernet network over IPv6 backbone network with encapsuation technoogy. And also, E6ME-FP can stack multiple Ethernet networks. ME6E-FP work on own routing domain. "Multiple Ethernet - IPv6 address mapping encapsulation - prefix resolution", Naoki Matsuhira, 2023-10-03, This document specifies Multiple Ethernet - IPv6 address mapping encapsulation - Prefix Resolution (ME6E-PR) specification. ME6E-PR makes expantion ethernet network over IPv6 backbone network with encapsuation technoogy. And also, E6ME-PR can stack multiple Ethernet networks. ME6E-PR work on non own routing domain. "OAuth 2.0 Web Message Response Mode", Toru Yamaguchi, Nat Sakimura, Nov Matake, 2023-11-08, This specification defines a new response mode for RFC6749 that uses HTML5 Web Messaging (a.k.a window.postMessage()) instead of the redirect for the Authorization Response from the Authorization Endpoint. It defines two modes: simple mode and relay mode. Relay mode can be used to protect the access token in the implicit grant case by confining it within the origins of authorization server or resource server and preventing it from being read by the client. "BGP Extensions for IDs Allocation", Huaimo Chen, Zhenbin Li, Zhenqiang Li, Yanhe Fan, Mehmet Toy, Lei Liu, 2023-10-15, This document describes extensions to the BGP for IDs allocation. The IDs are SIDs for segment routing (SR), including SR for IPv6 (SRv6). They are distributed to their domains if needed. "Generic Multicast Router Election on LAN's", IJsbrand Wijnands, Pierre Pfister, Zhaohui Zhang, 2023-10-19, When a host is connected to multiple multicast capable routers, each of these routers is a candidate to process the multicast flow for that LAN, but only one router should be elected to process it. This document proposes a generic multicast router election mechanism using Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) that can be used by any Multicast Overlay Signalling Protocol (MOSP). Having such generic election mechanism removes a dependency on Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM). "A MILP Model to Solve the Problem of Loading Balance of Routing and Wavelength Assignment for Optical Transport Networks", Shan Yin, Shanguo Huang, Dajiang Wang, Xuan Wang, Yu Zhang, 2023-06-19, The RWA problem can be formulated as a Mixed-Integer linear program. Load balancing is a key factor for the optical transport networks. However, the existed approaches using mixed-Integer linear program to solve the RWA problem are not perfect enough without considering the load balancing of the networks. This documentary provides a model of Mixed-Integer Linear Programming to solve the problem of load balancing needed by routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) process in optical transport networks. "Mathematical Mesh 3.0 Part I: Architecture Guide", Phillip Hallam-Baker, 2023-06-28, The Mathematical Mesh is a Threshold Key Infrastructure that makes computers easier to use by making them more secure. Application of threshold cryptography to key generation and use enables users to make use of public key cryptography across multiple devices with minimal impact on the user experience. This document provides an overview of the Mesh data structures, protocols and examples of its use. [Note to Readers] Discussion of this draft takes place on the MATHMESH mailing list (mathmesh@ietf.org), which is archived at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?email_list=mathmesh. This document is also available online at http://mathmesh.com/Documents/draft-hallambaker-mesh- architecture.html. "Mathematical Mesh: Reference Implementation", Phillip Hallam-Baker, 2023-06-28, The Mathematical Mesh 'The Mesh' is an end-to-end secure infrastructure that facilitates the exchange of configuration and credential data between multiple user devices. This document describes the Mesh reference code and how to install, run and make use of it in applications. It does not form a part of the Mesh specifications and is not normative. This document is also available online at http://mathmesh.com/Documents/draft-hallambaker-mesh-developer.html. "Multiple IPv4 - IPv6 mapped IPv6 address (M46A)", Naoki Matsuhira, 2023-10-03, This document specifies Multiple IPv4 - IPv6 mapped IPv6 address(M46A) spefification. M46A is an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address with a plane ID. Unique allocation of plane id value enables IPv4 private address unique in IPv6 address space. This address may use IPv4 over IPv6 encapsulation and IPv4 - IPv6 translation. "Multiple IPv4 - IPv6 address mapping encapsulation - fixed prefix (M46E-FP)", Naoki Matsuhira, 2023-10-03, This document specifies Multiple IPv4 - IPv6 address mapping encapsulation - fixed prefix (M46E-FP) specification. M46E-FP makes backbone network to IPv6 only. And also, M46E-FP can stack many IPv4 networks, i.e. the networks using same IPv4 (private) addresses, without interdependence. "Multiple IPv4 - IPv6 address mapping encapsulation - prefix resolution (M46E-PR)", Naoki Matsuhira, 2023-10-03, This document specifies M46E Prefix Resolution (M46E-PR) specification. M46E-PR connect IPv4 stub networks between IPv6 backbone network. And also, M46E-PR can stack many IPv4 networks, i.e. the nwtworks using same IPv4 private addresses without interdependence. "Multiple IPv4 - IPv6 address mapping encapsulation - prefix translator (M46E-PT)", Naoki Matsuhira, 2023-10-03, This document specifies Multiple IPv4 - IPv6 mapping encapsulation - Prefix Translator (M46E-PT) specification. M46E-PT expand IPv4 network plane by connecting M46E-FP domain and M46E-PR domain. M46E- PT translate prefix part of M46E-FP address and M46E-PR address both are IPv6 address. M46E-PT does not translate IPv4 packet which is encapsulated, so transparency of IPv4 packet is not broken. "Multiple IPv4 - IPv6 address mapping translator (M46T)", Naoki Matsuhira, 2023-10-03, This document specifies Multiple IPv4 - IPv6 address mapping Translator (M46T) specification. M46T enable access to IPv4 only host from IPv6 host. IPv4 host is identified as M46 address in IPv6 address space. The address assigned to IPv4 host may be global IPv4 address or private IPv4 address. M46T does not support access to IPv6 host from IPv4 only host. "Multiple IPv4 address and port number - IPv6 address mapping encapsulation (M4P6E)", Naoki Matsuhira, 2023-10-03, This document specifies Multiple IPv4 address and port number - IPv6 address mapping encapulation (M4P6E) specification. "Multi-Stage Transparent Server Load Balancing", Naoki Matsuhira, 2023-10-03, This document specifies Multi-Stage Transparent Server Load Balancing (MSLB) specification. MSLB makes server load balancing over Layer3 network without packet header change at client and server. MSLB makes server load balancing with any protocol and protocol with encryption such as IPsec ESP, SSL/TLS. "Additional Considerations for UDP Encapsulation of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Packets", Michael Tuexen, Randall Stewart, 2023-09-10, RFC 6951 specifies the UDP encapsulation of SCTP packets. The described handling of received packets requires the check of the verification tag. However, RFC 6951 misses a specification of the handling of received packets for which this check is not possible. This document updates RFC 6951 by specifying the handling of received packets for which the verification tag can not be checked. "Multiple Ethernet - IPv6 mapped IPv6 address (ME6A)", Naoki Matsuhira, 2023-10-03, This document specifies Multiple Ethernet - IPv6 mapped IPv6 address(ME6A) spefification. ME6A is an Ethernet-mapped IPv6 address with a plane ID. Unique allocation of plane id value enables duplicated MAC address unique in IPv6 address space. This address may use Ethernet over IPv6 encapsulation. "SSH Agent Protocol", Damien Miller, 2023-08-23, This document describes a key agent protocol for use in the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol. "Hierarchical PCE Determination", Huaimo Chen, Mehmet Toy, Xufeng Liu, Lei Liu, Zhenqiang Li, 2023-07-09, This document presents extensions to the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) for determining parent child relations and exchanging the information between a parent and a child PCE in a hierarchical PCE system. "PCEP Link State Abstraction", Huaimo Chen, Mehmet Toy, Xufeng Liu, Lei Liu, Zhenqiang Li, 2023-07-09, This document presents extensions to the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) for a child PCE to abstract its domain information to its parent for supporting a hierarchical PCE system. "Static PCEP Link State", Huaimo Chen, Mehmet Toy, Xufeng Liu, Lei Liu, Zhenqiang Li, 2023-07-09, This document presents extensions to the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) for a PCC to advertise the information about the links without running IGP and for a PCE to build a TED based on the information received. "MVPN/EVPN C-Multicast Routes Enhancements", Zhaohui Zhang, Robert Kebler, Wen Lin, Eric Rosen, 2023-09-01, [RFC6513] and [RFC6514] specify procedures for originating, propagating, and processing "C-multicast routes". However, there are a number of MVPN use cases that are not properly or optimally handled by those procedures. This document describes those use cases, and specifies the additional procedures needed to handle them. Some of the additional procedures are also applicable to EVPN SMET routes [RFC9251]. "Mathematical Mesh: Platform Configuration", Phillip Hallam-Baker, 2023-06-28, The Mathematical Mesh 'The Mesh' is an end-to-end secure infrastructure that facilitates the exchange of configuration and credential data between multiple user devices. This document describes how Mesh profiles are stored for application access on Windows, Linux and OSX platforms. This document is also available online at http://prismproof.org/Documents/draft-hallambaker-mesh-platform.html. "The OpenConnect VPN Protocol Version 1.2", Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2023-07-23, This document specifies version 1.2 of the OpenConnect Virtual Private Network (VPN) protocol, a secure VPN protocol that provides communications privacy over the Internet. That protocol is believed to be compatible with CISCO's AnyConnect VPN protocol. The protocol allows the establishment of VPN tunnels in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery. "Fast HIP Host Mobility", Robert Moskowitz, Stuart Card, Adam Wiethuechter, 2023-06-08, This document describes mobility scenarios and how to aggressively support them in HIP. The goal is minimum lag in the mobility event. "Extension to the Link Management Protocol (LMP/DWDM -rfc4209) for Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) Optical Line Systems to manage the application code of optical interface parameters in DWDM application", Dharini Hiremagalur, Gert Grammel, Gabriele Galimberti, Ruediger Kunze, 2023-07-25, This experimental memo defines extensions to LMP(rfc4209) for managing Optical parameters associated with Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) adding a set of parameters related to multicarrier DWDM interfaces to be used in Spectrum Switched Optical Networks (sson). "BIER in BABEL", Zheng Zhang, Tony Przygienda, 2023-07-05, BIER introduces a novel multicast architecture. It does not require a signaling protocol to explicitly build multicast distribution trees, nor does it require intermediate nodes to maintain any per- flow state. Babel defines a distance-vector routing protocol that operates in a robust and efficient fashion both in wired as well as in wireless mesh networks. This document defines a way to carry necessary BIER signaling information in Babel. "Encapsulating IPsec ESP in UDP for Load-balancing", Xiaohu Xu, Shraddha Hegde, Boris Pismenny, Dacheng Zhang, Liang Xia, Mahendra Puttaswamy, 2023-09-14, IPsec Virtual Private Network (VPN) is widely used by enterprises to interconnect their geographical dispersed branch office locations across the Wide Area Network (WAN) or the Internet, especially in the Software-Defined-WAN (SD-WAN) era. In addition, IPsec is also increasingly used by cloud providers to encrypt IP traffic traversing data center networks and data center interconnect WANs so as to meet the security and compliance requirements, especially in financial cloud and governmental cloud environments. To fully utilize the bandwidth available in the data center network, the data center interconnect WAN or the Internet, load balancing of IPsec traffic over Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) and/or Link Aggregation Group (LAG) is much attractive to those enterprises and cloud providers. This document defines a method to encapsulate IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) packets over UDP tunnels for improving load-balancing of IPsec ESP traffic. "Equal-Cost Multipath Considerations for BGP", Petr Lapukhov, Jeff Tantsura, 2023-06-26, BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) [RFC4271] employs tie-breaking logic to select a single best path among multiple paths available, known as BGP best path selection. At the same time, it has become a common practice to allow for "equal-cost multipath" (ECMP) selection and programming of multiple next-hops in routing tables. This document summarizes some common considerations for the ECMP logic when BGP is used as the routing protocol, with the intent of providing common reference for otherwise unstandardized set of features. "Adaptive IPv4 Address Space", Abraham Chen, Ramamurthy Ati, Abhay Karandikar, David Crowe, 2023-06-13, This document describes a solution to the Internet address depletion issue through the use of an existing Option mechanism that is part of the original IPv4 protocol. This proposal, named EzIP (phonetic for Easy IPv4), outlines the IPv4 public address pool expansion and the Internet system architecture enhancement considerations. EzIP may expand an IPv4 address by a factor of 256M without affecting the existing IPv4 based Internet, or the current private networks. It is in full conformance with the IPv4 protocol, and supports not only both direct and private network connectivity, but also their interoperability. EzIP deployments may coexist with existing Internet traffic and IoTs (Internet of Things) operations without perturbing their setups, while offering end-users the freedom to indepdently choose which service. EzIP may be implemented as a software or firmware enhancement to Internet edge routers or private network routing gateways, wherever needed, or simply installed as an inline adjunct hardware module between the two, enabling a seamless introduction. The 256M case detailed here establishes a complete spherical layer of an overlay of routers for interfacing between the Internet fabic (core plus edge routers) and the end user premises or IoTs. Incorporating caching proxy technology in the gateway, a fairly large geographical region may enjoy address expansion based on as few as one ordinary IPv4 public address utilizing IP packets with degenerated EzIP header. If IPv4 public pool allocations were reorganized, the assignable pool could be multiplied 512M fold or even more. Enabling hierarchical address architecture which facilitates both hierarchical and mesh routing, EzIP can provide nearly the same order of magnitude of address pool resources as IPv6 while streamlining the administrative aspects of it. The basic EzIP will immediately resolve the local IPv4 address shortage, while being transparent to the rest of the Internet as a new parallel facility. Under the Dual-Stack environment, these proposed interim facilities will relieve the IPv4 address shortage issue, while affording IPv6 more time to reach maturity for providing the availability levels required for delivering a long-term general service. The basic EzIP may be deployed in two distinctive phases. First, the CG-NAT operation may be enhanced by enabling the use of 240/4 netblock in addition to the current 100.64/10 netblock of RFC6598. This makes end-to-end connectivity feasible within the service area of each 240/4 netblock. Second, this capability may extend to global coverage with the use of the Option Word mechanism in the IP header. "Mobility Capability Negotiation", Zhiwei Yan, Tianji Jiang, Jianfeng Guan, Tao Huang, Jong-Hyouk Lee, 2023-07-03, Mobile peers exchange signals with networks, for both IP and wireless domains, to negotiate capabilities for mobile registration, connection management, session establishment, service provisioning, etc. Generally, mobility capabilities include the supported and provisioned resources along with associated protocols for certain mobility management scenarios. While devices in the mobile IP domain would mostly focus on the IP-related negotiation, devices in the wireless domain, e.g., the 5G system (5GS), embrace both mobile IP- related resources as well as wireless-specific capabilities. Regarding both the mobile-IP and wireless domains, we have generalized two protocol categories for mobility capability negotiation & management, i.e., the host-initiated category that involves the direct & active engagement of mobile end devices vs. the network-based category over which mobile endpoints play almost no role in the process. The classification and then the application of the two categories help us analyze the mobility capability negotiation for both the mobile IPv6 and the 3GPP 5G system. The comparison of the capability negotiation under both the Home-Routed (HR) and the Local BreakOut (LBO) roaming cases in 5GS further reflects the feasibility of the protocol dichotomy. "A Definition of the Term "Soon" for Use in Discussions with Working Group Chairs and Area Directors", Adrian Farrel, 2023-09-06, Many discussions with IETF Area Directors and Working Group Chairs utilize the word "Soon" to qualify a commitment to action. This document attempts to provide a definition of that term so that common expectations may be realistically set. "Vehicular Neighbor Discovery for IP-Based Vehicular Networks", Jaehoon Jeong, Yiwen Shen, Sandra Cespedes, 2023-08-07, This document specifies a Vehicular Neighbor Discovery (VND) as an extension of IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) for IP-based vehicular networks. An optimized Address Registration and a multihop Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) mechanism are performed for having operation efficiency and also saving both wireless bandwidth and vehicle energy. In addition, three new ND options for prefix discovery, service discovery, and mobility information report are defined to announce the network prefixes and services inside a vehicle (i.e., a vehicle's internal network). "DNS Name Autoconfiguration for Internet-of-Things Devices in IP-Based Vehicular Networks", Jaehoon Jeong, Yoseop Ahn, Sejun Lee, J., PARK, 2023-08-07, This document specifies an autoconfiguration scheme for device discovery and service discovery in IP-based vehicular networks. Through the device discovery, this document supports the global (or local) DNS naming of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, such as sensors, actuators, and in-vehicle units. By this scheme, the DNS name of an IoT device can be autoconfigured with the device's model information in wired and wireless target networks (e.g., vehicle, road network, home, office, shopping mall, and smart grid). Through the service discovery, IoT users (e.g., drivers, passengers, home residents, and customers) in the Internet (or local network) can easily identify each device for monitoring and remote-controlling it in a target network. "Signaling extensions for Media Channel sub-carriers configuration in Spectrum Switched Optical Networks (SSON) in Lambda Switch Capable (LSC) Optical Line Systems.", Gabriele Galimberti, Domenico Fauci, Andrea Zanardi, Lorenzo Galvagni, Julien Meuric, 2023-07-25, This memo defines the signaling extensions for managing Spectrum Switched Optical Network (SSON) parameters shared between the Client and the Network and inside the Network in accordance to the model described in RFC7698. The extensions are in accordance and extending the parameters defined in ITU-T Recommendation G.694.1 and its extensions and G.872. "OSPF Extensions for Broadcast Inter-AS TE Link", Huaimo Chen, Mehmet Toy, Xufeng Liu, Lei Liu, Zhenqiang Li, Yi Yang, 2023-07-09, This document presents extensions to the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) for advertising broadcast inter-AS Traffic Engineering (TE) links. "ISIS Extensions for Broadcast Inter-AS TE Link", Huaimo Chen, Mehmet Toy, Xufeng Liu, Lei Liu, Zhenqiang Li, Yi Yang, 2023-07-09, This document presents extensions to the ISIS protocol for advertising broadcast inter-AS Traffic Engineering (TE) links. "BGP Logical Link Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Peer Discovery", Acee Lindem, Keyur Patel, Shawn Zandi, Jeffrey Haas, Xiaohu Xu, 2023-07-05, Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) or IEEE Std 802.1AB is implemented in networking equipment from many vendors. It is natural for IETF protocols to avail this protocol for simple discovery tasks. This document describes how BGP would use LLDP to discover directly connected and 2-hop peers when peering is based on loopback addresses. "Short-Lived Certificates for Secure Telephone Identity", Jon Peterson, 2023-11-09, When certificates are used as credentials to attest the assignment of ownership of telephone numbers, some mechanism is required to provide certificate freshness. This document specifies short-lived certificates as a means of guaranteeing certificate freshness for secure telephone identity (STIR), potentially relying on the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) or similar mechanisms to allow signers to acquire certificates as needed. "NEAT Sockets API", Thomas Dreibholz, 2023-08-28, This document describes a BSD Sockets-like API on top of the callback-based NEAT User API. This facilitates porting existing applications to use a subset of NEAT's functionality. "Loop avoidance using Segment Routing", Ahmed Bashandy, Clarence Filsfils, Stephane Litkowski, Bruno Decraene, Pierre Francois, Peter Psenak, 2023-06-18, This document presents a mechanism aimed at providing loop avoidance in the case of IGP network convergence event. The solution relies on the temporary use of SR policies ensuring loop-freeness over the post-convergence paths from the converging node to the destination. "IPv6 is Classless", Nicolas Bourbaki, 2023-10-05, Over the history of IPv6, various classful address models have been proposed, none of which has withstood the test of time. The last remnant of IPv6 classful addressing is a rigid network interface identifier boundary at /64. This document removes the fixed position of that boundary for interface addressing. "BFD in Demand Mode over a Point-to-Point MPLS LSP", Greg Mirsky, 2023-11-09, This document describes procedures for using Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) in Demand mode to detect data plane failures in Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) point-to-point Label Switched Paths. "BGP MultiNexthop Attribute", Kaliraj Vairavakkalai, Jeyananth Jeganathan, Mohan Nanduri, Avinash Lingala, 2023-11-18, Today, a BGP speaker can advertise one nexthop for a set of NLRIs in an Update. This nexthop can be encoded in either the top-level BGP- Nexthop attribute (code 3), or inside the MP_REACH_NLRI attribute (code 14). This document defines a new optional non-transitive BGP attribute called "MultiNexthop (MNH)" with IANA BGP attribute type code TBD, that can be used to carry an ordered set of one or more Nexthops in the same route, with forwaring information scoped on a per nexthop basis. "BGP Signaled MPLS Namespaces", Kaliraj Vairavakkalai, Jeyananth Jeganathan, Praveen Ramadenu, Israel Means, 2023-10-20, The MPLS forwarding layer in a core network is a shared resource. The MPLS FIB at nodes in this layer contains labels that are dynamically allocated and locally significant at that node. These labels are scoped in context of the global loopback address. Let us call this the global MPLS namespace. For some usecases like upstream label allocation, it is useful to create private MPLS namespaces (virtual MPLS FIB) over this shared MPLS forwarding layer. This allows installing deterministic label values in the private FIBs created at nodes participating in the private MPLS namespace, while preserving the "locally significant" nature of the underlying shared global MPLS FIB. This document defines new address families (AFI: 16399, SAFI: 128, or 1) and associated signaling mechanisms to create and use MPLS forwarding contexts in a network. Some example use cases are also described. "PIM Proxy in EVPN Networks", Jorge Rabadan, Jayant Kotalwar, Senthil Sathappan, Zhaohui Zhang, Ali Sajassi, Mankamana Mishra, 2023-10-11, Ethernet Virtual Private Networks are becoming prevalent in Data Centers, Data Center Interconnect (DCI) and Service Provider VPN applications. One of the goals that EVPN pursues is the reduction of flooding and the efficiency of CE-based control plane procedures in Broadcast Domains. Examples of this are Proxy ARP/ND and IGMP/MLD Proxy. This document complements the latter, describing the procedures required to minimize the flooding of PIM messages in EVPN Broadcast Domains, and optimize the IP Multicast delivery between PIM routers. "EVPN Support for L3 Fast Convergence and Aliasing/Backup Path", Ali Sajassi, Gaurav Badoni, Priyanka Warade, S. Pasupula, Lukas Krattiger, John Drake, Jorge Rabadan, 2023-10-23, This document proposes an EVPN extension to allow several of its multihoming functions, fast convergence and aliasing/backup path, to be used in conjunction with inter-subnet forwarding. The extension is limited to All-Active and Single-Active redundancy modes. "Update to Private Header Field P-Visited-Network-ID in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Requests and Responses", Christer Holmberg, Nevenka Biondic, Gonzalo Salgueiro, Roland Jesske, 2023-06-13, The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has identified cases where different SIP private header extensions referred to as "P-" header fields, and defined in RFC 7315, need to be included in SIP requests and responses currently not allowed according to RFC 7315. This document updates , in order to allow inclusion of the affected "P-" header fields in such requests and responses. This document also makes updates for RFC 7315 in order to fix misalignments that occurred when RFC 3455 was updated and obsoleted by RFC 7315. "IPv6-only Terminology Definition", Jordi Martinez, 2023-10-23, This document defines the terminology regarding the usage of expressions such as "IPv6-only", in order to avoid confusions when using them in IETF and other documents. The goal is that the reference to "IPv6-only" describes the actual native functionality being used, not the actual protocol support. "LISP for the Mobile Network", Dino Farinacci, Padma Pillay-Esnault, Uma Chunduri, 2023-08-28, This specification describes how the LISP architecture and protocols can be used in a LTE/5G mobile network to support session survivable EID mobility. A recommendation is provided to SDOs on how to integrate LISP into the mobile network. "Reassignment of System Ports to the IESG", Mirja Kuehlewind, Sabrina Tanamal, 2020-02-10, In the IANA Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry, a large number of System Ports are currently assigned to individuals or companies who have registered the port for the use with a certain protocol before RFC6335 was published. For some of these ports, RFCs exist that describe the respective protocol; for others, RFCs are under development that define, re-define, or assign the protocol used for the respective port, such as in case of so-far unused UDP ports that have been registered together with the respective TCP port. In these cases the IESG has the change control about the protocol used on the port (as described in the corresponding RFC) but change control for the port allocation iis designated to others. Under existing operational procedures, this means the original assignee needs to be involved in chnage to the port assignment. As it is not always possible to get in touch with the original assignee, particularly because of out-dated contact information, this current practice of handling historical allocation of System Ports does not scale well on a case-by-case basis. To address this, this document instructs IANA to perform actions with the goal to reassign System Ports to the IESG that were assigned to individuals prior to the publication of RFC6335, where appropriate. "IPv6 Source Routing for ultralow Latency", Andreas Foglar, Theodoros Rokkas, Marcin Godzina, Mikhail Khokhlov, 2023-11-13, This Internet-Draft describes a hierarchical addressing scheme for IPv6, intentionally very much simplified to allow for ultralow latency source routing experimentation using simple forwarding nodes. Research groups evaluate achievable latency reduction for special applications such as radio access networks, industrial net- works or other networks requiring very low latency. "Clarifying Use of LSP Ping to Bootstrap BFD over MPLS LSP", Greg Mirsky, Yanhua Zhao, Gyan Mishra, Ron Bonica, 2023-07-08, This document, if approved, updates RFC 5884 by clarifying procedures for using MPLS LSP ping to bootstrap Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) over MPLS Label Switch Path. "A YANG Data Model for Client-layer Tunnel", Chaode Yu, Haomian Zheng, Aihua Guo, Italo Busi, Yunbin Xu, Yang Zhao, Xufeng Liu, 2023-10-09, A transport network is a server-layer network to provide connectivity services to its client. In this draft the tunnel of client is described, with the definition of client tunnel YANG model. "Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) extension for the ESP Header Compression (EHC)", Daniel Migault, Tobias Guggemos, David Schinazi, 2023-06-28, This document describes an IKEv2 extension of for the ESP Header Compression (EHC) to agree on a specific ESP Header Compression (EHC) Context. "DTNMA Application Management Model (AMM) and Data Models", Edward Birrane, David Linko, Brian Sipos, 2023-10-06, This document defines a data model that captures the information necessary to asynchronously manage applications within the Delay- Tolerant Networking Management Architecture (DTNMA). This model provides a set of common type definitions, data structures, and a template for publishing standardized representations of model elements. "DNS-SD Compatible Service Discovery in GeneRic Autonomic Signaling Protocol (GRASP)", Toerless Eckert, Mohamed Boucadair, Christian Jacquenet, Michael Behringer, 2023-07-10, DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD) defines a framework for applications to announce and discover services. This includes service names, service instance names, common parameters for selecting a service instance (weight or priority) as well as other service-specific parameters. For the specific case of autonomic networks, GeneRic Autonomic Signaling Protocol (GRASP) intends to be used for service discovery in addition to the setup of basic connectivity. Reinventing advanced service discovery for GRASP with a similar set of features as DNS-SD would result in duplicated work. To avoid that, this document defines how to use GRASP to announce and discover services relying upon DNS-SD features while maintaining the intended simplicity of GRASP. To that aim, the document defines name discovery and schemes for reusable elements in GRASP objectives. "HTTP Live Streaming 2nd Edition", Roger Pantos, 2023-11-10, This document obsoletes RFC 8216. It describes a protocol for transferring unbounded streams of multimedia data. It specifies the data format of the files and the actions to be taken by the server (sender) and the clients (receivers) of the streams. It describes version 12 of this protocol. "A Decent LISP Mapping System (LISP-Decent)", Dino Farinacci, Colin Cantrell, 2023-10-16, This draft describes how the LISP mapping system designed to be distributed for scale can also be decentralized for management and trust. "Firewall and Service Tickets", Tom Herbert, 2023-10-07, This document describes the Firewalls and Service Tickets (FAST) protocol. This is a generic and extensible protocol for hosts to signal network nodes to request services or to gain admission into a network. A ticket is data that accompanies a packet and indicates a granted right to traverse a network or a request for network services to be applied (in the latter case the ticket serves as a service profile). Applications request tickets from a local agent in their network and attach issued tickets to packets. Firewall tickets are issued to grant packets the right to traverse a network; service tickets indicate the desired service to be applied to packets. A single ticket may provide both firewall and service ticket information and semantics. Tickets are sent in IPv6 Hop-by-Hop options. "A feature freezer for the Concise Data Definition Language (CDDL)", Carsten Bormann, 2023-09-02, In defining the Concise Data Definition Language (CDDL), some features have turned up that would be nice to have. In the interest of completing this specification in a timely manner, the present document was started to collect nice-to-have features that did not make it into the first RFC for CDDL, RFC 8610, or the specifications exercising its extension points, such as RFC 9165. Significant parts of this draft have now moved over to the CDDL 2.0 project, described in draft-bormann-cbor-cddl-2-draft. The remaining items in this draft are not directly related to the CDDL 2.0 effort. "IPv4+ The Extended Protocol Based On IPv4", ZiQiang Tang, 2023-07-23, This document specifies version 4+ of the Internet Protocol (IPv4+). IPv4 is very successful,simple and elegant. continuation and expansion of the IPv4 is necessary. Existing systems, devices only need to upgrade the software to support IPv4+, without the need to update new hardwares,saving investment costs. Ipv4+ is also an interstellar Protocol, so the Internet will evolve into a star Internet. "Multiple Public-Key Algorithm X.509 Certificates", Alexander Truskovsky, Daniel Van Geest, Scott Fluhrer, Panos Kampanakis, Mike Ounsworth, Serge Mister, 2023-08-24, Tombstone notice: This draft is no longer being pursued at the IETF. A variant of this proposal was adopted in [itu-t-x509-2019], which allows two keys to be placed in a certificate but only one used at a time. The major downside of this proposal is that it requires the large PQC key to be sent even to legacy clients which will not use it. Additionally, this proposal does not present a generic encoding for the multiple signatures produced by the multiple keys contained in a hybrid certificate, leaving the responsibility to dependent protocols and applications for how to carry multiple signatures and how to signal that multiple signatures should have been present in order to detect stripping attacks. As such, this document represents only a partial solution to the dual-signature problem. How, and whether, to implement dual-signatures is an active and ongoing discussion topic at the IETF and work continues in this area across several working groups. The PQUIP WG serves as a central location for all PQC- related discussion. Original abstract: This document describes a method of embedding alternative sets of cryptographic materials into X.509v3 digital certificates, X.509v2 Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), and PKCS #10 Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs). The embedded alternative cryptographic materials allow a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to use multiple cryptographic algorithms in a single object, and allow it to transition to the new cryptographic algorithms while maintaining backwards compatibility with systems using the existing algorithms. Three X.509 extensions and three PKCS #10 attributes are defined, and the signing and verification procedures for the alternative cryptographic material contained in the extensions and attributes are detailed. "Hierarchy of IP Controllers (HIC)", Zhenbin Li, Dhruv Dhody, Huaimo Chen, 2023-10-22, This document describes the interactions between various IP controllers in a hierarchical fashion to provide various IP services. It describes how the Abstraction and Control of Traffic Engineered Networks (ACTN) framework is applied to the Hierarchy of IP controllers (HIC) as well as document the interactions with other protocols like BGP, Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP), and other YANG-based protocols to provide end to end dynamic services spanning multiple domains and controllers (e.g. Layer 3 Virtual Private Network (L3VPN), Seamless MPLS etc). "Blockchain Transaction Protocol for Constraint Nodes", Pascal Urien, 2023-06-21, The goal of the blockchain transaction protocol for constraint nodes is to enable the generation of blockchain transactions by constraint nodes, according to the following principles: - transactions are triggered by Provisioning-Messages that include the needed blockchain parameters. - binary encoded transactions are returned in Transaction-Messages, which include sensors/actuators data. Constraint nodes, associated with blockchain addresses, compute the transaction signature. "VXLAN-GPE Encapsulation for In-situ OAM Data", Frank Brockners, Shwetha Bhandari, Vengada Govindan, Carlos Pignataro, Hannes Gredler, John Leddy, Stephen Youell, Tal Mizrahi, Aviv Kfir, Barak Gafni, Petr Lapukhov, Mickey Spiegel, 2023-11-26, In-situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (IOAM) records operational and telemetry information in the packet while the packet traverses a path between two points in the network. This document outlines how IOAM data fields are encapsulated in VXLAN-GPE. "EVPN All Active Usage Enhancement", Donald Eastlake, Zhenbin Li, Shunwan Zhuang, Russ White, 2023-11-22, A principal feature of EVPN is the ability to support multihoming from a customer equipment (CE) to multiple provider edge equipment (PE) active with all-active links. This draft specifies an improvement to load balancing such links. "EVPN VXLAN Bypass VTEP", Donald Eastlake, Zhenbin Li, Shunwan Zhuang, Russ White, 2023-11-22, A principal feature of EVPN is the ability to support multihoming from a customer equipment (CE) to multiple provider edge equipment (PE) with all-active links. This draft specifies a mechanism to simplify PEs used with VXLAN tunnels and enhance VXLAN Active-Active reliability. "ICANN Registrar Interfaces", Gustavo Ibarra, Eduardo Alvarez, 2023-10-05, This document describes the interfaces provided by ICANN to Registrars and Data Escrow Agents to fulfill the data escrow requirements of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement and the Registrar Data Escrow Specifications. "OSPF Flooding Reduction in MSDCs", Xiaohu Xu, Luyuan Fang, Jeff Tantsura, Shaowen Ma, 2023-07-27, OSPF is one of the used underlay routing protocol for MSDC (Massively Scalable Data Center) networks. For a given OSPF router within the CLOS topology, it would receive multiple copies of exactly the same LSA from multiple OSPF neighbors. In addition, two OSPF neighbors may send each other the same LSA simultaneously. The unnecessary link-state information flooding wastes the precious process resource of OSPF routers greatly due to the presence of too many OSPF neighbors for each OSPF router within the CLOS topology. This document proposes extensions to OSPF so as to reduce the OSPF flooding within such MSDC networks. The reduction of the OSPF flooding is much beneficial to improve the scalability of MSDC networks. These modifications are applicable to both OSPFv2 and OSPFv3. "IS-IS Flooding Reduction in MSDC", Xiaohu Xu, Luyuan Fang, Jeff Tantsura, Shaowen Ma, 2023-08-03, IS-IS is commonly used as an underlay routing protocol for MSDC (Massively Scalable Data Center) networks. For a given IS-IS router within the CLOS topology, it would receive multiple copies of exactly the same LSP from multiple IS-IS neighbors. In addition, two IS-IS neighbors may send each other the same LSP simultaneously. The unnecessary link-state information flooding wastes the precious process resource of IS-IS routers greatly due to the fact that there are too many IS-IS neighbors for each IS-IS router within the CLOS topology. This document proposes some extensions to IS-IS so as to reduce the IS-IS flooding within MSDC networks greatly. The reduction of the IS-IS flooding is much beneficial to improve the scalability of MSDC networks. "IMAP Service Extension for Client Identity", Deion Yu, 2023-05-29, This document defines an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) service extension called "CLIENTID" which provides a method for clients to indicate an identity to the server. This identity is an additional token that may be used for security and/or informational purposes, and with it a server may optionally apply heuristics using this token. "The IPv6 Tunnel Payload Forwarding (TPF) Option", Ron Bonica, Yuji Kamite, Luay Jalil, Yifeng Zhou, Gang Chen, 2023-07-23, This document explains how IPv6 options can be used in IPv6 tunnels. It also defines the IPv6 Tunnel Payload Forwarding (TPF) option. "DNS Web Service Discovery", Phillip Hallam-Baker, 2023-06-28, This document describes a standardized approach to discovering Web Service Endpoints from a DNS name. Services are advertised using the DNS SRV and TXT records and the HTTP Well Known Service conventions. This document is also available online at http://mathmesh.com/Documents/draft-hallambaker-web-service- discovery.html. "IGP Extensions for Scalable Segment Routing based Virtual Transport Network (VTN)", Jie Dong, Zhibo Hu, Zhenbin Li, Xiongyan Tang, Ran Pang, Stewart Bryant, 2023-10-23, Enhanced VPN (VPN+) aims to provide enhanced VPN services to support some application's needs of enhanced isolation and stringent performance requirements. VPN+ requires integration between the overlay VPN connectivity and the characteristics provided by the underlay network. A Virtual Transport Network (VTN) is a virtual underlay network which has a customized network topology and a set of network resources allocated from the physical network. A VTN could be used to support one or a group of VPN+ services. In the context of network slicing, a VTN could be instantiated as a network resource partition (NRP). This document specifies the IGP mechanisms with necessary extensions to advertise the associated topology and resource attributes for scalable Segment Routing (SR) based NRPs. Each NRP can have a customized topology and a set of network resources allocated from the physical network. Multiple NRPs may shared the same topology, and multiple NRPs may share the same set of network resources on some network segments. This allows flexible combination of the network topology and network resource attributes to build a relatively large number of NRPs with a relatively small number of logical topologies. A group of resource-aware SIDs and SRv6 Locators can be assigned to each NRP. The proposed mechanism is applicable to both Segment Routing with MPLS data plane (SR-MPLS) and Segment Routing with IPv6 data plane (SRv6). This document also describes the mechanism of using dedicated NRP ID in the data plane instead of the per-NRP resource-aware SIDs and SRv6 Locators to further reduce the control plane and data plane overhead of maintaining a large number of NRPs. "Multi-Site Solution for Ethernet VPN (EVPN) Overlay", Lukas Krattiger, Ayan Banerjee, Ali Sajassi, krishnaswamy ananthamurthy, R. Sharma, 2023-11-06, This document describes the procedures for interconnecting two or more Network Virtualization Overlays (NVOs) with EVPN via NVO over IP-only network. The solution interconnects Ethernet VPN network by using NVO with Ethernet VPN (EVPN) to facilitate the interconnect in a scalable fashion. The motivation is to support extension of Layer-2 and Layer-3, Unicast & Multicast, VPNs without having to rely on typical Data Center Interconnect (DCI) technologies like MPLS/ VPLS. The requirements for the interconnect are similar to the ones specified in [RFC7209], "Requirements for Ethernet VPN (EVPN)". In particular, this document describes the difference of the Gateways (GWs) procedure and combined functionality from [RFC9014], "Interconnect Solution for Ethernet VPN (EVPN) Overlay Networks" and and [I-D.ietf-bess-evpn-ipvpn-interworking], "EVPN Interworking with IPVPN", which this solution is interoperable to. This document updates and replaces all previous version of Multi-site EVPN based VXLAN using Border Gateways (draft- sharma-multi-site-evpn). "LISP Data-Plane Telemetry", Dino Farinacci, Said Ouissal, Erik Nordmark, 2023-10-23, This draft specs a JSON formatted RLOC-record for telemetry data which decapsulating xTRs include in RLOC-probe Map Reply messages. "Guidelines for Security Policy Translation in Interface to Network Security Functions", Jaehoon Jeong, Patrick Lingga, Jinhyuk Yang, 2023-07-24, This document proposes the guidelines for security policy translation in Interface to Network Security Functions (I2NSF) Framework. When I2NSF User delivers a high-level security policy for a security service, Security Policy Translator in Security Controller translates it into a low-level security policy for Network Security Functions (NSFs). For this security policy translation, this document specifies the relation between a high-level security policy based on the Consumer-Facing Interface YANG data model and a low-level security policy based on the NSF-Facing Interface YANG data model. Also, it describes an architecture of a security policy translator along with an NSF database, and the process of security policy translation with the NSF database. "MPLS Network Actions using Post-Stack Extension Headers", Haoyu Song, Tianran Zhou, Loa Andersson, Zhaohui Zhang, Rakesh Gandhi, 2023-10-11, Motivated by the need to support multiple in-network services and functions in an MPLS network (a.k.a. MPLS Network Actions or MNA), this document describes a generic and extensible method to encapsulate MNA instructions as well as possible ancillary data in an MPLS packet. All the post-stack MNAs are encapsulated in a structure called Post-stack Action Header (PAH). A PAH is composed of a common header plus a chain of extension headers with each serving as a container for an MNA. The encapsulation method allows chaining multiple post-stack extension headers and provides the means to enable fast access to them as well as the original upper layer headers. We confine this document to the solution of PAH encoding and leave the specification of PAH indicator to the overall MNA solution. We show how PAH can be used to support several new MNAs as a generic post-stack mechanism. "Flexible Session Protocol", Jun-an Gao, 2023-10-17, FSP is a connection-oriented transport layer protocol that provides mobility and multihoming support by introducing the concept of 'upper layer thread ID', which is associated with some shared secret that is applied with some authenticated encryption algorithm to protect authenticity of the origin of the FSP packets. It is able to provide following services to the upper layer application: * Stream-oriented send-receive with native message boundary * Flexibility to exploit authenticated encryption * On-the-wire compression * Light-weight session management "The Multihash Data Format", Juan Benet, Manu Sporny, 2023-08-20, Cryptographic hash functions often have multiple output sizes and encodings. This variability makes it difficult for applications to examine a series of bytes and determine which hash function produced them. Multihash is a universal data format for encoding outputs from hash functions. It is useful to write applications that can simultaneously support different hash function outputs as well as upgrade their use of hashes over time; Multihash is intended to address these needs. "Access Extensions for ANCP", Hongyu Li, Thomas Haag, Birgit Witschurke, 2023-09-25, The purpose of this document is to specify extensions to ANCP (Access Node Control Protocol) (RFC6320) to support PON as described in RFC6934 and some other DSL Technologies including G.fast. This document updates RFC6320 by modifications to terminologies, flows and specifying new TLV types. This document updates RFC6320 by modifications to terminologies, flows and specifying new TLV types. "Discovery of OSCORE Groups with the CoRE Resource Directory", Marco Tiloca, Christian Amsuess, Peter van der Stok, 2023-09-08, Group communication over the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) can be secured by means of Group Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (Group OSCORE). At deployment time, devices may not know the exact security groups to join, the respective Group Manager, or other information required to perform the joining process. This document describes how a CoAP endpoint can use descriptions and links of resources registered at the CoRE Resource Directory to discover security groups and to acquire information for joining them through the respective Group Manager. A given security group may protect multiple application groups, which are separately announced in the Resource Directory as sets of endpoints sharing a pool of resources. This approach is consistent with, but not limited to, the joining of security groups based on the ACE framework for Authentication and Authorization in constrained environments. "Inband Flow Analyzer", Jai Kumar, Surendra Anubolu, John Lemon, Rajeev Manur, Hugh Holbrook, Anoop Ghanwani, Dezhong Cai, Heidi Ou, Yizhou Li, Xiaojun Wang, 2023-09-07, Inband Flow Analyzer (IFA) records flow specific information from an end station and/or switches across a network. This document discusses the method to collect data on a per hop basis across a network and perform localized or end to end analytics operations on the data. This document also describes a transport-agnostic header definition that may be used for tunneled and non-tunneled flows alike. "Segment Routing (SR) Based Bounded Latency", Mach Chen, Xuesong Geng, Zhenqiang Li, Jinoo Joung, Jeong-dong Ryoo, 2023-07-07, One of the goals of DetNet is to provide bounded end-to-end latency for critical flows. This document defines how to leverage Segment Routing (SR) to implement bounded latency. Specifically, the SR Identifier (SID) is used to specify transmission time (cycles) of a packet. When forwarding devices along the path follow the instructions carried in the packet, the bounded latency is achieved. This is called Cycle Specified Queuing and Forwarding (CSQF) in this document. Since SR is a source routing technology, no per-flow state is maintained at intermediate and egress nodes, SR-based CSQF naturally supports flow aggregation that is deemed to be a key capability to allow DetNet to scale to large networks. "On-Path Telemetry using Packet Marking to Trigger Dedicated OAM Packets", Haoyu Song, Greg Mirsky, Tianran Zhou, Zhenbin Li, Thomas Graf, Gyan Mishra, Jongyoon Shin, Kyungtae Lee, 2023-06-02, The document describes an on-path telemetry method using packet- marking, referred to as PBT-M. Similar to IOAM DEX, PBT-M does not carry the telemetry data in user packets but sends the telemetry data through a dedicated packet. However, PBT-M does not require an extra instruction header but claims a bit in existing header fields or uses some other equivalent means as a trigger for telemetry data processing and collection. Due to this feature, PBT-M raises some unique issues that need to be considered for its application in different networks. This document describes the high level scheme, summarizes the common requirements and issues, and provides recommendations for solutions. PBT-M is complementary to the other on-path telemetry schemes. "Enhanced Alternate Marking Method", Tianran Zhou, Giuseppe Fioccola, Yisong Liu, Mauro Cociglio, Ran Pang, Lixia Xiong, Shinyoung Lee, Weidong Li, 2023-11-23, This document extends the IPv6 Alternate Marking Option to provide enhanced capabilities and allow advanced functionalities. With this extension, it can be possible to perform thicker packet loss measurements and more dense delay measurements with no limitation for the number of concurrent flows under monitoring. "Terminology, Power, and Inclusive Language in Internet-Drafts and RFCs", Mallory Knodel, Niels ten Oever, 2023-08-24, There has been extensive discussion in and around the IETF community about the use of technical terminology, which could be interprereted as exclusionary. The document below is published as an artefact of the discussion because it sparked many debates and inspired several actions in the IETF community. This, however, does not say anything about whether the opinions it holds are correct or incorrect. Since the debate about technology, language, and its implications will probably never be finished, we offer this document for reference in future discussions about the topic. It is important to note that this is not standard, it does not represent IETF consensus, and should not be misconstrued as anything other than the authors’ views. "PCE Communication Protocol (PCEP) Extensions for Using the PCE as a Central Controller (PCECC) of point-to-multipoint (P2MP) LSPs", Zhenbin Li, Shuping Peng, Xuesong Geng, Mahendra Negi, 2023-07-09, The PCE is a core component of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) systems. The PCE has been identified as an appropriate technology for the determination of the paths of point-to-multipoint (P2MP) TE Label Switched Paths (LSPs). A PCE-based Central Controller (PCECC) can simplify the processing of a distributed control plane by blending it with elements of SDN and without necessarily completely replacing it. Thus, the P2MP LSP can be calculated/set up/initiated and the label-forwarding entries can also be downloaded through a centralized PCE server to each network device along the P2MP path, while leveraging the existing PCE technologies as much as possible. This document specifies the procedures and PCE Communication Protocol (PCEP) extensions for using the PCE as the central controller for provisioning labels along the path of the static P2MP LSP. "Architecture for Use of BGP as Central Controller", Yujia Luo, Liang Ou, Xiang Huang, Gyan Mishra, Huaimo Chen, Shunwan Zhuang, Zhenbin Li, 2023-07-31, BGP is a core part of a network including Software-Defined Networking (SDN) system. It has the traffic engineering information on the network topology and can compute optimal paths for a given traffic flow across the network. This document describes some reference architectures for BGP as a central controller. A BGP-based central controller can simplify the operations on the network and use network resources efficiently for providing services with high quality. "Flowspec Indirection-id Redirect for SRv6", Gunter Van de Velde, Keyur Patel, Zhenbin Li, Huaimo Chen, 2023-07-09, This document defines extensions to "FlowSpec Redirect to indirection-id Extended Community" for SRv6. This extended community can trigger advanced redirection capabilities to flowspec clients for SRv6. When activated, this flowspec extended community is used by a flowspec client to retrieve the corresponding next-hop and encoding information within a localised indirection-id mapping table. The functionality detailed in this document allows a network controller to decouple the BGP flowspec redirection instruction from the operation of the available paths. "Framework for In-situ Flow Information Telemetry", Haoyu Song, Fengwei Qin, Huanan Chen, Jaewhan Jin, Jongyoon Shin, 2023-10-23, As network scale increases and network operation becomes more sophisticated, existing Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) methods are no longer sufficient to meet the monitoring and measurement requirements. Emerging data-plane on-path telemetry techniques, such as IOAM and AltMrk, which provide high-precision flow insight and issue notifications in real time can supplement existing proactive and reactive methods that run in active and passive modes. They enable quality of experience for users and applications, and identification of network faults and deficiencies. This document describes a reference framework, named as In-situ Flow Information Telemetry, for the on-path telemetry techniques. The high-level framework outlines the system architecture for applying the on-path telemetry techniques to collect and correlate performance measurement information from the network. It identifies the components that coordinate existing protocol tools and telemetry mechanisms, and addresses deployment challenges for flow-oriented on- path telemetry techniques, especially in carrier networks. The document is a guide for system designers applying the referenced techniques. It is also intended to motivate further work to enhance the OAM ecosystem. "SRv6 and MPLS interworking", Swadesh Agrawal, Zafar Ali, Clarence Filsfils, Dan Voyer, Gaurav Dawra, Zhenbin Li, Shraddha Hegde, Srihari Sangli, 2023-07-10, This document describes SRv6 and MPLS/SR-MPLS interworking and co- existence procedures. "Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP): Corrections and Clarifications", Carsten Bormann, 2023-08-30, RFC 7252 defines the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), along with a number of additional specifications, including RFC 7641, RFC 7959, RFC 8132, and RFC 8323. RFC 6690 defines the link format that is used in CoAP self-description documents. Some parts of the specification may be unclear or even contain errors that may lead to misinterpretations that may impair interoperability between different implementations. The present document provides corrections, additions, and clarifications to the RFCs cited; this document thus updates these RFCs. In addition, other clarifications related to the use of CoAP in other specifications, including RFC 7390 and RFC 8075, are also provided. "Security Classes for IoT devices", Pascal Urien, 2023-06-21, This draft attempts to define security classes for constraint IoT devices. A device security is characterized by five Boolean security attributes: one time programmable memory (OTP), firmware loader (FLD), secure firmware loader (FLD-SEC), tamper resistant key (TRT- KEY) and diversified key (DIV-KEY). This leads to the definition of 6 classes of devices, embedding or not OTP resource, whose security increases with the class number (0 to 5). The suffix + indicates OTP availability. "The Multibase Data Format", Juan Benet, Manu Sporny, 2023-08-20, Raw binary data is often encoded using a mechanism that enables the data to be included in human-readable text-based formats. This mechanism is often referred to as "base-encoding the data". Base- encoding is often used when expressing binary data in hyperlinks, cryptographic keys in web pages, or security tokens in application software. There are a variety of base-encodings, such as base32, base58, and base64. It is not always possible to differentiate one base-encoding from another. The purpose of this specification is to provide a mechanism to be able to deterministically identify the base-encoding for a particular string of data. "CoRE Resource Directory Extensions", Christian Amsuess, 2023-10-23, A collection of extensions to the Resource Directory [rfc9176] that can stand on their own, and have no clear future in specification yet. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Discussion of this document takes place on the Constrained RESTful Environments Working Group mailing list (core@ietf.org), which is archived at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/core/. