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SAV for intra- and inter-domain networks
bofreq-li-sav-for-intra-and-inter-domain-networks-03

Document Type Approved BOF request
Title SAV for intra- and inter-domain networks
Last updated 2022-02-10
State Approved
Editor Dan Li
Responsible leadership Éric Vyncke
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bofreq-li-sav-for-intra-and-inter-domain-networks-03

Name: Source Address Validation in Intra-domain and Inter-domain Networks (SAVNET)

Description

Source address validation (SAV) is important for mitigating source address spoofing attacks and accurately tracing back to the attackers. In the past few years, much attention has been attracted by SAV from both academia and industry. Recently, the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative is calling on network operators to implement SAV to prevent source address spoofing.

According to the operating feature of the Internet, RFC 5210 describes a source address validation architecture (SAVA) which carries out SAV at three checking levels, i.e., access network, Intra-domain, and Inter-domain. Different levels provide different granularities of source IP address authenticity. The SAVI working group focused on SAV at access networks, which aims to promote previous prefix-level SAV to address-level SAV. Nevertheless, SAVI is fully effective only when deployed by all access networks. In the cases where SAVI cannot be deployed simultaneously at all access networks, it is much necessary to implement intra-domain and inter-domain SAV through ISPs to prevent spoofed traffic as close to the source as possible (this is also what MANRS calls for). However, existing intra-domain and inter-domain SAV mechanisms like uRPF-related technologies [RFC 3704, RFC 8704] may improperly permit spoofed traffic or improperly block legitimate traffic. Both cases can have serious consequences.

To implement accurate SAV in intra-domain and inter-domain networks, a network-wide protocol should be considered.

Entirely new protocols or extensions of existing protocols are needed to meet the following requirements of SAV in intra-domain and inter-domain networks:
- High accuracy: The protocols should avoid improper block and reduce improper permit as much as possible
- High scalability: The protocols should not induce much overhead
- Incremental deployment: The protocols should support incremental deployment
- High security: The protocols should guarantee the integrity of the protocol messages

In this BoF, we are going to focus on the gap analysis of existing SAV mechanisms and a brief overview of possible protocols. The main goal of this BoF is to solicit suggestions.

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Agenda

  • Welcome & Preliminary Notes (10 min)
  • Background & Gap Analysis (15 min)
  • DSAV Framework (15 min)
  • DSAV Open Discussion (20 min)
  • PSAV Framework (15 min)
  • PSAV Open Discussion (20 min)
  • Q&A (15 min)