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://gitlab.com/chrysn/resource-directory-extensions. "General Guidance for Implementing Branded Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI)", Alex Brotman, Terry Zink, Marc Bradshaw, 2023-09-03, This document is meant to provide guidance to various entities so that they may implement Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI). This document is a companion to various other BIMI drafts, which should first be consulted. "Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) and Congestion Feedback Using the Network Service Header (NSH) and IPFIX", Donald Eastlake, Bob Briscoe, Shunwan Zhuang, Andrew Malis, Xinpeng Wei, 2023-10-23, Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) allows a forwarding element to notify downstream devices of the onset of congestion without having to drop packets. Coupled with a means to feed information about congestion back to upstream nodes, this can improve network efficiency through better congestion control, frequently without packet drops. This document specifies ECN and congestion feedback support within a Service Function Chaining (SFC) enabled domain through use of the Network Service Header (NSH, RFC 8300) and IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX, RFC 7011) protocol. "Mathematical Mesh 3.0 Part II: Uniform Data Fingerprint.", Phillip Hallam-Baker, 2023-06-28, This document describes the underlying naming and addressing schemes used in the Mathematical Mesh. The means of generating Uniform Data Fingerprint (UDF) values and their presentation as text sequences and as URIs are described. A UDF consists of a binary sequence, the initial eight bits of which specify a type identifier code. For convenience, UDFs are typically presented to the user in the form of a Base32 encoded string. Type identifier codes have been selected so as to provide a useful mnemonic indicating their purpose when presented in Base32 encoding. Two categories of UDF are described. Data UDFs provide a compact presentation of a fixed length binary data value in a format that is convenient for data entry. A Data UDF may represent a cryptographic key, a nonce value or a share of a secret. Fingerprint UDFs provide a compact presentation of a Message Digest or Message Authentication Code value. A Strong Internet Name (SIN) consists of a DNS name which contains at least one label that is a UDF fingerprint of a policy document controlling interpretation of the name. SINs allow a direct trust model to be applied to achieve end-to-end security in existing Internet applications without the need for trusted third parties. UDFs may be presented as URIs to form either names or locators for use with the UDF location service. An Encrypted Authenticated Resource Locator (EARL) is a UDF locator URI presenting a service from which an encrypted resource may be obtained and a symmetric key that may be used to decrypt the content. EARLs may be presented on paper correspondence as a QR code to securely provide a machine- readable version of the same content. This may be applied to automate processes such as invoicing or to provide accessibility services for the partially sighted. [Note to Readers] Discussion of this draft takes place on the MATHMESH mailing list (mathmesh@ietf.org), which is archived at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?email_list=mathmesh. This document is also available online at http://mathmesh.com/Documents/draft-hallambaker-mesh-udf.html. "Mathematical Mesh 3.0 Part III : Data At Rest Encryption (DARE)", Phillip Hallam-Baker, 2023-06-28, This document describes the Data At Rest Encryption (DARE) Envelope and Sequence syntax. The DARE Envelope syntax is used to digitally sign, digest, authenticate, or encrypt arbitrary content data. The DARE Sequence syntax describes an append-only sequence of entries, each containing a DARE Envelope. DARE Sequences may support cryptographic integrity verification of the entire data container content by means of a Merkle tree. [Note to Readers] Discussion of this draft takes place on the MATHMESH mailing list (mathmesh@ietf.org), which is archived at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?email_list=mathmesh. This document is also available online at http://mathmesh.com/Documents/draft-hallambaker-mesh-dare.html. "Considerations for Benchmarking Network Performance in Containerized Infrastructures", Tran Ngoc, Sridhar Rao, Jangwon Lee, Younghan Kim, 2023-10-08, Recently, the Benchmarking Methodology Working Group has extended the laboratory characterization from physical network functions (PNFs) to virtual network functions (VNFs). Considering the network function implementation trend moving from virtual machine-based to container- based, system configurations and deployment scenarios for benchmarking will be partially changed by how the resource allocation and network technologies are specified for containerized network functions. This draft describes additional considerations for benchmarking network performance when network functions are containerized and performed in general-purpose hardware. "Composite Signatures For Use In Internet PKI", Mike Ounsworth, John Gray, Massimiliano Pala, Jan Klaussner, 2023-10-23, The migration to post-quantum cryptography is unique in the history of modern digital cryptography in that neither the old outgoing nor the new incoming algorithms are fully trusted to protect data for the required data lifetimes. The outgoing algorithms, such as RSA and elliptic curve, may fall to quantum cryptanalysis, while the incoming post-quantum algorithms face uncertainty about both the underlying mathematics as well as hardware and software implementations that have not had sufficient maturing time to rule out classical cryptanalytic attacks and implementation bugs. Cautious implementers may wish to layer cryptographic algorithms such that an attacker would need to break all of them in order to compromise the data being protected using either a Post-Quantum / Traditional Hybrid, Post-Quantum / Post-Quantum Hybrid, or combinations thereof. This document, and its companions, defines a specific instantiation of hybrid paradigm called "composite" where multiple cryptographic algorithms are combined to form a single key or signature such that they can be treated as a single atomic object at the protocol level. This document defines the structures CompositeSignaturePublicKey, CompositeSignaturePrivateKey and CompositeSignatureValue, which are sequences of the respective structure for each component algorithm. Composite signature algorithm identifiers are specified in this document which represent the explicit combinations of the underlying component algorithms. "SRv6 Midpoint Protection", Huanan Chen, Zhibo Hu, Huaimo Chen, Xuesong Geng, Yisong Liu, Gyan Mishra, 2023-08-12, The current local repair mechanism, e.g., TI-LFA, allows local repair actions on the direct neighbors of the failed node or link to temporarily route traffic to the destination. This mechanism does not work properly for SRv6 TE path after the failure happens in the destination point and IGP converges on the failure. This document defines midpoint protection for SRv6 TE path, which enables other nodes on the network to perform endpoint behaviors for the faulty node, update the IPv6 destination address to the next endpoint after the faulty node, and choose the next hop based on the new destination address. "BGP Route Policy and Attribute Trace Using BMP", Feng Xu, Thomas Graf, Yunan Gu, Shunwan Zhuang, Zhenbin Li, 2023-10-20, The generation of BGP adj-rib-in, local-rib or adj-rib-out comes from BGP route exchange and route policy processing. BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) provides the monitoring of BGP adj-rib-in [RFC7854], BGP local-rib [RFC9069] and BGP adj-rib-out [RFC8671]. By monitoring these BGP RIB's the full state of the network is visible, but how route-policies affect the route propagation or changes BGP attributes is still not. This document describes a method of using BMP to record the trace data on how BGP routes are (not) changed under the process of route policies. "Enhanced Topology Independent Loop-free Alternate Fast Re-route", Cheng Li, Zhibo Hu, Yongqing Zhu, Shraddha Hegde, 2023-10-19, Topology Independent Loop-free Alternate Fast Re-route (TI-LFA) aims at providing protection of node and adjacency segments within the Segment Routing (SR) framework. A key aspect of TI-LFA is the FRR path selection approach establishing protection over the expected post-convergence paths from the point of local repair. However, the TI-LFA FRR path may skip the node even if it is specified in the SID list to be traveled. This document defines Enhanced TI-LFA(TI-LFA+) by adding a No-bypass indicator for segments to ensure that the FRR route will not bypass the specific node, such as firewall. Also, this document defines No- bypass flag and No-FRR flag in SRH to indicate not to bypass nodes and not to perform FRR on all the nodes along the SRv6 path, respectively. "Arm's Platform Security Architecture (PSA) Attestation Token", Hannes Tschofenig, Simon Frost, Mathias Brossard, Adrian Shaw, Thomas Fossati, 2023-11-06, The Platform Security Architecture (PSA) is a family of hardware and firmware security specifications, as well as open-source reference implementations, to help device makers and chip manufacturers build best-practice security into products. Devices that are PSA compliant can produce attestation tokens as described in this memo, which are the basis for many different protocols, including secure provisioning and network access control. This document specifies the PSA attestation token structure and semantics. The PSA attestation token is a profiled Entity Attestation Token (EAT). This specification describes what claims are used in an attestation token generated by PSA compliant systems, how these claims get serialized to the wire, and how they are cryptographically protected. "JSON Web Token (JWT) Embedded Tokens", Rifaat Shekh-Yusef, Dick Hardt, Giuseppe De Marco, 2023-06-25, This specification defines a mechanism for embedding tokens into a JWT token. The JWT token and the embedded tokens are issued by different issuers. "Autonomic setup of fog monitoring agents", Carlos Bernardos, Alain Mourad, Pedro Martinez-Julia, 2023-07-04, The concept of fog computing has emerged driven by the Internet of Things (IoT) due to the need of handling the data generated from the end-user devices. The term fog is referred to any networked computational resource in the continuum between things and cloud. In fog computing, functions can be stiched together composing a service function chain. These functions might be hosted on resources that are inherently heterogeneous, volatile and mobile. This means that resources might appear and disappear, and the connectivity characteristics between these resources may also change dynamically. This calls for new orchestration solutions able to cope with dynamic changes to the resources in runtime or ahead of time (in anticipation through prediction) as opposed to today’s solutions which are inherently reactive and static or semi-static. A fog monitoring solution can be used to help predicting events so an action can be taken before an event actually takes place. This solution is composed of agents running on the fog nodes plus a controller hosted at another device (running in the infrastructure or in another fog node). Since fog environments are inherently volatile and extremely dynamic, it is convenient to enable the use of autonomic technologies to autonomously set-up the fog monitoring platform. This document aims at presenting this use case as well as specifying how to use GRASP as needed in this scenario. "Vehicular Mobility Management for IP-Based Vehicular Networks", Jaehoon Jeong, Bien Mugabarigira, Yiwen Shen, 2023-08-07, This document specifies a Vehicular Mobility Management (VMM) scheme for IP-based vehicular networks. The VMM scheme takes advantage of a vehicular link model based on a multi-link subnet. With a vehicle's mobility information (e.g., position, speed, acceleration/ deceleration, and direction) and navigation path (i.e., trajectory), it can provide a moving vehicle with proactive and seamless handoff along with its trajectory. "Mathematical Mesh 3.0 Part VIII: Cryptographic Algorithms", Phillip Hallam-Baker, 2023-06-28, The Mathematical Mesh 'The Mesh' is an infrastructure that facilitates the exchange of configuration and credential data between multiple user devices and provides end-to-end security. This document describes the cryptographic algorithm suites used in the Mesh and the implementation of Multi-Party Encryption and Multi-Party Key Generation used in the Mesh. [Note to Readers] Discussion of this draft takes place on the MATHMESH mailing list (mathmesh@ietf.org), which is archived at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?email_list=mathmesh. This document is also available online at http://mathmesh.com/Documents/draft-hallambaker-mesh- cryptography.html. "Mathematical Mesh 3.0 Part V: Protocol Reference", Phillip Hallam-Baker, 2023-06-28, The Mathematical Mesh 'The Mesh' is an end-to-end secure infrastructure that facilitates the exchange of configuration and credential data between multiple user devices. The core protocols of the Mesh are described with examples of common use cases and reference data. [Note to Readers] Discussion of this draft takes place on the MATHMESH mailing list (mathmesh@ietf.org), which is archived at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?email_list=mathmesh. This document is also available online at http://mathmesh.com/Documents/draft-hallambaker-mesh-protocol.html. "Mathematical Mesh 3.0 Part IV: Schema Reference", Phillip Hallam-Baker, 2023-06-28, The Mathematical Mesh 'The Mesh' is an end-to-end secure infrastructure that facilitates the exchange of configuration and credential data between multiple user devices. The core protocols of the Mesh are described with examples of common use cases and reference data. [Note to Readers] Discussion of this draft takes place on the MATHMESH mailing list (mathmesh@ietf.org), which is archived at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?email_list=mathmesh. This document is also available online at http://mathmesh.com/Documents/draft-hallambaker-mesh-schema.html. "Abuse-Resistant OpenPGP Keystores", Daniel Gillmor, 2023-08-18, OpenPGP transferable public keys are composite certificates, made up of primary keys, revocation signatures, direct key signatures, user IDs, identity certifications ("signature packets"), subkeys, and so on. They are often assembled by merging multiple certificates that all share the same primary key, and are distributed in public keystores. Unfortunately, since many keystores permit any third-party to add a certification with any content to any OpenPGP certificate, the assembled/merged form of a certificate can become unwieldy or undistributable. Furthermore, keystores that are searched by user ID or fingerprint can be made unusable for specific searches by public submission of bogus certificates. And finally, keystores open to public submission can also face simple resource exhaustion from flooding with bogus submissions, or legal or other risks from uploads of toxic data. This draft documents techniques that an archive of OpenPGP certificates can use to mitigate the impact of these various attacks, and the implications of these concerns and mitigations for the rest of the OpenPGP ecosystem. "Security Considerations for SRv6 Networks", Cheng Li, Nan Geng, Chongfeng Xie, Hui Tian, tongtian124, Zhenbin Li, Jianwei Mao, 2023-07-23, SRv6 inherits potential security vulnerabilities from source routing in general, and also from IPv6. This document describes various threats and security concerns related to SRv6 networks and existing approaches to solve these threats. "Design of the native Cyberspace Map", Jilong Wang, Miao Congcong, Changqing An, Shuying Zhuang, 2023-11-12, This memo discusses the design of the native cyberspace map which is stable and flexible to describe cyberspace. Although we have accepted the cyberspace as a parallel new world, we even have not defined its basic coordinate system, which means cyberspace have no its basic space dimension till now. The objective of this draft is to illustrate the basic design methodology of the native coordinate system of cyberspace, and show how to design cyberspace map on this basis. "A Framework for Constructing Service Function Chaining Systems Based on Segment Routing", Yuanyang Yin, Cheng Li, Ahmed El Sawaf, Hongyi Huang, Zhenbin Li, 2023-07-07, Segment Routing (SR) allows for a flexible definition of end-to-end paths by encoding paths as sequences of topological sub-paths, called "segments". Segment routing architecture can be implemented over an MPLS data plane as well as an IPv6 data plane. Service Function Chaining (SFC) provides support for the creation of composite services that consist of an ordered set of Service Functions (SF) that are to be applied to packets and/or frames selected as a result of classification. SFC can be implemented based on several technologies, such as Network Service Header (NSH) and SR. This document describes a framework for constructing SFC based on Segment Routing. The document reviews the control plane solutions for route distribution of service function instance and service function path, and steering packets into a service function chain. "Modern Network Unicode", Carsten Bormann, 2023-08-31, BCP18 (RFC 2277) has been the basis for the handling of character- shaped data in IETF specifications for more than a quarter of a century now. It singles out UTF-8 (STD63, RFC 3629) as the "charset" that MUST be supported, and pulls in the Unicode standard with that. Based on this, RFC 5198 both defines common conventions for the use of Unicode in network protocols and caters for the specific requirements of the legacy protocol Telnet. In applications that do not need Telnet compatibility, some of the decisions of RFC 5198 can be cumbersome. The present specification defines "Modern Network Unicode" (MNU), which is a form of RFC 5198 Network Unicode that can be used in specifications that require the exchange of plain text over networks and where just mandating UTF-8 may not be sufficient, but there is also no desire to import all of the baggage of RFC 5198. As characters are used in different environments, MNU is defined in a one-dimensional (1D) variant that is useful for identifiers and labels, but does not use a structure of lines. A 2D variant is defined for text that is a sequence of text lines, such as plain text documents or markdown format. Additional variances of these two base formats can be used to tailor MNU to specific areas of application. "The Group Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (Group OSCORE) Profile of the Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments (ACE) Framework", Marco Tiloca, Rikard Hoeglund, Ludwig Seitz, Francesca Palombini, 2023-07-10, This document specifies a profile for the Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments (ACE) framework. The profile uses Group Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (Group OSCORE) to provide communication security between a Client and one or multiple Resource Servers that are members of an OSCORE group. The profile securely binds an OAuth 2.0 Access Token to the public key of the Client associated with the private key used by that Client in the OSCORE group. The profile uses Group OSCORE to achieve server authentication, as well as proof-of-possession for the Client's public key. Also, it provides proof of the Client's membership to the OSCORE group by binding the Access Token to information from the Group OSCORE Security Context, thus allowing the Resource Server(s) to verify the Client's membership upon receiving a message protected with Group OSCORE from the Client. Effectively, the profile enables fine-grained access control paired with secure group communication, in accordance with the Zero Trust principles. "SR Path Ingress Protection", Huaimo Chen, Mehmet Toy, Aijun Wang, Zhenqiang Li, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-10-08, This document describes extensions to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) for protecting the ingress node of a Segment Routing (SR) tunnel or path. "Path Ingress Protections", Huaimo Chen, Mike McBride, Mehmet Toy, Gyan Mishra, Aijun Wang, Zhenqiang Li, Yisong Liu, Boris Khasanov, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-08-10, This document describes extensions to Path Computation Element (PCE) communication Protocol (PCEP) for fast protecting the ingress nodes of two types of paths or tunnels, which are Segment Routing (SR) paths and Bit Index Explicit Replication Tree/Traffic Engineering (BIER-TE) paths. The extensions comprise a foundation for protecting the ingress nodes of different types of paths. Based on this, the ingress protection of a new type of paths can be easily supported. "Test Tools for IoT DDoS vulnerability scanning", Sorin Faibish, Mashruf Chowdhury, 2023-06-05, This document specifies several usecases related to the different ways IoT devices are exploited by malicious adversaries to instantiate Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attacks. The attacks are generted from IoT devices that have no proper protection against generating unsolicited communication messages targeting a certain network and creating large amounts of network traffic. The attackers take advantage of breaches in the configuration data in unprotected IoT devices exploited for DDoS attacks. The attackers take advantage of the IoT devices that can send network packets that were generated by malicious code that interacts with an OS implementation that runs on the IoT devices. The prupose of this draft is to present possible IoT DDoS usecases that need to be prevented by TEE. The major enabler of such attacks is related to IoT devices that have no OS or unprotected EE OS and run code that is downloaded to them from the TA and modified by man-in-the-middle that inserts malicious code in the OS. This draft adds list of MUD files for most IoT devices. "The DOCSIS(r) Queue Protection Algorithm to Preserve Low Latency", Bob Briscoe, Greg White, 2023-11-23, This informational document explains the specification of the queue protection algorithm used in DOCSIS technology since version 3.1. A shared low latency queue relies on the non-queue-building behaviour of every traffic flow using it. However, some flows might not take such care, either accidentally or maliciously. If a queue is about to exceed a threshold level of delay, the queue protection algorithm can rapidly detect the flows most likely to be responsible. It can then prevent harm to other traffic in the low latency queue by ejecting selected packets (or all packets) of these flows. The document is designed for four types of audience: a) congestion control designers who need to understand how to keep on the 'good' side of the algorithm; b) implementers of the algorithm who want to understand it in more depth; c) designers of algorithms with similar goals, perhaps for non-DOCSIS scenarios; and d) researchers interested in evaluating the algorithm. "BGP Request for Candidate Paths of SR TE Policies", Zhenbin Li, Qiangzhou Gao, Huaimo Chen, Yanhe Fan, Xufeng Liu, Lei Liu, 2023-10-22, An SR Policy is a set of candidate paths. The headend of an SR Policy may learn multiple candidate paths for an SR Policy via a number of different mechanisms, e.g., CLI, NetConf, PCEP, or BGP. This document defines extensions to BGP for the headend to request BGP speaker (controller) for advertising the candidate paths. "Network Programming extension: SRv6 uSID instruction", Clarence Filsfils, Pablo Camarillo, Dezhong Cai, Dan Voyer, Israel Meilik, Keyur Patel, Wim Henderickx, Prem Jonnalagadda, David Melman, Yisong Liu, Jim Guichard, 2023-06-12, The SRv6 "micro segment" (SRv6 uSID or uSID for short) instruction is a straightforward extension of the SRv6 Network Programming model: * The SRv6 Control Plane is leveraged without any change * The SRH dataplane encapsulation is leveraged without any change * Any SID in the SID list can carry micro segments * Based on the Compressed SRv6 Segment List Encoding in SRH "Describing Protocol Data Units with Augmented Packet Header Diagrams", Stephen McQuistin, Vivian Band, Dejice Jacob, Colin Perkins, 2023-10-22, This document describes a machine-readable format for specifying the syntax of protocol data units within a protocol specification, known as an Augmented Packet Header Diagram. This comprises a consistently formatted packet header diagram, using a well-defined syntax, that is followed by structured explanatory text. The Augmented Packet Header Diagram format is designed to maintain human readability, while also supporting automated parser generation from protocol specification documents. This document is itself an example of how the format can be used. "SRv6 for Inter-Layer Network Programming", Liuyan Han, Jie Dong, Zongpeng Du, Minxue Wang, 2023-07-10, This document defines a new SRv6 function which can be used for SRv6 based inter-layer network programming. It is a variant of the SRv6 End.X behavior which is called "End.XU". Instead of pointing to an interface with layer-3 adjacency, the End.XU behavior points to an underlay interface which connects to a remote layer-3 node via underlying links or connections that may be invisible in the L3 network topology. The applicability of End.XU behavior in inter- layer network programming scenarios is also illustrated. "Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) Extension for SR-MPLS Entropy Label Positions", Quan Xiong, Shaofu Peng, Fengwei Qin, Junfeng Zhao, 2023-10-10, Entropy label (EL) can be used in the SR-MPLS data plane to improve load-balancing and multiple Entropy Label Indicator (ELI)/EL pairs SHOULD be inserted in the SR-MPLS label stack. This document proposes a set of extensions for Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) to configure the entropy label positions for SR-MPLS networks. "Legacy RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 codepoints for TLS 1.3", David Benjamin, Andrei Popov, 2023-10-17, This document allocates code points for the use of RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 with client certificates in TLS 1.3. This removes an obstacle for some deployments to migrate to TLS 1.3. "Maintaining CCNx or NDN flow balance with highly variable data object sizes", David Oran, 2023-10-23, Deeply embedded in some ICN architectures, especially Named Data Networking (NDN) and Content-Centric Networking (CCNx) is the notion of flow balance. This captures the idea that there is a one-to-one correspondence between requests for data, carried in Interest messages, and the responses with the requested data object, carried in Data messages. This has a number of highly beneficial properties for flow and congestion control in networks, as well as some desirable security properties. For example, neither legitimate users nor attackers are able to inject large amounts of un-requested data into the network. Existing congestion control approaches however have a difficult time dealing effectively with a widely varying MTU of ICN data messages, because the protocols allow a dynamic range of 1-64K bytes. Since Interest messages are used to allocate the reverse link bandwidth for returning Data, there is large uncertainty in how to allocate that bandwidth. Unfortunately, most current congestion control schemes in CCNx and NDN only count Interest messages and have no idea how much data is involved that could congest the inverse link. This document proposes a method to maintain flow balance by accommodating the wide dynamic range in Data message size. "Support for Data Reduction Attributes in nfsv4 Version 2", Sorin Faibish, Philip Shilane, Ivan Basov, 2023-06-05, This document proposes extending NFSv4 operations to add new RECOMMENDED attributes to be used in the protocol to provide information about the data reduction properties of files. The new data reduction attributes are proposed to allow the client application to communicate to the NFSv4 server data reduction attributes associated with files and directories using new metadata, communicated to the Block Storage data reduction engines. Corresponding new RECOMMENDED attributes are proposed to allow clients and client applications to query the server for data reduction attributes support and allow to get and set data reduction attributes on files and directories. Such data reduction metadata is used as hints to the file server about what type of data reduction to apply. The proposed data reduction attributes include achievable ratios for compression and deduplication plus whether each data reduction technique applies to a file or directory. "Framework for Cyberspace Resources Categorization", Jilong Wang, Congcong Miao, Shuying Zhuang, Qianli Zhang, Chengyuan Zhang, 2023-06-05, This memo presents the definition of cyberspace resource, and then discusses a classification framework for cyberspace resources. Cyberspace is widely applied in people's daily life and it is regarded as a new space, paralleled to the geographic space. There are various resources in cyberspace. However, they have not been systematically defined and classified. The objective of this draft is to present the deifinition of cyberspace resource and a standard classification framework, thus, supporting the unified resource storage and shares. "SRv6 NET-PGM extension: Insertion", Clarence Filsfils, Pablo Camarillo, John Leddy, Dan Voyer, Satoru Matsushima, Zhenbin Li, 2023-08-16, Traffic traversing an SR domain is encapsulated in an outer IPv6 header for its journey through the SR domain. To implement transport services strictly within the SR domain, the SR domain may require insertion or deletion of an SRH after the outer IPv6 header of the SR domain. Any segment within the SRH is strictly contained within the SR domain. This document extends SRv6 Network Programming [RFC8986] with new SR endpoint and transit behaviors to be performed only within the SR domain in any packet owned by the domain. "Alternative Approach for Mixing Preshared Keys in IKEv2 for Post-quantum Security", Valery Smyslov, 2023-10-19, An Internet Key Exchange protocol version 2 (IKEv2) extension defined in RFC8784 allows IPsec traffic to be protected against someone storing VPN communications today and decrypting it later, when (and if) cryptographically relevant quantum computers are available. The protection is achieved by means of Post-quantum Preshared Key (PPK) which is mixed into the session keys calculation. However, this protection doesn't cover an initial IKEv2 SA, which might be unacceptable in some scenarios. This specification defines an alternative way to get protection against quantum computers, which is similar to the solution defined in RFC8784, but protects the initial IKEv2 SA too. Besides, RFC8784 assumes that PPKs are static and thus they are only used when an initial IKEv2 Security Association (SA) is created. If a fresh PPK is available before the IKE SA is expired, then the only way to use it is to delete the current IKE SA and create a new one from scratch, which is inefficient. This specification also defines a way to use PPKs in active IKEv2 SA for creating additional IPsec SAs and for rekeys operations. "Prefix Unreachable Announcement", Aijun Wang, Zhibo Hu, Jinsong Sun, Changwang Lin, 2023-06-19, This document describes a mechanism that can trigger the switchover of the services which rely on the reachability of the peer endpoints, for example the BGP or the tunnel services. It is mainly used in the scenarios that the summary prefixes are advertised at the border routers whereas the services endpoints are located in different IGP areas or levels, whose reachabilities are covered by the summary prefixes. It introduces a new signaling mechanism using a negative prefix announcement called Prefix Unreachable Announcement Mechanism(PUAM), utilized to detect a link or node down event and signal the overlay services that the communication endpoint is unreachabe to force the overlay service headend switchover immediately. "Lzip Compressed Format and the 'application/lzip' Media Type", Antonio Diaz, 2023-06-26, Lzip is a lossless compressed data format designed for data sharing, long-term archiving, and parallel compression/decompression. Lzip uses LZMA compression and can achieve higher compression ratios than gzip. Lzip provides accurate and robust 3-factor integrity checking. This document describes the lzip format and registers a media type, a content coding, and a structured syntax suffix to be used when transporting lzip-compressed content via MIME or HTTP. "PEM file format for ECH", Stephen Farrell, 2023-06-11, Encrypted ClientHello (ECH) key pairs need to be configured into TLS servers, that can be built using different TLS libraries, so there is a benefit and little cost in documenting a file format to use for these key pairs, similar to how RFC7468 defines other PEM file formats. "Stateless OpenPGP Command Line Interface", Daniel Gillmor, 2023-08-08, This document defines a generic stateless command-line interface for dealing with OpenPGP messages, known as sop. It aims for a minimal, well-structured API covering OpenPGP object security. "Architecture Discussion on SRv6 Mobile User plane", Miya Kohno, Francois Clad, Pablo Camarillo, Zafar Ali, Luay Jalil, 2023-07-21, This document discusses the solution approach and its architectural benefits of translating mobile session information into routing information, applying segment routing capabilities, and operating in the IP routing paradigm. "DetNet Data Plane: IEEE 802.1 Time Sensitive Networking over SRv6", Xueshun Wang, Jinyou Dai, Jianhua Liu, Feng Zhang, 2023-06-28, This document specifies the Deterministic Networking data plane when TSN networks interconnected over an Segment Routing IPv6 Packet Switched Networks. "State-updating mechanism in RSVP-TE for MPLS network", Jun Gao, Jinyou Dai, 2023-06-28, RSVP-TE has the following advantages: source routing capability, and the ability to reserve resources hop by hop along the LSP path. The two advantages are used by Deterministic Networking (DetNet) to provide DetNet Quality of Service (QoS) in a fully distributed control plane utilizing dynamic signaling protocols or in a Combined Control Plane (partly centralized, partly distributed). RSVP takes a "soft state" approach to manage the reservation state in routers and hosts. The use of 'Refresh messages' to cover many possible failures has resulted in a number of operational problems. One problem relates to scaling, another relates to the reliability and latency of RSVP Signaling. This document describes a number of mechanisms that can be used to reduce processing overhead requirements of refresh messages. These extension present no backwards compatibility issues. "Performance Measurement for Geneve", Xiao Min, Greg Mirsky, Santosh Pallagatti, 2023-10-12, This document describes the method to achieve Performance Measurement (PM) in point-to-point Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) unicast tunnels used to make up an overlay network. "A YANG Data Model for Client Signal Performance Monitoring", Haomian Zheng, Italo Busi, Zheng Yanlei, Victor Lopez, Oscar de Dios, 2023-07-09, A transport network is a server-layer network to provide connectivity services to its client. Given the client signal is configured, the followup function for performance monitoring, such as latency and bit error rate, would be needed for network operation. This document describes the data model to support the performance monitoring functionalities. "BGP-LS Extensions for Scalable Segment Routing based Enhanced VPN", Jie Dong, Zhibo Hu, Zhenbin Li, Xiongyan Tang, Ran Pang, 2023-10-23, Enhanced VPN (VPN+) aims to provide enhanced VPN services to support some applications' needs of enhanced isolation and stringent performance requirements. VPN+ requires integration between the overlay VPN connectivity and the resources and characteristics provided by the underlay network. A Virtual Transport Network (VTN) is a virtual underlay network which can be used to support one or a group of VPN+ services. In the context of network slicing, a VTN could be instantiated as a network resource partition (NRP). This document specifies the BGP-LS mechanisms with necessary extensions to advertise the information of scalable Segment Routing (SR) based NRPs to a centralized network controller. Each NRP can have a customized topology and a set of network resources allocated from the physical network. Multiple NRPs may shared the same topology, and multiple NRPs may share the same set of network resources on specific network segments. This allows flexible combination of network topology and network resource attributes to build a large number of NRPs with a relatively small number of logical topologies. The proposed mechanism is applicable to both segment routing with MPLS data plane (SR-MPLS) and segment routing with IPv6 data plane (SRv6). "Context-Aware Navigation Protocol for IP-Based Vehicular Networks", Jaehoon Jeong, Bien Mugabarigira, Yiwen Shen, JuneHee Kwon, Zeung Kim, 2023-07-02, This document proposes a Context-Aware Navigation Protocol (CNP) for IP-based vehicular networks for cooperative navigation among vehicles in road networks. This CNP aims at the enhancement of driving safety through a light-weight driving information sharing method. The CNP protocol uses an IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) option to convey driving information such as a vehicle's position, speed, acceleration/deceleration, and direction, and a driver's driving action (e.g., braking and accelerating). "Basic Support for Security and Privacy in IP-Based Vehicular Networks", Jaehoon Jeong, Yiwen Shen, J., PARK, Tae Oh, 2023-08-07, This document describes possible attacks of security and privacy in IP Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (IPWAVE). It also proposes countermeasures for those attacks. "Destination-IP-Origin-AS Filter for BGP Flow Specification", Haibo Wang, Aijun Wang, Shunwan Zhuang, 2023-10-20, BGP Flowspec mechanism (BGP-FS) [RFC8955] [RFC8956] propagates both traffic Flow Specifications and Traffic Filtering Actions by making use of the BGP NLRI and the BGP Extended Community encoding formats. This document specifies a new BGP-FS component type to support AS- level filtering. The match field is the origin AS number of the destination IP address that is encoded in the Flowspec NLRI. This function is applied in a single administrative domain. "IETF Network Slice Topology YANG Data Model", Xufeng Liu, Jeff Tantsura, Igor Bryskin, Luis Contreras, Qin WU, Sergio Belotti, Reza Rokui, Aihua Guo, Italo Busi, 2023-07-07, An IETF network slice may use a customized topology to describe intended resource reservation for connectivities between slice endpoints. Customized topologies enable customers to request shared resources among connections activated on demand and to customize the service paths in a network slice with an extensive level of control. This document describes a YANG data model for managing and controlling customized topologies for IETF network slices defined in RFC YYYY. [RFC EDITOR NOTE: Please replace RFC YYYY with the RFC number of draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-slices once it has been published. "pretty Easy privacy (pEp): Key Synchronization Protocol (KeySync)", Volker Birk, Bernie Hoeneisen, Hernani Marques, 2023-06-06, This document describes the pEp KeySync protocol, which is designed to perform secure peer-to-peer synchronization of private keys across devices belonging to the same user. Modern users of messaging systems typically have multiple devices for communicating, and attempting to use encryption on all of these devices often leads to situations where messages cannot be decrypted on a given device due to missing private key data. Current approaches to resolve key synchronicity issues are cumbersome and potentially insecure. The pEp KeySync protocol is designed to facilitate this personal key synchronization in a user-friendly manner. "Use of ALTO for Determining Service Edge", Luis Contreras, Sabine Randriamasy, Jordi Ros-Giralt, Danny Perez, Christian Rothenberg, 2023-10-13, Service providers are starting to deploy computing capabilities across the network for hosting applications such as AR/VR, vehicle networks, IoT, and AI training, among others. In these distributed computing environments, knowledge about computing and communication resources is necessary to determine the proper deployment location of each application. This document proposes an initial approach towards the use of ALTO to expose such information to the applications and assist the selection of their deployment locations. "MVPN and EVPN BUM Signaling with Controllers", Zhaohui Zhang, Rishabh Parekh, Zheng Zhang, Hooman Bidgoli, 2023-10-11, This document specifies optional procedures for BGP-MVPN and EVPN BUM signaling with controllers. When P2MP tunnels used for BGP-MVPN and EVPN BUM are to be signaled from controllers, the controllers can learn tunnel information (identifier, root, leaf) by participating BGP-MVPN and EVPN BUM signaling, instead of relying on ingress PEs to collect the information and then pass to the controllers. Additionally, Inclusive/Selective PMSI Auto Discovery Routes can be originated from controllers based on central provisioning, instead of from PEs based on local provisioning. "Bijective MAC for Constraint Nodes", Pascal Urien, 2023-06-21, In this draft context, things are powered by micro controllers units (MCU) comprising a set of memories such as static RAM (SRAM), FLASH and EEPROM. The total memory size, ranges from 10KB to a few megabytes. In this context code and data integrity are major security issues, for the deployment of Internet of Things infrastructure. The goal of the bijective MAC (bMAC) is to compute an integrity value, which cannot be guessed by malicious software. In classical keyed MACs, MAC is computing according to a fixed order. In the bijective MAC, the content of N addresses is hashed according to a permutation P (i.e. bijective application). The bijective MAC key is the permutation P. The number of permutations for N addresses is N!. So the computation of the bMAC requires the knowledge of the whole space memory; this is trivial for genuine software, but could very difficult for corrupted software, especially for time stamped bMAC. "Removing Expiration Notices from Internet-Drafts", Martin Thomson, Paul Hoffman, 2023-09-03, The long-standing policy of requiring that Internet-Drafts bear an expiration date is no longer necessary. This document removes requirements for expiration for Internet-Drafts from RFC 2026/BCP 9 and RFC 2418/BCP 25. "Deadline-aware Transport Protocol", Yong Cui, Chuan Ma, Hang Shi, Kai Zheng, Wei Wang, 2023-07-28, This document defines Deadline-aware Transport Protocol (DTP) to provide block-based deliver-before-deadline transmission. The intention of this memo is to describe a mechanism to fulfill unreliable transmission based on QUIC as well as how to enhance timeliness of data delivery. "Braid-HTTP: Synchronization for HTTP", Michael Toomim, Greg Little, Rafie Walker, Bryn Bellomy, Seph Gentle, 2023-11-18, Braid is a set of extensions that generalize HTTP from a state *transfer* protocol into a full state *synchronization* protocol. Braid is composed of four independent extensions to HTTP: "HTTP Usage in the Industrial Internet Identifier Data Access Protocol (IIIDAP)", Chendi Ma, Jian Chen, Xiaotian Fan, Meilan Chen, Zhiping Li, 2023-06-20, This document describes an Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) for the provisioning and management of enterprises and identifiers between the server which is called Business Management System (BMS) and is entitled to manage the identifier top-level node and the client which is also referred to as Second Node Management System (SNMS). Specified in XML, the mapping defines EPP command syntax and semantics as applied to enterprise and identifier management. "Security Services for the Industrial Internet Identifier Data Access Protocol (IIIDAP)", Chendi Ma, Jian Chen, Xiaotian Fan, Meilan Chen, Zhiping Li, 2023-06-20, The Industrial Internet Identifier Data Access Protocol (IIIDAP) provides "RESTful" web services to retrieve identifier metadata from Second-Level Node (SLN). This document describes information security services, including access control, authentication, authorization, availability, data confidentiality, and data integrity for IIIDAP. "JSON Responses for the Industrial Internet Identifier Data Access Protocol (IIIDAP)", Chendi Ma, Jian Chen, Xiaotian Fan, Meilan Chen, 2023-06-20, This document describes JSON data structures representing identifier information maintained by Second-Level Nodes (SLN). These data structures are used to form Industrial Internet Identifier Data Access Protocol (IIIDAP) query responses. "Finding the Authoritative Registration Data (IIIDAP) Service", Chendi Ma, Jian Chen, Xiaotian Fan, Meilan Chen, Zhiping Li, 2023-06-20, This document specifies a method to find which Industrial Internet Identifier Data Access Protocol (IIIDAP) server is authoritative to answer queries for a request of identifier data. "Industrial Internet Identifier Data Access Protocol (IIIDAP) Query Format", Chendi Ma, Jian Chen, Xiaotian Fan, Meilan Chen, Zhiping Li, 2023-06-20, This document describes uniform patterns to construct HTTP URLs that may be used to retrieve identifier information from Second-Level Nodes (SLN) using "RESTful" web access patterns. These uniform patterns define the query syntax for the Industrial Internet Identifier Data Access Protocol (IIIDAP). "Resource Allocation Model for Hybrid Switching Networks", Weiqiang Sun, Junyi Shao, Weisheng Hu, 2023-09-06, The fast increase in traffic volumn within and outside Datacenters is placing an unprecendented challenge on the underline network, in both the capacity it can provide, and the way it delivers traffic. When a large portion of network traffic is contributed by large flows, providing high capacity and slow to change optical circuit switching along side fine-granular packet services may potentially improve network utility and reduce both CAPEX and OpEX. This gives rise to the concept of hybrid switching - a paradigm that seeks to make the best of packet and circuit switching. However, the full potential of hybrid switching networks (HSNs) can only be realized when such a network is optimally designed and operated, in the sense that "an appropriate amount of resource is used to handle an appropriate amount of traffic in both switching planes." The resource allocation problem in HSNs is in fact complex ineractions between three components: resource allocation between the two switching planes, traffic partitioning between the two switching planes, and the overall cost or performance constraints. In this memo, we explore the challenges of planning and operating hybrid switching networks, with a particular focus on the resource allocation problem, and provide a high-level model that may guide resource allocation in future hybrid switching networks. "Threshold Modes in Elliptic Curves", Phillip Hallam-Baker, 2023-06-28, Threshold cryptography operation modes are described with application to the Ed25519, Ed448, X25519 and X448 Elliptic Curves. Threshold key generation allows generation of keypairs to be divided between two or more parties with verifiable security guaranties. Threshold decryption allows elliptic curve key agreement to be divided between two or more parties such that all the parties must co-operate to complete a private key agreement operation. The same primitives may be applied to improve resistance to side channel attacks. A Threshold signature scheme is described in a separate document. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/cfrg/ (http://whatever)Discussion of this draft should take place on the CFRG mailing list (cfrg@irtf.org), which is archived at . "OSPF Graceful Restart Enhancements", Sami Boutros, Ankur Dubey, Vijayalaxmi Basavaraj, Acee Lindem, 2023-11-26, This document describes enhancements to the OSPF graceful restart procedures to improve routing convergence in some OSPF network deployments. This document updates RFC 3623 and RFC 5187. "(strong) AuCPace, an augmented PAKE", Bjoern Haase, 2023-07-23, This document describes AuCPace which is an augmented PAKE protocol for two parties. The protocol was tailored for constrained devices and smooth migration for compatibility with legacy user credential databases. It is designed to be compatible with any group of both prime- and non-prime order and comes with a security proof providing composability guarantees. "Stateless and Scalable Network Slice Identification for SRv6", Clarence Filsfils, Francois Clad, Pablo Camarillo, Syed Raza, Dan Voyer, Reza Rokui, 2023-08-01, This document defines a stateless and scalable solution to achieve network slicing with SRv6. "CoAP over GATT (Bluetooth Low Energy Generic Attributes)", Christian Amsuess, 2023-10-23, Interaction from computers and cell phones to constrained devices is limited by the different network technologies used, and by the available APIs. This document describes a transport for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) that uses Bluetooth GATT (Generic Attribute Profile) and its use cases. "Conveying Transceiver-Related Information within RSVP-TE Signaling", Julien Meuric, Esther Le Rouzic, Gabriele Galimberti, 2023-10-23, The ReSource reserVation Protocol with Traffic Engineering extensions (RSVP-TE) allows to carry optical information so as to set up channels over Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) networks between a pair of transceivers. Nowadays, there are many transceivers that not only support tunable lasers, but also multiple modulation formats. This memo leverages the Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching protocol extensions to support the signaling of the associated information as a "mode" parameter within a "transceiver type" context. "No Further Fast Reroute", Kireeti Kompella, Wen Lin, 2023-10-20, There are several cases where, once Fast Reroute has taken place (for MPLS protection), a second fast reroute is undesirable, even detrimental. This memo gives several examples of this, and proposes a mechanism to prevent further fast reroutes. "BGP for Network High Availability", Huaimo Chen, Yanhe Fan, Aijun Wang, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-10-08, This document describes protocol extensions to BGP for improving the reliability or availability of a network controlled by a controller cluster. "PCE for Network High Availability", Huaimo Chen, Aijun Wang, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-10-08, This document describes extensions to Path Computation Element (PCE) communication Protocol (PCEP) for improving the reliability or availability of a network controlled by a controller cluster. "IGP for Network High Availability", Huaimo Chen, Mehmet Toy, Aijun Wang, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-10-08, This document describes protocol extensions to OSPF and IS-IS for improving the reliability or availability of a network controlled by a controller cluster. "An Architecture for Network Function Interconnect", Colin Bookham, Andrew Stone, Jeff Tantsura, Muhammad Durrani, Bruno Decraene, 2023-08-12, The emergence of technologies such as 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Industry 4.0, coupled with the move towards network function virtualization, means that the service requirements demanded from networks are changing. This document describes an architecture for a Network Function Interconnect (NFIX) that allows for interworking of physical and virtual network functions in a unified and scalable manner across wide-area network and data center domains while maintaining the ability to deliver against SLAs. "Using Flex-Algo for Segment Routing (SR) based Virtual Transport Network (VTN)", Yongqing Zhu, Jie Dong, Zhibo Hu, 2023-07-10, Enhanced VPN (VPN+) aims to provide enhanced VPN services to support some existing or emerging application's needs of enhanced isolation and stringent performance requirements. VPN+ requires integration between the overlay VPN connectivity and the characteristics provided by the underlay network. A VTN is a virtual underlay network that is associated with a network topology, and is allocated with a set of dedicated or shared resources from the underlay physical network. A VTN could be used as the underlay for one or a group of VPN+ services. The topological constraints of a VTN can be defined using Flex-Algo, a mechanism to provide distributed constraint-path computation. In some network scenarios, each VTN can be associated with a unique Flex-Algo, and the set of network resources allocated to different VTNs can be instantiated as layer-2 sub-interfaces or member links of the layer-3 interfaces. This document describes the mechanisms to build the Segment Routing (SR) based VTNs using SR Flex-Algo and IGP L2 bundles with minor extensions. This document updates RFC 8668 by defining a new flag in the Parent L3 Neighbor Descriptor in the L2 Bundle Member Attributes TLV. "Proxy Operations for CoAP Group Communication", Marco Tiloca, Esko Dijk, 2023-08-31, This document specifies the operations performed by a proxy, when using the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) in group communication scenarios. Such a proxy processes a single request sent by a client over unicast, and distributes the request over IP multicast to a group of servers. Then, the proxy collects the individual responses from those servers and relays those responses back to the client, in a way that allows the client to distinguish the responses and their origin servers through embedded addressing information. This document updates RFC7252 with respect to caching of response messages at proxies. "Crowd Sourced Remote ID", Robert Moskowitz, Stuart Card, Adam Wiethuechter, Shuai Zhao, Henk Birkholz, 2023-10-09, This document describes using the ASTM Broadcast Remote ID (B-RID) specification in a "crowd sourced" smart phone or fixed receiver asset environment to provide much of the ASTM and FAA envisioned Network Remote ID (Net-RID) functionality. This crowd sourced B-RID (CS-RID) data will use multilateration to add a level of reliability in the location data on the Unmanned Aircraft (UA). The crowd sourced environment will also provide a monitoring coverage map to authorized observers. "UAS Operator Privacy for RemoteID Messages", Robert Moskowitz, Stuart Card, Adam Wiethuechter, 2023-09-08, This document describes a method of providing privacy for UAS Operator/Pilot information specified in the ASTM UAS Remote ID and Tracking messages. This is achieved by encrypting, in place, those fields containing Operator sensitive data using a hybrid ECIES. "Reflexive Forwarding for CCNx and NDN Protocols", David Oran, Dirk Kutscher, 2023-09-26, Current Information-Centric Networking protocols such as CCNx and NDN have a wide range of useful applications in content retrieval and other scenarios that depend only on a robust two-way exchange in the form of a request and response (represented by an _Interest-Data exchange_ in the case of the two protocols noted above). A number of important applications however, require placing large amounts of data in the Interest message, and/or more than one two-way handshake. While these can be accomplished using independent Interest-Data exchanges by reversing the roles of consumer and producer, such approaches can be both clumsy for applications and problematic from a state management, congestion control, or security standpoint. This specification proposes a _Reflexive Forwarding_ extension to the CCNx and NDN protocol architectures that eliminates the problems inherent in using independent Interest-Data exchanges for such applications. It updates RFC8569 and RFC8609. "Secure UAS Network RID and C2 Transport", Robert Moskowitz, Stuart Card, Adam Wiethuechter, Andrei Gurtov, 2023-09-19, This document defines a transport mechanism for Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) Network Remote ID (Net-RID). Either the Broadcast Remote ID (B-RID) messages, or alternatively, appropriate MAVLink Messages can be sent directly over UDP or via a more functional protocol using CoAP/CBOR for the Net-RID messaging. This is secured via either HIP/ESP or DTLS. HIP/ESP or DTLS secure messaging Command-and-Control (C2) for is also described. "LTP Fragmentation", Fred Templin, 2023-10-23, The Licklider Transmission Protocol (LTP) provides a reliable datagram convergence layer for the Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) Bundle Protocol. In common practice, LTP is often configured over UDP/IP sockets and inherits its maximum segment size from the maximum-sized UDP/IP datagram, however when this size exceeds the path maximum transmission unit a service known as IP fragmentation must be engaged. This document discusses LTP interactions with IP fragmentation and mitigations for managing the amount of IP fragmentation employed. "Optimizing ACK mechanism for QUIC", Tong Li, Kai Zheng, Rahul Jadhav, Jiao Kang, 2023-11-20, The dependence on frequent acknowledgments (ACKs) is an artifact of current transport protocol designs rather than a fundamental requirement. This document analyzes the problems caused by contentions and collisions on the wireless medium between data packets and ACKs in WLAN and it proposes an ACK mechanism that minimizes the intensity of ACK Frame in QUIC, improving the performance of transport layer connection. "Notable CBOR Tags", Carsten Bormann, 2023-08-08, The Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR, RFC 8949) is a data format whose design goals include the possibility of extremely small code size, fairly small message size, and extensibility without the need for version negotiation. In CBOR, one point of extensibility is the definition of CBOR tags. RFC 8949's original edition, RFC 7049, defined a basic set of tags as well as a registry that can be used to contribute additional tag definitions [IANA.cbor-tags]. Since RFC 7049 was published, some 80 tag definitions have been added to that registry. The present document provides a roadmap to a large subset of these tag definitions. Where applicable, it points to a IETF standards or standard development document that specifies the tag. Where no such document exists, the intention is to collect specification information from the sources of the registrations. After some more development, the present document is intended to be useful as a reference document for the IANA registrations of the CBOR tags the definitions of which have been collected. "Recommendations for DNSSEC Resolvers Operators", Daniel Migault, Edward Lewis, Dan York, 2023-11-13, The DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) defines a process for validating received data and assert them authentic and complete as opposed to forged. While DNSSEC comes with some complexity, at least for non expert, that complexity is mostly abstracted by the resolver. As result, running a resolver with DNSSEC enabled only requires the operator to only follow a very limited set of recommendations. This document provides such recommendations. "BGP Shortest Path Routing Extension Implementation Report", Pushpasis Sarkar, Keyur Patel, Santosh Pallagatti, sajibasil@gmail.com, 2023-06-06, This document is an implementation report for the Shortest Path Routing Extensions to BGP protocol as defined in [I-D.ietf-lsvr-bgp-spf]. The authors did not verify the accuracy of the information provided by respondents. The respondents are experts with the implementations they reported on, and their responses are considered authoritative for the implementations for which their responses represent. The respondents were asked to only use the "YES" answer if the feature had at least been tested in the lab. "Advertising SID Algorithm Information in BGP", Yao Liu, Shaofu Peng, 2023-10-12, This document defines new Segment Types and proposes extensions for BGP to provide algorithm information for SR-MPLS Adjacency-SIDs when delivering SR Policy via BGP. "Identity Module for TLS Version 1.3", Pascal Urien, 2023-07-31, TLS 1.3 will be deployed in the Internet of Things ecosystem. In many IoT frameworks, TLS or DTLS protocols, based on pre-shared key (PSK), are used for device authentication. So PSK tamper resistance, is a critical market request, in order to prevent hijacking issues. If DH exchange is used with certificate bound to DH ephemeral public key, there is also a benefit to protect its signature procedure. The TLS identity module (im) MAY be based on secure element; it realizes some HKDF operations bound to PSK, and cryptographic signature if certificates are used. Secure Element form factor could be standalone chip, or embedded in SoC like eSIM. "Trusted Path Routing", Eric Voit, Chennakesava Gaddam, Guy Fedorkow, Henk Birkholz, Meiling Chen, 2023-08-28, There are end-users who believe encryption technologies like IPSec alone are insufficient to protect the confidentiality of their highly sensitive traffic flows. These end-users want their flows to traverse devices which have been freshly appraised and verified for trustworthiness. This specification describes Trusted Path Routing. Trusted Path Routing protects sensitive flows as they transit a network by forwarding traffic to/from sensitive subnets across network devices recently appraised as trustworthy. "Distributed Ledger Time-Stamp", Emanuele Cisbani, Daniele Ribaudo, Giuseppe Damiano, 2023-11-22, This document defines a standard to extend Time Stamp Tokens with Time Attestations recorded on Distributed Ledgers. The aim is to provide long-term validity to Time Stamp Tokens, backward compatible with currently available software. "Simple Two-way Active Measurement Protocol (STAMP) Extensions for Hop- by-Hop Data Collection", Tianran Zhou, Giuseppe Fioccola, Gyan Mishra, Hongwei Yang, Chang Liu, 2023-10-23, This document defines optional TLVs which are carried in Simple Two- way Active Measurement Protocol (STAMP) test packets to enhance the STAMP based functions. Such extensions to STAMP enable performance measurement and collection at every node and link along a STAMP test packet's delivery path. It enables Hop-By-Hop measurements in addition to the Edge-To-Edge measurements. "Stateless SRv6 Point-to-Multipoint Path", Huaimo Chen, Mike McBride, Yanhe Fan, Zhenbin Li, Xuesong Geng, Mehmet Toy, Gyan Mishra, Aijun Wang, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-10-22, This document describes a solution for a SRv6 Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) Path/Tree to deliver the traffic from the ingress of the path to the multiple egresses/leaves of the path in a SR domain. There is no state stored in the core of the network for a SR P2MP path like a SR Point-to-Point (P2P) path in this solution. "Generic Route Constraint Distribution Mechanism for BGP", Zhaohui Zhang, Jeffrey Haas, 2023-06-26, This document defines a mechanism based upon Constrained Route Distribution for BGP (RFC 4684) that works with various types of BGP Community-like Path Attributes. Similar to RFC 4684, this mechanism can be used to build a route distribution graph to limit the propagation of BGP Routes. Unlike RFC 4684, this mechanism is not restricted to BGP Extended Communities (RFC 4360). "BIER Encapsulation for IOAM Data", Xiao Min, Zheng Zhang, Yisong Liu, Nagendra Nainar, Carlos Pignataro, 2023-07-31, In-situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (IOAM) collects operational and telemetry information in the packet while the packet traverses a path between two points in the network. Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) is an architecture that provides optimal multicast forwarding through a "multicast domain", without requiring intermediate routers to maintain any per-flow state or to engage in an explicit tree-building protocol. The BIER header contains a bit- string in which each bit represents exactly one egress router to forward the packet to. This document outlines the requirements to carry IOAM data in BIER header and specifies how IOAM data is encapsulated in BIER header. "A YANG Data Model for MPLS-TE Topology", Italo Busi, Aihua Guo, Xufeng Liu, Tarek Saad, Rakesh Gandhi, 2023-10-22, This document defines a YANG data model for representing, retrieving, and manipulating MPLS-TE network topologies. It is based on and augments existing YANG models that describe network and traffic engineering packet network topologies. This document also defines a collection of common YANG data types and groupings specific to MPLS-TE. These common types and groupings are intended to be imported by modules that model MPLS-TE technology- specific configuration and state capabilities. The YANG models defined in this document can also be used for MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) network topologies. "SCRAM-SHA3-512 and SCRAM-SHA3-512-PLUS Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Mechanisms", Alexey Melnikov, 2023-08-24, This document registers the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) mechanisms SCRAM-SHA3-512 and SCRAM-SHA3-512-PLUS. "YANG Data Model for MPLS LSP Ping", Nagendra Nainar, Madhan Sankaranarayanan, Jaganbabu Rajamanickam, Carlos Pignataro, Guangying Zheng, 2023-08-02, This document describes the YANG data model for Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) LSP Ping. The model is based on YANG 1.1 as defined in RFC 7950 and conforms to the Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA) as described in RFC 8342. "Extending ALTO by using BGP Communities", Luis Contreras, 2023-07-09, This memo introduces a proposal to extend ALTO by using BGP Communities as PIDs. This proposal is meant to ease the integration of ALTO in operational networks by leveraging existing resource identifiers. "Cacheable OSCORE", Christian Amsuess, Marco Tiloca, 2023-07-10, Group communication with the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) can be secured end-to-end using Group Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (Group OSCORE), also across untrusted intermediary proxies. However, this sidesteps the proxies' abilities to cache responses from the origin server(s). This specification restores cacheability of protected responses at proxies, by introducing consensus requests which any client in a group can send to one server or multiple servers in the same group. "AS Hijack Detection and Mitigation", Kotikalapudi Sriram, Doug Montgomery, 2023-07-25, This document proposes a method for detection and mitigation of AS hijacking. In this mechanism, an AS operator registers a new object in the RPKI called 'ROAs Exist for All Prefixes (REAP)'. REAP is digitally signed using the AS holder's certificate. By registering a REAP object, the AS operator is declaring that they have Route Origin Authorization (ROA) coverage for all prefixes originated by their AS. A receiving AS will mark a route as Invalid if the prefix is not covered by any Validated ROA Payload (VRP) and the route origin AS has signed a REAP. Here Invalid means that the route is determined to be an AS hijack. "Mathematical Mesh 3.0 Part XI: Mesh Presence Service", Phillip Hallam-Baker, 2023-06-28, https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/mathmesh/ (http://whatever)Discussion of this draft should take place on the MathMesh mailing list (mathmesh@ietf.org), which is archived at . "IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Information Elements Extension for Forwarding Exceptions", Venkata Munukutla, Shivam Vaid, Aditya Mahale, Devang Patel, 2023-09-19, This draft proposes couple of new Forwarding exceptions related Information Elements (IEs) and Templates for the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) protocol. These new Information Elements and Exception Template can be used to export information about any forwarding errors in a network. This essential information is adequate to correlate packet drops to any control plane entity and map it to an impacted service. Once exceptions are correlated to a particular entity, an action can be assigned to mitigate such problems essentially enabling self-driving networks. "SVG Tiny Portable/Secure", Alex Brotman, J. Adams, 2023-09-03, This document specifies SVG Tiny Portable/Secure (SVG Tiny PS) -- A Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) profile to be used with documents that are intended for use with more secure requirements, and in some cases, in conjunction with a limited rendering engine. "Using the Extensible Authentication Protocol with Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman over COSE (EDHOC)", Eduardo Sanchez, Dan Garcia-Carrillo, Rafael Marin-Lopez, Goeran Selander, John Mattsson, 2023-09-12, The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), defined in RFC 3748, provides a standard mechanism for support of multiple authentication methods. This document specifies the use of EAP-EDHOC with Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC). EDHOC provides a lightweight authenticated Diffie-Hellman key exchange with ephemeral keys, using COSE (RFC 8152) to provide security services efficiently encoded in CBOR (RFC 8949). This document also provides guidance on authentication and authorization for EAP-EDHOC. "Secure Element for TLS Version 1.3", Pascal Urien, 2023-10-04, This draft presents ISO7816 interface for TLS1.3 stack running in secure element. It presents supported cipher suites and key exchange modes, and describes embedded software architecture. TLS 1.3 is the de facto security stack for emerging Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Some of them are constraint nodes, with limited computing resources. Furthermore cheap System on Chip (SoC) components usually provide tamper resistant features, so private or pre shared keys are exposed to hacking. According to the technology state of art, some ISO7816 secure elements are able to process TLS 1.3, but with a limited set of cipher suites. There are two benefits for TLS-SE; first fully tamper resistant processing of TLS protocol, which increases the security level insurance; second embedded software component ready for use, which relieves the software of the burden of cryptographic libraries and associated attacks. TLS-SE devices may also embed standalone applications, which are accessed via internet node, using a routing procedure based on SNI extension. "PCEP Procedures and Protocol Extensions for Using PCE as a Central Controller (PCECC) of BIER", Ran Chen, BenChong Xu, Huaimo Chen, Aijun Wang, 2023-10-19, This draft specify a new mechanism where PCE allocates the BIER information centrally and uses PCEP to distribute them to all nodes, then PCC generate a "Bit Index Forwarding Table"(BIFT). "PCEP Procedures and Protocol Extensions for Using PCE as a Central Controller (PCECC) of BIER-TE", Ran Chen, BenChong Xu, Huaimo Chen, Aijun Wang, 2023-10-19, This draft specify extensions to PCEP protocol when a PCE-based controller is responsible for allocates the BIER-TE information(BIER subdomain-id, adjacencies BitPosition(s), and Adjacency Types etc), then PCC generate a "Bit Index Forwarding Table"(BIFT). "Federated TLS Authentication", Jakob Schlyter, Stefan Halen, 2023-07-07, This document describes how to establish a secure end-to-end channel between two parties within a federation, where both the client and server mutually authenticate each other. The trust relationship is based upon a trust anchor held and published by the federation. A federation is a trusted third party that inter-connect different trust domains with a common set of policies and standards. "MSYNC", Sophie Bale, Remy Brebion, Guillaume Bichot, 2023-10-05, This document specifies the Multicast Synchronization (MSYNC) Protocol. MSYNC is intended to transfer video media objects over IP multicast. Although generic, MSYNC has been primarily designed for transporting HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) objects including manifests/playlists and media segments (e.g., CMAF) according to a HAS protocol such as Apple HLS or MPEG DASH between a multicast sender and a multicast receiver. "BGP Extensions of SR Policy for Segment List Protection", Yao Liu, Shaofu Peng, Changwang Lin, Mike Koldychev, 2023-06-28, This document proposes extensions of BGP in order to provide protection information for segment lists when delivering SR policy via BGP. "Binary Application Record Encoding (BARE)", Drew DeVault, 2023-07-25, The Binary Application Record Encoding (BARE) is a data format used to represent application records for storage or transmission between programs. BARE messages are concise and have a well-defined schema, and implementations may be simple and broadly compatible. A schema language is also provided to express message schemas out-of-band. Comments Comments are solicited and should be addressed to the mailing list at ~sircmpwn/public-inbox@lists.sr.ht and/or the author(s). "Revised Cookie Processing in the IKEv2 Protocol", Valery Smyslov, 2023-10-16, This document defines a revised processing of cookies in the Internet Key Exchange protocol Version 2 (IKEv2). It is intended to solve a problem in IKEv2 when due to packets loss and reordering peers may erroneously fail to authenticate each other when cookies are used in the initial IKEv2 exchange. "Label Switched Path (LSP) Ping for Segment Routing (SR) Path Segment Identifiers (SIDs) with MPLS Data Planes", Xiao Min, Shaofu Peng, Liyan Gong, Rakesh Gandhi, Carlos Pignataro, 2023-11-05, Path Segment is a type of SR segment, which is used to identify an SR path. This document provides Target Forwarding Equivalence Class (FEC) stack TLV definitions for Path Segment Identifiers. "Extension of Transport Aware Mobility in Data Network", Kausik Majumdar, Uma Chunduri, Linda Dunbar, 2023-09-12, The existing Transport Network Aware Mobility for 5G (TN-AWARE- MOBILITY) specifies a framework for mapping the 5G mobile systems' Slice and Service Types (SSTs) to corresponding underlying network paths to ensure the desired QoS for the services.The focus of (TN- AWARE-MOBILITY) is limited to the 3GPP domain and doesn't cover the network for user plane traffic between the UPFs and the services hosted in data centers. This document describes the mechanisms to achieve the same QoS for the mobility traffic from the 3GPP domain to the service destinations over the IP Data Networks. Extending the QoS guarantee for the SSTs to the data centers where the services are hosted becomes necessary to maintain the end-to-end QoS for data plane traffic between UEs and their corresponding service destinations. "Separation of Data Path and Data Flow Sublayers in the Transport Layer", Hirochika Asai, 2023-07-10, This document reviews the architectural design of the transport layer. In particular, this document proposes to separate the transport layer into two sublayers; the data path and the data flow layers. The data path layer provides functionality on the data path, such as connection handling, path quality and trajectory monitoring, waypoint management, and congestion control for the data path resource management. The data flow layer provides additional functionality upon the data path layer, such as flow control for the receive buffer management, retransmission for reliable data delivery, and transport layer security. The data path layer multiplexes multiple data flow layer protocols and provides data path information to the data flow layer to control data transmissions, such as prioritization and inverse multiplexing for multipath protocols. "Network measurement intent - one of IBN use cases", Danyang Chen, Hongwei Yang, Kehan Yao, Giuseppe Fioccola, Qin WU, Luis Contreras, 2023-10-22, As an important technical mean to detect network state, network measurement has attracted more and more attention in the development of networks. However, the current network measurement technology has the problem that the measurement method and the measurement purpose are not well matched. To solve this problem, this memo introduces network measurement intent, presents a process of scheduling the network resources and measurement tasks to meet the user or network operator's needs. And it can be seen as a specific use case of intent based network. "DC aware TE topology model", Young Lee, Xufeng Liu, Luis Contreras, 2023-07-10, This document proposes the extension of the TE topology model for including information related to data center resource capabilities. "BIER Egress Protection", Huaimo Chen, Mike McBride, Aijun Wang, Gyan Mishra, Yisong Liu, Michael Menth, Boris Khasanov, Xuesong Geng, Yanhe Fan, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-06-25, This document describes a mechanism for fast protection against the failure of an egress node of a "Bit Index Explicit Replication" (BIER) domain. It is called BIER egress protection. It does not require any per-flow state in the core of the domain. With BIER egress protection the failure of a primary BFER (Bit Forwarding Egress Router) is protected with a backup BFER such that traffic destined to the primary BFER in the BIER domain is fast rerouted by a neighbor BFR to the backup BFER on the BIER layer. The mechanism is applicable if all BIER traffic sent to the primary BFER can reach its destination also via the backup BFER. It is complementary to BIER- FRR which cannot protect against the failure of a BFER. "Security Management Automation of Cloud-Based Security Services in I2NSF Framework", Jaehoon Jeong, Patrick Lingga, J., PARK, Diego Lopez, Susan Hares, 2023-07-24, This document describes Security Management Automation (SMA) of cloud-based security services in the framework of Interface to Network Security Functions (I2NSF). The security management automation in this document deals with closed-loop security control, security policy translation, and security audit. To support these three features in SMA, this document specifies an augmented architecture of the I2NSF framework with new system components and new interfaces. "Mailing List Manager (MLM) Transformations", Alessandro Vesely, 2023-08-28, The widespread adoption of Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) led Mailing List Managers (MLM) to rewrite the From: header field as a workaround. This document proposes a methods to to revert MLM transformations, in order to restore the original From: line after reception. The method only works with some MLMs and some signing patterns. "In-band Edge-to-Edge Round Trip Time Measurement", Haoyu Song, Linda Dunbar, 2023-05-30, This draft describes a lightweight in-band in-network edge-to-edge flow-based network round trip time measurement architecture and proposes the implementation over IOAM E2E option. By augmenting the IOAM E2E option header, the process can be fully done in data plane without needing to involve the control plane to maintain any states. "SRH TLV Processing Programming", Cheng Li, Yang Xia, Dhruv Dhody, Zhenbin Li, 2023-08-16, This document proposes a mechanism to program the processing rules of Segment Routig Header (SRH) optional TLVs explicitly on the ingress node. In this mechanism, there is no need to configure local configuration at the node to support SRH TLV processing. A network operator can program to process specific TLVs on specific segment endpoint nodes for specific packets on the ingress node, which is more efficient for SRH TLV processing. "APN Scope and Gap Analysis", Shuping Peng, Zhenbin Li, Gyan Mishra, 2023-09-14, The APN work in IETF is focused on developing a framework and set of mechanisms to derive, convey and use an attribute allowing the implementation of fine-grain user group-level and application group- level requirements in the network layer. APN aims to apply various policies in different nodes along a network path onto a traffic flow altogether, for example, at the headend to steer into corresponding path, at the midpoint to collect corresponding performance measurement data, and at the service function to execute particular policies. Currently there is still no way to efficiently realize this composite network service provisioning along the path. This document further clarifies the scope of the APN work and describes the solution gap analysis. "SRv6 In-situ Active Measurement", Haoyu Song, Gyan Mishra, Tian Pan, 2023-09-07, This draft describes an active measurement method for SRv6 which can support segment-by-segment and end-to-end measurement on any SRv6 path using existing protocols such as IOAM. A packet containing an SRH uses a flag bit to indicate the packet is an active probing packet and requires segment-by-segment processing. The measurement information, such as the IOAM header and data, is encapsulated in UDP payload, indicated by a dedicated port number. The probing packet originates from a segment source node, traverses an arbitrary segment path, and terminates at a segment endpoint node, as configured by the segment list in SRH. Each segment node on the path, when detecting the flag, shall parse the UDP header and the payload. In the case of IOAM, the node shall process the IOAM option conforming to the standard procedures defined in the IOAM documents. The method is compatible with some other SRv6 active measurement proposals and support multiple applications. "Architecture and application scenario for fused service function chain", Jinyou Dai, Xueshun Wang, Jun Gao, 2023-07-28, This document discusses the architecture and application scenarios of fused service function chain. Fused service function chain means that two or more service function chains are fused to become a single service function chain from the view of data plane, control plane and management plane. Fused service function chain is an expansion for general service function chain.Anyhow, some mechanism or methods need to be used when two or more service function chains are fused to be a single service function chain based on architecture described in this memo. "SR-MPLS / SRv6 Transport Interworking", Shraddha Hegde, Parag Kaneriya, Ron Bonica, Shaofu Peng, Greg Mirsky, Zheng Zhang, Bruno Decraene, Dan Voyer, Swadesh Agrawal, 2023-07-09, This document describes procedures for interworking between an SR- MPLS transit domain and an SRv6 transit domain. Each domain contains Provider Edge (PE) and Provider (P) routers. Area Border Routers (ABR) provide connectivity between domains. The procedures described in this document require the ABR to carry a route to each PE router. However, they do not required the ABR to carry service (i.e., customer) routes. In that respect, these procedures resemble L3VPN Interprovider Option C. Procedures described in this document support interworking for global IPv4 and IPv6 service prefixes. They do not support interworking for VPN services prefixes where the SR-MPLS domain uses MPLS service labels. "Profiles for Traffic Engineering (TE) Topology Data Model and Applicability to non-TE Use Cases", Italo Busi, Xufeng Liu, Igor Bryskin, Tarek Saad, Oscar de Dios, 2023-08-09, This document describes how profiles of the Traffic Engineering (TE) Topology Model, defined in RFC8795, can be used to address applications beyond "Traffic Engineering". "Application of the Alternate Marking Method to the Segment Routing Header", Giuseppe Fioccola, Tianran Zhou, Mauro Cociglio, Gyan Mishra, xuewei wang, Geng Zhang, 2023-09-22, The Alternate Marking Method is a passive performance measurement method based on marking consecutive batches of packets, which can be used to measure packet loss, latency, and jitter of live traffic. This method requires a packet marking method so that packet flows can be distinguished and identified. A mechanism to carry suitable packet marking in the Hop-by-Hop Header and the Destination Options Header of an IPv6 packet is described in RFC 9343 and is also applicable to Segment Routing for IPv6 (SRv6). This document describes an alternative approach that uses a new TLV in the Segment Routing Header (SRH) of an SRv6 packet. This approach has been implemented and has potential scaling and simplification benefits over the technique described in RFC 9343. This protocol extension has been developed outside the IETF and is published here to guide implementation, ensure interoperability among implementations, and enable wide-scale deployment to determine the potential benefits of this approach. "DLEP Radio Band Extension", Henning Rogge, 2023-07-23, This document defines an extension to the Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP) to provide the frequency bands used by the radio. "DLEP Radio Channel Utilization Extension", Henning Rogge, 2023-07-23, This document defines an extension to the Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP) to provide the utilization of a radio channel. "BGP Extensions of SR Policy for Composite Candidate Path", Hao Li, Mengxiao Chen, Changwang Lin, Jiang Wenying, Weiqiang Cheng, 2023-08-28, Segment Routing is a source routing paradigm that explicitly indicates the forwarding path for packets at the ingress node. An SR Policy is associated with one or more candidate paths. A candidate path is either dynamic, explicit or composite. This document defines extensions to BGP to distribute SR policies carrying composite candidate path information. So that composite candidate paths can be installed when the SR policy is applied. "Signaling Composite Candidate Path of SR Policy using BGP-LS", Hao Li, Mengxiao Chen, Changwang Lin, Jiang Wenying, Weiqiang Cheng, 2023-08-28, Segment Routing is a source routing paradigm that explicitly indicates the forwarding path for packets at the ingress node. An SR Policy is associated with one or more candidate paths, and each candidate path is either dynamic, explicit or composite. This document specifies the extensions to BGP Link State (BGP-LS) to carry composite candidate path information in the advertisement of an SR policy. "Aggregated Option for SYN Option Space Extension", Yoshifumi Nishida, 2023-07-05, TCP option space is scarce resource as its maximum length is limited to 40 bytes. This limitation becomes more significant in SYN segments as all options used in a connection should be exchanged during SYN negotiations. This document proposes a new SYN option negotiation scheme that can aggregate multiple TCP options in SYN segments into a single option so that more options can be negotiate during 3-way handshake. With its simple design, the approach does not require fundamental changes in TCP. "PCEP Extensions for sid verification for SR-MPLS", Ran Chen, Samuel Sidor, Chun Zhu, Alex Tokar, Mike Koldychev, 2023-08-24, This document defines a new flag for indicating the headend is explicitly requested to verify SID(s) by the PCE. "Simple Two-Way Direct Loss Measurement Procedure", Rakesh Gandhi, Clarence Filsfils, Dan Voyer, Mach Chen, Bart Janssens, 2023-08-11, This document defines Simple Two-Way Direct Loss Measurement (DLM) procedure that can be used for Alternate-Marking Method for detecting accurate data packet loss in a network. Specifically, DLM probe packets are defined for both unauthenticated and authenticated modes and they are efficient for hardware-based implementation. "PCE for BIER-TE Path", Huaimo Chen, Mike McBride, Aijun Wang, Gyan Mishra, Yisong Liu, Yanhe Fan, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-08-21, This document describes extensions to Path Computation Element (PCE) communication Protocol (PCEP) for supporting Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) Traffic Engineering (TE) paths. "BIER-TE Fast ReRoute", Huaimo Chen, Mike McBride, Yisong Liu, Aijun Wang, Gyan Mishra, Yanhe Fan, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-07-30, This document describes a mechanism for fast re-route (FRR) protection against the failure of a transit node or link on an explicit point to multipoint (P2MP) multicast path/tree in a "Bit Index Explicit Replication" (BIER) Traffic Engineering (TE) domain. It does not have any per-path state in the core. For a multicast packet to traverse a transit node along an explicit P2MP path, when the node fails, its upstream hop node as a PLR reroutes the packet around the failed node along the P2MP path once it detects the failure. "BIER-TE Egress Protection", Huaimo Chen, Mike McBride, Aijun Wang, Gyan Mishra, Yisong Liu, Yanhe Fan, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-06-23, This document describes a mechanism for fast protection against the failure of an egress node of an explicit point to multipoint (P2MP) multicast path/tree in a "Bit Index Explicit Replication" (BIER) Traffic Engineering (TE) domain. It does not have any per-flow state in the core of the domain. For a multicast packet to the egress node, when the egress node fails, its upstream hop as a PLR sends the packet to the egress' backup node once the PLR detects the failure. "NTS4PTP - Key Management System for the Precision Time Protocol Based on the Network Time Security Protocol", Martin Langer, Rainer Bermbach, 2023-08-18, This document specifies an automatic key management service for the integrated security mechanism (prong A) of IEEE Std 1588™-2019 (PTPv2.1) described there in Annex P. This key management follows the immediate security processing approach of prong A and extends the NTS Key Establishment protocol defined in IETF RFC 8915 for securing NTPv4 (RFC 5905). The resulting NTS for PTP (NTS4PTP) protocol provides a security solution for all relevant PTP modes and operates completely independent from NTPv4. "RPKI Validation Re-reconsidered", Job Snijders, Ben Maddison, 2023-11-07, This document describes an improved validation procedure for Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) signed objects. This document updates RFC 6482. This document updates RFC 6487. This document obsoletes RFC 8360. "Applicability of IETF-Defined Service and Network Data Models for RFC XXXX Network Slice Service Management", Samier Barguil, Luis Contreras, Victor Lopez, Oscar de Dios, Mohamed Boucadair, Reza Rokui, 2023-10-23, This document exemplifies how the various data modeles that are produced in the IETF can be combined in the context of RFC XXXX Network Slice Services delivery. Specifically, this document describes the relationship between the RFC XXXX Network Slice Service models for requesting Network Slice Services and both Service (e.g., the Layer-3 Service Model, the Layer-2 Service Model) and Network (e.g., the Layer-3 Network Model, the Layer-2 Network Model) models used during their realizations. In addition, this document describes the communication between an RFC XXXX Network Slice Controller (NSC) and the network controllers for the realization of RFC XXXX Network Slices. The RFC XXXX Network Slice Service YANG model provides a customer- oriented view of the intended Network slice Service. Thus, once an NSC receives a request for a Slice Service request, the NSC has to map it to accomplish the specific objectives expected by the network controllers. Existing YANG network models are analyzed against the RFC XXXX Network Slice requirements, and the gaps in existing models are identified. Note to the RFC Editor: Please replace "RFC XXXX" with the RFC number assigned to I-D.ietf-teas-ietf-network-slices. "A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)", Joachim Wackerow, 2023-08-13, This document describes the Namespace Identifier (NID) "ddi" for Uniform Resource Names (URNs) used to identify resources that conform to the standards published by the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Alliance (https://ddialliance.org/). The DDI Alliance is not affiliated with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) or Internet Society (ISOC); and as an independent submission, it does not have IETF community consensus. "Semantic Definition Format (SDF) for Data and Interactions of Things: Compact Notation", Carsten Bormann, 2023-10-23, The Semantic Definition Format (SDF) is a format for domain experts to use in the creation and maintenance of data and interaction models in the Internet of Things. It was created as a common language for use in the development of the One Data Model liaison organization (OneDM) definitions. Tools convert this format to database formats and other serializations as needed. The SDF format is mainly intended for interchange between machine generation and machine processing. However, there is often a need for humans to look at and edit SDF models. Similar to the way Relax-NG as defined in ISO/IEC 19757-2 has an XML format and a compact format (Annex C), this specification defines a compact format to go along SDF's JSON format. The present version of this document is mostly a proof of concept, but was deemed useful to obtain initial feedback on the approach taken. "Scalable Remote Attestation for Systems, Containers, and Applications", Kathleen Moriarty, Antonio Fontes, 2023-10-23, This document establishes an architectural pattern whereby a remote attestation could be issued for a complete set of benchmarks or controls that are defined and grouped by an external entity, preventing the need to send over individual attestations for each item within a benchmark or control framework. This document establishes a pattern to list sets of benchmarks and controls within CWT and JWT formats for use as an Entity Attestation Token (EAT). "Prague Congestion Control", Koen De Schepper, Olivier Tilmans, Bob Briscoe, Vidhi Goel, 2023-10-14, This specification defines the Prague congestion control scheme, which is derived from DCTCP and adapted for Internet traffic by implementing the Prague L4S requirements. Over paths with L4S support at the bottleneck, it adapts the DCTCP mechanisms to achieve consistently low latency and full throughput. It is defined independently of any particular transport protocol or operating system, but notes are added that highlight issues specific to certain transports and OSs. It is mainly based on experience with the reference Linux implementation of TCP Prague and the Apple implementation over QUIC, but it includes experience from other implementations where available. The implementation does not satisfy all the Prague requirements (yet) and the IETF might decide that certain requirements need to be relaxed as an outcome of the process of trying to satisfy them all. Future plans that have typically only been implemented as proof-of- concept code are outlined in a separate section. "DLEP Radio Quality Extension", Henning Rogge, 2023-07-23, This document defines an extension to the Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP) to provide the quality of incoming radio signals. "A SIP Response Code (497) for Call Transfer Failure", Shrawan Khatri, Vikram Singh, Cherng-Shung Hsu, 2023-07-24, This document defines the 497 (Call Transfer Failure) SIP response code, allowing Call Pull and Call Push parties to indicate that the operation was rejected. Optional warning codes are defined to carry granular information. SIP entities may use this information to adjust how subsequent calls can be handled intelligently. "Security Technical Specification for Smart Devices of IoT", Bin Wang, Xing Wang, Li Wan, Wenyuan Xu, Chonghua Wang, HaoNan Yan, Yinghui Xie, 2023-10-18, With the development of IoT, the security of smart devices has become an important issue for us to discuss. This draft proposes a security framework and detailed requirements in terms of hardware, system, data, network, and management to ensure the security of IoT smart devices. Specifically, hardware security includes the security of hardware interfaces and components. System security encompasses firmware security, security audits, and more. Data security involves data verification and protection of sensitive data.Network security entails stream protection, session security, and more. "Technical Requirements for Secure Access and Management of IoT Smart Terminals", Bin Wang, Song Liu, Li Wan, Jun Li, Xing Wang, HaoNan Yan, Yinghui Xie, 2023-10-18, It is difficult to supervise the great deal of Internet of Things (IoT) smart terminals which are widely distributed. Furthermore, a large number of smart terminals (such as IP cameras, access control terminals, traffic cameras, etc.) running on the network have high security risks in access control. This draft introduces the technical requirements for access management and control of IoT smart terminals, which is used to solve the problem of personate and illegal connection in the access process, and enables users to strengthen the control of devices and discover devices that is offline in time, so as to ensure the safety and stability of smart terminals in the access process. "Open Service Access Protocol for IoT Smart Devices", Bin Wang, Shaopeng Zhou, Chao Li, Chunming Wu, Zizhao Wang, HaoNan Yan, Yinghui Xie, 2023-10-18, With the development of IoT (Internet of Things) technology, everything becomes interconnected. Mass IoT data, devices, businesses, and services adopt different data descriptions and service access methods, resulting in fragmentation issues such as data heterogeneity, device heterogeneity, and application heterogeneity. These issues hinder the development of the industry. To solve this problem, this draft proposes the requirements for IoT smart devices to transmit and control, as well as transmission and protocol interfaces. It is intended for program design, system testing and acceptance, and related research. The structured, unified, and standardized open service interconnection model reduces business replication costs and eliminates service barriers, thus promoting industrial development. "Fetch and Validation of Verified Mark Certificates", Wei Chuang, Marc Bradshaw, Thede Loder, Alex Brotman, 2023-09-03, A description of how entities wishing to validate a Verified Mark Certificate (VMC) should retrieve and validate these documents. This document is a companion to BIMI core specification, which should be consulted alongside this document. "BIMI Reporting", J. Adams, Alex Brotman, 2023-09-03, To support the utility of Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI), domains publishing BIMI records may find it useful to know when their logos are failing to be displayed as expected. When an entity, for example a mailbox operator, determines whether or not to display the logo identified in the BIMI record, they may encounter errors trying to retrieve the image file. Similarly, the associated evidence document used to validate the logo may fail evaluation. In other cases, the evaluator may decide that despite everything validating, they may rely on local policies that determine validated logos should still not be displayed. This specification defines how BIMI evaluators should report their evaluation outcome back to the publisher within the context of existing Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) reports. "Common Format and MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files", Yakov Shafranovich, 2023-09-05, This RFC documents the common format used for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) files and updates the associated MIME type "text/csv". "Mathematical Mesh 3.0 Part VII: Mesh Callsign Service", Phillip Hallam-Baker, 2023-06-28, The Mesh Callsign Registry is a name registry that provides a mapping from human-friendly callsigns to root of trusts and a service assigned by the callsign holder to service the account bound to that callsign. An append only sequence authenticated by means of a Merkle Tree and periodic third party notarizations provides ground truth for the integrity of the registry and for all the assertions enrolled in the sequence. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/mathmesh/ (http://whatever)Discussion of this draft should take place on the MathMesh mailing list (mathmesh@ietf.org), which is archived at . "Data Transmission Security of Identity Resolution in Industrial Internet", Bin Wang, Kezhang Lin, Chonghua Wang, Xing Wang, HaoNan Yan, Yinghui Xie, 2023-10-18, This draft presents a comprehensive overview of the data transmission security within the identity resolution system for the Industrial Internet. Identity resolution systems play a vital role in the Industrial Internet, facilitating secure sharing and intelligent correlation of heterogeneous information across various organizations. This draft focuses on the security services that identity resolution systems should provide during the resolution process. "Retrieving information about Object Identifiers using a text-based protocol", Daniel Marschall, 2023-07-25, This document defines a method for retrieving information about Object Identifiers (OIDs) and their associated Registration Authorities (RAs) through a text-based protocol, in a way that is both human-readable and machine-readable. Besides a text output format, OID-IP also supports sending information in JSON and XML. "Using NETCONF over QUIC connection", Jinyou Dai, Shaohua Yu, Weiqiang Cheng, Huaimo Chen, Xueshun Wang, Yang Kou, Lifen Zhou, 2023-06-28, The Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) provides mechanisms to install, manipulate, and delete the configuration of network devices. At present, almost all implementations of NETCONF are based on TCP based protocol. QUIC, a new UDP-based, secure and multiplexed transport protocol, can facilitate to improve the transportation performance, information security and resource utility when being used as an infrastructure layer of NETCONF. This document describes how to use the QUIC protocol as the transport protocol of NETCONF(It is so called NETCONFoQUIC). "HESP - High Efficiency Streaming Protocol", Pieter-Jan Speelmans, 2023-10-16, This document describes a protocol for delivering multimedia data, enabling ultra-low latency and fast channel change over HTTP networks. It specifies the data format of the files and the actions to be taken by the server (sender) and the clients (receivers) of the streams. It describes version 2 of this protocol. "BGP Flow Specification for DetNet and TSN Flow Mapping", Quan Xiong, Haisheng Wu, Junfeng Zhao, Dong Yang, 2023-10-16, This document proposes extensions to BGP Flow Specification for the flow mapping of Deterministic Networking (DetNet) when interconnected with IEEE 802.1 Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN). The BGP flowspec is used for the filtering of the packets that match the DetNet newtworks and the mapping between TSN streams and DetNet flows in the control plane. "Expanding the IPv6 Lab Use Space", Nick Buraglio, Chris Cummings, Kevin Myers, Russ White, Ed Horley, 2023-07-24, To reduce the likelihood of addressing conflicts and confusion between lab deployments and non-lab (i.e., production) deployments, an IPv6 unicast address prefix is reserved for use in lab, proof-of- concept, and validation networks as well as for any similar use case. This document describes the use of the IPv6 address prefix 0200::/7 as a prefix reserved for this purpose (repurposing the deprecated OSI NSAP-mapped prefix). "Problem Statement and Use Cases of Trustworthiness-based Routing", Tao Lin, Hao Li, Xingang Shi, Xia Yin, Wenlong Chen, Mengxiao Chen, 2023-07-27, Currently, network operators are trying to provide fine-granularity Service Level Agreement (SLA) guarantee to achieve better Quality of Experience (QoE) for end users and engage customers, such as ultra- low latency and high reliability service. However, with increasing security threats, differentiated QoE services are insufficient, the demands for more differentiated security service are emerging. This document explores the requirements for differentiated security services and identifies the scenarios for network operators. To provide differentiated security services, possible trustworthiness- based routing solution is discussed. "Separation Protocol of Locator and Identifier Towards IPv6", haisheng yu, Hanzhuo Zhang, 2023-10-09, In the current TCP/IP architecture, the IPv6 address has a dual meaning in semantics. It not only represents the topological location of the network node, but also the identity of the node, which is usually referred to as the semantic overload problem of the IP address. The semantically overloaded IP address represents the topological position of the network, and the topological position of the network generally does not move, so the device entering the new network environment needs to replace the new identity IP to adapt to the change of the topological position. The semantic overload of IP addresses is not conducive to supporting mobility and user identity authentication, resulting in tight storage space for routing equipment, lack of unified communication identification for network equipment, and difficulties in network traceability and management. In order to solve the problem of IP address semantic overload, this draft focuses on the separation technology SPLIT6 (Separation Protocol of Locator and Identifier Towards IPv6) of IP address identity and location. "Problems and Requirements of Satellite Constellation for Internet", Lin Han, Richard Li, Alvaro Retana, Meiling Chen, Li Su, Tianji Jiang, Ning Wang, 2023-07-05, This document presents the detailed analysis about the problems and requirements of satellite constellation used for Internet. It starts from the satellite orbit basics, coverage calculation, then it estimates the time constraints for the communications between satellite and ground-station, also between satellites. How to use satellite constellation for Internet is discussed in detail including the satellite relay and satellite networking. The problems and requirements of using traditional network technology for satellite network integrating with Internet are finally outlined. "BGP Dissemination of FlowSpec for Transport Aware Mobility", Linda Dunbar, Kausik Majumdar, Uma Chunduri, 2023-07-24, This document defines a BGP Flow Specification (FlowSpec) extension to disseminate the policies from 5G mobile networks so that the 5G mobile systems slices and Service Types (SSTs) can be mapped to optimal underlying network paths in the data network outside the 5G UPFs which is the N6 interface in 3GPP 5G Architecture [3GPP TR 23.501]. "Secure EVPN MAC Signaling", Pascal Thubert, Tony Przygienda, Jeff Tantsura, 2023-09-13, This specification adds attributes to EVPN to carry IPv6 address metadata learned from RFC 8505 and RFC 8928 so as to maintain a synchronized copy of the 6LoWPAN ND registrar at each EVPN router and perform locally a unicast IPv6 ND service for address lookup and duplicate address detection. "Generic Metric for the AIGP attribute", Srihari Sangli, Shraddha Hegde, Reshma Das, Bruno Decraene, Bin Wen, Marcin Kozak, Jie Dong, Luay Jalil, Ketan Talaulikar, 2023-11-09, This document defines extensions to the AIGP attribute to carry Generic Metric sub-types. This is applicable when multiple domains exchange BGP routing information. The extension will aid in intent- based end-to-end path selection. "Problem Statement and Requirement for Inband Flow Learning", Liuyan Han, Minxue Wang, Xuanxuan Wang, Jinming Huang, 2023-07-27, On-path telemetry techniques can provide high-precision inband flow insight and real-time network performance monitoring. Although they are benefical, network operators still face challenges applying such techniques, especially flow identification when deploying flow- oriented monitoring on a large scale. This document introduces the real network scenarios, and intends to address the problems by proposing the requirements of inband flow learning mechenism that can be used to implement inband flow information telemetry for deployability and flexibility. "Find Code Related to an Internet-Draft or RFC", Charles Eckel, 2023-06-26, Code related to existing IETF standards and ongoing standardization efforts may exist and be publicly accessible in many places. This document provides a set of practices to make it easier to identify and find such code. "SRv6 inter-domain mapping SIDs", Salih A, Shraddha Hegde, Rajesh Shetty, Ron Bonica, Haibo Wang, Shaofu Peng, 2023-06-23, This document describes three new SRv6 end-point behaviors, called END.REPLACE, END.REPLACEB6 and END.DB6. These behaviors are used in distributed inter-domain solutions and are normally executed on border routers. They also can be used to provide multiple intent- based paths across these domains. "Security for the NFSv4 Protocols", David Noveck, 2023-11-14, This document describes the core security features of the NFSv4 family of protocols, applying to all minor versions. The discussion includes the use of security features provided by RPC on a per- connection basis. The current version of the document is intended, in large part, to result in working group discussion regarding existing NFSv4 security issues and to provide a framework for addressing these issues and obtaining working group consensus regarding necessary changes. When the resulting document is eventually published as an RFC, it will supersede the description of security appearing in existing minor version specification documents such as RFC 7530 and RFC 8881. "PCE for BIER-TE Ingress Protection", Huaimo Chen, Mike McBride, Gyan Mishra, Yisong Liu, Aijun Wang, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-11-12, This document describes extensions to Path Computation Element (PCE) communication Protocol (PCEP) for protecting the ingress of a BIER-TE path. "EVPN multi-homing support for L3 services", Michael MacKenzie, Patrice Brissette, Satoru Matsushima, Wen Lin, Jorge Rabadan, 2023-10-18, This document introduces the utilization of EVPN Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation Group (MC-LAG) technology to enhance network availability and load balancing for various L3 services in EVPN. "Encoding Network Slice Identification for SRv6", Weiqiang Cheng, Peiyong Ma, Fenghua Ren, Changwang Lin, Liyan Gong, Shay Zadok, Mingyu Wu, xuewei wang, 2023-07-10, This document describes a method to encode network slicing identifier within SRv6 domain. "Service Function Chaining (SFC) Parallelism and Diversions", Donald Eastlake, 2023-11-26, Service Function Chaining (SFC) is the processing of packets through a sequence of Service Functions (SFs) within an SFC domain by the addition of path information and metadata on entry to that domain, the use and modification of that path information and metadata to step the packet through a sequence of SFs, and the removal of that path information and metadata on exit from that domain. The IETF has standardized a method for SFC using the Network Service Header specified in RFC 8300. There are requirements for SFC to process packets through parallel sequences of service functions, rejoining thereafter, and to easily splice in additional service functions or splice service functions out of a service chain. The IETF has received a liaison from International Telecommunication Union (ITU) indicating their interest in such requirements. This document provides use cases and specifies extensions to SFC to support these requirements. "Encapsulation of Simple TWAMP (STAMP) for Pseudowires in MPLS Networks", Rakesh Gandhi, Patrice Brissette, Eddie Leyton, 2023-08-11, Pseudowires (PWs) are used in MPLS networks for various services including carrying layer 2 and layer 3 data packets. This document describes the procedure for encapsulation of the Simple Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (STAMP) defined in RFC 8762 and its optional extensions defined in RFC 8972 for PWs in MPLS networks. The procedure uses Generic Associated Channel (G-ACh) to encapsulate the STAMP test packets with or without adding an IP/UDP header. "Security and Privacy Considerations for Multicast Transports", Kyle Rose, Jake Holland, 2023-06-29, Interdomain multicast has unique potential to solve delivery scalability for popular content, but it carries a set of security and privacy issues that differ from those in unicast delivery. This document analyzes the security threats unique to multicast-based delivery for Internet and Web traffic under the Internet and Web threat models. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/squarooticus/draft-krose-multicast-security. "Composite Public and Private Keys For Use In Internet PKI", Mike Ounsworth, John Gray, Massimiliano Pala, Jan Klaussner, 2023-05-29, The migration to post-quantum cryptography is unique in the history of modern digital cryptography in that neither the old outgoing nor the new incoming algorithms are fully trusted to protect data for the required data lifetimes. The outgoing algorithms, such as RSA and elliptic curve, may fall to quantum cryptalanysis, while the incoming post-quantum algorithms face uncertainty about both the underlying mathematics as well as hardware and software implementations that have not had sufficient maturing time to rule out classical cryptanalytic attacks and implementation bugs. Cautious implementers may wish to layer cryptographic algorithms such that an attacker would need to break all of them in order to compromise the data being protected using either a Post-Quantum / Traditional Hybrid, Post-Quantum / Post-Quantum Hybrid, or combinations thereof. This document, and its companions, defines a specific instantiation of hybrid paradigm called "composite" where multiple cryptographic algorithms are combined to form a single key, signature, or key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) such that they can be treated as a single atomic object at the protocol level. This document defines the structures CompositePublicKey and CompositePrivateKey, which are sequences of the respective structure for each component algorithm. Explicit pairings of algorithms are defined which should meet most Internet needs. This document is intended to be coupled with corresponding documents that define the structure and semantics of composite signatures and encryption, such as [I-D.ounsworth-pq-composite-sigs] and [I-D.ounsworth-pq-composite-kem]. "Autoconfiguration of infrastructure services in ACP networks via DNS-SD over GRASP", Toerless Eckert, Mohamed Boucadair, Christian Jacquenet, Michael Behringer, 2023-07-10, This document defines standards that enable autoconfiguration of fundamental centralized or decentralized network infrastructure services on ACP network nodes via GRASP. These are primarily the services required for initial bootstrapping of a network but will persist through the lifecycles of the network. These services include secure remote access to zero-touch bootstrapped ANI devices via SSH/Netconf with Radius/Diameter authentication and authorization and provides lifecycle autoconfiguration for other crucial services such as syslog, NTP (clock synchronization) and DNS for operational purposes. "Transient Hiding of Hop-by-Hop Options", Donald Eastlake, Jie Dong, 2023-07-10, There are an increasing number of IPv6 hop-by-hop options specified but such IPv6 options are poorly handled, particularly by high-speed routers in the core Internet where packets having options may be discarded. This document proposes a simple method of transiently hiding such options for part of a packet's path to protect the packet from discard or mishandling. "KEM-based Authentication for TLS 1.3", Thom Wiggers, Sofia Celi, Peter Schwabe, Douglas Stebila, Nick Sullivan, 2023-08-18, This document gives a construction for a Key Encapsulation Mechanism (KEM)-based authentication mechanism in TLS 1.3. This proposal authenticates peers via a key exchange protocol, using their long- term (KEM) public keys. "MPLS Data Plane Encapsulation for In Situ OAM Data", Rakesh Gandhi, Frank Brockners, Bin Wen, Bruno Decraene, Haoyu Song, 2023-09-09, In Situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (IOAM) is used for recording and collecting operational and telemetry information while the packet traverses a path between two points in the network. This document defines how IOAM data fields are transported with MPLS data plane encapsulation using MPLS Network Action (MNA). "Advertisement of Stub Link Attributes", Aijun Wang, Zhibo Hu, Gyan Mishra, Jinsong Sun, 2023-11-24, This document describes the mechanism that can be used to advertise the stub link attributes within the IS-IS or OSPF domain. "MTU propagation over EVPN Overlays", DIKSHIT Saumya, Vinayak Joshi, A Nayak, 2023-08-02, Path MTU Discovery between end-host-devices/Virtual-Machines/servers/ workloads connected over an EVPN-Overlay Network in Datacenter/Campus/enterprise deployment, is a problem, yet to be resolved in the standards forums. It needs a converged solution to ensure optimal usage of network and computational resources of the networking elements, including underlay routers/switches, constituting the overlay network. This documents takes leads from the guidelines presented in [RFC4459]. The overlay connectivity can pan across various sites (geographically seperated or collocated) for realizing a Datacenter Interconnect or intersite VPNs between campus sites (buildings, branch offices etc). This literature intends to solve problem of icmp error propagation from an underlay routing/switching device to an end-host (hooked to EVPN overlay), thus facilitating "accurate MTU" learnings. This document also leverages the icmp multipart message extension, mentioned in [RFC4884] to carry the original packet in the icmp PDU. "Mathematical Mesh 3.0 Part VI: Reliable User Datagram", Phillip Hallam-Baker, 2023-06-28, A presentation layer suitable for use in conjunction with HTTP and UDP transports is described. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/mathmesh/ (http://whatever)Discussion of this draft should take place on the MathMesh mailing list (mathmesh@ietf.org), which is archived at . "Knowledge Transmission Using Distributed Denial-of-Service Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Data Channel", Kun Li, Hua-chun Zhou, Zhe Tu, Feiyang Liu, Weilin Wang, 2023-08-27, The document specifies new DOTS data channel configuration parameters that customize the DDoS knowledge transmission configuration between distributed knowledge bases. These options enable assist the distributed knowledge base to share attack knowledge in different fields and actively adapt to dynamically changing DDoS attacks. "BGP-LS extensions for BIER-TE", Ran Chen, Zheng Zhang, Yisong Liu, Changwang Lin, 2023-10-19, BIER-TE forwards and replicates packets based on a BitString in the packet header, but every BitPosition of the BitString of a BIER-TE packet indicates one or more adjacencies. BGP Link-State (BGP-LS) enables the collection of various topology informations from the network, and the topology informations are used by the PCE to calculate the path and then propagate them onto the BFRs(instead of having each node to calculate on its own) and that can be for both inter-as and intra-as situations. This document specifies extensions to the BGP Link-state address- family in order to advertise BIER-TE informations. "Defreezing Optimization post EVPN Mac Dampening", DIKSHIT Saumya, Vinayak Joshi, Swathi Shankar, 2023-08-02, MAC move handling in EVPN deployments is discussed in detail in [RFC7432]. There are few optimizations which can be done in existing way of handling the mac duplication. This document describes few of the potential techniques to do so. This document is of informational type based on comments in the ietf meeting. "Antitrust Guidelines for IETF Participants", Joel Halpern, Brad Biddle, Jay Daley, 2023-07-10, This document provides education and guidance for IETF participants on compliance with antitrust laws and how to reduce antitrust risks in connection with IETF activities. "All PEs as DF", DIKSHIT Saumya, Vinayak Joshi, 2023-08-02, The Designated forwarder concept is leveraged to prevent looping of BUM traffic into tenant network sourced across NVO fabric for multihoming deployments. [RFC7432] defines a preliminary approach to select the DF for an ES,VLAN or ES,Vlan Group, panning across multiple NVE's. [RFC8584] makes the election logic more robust and fine grained by inculcating fair election of DF handling most of the prevalent use-cases. This document presents a deployment problem and a corresponding solution which cannot be easily resolve by rules mentioned in [RFC7432] and [RFC8584]. It involves redundant firewall deployment on disparate overlay sites connected over WAN. The requirement is to allow reachability, ONLY, to the local firewall, unless there is an outage. In case of outage the reachability can be extended to remote site's firewall over WAN. "Algorithm Related Adjacency SID Advertisement", Ran Chen, Shaofu Peng, Peter Psenak, Yao Liu, 2023-09-22, This draft describes a mechanism to distribute SR-MPLS algorithm Related Adjacency SID from controllers to the headend routers using BGP-LS. "Updates to Anycast Property advertisement for OSPFv2", Ran Chen, Detao Zhao, Peter Psenak, Ketan Talaulikar, 2023-07-23, Both SR-MPLS prefixes-SID and IPv4 prefix may be configured as anycast and as such the same value can be advertised by multiple routers. It is useful for other routers to know that the advertisement is for an anycast identifier. Each prefix is advertised along with an 8-bit field of capabilities,by using the flag flield in the OSPFv2 Extended Prefix TLV [RFC7684], but the definition of anycast flag to identify the prefix as anycast has not yet been defined. This document updates [RFC7684], by defining a new flag in the OSPFv2 Extended Prefix TLV Flags [RFC7684] to advertise the anycast property. "Extending ICMP for IP-related Information Validation", Yao Liu, Yisong Liu, 2023-10-23, This document introduces the mechanism to verify the data plane against the control plane in IPv6/SRv6 networks by extending ICMPv6 messages. "Secure Vector Routing (SVR)", Abilash Menon, Patrick MeLampy, Michael Baj, Patrick Timmons, Hadriel Kaplan, 2023-09-25, This document describes Secure Vector Routing (SVR). SVR is an overlay inter-networking protocol that operates at the session layer. SVR provides end-to-end communication of network requirements not possible or practical using network header layers. SVR uses application layer cookies that eliminate the need to create and maintain non-overlapping address spaces necessary to manage network routing requirements. SVR is an overlay networking protocol that works through middleboxes and address translators including those existing between private networks, the IPv4 public internet, and the IPv6 public internet. SVR enables SD-WAN and multi-cloud use cases and improves security at the networking routing plane. SVR eliminates the need for encapsulation and decapsulation often used to create non-overlapping address spaces. "Procedures for Standards Track Documents to Refer Normatively to Documents at a Lower Level", Murray Kucherawy, 2022-10-20, IETF procedures generally require that a standards track RFC may not have a normative reference to another standards track document at a lower maturity level or to a non standards track specification (other than specifications from other standards bodies). For example, a standards track document may not have a normative reference to an informational RFC. Exceptions to this rule are sometimes needed as the IETF uses informational RFCs to describe non-IETF standards or IETF-specific modes of use of such standards. This document defines the procedure used in these circumstances. This document merges and updates, and thus obsoletes, RFC 3967, RFC 4897, and RFC 8067. "Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI)", Seth Blank, Peter Goldstein, Thede Loder, Terry Zink, Marc Bradshaw, Alex Brotman, 2023-09-03, Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) permits Domain Owners to coordinate with Mail User Agents (MUAs) to display brand- specific Indicators next to properly authenticated messages. There are two aspects of BIMI coordination: a scalable mechanism for Domain Owners to publish their desired Indicators, and a mechanism for Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs) to verify the authenticity of the Indicator. This document specifies how Domain Owners communicate their desired Indicators through the BIMI Assertion Record in DNS and how that record is to be interpreted by MTAs and MUAs. MUAs and mail- receiving organizations are free to define their own policies for making use of BIMI data and for Indicator display as they see fit. "Self-Addressing IDentifier (SAID)", Samuel Smith, 2023-07-27, A SAID (Self-Addressing IDentifier) is a special type of content- addressable identifier based on encoded cryptographic digest that is self-referential. The SAID derivation protocol defined herein enables verification that a given SAID is uniquely cryptographically bound to a serialization that includes the SAID as a field in that serialization. Embedding a SAID as a field in the associated serialization indicates a preferred content-addressable identifier for that serialization that facilitates greater interoperability, reduced ambiguity, and enhanced security when reasoning about the serialization. Moreover, given sufficient cryptographic strength, a cryptographic commitment such as a signature, digest, or another SAID, to a given SAID is essentially equivalent to a commitment to its associated serialization. Any change to the serialization invalidates its SAID thereby ensuring secure immutability evident reasoning with SAIDs about serializations or equivalently their SAIDs. Thus SAIDs better facilitate immutably referenced data serializations for applications such as Verifiable Credentials or Ricardian Contracts. SAIDs are encoded with CESR (Composable Event Streaming Representation) [CESR] which includes a pre-pended derivation code that encodes the cryptographic suite or algorithm used to generate the digest. A CESR primitive's primary expression (alone or in combination ) is textual using Base64 URL-safe characters. CESR primitives may be round-tripped (alone or in combination) to a compact binary representation without loss. The CESR derivation code enables cryptographic digest algorithm agility in systems that use SAIDs as content addresses. Each serialization may use a different cryptographic digest algorithm as indicated by its derivation code. This provides interoperable future proofing. CESR was developed for the [KERI] protocol. "UDP-based Generic Multi-Access (GMA) Control Protocol", Jing Zhu, Menglei Zhang, 2023-08-24, A device can be simultaneously connected to multiple networks, e.g., Wi-Fi, LTE, 5G, and DSL. It is desirable to seamlessly combine the connectivity over these networks below the transport layer (L4) to improve quality of experience for applications that do not have built-in multi-path capabilities. This document presents a new control protocol to manage traffic steering, splitting, and duplicating across multiple connections. The solution has been developed by the authors based on their experiences in multiple standards bodies including IETF and 3GPP, is not an Internet Standard and does not represent the consensus opinion of the IETF. This document will enable other developers to build interoperable implementations to experiment with the protocol. "Scalability of IPv6 Transition Technologies for IPv4aaS", Gabor Lencse, 2023-10-14, Several IPv6 transition technologies have been developed to provide customers with IPv4-as-a-Service (IPv4aaS) for ISPs with an IPv6-only access and/or core network. All these technologies have their advantages and disadvantages, and depending on existing topology, skills, strategy and other preferences, one of these technologies may be the most appropriate solution for a network operator. This document examines the scalability of the five most prominent IPv4aaS technologies (464XLAT, Dual Stack Lite, Lightweight 4over6, MAP-E, MAP-T) considering two aspects: (1) how their performance scales up with the number of CPU cores, (2) how their performance degrades, when the number of concurrent sessions is increased until hardware limit is reached. "Updated Rules for PCE Communication Protocol (PCEP) Object Ordering", Dhruv Dhody, 2023-07-04, The PCE Communication Protocol (PCEP) defines the mechanisms for the communication between a Path Computation Client (PCC) and a PCE, or among PCEs. Such interactions include path computation requests and path computation replies defined in RFC 5440. As per RFC 5440, these message are required to follow strict object ordering. This document updates RFC 5440 by relaxing the strict object ordering requirement in the PCEP messages. "Satellite Semantic Addressing for Satellite Constellation", Lin Han, Richard Li, Alvaro Retana, Meiling Chen, Ning Wang, 2023-09-01, This document presents a semantic addressing method for satellites in satellite constellation connecting with Internet. The satellite semantic address can indicate the relative position of satellites in a constellation. The address can be used with traditional IP address or MAC address or used independently for IP routing and switching. "Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved 240/4", Seth Schoen, John Gilmore, David Taht, 2023-07-01, This document redesignates 240/4, the region of the IPv4 address space historically known as "Experimental," "Future Use," or "Class E" address space, so that this space is no longer reserved. It asks implementers to make addresses in this range fully usable for unicast use on the Internet. "Artificial Intelligence Framework for Network Management", Pedro Martinez-Julia, Shunsuke Homma, Diego Lopez, 2023-10-21, The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in network management (NM) solutions is the way to resolve many of the complex management problems arising from the adoption of NFV and SDN technologies. The AINEMA framework, as discussed in this document, includes the functions, capabilities, and components that MUST be provided by AI modules and models to be successfully applied to NM. This is enhanced by the consideration of seamless integration of different services, including the ability of having multiple AI models working in parallel, as well as the ability of complex reasoning and event processing. In addition, disparate sources of information are put together without increasing complexity, through the definition of a control and management service bus. It allows, for instance, to involve external events in NM operations. Using all available sources of information --- namely, intelligence sources --- allows NM solutions to apply proper intelligence processes that provide explainable results instead of simple AI-based guesses. Such processes are highly based in reasoning and formal and target-based intelligence analysis and decision --- providing evidence-based conclusions and proofs for the decisions --- in the form of AI method outputs with explanations. This will allow computer and network system infrastructures --- and user demands --- to grow in complexity while keeping dependability. "BIER-TE for Broadcast Link", Huaimo Chen, Mike McBride, Aijun Wang, Gyan Mishra, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-10-18, This document describes extensions to "Bit Index Explicit Replication Traffic Engineering" (BIER-TE) for supporting LANs (i.e., broadcast links). For a multicast packet with an explicit point-to-multipoint (P2MP) path traversing LANs, the packet is replicated and forwarded statelessly along the path. "BGP-SPF Flooding Reduction", Huaimo Chen, Gyan Mishra, Aijun Wang, Yisong Liu, Haibo Wang, Yanhe Fan, 2023-06-23, This document describes extensions to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) for flooding the link states on a topology that is a subgraph of the complete topology of a BGP-SPF domain, so that the amount of flooding traffic in the domain is greatly reduced. This would reduce convergence time with a more stable and optimized routing environment. "BGP MVPN in IPv6 Infrastructure Networks: Problems and Solution Approaches", Fanghong Duan, Jingrong Xie, Siyu Chen, 2023-11-21, MVPN deployment faces some problems while used in provider's IPv6 infrastructure networks. This document describes these problems, and corresponding solutions. "Multicast VPN Upstream Designated Forwarder Selection", Fanghong Duan, Siyu Chen, Yisong Liu, Heng Wang, 2023-11-21, This document defines Multicast Virtual Private Network (VPN) extensions and procedures of designated forwarder election performed between ingress PEs, which is different from the one described in [RFC9026] in which the upstream designated forwarder determined by using the "Standby PE Community" carried in the C-Multicast routes. Based on the DF election, the failure detection point discovery mechanism between DF and standby DF is extended in MVPN procedures to achieve fast failover by using BFD session to track the status of detection point. To realize a stable "warm root standby", this document obsolete the P-Tunnel status determining procedure for downstream PEs in regular MVPN by introducing a RPF Set Checking mechanism as an instead. "IETF Network Slice Deployment Status and Considerations", Yusong Ma, Rui Luo, Alex Chan, Ben Suen, Jie Dong, Yang Liu, Houcine Allahoum, 2023-10-23, Network Slicing is considered as an important approach to provide different services and customers with the required network connectivity, network resources and performance characteristics over a shared network. Operators have started the deployment of network slices in their networks for different purposes. This document introduces several deployment cases of IETF network slices in operator networks. Some considerations collected from these IETF network slice deployments are also provided. "Application-aware IPv6 Networking (APN6) Encapsulation", Zhenbin Li, Shuping Peng, Chongfeng Xie, 2023-07-10, Application-aware IPv6 Networking (APN6) makes use of IPv6 encapsulation to convey the APN Attribute along with data packets and make the network aware of data flow requirements at different granularity levels. The APN attribute can be encapsulated in the APN header. This document defines the encapsulation of the APN header in the IPv6 data plane. "RGB (Replication through Global Bitstring) Segment for Multicast Source Routing over IPv6", Yisong Liu, Jingrong Xie, Xuesong Geng, Mengxiao Chen, 2023-10-23, This document introduces the RGB (Replication through Global Bitstring) Segment for Multicast Source Routing over IPv6. "Flow Measurement in IPv6 Network", Haojie Wang, Yisong Liu, Changwang Lin, Xiao Min, Greg Mirsky, 2023-07-04, This document describes how to deploy in-situ flow performance measurement based on Alternate-Marking method in IPv6 domain. "Domain Path (D-PATH) for Ethernet VPN (EVPN) Interconnect Networks", Jorge Rabadan, Senthil Sathappan, Mallika Gautam, Patrice Brissette, Wen Lin, Bin Wen, 2023-10-23, The BGP Domain PATH (D-PATH) attribute is defined for Inter-Subnet Forwarding (ISF) BGP Sub-Address Families that advertise IP prefixes. When used along with EVPN IP Prefix routes or IP-VPN routes, it identifies the domain(s) through which the routes have passed and that information can be used by the receiver BGP speakers to detect routing loops or influence the BGP best path selection. This document extends the use of D-PATH so that it can also be used along with other EVPN route types. "Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) SASL and GSS-API Mechanisms", Alexey Melnikov, 2023-08-24, This document updates requirements on implementations of various Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) mechanisms based on more modern security practices. "Problems and Requirements of Source Address Spoofing in Integrated Space and Terrestrial Networks", Jun Liu, Hewu Li, Tianyu Zhang, Qian Wu, 2023-06-01, This document presents the detailed analysis about the problems and requirements of dealing with the threat of source address spoofing in Integrated Space and Terrestrial Networks (ISTN). First, characteristics of ISTN that cause DDos are identified. Secondly, it analyzes the major reasons why existing terrestrial source address validation mechanism does not fit well for ISTN. Then, it outlines the major requirements for improvement on source address validation mechanism for ISTN. "Mobile User Plane Architecture using Segment Routing for Distributed Mobility Management", Satoru Matsushima, Katsuhiro Horiba, Ashiq Khan, Yuya Kawakami, Tetsuya Murakami, Keyur Patel, Miya Kohno, Teppei Kamata, Pablo Camarillo, Jakub Horn, Dan Voyer, Shay Zadok, Israel Meilik, Ashutosh Agrawal, Kumaresh Perumal, 2023-10-23, This document defines the Mobile User Plane (MUP) architecture using Segment Routing (SR) for Distributed Mobility Management. The requirements for Distributed Mobility Management described in [RFC7333] can be satisfied by routing fashion. Mobile services are deployed over several parts of IP networks. An SR network can accommodate a part of those networks, or all those networks. IPv6 dataplane option (SRv6) is suitable for both cases especially for the latter case thanks to the large address space, so this document illustrates the MUP deployment cases with IPv6 dataplane. MUP Architecture can incorporate existing session based mobile networks. By leveraging Segment Routing, mobile user plane can be integrated into the dataplane. In that routing paradigm, session information between the entities of the mobile user plane is turned to routing information. "EVPN Fast Reroute", Luc Burdet, Patrice Brissette, Takuya Miyasaka, Jorge Rabadan, 2023-09-21, This document summarises EVPN convergence mechanisms and specifies procedures for EVPN networks to achieve fast and scale-independent convergence. "TCPLS: Modern Transport Services with TCP and TLS", Maxime Piraux, Florentin Rochet, Olivier Bonaventure, 2023-10-23, This document specifies a protocol leveraging TCP and TLS to provide modern transport services such as multiplexing, connection migration and multipath in a secure manner. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/mpiraux/draft-piraux-tcpls. "Emphasizing data minimization among protocol participants", Jari Arkko, 2023-07-10, Data minimization is an important privacy technique, as it can reduce the amount information exposed about a user. This document emphasizes the need for data minimization among primary protocol participants, such as between clients and servers. Avoiding data leakage to outside parties is of course very important as well, but both need to be considered in minimization. This is because is necessary to protect against endpoints that are compromised, malicious, or whose interests simply do not align with the interests of users. It is important to consider the role of a participant and limit any data provided to it according to that role. "BGP SR Policy Extensions for template", KaZhang, Zhibo Hu, Jie Dong, 2023-09-24, Segment Routing(SR) Policies can be advertised using BGP. An SR Policy may has lots of attributes, and as the application and features evolve, the SR Policy may need have more and more attribute attributes. To avoid modifying BGP when attributes are added to an SR Policy, we can define a template. The identifier and content of the template are defined by the receiver of the SR Policy. The advertiser of an SR policy only needs to know the ID of the template. When advertising SR policy, the advertiser carries the template ID in the tunnel encapsulation information of the SR policy. After receiving the SR Policy information, the receiver obtains the corresponding template and content according to the template ID, thereby obtaining abundant constraint configuration information. "Distribution of Device Discovery Information in NVMe Over RoCEv2 Storage Network Using BGP", Changwang Lin, Mengxiao Chen, Hao Li, Ruixue Wang, Fengwei Qin, Qi Zhang, 2023-05-30, This document proposes a method of distributing device discovery information in NVMe over RoCEv2 storage network using the BGP routing protocol. A new BGP Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) encoding format, named NoF NLRI, is defined. "Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved 0/8", Seth Schoen, John Gilmore, David Taht, 2023-07-01, This document redesignates 0/8, the lowest block in the IPv4 address space, so that this space is no longer reserved. It asks implementers to make addresses in this range fully usable for unicast use on the Internet. "Unicast Use of the Formerly Special-Cased 127/8", Seth Schoen, John Gilmore, David Taht, 2023-08-31, This document redefines the IPv4 local loopback network as consisting only of the 65,536 addresses 127.0.0.0 to 127.0.255.255 (127.0.0.0/16). It asks implementers to make addresses in the prior loopback range 127.1.0.0 to 127.255.255.255 fully usable for unicast use on the Internet. "Arm's Platform Security Architecture (PSA) Attestation Verifier Endorsements", Thomas Fossati, Yogesh Deshpande, Henk Birkholz, 2023-09-10, PSA Endorsements include reference values, cryptographic key material and certification status information that a Verifier needs in order to appraise attestation Evidence produced by a PSA device. This memo defines such PSA Endorsements as a profile of the CoRIM data model. "NAT64/DNS64 detection via SRV Records", Martin Hunek, 2023-06-15, This document specifies how to discover the NAT64 pools and DNS servers providing DNS64 service to the local Nodes. The discovery made via SRV records allows the assignment of priorities to the NAT64 pools and DNS64 servers. It also allows Nodes to have different DNS providers than NAT64 providers while providing a secure way via DNSSEC validation of provided SRV records. This way, it allows providing the NAT64/DNS64 services regardless of DNS operator and DNS transport protocol. "Control Plane of Inter-Domain Source Address Validation Architecture", Ke Xu, Jianping Wu, Xiaoliang Wang, Yangfei Guo, 2023-11-21, Because the Internet forwards packets according to the IP destination address, packet forwarding typically takes place without inspection of the source address and malicious attacks have been launched using spoofed source addresses. The inter-domain source address validation architecture is an effort to enhance the Internet by using state machines to generate consistent tags. When communicating between two end hosts at different ADs of the IPv6 network, tags will be added to the packets to identify the authenticity of the IPv6 source address. "Data Plane of Inter-Domain Source Address Validation Architecture", Ke Xu, Jianping Wu, Xiaoliang Wang, Yangfei Guo, 2023-11-21, Because the Internet forwards packets according to the IP destination address, packet forwarding typically takes place without inspection of the source address and malicious attacks have been launched using spoofed source addresses. The inter-domain source address validation architecture is an effort to enhance the Internet by using state machines to generate consistent tags. When communicating between two end hosts at different ADs of the IPv6 network, tags will be added to the packets to identify the authenticity of the IPv6 source address. This memo focuses on the data plane of the SAVA-X mechanism. "Communication Protocol Between the AD Control Server and the AD Edge Router of Inter-Domain Source Address Validation Architecture", Ke Xu, Jianping Wu, Xiaoliang Wang, Yangfei Guo, 2023-11-21, Because the Internet forwards packets according to the IP destination address, packet forwarding typically takes place without inspection of the source address and malicious attacks have been launched using spoofed source addresses. The inter-domain source address validation architecture is an effort to enhance the Internet by using state machines to generate consistent tags. When communicating between two end hosts at different ADs of the IPv6 network, tags will be added to the packets to identify the authenticity of the IPv6 source address. This memo focuses on the data plane of the SAVA-X mechanism. "Open Ethics Transparency Protocol", Nikita Lukianets, 2023-11-15, The Open Ethics Transparency Protocol (OETP) is an application-level protocol for publishing and accessing ethical Disclosures of IT Products and their Components. The Protocol is based on HTTP exchange of information about the ethical "postures", provided in an open and standardized format. The scope of the Protocol covers Disclosures for systems such as Software as a Service (SaaS) Applications, Software Applications, Software Components, Application Programming Interfaces (API), Automated Decision-Making (ADM) systems, and systems using Artificial Intelligence (AI). OETP aims to bring more transparent, predictable, and safe environments for the end-users. The OETP Disclosure Format is an extensible JSON-based format. "Composable Event Streaming Representation (CESR)", Samuel Smith, 2023-07-31, The Composable Event Streaming Representation (CESR) is a dual text- binary encoding format that has the unique property of text-binary concatenation composability. This composability property enables the round trip conversion en-masse of concatenated primitives between the text domain and binary domain while maintaining the separability of individual primitives. This enables convenient usability in the text domain and compact transmission in the binary domain. CESR primitives are self-framing. CESR supports self-framing group codes that enable stream processing and pipelining in both the text and binary domains. CESR supports composable text-binary encodings for general data types as well as suites of cryptographic material. Popular cryptographic material suites have compact encodings for efficiency while less compact encodings provide sufficient extensibility to support all foreseeable types. CESR streams also support interleaved JSON, CBOR, and MGPK serializations. CESR is a universal encoding that uniquely provides dual text and binary domain representations via composable conversion. The CESR protocol is used by other protocols such as KERI [KERI]. "Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards", Mark Nottingham, 2023-09-14, This document discusses aspects of centralization that relate to Internet standards efforts. It argues that while standards bodies have limited ability to prevent many forms of centralization, they can still make contributions that assist decentralization of the Internet. "IPlir network layer security protocol", Davletshina Alexandra, Urivskiy Alexey, Rybkin Andrey, Tychina Leonid, Parshin Ilia, 2023-09-29, This document specifies the IPlir network layer security protocol. It describes how to provide a set of security services for traffic over public and corporate networks using the TCP/IP stack. "DTNMA Application Resource Identifier (ARI)", Edward Birrane, Emery Annis, Brian Sipos, 2023-10-06, This document defines the structure, format, and features of the naming scheme for the objects defined in the Delay-Tolerant Networking Management Architecture (DTNMA) Application Management Model (AMM), in support of challenged network management solutions described in the DTNMA document. This document defines the DTNMA Application Resource Identifier (ARI), using a text-form based on the common Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and a binary-form based on Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR). These meet the needs for a concise, typed, parameterized, and hierarchically organized set of managed data elements. "IP Parcels and Advanced Jumbos (AJs)", Fred Templin, 2023-11-20, IP packets (both IPv4 and IPv6) contain a single unit of transport layer protocol data which becomes the retransmission unit in case of loss. Transport layer protocols including the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and reliable transport protocol users of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) prepare data units known as segments which the network layer packages into individual IP packets each containing only a single segment. This specification presents new packet constructs known as IP Parcels and Advanced Jumbos (AJs) with different properties. Parcels permit a single packet to include multiple segments as a "packet-of-packets", while AJs offer significant operational advantages over basic jumbograms for transporting singleton segments of all sizes. Parcels and AJs provide essential building blocks for improved performance, efficiency and integrity while encouraging larger Maximum Transmission Units (MTUs) in the Internet. "DHCPv6 Extension Practices and Considerations", Ren Gang, Lin He, Ying Liu, 2023-06-29, IP addresses assume an increasing number of attributes as communication identifiers to meet different requirements. Privacy protection, accountability, security, and manageability of networks can be supported by extending the DHCPv6 protocol as required. This document provides current extension practices and typical DHCPv6 server software in terms of extensions, defines a general model of DHCPv6, discusses some extension points, and presents extension cases. "RIFT Auto-Flood Reflection", Jordan Head, Tony Przygienda, Colby Barth, 2023-07-10, This document specifies procedures where RIFT can automatically provision IS-IS Flood Reflection topologies by leveraging its native no-touch ZTP architecture. "A Label/SID Allocation Method for VPN Interworking Option B", Yao Liu, Shaofu Peng, 2023-09-19, This document analyzes the SRv6-MPLS service interworking option B solution and proposes an MPLS label/SRv6 SID allocation method for label/SID saving and better scalability purpose. "Deadline Based Deterministic Forwarding", Shaofu Peng, Zongpeng Du, Kashinath Basu, czp@h3c.com, Dong Yang, Chang Liu, 2023-10-18, This document describes a deterministic forwarding mechanism to IP/ MPLS network, as well as corresponding resource reservation, admission control, policing, etc, to provide guaranteed latency. Especially, latency compensation with core stateless is discussed to replace reshaping to be suitable for Diff-Serv architecture [RFC2475]. "Multi-part TLVs in IS-IS", Parag Kaneriya, Tony Li, Tony Przygienda, Shraddha Hegde, Chris Bowers, Les Ginsberg, 2023-10-06, New technologies are adding new information into IS-IS while deployment scales are simultaneously increasing, causing the contents of many critical TLVs to exceed the currently supported limit of 255 octets. Extensions exist that require significant IS-IS changes that could help address the problem, but a less drastic solution would be beneficial. This document codifies the common mechanism of extending the TLV content space through multiple TLVs. "CESR Proof Signatures", Philip Feairheller, 2023-07-31, CESR Proof Signatures are an extension to the Composable Event Streaming Representation [CESR] that provide transposable cryptographic signature attachments on self-addressing data (SAD) [SAID]. Any SAD, such as an Authentic Chained Data Container (ACDC) Verifiable Credential [ACDC] for example, may be signed with a CESR Proof Signature and streamed along with any other CESR content. In addition, a signed SAD can be embedded inside another SAD and the CESR proof signature attachment can be transposed across envelope boundaries and streamed without losing any cryptographic integrity. "Public Transaction Event Logs (PTEL)", Philip Feairheller, 2023-07-28, TODO Abstract Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/trustoverip/tswg-ptel-specification. "RLB (Replication through Local Bitstring) Segment for Multicast Source Routing over IPv6", Xuesong Geng, Zhenbin Li, Jingrong Xie, 2023-10-23, This document defines 2 new types of segment: End.RLB.X and End.RLB, and the corresponding packet processing procedures over the IPv6 data plane for the MSR6(Multicast Source Routing over IPv6) TE solutions. "YANG Metadata Annotation for Immutable Flag", Qiufang Ma, Qin WU, Balazs Lengyel, Hongwei Li, 2023-10-22, This document defines a way to formally document existing behavior, implemented by servers in production, on the immutability of some system configuration nodes, using a YANG metadata annotation called "immutable" to flag which nodes are immutable. Clients may use "immutable" annotations provided by the server, to know beforehand why certain otherwise valid configuration requests will cause the server to return an error. The immutable flag is descriptive, documenting existing behavior, not proscriptive, dictating server behavior. "Signaling Flow-ID Label Capability and Flow-ID Readable Label Depth", Xiao Min, Zheng Zhang, Weiqiang Cheng, 2023-08-06, Flow-ID Label (FL) is used for MPLS flow identification and flow- based performance measurement with alternate marking method. The ability to process Flow-ID labels is called Flow-ID Label Capability (FLC), and the capability of reading the maximum label stack depth and performing FL-based performance measurement is called Flow-ID Readable Label Depth (FRLD). This document defines a mechanism to signal the FLC and the FRLD using IGP and BGP-LS. "PCEP Extension for DetNet Bounded Latency", Quan Xiong, Peng Liu, Rakesh Gandhi, 2023-06-08, In certain networks, such as Deterministic Networking (DetNet), it is required to consider the bounded latency for path selection. This document describes the extensions for Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) to carry deterministic latency constraints and distribute deterministic paths for end-to-end path computation in DetNet services. "IKEv2 Link Maximum Atomic Packet and Packet Too Big Notification Extension", Daiying Liu, Daniel Migault, Renwang Liu, Congjie Zhang, 2023-10-06, This document defines the IKEv2 Link Maximum Atomic Packet and Packet Too Big Extension to limit reassembly operations being performed by the egress security gateway. This extension enables an egress security gateway to notify its ingress counterpart that fragmentation is happening or that the received (and potentially reassembled) ESP packet is too big and thus cannot be decrypted. In both cases, the egress node provides Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) information. Such information enables the ingress node to configure appropriately its Tunnel Maximum Transmission Unit - also designated as MTU or Tunnel MTU (TMTU) - to prevent fragmentation or too big packets to be transmitted. "Using CDDL for CSVs", Carsten Bormann, Henk Birkholz, 2023-06-23, The Concise Data Definition Language (CDDL), standardized in RFC 8610, is defined to provide data models for data shaped like JSON or CBOR. Another representation format that is quote popular is the CSV (Comma-Separated Values) file as defined by RFC 4180. The present document shows a way how to use CDDL to provide a data model for CSV files. "Enhanced DetNet Data Plane (EDP) Framework for Scaling Deterministic Networks", Quan Xiong, Zongpeng Du, Junfeng Zhao, Dong Yang, 2023-07-10, The Enhanced Deterministic Networking (EDN) is required to provide the enhancement of flow identification and packet treatment for Deterministic Networking (DetNet) to achieve the DetNet QoS in scaling networks. This document proposes the enhancement of packet treatment to support the functions and metadata for Enhanced DetNet Data plane (EDP). It describes related enhanced controller plane considerations as well. "Everything over CoAP", Christian Amsuess, 2023-08-21, The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) has become the base of applications both inside of the constrained devices space it originally aimed for and outside. This document gives an overview of applications that are, can, may, and would better not be implemented on top of CoAP. "Benchmarking Methodology for MPLS Segment Routing", Giuseppe Fioccola, Eduard, Paolo Volpato, Luis Contreras, Bruno Decraene, 2023-10-23, This document defines a methodology for benchmarking Segment Routing (SR) performance for Segment Routing over MPLS (SR-MPLS). It builds upon RFC 2544, RFC 5695 and RFC 8402. "Benchmarking Methodology for IPv6 Segment Routing", Giuseppe Fioccola, Eduard, Paolo Volpato, Luis Contreras, Bruno Decraene, 2023-10-23, This document defines a methodology for benchmarking Segment Routing (SR) performance for Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6). It builds upon RFC 2544, RFC 5180, RFC 5695 and RFC 8402. "SRPM Path Consistency over SRv6", sijun weng, Weiqiang Cheng, Changwang Lin, Xiao Min, 2023-11-08, TWAMP can be used to measure the performance of end-to-end paths in networks. STAMP [rfc8762] and TWAMP light are more lightweight measurement methods. In the SRv6 network, it is also necessary to measure the performance of SRv6 policy. This document describes a method to measure srv6 policy through stamp and TWAMP light. "IETF Network Slice Service Mapping YANG Model", Dhruv Dhody, Bo Wu, 2023-09-12, This document provides a YANG data model to map IETF network slice service to Traffic Engineering (TE) models (e.g., the Virtual Network (VN) model or the TE Tunnel etc). It also supports mapping to the VPN Network models and Network Resource Partition (NRP) models. These models are referred to as IETF network slice service mapping model and are applicable generically for the seamless control and management of the IETF network slice service with underlying TE/VPN support. The models are principally used for monitoring and diagnostics of the management systems to show how the IETF network slice service requests are mapped onto underlying network resource and TE/VPN models. "Inband Flow Learning Framework", Liuyan Han, Minxue Wang, Xuanxuan Wang, Tianran Zhou, 2023-07-27, On-path telemetry techniques can provide high-precision inband flow insight and real-time network performance monitoring by embedding instructions or metadata into user packets. They are benificial but still has problems of deployability and flexibility in large scale deployment scenario. This document proposes a reference framework called Inband Flow Learning (IFL), which outlines the architecture and functional modules for automatic deployment and adjustment of flow-oriented monitoring using on-path telemetry techniques, trying to provide a solution for reference to solve the problems. This document also provides different deployment approaches and considerations in practical network deployment. "BGP SR Policy Extensions for Network Resource Partition", Jie Dong, Zhibo Hu, Ran Pang, 2023-10-23, Segment Routing (SR) Policy is a set of candidate paths, each consisting of one or more segment lists and the associated information. The header of a packet steered in an SR Policy is augmented with an ordered list of segments associated with that SR Policy. A Network Resource Partition (NRP) is a subset of network resources allocated in the underlay network which can be used to support one or a group of RFC XXXX network slice services. In networks where there are multiple NRPs, an SR Policy may be associated with a particular NRP. The association between SR Policy and NRP needs to be specified, so that for service traffic which is steered into the SR Policy, the header of the packets can be augmented with the information associated with the NRP. An SR Policy candidate path can be distributed using BGP SR Policy. This document defines the extensions to BGP SR policy to specify the NRP which the SR Policy candidate path is associated with. "Advertisement of Dedicated Metric for Flexible Algorithm in IGP", Changwang Lin, Mengxiao Chen, Weiqiang Cheng, Liyan Gong, 2023-08-28, This document proposes a method to advertise dedicated metric for Flex-Algorithm in IGP. "BGP SPF for Network Resource Partitions", Jie Dong, Zhenbin Li, Haibo Wang, Jian Ge, 2023-10-20, A VTN is a virtual underlay network which has customized network topology and a set of dedicated or shared network resources. Network Resource Partition (NRP) refers to a set of network resources that are available to carry traffic and meet the SLOs and SLEs. Multiple NRPs can be created in a network to provide different Virtual Transport Networks (VTN) to meet the requirements of different services or different service groups. As the number of NRP increases, there can be scalability concerns about using Interial Gateway Protocols (IGP) to distribute the NRP information in the network. In networks where BGP Shortest Path First (SPF) can used as the underlay routing mechanism to distribute the link-state information among network nodes, the information of NRPs needs to be distributed along with the basic network information. This document specifies the BGP SPF mechanisms with necessary extensions to distribute the NRP information and perform NRP-specific path computation. "Path Tracing in SRv6 networks", Clarence Filsfils, Ahmed Abdelsalam, Pablo Camarillo, Mark Yufit, Thomas Graf, Yuanchao Su, Satoru Matsushima, Mike Valentine, Dhamija, 2023-10-23, Path Tracing provides a record of the packet path as a sequence of interface ids. In addition, it provides a record of end-to-end delay, per-hop delay, and load on each egress interface along the packet delivery path. Path Tracing allows to trace 14 hops with only a 40-bytes IPv6 Hop- by-Hop extension header. Path Tracing supports fine grained timestamp. It has been designed for linerate hardware implementation in the base pipeline. "BIER-TE Encapsulation with Multiple BitStrings", Huaimo Chen, Mike McBride, Ran Chen, Gyan Mishra, Aijun Wang, Yanhe Fan, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-08-27, This document describes a "Bit Index Explicit Replication Traffic Engineering" (BIER-TE) header, two levels of Bit Index Forwarding Tables (BIFTs) and a forwarding procedure for efficiently processing BIER-TE packets with the header. For a multicast packet with an explicit point-to-multipoint (P2MP) path, which has multiple BitStrings, the packet with the header containing the BitStrings is replicated and forwarded statelessly along the path. "BGP SR Policy Extensions for metric", KaZhang, Jie Dong, Ketan Talaulikar, 2023-10-08, SR Policy candidate paths can be represented in BGP UPDATE messages. BGP can then be used to propagate the SR Policy candidate paths to the headend nodes in the network. After SR Policy is installed on the ingress node, the packets can be steered into SR Policy through route selection. Therefore, route selection may be performed on the ingress node of the SR Policy. If there are multiple routes to the same destination, the route selection node can select routes based on the local policy. The local policy may use the IGP metric of the selected path, which is the IGP Metric of the SR Policy. Thus the BGP UPDATE message needs to carry the metric of each segment list of the SR Policy Candidate Path, which can be used in path selection of routing. "Stateless Traffic Engineering Multicast using MRH", Huaimo Chen, Mike McBride, Yanhe Fan, Zhenbin Li, Xuesong Geng, Mehmet Toy, Gyan Mishra, Yisong Liu, Aijun Wang, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-07-09, This document describes a stateless traffic engineering (TE) multicast along an explicit P2MP Path/Tree using an IPv6 extension header called TE multicast routing header (MRH). The MRH with the path encoded in link numbers is added into a packet to be multicast at the ingress. The packet is delivered to the egresses along the path. There is no state stored in the core of the network. "BDP_Frame Extension", Nicolas Kuhn, Stephan Emile, Gorry Fairhurst, Christian Huitema, 2023-10-22, This document describes the BDP_FRAME extension for QUIC. The frame enables the exchange of Congestion Control (CC) parameters related to the path characteristics between the receiver and the sender during a connection. These CC parameters allow a receiver to prepare to use any additional capacity that is made available when using Careful Resume. It also allows a receiver to request that previously computed CC parameters, are not used when the receiver has additional information about the current path or traffic that is to be sent. "Semantic Address Based Instructive Routing for Satellite Network", Lin Han, Alvaro Retana, Richard Li, 2023-09-01, This document presents a method to do IP routing over satellite network that consists of LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites and ground- stations. The method uses the source routing mechanism. The whole routing info is obtained by path calculation. The routing path information is converted to be a list of instructions and embedded into user packet's IPv6 extension header. At each hop or each satellite, the routing process engine will forward the packet based on the specified instruction for the satellite. Until the packet reaches the edge of satellite network, or the last satellite, the packet will be sent to a ground station. "The IPv6 Segment Routing (SRv6) Domain Name System (DNS) Resource Record", Donald Eastlake, Haoyu Song, 2023-09-29, A Domain Name System (DNS) Resource Record (RR) Type is specified for storing IPv6 Segment Routing (SRv6) Information in the DNS. "Mobile User Plane Evolution", Zhaohui Zhang, Keyur Patel, Luis Contreras, Kashif Islam, Jari Mutikainen, Tianji Jiang, Luay Jalil, Ori Sejati, Shay Zadok, 2023-07-10, This document describes evolution of mobile user plane in 5G, including distributed User Plane Functions (UPFs) and alternative user plane implementations that some vendors/operators are promoting without changing 3GPP architecture/signaling, and further discusses potentially integrating UPF and Access Node (AN) in 6G mobile networks. This document is not an attempt to do 3GPP work in IETF. Rather, it discusses potential integration of IETF/wireline and 3GPP/wireless technologies - first among parties who are familiar with both areas and friendly with IETF/wireline technologies. If the ideas in this document are deemed reasonable, feasible and desired among these parties, they can then be brought to 3GPP for further discussions. "LSR for SR Proxy Forwarding", Zhibo Hu, Huaimo Chen, Junda Yao, Chris Bowers, Yongqing Zhu, Yisong Liu, 2023-08-27, This document describes extensions to OSPF and IS-IS to support SR proxy forwarding mechanism for fast protecting the failure of a node with segments on a SR-TE path. The segments of the node include adjacency, node or binding segments. "Problem Statement and Gap Analysis for Connecting to Cloud DCs via Optical Networks", Sheng Liu, Haomian Zheng, Aihua Guo, Yang Zhao, Daniel King, 2023-10-11, Optical networking technologies such as fine-grain OTN (fgOTN) enable premium cloud-based services, including optical leased line, cloud Virtual Reality (cloud-VR), and computing to be carried end-to-end optically between applications and cloud data centers (DCs), offering premium quality and deterministic performance. This document describes the problem statement and requirements for accessing cloud services through optical networks. It also discusses technical gaps for IETF-developed management and control protocols to support service provisioning and management in such an all-optical network scenario. "Considerations of deploying AI services in a distributed method", Yong-Geun Hong, Oh Seokbeom, Joo-Sang Youn, SooJeong Lee, Seung-Woo Hong, Ho-Sun Yoon, 2023-10-23, As the development of AI technology matured and AI technology began to be applied in various fields, AI technology is changed from running only on very high-performance servers with small hardware, including microcontrollers, low-performance CPUs and AI chipsets. In this document, we consider how to configure the network and the system in terms of AI inference service to provide AI service in a distributed method. Also, we describe the points to be considered in the environment where a client connects to a cloud server and an edge device and requests an AI service. Some use cases of deploying AI services in a distributed method such as self-driving car and digital twin network are described. "PCEP extensions for Circuit Style Policies", Samuel Sidor, Zafar Ali, Praveen Maheshwari, Reza Rokui, Andrew Stone, Luay Jalil, Shuping Peng, Tarek Saad, Dan Voyer, 2023-07-06, This document proposes a set of extensions for Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) for Circuit Style Policies - Segment-Routing Policy designed to satisfy requirements for connection-oriented transport services. New TLV is introduced to control path recomputation and new flag to add ability to request path with strict hops only. "Expressing Quality of Service Requirements (QoS) in Domain Name System (DNS) Queries", Donald Eastlake, Haoyu Song, 2023-09-29, A method of encoding quality of communication service (QoS) requirements in a Domain Name System (DNS) query is specified through inclusion of the requirements in one or more labels of the name being queried. This enables DNS responses including addressing and packet labeling information that is dependent on such requirements without changes in the format of DNS protocol messages or DNS application program interfaces (APIs). "IGP extensions for Advertising Offset for Flex-Algorithm", Louis Chan, Krzysztof Szarkowicz, Gyan Mishra, 2023-07-07, This document describes the IGP extensions to provide predictable Adjacency-SIDs per Flex-Algorithm [FLEXALGO] in segment routing. We propose some methods to allow the advertisement of additional TLV in IGP so that the Flex-Algorithm specific Adjacency-SIDs could be automatically derived. With the proposed method, the size of advertisement on per node per link basis is greatly reduced. Each participating router would derive the required labels automatically. Extensions for offset to derive Flex-Algorithm Prefix-SID is also included in the document. "Encrypted Client Hello Deployment Considerations", Andrew Campling, Paul Vixie, David Wright, Arnaud Taddei, Simon Edwards, 2023-07-25, (Editorial note: to be updated as the text in the main body of the document is finalised) This document is intended to inform the community about the impact of the deployment of the proposed Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) standard that encrypts Server Name Indication (SNI) and other data. Data encapsulated by ECH (ie data included in the encrypted ClientHelloInner) is of legitimate interest to on-path security actors including those providing inline malware detection, parental controls, content filtering to prevent access to malware and other risky traffic, mandatory security controls etc. The document includes observations on current use cases for SNI data in a variety of contexts. It highlights how the use of that data is important to the operators of both public and private networks and shows how the loss of access to SNI data will cause difficulties in the provision of a range of services to end-users, including the potential weakening of cybersecurity defences. Some mitigations are identified that may be useful for inclusion by those considering the adoption of support for ECH in their software. "Ethernet VPN Virtual Private Wire Services Gateway Solution", Jorge Rabadan, Senthil Sathappan, Vinod Prabhu, Wen Lin, Patrice Brissette, 2023-07-10, Ethernet Virtual Private Network Virtual Private Wire Services (EVPN VPWS) need to be deployed in high scale multi-domain networks, where each domain can use a different transport technology, such as MPLS, VXLAN or Segment Routing with MPLS or IPv6 Segment Identifiers (SIDs). While transport interworking solutions on border routers spare the border routers from having to process service routes, they do not always meet the multi-homing, redundancy, and operational requirements, or provide the isolation that each domain requires. This document analyzes the scenarios in which an interconnect solution for EVPN VPWS using EVPN Domain Gateways is needed, and adds the required extensions to support it. "BGP Extensions for the Mobile User Plane (MUP) SAFI", Tetsuya Murakami, Keyur Patel, Satoru Matsushima, Zhaohui Zhang, Swadesh Agrawal, Dan Voyer, 2023-11-05, This document defines a new SAFI known as a BGP Mobile User Plane (BGP-MUP) SAFI to support MUP Extensions and a extended community for BGP. This document also provides BGP signaling and procedures for the new SAFI to convert mobile session information into appropriate IP forwarding information. These extensions can be used by operators between a PE, and a Controller for integrating mobile user plane into BGP MUP network using the IP based routing. "A YANG Data Model for Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Topology", Oscar de Dios, Samier Barguil, Victor Lopez, 2023-10-23, This document defines a YANG data model for representing an abstracted view of a network topology that contains Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) information. This document augments the 'ietf- network' data model by adding OSPF concepts and explains how the data model can be used to represent the OSPF topology. The YANG data model defined in this document conforms to the Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA). "IPv6-Only PE Design All SAFI", Gyan Mishra, Mankamana Mishra, Jeff Tantsura, Sudha Madhavi, Qing Yang, Adam Simpson, Shuanglong Chen, 2023-07-27, As Enterprises and Service Providers upgrade their brown field or green field MPLS/SR core to an IPv6 transport, Multiprotocol BGP (MP- BGP)now plays an important role in the transition of their Provider (P) core network as well as Provider Edge (PE) Inter-AS peering network from IPv4 to IPv6. Operators must be able to continue to support IPv4 customers when both the Core and Edge networks are IPv6-Only. This document details an important External BGP (eBGP) PE-PE Inter-AS IPv6-Only peering design that leverages the MP-BGP capability exchange by using IPv6 peering as pure transport, allowing all and any IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) and IPv6 Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI)to be carried over the same (Border Gateway Protocol) BGP TCP session for all Address Family Identifiers (AFI) and Subsequent Address Family Identifiers(SAFI). The design change provides the same Dual Stacking functionality that exists today with separate IPv4 and IPv6 BGP sessions as we have today. With this IPv6-Only PE Design, IPv4 address MUST not be configured on the the Provider Edge (PE) - Customer Edge (CE), or Inter-AS ASBR (Autonomous System Boundary Router) to ASBR (Autonomous System Boundary Router) PE-PE Provider Edge (PE) - Provider Edge (PE). From a control plane perspective a single IPv6-Only peer is required for both IPv4 and IPv6 routing updates and from a data plane forwarindg perspective an IPv6 address need only be configured on the PE to PE Inter-AS peering interface for both IPv4 and IPv6 packet forwarding. This document defines the IPv6-Only PE Design as a new PE-CE Edge and ASBR-ASBR PE-PE Inter-AS BGP peering Standard which is described in the POC testing document [I-D.ietf-bess-ipv6-only-pe-design] which is now extended to support to all AFI/SAFI ubiquitously. As service providers migrate to Segment Routing architecture SR-MPLS and SRv6, VPN overlay exsits as well, and thus Inter-AS options Option-A, Option-B, Option-AB and Option-C are still applicable and thus this extension of IPv6-Only peering architecure extension to Inter-AS peering is very relevant to Segment Routing as well. "A YANG Data Model for SRv6 Mobile User Plane", Mahesh Jethanandani, Tetsuya Murakami, Kalyani Rajaraman, Satoru Matsushima, 2023-10-16, This document defines a YANG data model for configuration and management of Mobile User Plane (MUP) in a SRv6 network. "Protocol extension and mechanism for fused service function chain", Jinyou Dai, Xueshun Wang, Dongping Deng, Xiaoyun Zhang, 2023-07-28, This document discusses the protocol extension and procedure that are used to implement the fused service function chain. Fused service function chain means that two or more service function chains are fused to become a single service function chain from the view of data plane and control plane. Fused service function chain is a extension for service function chain. "The Architecture of Network-Aware Domain Name System (DNS)", Haoyu Song, Donald Eastlake, 2023-09-11, This document describes a framework which extends the Domain Name System (DNS) to provide network awareness to applications. The framework enables DNS system responses that are dependent on communication service requirements such as QoS or path without changes in the format of DNS protocol messages or application program interfaces (APIs). The different enhancement methods and use cases are discussed. "BGP SR Policy Extensions for Segment List Identifier", Changwang Lin, Weiqiang Cheng, Yao Liu, Ketan Talaulikar, Mengxiao Chen, 2023-10-12, Segment Routing is a source routing paradigm that explicitly indicates the forwarding path for packets at the ingress node. An SR Policy is a set of candidate paths, each consisting of one or more segment lists. This document defines extensions to BGP SR Policy to specify the identifier of segment list. "Tracing process in IPv6 VPN Tunneling Networks", Shuping Peng, Yisong Liu, zhaoranxiao, Pingan Yang, 2023-07-09, This document specifies the tracing process in IPv6 VPN tunneling networks for diagnostic purposes. An IPv6 Tracing Option is specified to collect and carry the required key information in an effective manner to correctly construct ICMP(v4) and ICMPv6 Time Exceeded messages at the corresponding nodes, i.e. PE and P nodes, respectively. "TCP RST Diagnostic Payload", Mohamed Boucadair, Tirumaleswar Reddy.K, 2023-09-01, This document specifies a diagnostic payload format to be returned in TCP RST segments. Such payloads are used to share with the endpoints the reasons for which a TCP connection has been reset. This is meant to ease diagnostic and troubleshooting. "LISP for Satellite Networks", Dino Farinacci, Victor Moreno, Padma Pillay-Esnault, 2023-08-15, This specification describes how the LISP architecture and protocols can be used over satellite network systems. The LISP overlay runs on earth using the satellite network system in space as the underlay. "Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC)", Samuel Smith, 2023-07-31, An authentic chained data container (ACDC) [ACDC_ID][ACDC_WP][VCEnh] is an IETF [IETF] internet draft focused specification being incubated at the ToIP (Trust over IP) foundation [TOIP][ACDC_TF]. An ACDC is a variant of the W3C Verifiable Credential (VC) specification [W3C_VC]. The W3C VC specification depends on the W3C DID (Decentralized IDentifier) specification [W3C_DID]. A major use case for the ACDC specification is to provide GLEIF vLEIs (verifiable Legal Entity Identifiers) [vLEI][GLEIF_vLEI][GLEIF_KERI]. GLEIF is the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation [GLEIF]. ACDCs are dependent on a suite of related IETF focused standards associated with the KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) [KERI_ID][KERI] specification. These include CESR [CESR_ID], SAID [SAID_ID], PTEL [PTEL_ID], CESR-Proof [Proof_ID], IPEX [IPEX_ID], did:keri [DIDK_ID], and OOBI [OOBI_ID]. Some of the major distinguishing features of ACDCs include normative support for chaining, use of composable JSON Schema [JSch][JSchCp], multiple serialization formats, namely, JSON [JSON][RFC4627], CBOR [CBOR][RFC8949], MGPK [MGPK], and CESR [CESR_ID], support for Ricardian contracts [RC], support for chain- link confidentiality [CLC], a well defined security model derived from KERI [KERI][KERI_ID], _compact_ formats for resource constrained applications, simple _partial disclosure_ mechanisms and simple _selective disclosure_ mechanisms. ACDCs provision data using a synergy of provenance, protection, and performance. "ACME-Based Provisioning of IoT Devices", Michael Sweet, 2023-08-02, This document extends the Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) [RFC8555] to provision X.509 certificates for local Internet of Things (IoT) devices that are accepted by existing web browsers and other software running on End User client devices. "SM2 Digital Signature Algorithm for DNSSEC", Cuiling Zhang, Yukun Liu, Feng Leng, Qi Zhao, Zheng He, 2023-11-09, This document describes how to specify SM2 Digital Signature Algorithm keys and signatures in DNS Security (DNSSEC). It lists the curve and uses SM3 as hash algorithm for signatures. This draft is an independent submission to the RFC series, and does not have consensus of the IETF community. "IS-IS Extension to Advertise SRv6 SIDs using SID Block", Weiqiang Cheng, Jiang Wenying, Changwang Lin, Mengxiao Chen, Liyan Gong, Yao Liu, 2023-07-10, This document proposes a simplified method to advertise SRv6 SIDs in IS-IS. The SRv6 SID Block is composed of a number of continuous SIDs within the address range of a Locator. When a SID is assigned from the SID Block, it is described by an index based on the SID Block, instead of the whole 128-bit IPv6 address. "Advertising Exclusive Links for Flex-Algorithm in IGP", Liyan Gong, Weiqiang Cheng, Changwang Lin, Mengxiao Chen, Ran Chen, Yanrong Liang, 2023-09-03, This document proposes the method to advertise exclusive links for Flex-Algorithm in IGP. "The SDN-based MPTCP-aware and MPQUIC-aware Transmission Control Model using ALTO", Ziyang Xing, Hui Qi, Xiaoqiang Di, 2023-07-23, This document aims to study and implement Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) and Multipath QUIC (MPQUIC) using application layer traffic optimization (ALTO) in software defined network (SDN). In a software-defined network, ALTO server collects network cost indicators (including link delay, number of paths, availability, network traffic, bandwidth and packet loss rate etc.), and the controller extracts MPTCP or MPQUIC packet header to allocate MPTCP or MPQUIC packet to suitable transmission path according to the network cost indicators by ALTO, which can reduce the probability of transmission path congestion and improving path utilization in a multipath transmission network. "IPv6 Option for DetNet Data Fields", Quan Xiong, Junfeng Zhao, Rakesh Gandhi, 2023-10-12, The DetNet data fields defined in Deterministic Latency Action (DLA) can be used in enhanced Deterministic Networking (DetNet) to provide QoS treatment to achieve deterministic latency. This document defines how DetNet data fields are encapsulated in IPv6 option. "SR Policies Extensions for NRP in BGP-LS", Ran Chen, Detao Zhao, Liyan Gong, Yongqing Zhu, 2023-10-17, This document defines a new TLV which enable the headed to report the configuration and the states of SR policies carrying NRP information by using BGP-LS. "SRv6 Egress Protection in Multi-homed scenario", Weiqiang Cheng, Jiang Wenying, Changwang Lin, Zhibo Hu, Yuanxiang Qiu, 2023-09-17, This document describes a SRv6 egress node protection mechanism in multi-homed scenarios. "Epoch Markers", Henk Birkholz, Thomas Fossati, Wei Pan, Carsten Bormann, 2023-10-23, This document defines Epoch Markers as a way to establish a notion of freshness among actors in a distributed system. Epoch Markers are similar to "time ticks" and are produced and distributed by a dedicated system, the Epoch Bell. Systems that receive Epoch Markers do not have to track freshness using their own understanding of time (e.g., via a local real-time clock). Instead, the reception of a certain Epoch Marker establishes a new epoch that is shared between all recipients. "Out-Of-Band-Introduction (OOBI) Protocol", Samuel Smith, 2023-07-27, An Out-Of-Band Introduction (OOBI) provides a discovery mechanism that associates a given URI or URL with a given AID (Autonomic IDentifier) or SAID (Self-Addressing IDentifier) [KERI_ID][KERI][SAID_ID][OOBI_ID]. The URI provided by an OOBI acts as a service endpoint for the discovery of verifiable information about the AID or SAID. As such an OOBI itself is not trusted but must be verified. To clarify, any information obtained from the service endpoint provided in the OOBI must be verified by some other mechanism. An OOBI, however, enables any internet and web search infrastructure to act as an out-of-band infrastructure to discover information that is verified using an in-band mechanism or protocol. The primary in-band verification protocol is KERI [KERI_ID][KERI]. The OOBI protocol provides a web-based bootstrap and/or discovery mechanism for the KERI and the ACDC (Authentic Chained Data Container) protocols [KERI_ID][ACDC_ID][OOBI_ID]. Thus the security (or more correctly the lack of security) of an OOBI is out-of-band with respect to a KERI AID or an ACDC that uses KERI. To clarify, everything in KERI or that depends on KERI is end-verifiable, therefore it has no security dependency nor does it rely on security guarantees that may or may not be provided by web or internet infrastructure. OOBIs provide a bootstrap that enables what we call Percolated Information Discovery (PID) which is based on Invasion Percolation Theory [IPT][DOMIP][PT][FPP]. This bootstrap may then be parlayed into a secure mechanism for accepting and updating data. The principal data acceptance and update policy is denoted BADA (Best-Available-Data-Acceptance). "Multicast Extension for QUIC", Jake Holland, Lucas Pardue, Max Franke, 2023-07-10, This document defines a multicast extension to QUIC to enable the efficient use of multicast-capable networks to send identical data streams to many clients at once, coordinated through individual unicast QUIC connections. "SCION Overview", Corine de Kater, Nicola Rustignoli, Adrian Perrig, 2023-11-05, The Internet has been successful beyond even the most optimistic expectations and is intertwined with many aspects of our society. But although the world-wide communication system guarantees global reachability, the Internet has not primarily been built with security and high availability in mind. The next-generation inter-network architecture SCION (Scalability, Control, and Isolation On Next- generation networks) aims to address these issues. SCION was explicitly designed from the outset to offer security and availability by default. The architecture provides route control, failure isolation, and trust information for end-to-end communication. It also enables multi-path routing between hosts. This document discusses the motivations behind the SCION architecture and gives a high-level overview of its fundamental components, including its authentication model and the setup of the control- and data plane. As SCION is already in production use today, the document concludes with an overview of SCION deployments. For detailed descriptions of SCION's components, refer to [I-D.dekater-scion-pki], [I-D.dekater-scion-controlplane], and [I-D.dekater-scion-dataplane]. A more detailed analysis of relationships and dependencies between components is available in [I-D.rustignoli-scion-components]. "Connecting IPv4 Islands over IPv6 Core using IPv4 Provider Edge Routers (4PE)", Gyan Mishra, Jeff Tantsura, Mankamana Mishra, Sudha Madhavi, Adam Simpson, Shuanglong Chen, 2023-10-22, As operators migrate from an IPv4 core to an IPv6 core for global table internet routing, the need arises to be able provide routing connectivity for customers IPv4 only networks. This document provides a solution called 4Provider Edge, "4PE" that connects IPv4 islands over an IPv6-Only Core Underlay Network. "EVPN Mpls Ping Extension", DIKSHIT Saumya, Gyan Mishra, Srinath Rao, Santosh Easale, Ashwini Dahiya, 2023-11-19, In an EVPN or any other VPN deployment, there is an urgent need to tailor the reachability checks of the client nodes via off-box tools which can be triggered from a remote Overlay end-point or a centralized controller. There is also a ease of operability needed when the knowledge known is partial or incomplete. This document aims to address the limitation in current standards for doing so and provides solution which can be made standards in future. As an additional requirement, in network border routers, there are liaison/ dummy VRFs created to leak routes from one network/fabric to another. There are scenarios wherein an explicit reachability check for these type of VRFs is not possible with existing mpls-ping mechanisms. This draft intends to address this as well. Few of missing pieces are equally applicable to the native lsp ping as well. "Path Tracing in SR-MPLS networks", Clarence Filsfils, Ahmed Abdelsalam, Pablo Camarillo, Israel Meilik, Mike Valentine, Ruediger Geib, Jonathan Desmarais, 2023-11-18, Path Tracing provides a record of the packet path as a sequence of interface ids. In addition, it provides a record of end-to-end delay, per-hop delay, and load on each interface that forwards the packet. Path Tracing has the lowest MTU overhead compared to alternative proposals such as [INT], [RFC9197], [I-D.song-opsawg-ifit-framework], and [I-D.kumar-ippm-ifa]. Path Tracing supports fine grained timestamp. It has been designed for linerate hardware implementation in the base pipeline. This document defines the Path Tracing specification for the SR-MPLS dataplane. The Path Tracing specification for the SRv6 dataplane is defined in [I-D.filsfils-spring-path-tracing]. "Entity Attestation Token (EAT) Collection Type", Simon Frost, 2023-06-10, The default top-level definitions for an EAT [I-D.ietf-rats-eat] assume a hierarchy involving a leading signer within the Attester. Some token use cases do not match that model. This specification defines an extension to EAT allowing the top-level of the token to consist of a collection of otherwise defined tokens. "Extended relation information for Semantic Definition Format (SDF)", Petri Laari, 2023-09-13, The Semantic Definition Format (SDF) base specification defines set of basic information elements that can be used for describing a large share of the existing data models from different ecosystems. While these data models are typically very simple, such as basic sensors definitions, more complex models, and in particular bigger systems, benefit from ability to describe additional information on how different definitions relate to each other. This document specifies an extension to SDF for describing complex relationships in class level descriptions. This specification does not consider instance- specific information. "BGP Extensions of SR Policy for Headend Behavior", Changwang Lin, Jiang Wenying, Yisong Liu, Mengxiao Chen, Hao Li, 2023-06-06, This document defines extensions to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to distribute SR policies carrying headend behavior. "Extensible In-band Processing (EIP) Architecture and Framework", Stefano Salsano, Hesham ElBakoury, Diego Lopez, 2023-06-19, Extensible In-band Processing (EIP) extends the functionality of the IPv6 protocol considering the needs of future Internet services / 6G networks. This document discusses the architecture and framework of EIP. Two separate documents respectively analyze a number of use cases for EIP and provide the protocol specifications of EIP. "IPv4-Only PE Design All SAFI", Gyan Mishra, Jeff Tantsura, Mankamana Mishra, Sudha Madhavi, Qing Yang, Adam Simpson, Shuanglong Chen, 2023-07-27, As Enterprises and Service Providers try to decide whether or not to upgrade their brown field or green field MPLS/SR core to an IPv6 transport, Multiprotocol BGP (MP-BGP)now plays an important role in the transition of their Provider (P) core network as well as Provider Edge (PE) Edge network from IPv4 to IPv6. Operators must be able to continue to support IPv4 customers when both the Core and Edge networks are IPv4-Only. This specification details an important External BGP (eBGP) PE-CE Edge IPv4-Only peering design that leverages the MP-BGP capability exchange by using IPv4 peering as pure transport, allowing both IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) and IPv6 Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI)to be carried over the same (Border Gateway Protocol) BGP TCP session. The design change provides the same Dual Stacking functionality that exists today with separate IPv4 and IPv6 BGP sessions as we have today. With this design change from a control plane perspective a single IPv4 is required for both IPv4 and IPv6 routing updates and from a data plane forwarindg perspective an IPv4 address need only be configured on the PE and CE interface for both IPv4 and IPv6 packet forwarding. This document defines the IPv4-Only PE Design as a new PE-CE Edge and ASBR-ASBR PE-PE Inter-AS BGP peering Standard defined in this specification which is now extended to support to all AFI/SAFI ubiquitously. As service providers migrate to Segment Routing architecture SR-MPLS and SRv6, VPN overlay exsits as well, and thus Inter-AS options Option-A, Option-B, Option-AB and Option-C are still applicable and thus this extension of IPv4-Only peering architecure extension to Inter-AS peering is very relevant to Segment Routing as well. "REST API Linked Data Keywords", Roberto Polli, 2023-06-24, This document defines two keywords to provide semantic information in OpenAPI Specification and JSON Schema documents, and support contract-first semantic schema design. "Asynchronous Deterministic Networking Framework for Large-Scale Networks", Jinoo Joung, Jeong-dong Ryoo, Taesik Cheung, Yizhou Li, Peng Liu, 2023-09-19, This document describes various solutions of Asynchronous Deterministic Networking (ADN) for large-scale networks. The solutions in this document do not need strict time-synchronization of network nodes, while guaranteeing end-to-end latency or jitter. The functional architecture and requirements for such solutions are specified. "Credentials Provisioning and Management via EAP (EAP-CREDS)", Massimiliano Pala, Yuan Tian, 2023-11-27, With the increase number of devices, protocols, and applications that rely on strong credentials (e.g., digital certificates, keys, or tokens) for network access, the need for a standardized credentials provisioning and management framework is paramount. The 802.1x architecture allows for entities (e.g., devices, applications, etc.) to authenticate to the network by providing a communication channel where different methods can be used to exchange different types of credentials. However, the need for managing these credentials (i.e., provisioning and renewal) is still a hard problem to solve. Usually, credentails used in an access network can be in different levels (e.g., network-level, user-level) and sometimes tend to live unmanaged for quite a long time due to the challenges of operation and implementation. EAP-CREDS (RFC XXXX), if implemented in Managed Networks (e.g., Cable Modems), could enable our operators to offer a registration and credentials management service integrated in the home WiFi thus enabling visibility about registered devices. During initialization, EAP-CREDS also allows for MUD files or URLs to be transferred between the EAP Peer and the EAP Server, thus giving detailed visibility about devices when they are provisioned with credentials for accessing the networks. The possibility provided by EAP-CREDS can help to secure home or business networks by leveraging the synergies of the security teams from the network operators thanks to the extended knowledge of what and how is registered/ authenticated. This specifications define how to support the provisioning and management of authentication credentials that can be exploited in different environments (e.g., Wired, WiFi, cellular, etc.) to users and/or devices by using EAP together with standard provisioning protocols. "Secure IP Binding Synchronization via BGP EVPN", DIKSHIT Saumya, Gadekal, Reddy, 2023-07-03, The distribution of clients of L2 domain across extended, networks leveraging overlay fabric, needs to deal with synchronizing the Client Binding Database. The 'Client IP Binding' indicates the IP, MAC and VLAN details of the clients that are learnt by security protocols. Since learning 'Client IP Binding database' is last mile solution, this information stays local to the end point switch, to which clients are connected. When networks are extended across geographies, that is, both layer2 and layer3, the 'Client IP Binding Database' in end point of switches of remote fabrics should be in sync. This literature intends to align the synchronization of 'Client IP Binding Database" through an extension to BGP control plane constructs and as BGP is a typical control plane protocol configured to communicate across network boundries. "Path MTU (PMTU) for Segment Routing Policy", Shuping Peng, Dhruv Dhody, Ketan Talaulikar, Gyan Mishra, 2023-07-09, This document defines the Path MTU (PMTU) for SR Policy (called SR- PMTU) and it applies to both SRv6 and SR-MPLS. The framework of SR- PMTU for SR Policy is specified, including link MTU collection, SR- PMTU Computation, SR-PMTU Enforcement, and Handling behaviors on the headend. "Destination/Source Routing", David Lamparter, Anton Smirnov, Jen Linkova, Shu Yang, Mingwei Xu, 2023-07-09, This note specifies using packets' source addresses in route lookups as additional qualifier to be used in hop-by-hop routing decisions. This applies to IPv6 [RFC2460] in general with specific considerations for routing protocol left for separate documents. There is nothing precluding similar operation in IPv4, but this is not in scope of this document. Note that destination/source routing, source/destination routing, SADR, source-specific routing, source-sensitive routing, S/D routing and D/S routing are all used synonymously. "Passive Probing for Path MTU Discovery with QUIC", Pyung Kim, 2023-07-09, This draft consider a Path MTU Discovery(PMTUD) for QUIC. First, why it is important to determine the best PMTU for QUIC is explained, and the active probing approach for discovering the best PMTU is briefly introduced. Then, as an alternative to discover the best PMTU, the passive probing approach is adopted. The process of discovering the best PMTU is not carried out separately, but is carried out simultaneously in the actual application data communication. A probe packet is defined newly using 1-RTT packet which includes actual application data as well as a short packet header and a PING_EXT frame. The PING_EXT frame is also defined newly. Until the best PMTU is discovered, the size of the probe packet is changed according to the size of the PMTU candidate. A simple discovery algorithm using only the PMTU candidate sequence with linear upward is described in this draft. "IGP Flexible Algorithms Reverse Affinity Constraint", Peter Psenak, Jakub Horn, Dhamija, 2023-07-24, An IGP Flexible Algorithm (Flex-Algorithm) allows IGPs to compute constraint-based paths. This document extends IGP Flex-Algorithm with additional constraints. "Authenticated Chunks for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)", Michael Tuexen, Randall Stewart, Peter Lei, Hannes Tschofenig, 2023-09-16, This document describes a new chunk type, several parameters, and procedures for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). This new chunk type can be used to authenticate SCTP chunks by using shared keys between the sender and receiver. The new parameters are used to establish the shared keys. "Usecases of SRv6 Based Computing Interconnection Network", Xiaoqiu Zhang, Feng Yang, Weiqiang Cheng, Zhihua Fu, 2023-10-18, The requirements of computing interconnection are increasingly attracting the attention of service providers. They have been thinking about how to leverage their network advantages to provide integrated networking and computing services. This document describes some scenarios of using SRv6 based network technology which can partially meet the service requirement of computing interconnection. "Use Cases for Parent SR Policy", Jiang Wenying, Weiqiang Cheng, Changwang Lin, Yuanxiang Qiu, 2023-07-08, Segment Routing is a source routing paradigm that explicitly indicates the forwarding path for packets at the ingress node. An SR Policy is associated with one or more candidate paths, and each candidate path is dynamic, explicit or composite. This document illustrates some use cases for parent SR policy in MPLS and IPv6 environment. "Intra-domain SAVNET method", Changwang Lin, Yuanxiang Qiu, 2023-07-08, This document proposes a method of Source Address Validation in Intra-domain, which can be applied to OSPF and IS-IS protocols. By extending IGP and adding the protocol calculation procedure, the SAV rule can be accurately calculated to realize the source address verification. "NRP ID in SRv6 segment", Yisong Liu, Changwang Lin, Hao Li, Liyan Gong, 2023-11-08, This document proposes a method to carry the NRP-ID with the packet in the SRv6 segment. "Considerations about Generalized IETF Network Slicing", Zhenbin Li, Jie Dong, Jing Gao, 2023-10-20, IETF network slice has been introduced to meet specific service requirements, such as the connectivity requirements and the associated network capabilities such as bandwidth, latency, jitter and network functions with the resource behaviors such as computing and storage availability. For the realization of IETF network slices, one or more network resource partitions (NRPs) can be created in the network. Each NRP is a collection of network resources (buffer, queuing, scheduling, etc.) allocated in the underlay network. The connectivity constructs from one or more IETF network slices can be mapped to an NRP. NRP specific identifiers could be carried in the IETF network slice packets, which could be used to determine the set of network resources to be used for the processing and forwarding of the packets in the corresponding NRP. With the development of IETF network slicing technologies and the deployment of IETF network slices in different types of networks, there are emerging requirements about the new capability and functionality of IETF network slices. To meet those requirements, it is expected that the concept IETF network slice and NRP needs be generalized. This document describes the considerations about possible generalization of IETF network slice and NRP. "Segment Routing based Solution for Hierarchical IETF Network Slices", Liyan Gong, Weiqiang Cheng, Changwang Lin, Mengxiao Chen, Jie Dong, Ran Chen, Yanrong Liang, 2023-07-06, This document describes a Segment Routing based solution for two- level hierarchical IETF network slices. Level-1 network slice is realized by associating Flex-Algo with dedicated sub-interfaces, and level-2 network slice is realized by using SR Policy with additional NRP-ID on data plane. "DETNET multidomain extensions", Carlos Bernardos, Alain Mourad, 2023-07-25, This document addresses the multi-domain DetNet problem, analyzing what the technical gaps are and exploring some possible solutions. Application, control and data plane aspects are in scope. The goal is to help understanding what might be the next steps towards enabling DetNet in multi technology and/or administrative domains. "Data Collection Requirements and Technologies for Digital Twin Network", Cheng Zhou, Danyang Chen, Pedro Martinez-Julia, Qiufang Ma, 2023-07-09, A Digital Twin Network is a virtual representation of a real network, which is meant to be used by a management system to analyze, diagnose, emulate, and then control the real network based on data, models, and interfaces. The construction and state update of a Digital Twin Network require obtaining real-time information of the physical network it represents (i.e., telemetry data). This document aims to describe the data collection requirements and provide data collection methods or tools to build the data repository for building and updating a digital twin network. "Generalized Arguments of SRv6 Segment", Zhenbin Li, Jianwei Mao, Cheng Li, 2023-11-20, This document analyzes the challenges of Arguments of SRv6 SID, and the chance of using Arguments of SRv6 SID to reduce the length of the IPv6 extension header. According to these analysis, this document specifies a kind of generalized and structured Arguments for SRv6 SID, which can carry multiple Arguments parts for a SRv6 SID. "DetNet Enhanced Data Plane", Xuesong Geng, Tianran Zhou, Li Zhang, Zongpeng Du, 2023-10-23, Aiming at providing the bounded latency to DetNet services, DetNet data plane is required to be enhanced. This document provides a method to extend DetNet data plane by introducing the Bounded Latency Information (BLI), which facilitates DetNet transit nodes to guarantee the bounded latency transmission in data plane. "IS-IS and OSPFv3 Extensions to Advertise SRv6 Service SID", Changwang Lin, Mengxiao Chen, Hao Li, 2023-09-06, The IPv6 backbone networks only deploying IGP may be required to interconnect IPv4 islands. SRv6 Service SIDs like End.DT4 may be used to realize such requirements. This document extends IS-IS and OSPFv3 to advertise SRv6 Service SIDs. "A YANG Data Model for Alternate Marking Method", Minxue Wang, Liuyan Han, Xiao Min, Guo Jun, Massimo Nilo, 2023-08-06, Alternate-Marking Method (AMM) is a technique used to perform packet loss, delay, and jitter measurements on live traffic. This document defines a YANG data model for Alternate Marking Method. "PCEP for Enhanced DetNet", Li Zhang, Xuesong Geng, Tianran Zhou, 2023-07-09, PCEP is used to provide a communication between a PCC and a PCE. This document defines the extensions to PCEP to support the bounded- latency path computation. Specifically, two new objects and three new TLVs are defined for the transmission of bounded latency information between PCC and PCE to guarantee the bounded latency transmission in control plane. "IGP Extensions for Advertising Node Index", Huaimo Chen, Donald Eastlake, Aijun Wang, Gyan Mishra, Yisong Liu, Yanhe Fan, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-07-09, This document describes OSPF and IS-IS extensions for distributing the node index configured on a node. "IGP Extensions for Advertising Link Numbers", Huaimo Chen, Donald Eastlake, Aijun Wang, Gyan Mishra, Yisong Liu, Yanhe Fan, Lei Liu, Xufeng Liu, 2023-07-09, This document describes OSPF and IS-IS extensions for distributing the link numbers assigned to the links originating at a node. "Stateless Best Effort Multicast Using MRH", Huaimo Chen, Donald Eastlake, Mike McBride, Yanhe Fan, Gyan Mishra, Yisong Liu, Aijun Wang, Xufeng Liu, Lei Liu, 2023-10-22, This document describes stateless best effort Multicast along the shortest paths to the egress nodes of a P2MP Path/Tree. The multicast data packet is encapsulated in an IPv6 Multicast Routing Header (MRH). The MRH contains the egress nodes represented by the indexes of the nodes and flexible bit strings for the nodes. The packet is delivered to each of the egress nodes along the shortest path. There is no state stored in the core of the network. "Architecture of Computing Power Optical Network", Zhengjie Sun, 4875690059616E67, Chao Li, Sheng Liu, Haomian Zheng, 2023-07-25, This document describes the architecture of computing power optical network. "SCION Components Analysis", Nicola Rustignoli, Corine de Kater, 2023-09-10, SCION is an inter-domain Internet architecture that focuses on security and availability. Its fundamental functions are carried out by a number of components. This document analyzes its core components from a functionality perspective, describing their dependencies, outputs, and properties provided. The goal is to answer the following questions: * What are the main components of SCION and their dependencies? Can "An Overview of Energy-related Effort within the IETF", Toerless Eckert, Mohamed Boucadair, Pascal Thubert, Jeff Tantsura, 2023-07-09, This memo provides an overview of work performed by or proposed within the IETF related to energy and/or green: awareness, management, control or reduction of consumption of energy, and sustainability as it related to the IETF. This document is written to help those unfamiliar with that work, but interested in it, in the hope to raise more interest in energy- related activities within the IETF, such as identifying gaps and investigating solutions as appropriate. This document captures work until 12/2022, at which time the "IAB workshop on Environmental Impact of Internet Applications and Systems" (https://www.iab.org/activities/workshops/e-impact/) creaeted new interest and work in the topic. "Performance-Oriented Digital Twins for Packet and Optical Networks", Albert Cabellos, Christopher Janz, 2023-10-23, This draft introduces the concept of a Network Digital Twin (NDT), including the architecture as well as the interfaces. Then two specific instances of the NDT are introduced, the first one for packet networks. This produces performance estimates (delay, jitter, loss) for a packet network with a specified topology, traffic demand, and routing and scheduling configuration. Second, a NDT for optical networks, this produces transmission performance estimates of an optical network with specified optical service topologies and network equipment types, topology and status. "Mobility challenges in virtualization environments", Carlos Bernardos, Alain Mourad, 2023-07-25, Mobility is no longer restricted to physical end systems roaming among radio points of attachment. Current mobile network deployments do not only consider the traditional client-server model, but also include scenarios in which services are decomposed into functions that run on virtualized resources, thus becoming virtual functions. This opens the door for new scenarios in which mobility now includes: (i) the end-system mobility (traditional scenario), (ii) a physical resource hosting a virtual function (part of a service being consumed by a end-system) moving, and (iii) a virtual function part of a service moving (migrating) to a different physical resource. As these scenarios are expected to be more commonly deployed in the short future, this documents aims at presenting the new mobility- related scenarios and the potential gaps in terms of IETF protocols. "Using Attestation in Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)", Hannes Tschofenig, Yaron Sheffer, Paul Howard, Ionut Mihalcea, Yogesh Deshpande, 2023-10-23, Attestation is the process by which an entity produces evidence about itself that another party can use to evaluate the trustworthiness of that entity. In use cases that require the use of remote attestation, such as confidential computing or device onboarding, an attester has to convey evidence or attestation results to a relying party. This information exchange may happen at different layers in the protocol stack. This specification provides a generic way of passing evidence and attestation results in the TLS handshake. Functionality-wise this is accomplished with the help of key attestation. "BIER Extension Headers", Zhaohui Zhang, Xiao Min, Yisong Liu, Hooman Bidgoli, 2023-07-07, Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) is a multicast technology with a new encapsulation and forwarding paradigm. BIER encapsulation is specified in RFC8296, and this document specifies extension headers used with BIER encapsulation header. "A Domain Name System (DNS) Service Parameter and Resource Record for Tunneling Information", Donald Eastlake, Haoyu Song, 2023-11-20, A Domain Name System (DNS) Service Binding (SVCB) Service Parameter Type and a DNS Resource Record (RR) Type are specified for storing connection tunneling / encapsulation Information in the DNS. "More Instant Messaging Interoperability (MIMI) Identity Concepts", Rohan Mahy, 2023-07-10, This document discusses concepts in instant messaging identity interoperability when using end-to-end encryption, for example with the MLS (Message Layer Security) Protocol. The goal is to explore the problem space in preparation for framework and requirements documents. "Problem statement for Inter-domain Intent-aware Routing using Color", Shraddha Hegde, Dhananjaya Rao, Jim Uttaro, Alex Bogdanov, Luay Jalil, 2023-10-23, This draft describes the scope, set of use-cases and requirements for a distributed routing based solution to establish end-to-end intent- aware paths spanning multi-domain packet networks. The document focuses on BGP given its predominant use in inter-domain routing deployments, however the requirements may also apply to other solutions. "BGP Colored Prefix Routing (CPR) for SRv6 based Services", Haibo Wang, Jie Dong, Ketan Talaulikar, hantao, Ran Chen, Jingrong Xie, Xinjun Chen, 2023-10-20, This document describes a mechanism to advertise IPv6 prefixes in BGP which are associated with Color Extended Communities to establish end-to-end intent-aware paths for SRv6 services. Such IPv6 prefixes are called "Colored Prefixes", and this mechanism is called Colored Prefix Routing (CPR). In SRv6 networks, the Colored prefixes are the SRv6 locators associated with different intent. SRv6 services (e.g. SRv6 VPN services) with specific intent could be assigned with SRv6 SIDs under the corresponding SRv6 locators, which are advertised as Colored prefixes. This allows the SRv6 service traffic to be steered into end-to-end intent-aware paths simply based on the longest prefix matching of SRv6 Service SIDs to the Colored prefixes. In data plane, dedicated transport label or SID for the inter-domain path is not needed, thus the encapsulation efficiency could be optimized. The existing IPv6 Address Family could be used for the advertisement of IPv6 Colored prefixes, thus this mechanism is easy to interoperate and can be deployed incrementally in multi-domain networks. "I2NSF Analytics Interface YANG Data Model", Patrick Lingga, Jaehoon Jeong, Yunchul Choi, 2023-07-24, This document describes an information model and a YANG data model for the Analytics Interface between an Interface to Network Security Functions (I2NSF) Analyzer and a Security Controller in an I2NSF system in a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) environment. The YANG data model described in this document is based on the I2NSF NSF- Facing Interface and the I2NSF Monitoring Interface for enabling the delivery of analytics information based on monitoring data received from a Network Security Function (NSF). "WebRTC-HTTP Egress Protocol (WHEP)", Sergio Murillo, Cheng Chen, 2023-11-10, This document describes a simple HTTP-based protocol that will allow WebRTC-based viewers to watch content from streaming services and/or Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) or WebRTC Transmission Network (WTNs). "Encryption algorithm Rocca-S", Yuto Nakano, Kazuhide Fukushima, Takanori Isobe, 2023-09-12, This document defines Rocca-S encryption scheme, which is an Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD), using a 256-bit key and can be efficiently implemented utilizing the AES New Instruction set (AES-NI). "CBOR Object Type Extension (COTX)", Anders Rundgren, 2023-09-03, This document describes a CBOR tag for augmenting CBOR data items with type identifiers in the form of arbitrary CBOR text strings. This design enables type identifiers to optionally be expressed as URLs, potentially pointing to Web pages holding related descriptions in human readable form, as well as being compatible with established methods for adding type information to JSON and XML data. "A Larger Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) Payload", Yoav Nir, 2023-07-23, The messages of the Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) protocol are made up of payloads. The current protocol limits each of these payloads to 64KB by having a 2-byte length field. While this is usually enough, several of the payloads may need to be larger. This document defines an extension to IKEv2 that allows larger payloads. "IBM i Telnet Enhancements", Russel Garvey, Barbara Smith, Timothy Mullenbach, 2023-11-21, This obsoletes RFC4777 with an enhanced Automatic Sign-On PBKDF2 with HMAC SHA-512 password hash available with systems running with V7R5M0 or later and configured to use Password Level (QPWDLVL) 4 or higher for the user profile passwords Section 5.3. Require use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) to secure the telnet session between the Telnet server and client Section 13. Add Telnet Device Negotiation Termination Section 10.5 documenting how telnet clients that do not follow 5250 negotiation are handled. Document use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) using port 992 Section 14. Enhancement to add Multi Factor Authentication to automatic sign-on Changes since -00 Draft * Update abstract for PBKDF2 with HMAC SHA-512 password hash * Document use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) in Security Considerations Section 13 Changes since -01 Draft * TLS handshake must complete before invite for terminal type is sent in Section 2 * Change using TLS from RECOMENDED to REQUIRED to be ccompliant with this draft Section 13 * Change disabling port 23 from RECOMENDED to REQUIRED Section 13 * Detail use and related DCM configuration for TLS Section 13 * Add IANA Considerations use of port 992 for Telnet using TLS/SSL (service telnet-ssl) to Section 14 * Include "application definition" and "Digital Certificate Manager (DCM)" to Section 1.1 * Update abstract for Authentication factor in Section 5 * Update Response Codes for Authentication factor in Section 10.4 "Simple Two-way Active Measurement Protocol (STAMP) for MPLS Label Switched Paths (LSPs)", Greg Mirsky, 2023-09-27, Simple Two-way Active Measurement Protocol (STAMP), defined in RFC 8762 and RFC 8972, is expected to be able to monitor the performance of paths between systems that use a wide variety of encapsulations. This document defines encapsulation and bootstrapping of a STAMP test session over an MPLS Label Switched Path. "Byte Range PATCH", Austin Wright, 2023-07-23, This document specifies a media type for PATCH to overwrite a specific byte range, allowing random access writes, or splitting an upload into multiple segments. "DAP Interoperation Test Design", David Cook, 2023-09-19, This document defines a common test interface for implementations of the Distributed Aggregation Protocol for Privacy Preserving Measurement (DAP) and describes how this test interface can be used to perform interoperation testing between the implementations. Tests are orchestrated with containers, and new test-only APIs are introduced to provision DAP tasks and initiate processing. "The Transit Measurement Option", Tal Mizrahi, Tianran Zhou, Shahar Belkar, Reuven Cohen, 2023-08-06, This document specifies an IPv6 option that contains a compact set of fields which can be used for transit delay measurement and congestion detection. This option can be incorporated into data packets and updated by transit nodes along the path, enabling lightweight measurement and monitoring using constant-length data that does not depend on the number of hops in the network. "Real-Time Monitoring Link/Protocol Neighbor State", Tianran Zhou, Feng Xu, Shunwan Zhuang, Haibo Wang, Cao Diao, 2023-10-23, Various protocols are deployed in today's networks, such as BGP / ISIS / OSPF etc. Link neighbor state changes and protocol neighbor state changes are the most important network events that need to be processed with the highest priority. In particular, the SDN controller needs to quickly sense the link neighbor and protocol neighbor state change information in the network. Thus, the various policies applied by the SDN controller to the network can quickly match the current state of the network. This document discusses some possible scenarios and the relevant requirements. "Cisco's CoAP Simple Management Protocol", Paul Duffy, 2023-06-09, CoAP Simple Management Protocol (CSMP) is purpose-built to provide lifecycle management for resource constrained IoT devices deployed within large-scale, bandwidth constrained IoT networks. CSMP offers an efficient transport and message encoding supporting classic NMS functions such as device on-boarding, device configuration, device status reporting, securing the network, etc. This document describes the design and operation of CSMP. This document does not represent an IETF consensus. "The R5N Distributed Hash Table", Martin Schanzenbach, Christian Grothoff, Bernd Fix, 2023-08-21, This document contains the R^5N DHT technical specification. R^5N is a secure distributed hash table (DHT) routing algorithm and data structure for decentralized applications. It features an open peer- to-peer overlay routing mechanism which supports ad-hoc permissionless participation and support for topologies in restricted-route environments. If desired, the paths data takes through the overlay can be recorded, allowing decentralized applications to use the DHT to discover routes. This document defines the normative wire format of protocol messages, routing algorithms, cryptographic routines and security considerations for use by implementers. This specification was developed outside the IETF and does not have IETF consensus. It is published here to guide implementation of R^5N and to ensure interoperability among implementations including the pre-existing GNUnet implementation. "Kyber Post-Quantum KEM", Peter Schwabe, Bas Westerbaan, 2023-09-25, This memo specifies a preliminary version ("draft00", "v3.02") of Kyber, an IND-CCA2 secure Key Encapsulation Method. About This Document This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. The latest revision of this draft can be found at https://bwesterb.github.io/draft-schwabe-cfrg-kyber/draft-cfrg- schwabe-kyber.html. Status information for this document may be found at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cfrg-schwabe-kyber/. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/bwesterb/draft-schwabe-cfrg-kyber. "Publicly Verifiable Nominations Committee (NomCom) Random Selection", Donald Eastlake, 2023-07-10, This document describes a method for making random selections in such a way as to promote public confidence in the unbiased nature of the choice. This method is referred to in this document as "verifiable selection". It focuses on the selection of the voting members of the IETF Nominations Committee (NomCom) from the pool of eligible volunteers; however, similar techniques could be and have been applied to other selections. This document obsoletes RFC 3797. "UDP Encapsulation of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Packets for End-Host to End-Host Communication", Michael Tuexen, Randall Stewart, 2023-09-10, This document describes a simple method of encapsulating Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) packets into UDP packets and its limitations. This allows the usage of SCTP in networks with legacy NATs that do not support SCTP. It can also be used to implement SCTP on hosts without directly accessing the IP layer, for example, implementing it as part of the application without requiring special privileges. Please note that this document only describes the functionality needed within an SCTP stack to add on UDP encapsulation, providing only those mechanisms for two end-hosts to communicate with each other over UDP ports. In particular, it does not provide mechanisms to determine whether UDP encapsulation is being used by the peer, nor the mechanisms for determining which remote UDP port number can be used. These functions are out of scope for this document. This document covers only end-hosts and not tunneling (egress or ingress) endpoints. "SCION Control-Plane PKI", Corine de Kater, Nicola Rustignoli, 2023-09-21, This document presents the trust concept and design of the SCION _control-plane Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)_, SCION's public key infrastructure model. SCION (Scalability, Control, and Isolation On Next-generation networks) is a path-aware, inter-domain network architecture. The control-plane PKI, or short CP-PKI, handles cryptographic material and lays the foundation for the authentication procedures in SCION. It is used by SCION's control plane to authenticate and verify path information, and builds the basis for SCION's special trust model based on so-called Isolation Domains. This document first introduces the trust model behind the SCION's control-plane PKI, as well as clarifications to the concepts used in it. This is followed by specifications of the different types of certificates and the Trust Root Configuration. The document then specifies how to deploy the whole infrastructure. "Distributed Flow Measurement in IPv6", Haojie Wang, sijun weng, Changwang Lin, Xiao Min, Greg Mirsky, 2023-07-04, In IPv6 networks, performance measurements such as packet loss, delay and jitter of real traffic can be carried out based on the Alternate-Marking method. Usually, the controller needs to collect statistical data on network devices, calculate and present the measurement results. This document proposes a distributed method for on-path flow measurement, which is independent of the controller. "Reverse Traceroute", Valentin Heinrich, Rolf Winter, 2023-08-19, Only very few troubleshooting tools exist, that universally work on the public internet. Ping and traceroute are the ones that are most frequently used, when issues arise that are outside the user's administrative reach. Both perform quite basic checks. Ping can only confirm basic reachability of an interface. Traceroute can enumerate routers in the forward direction of a path but remains blind to the reverse path. In this memo, ICMP extensions are defined, that allow to build a reverse traceroute tool for the public internet. "SAV-based Anti-DDoS Architecture", Yong Cui, Jianping Wu, Lei Zhang, Linzhe Li, 2023-09-11, Existing SAV schemes can not effectively defend against IP Spoofing DDoS under incremental deployment. This document proposes SAV-D, a savnet based distributed defense architecture to enhance SAV's defense. The main idea of SAV-D is to collect and aggregate more threat data from existing SAV devices and then distribute crucial knowledge to widespread devices, thus significantly expanding defense across the entire network. "Delegation based Device Onboarding using PoA Authorization", Sreelakshmi Sudarsan, Olov Schelen, Ulf Bodin, 2023-10-20, Industrial network layer onboarding demands a technique that is efficient, scalable, and secure. In this document, we propose a delegation-based device onboarding technique using Power of Attorney (PoA) based authorization. This enables manufacturers to send the device to the right device owner manage the ownership transfer through the supply chain and eventually resell the device to a new owner. "Segment Routing BGP Egress Peer Engineering over Layer 2 Bundle", Changwang Lin, Zhenqiang Li, Ran Pang, Mengxiao Chen, 2023-10-21, There are deployments where the Layer 3 interface on which a BGP peer session is established is a Layer 2 interface bundle. In order to allow BGP-EPE to control traffic flows on individual member links of the underlying Layer 2 bundle, BGP Peering SIDs need to be allocated to individual bundle member links, and advertisement of such BGP Peering SIDs in BGP-LS is also required. This document describes how to support Segment Routing BGP Egress Peer Engineering over Layer 2 bundle. "Yang Data Model for EVPN multicast", Hongji Zhao, Yisong Liu, Xufeng Liu, Mani Panchanathan, Mahesh Sivakumar, 2023-10-19, This document describes a YANG data model for EVPN multicast services. The model is agnostic of the underlay as well as RFC 9251. This document mainly focuses on EVPN instance framework. "Supporting In-Situ OAM Direct Export Using MPLS Network Actions", Greg Mirsky, Mohamed Boucadair, Tony Li, 2023-09-27, In-Situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (IOAM), defined in RFC 9197, is an on-path telemetry method to collect and transport the operational state and telemetry information that can be used to calculate various performance metrics. IOAM Direct Export (IOAM-DEX) is one of the IOAM Option types, in which the operational state and telemetry information are collected according to the specified profile and exported in a manner and format defined by a local policy. MPLS Network Actions (MNA) techniques are meant to indicate actions to be performed on any combination of Label Switched Paths (LSPs), MPLS packets, and the node itself, and also to transfer data needed for these actions. This document explores the on-path operational state, and telemetry information can be collected using IOAM-DEX Option in combination with MNA. "The Requirements for Secure Routing Path", Meiling Chen, Li Su, 2023-11-16, Both ISPs and users have put forward requirements for secure routing, the scenarios are analyzed in the draft draft-chen-secure-routing- use-cases (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chen-secure- routing-use-cases/). This draft analyzes the functions required to implement secure routing. Attack detection and users security requirements translateion are out of scope. "Transfer Digital Credentials Securely", Dmitry Vinokurov, Yogesh Karandikar, Matthias Lerch, Alex Pelletier, Nick Sha, 2023-10-10, Digital Credentials allow users to access Homes, Cars or Hotels using their mobile devices. Once a user has a Credential on a device, sharing it to others is a natural use case. This document describes a sharing flow that allows convenient and seamless user experience, similar to sharing other digital assets like photos or documents. The sharing process should be secure and private. This document also defines a new transport to meet unique requirements of sharing a Credential. "Replay Resistant Authenticated Receiver Chain", Wei Chuang, Bron Gondwana, 2023-08-13, DKIM (RFC6376) is an IETF standard for the cryptographic protocol to authenticate email at the domain level and protect the integrity of messages during transit. Section 8.6 defines a vulnerability called DKIM Replay as a spam message sent through a SMTP MTA DKIM signer, that then is sent to many more recipients, leveraging the reputation of the signer. We propose a replay resistant cryptographic based protocol that discloses all SMTP recipients and signs them, allowing a receiver or any third party to verify that the message went to the intended recipient. If not then then potentially the message is replayed. Moreover it leverages ARC (RFC8617) and sender defined forwarding path to build a "chain of custody" that accurately defines the SMTP forwarding path of the message. This also allows the protocol to detect DKIM and ARC replay attacks and other attacks. "IPv6-only Capable Resolvers Utilising NAT64", Momoka Yamamoto, Yasunobu Toyota, 2023-09-08, This document outlines how IPv6-only iterative resolvers can use stateful NAT64 to establish communications with IPv4-only authoritative servers. It outlines a mechanism for translating the IPv4 addresses of authoritative servers to IPv6 addresses to initiate communications. Through the mechanism of IPv4-to-IPv6 address translation, these resolvers can operate in an IPv6-only network environment. "Deterministic Networking (DetNet) Data Plane - Tagged Cyclic Queuing and Forwarding (TCQF) for bounded latency with low jitter in large scale DetNets", Toerless Eckert, Yizhou Li, Stewart Bryant, Andrew Malis, Jeong-dong Ryoo, Peng Liu, Guangpeng Li, Shoushou Ren, Fan Yang, 2023-07-07, This memo specifies a forwarding method for bounded latency and bounded jitter for Deterministic Networks and is a variant of the IEEE TSN Cyclic Queuing and Forwarding (CQF) method. Tagged CQF (TCQF) supports more than 2 cycles and indicates the cycle number via an existing or new packet header field called the tag to replace the cycle mapping in CQF which is based purely on synchronized reception clock. This memo standardizes TCQF as a mechanism independent of the tagging method used. It also specifies tagging via the (1) the existing MPLS packet Traffic Class (TC) field for MPLS packets, (2) the IP/IPv6 DSCP field for IP/IPv6 packets, and (3) a new TCQF Option header for IPv6 packets. Target benefits of TCQF include low end-to-end jitter, ease of high- speed hardware implementation, optional ability to support large number of flow in large networks via DiffServ style aggregation by applying TCQF to the DetNet aggregate instead of each DetNet flow individually, and support of wide-area DetNet networks with arbitrary link latencies and latency variations as well as low accuracy clock synchronization. "In-band Task Provisioning for DAP", Shan Wang, Christopher Patton, 2023-10-19, An extension for the Distributed Aggregation Protocol (DAP) is specified that allows the task configuration to be provisioned in- band. "RATS Conceptual Messages Wrapper", Henk Birkholz, Ned Smith, Thomas Fossati, Hannes Tschofenig, 2023-11-07, This document defines two encapsulation formats for RATS conceptual messages (i.e., evidence, attestation results, endorsements and reference values.) The first format uses a CBOR or JSON array with two mandatory members, one for the type, another for the value, and a third optional member complementing the type field that says which kind of conceptual message(s) are carried in the value. The other format wraps the value in a CBOR byte string and prepends a CBOR tag to convey the type information. This document also defines a corresponding CBOR tag, as well as JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and CBOR Web Tokens (CWT) claims. These allow embedding the wrapped conceptual messages into CBOR-based protocols and web APIs, respectively. "NETCONF Extension to support Trace Context propagation", Roque Gagliano, Kristian Larsson, Jan Lindblad, 2023-07-06, This document defines how to propagate trace context information across the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF), that enables distributed tracing scenarios. It is an adaption of the HTTP-based W3C specification. "The Hypertext Transfer Protocol Attestable (HTTPA) Version 2", Hans Wang, Gordon King, Nick Li, Ned Smith, Krzysztof Sandowicz, 2023-11-04, The Hypertext Transfer Protocol Attestable version 2 (HTTPA/2) is an HTTP extension. It is a transaction-based protocol agnostic to Transport Layer Security (TLS) in which the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) is considered a new type of requested resource over the Internet. The original Hypertext Transfer Protocol Attestable (HTTPA) (referred to as HTTPA/1 in the rest of the document) includes remote attestation (RA) process onto the HTTPS protocol in the assumption of using Transport Layer Security (TLS) across the Internet. In contrast, the design of HTTPA/2 could establish a trusted (attested) and more secure communication without dependence on TLS. The definition of Attestation for the purposes of this draft: The process of vouching for the accuracy of TEE based services, configuration, and data where the TEE conveys Evidence about its environment, roots of trust and protected functions. The Evidence is a digital expression of TEE trustworthiness. "A Blockchain Trusted Protocol for Intelligent Communication Network-02", Zhe Tu, Hua-chun Zhou, Haoxiang Song, Yuzheng Yang, Jingfu Yan, 2023-10-11, This document defines a blockchain-based trusted protocol for sixth- generation (6G) intelligent communication network. "Additional addresses for QUIC", Maxime Piraux, Olivier Bonaventure, 2023-10-23, This document specifies a QUIC frame enabling a QUIC server to advertise additional addresses that can be used for a QUIC connection. "Network File System (NFS) Version 4 Minor Version 1 External Data Representation Standard (XDR) Description", David Noveck, 2023-11-06, This document provides the External Data Representation Standard (XDR) description for Network File System version 4 (NFSv4) minor version 1. It obsoletes and replaces RFC5662. "The Incident Detection Message Exchange Format version 2 (IDMEFv2)", Gilles Lehmann, 2023-10-11, The Incident Detection Message Exchange Format version 2 (IDMEFv2) defines a date representation for security incidents detected on cyber and/or physical infrastructures. The format is agnostic so it can be used in standalone or combined cyber (SIEM), physical (PSIM) and availability (NMS) monitoring systems. IDMEFv2 can also be used to represent man made or natural hazards threats. IDMEFv2 improves situational awareness by facilitating correlation of multiple types of events using the same base format thus enabling efficient detection of complex and combined cyber and physical attacks and incidents. If approved this draft will obsolete RFC4765. "Service Affinity Solution for TCP based Application in Anycast Situation", Wei Wang, Aijun Wang, 2023-10-12, This draft proposes a service affinity solution between client and server based on the newly defined TCP Options. This solution can avoid the waste of resources caused by saving a large amount of customer status data in the network equipment, and realize the optimized scheduling of resources based on network conditions and computing resources in the computing-aware traffic steering scenario, so as to realize the reasonable operation of cloud network resources. "Mappings Between XML2RFC v3 and AsciiDoc", Marc Petit-Huguenin, 2023-07-28, This document specifies a mapping between XML2RFC v3 and AsciiDoc. The goal of this mapping and its associated tooling is to make writing an Internet-Draft as simple as possible, by converting any AsciiDoc formatted document into a valid Internet-Draft, ready to be submitted to the IETF. This is still work in progress and for the time being this mapping only ensures that any valid XML2RFC element can be generated from AsciiDoc. "A Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) of DNS Messages", Martine Lenders, Carsten Bormann, Thomas Schmidt, Matthias Waehlisch, 2023-11-17, This document specifies a compressed data format of DNS messages using the Concise Binary Object Representation [RFC8949]. The primary purpose is to keep DNS messages small in constrained networks. "CDDL 2.0 -- a draft plan", Carsten Bormann, 2023-08-27, The Concise Data Definition Language (CDDL) today is defined by RFC 8610 and RFC 9165. The latter (as well as some more application specific specifications such as RFC 9090) have used the extension point provided in RFC 8610, the control operator. As CDDL is used in larger projects, feature requirements become known that cannot be easily mapped into this single extension point. Hence, there is a need for evolution of the base CDDL specification itself. The present document provides a roadmap towards a "CDDL 2.0". It is based on draft-bormann-cbor-cddl-freezer, but is more selective in what potential features it takes up and more detailed in their discussion. It is intended to serve as a basis for prototypical implementations of CDDL 2.0. What specific documents spawn from the present one or whether this document is evolved into a single CDDL 2.0 specification. "IP Payload Compression excluding transport layer", Cheng Li, Hang Shi, Meng Zhang, Xiaobo Ding, 2023-11-05, IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) is used for compressing the IP payload in transmission to increase communication performance. The IPComp is applied to the payload of the IP datagram, starting with the first octet immediately after the IP header in IPv4, and the first octet after the excluded IPv6 Extension headers. However, transport layer information such as source port and destination port are useful in many network functions in transmission. This document defines extensions of IP payload compression protocol (IPComp) to support compressing the payload excluding the transport layer information, to enable network functions using transport layer information (e.g., ECMP) working together with the payload compression. This document also defines an extension of IPComp to indicate the payload is not compressed to solve the out-of-order problems between the compressed and uncompressed packets. "Group Policy ID BGP Extended Community", Wen Lin, John Drake, Dhananjaya Rao, 2023-10-20, Group Based Policy can be used to achieve micro or macro segmentation of user traffic. For Group Based Policy, a Group Policy ID, also known as Group Policy Tag, is used to represent a logical group that shares the same policy and access privilege. This specification defines a new BGP extended community that can be used to propagate Group Policy ID through a BGP route advertisement in the control plane. This is to facilitate policy enforcement at the ingress node when the optimization of network bandwidth is desired. "Media Header Extensions for Wireless Networks", John Kaippallimalil, Sri Gundavelli, Spencer Dawkins, 2023-10-16, Wireless networks like 5G cellular or Wi-Fi experience significant variations in link capacity over short intervals due to wireless channel conditions, interference, or the end-user's movement. These variations in capacity take place in the order of hundreds of milliseconds and is much too fast for end-to-end congestion signaling by itself to convey the changes for an application to adapt. Media applications on the other hand demand both high throughput and low latency, and can dynamically adjust the size and quality of a stream to match available network bandwidth. However, catering to such media flows over a radio link with rapid changes in capacity requires the buffers and congestion to be managed carefully. This draft proposes to provide metadata about the media transported in each packet to allow the wireless network to manage radio resources optimally and to maximize network utilization while also improving application performance. This draft discusses potential solution options to this problem and the trade-offs involved. The draft then defines a new UDP option to carry media metadata between a UDP source and destination. This metadata is designed to be minimal, compact and has low processing overhead per-packet for encoding and retrieval. "The JSON format for vCon - Conversation Data Container", Daniel Petrie, Thomas McCarthy-Howe, 2023-10-23, A vCon is the container for data and information relating to a real- time, human conversation. It is analogous to a [vCard] which enables the definition, interchange and storage of an individual's various points of contact. The data contained in a vCon may be derived from any multimedia session, traditional phone call, video conference, SMS or MMS message exchange, webchat or email thread. The data in the container relating to the conversation may include Call Detail Records (CDR), call meta data, participant identity information (e.g. STIR PASSporT), the actual conversational data exchanged (e.g. audio, video, text), realtime or post conversational analysis and attachments of files exchanged during the conversation. A standardized conversation container enables many applications, establishes a common method of storage and interchange, and supports identity, privacy and security efforts (see [vCon-white-paper]) "Problem statement of Inter-domain Traffic Redirection Risks", Weiqiang Cheng, Dan Li, Ce Zheng, Mingqing Huang, Fang Gao, Mingxing Liu, 2023-07-09, BGP Update includes the destination prefix and AS_PATH that records the AS number through which it passes. The traffic routing to the destination prefix should be forwarded along the AS sequence in AS_PATH. However, due to traffic redirection, route aggregation and etc., the AS path of forwarding and the AS_PATH of BGP Update often do not match. The inconsistency leads to security risks such as black holes, loops in inter-domain forwarding, and the possibility of forwarding through malicious AS that source/upstream AS does not want to pass through. "Design Space Analysis of MoQ", Hang Shi, Yong Cui, Xiaobo Yu, 2023-09-11, This document investigates potential solution directions within the charter scope of MoQ WG. MoQ aims to provide low-latency, efficient media delivery solution for use cases including live streaming, gaming and video conferencing. To achieve low-latency media transfer efficiently, the network topology of relay nodes and the computation done at the relay nodes should be considered carefully. This document provides the analysis of those factors which can help the design of the MoQ protocols. "Advertising Unreachable Links in OSPF", Liyan Gong, Weiqiang Cheng, Changwang Lin, Mengxiao Chen, Acee Lindem, Ran Chen, Yanrong Liang, 2023-11-05, This document proposes the method to advertise links as unreachable in OSPF. In some scenarios, there are requirements to advertise unreachable links in OSPF for purposes other than building the normal Shortest Path Tree. "LSP Ping/Traceroute for Enabled In-situ OAM Capabilities", Xiao Min, Greg Mirsky, 2023-09-24, This document describes the MPLS Node IOAM Information Query functionality, which uses the MPLS echo request/reply messages, allowing the IOAM encapsulating node to discover the enabled IOAM capabilities of each IOAM transit and decapsulating node. "Encapsulation of BFD for SRv6 Policy", Yisong Liu, Weiqiang Cheng, Changwang Lin, Mengxiao Chen, Xiao Min, 2023-11-05, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) mechanisms can be used for fast detection of failures in the forwarding path of SR Policy. This document describes the encapsulation of BFD for SRv6 Policy, which can be applied for both S-BFD and U-BFD. The BFD packets may be encapsulated in transport mode or tunnel mode. "Forward Erasure Correction for QUIC loss recovery", Francois Michel, Olivier Bonaventure, 2023-10-23, This documents lays down the QUIC protocol design considerations needed for QUIC to apply Forward Erasure Correction on the data sent through the network. "An EAT-based Key Attestation Token", Mathias Brossard, Thomas Fossati, Hannes Tschofenig, 2023-07-10, This document defines an evidence format for key attestation based on the Entity Attestation Token (EAT) format. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Discussion of this document takes place on the Remote ATtestation ProcedureS Working Group mailing list (rats@ietf.org), which is archived at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/rats/. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/thomas-fossati/draft-kat. "Automatic Extended Route Optimization (AERO)", Fred Templin, 2023-11-21, This document specifies an Automatic Extended Route Optimization (AERO) service for IP internetworking over Overlay Multilink Network (OMNI) interfaces. AERO/OMNI use an IPv6 unique-local address format for IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (IPv6 ND) messaging over the OMNI virtual link. Router discovery and neighbor coordination are employed for network admission and to manage the OMNI link forwarding and routing systems. Secure multilink path selection, multinet traversal, mobility management, multicast forwarding, multihop operation and route optimization are naturally supported through dynamic neighbor cache updates. AERO is a widely-applicable mobile internetworking service especially well-suited for air/land/sea/space mobility applications including aviation, intelligent transportation systems, mobile end user devices, space exploration and many others. "Transmission of IP Packets over Overlay Multilink Network (OMNI) Interfaces", Fred Templin, 2023-11-21, Air/land/sea/space mobile nodes (e.g., aircraft of various configurations, terrestrial vehicles, seagoing vessels, space systems, enterprise wireless devices, pedestrians with cell phones, etc.) communicate with networked correspondents over wireless and/or wired-line data links and configure mobile routers to connect end user networks. This document presents a multilink virtual interface specification that enables mobile nodes to coordinate with a network- based mobility service, fixed node correspondents and/or other mobile node peers. The virtual interface provides an adaptation layer service suited for both mobile and more static deployments such as enterprise and home networks. This document specifies the transmission of IP packets over Overlay Multilink Network (OMNI) Interfaces. "Mathematical Mesh 3.0 Part X: Everything", Phillip Hallam-Baker, 2023-06-28, https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/mathmesh/ (http://whatever)Discussion of this draft should take place on the MathMesh mailing list (mathmesh@ietf.org), which is archived at . "Stateless Best Effort Multicast Simulations", Huaimo Chen, Donald Eastlake, Mike McBride, Yanhe Fan, Gyan Mishra, Yisong Liu, Aijun Wang, Xufeng Liu, Lei Liu, 2023-10-22, This document describes simulations of stateless best effort Multicasts and lists a set of simulation results for different large network sizes and different tree sizes. "Mathematical Mesh 3.0 Part IX: Mesh Notarized Signatures", Phillip Hallam-Baker, 2023-06-28, Creation and verification of Mesh Notarized Signatures is described . A notarized signature is a signature whose time of creation is attested by one or more parties in addition to the signer. In the case of Mesh Notarized Signatures, the attesting parties is the set of all parties participating in a Notarization Mesh. This ideally includes the relying parties. Each participant in a Notarization Mesh maintains their own notary log in the form of a DARE sequence authenticated by a Merkle tree. Participants periodically cross notarize their personal notary log with those maintained by other parties. A Mesh Notarized Signature is bound in time as having being created after time T1 by including one or more sequence apex values as signed attributes. A Mesh Notarized Signature is bound in time as having being created before time T2 by enrolling it in the signer's personal notarization log and engaging in cross-notarization with a sufficient number of Notarization Mesh participants to establish the desired proof. Defection is controlled through an accountability model. If a trusted notary produces multiple inconsistent signed cross Notarization tokens, this provides non-repudiable evidence of a default. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/mathmesh/ (http://whatever)Discussion of this draft should take place on the MathMesh mailing list (mathmesh@ietf.org), which is archived at . "IS-IS and OSPF extensions for BIER-TE (Tree Engineering for Bit Index Explicit Replication) with MPLS and non-MPLS Encapsulation", Zheng Zhang, Yuehua Wei, BenChong Xu, IJsbrand Wijnands, 2023-09-03, This document describes the IS-IS and OSPF protocol extensions that are required for BIER-TE and RBS with MPLS and non-MPLS encapsulation. "Computing Segment for Service Routing in SAN", Fenlin Zhou, Dongyu Yuan, Dong Yang, 2023-10-17, Since services provisioning requires delicate coordination among the client, network and cloud, this draft defines a new Segment to provide service routing and addressing functions by leveraging SRv6 Segment programming capabilities. With Computing Segments proposed, the network gains its capability to identify and process a SAN header in need and a complete service routing procedure can be achieved. "BGP for Mirror Binding", Huaimo Chen, Bruno Decraene, Gyan Mishra, Yanhe Fan, Aijun Wang, Xufeng Liu, 2023-11-10, BGP is used to distribute a binding to a node. The binding includes a binding SID and a path represented by a list of SIDs. This document describes extensions to BGP for distributing the information about the binding to a protecting node. For an SR path via the node with the binding SID, when the node fails, the protecting node such as the upstream neighbor on the path uses the information to protect the binding SID of the failed node. "PCE for Mirror Binding", Huaimo Chen, Bruno Decraene, Gyan Mishra, Aijun Wang, Xufeng Liu, Lei Liu, 2023-10-08, PCE is used to distribute a binding to a node. The binding includes a binding SID and a path represented by a list of SIDs. This document describes extensions to PCEP for distributing the information about the binding to a protecting node. For an SR path via the node with the binding SID, when the node fails, the protecting node such as the upstream neighbor on the path uses the information to protect the binding SID of the failed node. "Requirements adn Design for Interfaces of Network Digital Twin", Danyang Chen, Hongwei Yang, Cheng Zhou, 2023-07-09, The interfaces of Digital Twin Network can be divided as twin network southbound interface, internal interface and northbound interface. In order to build a digital twin network and realize its many advantages, different interfaces should be able to meet different requirements. And this memo introduces the requirements and design about interfaces of the Digital Twin Network. "General Source Address Validation Capabilities", Mingqing Huang, Weiqiang Cheng, Dan Li, Nan Geng, Mingxing Liu, Li Chen, Changwang Lin, 2023-11-05, The SAV rules of existing source address validation (SAV) mechanisms, are derived from other core data structures, e.g., FIB-based uRPF, which are not dedicatedly designed for source filtering. Therefore there are some limitations related to deployable scenarios and traffic handling policies. To overcome these limitations, this document introduces the general SAV capabilitiies from data plane perspective. How to implement the capabilities and how to generate SAV rules are not in the scope of this document. "Intra-domain Source Address Validation (SAVNET) Architecture", Dan Li, Jianping Wu, Lancheng Qin, Nan Geng, Li Chen, Mingqing Huang, Fang Gao, 2023-10-23, This document proposes the intra-domain SAVNET architecture, which achieves accurate source address validation (SAV) in an intra-domain network by an automatic way. Compared with uRPF-like SAV mechanisms that only depend on routers' local routing information, SAVNET routers generate SAV rules by using both local routing information and SAV-specific information exchanged among routers, resulting in more accurate SAV validation in asymmetric routing scenarios. Compared with ACL rules that require manual efforts to accommodate to network dynamics, SAVNET routers learn the SAV rules automatically in a distributed way. "Inter-domain Source Address Validation (SAVNET) Architecture", Jianping Wu, Dan Li, Mingqing Huang, Li Chen, Nan Geng, Libin Liu, Lancheng Qin, 2023-10-23, This document introduces an inter-domain SAVNET architecture, providing a comprehensive framework for guiding the design of inter- domain SAV mechanisms. The proposed architecture empowers ASes to establish SAV rules by sharing SAV-specific Information between themselves. During the incremental or partial deployment of SAV- specific Information, it can rely on general information, such as routing information from the RIB, to construct the SAV table when SAV-specific Information for an AS's prefixes is unavailable. Rather than delving into protocol extensions or implementations, this document primarily concentrates on proposing SAV-specific and general information and guiding how to utilize them to generate SAV rules. It also defines the architectural components and their relations. "Generalized IPv6 Tunnel for QUIC", Zhenbin Li, Shuanglong Chen, Hang Shi, 2023-07-10, This document defines a new encapsulation method for QUIC packet transmission based on IPv6 extension headers. This method enables QUIC packet transmission to easily inherit the extended functions of IPv6. "EVPN Multicast Forwarding for EVPN to EVPN Gateways", Jorge Rabadan, Olivier Dornon, Vinod Prabhu, Alex Nichol, Zhaohui Zhang, Wen Lin, 2023-10-23, This document proposes an EVPN (Ethernet Virtual Private Network) extension to allow IP multicast forwarding on Service Gateways that interconnect two or more EVPN domains. "YANG Data Model for RPKI to Router Protocol", Yisong Liu, Changwang Lin, Haibo Wang, Hongwei Liu, Di Ma, 2023-06-29, This document defines YANG data models for configuring and managing Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to Router Protocol (RFC6810 and RFC8210). "Considerations for Benchmarking Network Performance in Satellite Internet Constellations", Zeqi Lai, Hewu Li, Qi Zhang, Qian Wu, Yangtao Deng, 2023-07-10, Entering the "NewSpace" era, satellite Internet constellations (SIC) are scaling up at a fast pace. Emerging satellite networks constructed upon SICs enable great opportunities for ubiquitous and low-latency Internet services globally. It should be useful for satellite service providers to run various laboratory experiments to comprehensively and systematically benchmark the network performance of their new network techniques before launching them to the outer space. However, existing benchmarking methodologies for terrestrial networks either achieve fidelity but lack flexibility or achieve flexibility but lack fidelity. This draft describes our basic considerations as specifications to guide the network performance benchmark for SICs. A satellite network constructed upon emerging SICs in low earth orbit has many unique characteristics as compared to existing terrestrial networks. Specifically, our considerations include multiple networking models of emerging SICs, a data-driven benchmarking approach which may enable testers to build a laboratory benchmark environment with acceptable flexibility and fidelity to support various experiments, critical configuration parameters that might affect the SIC network performance, and several suggested test cases for network performance benchmarking. "Reliability Considerations of Path-Aware Semantic Addressing", Guangpeng Li, Zhe Lou, Luigi Iannone, 2023-09-08, Path-Aware Semantic Address (PASA) [I-D.li-6lo-path-aware-semantic-addressing]), proposes to algorithmically assign addresses to nodes in a 6lo environment so to achieve stateless forwarding, hence, allowing to avoid using a routing protocol. PASA is more suitable for stable and static wireline connectivity, in order to avoid renumbering due to topology changes. Even in such kind of scenarios, reliability remains a concern. This memo tackles specifically reliability in PASA deployments, analyzing possible broad solution categories to solve the issue. "Device Schema Extensions to the SCIM model", Muhammad Shahzad, Hassan Iqbal, Eliot Lear, 2023-06-02, The initial core schema for SCIM (System for Cross Identity Management) was designed for provisioning users. This memo specifies schema extensions that enables provisioning of devices, using various underlying bootstrapping systems, such as Wifi EasyConnect, RFC 8366 vouchers, and BLE passcodes. "Basic Support for IPv6 Networks Operating over 5G Vehicle-to-Everything Communications", Jaehoon Jeong, Bien Mugabarigira, Yiwen Shen, Alexandre Petrescu, Sandra Cespedes, 2023-10-23, This document provides methods and settings for using IPv6 to communicate among IPv6 nodes within the communication range of one another over 5G V2X (i.e., the 5th Generation Vehicle-to-Everything) links. Support for these methods and settings require minimal changes to the existing IPv6 protocol stack. This document also describes limitations associated with using these methods. Optimizations and usage of IPv6 in more complex 5G scenarios are not covered in this specification and are a subject for future work. "Intent-Based Network Management Automation in 5G Networks", Jaehoon Jeong, Yoseop Ahn, Younghan Kim, J., PARK, 2023-11-06, This document describes Network Management Automation (NMA) of cellular network services in 5G networks. For NMA, it proposes a framework empowered with Intent-Based Networking (IBN). The NMA in this document deals with a closed-loop network control, network intent translator, and network management audit. To support these three features in NMA, it specifies an architectural framework with system components and interfaces. Also, this framework can support the use cases of NMA in 5G networks such as the data aggregation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, network slicing, and the Quality of Service (QoS) in Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X). "SR Policy Group", Weiqiang Cheng, Jiang Wenying, Changwang Lin, Yuanxiang Qiu, Yawei Zhang, Ran Chen, Yanrong Liang, 2023-09-13, Segment Routing is a source routing paradigm that explicitly indicates the forwarding path for packets at the ingress node. An SR Policy is associated with one or more candidate paths, and each candidate path is either dynamic, explicit, or composite. This document describes SR policy Group in MPLS and IPv6 environments and illustrates some use cases for parent SR policy and SR Policy Group to provide best practice cases for operators. "IPsec and IKE anti-replay sequence number subspaces for traffic-engineered paths and multi-core processing", Paul Ponchon, Mohsin Shaikh, Hadi Dernaika, Pierre Pfister, Guillaume Solignac, 2023-10-23, This document discusses the challenges of running IPsec with anti- replay in multi-core environments where packets may be re-ordered (e.g., when sent over multiple IP paths, traffic-engineered paths and/or using different QoS classes). A new solution based on splitting the anti-replay sequence number space into multiple different sequencing subspaces is proposed. Since this solution requires support on both parties, an IKE extension is proposed in order to negotiate the use of the anti-replay sequence number subspaces. "A YANG Network Data Model of Network Inventory", Bo Wu, Cheng Zhou, Qin WU, Mohamed Boucadair, 2023-10-19, This document defines a base YANG data model for network inventory that is application- and technology-agnostic. This data model can be augmented with application-specific and technology-specific details in other, more specific network inventory data models. This document is meant to help IVY base Network Inventory model discussion and ease agreement on a base model that would be flexible enough to be augmented with components that are covered by the IVY Charter. The hardware components definition are adapted from draft-ietf-ccamp- network-inventory-yang-02. "Comcast ISP Low Latency Deployment Design Recommendations", Jason Livingood, 2023-09-28, The IETF's Transport Area Working Group (TSVWG) has finalized experimental RFCs for Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput (L4S) and new Non-Queue-Building (NQB) per hop behavior. These documents do a good job of describing a new architecture and protocol for deploying low latency networking. But as is normal for many such standards, especially those in experimental status, certain deployment design decisions are ultimately left to implementers. This document explores the potential implications of key deployment design decisions and makes recommendations for those decisions that may help drive adoption. "BGP over QUIC", Alvaro Retana, Yingzhen Qu, Jeffrey Haas, Shuanglong Chen, Jeff Tantsura, 2023-10-23, This document specifies the use of QUIC Streams to support multiple BGP sessions over one connection in order to achieve high resiliency. "Definition of new tags for relations between RFCs", Mirja Kuehlewind, Suresh Krishnan, 2023-07-10, An RFC can include a tag called "Updates" which can be used to link a new RFC to an existing RFC. On publication of such an RFC, the existing RFC will include an additional metadata tag called "Updated by" which provides a link to the new RFC. However, this tag pair is not well-defined and therefore it is currently used for multiple different purposes, which leads to confusion about the actual meaning of this tag and inconsistency in its use. This document recommends the discontinuation of the use of the updates/updated by tag pair, and instead proposes three new tag pairs that have well-defined meanings and use cases. "A Taxonomy of Internet Consolidation", Mark McFadden, 2023-10-23, This document contributes to the ongoing discussion surrounding Internet consolidation. At recent IETF meetings discussions about Internet consolidation revealed that different perspectives gave completely different views of what consolidation means. While we use the term consolidation to refer to the process of increasing control over Internet infrastructure and services by a small set of organizations, it is clear that that control is expressed through economic, network traffic and protocol concerns. As a contribution to the discussion surrounding consolidation, this document attempts to provide a taxonomy of Internet consolidation with the goal of adding clarity to a complex discussion. "INIT Forwarding for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol", Michael Tuexen, Timo Voelker, 2023-10-08, The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) extension described in this document allows the support of a simple mechanism to distribute association requests between a cluster of SCTP end points providing the same service. In particular, this allows the use of anycast addresses in combination with SCTP. "Identity for E2E-Secure Communications", Richard Barnes, Rohan Mahy, 2023-10-23, End-to-end (E2E) security is a critical property for modern user communications systems. E2E security protects users' communications from tampering or inspection by intermediaries that are involved in delivering those communcations from one logical endpoint to another. In addition to the much-discussed E2E encryption systems, true E2E security requires an identity mechanism that prevents the communications provider from impersonating participants in a session, as a way to gain access to the session. This document describes a high-level architecture for E2E identity, identifying the critical mechanisms that need to be specified. "Composite Token Claims", Chris Lemmons, 2023-10-23, Composition claims are CBOR Web Token claims that define logical relationships between sets of claims and provide for private claim values via encryption. "Modelling Boundaries", Nigel Davis, 2023-09-08, Current modelling techniques appear to have boundaries that make representation of some concepts in modern problems, such as intent and capability, challenging. The concepts all have in common the need to represent uncertainty and vagueness. The challenge results from the rigidity of boundary representation, including the absoluteness of instance value and the process of classification itself, provided by current techniques. When describing solutions, a softer approach seems necessary where the emphasis is on the focus on a particular thing from a particular perspective. Intelligent control (use of AI/ML etc.) could take advantage of partial compatibilities etc. if a softer representation was achieved. The solution representation appears to require * Expression of range, preference and focus as a fundamental part of "A Sequence Number Extension for HTTP Datagrams", Marcus Ihlar, Magnus Westerlund, 2023-07-10, This document defines a sequence number extension to HTTP datagrams used to carry proxied UDP payload or IP datagrams. This extension is useful when HTTP datagrams are transported on top of a multipath protocol that does not ensure in-order delivery as it allows for example a masque endpoint to implement reordering logic specific to its needs. "A Collaborative Framework for Cyberspace Governance: the Internet of Governance", Jilong Wang, Yi Qiao, 2023-10-22, This document proposes the Internet of Governance (IoG), a new technology supporting platform for cyberspace collaborative governance. This document illustrates IoG definition, two roles and four functionalities, and develops architectural models to carry out these functionalities. This document provides the design of IoG framework and the collaboration life-cycle and uses some practical applications as examples. "draft-prodrigues-extar-01", Patricia Rodrigues, 2023-07-10, The shift to multi-cloud environments brought data leakage prevention challenges for organisations. The current Cross-Tenant Access Restriction (XTAR) mechanisms do not cover critical scenarios where users can connect to multiple tenants (organisational and personal), facilitating data exfiltration. The goal, similar to previously proposed, reviewed and accepted protocols that have been published as RFC standards and are now widely adopted, is to help organisations keep their data under control when using one or more Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). This can be done by incentivising CSPs to adopt the proposed protocol, Extended-Cross-Tenant Access Restriction (E-XTAR), consisting of a globally readable header specifying the allowed combinations allowed by the home organisation. The work gathers scenarios contributing to the importance of a cloud-agnostic, universally embraced protocol. "MIMI Delivery Service", Raphael Robert, Konrad Kohbrok, 2023-11-06, This document describes the MIMI Delivery Service. "Handling Encrypted DNS Server Redirection", John Todd, Tommy Jensen, Corey Mosher, 2023-10-22, This document defines Encrypted DNS Server Redirection (EDSR), a mechanism for encrypted DNS servers to redirect clients to other encrypted DNS servers. This enables dynamic routing to geo-located or otherwise more desirable encrypted DNS servers without modifying DNS client endpoint configurations or the use of anycast by the DNS server. "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure: Algorithm Identifiers for Hash-based Signatures", Kaveh Bashiri, Scott Fluhrer, Stefan-Lukas Gazdag, Daniel Van Geest, Stavros Kousidis, 2023-09-14, This document specifies algorithm identifiers and ASN.1 encoding formats for the Hash-Based Signature (HBS) schemes Hierarchical Signature System (HSS), eXtended Merkle Signature Scheme (XMSS), and XMSS^MT, a multi-tree variant of XMSS, as well as SLH-DSA (formerly SPHINCS+), the latter being the only stateless scheme. This specification applies to the Internet X.509 Public Key infrastructure (PKI) when those digital signatures are used in Internet X.509 certificates and certificate revocation lists. "Logging of routing events in BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP)", Paolo Lucente, Camilo Cardona, 2023-10-23, The BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) does provision for BGP session event logging (Peer Up, Peer Down), state synchronization (Route Monitoring), debugging (Route Mirroring) and Statistics messages, among the others. This document defines a new Route Event Logging (REL) message type for BMP with the aim of covering use-cases with affinity to alerting, reporting and on-change analysis. "Flag-based MPLS On Path Telemetry Network Actions", Haoyu Song, Giuseppe Fioccola, Rakesh Gandhi, 2023-09-07, This document describes the scheme to support two on-path telemetry techniques, PBT-M and Alternate Marking, as flag-based MPLS Network Actions for OAM in MPLS networks. "IPv6 CE Routers LAN Prefix Delegation", Timothy Winters, 2023-11-21, This document defines requirements for IPv6 CE Routers to support DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation for redistributing any unused prefix(es) that were delegated to the IPv6 CE Router. This document updates RFC 7084. "Group Address Allocation Protocol (GAAP)", Dino Farinacci, Mike McBride, 2023-09-28, This document describes a design for a lightweight decentralized multicast group address allocation protocol (named GAAP and pronounced "gap" as in "mind the gap"). The protocol requires no configuration setup and no centralized services. The protocol runs among group participants which need a unique group address to send and receive multicast packets. "Desensitize Intra-domain Information for Inter-domain Routing", Yuchao Zhang, Peizhuang Cong, HaiyangJiang, Wendong Wang, Dan Li, 2023-06-06, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a routing protocol for autonomous systems running on TCP. It is currently the only protocol capable of handling multiple connections between unrelated routing domains, such as the size of the Internet. BGP is built on the experience of EGP. The main function of BGP system is to exchange network access information with other BGP systems. However, it cannot fully utilize the complete information in the domain to achieve the optimal decision. This document proposes I2BGP, which describes how to obtain desensitization information in the domain to optimize routing decisions. "SRv6 Upper-Layer Checksum", Xiao Min, Yao Liu, Chongfeng Xie, Yisong Liu, 2023-11-05, This document defines SRH C-flag and its processing, which makes the IPv6 upper-layer checksum computation rule applicable to both compressed and uncompressed SRv6 SIDs. "Defined-Trust Transport (DeftT) Protocol for Limited Domains", Kathleen Nichols, Van Jacobson, Randy King, 2023-10-04, This document describes a broadcast-oriented, many-to-many Defined- trust Transport (DeftT) framework that makes it simple to express and enforce application and deployment specific integrity, authentication, access control and behavior constraints directly in the protocol stack. DeftT's communication model is one of synchronized collections of secured information rather than one-to- one optionally secured connections. DeftT is part of a Defined-trust Communications approach with a specific example implementation available. Combined with IPv6 multicast and modern hardware-based methods for securing keys and code, it provides an easy to use foundation for secure and efficient communications in Limited Domains (RFC8799), in particular for Operational Technology (OT) networks. "EDNS Presentation and JSON Format", Libor Peltan, Tom Carpay, 2023-10-19, This document describes the textual and JSON representation formats of EDNS options. It also modifies the escaping rules of the JSON representation of DNS messages, previously defined in RFC8427. "Combiner function for hybrid key encapsulation mechanisms (Hybrid KEMs)", Mike Ounsworth, Aron Wussler, Stavros Kousidis, 2023-07-08, The migration to post-quantum cryptography often calls for performing multiple key encapsulations in parallel and then combining their outputs to derive a single shared secret. This document defines a comprehensible and easy to implement Keccak- based KEM combiner to join an arbitrary number of key shares, that is compatible with NIST SP 800-56Cr2 [SP800-56C] when viewed as a key derivation function. The combiners defined here are practical split- key PRFs and are CCA-secure as long as at least one of the ingredient KEMs is. "An sdfType for Links", Carsten Bormann, 2023-06-03, This document defines and registers an sdfType "link" for the Semantic Definition Format (SDF) for Data and Interactions of Things (draft-ietf-asdf-sdf). "Testing async submission", Robert Sparks, 2023-09-14, This draft is submitted only to test the async api submission endpoint "The Gordian Envelope Structured Data Format", Wolf McNally, Christopher Allen, 2023-08-20, Gordian Envelope specifies a structured format for hierarchical binary data focused on the ability to transmit it in a privacy- focused way, offering support for privacy as described in RFC 6973 and human rights as described in RFC 8280. Envelopes are designed to facilitate "smart documents" and have a number of unique features including: easy representation of a variety of semantic structures, a built-in Merkle-like digest tree, deterministic representation using CBOR, and the ability for the holder of a document to selectively elide specific parts of a document without invalidating the digest tree structure. This document specifies the base Envelope format, which is designed to be extensible. "Capabilities for Distributed Authorization", Jens Finkhaeuser, Sergio ISEP, 2023-06-01, Authorization is often the last remaining centralized function in a distributed system. Advances in compute capabilities of miniaturized CPUs make alternative cryptographic approaches feasible that did not find such use when first envisioned. This document describes the elements of such cryptographically backed distributed authorization schemes as a reference for implementations. "IANA Registry for IMAP Extended SEARCH Return Options and Data Tags", Kenneth Murchison, 2023-10-23, This document creates a registry of IMAP Extended Search Return Options and Data Tags (RFC 4466) in order to help developers and IMAP extension writers track interactions between different extensions. Open Issues * Is Expert Review the correct registration policy? * Should we also add a registry of SEARCH criteria? "Gap Analysis for Enhanced DetNet Data Plane", Quan Xiong, Aihua Liu, 2023-10-23, From charter and milestones, the enhanced Deterministic Networking (DetNet) is required to provide the enhancement of flow identification and packet treatment for data plane to achieve the DetNet QoS in large-scale networks. This document discusses the characteristics of scaling deterministic networks and analyzes the gaps of the existing technologies especially applying the DetNet data plane as per RFC8938. "An Ontology for RFCs", Marc Petit-Huguenin, 2023-07-25, This document defines an ontology that describes the specifications published by the RFC Editor, together with ancillary documents. "PCEP Extensions to support BFD parameters", Orly Bachar, Marina Fizgeer, 2023-06-07, This document proposes extension to PCEP to configure LSP parameters. Some of LSP parameters are needed to configure S-BFD for candidate paths. Each candidate path is identified in PCEP by its uniquely assigned PLSP-ID. The mechanism proposed in this document is applicable to to all path setup types. The need for these definitions first appeared for Segment Routing path setup type, both MPLS and IPv6 data planes of SR. "Post-Quantum Cryptography in OpenPGP", Stavros Kousidis, Falko Strenzke, Aron Wussler, 2023-10-19, This document defines a post-quantum public-key algorithm extension for the OpenPGP protocol. Given the generally assumed threat of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer, this extension provides a basis for long-term secure OpenPGP signatures and ciphertexts. Specifically, it defines composite public-key encryption based on ML- KEM (formerly CRYSTALS-Kyber), composite public-key signatures based on ML-DSA (formerly CRYSTALS-Dilithium), both in combination with elliptic curve cryptography, and SLH-DSA (formerly SPHINCS+) as a standalone public key signature scheme. "Deterministic Networking (DetNet) Controller Plane - VPFC Planning Information Model Based on VPFP in Scaling Deterministic Networks", Daorong Guo, Guangliang Wen, Kehan Yao, Quan Xiong, Guoyu Peng, 2023-07-09, The cycle-based queuing and forwarding mechanisms are an effective method to ensure that the transmission has a definite upper bound of jitter, as well as latency. The prerequisite for this method is to ensure that queuing resources do not conflict. In scaling deterministic networks, how to avoid the queuing resources conflict of this method is an open problem. This document proposes the information model of planning virtue periodic forwarding channel (VPFC) based on virtual periodic forwarding path (VPFP). The solution can solve the queuing resources conflict of cycle-specified queuing and forwarding in nonlinear topology domain, ensuring the bounded latency of DetNet flow in the same periodic forwarding domain. "Static Multicast Distribution Trees", tathagata nandy, Anil Raj, Muthukumar, Subramanian, 2023-07-04, This document specifies the Static Provision of Multicast route as an alternate to Layer 3 Multicast protocols like PIM-SM (Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode), PIM SSM (Source-Specific Multicast), or PIM BIDI (Bidirectional). It works like a standalone Multicast Route provisioning feature that can interoperate with other dynamic Multicast protocols like PIM-SM or with L2 protocols like IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) and MLD (Multicast Listener Discovery). This feature can function with/without the use of Unicast Routing Protocols to build the Multicast tree. "Control Options For DNS Client Proxies", Philip Homburg, 2023-07-07, The introduction of many new transport protocols for DNS in recent years (DoT, DoH, DoQ) significantly increases the complexity of DNS stub resolvers that want to support these protocols. A practical way forward is to have a DNS client proxy in the host operating system. This allows applications to communicate using Do53 and still get the privacy benefit from using more secure protocols over the internet. However, such a setup leaves the application with no control over which transport the proxy uses. This document introduces EDNS(0) options that allow a stub resolver to request certain transport and allow the proxy to report capabilities and actual transports that are available. "Interconnecting domains with Multiprotocol IBGP", Krzysztof Szarkowicz, Israel Means, Moshiko Nayman, 2023-10-17, This document relaxes the constraints specified in [RFC4364] and [RFC4456] allowing the building of Inter-domain L3VPN architecture with Multiprotocol internal BGP. "Considerations for Protection of SR Networks", Yao Liu, Weiqiang Cheng, Changwang Lin, Xuesong Geng, Yisong Liu, 2023-07-04, This document describes the considerations for protection of Segment Routing (SR) networks. "DNS-Based Multicast Stream Discovery", Nathan Karstens, Dino Farinacci, Mike McBride, 2023-11-06, This document describes an application of DNS-SD for the advertisement and discovery of multicast streams. This is especially useful with multicast streams that use a dynamically-assigned multicast address. "Compact ECDHE and ECDSA Encodings for TLS 1.3", John Mattsson, Hannes Tschofenig, 2023-10-23, The encodings used in the ECDHE groups secp256r1, secp384r1, and secp521r1 and the ECDSA signature algorithms ecdsa_secp256r1_sha256, ecdsa_secp384r1_sha384, and ecdsa_secp521r1_sha512 have significant overhead and the ECDSA encoding produces variable-length signatures. This document defines new optimal fixed-length encodings and registers new ECDHE groups and ECDSA signature algorithms using these new encodings. The new encodings reduce the size of the ECDHE groups with 33, 49, and 67 bytes and the ECDSA algorithms with an average of 7 bytes. These new encodings also work in DTLS 1.3 and are especially useful in cTLS. "Requirements for a Network Quality Framework Useful for Applications, Users, and Operators", Bjorn Teigen, Magnus Olden, 2023-10-18, This document describes the features and attributes a network quality framework must have to be useful for different stakeholders. The stakeholders included are developers of Applications, End-Users, and Network Operators and Vendors. At a high level, End-Users need an understandable network metric. Application developers need a network metric that allows them to evaluate how well their application is likely to perform given the measured network performance. Network Operators and Vendors need a metric that facilitates troubleshooting and optimization of their networks. Existing network quality metrics and frameworks typically address the needs of one or two of these stakeholders, but we have yet to find one that bridges the needs of all three. "Bundle Protocol Endpoint ID Patterns", Brian Sipos, 2023-10-06, This document extends the Bundle Protocol Endpoint ID (EID) concept into an EID Pattern, which is used to categorize any EID as matching a specific pattern or not. EID Patterns are suitable for expressing configuration, for being used on-the-wire by protocols, and for being easily understandable by a layperson. EID Patterns include scheme- specific optimizations for expressing set membership and each scheme pattern includes text and CBOR encoding forms; the pattern for the "ipn" EID scheme being designed to be highly compressible in its CBOR form. This document also defines a Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX) Other Name form to contain an EID Pattern and a handling rule to use a pattern to match an EID. "YANG model for NETCONF Event Notifications", Alex Feng, Pierre Francois, Thomas Graf, Benoit Claise, 2023-10-20, This document defines the YANG model for NETCONF Event Notifications. The definition of this YANG model allows the encoding of NETCONF Event Notifications in YANG compatible encodings such as YANG-JSON and YANG-CBOR. "lispers.net LISP NAT-Traversal Implementation Report", Dino Farinacci, 2023-05-31, This memo documents the lispers.net implementation of LISP NAT traversal functionality. The document describes message formats and protocol semantics necessary to interoperate with the implementation. "Quality of Outcome", Magnus Olden, Bjorn Teigen, 2023-07-10, This document describes a new network quality framework named Quality of Outcome (QoO). The QoO framework is unique among network quality frameworks in satisfying all the requirements layed out in "Requirements for a Network Quality Framework Useful for Applications, Users and Operators". The framework proposes a way of sampling network quality, setting network quality requirements and a formula for calculating the probability for the sampled network to satisfy network requirements. "Computerate Specification", Marc Petit-Huguenin, 2023-08-08, This document specifies computerate specifications, which are the combination of a formal and an informal specification such as parts of the informal specification are generated from the formal specification. "TCP FWA: Fast Window Advance for TCP", thejeswara, Harsh Kothari, C Srinivas, 2023-09-03, This document describes TCP Fast Window Advance (FWA) flag in TCP Header to avoid the Head of Line Blocking in TCP long alive connections and in TCP long fat networks. FWA flag shall be set by the sender to force the TCP receiver to change its expected sequence number. This allows the application sender to send fresh application session data to receiver on the existing TCP connection without blocking on the earlier session. The FWA flag will solve long standing Head of Line (HOL) blocking problem in TCP for certain TCP applications. "An Approach for Encrypted Transport Protocol Path Explicit Signals", Tirumaleswar Reddy.K, Dan Wing, Mohamed Boucadair, 2023-07-07, This document defines a mechanism for endpoints to explicitly signal encrypted metadata to the network, and the network to signal its ability to accommodate that metadata back to the endpoints. This mechanism can be used where the endpoints desire that some network elements along the path receive these explicit signals. "Timeslot Queueing and Forwarding Mechanism", Shaofu Peng, Peng Liu, Kashinath Basu, Aihua Liu, Dong Yang, Guoyu Peng, 2023-10-22, IP/MPLS networks use packet switching (with the feature store-and- forward) and are based on statistical multiplexing. Statistical multiplexing is essentially a variant of time division multiplexing, which refers to the asynchronous and dynamic allocation of link timeslot resources. In this case, the service flow does not occupy a fixed timeslot, and the length of the timeslot is not fixed, but depends on the size of the packet. Statistical multiplexing has certain challenges and complexity in meeting deterministic QoS, and its delay performance is dependent on the used queueing mechanism. This document further describes a generic time division multiplexing scheme in IP/MPLS networks, which we call timeslot queueing and forwarding (TQF) mechanism. It aims to bring timeslot resources to layer-3, to make it easier for the control plane to calculate the delay performance based on the timeslot resources, and also make it easier for the data plane to create more flexible timeslot mapping. The functions of TQF can better meet large scaling requirements. "Additional XML Security Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)", Donald Eastlake, 2023-08-15, This document updates and corrects the IANA "XML Security URIs" registry that lists URIs intended for use with XML digital signatures, encryption, canonicalization, and key management. These URIs identify algorithms and types of information. This document also obsoletes RFC 9231. "IP Addressing with References (IPREF)", Waldemar Augustyn, 2023-09-25, IP addressing with references, or IPREF for short, is a method for end-to-end communication across different address spaces normally not reachable through native means. IPREF uses references to addresses instead of real addresses. It allows to reach across NAT/NAT6 and across protocols IPv4/IPv6. It is a pure layer 3 addressing feature that works with existing network protocols. IPREF forms addresses made of context addresses and references. These addresses are publishable in Domain Name System (DNS). Any host in any address space, including behind NAT/NAT6 or employing different protocol IPv4/IPv6, may publish its services in DNS. These services will be reachable from any address space, including those running different protocol IPv4/IPv6 or behind NAT/NAT6, provided both ends support IPREF. IPREF is especially useful for transitioning to IPv6. "MP-BGP Extension and the Procedures for IPv4/IPv6 Mapping Advertisement", Chongfeng Xie, Guozhen Dong, Xing Li, Guoliang Han, Linjian Song, 2023-10-22, This document defines MP-BGP extension and the procedures for IPv4 service delivery in multi-domain IPv6-only underlay networks. It defines a new BGP path attribute known as the "4map6" to be used in conjunction with the existing AFI/SAFI for IPv4 and IPv6. This attribute with associate an IPv4/IPv6 address mapping rule that will allow IPv4 traffic to cross IPv6-only domains. The behavior of each type of network (IPv4 and IPv6) also illustrated. "Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) CRYPTO Chunk", Magnus Westerlund, John Mattsson, Claudio Porfiri, 2023-09-08, This document describes a method for adding cryptographic protection to the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). The SCTP CRYPTO chunk defined in this document is intended to enable communications privacy for applications that use SCTP as their transport protocol and allows applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping and detect tampering or message forgery. The CRYPTO chunk defined here in is one half of a complete solution. Where a companion specification is required to define how the content of the CRYPTO chunk is protected, authenticated, and protected against replay, as well as how key management is accomplished. Applications using SCTP CRYPTO chunk can use all transport features provided by SCTP and its extensions but with some limitations. "Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) CRYPTO Chunk", Magnus Westerlund, John Mattsson, Claudio Porfiri, 2023-06-28, This document defines a usage of Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) 1.2 or 1.3 to protect the content of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) packets using the framework provided by the SCTP CRYPTO chunk which we name DTLS in SCTP. DTLS in SCTP provides encryption, source authentication, integrity and replay protection for the SCTP association with mutual authentication of the peers. The specification is also targeting very long-lived sessions of weeks and months and supports mutual re-authentication and rekeying with ephemeral key exchange. This is intended as an alternative to using DTLS/SCTP (RFC 6083) and SCTP-AUTH (RFC 4895). "Viewport and Region-of-Interest-Dependent Delivery of Visual Volumetric Media", Srinivas Gudumasu, Ahmed Hamza, 2023-09-25, This document describes RTCP messages and RTP header extensions to enable partial access and support viewport- and region-of-interest- dependent delivery of visual volumetric media such as visual volumetric video-based coding (V3C). Partial access refers to the ability to access retrieve or deliver only a subset of the media content. The RTCP messages and RTP header extensions described in this document are useful for XR services which transport coded visual volumetric content, such as point clouds. "Managing CBOR numbers in Internet-Drafts", Carsten Bormann, 2023-09-02, CBOR-based protocols often make use of numbers allocated in a registry. While developing the protocols, those numbers may not yet be available. This impedes the generation of data models and examples that actually can be used by tools. This short draft proposes a common way to handle these situations, without any changes to existing tools. Such changes are very well possible in the future, at which time this draft will be updated. "Distribution of Service Metadata in BGP-LS", Cheng Li, Hang Shi, Tao He, Ran Pang, Guofeng Qian, 2023-08-20, In edge computing, a service may be deployed on multiple instances within one or more sites, called edge service. The edge service is associated with an ANYCAST address in IP layer, and the route of it with potential service metadata will be distributed to the network. The Edge Service Metadata can be used by ingress routers to make path selections not only based on the routing cost but also the running environment of the edge services. The service route with metadata can be collected by a PCE(Path Compute Element) or an analyzer for calculating the best path to the best site/instance. This draft describes a mechanism to collect the information of the service routes and related service metadata in BGP-LS. "Distribution of SR P2MP Policies and State using BGP-LS", Yisong Liu, Changwang Lin, Hooman Bidgoli, 2023-11-08, This document specifies the extensions to BGP Link State (BGP-LS) to distribute SR P2MP Policies and state. This allows operators to establish a consistent view of the underlying multicast network state, providing an efficient mechanism for the advertisement and synchronization of SR P2MP policies. "Simplified Local Internet Number Resource Management (SLURM) with RPKI Autonomous System Provider Authorizations (ASPA)", Job Snijders, Ben Cartwright-Cox, 2023-10-23, ISPs may want to establish a local view of exceptions to the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) data in the form of local filters or additional attestations. This document defines an addendum to RFC 8416 by specifying a format for local filters and local assertions for Autonomous System Provider Authorizations (ASPA) for use with the RPKI. "Plaintext Sequence Numbers for Datagram Transport Security Layer 1.3", Boris Pismenny, 2023-10-19, This document specifies a TLS 1.3 extension that enables DTLS 1.3 to negotiate the use of plaintext sequence numbers instead of protected sequence numbers. Plaintext sequence numbers are advantageous in closed networks where the benefits of lower latency outweigh the risk of ossification and reduced privacy. "Distribution of Service Metadata in BGP FlowSpec", Xinxin Yi, Tao He, Hang Shi, Xiangfeng Ding, Haibo Wang, Zicheng Wang, 2023-08-20, In edge computing, a service may be deployed on multiple instances within one or more sites, called edge service. The edge service is associated with an ANYCAST IP address, and the route of it along with service metadata can be collected by a central controller. The controller may process the metadata and distribute the result to ingress routers using BGP FlowSpec. The service metadata can be used by ingress routers to make path selections not only based on the routing cost but also the running environment of the edge services. This document describes a mechanism to distribute the information of the service routes and related service metadata using BGP FlowSpec. "SRv6 Service SID Flag Extension for Multi-homed SRv6 BGP Services", Yisong Liu, Changwang Lin, Mengxiao Chen, Yao Liu, 2023-10-07, In some multihoming SRv6 L3VPN and EVPN scenarios, there are requirements for the egress PE to advertise multiple SRv6 Service SIDs for the same service, such as egress fast reroute and anycast load balancing. This document defines No-Further-FRR-flag and Anycast-flag for SRv6 Service SIDs carried in BGP messages. "CDDL models for some existing RFCs", Carsten Bormann, 2023-08-27, A number of CBOR- and JSON-based protocols have been defined before CDDL was standardized or widely used. This short draft records some CDDL definitions for such protocols, which could become part of a library of CDDL definitions available for use in CDDL2 processors. It focuses on CDDL in (almost) published IETF RFCs. "RADIUS profile for Bonded Bluetooth Low Energy peripherals", Mark Grayson, Eliot Lear, 2023-07-10, This document specifies an extension to the Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) protocol that enables a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) peripheral device that has previously formed a bonded, secure trusted relationship with a first "home" Bluetooth Low Energy Central device to operate with a second "visited" Bluetooth Low Energy Central device. "Broadening the Scope of Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) Protocol", Michael Rossberg, Steffen Klassert, Michael Pfeiffer, 2023-08-15, There are certain use cases where the Encapusalating Security Payload (ESP) protocol in its current form cannot reach its maximum potential regarding security, features and performance. Although these scenarios are quite different, the shortcomings could be remedied by three measures: Introducing more fine-grained sub-child-SAs, adapting the ESP header and trailer format, and allowing parts of the transport layer header to be unencrypted. These mechanisms are neither completely interdependent, nor are they entirely orthogonal, as the implementation of one measure does influence the integration of another. Although an independent specification and implementation of these mechanisms is possible, it may be worthwhile to consider a combined solution to avoid a combinatorial explosion of optional features. Therefore, this document does not yet propose a specific change to ESP. Instead, explains the relevant scenarios, details possible modifications of the protocol, collects arguments for (and against) these changes, and discusses their implications. "Route Redistribution Credibility ID for Avoiding Routing Loop", QIANG Wang, 2023-08-16, The route redistribution is often deployed in current network between two different protocols domain or instance/process, such as the ISIS domain redistribute to OSPF domain, the OSPF domain redistribute to BGP domain, IS-IS redistribute to another IS-IS instance/process and so on. The existing network have more complex multiple IGP domains architecture. Therefore, bidirectional route redistribution deployment is more complex for different protocols or instances/ processes to learn routes from each other. In recent years, these route redistributions have had many routing loops cases that cause network incident. This document proposes a simplified method to positively avoid routing loop, and introduces new sub-TLVs to support advertisement IPv4 and IPv6 prefix extended attribute as Redistribution Credibility ID, while redistributing route from one protocol domain or instance/ process to another. "Using ALTO for exposing Time-Variant Routing information", Luis Contreras, 2023-10-14, Network operations can require time-based, scheduled changes in nodes, links, adjacencies, etc. All those changes can alter the connectivity in the network in a predictable manner, which is known as Time-Variant Routing (TVR). Existing IETF solutions like ALTO can assist, as an off-path mmechanism, on the exposure of such predicted changes to both internal and external applications then anticipating the occurence of routing changes. This document describes how ALTO helps in that purpose. "EAT Attestation Results", Thomas Fossati, Eric Voit, Sergei Trofimov, 2023-10-23, This document defines the EAT Attestation Result (EAR) message format. EAR is used by a verifier to encode the result of the appraisal over an attester's evidence. It embeds an AR4SI's "trustworthiness vector" to present a normalized view of the evaluation results, thus easing the task of defining and computing authorization policies by relying parties. Alongside the trustworthiness vector, EAR provides contextual information bound to the appraisal process. This allows a relying party (or an auditor) to reconstruct the frame of reference in which the trustworthiness vector was originally computed. EAR supports simple devices with one attester as well as composite devices that are made of multiple attesters, allowing the state of each attester to be separately examined. EAR can also accommodate registered and unregistered extensions. It can be serialized and protected using either CWT or JWT. "An Evolution of Cooperating Layered Architecture for SDN (CLAS) for Compute and Data Awareness", Luis Contreras, Mohamed Boucadair, Diego Lopez, Carlos Bernardos, 2023-10-23, This document proposes an extension to the Cooperating Layered Architecture for Software-Defined Networking (SDN) by including compute resources and data analysis processing capabilities. "IPv6 Site connection to many Carriers", Nick Buraglio, Klaus Frank, Paolo Nero, Paolo Volpato, Eduard, 2023-07-07, Carrier resilience is a typical business requirement. IPv4 deployments have traditionally solved this challenge through private internal site addressing in combination with separate NAT engines attached to multiple redundant carriers. IPv6 brings support for true end-to-end connectivity on the Internet, and hence NAT is the least desirable option in such deployments. Native IPv6 solutions for carrier resiliency, however, have drawbacks. This document discusses all currently-available options to organize carrier resiliency for a site, their strengths and weaknesses, and provides a history of past IETF efforts approaching the issue. The views presented here are the summary of discussions on the v6ops mailing list and are not just the personal opinion of the authors. "BGP Flow-Spec Traffic Compress Action", Ming Shen, Wenyan Li, Lili Wang, Guoqiang Wang, 2023-10-22, Flow-spec is an extension to BGP that allows for the dissemination of traffic flow specification rules and traffic filtering actions. This document specifies a new traffic filtering action to support compressing traffic. "Flexible Candidate Path Selection of SR Policy", Yisong Liu, Changwang Lin, Shuping Peng, Gyan Mishra, Yuanxiang Qiu, 2023-10-20, This document proposes a flexible SR policy candidate path selection method. Based on the real-time resource usage and forwarding quality of candidate paths, the head node can perform dynamic path switching among multiple candidate paths in the SR policy. "Support of Hostname and Sequencing in YANG Notifications", Thomas Graf, Jean Quilbeuf, Alex Feng, 2023-10-06, This document specifies a new YANG module that augment the NETCONF Event Notification header to support hostname, Message Publisher ID and sequence numbers to identify from which network node and at which time the message was published. This allows the collector to recognize loss, delay and reordering between the publisher and the downstream system storing the message. "Computing Information Description in Computing-Aware Traffic Steering", Zongpeng Du, Yuexia Fu, Cheng Li, Daniel Huang, Zhihua Fu, 2023-10-23, This document describes the considerations and the potential architecture of the computing information that needs to be notified into the network in Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS). "The Use Cases for Secure Routing Path", Meiling Chen, Li Su, Bo YANG, 2023-11-15, Current routing mechanism is based on the shortest path, which only take the link status and the path accessibility into consideration, without the security and trustworthiness of links and forwarding nodes. As security has become an important factor to the user. This paper proposes to add security factor in the routing process. With the frequent occurrence of security incidents, services security is an essential demand for the users. As there are many security devices in the ISP's network, this draft proposes secure routing mechanism. The purpose of secure routing is to converge security and routing to ensure the secure data transmission. The scope is transmission process security, while end-to-end security and application layer security are out of scope. "the extensions of BGP-LS to carry security capabilities", Meiling Chen, Li Su, 2023-10-17, As users' traffic faces more unpredictable attacks during transmission, there are more and more end-users now need high security data transmission guarantee, they need ISPs to provide security protection capabilities on the data forwarding path. Therefore, ISPs need to have real-time awareness of the security capabilities available in the network, then form a security capability map, finally provide security protection for users at the routing level. The goal of this draft is to collect the security capabilities of nodes, which will be one of the factors to form the routing topology, and use the routing programming capabilities to form a secure routing path. The BGP-LS protocol is extended to carry the security capabilities of the node. The controller collects topology information, forms a topology path with security capabilities according to security requirements, and supports SRv6 path sending to execute node forwarding through programming. "IGP Shortcut Enhancement", Weiqiang Cheng, Liyan Gong, Changwang Lin, Mengxiao Chen, 2023-09-03, IGP shortcut mechanism allows calculating routes to forward traffic over Traffic Engineering tunnels. This document describes the enhancement of IGP shortcut which can steer routes onto TE-tunnels based on colors. "A Framework for Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS)", Cheng Li, Zongpeng Du, Mohamed Boucadair, Luis Contreras, John Drake, Daniel Huang, Gyan Mishra, 2023-08-04, This document describes a framework for Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS). Particularly, the document identifies a set of CATS components, describes their interactions, and exemplifies the workflow of the control and data planes. "Network Proactive Defense based on Source Address Validation", Weiqiang Cheng, Nan Geng, Dan Li, 1211176911910469110103, 2023-10-18, Source address validation (SAV) helps routers check the validity of packets. Networks can use the SAV capability to enhance threat awareness. This document proposes proactive defense network where routers can directly identify threats through SAV. The proactive threat awareness feature is helpful for satisfying the threat awareness requirement of ISPs. "Signaling MPLS Readable Label Depth(RLD)", Yao Liu, 2023-09-18, This document defines a new type of MSD to reflect the Readable Label Depth(RLD), and the mechanism to signal this MSD using IGP and BGP- LS. "Service Aware Network Framework", Daniel Huang, Bin Tan, Dong Yang, 2023-09-05, Cloud has been migrating from concentrated center sites to edge nodes with responsive and agile services to the subscribers. This industry-wide trend would be reasonably expected to continue into the future which would enjoy geographically ubiquitous services. Rather than transmitting service data streams to the stable and limited service locations such as centered cloud sites, routing and forwarding network will have to adapt to the emerging scenarios where the service instances would be highly dynamic and distributed, and further more, demand more fine-grained networking policies than the current routing and forwarding scheme unaware of service SLA requirements. This proposal is to demonstrate a framework under which the above-mentioned requirements would be satisfied. "Hierarchical segment routing solution of CATS", Daniel Huang, Zongpeng Du, Chen Zhang, 2023-09-05, CATS (Computing Aware Traffic Steering) is designed to enable the routing network to be aware of computing status thus deliver the service flow accordingly. Nevertheless, computing and networking is quite different in terms of resource granularity as well as its status stability. It would gain significant benefits to accommodate the computing status to that of networking by employing a hierarchical computing routing segment scheme. The network- accommodated computing status could be maintained at remote CATS nodes while the rest could reside at local CATS nodes. By enabling the network to schedule and route computing services in a compatible way with the current IP routing network, CATS would bring benefits to the industry by both efficiently pooling the computing resources and rendering services through perspective of converged networking and computing. "OAuth-PoA Grant Type", Sreelakshmi Sudarsan, Olov Schelen, Ulf Bodin, 2023-10-18, This draft proposes a new grant type for OAuth based on PoA-based authorization, that introduces a new role "principal" who controls the client, and enables the client to access resources owned by the resource owner via OAuth authorization server, on behalf of the principal, even if the principal is not online. "Positioning of PoA", Sreelakshmi Sudarsan, Olov Schelen, Ulf Bodin, 2023-10-18, Power of Attorney (PoA) based authorization is a generic and decentralized subgranting based authorization technique. In this, a principal can grant limited credibilities for an agent to act on its behalf for some limited time and context. This can be used in both constrained and non-constrained environments. PoA is a self- contained document that a principal sign and directs to an agent, thereby providing it the power to execute user actions on behalf of the principal for a predefined time. In this document, we compare PoA based authorization with different existing internet protocols for authorization and the relation with existing identity solutions. "An RPKI and IPsec-based AS-to-AS Approach for Source Address Validation", Ke Xu, Jianping Wu, Yangfei Guo, Benjamin Schwartz, Haiyang Wang, 2023-10-23, This document presents RISAV, a protocol for establishing and using IPsec security between Autonomous Systems (ASes) using the RPKI identity system. In this protocol, the originating AS adds authenticating information to each outgoing packet at its Border Routers (ASBRs), and the receiving AS verifies and strips this information at its ASBRs. Packets that fail validation are dropped by the ASBR. RISAV achieves Source Address Validation among all participating ASes. "RATS Endorsements", Dave Thaler, Henk Birkholz, Thomas Fossati, 2023-10-20, In the IETF Remote Attestation Procedures (RATS) architecture, a Verifier accepts Evidence and, using Appraisal Policy typically with additional input from Endorsements and Reference Values, generates Attestation Results in formats needed by a Relying Parties. This document explains the purpose and role of Endorsements and discusses some considerations in the choice of message format for Endorsements. "A solution to the Hierarchical Route Reflector issue in RT Constraints", MOHANTY Satya, Juan Alcaide, Mrinmoy Ghosh, 2023-11-09, Route Target Constraints (RTC) is used to build a VPN route distribution graph such that routers only receive VPN routes corresponding to specified route-targets (RT) that they are interested in. This is done by exchanging the route-targets as routes in the RTC address-family and a corresponding "RT filter" is installed that influences the VPN route advertisement. In networks employing hierarchical Route Reflectors (RR) the use of RTC can lead to incorrect VPN route distribution and loss in connectivity as detailed in an earlier draft . Two solutions were provided to overcome the problem. This draft presents a method with suggested modifications to the RTC RFC in order to solve the hierarchical RR RTC problem in an efficient manner. "UMR application in Ethernet VPN(EVPN)", Zheng Fu, Tong Zhu, Haibo Wang, Jian Dai, Dawei Wang, 2023-11-17, This document describes an application scenario that how unknown MAC- route(UMR) is used in the EVPN network. In particular, this document describes how MAC address route and UMR route are advertised on DC's GW or NVE. This document also describes the soloution that MAC mobility issue due to the lack of advertisement of specific MAC routes. However, some incremental work is required, which will be covered in a separate document. "Gordian dCBOR: A Deterministic CBOR Application Profile", Wolf McNally, Christopher Allen, 2023-08-08, CBOR (RFC 8949) defines "Deterministically Encoded CBOR" in its Section 4.2. The present document provides the application profile "dCBOR" that can be used to help achieve interoperable deterministic encoding. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/WIPs-IETF-draft-deterministic- cbor. "Deep Audio Redundancy (DRED) Extension for the Opus Codec", Jean-Marc Valin, Jan Buethe, 2023-10-20, This document proposes a mechanism for embedding very low bitrate deep audio redundancy (DRED) within the Opus codec (RFC6716) bitstream. "Contact Plan Yang Model for Time-Variant Routing of the Bundle Protocol", Marc Blanchet, Jordan Torgerson, Yingzhen Qu, 2023-07-07, Some networks, such as in space, have links that are up and down based on a known schedule. The links characteristics, such as latency and bandwidth, are often also known in advance and are important information for routing decisions. This document describes a Yang data model, also known as contact plan. This specification applies to the Bundle Protocol. "A YANG Data Model for the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)", Acee Lindem, Xufeng Liu, Athanasios Kyparlis, Ravi Parikh, Mingui Zhang, 2023-09-05, This document describes a data model for the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP). Both versions 2 and 3 of VRRP are covered. The VRRP terminology has been updated conform to inclusive language guidelines for IETF technologies. The IETF has designated National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) "Guidance for NIST Staff on Using Inclusive Language in Documentary Standards" for its inclusive language guidelines. This document obsoletes RFC 8347. "IS-IS and OSPF extensions for TVR (Time-Variant Routing)", Zheng Zhang, Haisheng Wu, 2023-10-17, TVR needs IGP to calculate different results depending on the time, without convergence after the detection of link or nodes. IGP nodes need to learn the predictable and scheduled changes in advance. This document defines the IGP extensions for predictable and scheduled changes of TVR. "Simplified MVPN for BIER and IR", Fanghong Duan, Siyu Chen, 2023-11-05, Per RFC6513 and RFC6514, seven MCAST-VPN NLRIs and relevant procedures are defined to build multicast forwarding tree over the service provider backbone. RFC8556 introduces that MVPN can use BIER as PMSI tunnel to perform optimal multicast forwarding. However, the complicated NLRI exchange and the switching from I-PMSI to S-PMSI tunnel is not necessary for BIER and IR tunnel. The architectural advantages of BIER and IR cannot be fully utilized. Therefore, a new simplified MVPN for BIER and IR is proposed to substitute current NLRIs exchange and procedures. This document would like to discuss the value of the MVPN simplification and provide suggestive solution. "IPv6-based Cloud-Oriented Networking", Hang Shi, Cheng Li, Zhenbin Li, 2023-09-04, This document describes the scenarios, requirements and technologies for IPv6-based Cloud-oriented Networking. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Discussion of this document takes place on the Computing-Aware Traffic Steering Working Group mailing list (cats@ietf.org), which is archived at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/cats/. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/VMatrix1900/draft-cats-ipv6-based-con. "SR Policy for enhanced DetNet", Li Zhang, Xuesong Geng, Zhenbin Li, 2023-10-23, SR Policy is a set of candidate SR paths consisting of one or more segment lists and necessary path attributes. It enables instantiation of an ordered list of segments with a specific intent for traffic steering. DetNet provides the capability to carry specified unicast or multicast data flows with extremely low data loss rates and bounded end-to-end latency within a network domain. This document defines the SR policy enhancement to carry the Bounded Latency Information with a candidate path of SR policy. So that BLI behavior can be enabled automatically when the SR Policy is applied. "The DNSCrypt protocol", Frank Denis, 2023-08-05, The DNSCrypt protocol is designed to encrypt and authenticate DNS traffic between clients and resolvers. This document specifies the protocol and its implementation. About This Document This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Status information for this document may be found at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-denis-dprive-dnscrypt/. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-protocol. "BGP extensions for BIER-TE", Ran Chen, BenChong Xu, Zheng Zhang, 2023-09-12, Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER)-TE shares architecture and packet formats with BIER as described in [RFC8279]. BIER-TE forwards and replicates packets based on a BitString in the packet header, but every BitPosition of the BitString of a BIER-TE packet indicates one or more adjacencies as described in [RFC8279]. This document describes BGP extensions for advertising the BIER-TE specific information. "Source IPv6 Address Programmability", Weiqiang Cheng, Liyan Gong, Changwang Lin, Hao Li, 2023-09-05, IPv6-based tunneling technologies, such as SRv6, have been deployed by provider on transport networks to provide users with services such as VPN and SD-WAN. After the service traffic enters the provider's transport network, it will be encapsulated by tunnel (SRv6 encapsulation). In order to better meet the SLA requirements of users, some technologies need to carry relevant information along with the flow to guide the processing of packets during forwarding. This document discusses the programmability of IPv6 source addresses to carry the necessary flow information "Data Fields for DetNet Enhanced Data Plane", Quan Xiong, Aihua Liu, Rakesh Gandhi, Dong Yang, 2023-07-10, This document discusses the specific metadata which should be carried in Enhanced Data plane (EDP), proposes the DetNet data fields and option types for EDP such as Deterministic Latency Action Option. DetNet Data-Fields for EDP can be encapsulated into a variety of protocols such as MPLS, IPv6 and SRv6 networks. "Segment Routing Header Extensions for DetNet Data Fields", Quan Xiong, Haisheng Wu, Dong Yang, 2023-10-13, The DetNet data fields defined in Deterministic Latency Action (DLA) can be used in enhanced Deterministic Networking (DetNet) to provide QoS treatment to achieve deterministic latency. This document defines how DetNet data fields are encapsulated as part of the Segment Routing with IPv6 data plane (SRv6) header. "IETF Meeting Venue Requirements Review", Jay Daley, Sean Turner, 2023-10-12, Following a review of the IETF meeting venue requirements, this document proposes updates to RFC 8718 “IETF Plenary Meeting Venue Selection Process”, clarifies how the IETF Administration Support Activity (IASA) should interpret some elements of RFC 8718, and proposes a replacement meeting rotation policy, thereby obsoleting RFC 8719 "High-Level Guidance for the Meeting Policy of the IETF". "Post-Stack MPLS Network Action (MNA) Solution", Jaganbabu Rajamanickam, Rakesh Gandhi, Royi Zigler, Tony Li, Jie Dong, 2023-10-21, This document defines the Post-Stack MPLS Network Action (MNA) solution for carrying Network Actions and Ancillary Data after the MPLS label stack based on In-Stack MNA solution defined in draft- ietf-mpls-mna-hdr. MPLS Network Actions can be used to influence packet forwarding decisions, carry additional OAM information in the MPLS packet or perform user-defined operations. This document addresses the MNA requirements specified in draft-ietf-mpls-mna- requirements. This document follows the MNA framework specified in draft-ietf-mpls-mna-fwk. "On the Effects of Internet Consolidation", Mark McFadden, Dominique Lazanski, 2023-10-20, This document contributes to the continuing discussion on Internet consolidation. Over the last several years there have been many types of discussions around consolidation at a technical level, an economic or market level and also at an engineering level. This document aims to discuss recent areas of Internet consolidation and provide some suggestions for advancing the discussion. "Extensible Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)", Dave Cridland, Thilo Molitor, Matthew Wild, Alexey Melnikov, 2023-10-23, The Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) is a framework for providing authentication and data security services in connection-oriented protocols via replaceable mechanisms. It provides a structured interface between protocols and mechanisms. The resulting framework allows new protocols to reuse existing mechanisms and allows old protocols to make use of new mechanisms. The framework also provides a protocol for securing subsequent protocol exchanges within a data security layer. This document describes how a SASL mechanism is structured, describes how protocols include support for SASL, and defines the protocol for carrying a data security layer over a connection. This document also defines how servers can request fulfillment of extra authentication related tasks, such as two factor authentication and/or password change. "Applicability of Abstraction and Control", Gabriele Galimberti, Jean-Francois Bouquier, Ori Gerstel, Brent Foster, Daniele Ceccarelli, Sergio Belotti, Oscar de Dios, 2023-06-30, This document extends the I-D.draft-ietf-teas-actn-poi-applicability to the use case where the DWDM optical coherent interface is equipped on the Packet device. The document analyzes several control architectures and identifies the YANG data models being defined by the IETF to support this deployment architectures and specific scenarios relevant for Service Providers. Existing IETF protocols and data models are identified for each multi-layer (packet over optical) scenario with a specific focus on the MPI (Multi-Domain Service Coordinator to Provisioning Network Controllers Interface)in the ACTN architecture. "EVPN Inter-Domain Option-B Solution", Jorge Rabadan, Senthil Sathappan, Ali Sajassi, Wen Lin, 2023-10-23, An EVPN Inter-Domain interconnect solution is required if two or more sites of the same Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) are attached to different IGP domains or Autonomous Systems (AS), and they need to communicate. The Inter-Domain Option-B connectivity model is one of the most popular solutions for such EVPN connectivity. While multiple documents refer to this type of interconnect solution and specify different aspects of it, there is no document that summarizes the impact of the Inter-Domain Option-B connectivity in the EVPN procedures. This document does not specify new procedures but analyses the EVPN procedures in an Inter-Domain Option-B network and suggests potential solutions for the described issues. Those solutions are based on either other specifications or based on local implementations that do not modify the end-to-end EVPN control plane. "Merkle Tree Certificates for TLS", David Benjamin, Devon O'Brien, Bas Westerbaan, 2023-09-08, This document describes Merkle Tree certificates, a new certificate type for use with TLS. A relying party that regularly fetches information from a transparency service can use this certificate type as a size optimization over more conventional mechanisms with post- quantum signatures. Merkle Tree certificates integrate the roles of X.509 and Certificate Transparency, achieving comparable security properties with a smaller message size, at the cost of more limited applicability. "Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) Extensions for Network Resource Partition (NRP)", Jie Dong, Sheng Fang, Quan Xiong, Shaofu Peng, Liuyan Han, Minxue Wang, Vishnu Beeram, Tarek Saad, 2023-10-23, This document specifies the extensions to Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) to carry Network Resource Partition (NRP) related information in the PCEP messages. The extensions in this document can be used to indicate the NRP-specific constraints and information needed in path computation, path status report and path initialization. "Data transmission intent over WAN - one of IBN use cases", Hongwei Yang, Junjie Wang, 2023-07-10, With the advent of the digital era, there are more and more scenarios such as data off-site AI training, data off-site cloud, and the demand for big data transmission in the WAN is increasing. WAN data transmission involves throughput, delay, packet loss, security and other performance indicators, as well as cost investment. Users have been exploring how to achieve the best performance of data transmission at the lowest cost. This paper implements high quality WAN data transmission based on IBNS. "SID as source address in SRv6", Feng Yang, Changwang Lin, 2023-07-10, In SRv6 network, the SRv6 packets usually use loopback address as source address. However, when there is symmetric traffic requirement for bidirectional flow, or there is requirement for traffic source validation, using loopback address as source address is not sufficient. This document proposes using SID as source address for SRv6 traffic, also identifies solution for several use cases. "Satellite Network Routing Use Cases", Hou Dongxu, Xiao Min, Fenlin Zhou, Dongyu Yuan, 2023-09-14, Time-Variant Routing (TVR) is chartered and proposed to solve the problem of time-based, scheduled changes, including the variations of links, adjacencies, cost, and traffic volumes in some cases. In a satellite network, the network is in continual motion which will cause detrimental consequences on the routing issue. However, each network node in a satellite network follows a predefined orbit around the Earth and represents an appropriate example of time-based scheduled mobility. Therefore, TVR can be implemented to improve the routing and forwarding process in satellite networks. This document mainly focuses on the use cases in this scenario. "MoQ relay for support of deadline-aware media transport", Yong Cui, Chuan Ma, Yixin Liao, Hang Shi, 2023-09-11, This draft specifies the behavior of MoQ relays for delivering media before the deadline to decrease end-to-end latency and save transport costs in media transmission. To achieve this, the draft introduces deadline-aware actions prioritizing media streams with earlier deadlines, ensuring timely transmission while minimizing costs. "SR-MPLS FRR Extension", Huaimo Chen, Zhibo Hu, Aijun Wang, Yisong Liu, Gyan Mishra, 2023-10-18, The current SR FRR such as TI-LFA provides fast re-route protection for the failure of a node on an SR-MPLS path by the neighbor upstream node as point of local repair (PLR) of the failed node. However, once the IGP converges, the SR FRR is no longer sufficient to forward traffic of the path around the failure, since the non-neighbor upstream node of the failed node will no longer have a route to the failed node. This document describes a simple mechanism to extend the fast re-route protection for the failure on an SR-MPLS path after the IGP converges. The mechanism protects the node SID, adjacency SID and binding SID of the failed node on the path. "Security Considerations for Tenant ID and Similar Fields", Donald Eastlake, Nancy Cam-Winget, Mohammed Umair, 2023-10-12, Many protocols provide for header fields to be added to a packet on ingress to a network domain and removed on egress from that domain. Examples of such fields are Tenant ID for multi-tenant networks, ingress port ID and/or type, and other identity or handling directive fields. These fields mean that a packet may be accompanied by supplemental information as it transits the network domain that would not be present with the packet or not be visible if it were simply forwarded in a traditional manner. A particular concern is that these fields may harm privacy by identifying, in greater detail, the packet source and intended traffic handling. This document provides Security Considerations for the inclusion of such fields with a packet. "A YANG Data Model for Optical Resource Performance Monitoring", Chaode Yu, Fabio Peruzzini, Zheng Yanlei, Italo Busi, Aihua Guo, Victor Lopez, XingZhao, 2023-10-22, This document defines a YANG data model for performance Monitoring in optical networks which provides the functionalities of performance monitoring task management, TCA (Threshold Crossing Alert) configuration and current or historic performance data retrieval. This data model should be used in the northbound of PNC. "MNA for Performance Measurement with Alternate Marking Method", Weiqiang Cheng, Xiao Min, Rakesh Gandhi, Greg Mirsky, 2023-10-18, MPLS Network Action (MNA) is used to indicate action for Label Switched Paths (LSPs) and/or MPLS packets and to transfer data needed for the action. This document defines MNA encoding for MPLS performance measurement with alternate marking method, which performs flow-based packet loss, delay, and jitter measurements on MPLS live traffic. "Selective Synchronization for RPKI to Router Protocol", Nan Geng, Shunwan Zhuang, Mingqing Huang, 2023-09-07, The RPKI-to-Router (RTR) protocol synchronizes all the verified RPKI data to routers. This document proposes to extend the existing RTR protocol to support selective data synchronization. Selective synchronization can avoid some unnecessary synchronizations. The router can obtain only the data that it really needs, and it does not need to save the data that are not needed. "Scenarios and Challenges of Overlay Routing for SD-WAN", Cheng Sheng, Hang Shi, Linda Dunbar, 2023-09-14, Overlay routing is essential during the enterprise networks' evolution from the interconnection among multiple on-premise branch sites to more advanced ones, such as the interconnection to multi- clouds. This document analyzes the technical requirements and challenges of overlay routing for SD-WAN in these scenarios. "Design analysis of methods for distributing the computing metric", Hang Shi, Tianle Yang, 2023-08-09, This document analyses different methods for distributing the computing metrics from service instances to the ingress router. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Discussion of this document takes place on the Computing-Aware Traffic Steering Working Group mailing list (cats@ietf.org), which is archived at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/cats/. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/VMatrix1900/draft-cats-method-analysis. "BMP Loc-RIB: Peer address", Pierre Francois, Maxence Younsi, Paolo Lucente, 2023-10-23, BMP Loc-RIB lets a BMP publisher set the Peer Address value of a path information to zero. This document introduces the option to communicate the actual peer from which a path was received when advertising that path with BMP Loc-RIB. "Structured Connection ID Carrying Metadata", Hang Shi, 2023-09-12, This document describes a mechanism to carry the metadata in the QUIC connection ID so that the intermediary can perform optimization. "BGP Extensions for Source Address Validation Networks (BGP SAVNET)", Nan Geng, Zhenbin Li, Zhen Tan, Mingxing Liu, Dan Li, Fang Gao, 2023-11-22, Many source address validation (SAV) mechanisms have been proposed for preventing source address spoofing. However, existing SAV mechanisms are faced with the problems of inaccurate validation or high operational overhead in some scenarios. This document proposes BGP SAVNET by extending BGP protocol for SAV. This protocol can propagate SAV-related information through BGP messages. The propagated information will help edge/border routers automatically generate accurate SAV rules. These rules construct a validation boundary for the network and help check the validity of source addresses of arrival data packets. "MPLS/SRv6 Service Interworking Option BC", Zhaohui Zhang, Bruno Decraene, Shay Zadok, Luay Jalil, Dan Voyer, 2023-09-12, Draft-bonica-spring-srv6-end-dtm specifies SRv6/MPLS transport interworking procedures, and draft-agrawal-spring-srv6-mpls- interworking specifies SRv6/MPLS transport and service interworking procedures. For service interworking, the latter draft defines two modes, similar to VPN Inter-AS Option A and Option B. This document specifies another Option BC for service interworking which has much better scaling property. "COSE Profiles", Thomas Fossati, Henk Birkholz, Orie Steele, 2023-09-14, COSE (STD96) is not an end-to-end system with guaranteed interoperability. It is designed to serve a range of use cases and therefore it has a lot of options. In general, two COSE implementations that want to interoperate require an agreement on which subset of COSE features they will use. This document provides a set of rules for specifying such agreements as "COSE profiles" and registers a new COSE header parameter for in-band signalling of profile information. "Incident Management for Network Services", Chong Feng, Tong Hu, Luis Contreras, Thomas Graf, Qin WU, Chaode Yu, Nigel Davis, 2023-10-23, A network incident refers to an unexpected interruption of a network service, degradation of a network service quality, or sub-health of a network service. Different data sources including alarms, metrics and other anomaly information can be aggregated into few amount of network incidents by data correlation analysis and the service impact analysis. This document defines YANG modules for the network incident lifecycle management. The YANG modules are meant to provide a standard way to report, diagnose, and resolve network incidents for the sake of network service health and root cause analysis. "BGP SPF Extensions for Intra-domain SAVNET", Changwang Lin, Yuanxiang Qiu, 2023-09-11, This document describes the BGP SPF protocol extension that is required for Source Address Validation in Intra-domain. By extending BGP SPF and adding the BGP SPF protocol calculation procedure, the SAV information can be accurately calculated to realize the source address verification. "IGP Extensions for Link MTU", Zhibo Hu, Shuping Peng, Xing Xi, 2023-07-10, Segment routing (SR) leverages the source routing mechanism. It allows for a flexible definition of end-to-end paths within IGP topologies by encoding paths as sequences of topological sub-paths which are called segments. These segments are advertised by the link-state routing protocols (IS-IS and OSPF). Unlike the MPLS, SR does not have the specific path construction signaling so that it cannot support the Path MTU. This draft provides the necessary IS-IS and OSPF extensions about the Path MTU that need to be used on SR. Here, the term "OSPF" means both OSPFv2 and OSPFv3. "IP Addressing Considerations", Luigi Iannone, 2023-10-23, The Internet Protocol (IP) has been the major technological success in information technology of the last half century. As the Internet becomes pervasive, IP has been replacing communication technology for many domain-specific solutions, but it also has been extended to better fit the specificities of the different use cases. For Internet addressing in particular, as it is defined in RFC 791 for IPv4 and RFC 8200 for IPv6, respectively, there exist many extensions. Those extensions have been developed to evolve the addressing capabilities beyond the basic properties of Internet addressing. This document discusses the properties the IP addressing model, showcasing the continuing need to extend it and the methods used for doing so. "One Administrative Domain using BGP", Jim Uttaro, Alvaro Retana, Pradosh Mohapatra, Keyur Patel, Bin Wen, 2023-07-10, This document defines a new External BGP (EBGP) peering type known as EBGP-OAD, which is used between two EBGP peers that belong to One Administrative Domain (OAD). "IS-IS Extension for Big TLV", Huaimo Chen, Bruno Decraene, Gyan Mishra, Aijun Wang, Zhenqiang Li, Yanhe Fan, Xufeng Liu, Lei Liu, Donald Eastlake, 2023-11-21, The IS-IS routing protocol uses TLV (Type-Length-Value) encoding in a variety of protocol messages. The original IS-IS TLV definition allows for 255 octets of value in maximum. This document proposes a backward compatible IS-IS extension for encoding the TLV whose value is bigger than 255 octets. "Service Interworking between SRv6", Weiqiang Cheng, Changwang Lin, 2023-09-14, When operators provide services through SRv6, such as L3VPN and L2VPN, there may be cross-domain scenarios of multiple ASs, or multiple admin domain scenarios within the same AS. This document describes how to implement interworking of services for such scenarios. "Realization of Composite IETF Network Slices", Zhenbin Li, Jie Dong, Ran Pang, Yongqing Zhu, Luis Contreras, 2023-07-10, Network slicing can be used to meet the connectivity and performance requirement of different applications or customers in a shared network. An IETF network slice may be used for 5G or other network scenarios. In the context of 5G, a 5G end-to-end network slice consists of three different types of network technology segments: Radio Access Network (RAN), Transport Network (TN) and Core Network (CN). The transport segments of the 5G end-to-end network slice can be provided using IETF network slices. In some scenarios, IETF network slices may span multiple network domains, and IETF network slices may be composed hierarchically, which means a network slice may itself be further sliced. This document first describes the possible use cases of composite IETF network slices, then it provides considerations about the realization of composite IETF network slices. For the interaction between IETF network slices with 5G network slices, the identifiers of the 5G network slices may be introduced into IETF networks. For the multi-domain IETF network slices, the Inter-Domain Network Resource Partition Identifier (Inter-domain NRP ID) is introduced. For the hierarchical IETF network slices, the structure of the NRP ID is discussed. These network slice-related identifiers may be used in the data plane, control plane and management plane of the network for the instantiation and management of composite IETF network slices. This document also describes the management considerations of composite network slices. "Applicability of Abstraction and Control of Traffic Engineered Networks (ACTN) for Packet Optical Integration (POI) service assurance", Italo Busi, Jean-Francois Bouquier, Fabio Peruzzini, Paolo Volpato, Prasenjit Manna, 2023-09-15, This document extends the analysis of the applicability of Abstraction and Control of TE Networks (ACTN) architecture to Packet Optical Integration (POI), provided in RFC YYYY, to cover multi-layer service assurance scenarios, for end-to-end customer L2VPN or L3VPN connectivity services setup over underlying transport optical paths, with specific Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements. EDITORS NOTE: Replace RFC YYYY with the RFC number of draft-ietf- teas-actn-poi-applicability once it has been published. Existing IETF protocols and data models are identified for each multi-layer (packet over optical) service assurance scenario with a specific focus on the MPI (Multi-Domain Service Coordinator to Provisioning Network Controllers Interface) in the ACTN architecture. "Using Deterministic Networks for Industrial Operations and Control", Kiran Makhijani, Richard Li, Cedric Westphal, Luis Contreras, Tooba Faisal, 2023-09-26, Remote industrial processes enable control & operations from the software-defined application logic. In order to support process automation remotely, not only Deterministic Networks (DetNet) are needed but an interface between the application endpoints to the devices over a DetNet infrastructure is also required. This document describes an interface to deterministic networks from the view of endpoints to support process control and operations. "TLD Zone Pipeline: Requirements And Design Principles", Johan Stenstam, Jakob Schlyter, 2023-06-30, Today most TLD registries publish DNSSEC signed zones. The sequence of steps from generating the unsigned zone, via DNSSEC signing and various types of verification is referred to as the "zone pipeline". The robustness and correctness of the zone pipeline is of crucial importance and the zone pipeline is one of the most critical parts of the operations of a TLD registry. The goal of this document is to describe the requirements that the .SE Registry choose in preparation for the implementation of a new zone pipeline. The document also describes some of the design consequences that follow from the requirements. Hence this document is intended to work as a guide for understanding the actual implementation, which is planned to be released as open source. TO BE REMOVED: This document is being collaborated on in Github at: https://github.com/johanix/draft-johani-tld-zone-pipeline (https://github.com/johanix/draft-johani-tld-zone-pipeline). The most recent working version of the document, open issues, etc. should all be available there. The authors (gratefully) accept pull requests. "Auto Edge Protection", Shraddha Hegde, Krzysztof Szarkowicz, Zhaohui Zhang, Bruno Decraene, Dan Voyer, Luay Jalil, 2023-07-09, This document specifies procedures to automatically establish context based forwarding for providing fast reroute during egress node and egress link failures. It describes how to detect multi-homed services and establish context for forwarding. It also defines procedures to avoid conflicts among routers while establishing context. "DNS Out Of Protocol Signalling", Catherine Almond, Peter van Dijk, M. Groeneweg, Stefan Ubbink, Daniel Salzman, Willem Toorop, 2023-07-10, This document seeks to specify a method for DNS servers to signal programs outside of the server software, and which are not necessarily involved with the DNS protocol, about conditions that can arise within the server. These signals can be used to invoke actions in areas that help provide the DNS service, such as routing. Currently this document serves as a requirements document to come to a signalling mechanism that will suit the use cases best. Part of that effort is to assemble a list of conditions with potential associated out of DNS protocol actions, as well as inventory and assess existing signalling mechanisms for suitability. "Partially Blind RSA Signatures", Ghous Amjad, Scott Hendrickson, Christopher Wood, Kevin Yeo, 2023-07-06, This document specifies a blind RSA signature protocol that supports public metadata. It is an extension to the RSABSSA protocol recently specified by the CFRG. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Discussion of this document takes place on the Crypto Forum Research Group mailing list (cfrg@ietf.org), which is archived at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?email_list=cfrg. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/chris-wood/draft-amjad-cfrg-partially-blind-rsa. "DNSSEC Trust Anchor Publication for the Root Zone", Joe Abley, Jakob Schlyter, Guillaume Bailey, Paul Hoffman, 2023-09-07, The root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) has been cryptographically signed using DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC). In order to obtain secure answers from the root zone of the DNS using DNSSEC, a client must configure a suitable trust anchor. This document describes the format and publication mechanisms IANA has used to distribute the DNSSEC trust anchors. "EVPN First Hop Security", Ali Sajassi, Lukas Krattiger, krishnaswamy ananthamurthy, Samir Thoria, 2023-07-26, DHCP Snoop database stores valid IPv4-to-MAC and IPv6-to-MAC bindings by snooping on Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) messages. These bindings are used by security functions like Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI), Neighbor Discovery Inspection (NDI), IPv4 Source Guard, and IPv6 Source Guard to safeguard against traffic received with a spoofed address. These functions are collectively referred to as First Hop Security (FHS). This document proposes BGP extensions and new procedures to Ethernet VPN (EVPN) [RFC7432] for distribution and synchronization of DHCP snoop database to support FHS. Such synchronization is needed to support EVPN host mobility and multi- homing. "A YANG Data Model for Network Diagnosis by scheduling sequences of OAM tests", Luis Contreras, Victor Lopez, 2023-07-10, This document defines a YANG data model for network diagnosis on- demand using Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) tests. This document defines both 'oam-unitary-test' and 'oam-test-sequence' data models to enable on-demand activation of network diagnosis procedures. "ALTO Multi-Domain Use Cases and Services", Danny Perez, Ingmar Poese, Mario Lassnig, Annie Gu, Y. Yang, Jordi Ros-Giralt, 2023-07-10, Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) provides means for network applications to obtain network information. Although ALTO is inherently multi-domain, in that the ALTO server representing the network and the ALTO client requesting the network information belong to different trust domains, there are more general cases where the path from the source and the destination spans multiple autonomous networks, which we call multi-domain settings. This document first gives three multi-domain use cases, and the challenges to address the challenges. It then gives a brief update on the implementation solutions that we explored to address the challenges. "The MASQUE Proxy", David Schinazi, 2023-09-07, MASQUE (Multiplexed Application Substrate over QUIC Encryption) is a set of protocols and extensions to HTTP that allow proxying all kinds of Internet traffic over HTTP. This document defines the concept of a "MASQUE Proxy", an Internet-accessible node that can relay client traffic in order to provide privacy guarantees. "Sustainability Insights", Per Andersson, Jan Lindblad, Snezana Mitrovic, Marisol Palmero, Esther Roure, Gonzalo Salgueiro, Stephan Emile, 2023-10-20, This document motivates the collection and aggregation of sustainability environmental related metrics. It describes the motivation and requirements to collect asset centric metrics including but not limited to power consumption and energy efficiency, circular economy properties, and more general metrics useful in environmental impact analysis. It provides foundations for building an industry-wide, open-source framework for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, enabling measurement and optimization of the overall impact on the environment of networking devices, software applications, services, and solutions across the lifecycle journey. "Low Overhead Media Container", Mo Zanaty, Suhas Nandakumar, Peter Thatcher, 2023-07-10, This specification describes a media container format for encoded and encrypted audio and video media data to be used primarily for interactive Media over QUIC Transport (MOQT) [MoQTransport], with the goal of it being a low-overhead format. It also defines the MOQ Catalog format for publishers to announce their tracks and for subscribers to consume them. "Domain Boundaries 2.0 Problem Statement", Tim Wicinski, 2023-07-10, Internet clients attempt to make inferences about the administrative relationship based on domain names. Currently it is not possible to confirm organizational boundaries in the DNS. Current mitigation strategies have there own issues. This memo attempts to outline these issues. "Emergency Communication Services over Wi-Fi Access Networks", Sri Gundavelli, Mark Grayson, 2023-07-10, This document introduces an approach to enable emergency services over Wi-Fi access networks. These services encompass emergency services such as 911 in North America, 112 in the European Union, and equivalent emergency services in other regulatory domains. The proposed approach aims to provide a comprehensive solution for supporting emergency communication across different regions and regulatory frameworks. Leveraging the legal framework and infrastructure of the OpenRoaming federation, this proposal aims to extend emergency calling capabilities to the vast number of OpenRoaming Wi-Fi hotspots that have already been deployed. The approach addresses critical challenges related to emergency calling, including discovery and authentication procedures for accessing networks that support emergency services, emergency access credentials, the configuration of emergency voice services, accurate location determination of the emergency caller, and call spofing. By providing a comprehensive solution, this proposal ensures that emergency communication services can be seamlessly and effectively supported within the IEEE 802.11-based Wi-Fi ecosystem leveraging Passpoint Profiles. "Use Case of Tidal Network", Li Zhang, Tianran Zhou, Jie Dong, Nkosinathi Nzima, 2023-07-28, The tidal effect of traffic is very typical on our network, this document introduces the time variant routing scenario in the tidal network, and then describes the assumptions and routing impacts based on the use case. Finally, an exempar of tidal network is provided. "Linearized Matrix", Travis Ralston, Matthew Hodgson, 2023-07-10, This document specifies Linearized Matrix (LM). LM is an extensible protocol for interoperability between messaging providers, using Matrix's (matrix.org (https://matrix.org)) decentralized room model. LM simplifies the Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) persistence of Matrix while maintaining compatibility with non-linearized servers within a room. It does this by using a doubly-linked list of events/messages per room with hub and spoke fanout. LM's extensibility enables a wide range of transport protocol and end-to-end encryption possibilities. This document uses Matrix's room access control semantics supported by Messaging Layer Security (MLS), transported via HTTPS and JSON. The details of which server- to-server transport to use and what a is put over MLS are replaceable. The threat model of LM does not place trust in a central owning server for each conversation. Instead, it defines a hub server which handles maintaining linearized room history for other servers in the room. This model permits transparent interconnection between LM servers and Matrix servers, in the same room. "COIN Security", Pascal Urien, 2023-07-07, This draft introduces some security issues for COIN systems. "Trusted Domain SRv6", Andrew Alston, Tom Hill, Tony Przygienda, Luay Jalil, 2023-10-08, SRv6 as designed has evoked interest from various parties, though its deployment is being limited, amongst other things, by known security problems in its architecture. This document specifies a standard way to create a solution that closes some of the major security concerns, while retaining the tenants of the SRv6 protocol. "Delegated Credentials to Host Encrypted DNS Forwarders on CPEs", Tirumaleswar Reddy.K, Mohamed Boucadair, Dan Wing, Shashank Jain, 2023-08-24, An encrypted DNS server is authenticated by a certificate signed by a Certificate Authority (CA). However, for typical encrypted DNS server deployments on Customer Premise Equipment (CPEs), the signature cannot be obtained or requires excessive interactions with a Certificate Authority. This document explores the use of TLS delegated credentials for a DNS server deployed on a CPE. This approach is meant to ease operating DNS forwarders in CPEs while allowing to make use of encrypted DNS capabilities. "Applying Generate Random Extensions And Sustain Extensibility (GREASE) to EDHOC Extensibility", Christian Amsuess, 2023-10-21, This document applies the extensibility mechanism GREASE (Generate Random Extensions And Sustain Extensibility), which was pioneered for TLS, to the EDHOC ecosystem. It reserves a set of non-critical EAD labels and unusable cipher suites that may be included in messages to ensure peers correctly handle unknown values. "Policy experts are IETF stakeholders", Stacie Hoffmann, Marek Blachut, 2023-07-10, The IETF’s work has significance for wider societal, economic, and political communities, though gaps and barriers to engagement with the IETF exist for policy experts. This informational draft introduces a problem statement and gap analysis of existing initiatives related to policy expert engagement in the IETF. It also poses questions we hope to work through with others in the IETF community regarding how to better enable policy expert engagement in IETF standardisation, and on how we can build a culture which better supports technical and policy experts working together to develop more robust standards. "X25519Kyber768Draft00 hybrid post-quantum key agreement", Bas Westerbaan, Douglas Stebila, 2023-09-24, This memo defines X25519Kyber768Draft00, a hybrid post-quantum key exchange for TLS 1.3. "Public Metadata Issuance", Scott Hendrickson, Christopher Wood, 2023-11-25, This document specifies Privacy Pass issuance protocols that encode public information visible to the Client, Attester, Issuer, and Origin into each token. "SCHC Sid Allocation", Ana Minaburo, Laurent Toutain, 2023-07-07, YANG SID (Schema Item iDentifier) is a method to identify YANG items in constrained environments. The YANG Data Model for SCHC needs to use smaller values and reduce the distance between two sections to minimize deltas' size and assure header compression performance. Keeping compact values for SCHC can be done when data and identity are differentiated. "SCHC Rule Access Control", Ana Minaburo, Laurent Toutain, Ivan Martinez, 2023-10-23, The framework for SCHC defines an abstract view of the rules, formalized through a YANG Data Model. In its original description, rules are static and shared by two endpoints. This document defines defines augmentation to the existing Data Model in order to restrict the changes in the rule and, therefore, the impact of possible attacks. "Aircraft to Anything AdHoc Broadcasts and Session", Robert Moskowitz, Stuart Card, Andrei Gurtov, 2023-10-23, Aircraft-to-anything (A2X) communications are often single broadcast messages that need to be signed with expensive (in cpu and payload size) asymmetric cryptography. There are also frequent cases of extended exchanges between two devices where a lower cost symmetric key protect flow can be used. This document shows both how to secure A2X broadcast messages with DRIP DET and Endorsement objects and to leverage these to create an AdHoc session key for just such a communication flow. There is also provision for using X.509 certificates, encoded in c509, as an alternative DET trust model. "Applying Per-Session Limits for WebTransport", Martin Thomson, Eric Kinnear, 2023-10-10, Limits to how a WebTransport session uses QUIC resources like streams or data can help reduce the effect that one WebTransport session has on other uses of the same HTTP/3 connection. This describes mechanisms for limiting the number of streams and quantity of data that can be consumed by each WebTransport session. "Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)", Marco Tiloca, Laurent Toutain, Ivan Martinez, Ana Minaburo, 2023-10-23, This document defines how to compress Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) headers using the Static Context Header Compression and fragmentation (SCHC) framework. SCHC defines a header compression mechanism adapted for Constrained Devices. SCHC uses a static description of the header to reduce the header's redundancy and size. While RFC 8724 describes the SCHC compression and fragmentation framework, and its application for IPv6/UDP headers, this document applies SCHC to CoAP headers. The CoAP header structure differs from IPv6 and UDP, since CoAP uses a flexible header with a variable number of options, themselves of variable length. The CoAP message format is asymmetric: the request messages have a header format different from the format in the response messages. This specification gives guidance on applying SCHC to flexible headers and how to leverage the asymmetry for more efficient compression Rules. This document replaces and obsoletes RFC 8824. "Efficient Air-Ground Communications", Robert Moskowitz, Stuart Card, Andrei Gurtov, 2023-09-28, This document defines protocols to provide efficient air-ground communications without associated need for aircraft to maintain stateful connection to ground-tower infrastructure. Instead, a secure source-routed ground infrastructure will not only provide the needed routing intelligence, but also reliable packet delivery through inclusion of Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) and Forward Error Correction (FEC) to address both reliable wireless packet delivery, and assured terrestrial packet delivery. "Leveraging DNS in Digital Trust: Credential Exchanges and Trust Registries", Jesse Carter, Jacques Latour, Mathieu Glaude, 2023-10-10, This memo describes an architecture for digital credential verification and validation using Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), distributed ledgers, trust registries, and the DNS. This architecture provides a verifier with a simple process by which to cryptographically verify the credential they are being presented with, verify and resolve the issuer of that credential to a domain, and verify that issuer's membership in a trust registry. "Green Challenges in Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS)", Jing Wang, Yuexia Fu, 2023-10-23, As mobile edge computing networks sink computing tasks from cloud data centers to the edge of the network, tasks need to be processed by computing resources close to the user side. Therefore, CATS was raised. Reducing carbon footprint is a major challenge of our time. Networks are the main enablers of carbon reductions. The introduction of computing dimension in CATS makes it insufficient to consider the energy saving of network dimension in the past, so the green for CATS based on network and computing combination is worth exploring. This document outlines a series of challenges and associated research to explore ways to reduce carbon footprint and reduce network energy based on CATS. "JMAP REST Mapping", Joris Baum, Hans-Joerg Happel, 2023-11-10, This document specifies a REST Mapping for JMAP endpoints to impose fewer requirements on applications compared to conventional JMAP endpoints. "OSPF Adjacency Suppression", Weiqiang Cheng, Liyan Gong, Changwang Lin, Mengxiao Chen, 2023-09-19, This document describes a mechanism for a router to instructs its neighbors to suppress advertising the adjacency to it until link- state database synchronization and LSA reoriginating are complete. This minimizes transient routing disruption when a router restarts from unplanned outages. "A YANG Data Model for Network Resource Partitions (NRPs)", Bo Wu, Dhruv Dhody, Vishnu Beeram, Tarek Saad, Shaofu Peng, 2023-11-21, A Network Resource Partition (NRP) is a collection of resources identified in the underlay network to support services (like IETF Network Slices) that need logical network structures with required Service Level Objective (SLO) and Service Level Expectation (SLE) characteristics to be created. This document defines a YANG data model for Network Resource Partitions (NRPs). The model can be used, in particular, for the realization of the IETF Network Slice Services in IP/MPLS networks. "Improved OSPF Database Exchange Procedure", Shraddha Hegde, Tony Przygienda, Acee Lindem, 2023-10-16, When an OSPF router undergoes restart, previous instances of LSAs belonging to that router may remain in the databases of other routers in the OSPF domain until such LSAs are aged out. Hence, when the restarting router joins the network again, neighboring routers re- establish adjacencies while the restarting router is still bringing- up its interfaces and adjacencies and generates LSAs with sequence numbers that may be lower than the stale LSAs. Such stale LSAs may be interpreted as bi-directional connectivity before the initial database exchanges are finished and genuine bi-directional LSA connectivity exists. Such incorrect interpretation may lead to, among other things, transient traffic packet drops. This document suggests improvements in the OSPF database exchange process to prevent such problems due to stale LSA utilization. The solution does not preclude changes in the existing standard but presents an extension that will prevent this scenario. "MIMI Terminology", Travis Ralston, 2023-10-23, This document introduces a set of terminology to use when discussing or describing concepts within MIMI. "Transport of Incident Detection Message Exchange Format version 2 (IDMEFv2) Messages over HTTPS", Gilles Lehmann, 2023-10-12, The Incident Detection Message Exchange Format version 2 (IDMEFv2) defines a date representation for security incidents detected on cyber and/or physical infrastructures. The format is agnostic so it can be used in standalone or combined cyber (SIEM), physical (PSIM) and availability (NMS) monitoring systems. IDMEFv2 can also be used to represent man made or natural hazards threats. IDMEFv2 improves situational awareness by facilitating correlation of multiple types of events using the same base format thus enabling efficient detection of complex and combined cyber and physical attacks and incidents. This document defines a way to transport IDMEFv2 Alerts over HTTPs. If approved this document would obsolete RFC4767. "LISP Multicast Overlay Group to Underlay RLOC Mappings", Vengada Govindan, Dino Farinacci, Aswin Kuppusami, Stig Venaas, 2023-10-16, This draft augments LISP [RFC9300] multicast functionality described in [RFC6831] and [RFC8378] to support the mapping of overlay group addresses to underlay RLOC addresses. This draft defines a many-to- 1, 1-to-many, and many-to-many relationship between multicast EIDs and the Replication List Entries (RLEs) RLOC records they map to. The mechanisms in this draft allow a multicast LISP overlay to run over a mixed underlay of unicast and/or multicast packet forwarding functionality. "5G Edge Services Use Cases", Linda Dunbar, Kausik Majumdar, Gyan Mishra, Haibo Wang, Haoyu Song, 2023-07-06, This draft describes the 5G Edge computing use cases for CATS and how BGP can be used to propagate additional IP layer detectable information about the 5G edge data centers so that the ingress routers in the 5G Local Data Network can make path selections based on not only the routing distance but also the IP Layer relevant metrics of the destinations. The goal is to improve latency and performance for 5G Edge Computing (EC) services even when the detailed servers running status are unavailable. "BFD Path Consistency over SR", Changwang Lin, Weiqiang Cheng, Jiang Wenying, Ran Chen, 2023-11-08, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) can be used to monitor paths between nodes. U-BFD defined in [I-D.ietf-bfd-unaffiliated-echo] can effectively reduce the device equipment. Seamless BFD (S-BFD) provides a simplified mechanism which is suitable for monitoring of paths that are setup dynamically and on a large scale network. In SR network, BFD can also be used to monitor SR paths. When a headend use BFD to monitor the segment list/CPath of SR Policy, the forward path of control packet is indicated by segment list, the reverse path of response control packet is via the shortest path from the reflector back to the initiator (headend) as determined by routing. The forward path and reverse path of control packet are likely inconsistent going through different intermediate nodes or links. This document describes a method to keep the forward path and reverse path consistent when using S-BFD or U-BFD to detect SR Policy "Network-based mobility management in CATS network environment", Jaehwoon Lee, 2023-10-09, Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS) network architecture is to choose the best edge computing server by considering both the network environment and available computing/storage resources of the edge computing server. This draft describes the mechanism in which service continuity is provided even when the client moves and connects to a new ingress CATS-Router by using the PMIPv6-based mobility management method in the CATS-based edge computing networking environment. "Purge Originator Identification for OSPF", Zhenqiang Li, Changwang Lin, 2023-11-08, In RFC6232(Purge Originator Identification TLV for IS-IS), ISIS POI (Purge Originator Identification) TLV is added to the purge LSP to record the system ID of the IS generating it. At present, OSPF purge does not contain any information identifying the Router that generates the purge. This makes it difficult to locate the source router. While OSPF protocol is difficult to add additional content to the purge LSA, this document proposes generating a POI LSA together with a purge LSA to record the router ID of the router generating the purge. To address this issue, this document defines a POI LSA to record the router ID of the OSPF generating it. "QUIC-enabled Service Differentiation for Traffic Engineering", Zhilong Zheng, Yunfei Ma, Yanmei Liu, Mirja Kuehlewind, 2023-11-08, This document defines a method for supporting QUIC-enabled service differentiation for traffic engineering through multipath and QUIC connection identifier (CID) encoding. This approach enables end-host networking stacks and applications to select packet routing paths in a wide area network (WAN), potentially improving end-to-end performance, cost, and reliability. The proposed method can be used in conjunction with segment-routing traffic engineering technologies, such as SRv6 TE. "Enforcing end-to-end delay bounds via queue resizing", Antoine Fressancourt, 2023-11-07, This document presents a distributed mechanism to enforce strict delay bounds for some network flows in large scale networks. It leverages on the capacity of modern network devices to adapt their queue's capacities to bound the maximum time spent by packets in those devices. It is using a reservation protocol to guarantee the availability of the resources in the devices' queues to serve packets belonging to specific flows while enforcing an end-to-end delay constraint. "Secure Shell (SSH) Key Exchange Method Using Hybrid Streamlined NTRU Prime sntrup761 and X25519 with SHA-512: sntrup761x25519-sha512", Markus Friedl, Jan Mojzis, Simon Josefsson, 2023-09-19, This document describe a widely deployed hybrid key exchange methods in the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol that is based on Streamlined NTRU Prime sntrup761 and X25519 with SHA-512. "Use of GOST 2012 Signature Algorithms in DNSKEY and RRSIG Resource Records for DNSSEC", Dmitry Belyavsky, Vasily Dolmatov, Boris Makarenko, 2023-09-15, This document describes how to produce digital signatures and hash functions using the GOST R 34.10-2012 and GOST R 34.11-2012 algorithms for DNSKEY, RRSIG, and DS resource records, for use in the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). "Simplified Local Internet Number Resource Management with the RPKI (SLURM)", Di Ma, Tim Bruijnzeels, 2023-07-07, The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is a global authorization infrastructure that allows the holder of Internet Number Resources (INRs) to make verifiable statements about those resources. Network operators, e.g., Internet Service Providers (ISPs), can use the RPKI to validate BGP route origin assertions. ISPs can also use the RPKI to validate the path of a BGP route. However, ISPs may want to establish a local view of exceptions to the RPKI data in the form of local filters and additions. The mechanisms described in this document provide a simple way to enable INR holders to establish a local, customized view of the RPKI, overriding global RPKI repository data as needed. "TLS 1.2 is in Feature Freeze", Rich Salz, Nimrod Aviram, 2023-10-05, TLS 1.2 is in widespread use and can be configured such that it provides good security properties. TLS 1.3 is also in widespread use and fixes some known deficiencies with TLS 1.2, such as removing error-prone cryptographic primitives and encrypting more of the traffic so that it is not readable by outsiders. Both versions have several extension points, so items like new cryptographic algorithms, new supported groups (formerly "named curves"), etc., can be added without defining a new protocol. This document specifies that outside of urgent security fixes, no new features will be approved for TLS 1.2. This prescription does not pertain to DTLS (in any DTLS version); it pertains to TLS only. "The DRIP DET public Key Infrastructure", Robert Moskowitz, Stuart Card, 2023-10-23, The DRIP Entity Tag (DET) public Key Infrastructure (DKI) is a specific variant of classic Public Key Infrastructures (PKI) where the organization is around the DET, in place of X.520 Distinguished Names. Further, the DKI uses DRIP Endorsements in place of X.509 certificates for establishing trust within the DKI. There are two X.509 profiles for shadow PKI behind the DKI, with many of their X.509 fields mirroring content in the DRIP Endorsements. This PKI can at times be used where X.509 is expected and non- constrained communication links are available that can handle their larger size. C509 (CBOR) encoding of all X.509 certificates are also provided as an alternative for where there are gains in reduced object size. "Attestation in OpenID-Connect", Ned Smith, Thomas Hardjono, 2023-08-09, This document defines message flows and extensions to OpenID-Connect (OIDC) messages that support attestation. Attestation Evidence and Attestation Results is accessed via appropriate APIs that presumably require authorization using OAuth 2.0 access tokens. A common use case for OIDC is retrieval of user identity information authorized by an OIDC identity token. The Relying Party may require Attestation Results that describes the trust properties of the UserInfo Endpoint. Trust properties may be a condition of accepting the user identity information. "No Revocation Available for Short-lived X.509 Public Key Certificates", Russ Housley, Tomofumi Okubo, Joseph Mandel, 2023-10-06, Short-lived X.509v3 public key certificates as profiled in RFC 5280 are seeing greater use in the Internet. The Certification Authority (CA) that issues these short-lived certificates do not publish revocation information because the certificate lifespan that is shorter than the time needed to detect, report, and distribute revocation information. This specification defines the noRevAvail certificate extension so that a relying party can readily determine that the CA does not publish revocation information for the certificate. "WebSocket Extension to disable masking", Dragana Damjanovic, 2023-07-05, The WebSocket protocol specifies that all frames sent from the client to the server must be masked. This was introduced as a protection against a possible attack on the infrastructure. With careful consideration, the masking could be omitted when intermediaries do not have access to the unencrypted traffic. This specification introduces a WebSocket extension that disables the mandatory masking of frames sent from the client to the server. The extension is allowed only if the client uses an encrypted connection. "An RDAP With Extensions Media Type", Andy Newton, Jasdip Singh, 2023-08-29, This document defines a media type for RDAP that can be used to describe RDAP content with RDAP extensions. Additionally, this document describes the usage of this media type with RDAP. "IGP Extensions for Deterministic Traffic Engineering", Shaofu Peng, 2023-07-04, This document describes IGP extensions to support Traffic Engineering (TE) of deterministic routing, by specifying new information that a router can place in the advertisement of neighbors. This information describes additional details regarding the state of the network that are useful for deterministic traffic engineering path computations. "Experience from implementing a new packet discard classification scheme", John Evans, Oleksandr Pylypenko, 2023-08-15, Router reported packet loss is the primary signal of when a network is not doing its job. Some packet loss is normal or intended in TCP/ IP networks, however. To minimise network packet loss through automated network operations we need clear and accurate signals of all packets which are dropped and why. This document describes our experience from implementing a packet loss classification scheme to provide these signals and enable automated network mitigation of unintended packet loss. "S-Expressions", Ronald Rivest, Donald Eastlake, 2023-08-14, This memo describes a data structure called "S-expressions" that are suitable for representing arbitrary, complex data structures. We make precise the encodings of S-expressions: we give a "canonical form" for S-expressions, described two "transport" representations, and also describe an "advanced" format for display to people. "A SAVI Solution for WLAN", Mingwei Xu, Jianping Wu, Tao Lin, Lin He, You Wang, 2023-07-05, This document describes a source address validation solution for WLANs where 802.11i or other security mechanisms are enabled to secure MAC addresses. This mechanism snoops NDP and DHCP packets to bind IP addresses to MAC addresses, and relies on the security of MAC addresses guaranteed by 802.11i or other mechanisms to filter IP spoofing packets. It can work in the special situations described in the charter of SAVI (Source Address Validation Improvements) workgroup, such as multiple MAC addresses on one interface. This document describes three different deployment scenarios, with solutions for migration of binding entries when hosts move from one access point to another. "An Emulation System Architecture for Space Network", Kanglian Zhao, Hou Dongxu, 2023-05-29, This document describes an emulation architecture which provides a realistic, flexible, and extensible experimental environment for the space network (SN). The architecture includes four components, namely logical plane, control plane, data plane and measurement plane. Software-defined networking (SDN), virtualization technology, and traffic control mechanism are adopted to realize the real space environment and arbitrary topology. Furthermore, an extensible structure is described to emulate large-scale scenarios and access external emulation resources. "NOTIFY for DNSSEC updates", John Levine, 2023-05-29, This document specifes a new usage of DNS NOTIFY to install and update DNSSEC key information. "Simple Random Candidate Selection", Paul Hoffman, 2023-05-29, This document describes a process to randomly select a subset of candidates from a larger set of candidates. The process uses an unpredictable value can be trusted by all candidates. It uses randomizing based on a hash function to make the description of the process easy to understand. This draft has a GitHub repository (https://github.com/paulehoffman/ draft-hoffman-genarea-random-candidate-selection). Issues and pull requests can be made there. "Security Profiles in Bootstrap Voucher Artifacts", Jabir Mohammed, Reda Haddad, Srihari Raghavan, Sandesh Rao, 2023-11-27, This document describes an extension of the RFC8366 Voucher Artifact in order to support security profiles. This allows the owner to change and customize the security posture of the device dynamically and securely. This lets the owner to selectively enable or disable each of the underlying security parameters that make up the security posture of the device. "A Mechanism for Encoding Differences in Paired Certificates", Corey Bonnell, John Gray, D. Hook, Tomofumi Okubo, Mike Ounsworth, 2023-09-21, This document specifies a method to efficiently convey the differences between two certificates in an X.509 version 3 extension. This method allows a relying party to extract information sufficient to construct the paired certificate and perform certification path validation using the constructed certificate. In particular, this method is especially useful as part of a key or signature algorithm migration, where subjects may be issued multiple certificates containing different public keys or signed with different CA private keys or signature algorithms. This method does not require any changes to the certification path validation algorithm as described in RFC 5280. Additionally, this method does not violate the constraints of serial number uniqueness for certificates issued by a single certification authority. "Multi-segment SD-WAN via Cloud DCs", Kausik Majumdar, Linda Dunbar, Venkit Kasiviswanathan, Ashok Ramchandra, Aseem Choudhary, 2023-10-14, The document describes the methods to optimize the stitching of multiple SD-WAN segments on Cloud DCs Gateways. "RPKI Publication Server Best Current Practices", Tim Bruijnzeels, Ties de Kock, Frank Hill, Tom Harrison, 2023-07-10, This document describes best current practices for operating an RFC 8181 RPKI Publication Server and its rsync (RFC 5781) and RRDP (RFC 8182) public repositories. "Note on Usage of Phone Number in the From Field of SIP Messaging V", Raymond Cooke, 2023-06-02, This document proposes adding a note to the current SIP messaging standards to clarify the usage of the phone number within the From field. The note advises against duplicating the phone number inside the double quotation marks (" ") when it is already included within the double angle brackets (<>). This recommendation aims to avoid the display of unknown numbers caused by devices prioritizing SIP signaling information over locally stored contact information. "Generating the Transport Key Containers Using the GOST Algorithms", Karelina Ekaterina, 2023-10-04, This document specifies how to use "PKCS #12: Personal Information Exchange Syntax v1.1" (RFC 7292) to generate the transport key containers for storing keys and certificates in conjunction with the Russian national standard GOST algorithms. This specification has been developed outside the IETF. The purpose of publication being to facilitate interoperable implementations that wish to support the GOST algorithms. This document does not imply IETF endorsement of the cryptographic algorithms used here. "Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) Loopback", Tal Mizrahi, Tianran Zhou, Shahar Belkar, Reuven Cohen, Justin Iurman, 2023-06-06, This document defines ICMPv6 Loopback, which enables a two-way packet exchange that can be used for probing and for diagnostic purposes. ICMPv6 Loopback is similar to ICMPv6 Echo, except that after a Loopback Request is sent, its corresponding Reply includes as much of the IPv6 Loopback Request packet as possible, including the IPv6 header and IPv6 extension headers and options if they are present. "Signaling In-Network Computing operations (SINC)", Zhe Lou, Luigi Iannone, Yizhou Li, Zhangcuimin, Kehan Yao, 2023-09-15, This memo introduces "Signaling In-Network Computing operations" (SINC), a mechanism to enable signaling in-network computing operations on data packets in specific scenarios like NetReduce, NetDistributedLock, NetSequencer, etc. In particular, this solution allows to flexibly communicate computational parameters, to be used in conjunction with the payload, to in-network SINC-enabled devices in order to perform computing operations. "Signaling In-Network Computing operations (SINC) deployment considerations", Zhe Lou, Luigi Iannone, Yizhou Li, Zhangcuimin, 2023-06-07, This document is intended to discuss some deployment aspects of "Signaling In-Network Computing operations" (SINC). Based on some examples, this document analyzes how each device in the SINC chain undertakes its own functions. This document showcase the use of SINC mechanism. "WARP Streaming Format", Will Law, Luke Curley, Victor Vasiliev, Suhas Nandakumar, Kirill Pugin, 2023-06-07, This document specifies the WARP Streaming Format, designed to operate on Media Over QUIC Transport. "Jitter Reduction Mechanism for DetNet", Daorong Guo, Shenchao Xu, 2023-10-23, In large-scale deterministic networks (LDN), App-flows need to span multiple deterministic network domains, and the latency in multiple domains is added together. The jitter will be increased. In order to realize the protection service function, App-flows should be transmitted on multiple paths. The delay difference in data transmission on different paths is no different from jitter in end- to-end services. Jitter generated by various factors needs to be controlled to meet business requirements. This document describes the end-to-end jitter reduction mechanism in an LDN. This mechanism can effectively control the end-to-end jitter to meet specific business needs and make the planning of multiple paths for service protection more flexible. "An Overview of Network Slicing Efforts in The IETF", Mohamed Boucadair, 2023-10-23, This document lists a set of slicing-related specifications that are being development within the IETF. This document is meant to provide an overview of slicing activities in the IETF to hopefully ease coordination and ensure that specifications that are developed in many WGs are consistent. "Internet Wall", pradeep xplorer, 2023-06-10, To enable accounting and auditing in http "Analysis and Evaluation for TSN Queuing Mechanisms", Yufang Han, Shaofu Peng, Yuehong Gao, 2023-06-11, TSN technology standards developed in the IEEE 802.1TSN Task Group define the time-sensitive mechanism to provide deterministic connectivity through IEEE 802 networks, i.e., guaranteed packet transport with bounded latency, low packet delay variation, and low packet loss.This document summarizes and evaluates various queuing technologies of TSN as reference information for Scaling Deterministic Networks Requirements(described in draft-ietf-detnet- scaling-requirements) and Enhancing Deterministic Forwarding. "SRv6 Context Indicator SIDs for SR-Aware Services", Changwang Lin, Dongjie Lu, Mengxiao Chen, Meiling Chen, 2023-06-12, A context indicator provides the context on how to process the packet for service nodes. This document describes how to use SRv6 SIDs as context indicator for SR-aware services. The corresponding Endpoint behaviors are defined. "WBA OpenRoaming Wireless Federation", Bruno Tomas, Mark Grayson, Necati Canpolat, Betty Cockrell, Sri Gundavelli, 2023-06-14, This document describes the Wireless Broadband Alliance's OpenRoaming system. The OpenRoaming architectures enables a seamless onboarding experience for devices connecting to access networks that are part of the federation of access networks and identity providers. The primary objective of this document is to describe the protocols that form the foundation for this architecture, enabling providers to correctly configure their equipment to support interoperable OpenRoaming signalling exchanges. In addition, the topic of OpenRoaming has been raised in different IETF working groups, and therefore a secondary objective is to assist those discussions by describing the federation organization and framework. "A Standard Format for Key Compromise Attestation", Matt Palmer, 2023-06-14, This document describes a profile for a PKCS#10 Certificate Signing Request (CSR) that attests with reasonable confidence that the key which signed the CSR has been compromised. About This Document This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Status information for this document may be found at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mpalmer-key-compromise- attestation/. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/pwnedkeys/key-compromise-attestation-rfc. "Post-Quantum Cryptography for Engineers", Aritra Banerjee, Tirumaleswar Reddy.K, Dimitrios Schoinianakis, Tim Hollebeek, 2023-08-10, The presence of a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer (CRQC) would render state-of-the-art, public-key cryptography deployed today obsolete, since all the assumptions about the intractability of the mathematical problems that offer confident levels of security today no longer apply in the presence of a CRQC. This means there is a requirement to update protocols and infrastructure to use post- quantum algorithms, which are public-key algorithms designed to be secure against CRQCs as well as classical computers. These algorithms are just like previous public key algorithms, however the intractable mathematical problems have been carefully chosen, so they are hard for CRQCs as well as classical computers. This document explains why engineers need to be aware of and understand post- quantum cryptography. It emphasizes the potential impact of CRQCs on current cryptographic systems and the need to transition to post- quantum algorithms to ensure long-term security. The most important thing to understand is that this transition is not like previous transitions from DES to AES or from SHA-1 to SHA2, as the algorithm properties are significantly different from classical algorithms, and a drop-in replacement is not possible. "Green Networking Metrics", Alexander Clemm, Lijun Dong, Greg Mirsky, Laurent Ciavaglia, Jeff Tantsura, Marie-Paule Odini, Eve Schooler, Ali Rezaki, 2023-06-16, This document explains the need for network instrumentation that allows to assess the power consumption, energy efficiency, and carbon footprint associated with a network, its equipment, and the services that are provided over it. It also suggests a set of related metrics that, when provided visibility into, can help to optimize a network's "greenness" accordingly. "Support of Versioning in YANG Notifications Subscription", Thomas Graf, Benoit Claise, Alex Feng, 2023-06-17, This document extends the YANG notifications subscription mechanism to specify the YANG module semantic version at the subscription. Then, a new extension with the revision and the semantic version of the YANG push subscription state change notification is proposed. "Routing Framework for LEO Mega-constellation Based on Region Division", Hou Dongxu, Xiao Min, Fenlin Zhou, 2023-06-19, The inter-satellite routing is the premis to ensure that the satellite network provides end-to-end stable service covering the whole globe. However, the mature terrestrial network technologies are difficult to directly apply to the satellite network because of the highly dynamic network topology and the limited on-board resources. This issue is further exacerbated in LEO mega- constellations. In view of this challenge, this document presents a routing framework for LEO mega-constellation. Based on the orbit position characteristic and the predictable topology, this framwork realizes flexible region division, establishes intra-region and inter-region path, as well as completes end-to-end data forwarding. "RIFT extensions for SRv6", Weiqiang Cheng, Changwang Lin, Ruixue Wang, 2023-07-06, The Segment Routing (SR) architecture allows a flexible definition of the end-to-end path by encoding it as a sequence of topological elements called segments. It can be implemented over an MPLS or IPv6 data plane. This document describes the RIFT extensions required to support Segment Routing over the IPv6 data plane (SRv6). "Usable Formal Methods Research Group Sample Problems", Stephen Farrell, 2023-06-19, This draft provides reasoning as to why the Usable Formal Methods research group might benefit from having an IETF-relevant sample problem and describes one such (IMAP search). This is just an initial draft aiming to help move discussion forward so may be dropped or replaced by other drafts or the research group may prefer some non I-D format, or the research group may decide that sample problems aren't sufficiently useful. Early days, basically! "A Hybrid Signature Method with Strong Non-Separability", Yoav Nir, 2023-06-19, This document presents an alternative scheme of composing classic and post-quantum signature algorithms with different security properties. This scheme produces signatures with strong non-separability (SNS) at the cost of breaking backward compatibility with legacy cryptographic hardware. "Relative JSON Pointers", Geraint Luff, Henry Andrews, Ben Hutton, 2023-06-19, JSON Pointer is a syntax for specifying locations in a JSON document, starting from the document root. This document defines an extension to the JSON Pointer syntax, allowing relative locations from within the document. "IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Routing Proxy", Eric Levy-Abegnoli, Pascal Thubert, 2023-06-20, A legacy or incorrect host implementation may assume an on-link prefix on an interface where it owns an address that matches the prefix. This mistake may prevent connectivity on networks where this is not the case, e.g., when the physical or logical connectivity of the network does not allow transitive connectivity, in which case all the traffic should transit via the router. This document proposes a stateless routing proxy operation in the router to force a "not-on- link" behavior on the misbehaving host and attract all the packets to the router. "Email Marker to Indicate Automatic Processing", Bernie Hoeneisen, Hernani Marques, 2023-06-20, Structured Email suggests to complement existing email standards by means that allow to replace or extend text-based email messages with message parts that describe content (full or in parts) in a machine- readable way. This document specifies a means to mark messages (or parts of) intended for automatic processing. "Recommendations for applications using X.509 client certificates", David Woodhouse, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2023-07-25, X.509 certificates are widely used for client authentication in many protocols, especially in conjunction with Transport Layer Security ([RFC5246]) and Datagram Transport Layer Security ([RFC6347]. There exist a multitude of forms in which certificates and especially their corresponding private keys may be stored or referenced. Applications have historically been massively inconsistent in which subset of these forms have been supported, and what knowledge is demanded of the user. This memo sets out best practice for applications in the interest of usability and consistency. "The Monitoring Plugins Interface", Lorenz Kaestle, 2023-09-24, This document aims to document the Monitoring Plugin Interface, a standard more or less strictly implemented by different network monitoring solutions. Implementers and Users of network monitoring solutions, monitoring plugins and libraries can use this as a reference point as to how these programs interface with each other. "Making Less Work for Area Directors", Rich Salz, Adrian Farrel, 2023-06-22, Anecdotally, every IESG complains about the Area Director (AD) workload, and says that it takes the first full term to understand the job. Empirically, the AD workload is high sometimes causing backlogs in processing of Internet-Drafts and stressing the ADs. Empirically, the AD workload is high sometimes causing backlogs in processing of Internet-Drafts and stressing the ADs. This is evidenced by the limits applied to the number of pages on the regular IESG telechats, and by the number of documents waiting in excess of fifty days for initial AD review after a working group has requested publication. This document proposes a number of ways that the AD workload can be reduced. It will be up to the IETF consensus process to determine which proposals to adopt. A major goal of this effort is to make it feasible for a wider diversity of people to volunteer as candidates for AD possitions by reducing the barriers and costs to individuals and their employers. "PIM Flooding Mechanism Enhancements", Ananya Gopal, Stig Venaas, 2023-06-23, PIM Flooding Mechanism is a generic PIM message exchange mechanism that allows multicast information to be exchanged between PIM routers hop-by-hop. One example is PIM Flooding Mechanism and Source Discovery which allows Last Hop Routers to learn about new sources using PFM messages, without the need of initial data registers, RPs or shared trees. This document defines a methodology that enhances forwarding efficiency in PFM deployments. This enhancement can avoid extra processing at PIM routers when PFM messages are forwarded. "A Verifiable Random Selection Process", Martin Thomson, 2023-06-22, A process for performing random selection without bias is described. "RDAP Extensions", Andy Newton, Jasdip Singh, Tom Harrison, 2023-08-31, This document describes and clarifies the usage of extensions in RDAP. "Best Practices for Deletion of Domain and Host Objects in the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)", Scott Hollenbeck, William Carroll, Gautam Akiwate, 2023-09-19, The Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) includes commands for clients to delete domain and host objects, both of which are used to publish information in the Domain Name System (DNS). EPP includes guidance concerning those deletions that is intended to avoid DNS resolution disruptions and maintain data consistency. However, operational relationships between objects can make that guidance difficult to implement. Some EPP clients have developed operational practices to delete those objects that have unintended impacts on DNS resolution and security. This document describes best practices to delete domain and host objects that reduce the risk of DNS resolution failure and maintain client-server data consistency. "Simple Random Candidate Selection", Paul Hoffman, 2023-11-20, This document describes a process to randomly select a subset of named candidates from a larger set of candidates. The process uses an unpredictable value that can be trusted by all candidates. This draft has a GitHub repository (https://github.com/paulehoffman/ draft-hoffman-random-candidate-selection). Issues and pull requests can be made there. "Intel Profile for CoRIM", Shanwei Cen, Andrew Draper, Ned Smith, 2023-06-23, This document describes extensions to the CoRIM schema that support Intel specific Attester implementations. Multiple Evidence formats are compatible with base CoRIM, but extensions to evidence formats may be required to fully support the CoMID schema extensions defined in this profile. The concise evidence definition uses the CoMID schema such that extensions to CoMID are inherited by concise evidence. Reference Value Providers may use this profile to author mainifests containing Reference Values and Endorsements. RATS Verifiers recognize this profile by it's profile identifier and implement support for the extentions defined. "HTTP Cache Groups", Mark Nottingham, 2023-06-24, This specification introduces a means of describing the relationships between stored responses in HTTP caches, "grouping" them by associating a stored response with one or more opaque strings. About This Document This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Status information for this document may be found at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nottingham-http-cache-groups/. information can be found at https://mnot.github.io/I-D/. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/mnot/I-D/labels/http-cache-groups. "An HTTP Cache Invalidation API", Mark Nottingham, 2023-08-21, This document specifies an HTTP-based API that gateway caches (such as those in reverse proxies and content delivery networks) can expose to allow origin servers to their invalidate stored responses. About This Document This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Status information for this document may be found at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nottingham-http-invalidation/. information can be found at https://mnot.github.io/I-D/. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/mnot/I-D/labels/http-invalidation. "Latency Guarantee with Stateless Fair Queuing", Jinoo Joung, Jeong-dong Ryoo, Taesik Cheung, Yizhou Li, Peng Liu, 2023-10-19, This document specifies the framework and the operational procedure for deterministic networking with work conserving packet schedulers that guarantee end-to-end latency bounds to flows. Schedulers in core nodes of the network do not need to maintain flow states. Instead, the entrance node of a flow marks an ideal service completion time, called Finish Time (FT), of a packet in the packet header. The subsequent core nodes update FT by adding a delay factor, which is a function of the flow and upstream nodes. The packets in the queue are served in the ascending order of the FT. This technique is called Fair Queuing (FQ). The result is that flows are isolated from each other almost perfectly. The latency bound of a flow depends only on the flow's intrinsic parameters, except the link capacities and the maximum packet lengths among other flows sharing each output link with the flow. "Framework for Rule-based International Cyberspace Governance", Han Liu, Jilong Wang, Chengyuan Zhang, Pardis Tehrani, Ji Ma, 2023-06-25, Cyberspace involves politics, economy, culture, and technology; it engages governments, international organizations, Internet companies, technology communities, civil society, and citizens, forming an integrated, organic body. In a word, cyberspace is the online version of a community with a shared future for mankind. This memo tries to outline a new framework for rule-based international cyberspace governance regime in the context of IPv6 application, which looks into the future international cooperation of cyberspace governance. "The SelfRemove Proposal for Message Layer Security (MLS)", Rohan Mahy, 2023-06-25, This document describes the SelfRemove Message Layer Security (MLS) Proposal type, which improves handling of a client removing itself from an MLS group. "SCION Control Plane", Corine de Kater, Matthias Frei, Nicola Rustignoli, 2023-08-23, This document describes the control plane of the path-aware, inter- domain network architecture SCION (Scalability, Control, and Isolation On Next-generation networks). One of the basic characteristics of SCION is that it gives path control to SCION- capable endpoints. In fact, endpoints can choose between multiple path options, enabling the optimization of network paths. The SCION control plane is responsible for discovering these paths and making them available to the endpoints. The main goal of SCION's control plane is to create and manage path segments, which can then be combined into forwarding paths to transmit packets in the data plane. This document first discusses how path exploration is realized through beaconing and how path segments are created and registered. Each SCION autonomous system (AS) can register segments according to its own policy - it is free to specify which path properties and algorithm(s) to use in the selection procedure. The document then describes the path lookup process, where endpoints obtain path segments - a fundamental building block for the construction of end-to-end paths. "Use Cases and Problem Statement for Routing on Service Addresses", Paulo Mendes, Jens Finkhaeuser, Luis Contreras, Dirk Trossen, 2023-07-09, The proliferation of virtualization, microservices, and serverless architectures has made the deployment of services possible in more than one network location, alongside long practised replication within single network locations, such as within a CDN datacentre. This necessitates the potential need to coordinate the steering of (client-initiated) traffic towards different services and their deployed instances across the network. The term 'service-based routing' (SBR) captures the set of mechanisms for said traffic steering, positioned as an anycast problem, in that it requires the selection of one of the possibly many choices for service execution at the very start of a service transaction, followed by the transfer of packets to that chosen service endpoint. This document provides typical scenarios for service-based routing, particularly for which a more dynamic and efficient (in terms of both latency and signalling overhead) selection of suitable service execution endpoints would not exhibit the overheads and thus latency penalties experienced with existing explicit discovery methods. Related drafts introduce the design for an in-band service discovery method instead, named Routing on Service Addresses (ROSA), based on the insights from the use case and problem discussion in this draft. "Modeling the Digital Map based on RFC 8345: Sharing Experience and Perspectives", Olga Havel, Benoit Claise, Oscar de Dios, Ahmed Elhassany, Thomas Graf, Mohamed Boucadair, 2023-10-23, This document shares experience in modelling digital map based on the IETF RFC 8345 topology YANG modules and some of its augmentations. First, the concept of Digital Map is defined and its connection to the Digital Twin is explained. Next to Digital Map requirements and use cases, the document identifies a set of open issues encountered during the modelling phases, the missing features in RFC 8345, and some perspectives on how to address them. "Performance Measurement with Asymmetrical Packets in STAMP", Greg Mirsky, Ernesto Ruffini, Henrik Nydell, 2023-10-20, This document describes an optional extension to a Simple Two-way Active Measurement Protocol (STAMP) that enables the use of STAMP test and reflected packets of variable length during a single STAMP test session. In some use cases, the use of asymmetrical test packets allow for the creation of more realistic flows of test packets and, thus, a closer approximation between active performance measurements and conditions experienced by the monitored application. Also, the document includes an analysis of challenges related to performance monitoring in a multicast network. It defines procedures and STAMP extensions to achieve more efficient measurements with a lesser impact on a network. "Architecture for Routing on Service Addresses", Dirk Trossen, Luis Contreras, Jens Finkhaeuser, Paulo Mendes, 2023-07-09, The term 'service-based routing' (SBR) captures the set of mechanisms for the steering of traffic in an application-level service scenario. As in the related use case and gap analysis drafts, we position this steering as an anycast problem, requiring the selection of one of the possibly many choices for service execution at the very start of a service transaction. This document outlines a possible architecture for realizing SBR so as to address the issues identified in the use case and gap analysis companion documents, specifically aiming at the realization of the requirements in the latter document. We outline the architecture, with pointers to possible realizations of the interactions, while also outlining possible extensions to a base SBR capability through a ROSA system as an outlook to possible richer capabilities. "Gap Analysis and Requirements for Routing on Service Addresses", Luis Contreras, Dirk Trossen, Jens Finkhaeuser, Paulo Mendes, 2023-07-09, The term 'service-based routing' (SBR) captures the set of mechanisms for the steering of traffic in an application-level service scenario. We position this steering as an anycast problem, requiring the selection of one of the possibly many choices for service execution at the very start of a service transaction. This document builds on the issues and pain points identified across a range of use cases, reported in [I-D.mendes-rtgwg-rosa-use-cases]. We summarize the key insights and provide a gap analysis with key technologies related to the problem of SBR, developed by the IETF over many years. We further outline the requirements to a system that would adequately close those gaps and thus address the pain points of our use cases. Those requirements will be used for outlining a suitable architecture framework in a separate document. "OAM for LPWAN using Static Context Header Compression (SCHC)", Dominique Barthel, Laurent Toutain, 2023-10-23, This document describes how SCHC can be used to efficiently perform basic Operation, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) on Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) by compressing ICMPv6/IPv6 headers, or by shielding the LPWAN network and the Device from undesirable ICMPv6 traffic. This document specifies additional behavior for SCHC [RFC8724] and extends the YANG Data Model defined in [RFC9363]. "Communicating Proxy Configurations in Provisioning Domains", Tommy Pauly, Dragana Damjanovic, 2023-10-13, This document defines a mechanism for accessing provisioning domain information associated with a proxy, such as other proxy URIs that support different protocols and a list of DNS zones that are accessible via a proxy. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/tfpauly/privacy-proxy. "Export of Network Resource Partition (NRP) Information in IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX)", Yao Liu, 2023-06-28, This document introduces new IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Information Elements to identify the Network Resource Partition (NRP) that the network slice traffic is related with. "Deterministic Networking (DetNet) Data Plane - guaranteed Latency Based Forwarding (gLBF) for bounded latency with low jitter and asynchronous forwarding in Deterministic Networks", Toerless Eckert, Alexander Clemm, Stewart Bryant, Stefan Hommes, 2023-07-07, This memo proposes a mechanism called "guaranteed Latency Based Forwarding" (gLBF) as part of DetNet for hop-by-hop packet forwarding with per-hop deterministically bounded latency and minimal jitter. gLBF is intended to be useful across a wide range of networks and applications with need for high-precision deterministic networking services, including in-car networks or networks used for industrial automation across on factory floors, all the way to ++100Gbps country-wide networks. Contrary to other mechanisms, gLBF does not require network wide clock synchronization, nor does it need to maintain per-flow state at network nodes, avoiding drawbacks of other known methods while leveraging their advantages. Specifically, gLBF uses the queuing model and calculus of Urgency Based Scheduling (UBS, [UBS]), which is used by TSN Asynchronous Traffic Shaping [TSN-ATS]. gLBF is intended to be a plug-in replacement for TSN-ATN or as a parallel mechanism beside TSN-ATS because it allows to keeping the same controller-plane design which is selecting paths for TSN-ATS, sizing TSN-ATS queues, calculating latencies and admitting flows to calculated paths for calculated latencies. In addition to reducing the jitter compared to TSN-ATS by additional buffering (dampening) in the network, gLBF also eliminates the need for per-flow, per-hop state maintenance required by TSN-ATS. This avoids the need to signal per-flow state to every hop from the controller-plane and associated scaling problems. It also reduces implementation cost for high-speed networking hardware due to the avoidance of additional high-speed speed read/write memory access to retrieve, process and update per-flow state variables for a large number of flows. "SRv6 Segment List optimization", Yisong Liu, Changwang Lin, Ran Chen, Yuanxiang Qiu, 2023-06-28, This document introduces an optimization method for segment list arrangement to solve the problem of the penultimate segment node being unable to perform PSP behavior when the egress node has both End SID and service SID, and improve the forwarding efficiency of data packets. "Use of the IPv6 Flow Label for WLCG Packet Marking", Dale Carder, Tim Chown, Shawn McKee, Marian Babik, 2023-07-10, This document describes an experimentally deployed approach currently used within the Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (WLCG) to mark packets with their project (experiment) and application. The marking uses the 20-bit IPv6 Flow Label in each packet, with 15 bits used for semantics (community and activity) and 5 bits for entropy. Alternatives, in particular use of IPv6 Extension Headers (EH), were considered but found to not be practical. The WLCG is one of the largest worldwide research communities and has adopted IPv6 heavily for movement of many hundreds of PB of data annually, with the ultimate goal of running IPv6 only. "Prefix Flag Extension for OSPFv2 and OSPFv3", Ran Chen, Detao Zhao, Peter Psenak, Ketan Talaulikar, 2023-11-05, Within OSPF, each prefix is advertised along with an 8-bit field of capabilities, by using the Prefix Options (OSPFv3) and the flag flield in the OSPFv2 Extended Prefix TLV (OSPFv2). However, for OSPFv3, all the bits of the Prefix Options have already been assigned, and for OSPFv2, there are not many undefined bits left in the OSPFv2 Extended Prefix TLV. This document solves the problem of insufficient existing flags, and defines the variable length Prefix attributes Sub-TLVs for OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 respectively for the extended flag fields. "BGP Route Broker for Hyperscale SDN", Xiaohu Xu, Shraddha Hegde, Srihari Sangli, Shunwan Zhuang, Jie Dong, 2023-08-17, This document describes an optimized BGP route reflector mechanism, referred to as a BGP route broker, so as to use BGP-based IP VPN as an overlay routing protocol in a scalable way for hyperscale data center network virtualization environments, also known as Software- Defined Network (SDN) environments. "Inter-domain Source Address Validation based on AS relationships", Ren Gang, Shuqi Liu, Xia Yin, 2023-10-23, This draft introduces an inter-domain source address validation scheme based on relationships between interconnected ASes. This scheme is mainly described from four aspects, namely the research background in fields of source address validation and AS relationships, introduction to the classification and acquisition methods of AS relationships, the specific architecture of our inter- domain source address validation system based on AS relationships, and the considerations on deployability. "Sloppy Topology Updates for ad-hoc Routing Protocols (STURP)", Zhe Lou, Luigi Iannone, Dirk Trossen, Zhaochen Shi, 2023-06-30, This memo describes an approach to updating topologies in typical MANET-like environments, relying on what is termed 'sloppy updates' in the remainder of this document. Key to the approach is that updates are only initiated if existing communication relations may be effect by non-synchronized topology information, otherwise using the topology information as it exists. This 'sloppy' nature of the approach reduces the needed updates and the associated communication for them, thus increases efficiency as well as performance from a user perspective. As such, STURP does not provide a complete routing protocol solution but is intended to extend existing routing protocols with this improved efficiency mechanism instead. "PIM Flooding Mechanism and Source Discovery Sub-TLV", Stig Venaas, Francesco Meo, 2023-06-30, PIM Flooding Mechanism and Source Discovery (RFC 8364) allows for announcement of active sources, but it does not allow for providing additional information about the flow. This document defines a new TLV for announcing sources that allows for Sub-TLVs that can be used for providing various types of information. This document defines a Sub-TLV for flow data rate. "Secondary Certificate Authentication of HTTP Servers", Eric Gorbaty, Mike Bishop, 2023-10-12, This document defines a way for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 servers to send additional certificate-based credentials after a TLS connection is established, based on TLS Exported Authenticators. "Routing Framework for LEO Mega-constellation Based on Region Division", Hou Dongxu, Xiao Min, Fenlin Zhou, 2023-07-02, The inter-satellite routing is the premis to ensure that the satellite network provides end-to-end stable service covering the whole globe. However, the mature terrestrial network technologies are difficult to directly apply to the satellite network because of the highly dynamic network topology and the limited on-board resources. This issue is further exacerbated in LEO mega- constellations. In view of this challenge, this document presents a routing framework for LEO mega-constellation. Based on the orbit position characteristic and the predictable topology, this framwork realizes flexible region division, establishes intra-region and inter-region path, as well as completes end-to-end data forwarding. "Congestion Control Invariants", Marcelo Bagnulo, 2023-08-06, This document initiates the discussion about Congestion Control Invariants, that is, mechanisms that several CCAs implement and that would benefit from a common specification for all CCAs to improve their interoperability "Update to Automatic Bandwidth Adjustment procedure of Stateful PCE", Shuping Peng, Dhruv Dhody, Rakesh Gandhi, 2023-07-03, Extensions to the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) for MPLS-TE Label Switched Path (LSP) Automatic Bandwidth Adjustments with Stateful PCE are defined in RFC 8733. It defines the AUTO-BANDWIDTH-ATTRIBUTES TLV and a set of sub-TLVs for each of the attributes. The sub-TLVs are included if there is a change since the last information sent in the PCEP message. But it lacks a mechanism to explicitly remove an attribute identified by the sub- TLV. This document updates RFC 8733 by defining the behaviour. "Guidelines for Internet Congestion Control at Endpoints", Gorry Fairhurst, Michael Welzl, 2023-10-23, When published as an RFC, this document provides guidance on the design of methods to avoid congestion collapse and how an endpoint needs to react to congestion. Based on these, and Internet engineering experience, the document provides best current practice for the design of new congestion control methods in Internet protocols. When published, the document will update or replace the Best Current Practice in BCP 41, which currently includes "Congestion Control Principles" provided in RFC2914. "Using onion routing with CoAP", Christian Amsuess, Marco Tiloca, Rikard Hoeglund, 2023-07-04, The CoAP protocol was designed with direct connections and proxies in mind. This document defines mechanisms by which chains of proxies can be set up. In combination, they enable the operation of hidden services and client similar to how Tor (The Onion Router) enables it for TCP based protocols. "Bundle Protocol Yang Model", Marc Blanchet, Yingzhen Qu, 2023-07-04, This document describes the Yang model for the Bundle protocol. "BGP Flow Specification for EVPN", Taoran Zhou, Ran Chen, Haisheng Wu, 2023-07-04, [RFC8955] defines BGP flow specification version 1 (FSv1) and [I-D.ietf-idr-flowspec-v2] defines BGP flow specification (FSv2) protocol. This document proposes extensions to BGP Flow Specification Version 2 to support MPLS-based EVPN traffic filtering. "RDAP Simple Contact", Andy Newton, Tom Harrison, 2023-08-31, This document describes an extension to the Registry Data Access Protocol for entity contact data using basic JSON values, objects, and arrays. The data model defined by this document is purposefully limited to the data in-use by Internet Number Registries and Domain Name Registries and does not attempt to model the full data-set that can be expressed with other contact models such as jCard or JSContact. "Hybrid key exchange in JOSE and COSE", Tirumaleswar Reddy.K, Aritra Banerjee, 2023-10-20, Hybrid key exchange refers to using multiple key exchange algorithms simultaneously and combining the result with the goal of providing security even if all but one of the component algorithms is broken. It is motivated by transition to post-quantum cryptography. This document provides a construction for hybrid key exchange in JOSE and COSE. It defines the use of traditional and PQC algorithms, a hybrid post-quantum KEM, for JOSE and COSE. "Framework of Forwarding Commitment BGP", Ke Xu, Xiaoliang Wang, Zhuotao liu, Li Qi, Jianping Wu, 2023-07-05, This document defines a standard profile for the framework of Forwarding Commitment BGP (FC-BGP). Forwarding Commitment（FC）is a cryptographically signed code to certify an AS's routing intent on its directly connected hops. Based on FC, the goal of FC-BGP is to build a secure inter-domain system that can simultaneously authenticate AS_PATH attribute in BGP-UPDATE and validate network forwarding on the dataplane. "The Off-The-Record Response Header Field", Shivan Sahib, 2023-07-05, This document specifies an HTTP response header field that enables a server to inform the client that the requested website should be treated as "off-the-record." The purpose is to indicate that the server considers the content sensitive in some way, and the client may choose not to retain any record of accessing it. "Securing Ancillary Data for Communicating with Devices in the Network", Matt Joras, 2023-07-10, There is increasing need for application endpoints to exchange rich information with devices in the network and secure that information from on-path observers. This document presents some current problems and the broad strokes of potential solutions. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/mjoras/sadcdn. "HPCC++: Enhanced High Precision Congestion Control", Rui Miao, Surendra Anubolu, Rong Pan, Jeongkeun Lee, Barak Gafni, Yuval Shpigelman, Jeff Tantsura, Guy Caspary, 2023-07-05, Congestion control (CC) is the key to achieving ultra-low latency, high bandwidth and network stability in high-speed networks. However, the existing high-speed CC schemes have inherent limitations for reaching these goals. In this document, we describe HPCC++ (High Precision Congestion Control), a new high-speed CC mechanism which achieves the three goals simultaneously. HPCC++ leverages inband telemetry to obtain precise link load information and controls traffic precisely. By addressing challenges such as delayed signaling during congestion and overreaction to the congestion signaling using inband and granular telemetry, HPCC++ can quickly converge to utilize all the available bandwidth while avoiding congestion, and can maintain near-zero in- network queues for ultra-low latency. HPCC++ is also fair and easy to deploy in hardware, implementable with commodity NICs and switches. "Inband Telemetry for HPCC++", Rui Miao, Surendra Anubolu, Rong Pan, Jeongkeun Lee, Barak Gafni, Yuval Shpigelman, Jeff Tantsura, Guy Caspary, 2023-07-05, Congestion control (CC) is the key to achieving ultra-low latency, high bandwidth and network stability in high-speed networks. However, the existing high-speed CC schemes have inherent limitations for reaching these goals. In this document, we describe HPCC++ (High Precision Congestion Control), a new high-speed CC mechanism which achieves the three goals simultaneously. HPCC++ leverages inband telemetry to obtain precise link load information and controls traffic precisely. By addressing challenges such as delayed signaling during congestion and overreaction to the congestion signaling using inband and granular telemetry, HPCC++ can quickly converge to utilize all the available bandwidth while avoiding congestion, and can maintain near-zero in- network queues for ultra-low latency. HPCC++ is also fair and easy to deploy in hardware, implementable with commodity NICs and switches. "Lightweight Route Information Advertisement for LEO Mega-constellation", Hou Dongxu, Xiao Min, Fenlin Zhou, 2023-07-05, This document presents a lightweight route information advertisement method in satellite networks. On the one hand, the method selects the advertisement link by the way of route-associated judgment, to reduce the overhead of route information advertisement. On the other hand, the method provides a manner for dealing with link fault during the route information advertisement process, to ensure the reliability of routing information advertisement. "Problem statements and requirements of L2 CATS", Daniel Huang, Zhiqiang Li, Jinjiang WANG, Bin Tan, 2023-07-06, The computing intensive parts of the customer premise equipment have been decoupled and migrated to the cloud, therefore the thin CPE remaining at customer premise needs to access its “avatar” virtual CPE in the cloud which could be deployed in multiple edge computing sites. This draft will illustrate a use case of L2 traffic steering in terms of dynamic computing and networking resource status, together with requirements for CATS as well as solution consideration with regard to particularly the difference from the L3 routing framework. "Routing mechanism in Dragonfly Networks Gap Analysis, Problem Statement, and Requirements", Ruixue Wang, Changwang Lin, wangwenxuan, Weiqiang Cheng, 2023-07-06, This document provides the gap analysis of existing routing mechanism in dragonfly networks, describes the fundamental problems, and defines the requirements for technical improvements. "Ping Path Consistency over SRv6", Liyan Gong, Changwang Lin, Yuanxiang Qiu, 2023-07-06, In the SRv6 network, the headend node could use Ping (ICMPv6 Echo) to detect the connectivity of the SRv6 path to implement path switching. When a headend use Ping to detect the segment list/CPath of SRv6 Policy, the forward path of ICMPv6 Echo Request message is indicated by segment list, the reverse path of ICMPv6 Echo Reply message is via the shortest path from the destination node to the source as determined by routing. The forward path and reverse path of ICMPv6 message are likely inconsistent going through different intermediate nodes or links. This document describes how to ensure the consistency of the forward path and the reverse path when using ICMPv6 Echo messages to detect SRv6 Policy. "Support of Network Observation Timestamping in YANG Notifications", Thomas Graf, Benoit Claise, Alex Feng, 2023-07-06, This document extends the YANG Notification header with the YANG objects observation timestamping, both for the "push-update" and "push-change-update" notifications. "PCEP Extension to Support SRv6 Segment List optimization", Changwang Lin, Yisong Liu, Ran Chen, Yuanxiang Qiu, 2023-07-06, The Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) provides mechanisms for Path Computation Elements (PCEs) to perform path computations in response to Path Computation Clients (PCCs) requests. Segment routing (SR) leverages the source routing and tunneling paradigms. The Stateful PCEP extensions allow stateful control of Segment Routing Traffic Engineering (TE) Paths. Furthermore, PCEP can be used for computing SR TE paths in the network. This document defines PCEP extensions for optimizing the arrangement of segment lists to solve the problem of the penultimate segment node being unable to perform PSP behavior when the egress node has both End SID and service SID, and improve the forwarding efficiency of data packets. "Auto-discovery mechanism for ACME client configuration", Paul van Brouwershaven, Mike Ounsworth, 2023-10-12, A significant impediment to the widespread adoption of the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) [RFC8555] is that ACME clients need to be pre-configured with the URL of the ACME server to be used. This often leaves domain owners at the mercy of their hosting provider as to which Certification Authorities (CAs) can be used. This specification provides a mechanism to bootstrap ACME client configuration from a domain's DNS CAA Resource Record [RFC8659], thus giving control of which CA(s) to use back to the domain owner. Specifically, this document specifies two new extensions to the DNS CAA Resource Record: the "discovery" and "priority" parameters. Additionally, it registers the URI "/.well-known/acme" at which all compliant ACME servers will host their ACME directory object. By retrieving instructions for the ACME client from the authorized CA(s), this mechanism allows for the domain owner to configure multiple CAs in either load-balanced or fallback prioritizations which improves user preferences and increases diversity in certificate issuers. "PoA based Device Registration in ACE framework", Sreelakshmi Sudarsan, Olov Schelen, Ulf Bodin, 2023-07-06, This draft proposes an extension to the ACE framework with the Power of Attorney (PoA) based authorization. This is proposed following the identification of mutual authorization problem between the client and the AS in the ACE framework, which demands secure registration of the client to the AS and a mechanism for the client to validate the AS. The proposed system adds a new entity referred as the Device Owner to the ACE framework that delegates the client device and provides information (in a PoA) regarding the AS to which the client is intended to communicate with. "IETF Community Moderation", Lars Eggert, Alissa Cooper, Jari Arkko, Russ Housley, Brian Carpenter, 2023-07-06, This document describes the creation of a moderator team for all of the IETF's various contribution channels. Without removing existing responsibilities for working group management, this team enables a uniform approach to moderation of disruptive participation across all mailing lists and other methods of IETF collaboration. "Raytime: Validating token expiry on an unbounded local time interval", Christian Amsuess, 2023-07-08, When devices are deployed in locations with no real-time access to the Internet, obtaining a trusted time for validation of time limited tokens and certificates is sometimes not possible. This document explores the options for deployments in which the trade-off between availability and security needs to be made in favor of availability. While considerations are general, terminology and examples primarily focus on the ACE framework. "Multiple Algorithm Rules in DNSSEC", Shumon Huque, Peter Thomassen, Viktor Dukhovni, Duane Wessels, 2023-11-07, This document restates the requirements on DNSSEC signing and validation and makes small adjustments in order to allow for more flexible handling of configurations that advertise multiple Secure Entry Points (SEP) with different signing algorithms via their DS record or trust anchor set. The adjusted rules allow both for multi- signer operation and for the transfer of signed DNS zones between providers, where the providers support disjoint DNSSEC algorithm sets. In addition, the proposal enables pre-publication of a trust anchor in preparation for an algorithm rollover, such as of the root zone. This document updates RFCs 4035, 6840, and 8624. "Deep Dive into IPv6 Extension Header Testing: Cloud", Nalini Elkins, Priyanka Sinha, Ameya Deshpande, 2023-07-06, This document proposes a methodology for isolating the location and reasons for IPv6 Extension Headers blockage in a network where the operator has access to install products and run diagnostic tests on both the client and server. The client and server will be both inside and outside the Cloud topology. This document will discuss the testing and topology which need to be considered. This document is a part of the Deep Dive into EH Testing set of documents. "RESTCONF Extension to support Trace Context Headers", Roque Gagliano, Kristian Larsson, Jan Lindblad, 2023-07-06, This document extends the RESTCONF protocol in order to support trace context propagation as defined by the W3C. "Extension Header Use Cases", Mike McBride, Nalini Elkins, Nick Buraglio, Xuesong Geng, michael ackermann, 2023-07-06, This document outlines IPv6 extension header use cases including those intended to be deployed in limited domains and those intended for the global Internet. We specify use cases are deployed today and those which may be of use in the future. The hope is that through understanding these various extension header use cases, we can then better understand how best to implement any necessary limits on their use. "Use Case of Computing-Aware AI large model", Qing An, 2023-08-11, AI models, especially AI large models have been fastly developed and widely deployed to serve the needs of users and multiple industries. Due to that AI large models involve mega-scale data and parameters, high consumption on computing and network resources, distributed computing becomes a natural choice to deploy AI large models. This document desribes the key concepts and deployment scenarios of AI large model, to demonstrate the necessity of considering computing and network resources to meet the requirements of AI tasks. "SATP Gateway Crash Recovery Mechanism", Rafael Belchior, Miguel Correia, Andre Augusto, Thomas Hardjono, 2023-07-06, This memo describes the crash recovery mechanism for the Secure Asset Transfer Protocol (SATP). The goal of this draft is to specify the message flow that implements a crash recovery mechanism. The mechanism assures that gateways running SATP are able to recover faults, enforcing ACID properties for asset transfers across ledgers (i.e., double spend does not occur). "Internet Protocol version 11", Kiran Kadavill, 2023-07-23, Standard for IPv11 address format and routing theory "Computing and Network Information Awareness (CNIA) system architecture for CATS", Huijuan Yao, xuewei wang, Zhiqiang Li, Daniel Huang, Changwang Lin, 2023-10-22, This document describes a Computing and Network Information Awareness (CNIA)system architecture for Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS). Based on the CATS framework, this document further describes a proposal detailed awareness architecture about the network information and computing information. It includes a new component and the corresponding interfaces and workflows in the CATS control plane. "Analysis for the Differences Between Standard Congestion Control Schemes", Yoshifumi Nishida, 2023-07-23, Reno-based congestion control has been referred as the standard document from IETF for long time that describes congestion control principle of the Internet. In the meantime, IETF recently has published two new congestion control standards that use slightly different schemes from the previous one. This document provides analysis for the differences between these standards in order to provide helpful information when an unified congestion control principles for the Internet is standardized in the future. "A YANG Data Model for Service Information", xuewei wang, Huijuan Yao, Zhiqiang Li, 2023-07-07, Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS) aims to solve the problem of how the network edge can steer traffic between clients of a service and sites offering the service. To achieve such scheduling, the network needs to aware the computing information of the service. This document defines a YANG data model for the computing information of the service for CATS. "TEE Distributed Provisioning Relay", Penglin Yang, Ting Pang, Xiaomeng Zhang, 2023-07-07, Big data computing framework uses Master-Worker structure to provision applications and process data. When process remote attestation for this kind of framework in TEE cluster, Verifier or Relying party needs to know the dynamic reference value of Worker nodes. This document shows how to use Master to relay Worker provision information to Verifier or Relying Party and its relevant protocol. "Use of Reliable Transport in the Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)", Valery Smyslov, 2023-07-07, The Internet Key Exchange protocol version 2 (IKE2) can operate either over unreliable (UDP) transport or over reliable (TCP) transport. If TCP is used, then IPsec tunnels created by IKEv2 also use TCP. This document specifies how to decouple IKEv2 and IPsec transports, so that IKEv2 can operate over TCP, while IPsec tunnels use unreliable transport. This feature allows IKEv2 to effectively exchange large blobs of data (e.g. when post-quantum algorithms are employed) while avoiding performance problems which arise when TCP is used for IPsec. "Problem Statement and Requirements of end-to-end CATS", Dongyu Yuan, Huijuan Yao, Zhiqiang Li, Fenlin Zhou, xuewei wang, 2023-10-22, This document describes and proposes problem statement and incremental requirements of an end-to-end computing aware traffic steering (CATS) process illustrated in [I-D.ldbc-cats-framework]. Particularly, this document analyzes the significance of appropriate aggregation algorithms and the necessity of hierarchical forwarding mechanisms. "Middle Ware Facilities for CATS", Dongyu Yuan, Fenlin Zhou, 2023-07-07, This draft proposes a method to perceive and process the running status of computing resources by introducing a logical Middle Ware facility, aiming to avoid directly reflecting continuous and dynamic computing resource status in the network domain, match service requirements and instance conditions, and ultimately achieve computing aware traffic engineering and be applicable to various possible scheduling strategies. "Validity of SR Policy Candidate Path", Ran Chen, Detao Zhao, Changwang Lin, 2023-10-19, An SR Policy comprises one or more candidate paths (CP) of which at a given time one and only one may be active (i.e., installed in forwarding and usable for steering of traffic). Each CP in turn may have one or more SID-List of which one or more may be active; when multiple SID-List are active then traffic is load balanced over them. However, a candidate path is valid when at least one SID-List is active. This candidate path validity criterion cannot meet the needs of some scenarios. This document defines the new candidate path validity criterion. "Microloop Prevention in a Hierarchical Segment Routing Solution for CATS", Dongyu Yuan, Fenlin Zhou, 2023-07-07, Considering computing and networking is quite different in terms of resource granularity as well as their status stability, a hierarchical segment routing is proposed and introduced as an end-to- end CATS process. However, it brings about potential problems as illustrated in [I-D.yuan-cats-end-to-end-problem-requirement]. In order to solve the mentioned problems and to improve and perfect a hierarchical solution, corresponding aggregation methods are discussed and hierarchical entries are proposed in this draft. "Validity of SR Policy Candidate Path", Ran Chen, Detao Zhao, 2023-07-07, [I-D.chen-spring-sr-policy-cp-validity]supplemented candidate path validity criterion in [RFC9256]. It defines three validity control parameters under candidate Path to control the validity judgment of candidate Path. This document defines extensions to BGP to distribute the validity control parameters of a candidate path for an SR Policy. "Using BGP EPE Control Plane for Computing applicability", liuxingsheng, 2023-07-07, This document describes an approach for using the BGP EPE Control Plane [RFC8670] for CATS cross as domain steering traffic based on a normalized metric that reflect the underlying network conditions and other service-specific metrics collected from available service locations. "YANG Data Model for Intra-domain and Inter-domain Source Address Validation (SAVNET)", Dan Li, Fang Gao, Changwang Lin, Jianping Wu, Zhen Tan, Weiqiang Cheng, 2023-10-23, This document describes a YANG data model for Intra-domain and Inter-domain Source Address Validation (SAVNET). The model serves as a base framework for configuring and managing an SAV subsystem, including SAV rule and SAV Tables, and expected to be augmented by other SAV technology models accordingly. Additionally, this document also specifies the model for the SAV Static application. "Persistent Symmetric Keys in OpenPGP", Daniel Huigens, 2023-07-10, This document defines new algorithms for the OpenPGP standard (RFC4880) to support persistent symmetric keys, for message encryption using authenticated encryption with additional data (AEAD) and for authentication with hash-based message authentication codes (HMAC). This enables the use of symmetric cryptography for data storage (and other contexts that do not require asymmetric cryptography), for improved performance, smaller keys, and improved resistance to quantum computing. "Alternate Marking Deployment Framework", Giuseppe Fioccola, Tianran Zhou, Thomas Graf, Fabrizio Milan, Massimo Nilo, Zhu Keyi, Lin Zhang, 2023-10-23, This document provides a framework for Alternate Marking deployment and includes considerations and guidance for the deployment of the methodology. "Provisioning ACE credentials through BRSKI", Christian Amsuess, 2023-07-07, The autonomous onboarding mechanisms defined in ANIMA's voucher artifact and the BRSKI protocol provide a means of onboarding a device (the pledge) onto a PKI managed domain. This document extends the voucher with expressions for onboarding it into a domain managed through ACE. "A YANG Data Model for Service Information", xuewei wang, Huijuan Yao, Zhiqiang Li, 2023-07-07, Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS) aims to solve the problem of how the network edge can steer traffic between clients of a service and sites offering the service. To achieve such scheduling, the network needs to aware the computing information of the service. This document defines a YANG data model for the computing information of the service for CATS. "Export of Flow Precision Availability Metrics Using IPFIX", Alexander Clemm, Mohamed Boucadair, Greg Mirsky, 2023-07-07, This document defines a set of IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Information Elements to export precision availability data associated with Flows, specifically Flows that are associated with stringent Service Level Objectives (SLOs) such as latency or packet delay variation. "Views and View Addresses for Secure Asset Transfer", Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Vinayaka Pandit, Ermyas Abebe, Sandeep Nishad, Krishnasuri Narayanam, 2023-07-07, With increasing use of DLT (distributed ledger technology) systems, including blockchain systems and networks, for virtual assets, there is a need for asset-related data and metadata to traverse system boundaries and link their respective business workflows. Core requirements for such interoperation between systems are the abilities of these systems to project views of their assets to external parties, either individual agents or other systems, and the abilities of those external parties to locate and address the views they are interested in. A view denotes the complete or partial state of a virtual asset, or the output of a function computed over the states of one or more assets, or locks or pledges made over assets for internal or external parties. Systems projecting these views must be able to guard them using custom access control policies, and external parties consuming them must be able to verify them independently for authenticity, finality, and freshness. The end-to-end protocol that allows an external party to request a view by an address and a DLT system to return a view in response must be DLT- neutral and mask the interior particularities and complexities of the DLT systems. The view generation and verification modules at the endpoints must obey the native consensus logic of their respective systems. "Protocol for Requesting and Sharing Views across Networks", Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Vinayaka Pandit, Ermyas Abebe, Sandeep Nishad, Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy, 2023-07-07, With increasing use of DLT (distributed ledger technology) systems, including blockchain systems and networks, for virtual assets, there is a need for asset-related data and metadata to traverse system boundaries and link their respective business workflows. Systems and networks can define and project views, or asset states, outside of their boundaries, as well as guard them using access control policies, and external agents or other systems can address those views in a globally unique manner. Universal interoperability requires such systems and networks to request and supply views via gateway nodes using a request-response protocol. The endpoints of this protocol lie within the respective systems or in networks of peer nodes, but the cross-system protocol occurs through the systems’ respective gateways. The inter-gateway protocol that allows an external party to request a view by an address and a DLT system to return a view in response must be DLT-neutral and mask the internal particularities and complexities of the DLT systems. The view generation and verification modules at the endpoints must obey the native consensus logic of their respective networks. "IETF Policy Interactions", Mark Nottingham, Alissa Cooper, 2023-07-07, This document captures a list of interactions between IETF efforts and policy efforts. "Agreements To Fix Forwarding", Alessandro Vesely, 2023-07-10, The widespread adoption of Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) causes problems to indirect mail flows. This document proposes a protocol to establish forwarding agreements whereby a mailbox provider can whitelist indirect mail flows directed toward its users by maintaining per-user lists of agreements. "Integration of Speech Codec Enhancement Methods into the Opus Codec", Jan Buethe, Jean-Marc Valin, 2023-10-23, This document proposes a method for integrating a speech codec enhancement method into the Opus codec [RFC6716] "Deterministic Networking (DetNet) Data Plane - Flow interleaving for scaling detnet data planes with minimal end-to-end latency and large number of flows.", Toerless Eckert, 2023-07-07, This memo explain requirements, benefits and feasibility of a new DetNet service function tentatively called "flow interleaving". It proposes to introduce this service function into the DetNet architecture. Flow interleaving can be understood as a DetNet equivalent of the IEEE TSN timed gates. Its primary role is intended to be at the ingress edge of DetNet domains supporting higher utilization and lower bounded latency for flow aggregation (interleaving of flows into a single flow), as well as higher utilization and lower bounded latency for interleaving occurring in transit hops of the DetNet domain in conjunction with in-time per-hop bounded latency forwarding mechanisms. "Transaction Tokens", Atul Tulshibagwale, George Fletcher, Pieter Kasselman, 2023-10-20, Transaction Tokens (Txn-Tokens) enable workloads in a trusted domain to ensure that user identity and authorization context of an external programmatic request, such as an API invocation, are preserved and available to all workloads that are invoked as part of processing such a request. Txn-Tokens also enable workloads within the trusted domain to optionally immutably assert to downstream workloads that they were invoked in the call chain of the request. "Integrating the Alternate-Marking Method into In Situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (IOAM)", Xiaoming He, Frank Brockners, Haoyu Song, Giuseppe Fioccola, Aijun Wang, 2023-07-08, In situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (IOAM) is used for recording and collecting operational and telemetry information. Specifically, passport-based IOAM allows telemetry data generated by each node along the path to be pushed into data packets when they traverse the network, while postcard-based IOAM allows IOAM data generated by each node to be directly exported without being pushed into in-flight data packets. This document extends IOAM Direct Export (DEX) Option-Type to integrate the Alternate-Marking Method into IOAM. "An SR-TE based Solution For Computing-Aware Traffic Steering", FUHUAKAI, Daniel Huang, Liwei Ma, Wei Duan, 2023-07-08, Computing-aware traffic steering (CATS) is a traffic engineering approach [I-D.ietf-teas-rfc3272bis] that takes into account the dynamic nature of computing resources and network state to optimize service-specific traffic forwarding towards a given service instance. Various relevant metrics may be used to enforce such computing-aware traffic steering policies.It is critical to meet different types of computing-aware traffic steering requirements without disrupting the existing network architecture. In this context, this document proposes a computing-aware traffic steering solution based on the SR- TE infrastructure of the current traffic engineering technology to reduce device resource consumption and investment and meet the requirements for computing-aware traffic steering of network devices. "Applying COSE Signatures for YANG Data Provenance", Diego Lopez, Antonio Pastor, 2023-10-23, This document defines a mechanism based on COSE signatures to provide and verify the provenance of YANG data, so it is possible to verify the origin and integrity of a dataset, even when those data are going to be processed and/or applied in workflows where a crypto-enabled data transport directly from the original data stream is not available. As the application of evidence-based OAM automation and the use of tools such as AI/ML grow, provenance validation becomes more relevant in all scenarios. The use of compact signatures facilitates the inclusion of provenance strings in any YANG schema requiring them. "DetNet YANG Model Extension for 5GS as a Logical DetNet Node", Tianji Jiang, Peng Liu, Xuesong Geng, 2023-10-20, The 3GPP Rel-18 has completed the working item (WID) of the DetNet, i.e., the Deterministic Network. This WID defines and standardizes how a 5G system (5GS) may behave as a logical DetNet transit node, as well as how a 5GS DetNet node may integrate into the IP deterministic network domain. A 5GS logical DetNet node bears the ‘composite’ architecture in that it could act as one or more DetNet routers. While the 3GPP work has referenced the IETF Detnet YANG model draft for the purpose of provisioning the DetNet traffic parameters to a 5GS logical DetNet node, the per-(logical)-node parameter provisioning needs to be further improved. This draft defines some new DetNet YANG parameters, e.g., the type of a (composite) DetNet node, the composite node ID, and the flow direction within a composite (5GS logical) node, via reusing the existing IETF DetNet YANG model. Toward the end, we also discuss some complicated 5GS related DetNet scenarios that would be considered for future extensions. "Contact Center Use Cases and Requirements for VCON", Jonathan Rosenberg, Andrew Siciliano, 2023-07-08, This document outlines use cases and requirements for the exchange of VCONs (Virtual Conversation) within contact centers. A VCON is a standardized format for the exchange of call recordings and call metadata. Today, call recordings are exchanged between different systems within the contact center. Often, these are done using proprietary file formats and proprietary APIs. By using VCONs, integration complexity can be reduced. "On Network Path Validation", Chunchi Liu, Qin WU, Liang Xia, 2023-07-09, Network path validation refers to a technology that ensures data packets to strictly travel along a chosen network path. It aims to enforce data to travel only on the assigned network path and provide evidence that the data has indeed followed this path. While existing efforts primarily focus on the control plane, path validation protects and monitors routing security in the data plane. This document provides a technical definition of the Network Path Validation problem, briefly overviews past efforts, models its ideal solution and design goals, and lists out different use case across various layers of the Internet. "BGP Attribute Escape", Jeffrey Haas, 2023-07-09, BGP-4 [RFC 4271] has been very successful in being extended over the years it has been deployed. A significant part of that success is due to its ability to incrementally add new features to its Path Attributes when they are marked "optional transitive". Implementations that are ignorant of a feature for an unknown Path Attribute that are so marked will propagate BGP routes with such attributes. Unfortunately, this blind propagation of unknown Path Attributes may happen for features that are intended to be used in a limited scope. When such Path Attributes inadvertantly are carried beyond that scope, it can lead to things such as unintended disclosure of sensitive information, or cause improper routing. In their worst cases, such propagation may be for malformed Path Attributes and lead to BGP session resets or crashes. This document calls such inadvertent propagation of BGP Path Attributes, "attribute escape". This document further describes some of the scenarios that leads to this behavior and makes recommendations on practices that may limit its impact. "Data Generation and Optimization for Digital Twin Network Performance Modeling", Mei Li, Cheng Zhou, Danyang Chen, 2023-10-19, Digital Twin Network (DTN) can be used as a secure and cost-effective environment for network operators to evaluate network performance in various what-if scenarios. Recently, AI models, especially neural networks, have been applied for DTN performance modeling. The quality of deep learning models mainly depends on two aspects: model architecture and data. This memo focuses on how to improve the model from the data perspective. "ANUP Implementation in 5G with BGP Signaling", Zhaohui Zhang, Keyur Patel, 2023-07-09, Draft-zzhang-dmm-mup-evolution describes an architecture in which co- located Access Node and User Plane Function node of a 5G mobile network are integrated into a single Network Function ANUP in 6G for simplified signaling and optimized forwarding. The integration can happen in 5G as well but only with optimized forwarding. This document describes how BGP signaling specified in Draft-mpmz-bess- mup-safi can be used for ANUP implementation in 5G. "Distributed architecture for microservices communication based on Information-Centric Networking (ICN)", Xueting Li, Aijun Wang, Wei Wang, Dirk Kutscher, Yue Wang, 2023-10-17, This draft defines a new communication architecture, called Distributed Architecture for Microservices Communication (DAMC). It includes multiple aspects of microservice communication, such as service registration, service discovery, service routing, service scheduling, and more , Which to achieve all the essential functionalities provided by current centralized service networks. The purpose of this draft is to combine the Information-Centric Networking (ICN) concept to enhance the overall performance, scalability and reliability of microservices communication. The DAMC architecture provides a powerful framework for managing the complex communication requirements of distributed microservices, ensuring integrity, security and efficient resource utilization. "BGP SR Policy Extensions for Path Scheduling", Li Zhang, Tianran Zhou, Jie Dong, Minxue Wang, Nkosinathi Nzima, 2023-10-22, Path scheduling is required in many network scenarios. For example, some links or nodes will be shut down in the tidal network when the traffic decreases, which may lead to the expiration of some routing paths. This document proposes extensions to BGP SR Policy to indicate the enable time and disable time for routing paths to enable path scheduling. "Native Network Management using Artificial Intelligence over an Adaptive B5G Network", Hwan-kuk Kim, Min-Suk Kim, 2023-07-09, This document is derived from artificial intelligence (AI) network and autonomous security, network management intend-based technology to ensure constant security quality in B5G. SOAR (Security Orchestration Automation and Response) is needed by autonomous security and network management to optimize an adaptive B5G network. The purpose of this document is to confirm whether the requirements are reflected future users and developed to identify users provided by useful decisions on how to develop the system. This document also covers the user requirements for autonomous security and intend-based network management to ensure constant security quality on B5G. "QUIC Stream Groups", Marten Seemann, 2023-07-09, QUIC ([RFC9000]) defines a few different mechanism flow control mechanisms: Stream flow control, connection-level flow control and flow control for the number of (unidirectional / bidirectional) streams This allows a single application running on of a QUIC connection to apply backpressure. However, when multiple independent applications share a single underlying QUIC connection, these mechanisms are not sufficient to prevent one resource-hungry application from consuming all the resources (streams and / or connection-level flow control credit) available on the connection, effectively starving the other application. "Confidential Virtual Machine Provisioning in Cloud Environment", Deng, 2023-07-09, Confidential virtual machine (CVM) in the cloud environment is a use case of confidential computing where VM confidentiality is enabled by hardware. A cloud user’s CVM is isolated from the hypervisor provided by its cloud service provider, meaning the cloud service provider cannot access the workload and data in the CVM. This is used in the scenario where a cloud user intends to protect its sensitive workload and data from cloud service provider while at the same time desires to utilize the advantages of cloud technology. This document specifies the CVM provisioning in cloud environment including the provisioning process and protocol, and the security requirements. "Reverse HTTP Transport", Benjamin Schwartz, Tirumaleswar Reddy.K, Mohamed Boucadair, Philipp Tiesel, 2023-10-23, This document defines a secure transport for HTTP in which the client and server roles are reversed. This arrangement improves the origin server's protection from Layer 3 and Layer 4 denial-of-service attacks when an intermediary is in use. It allows origin server's to be hosted without being publicly (and directly) accessible but allows clients to access these servers via an intermediary. "The routing considerations for TVR", Zheng Zhang, Yuehua Wei, 2023-07-09, Time-Variant Routing (TVR) introduces a scenario of calculating a path, or sub-path within a network, taking into account the timing of message transmission or receipt as an integral part of the overall route computation. This document introduces three modes of routing computation for TVR scenario. "Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Short-Range Optical Wireless Communications", Younghwan Choi, Cheol-min Kim, Carles Gomez, 2023-10-22, IEEE 802.15.7, "Short-Range Optical Wireless Communications" defines wireless communication using visible light. It defines how data is transmitted, modulated, and organized in order to enable reliable and efficient communication in various environments. The standard is designed to work alongside other wireless communication systems and supports both line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) communications. This document describes how IPv6 is transmitted over short-range optical wireless communications (OWC) using IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) techniques. "Multicast for Computing and Storage", Yisong Liu, Xuesong Geng, 2023-07-10, This document introduces the multicast use case for computing and storage. "IGP Prefix Independent Convergence", Yue Wang, Changwang Lin, Aijun Wang, 2023-07-10, In many cases, a large number of routes can be reached by multiple next hops. When a link fails, route calculation needs to be performed and a new reachable path needs to be calculated. If all routes are re-calculated and refreshed, the calculation time increases linearly as the number of routes increases, resulting in a long time for route convergence. This document describes an architecture where the number of prefixes is independent. This architecture allows routes to be recalculated when paths change, regardless of the number of IGP routes. "Advertisement of Candidate Path Validity Control Parameters using BGP-LS", Ran Chen, Detao Zhao, 2023-07-10, This document describes a mechanism to collect the configuration and states of SR policies carrying the validity control parameters of the candidate path by using BGP Link-State (BGP-LS) updates. Such information can be used by external components for path computation, re-optimization, service placement, etc. "Generic Address Assignment Option for 6LowPAN Neighbor Discovery", Luigi Iannone, Zhe Lou, 2023-10-23, This document specifies a mechanism enabling a node to request the allocation of an address or a prefix from neighbor routers. Such mechanism allows to algorithmically assign addresses and prefixes to nodes in a 6LowPAN deployment. "Advanced Explicit Congestion Notification", Hang Shi, Tianran Zhou, 2023-07-10, This document proposes Advanced Explicit Congestion Notification mechanism enabling host to obtain the congestion information at the bottleneck. The sender sets the congestion information collection command in the packet header indicating the network device to update the congestion information field per hop. The receiver carries the updated congestion information back to the sender in the ACK. The sender then leverage the rich congestion information to do congestion control. "Information-Centric Metaverse", Giuseppe Fioccola, Paulo Mendes, Jeff Burke, Dirk Kutscher, 2023-07-10, This document aims to explore the new challenges for the transport network brought by the development of Metaverse. It discusses the Metaverse as an Information-Centric Network (ICN). "Traffic Engineering Extensions for Enhanced DetNet", Quan Xiong, Bin Tan, Zongpeng Du, Junfeng Zhao, Chang Liu, Dong Yang, 2023-10-23, As per [I-D.ietf-teas-rfc3272bis], DetNet can also be seen as a specialized branch of TE. As it is required to provide enhancements for data plane in scaling networks, this document proposes a set of extensions for traffic engineering to achieve the differentiated DetNet QoS in enhanced DetNet. "Some Refinements to RFC8345 (Network Topologies)", Nigel Davis, Olga Havel, Benoit Claise, 2023-07-10, This draft provides a brief analysis of the current unidirectional point-to-point approach to modeling of the link in RFC8345, highlights why this is not sufficient and makes a proposal to enhance RFC8345 YANG to support multipoint uni/bi links. The two alternative enhancement approaches proposed are backward compatible. The enhancement is such that it provides a uniform solution to modeling all links that could, over time, replace the current unidirectional point-to-point approach. The rationale for the change is based on many years of practical experience, including challenges using RFC8345 in actual solution development, and insight gained through other standardisation efforts and deployments. "Cross Layer Information Assisted Flow Control", Wanghong Yang, Wenji Du, Baosen Zhao, Yongmao Ren, Xu Zhou, Gaogang Xie, 2023-07-10, Bursty concurrent streams from holographic applications can cause congestion in wireless access networks, leading to increased delay and QoS issues. The egress server of a data center (DC egress) can regulate outbound network traffic and mitigate congestion if it obtains dynamic information about the wireless access network's queue and capabilities. The document proposes a network-assisted multi- flow transmission control scheme that leverages underlying link state information of access points to perform delay prediction and flow control at the DC egress to alleviate congestion and improve user experience. "Computing resource notification domain in network", Yuexia Fu, 2023-10-23, This document introduces the definiation and the requirements of notification domain, and also introduces the process of service scheduling decision based on the notification domain in the network. "A Message Feedback Method for MPTCP", Baosen Zhao, Wanghong Yang, Wenji Du, Yongmao Ren, Xu Zhou, Gaogang Xie, 2023-07-10, Many video applications require extremely low latency and high image quality. However, the limited bandwidth in wireless networks fails to meet the peak rate requirements for multiple video flows. MPTCP is suitable for wireless edge networks, sup