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Using PCP to Reveal a Host behind NAT
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draft-boucadair-pcp-nat-reveal-00
PCP Working Group                                           M. Boucadair
Internet-Draft                                            France Telecom
Intended status: Standards Track                                T. Reddy
Expires: June 1, 2013                                           P. Patil
                                                                 D. Wing
                                                                   Cisco
                                                       November 28, 2012

                 Using PCP to Reveal a Host behind NAT
                   draft-boucadair-pcp-nat-reveal-00

Abstract

   This document describes how to use PCP to retrieve the identify of a
   host behind a NAT.  Two use cases are discussed and the PCP
   applicability is analyzed.  This document extends PCP with a new
   OpCode: QUERY.

   The proposed mechanism is valid for all NAT flavors including NAT44,
   NAT64 or NPTv6.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Requirements Language and Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   3.  Problem Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     3.1.  Policy and Charging Control Architecture . . . . . . . . .  3
     3.2.  NAT between the PCEF and AF  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     3.3.  NAT before PCEF  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   4.  PCP Applicability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     4.1.  NAT between the PCEF and AF  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     4.2.  NAT before PCEF  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   5.  QUERY OpCode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
     5.1.  QUERY Request Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     5.2.  QUERY Response Format  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
     5.3.  Generating a QUERY Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     5.4.  Processing a QUERY Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     5.5.  Processing a QUERY Response  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   6.  Applicability Scope of QUERY OpCode  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   7.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   8.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   9.  References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
     9.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
     9.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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1.  Introduction

   As reported in [RFC6269], several issues are encountered when an IP
   address is shared among several subscribers.  These issues are
   encountered in various deployment contexts: e.g., Carrier Grade NAT
   (CGN), application proxies or A+P [RFC6346].

   This document extends Port Control Protocol [I-D.ietf-pcp-base] to
   identify a host among those sharing the same IP address in certain
   scenarios.

   The proposed technique can be used independently or combined with the
   host identifier, denoted as HOST_ID defined in
   [I-D.ietf-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis].

   Additional scenarios requiring host identification are listed in
   [I-D.boucadair-intarea-host-identifier-scenarios].

2.  Requirements Language and Terminology

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

   This note uses terminology defined in [I-D.ietf-pcp-base].

3.  Problem Space

3.1.  Policy and Charging Control Architecture

   Figure 1 depicts a reference architecture of a mobile network
   [RFC6342].

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                                 +-----+    +-----+
                                 | AAA |    | PCRF|
                                 +-----+    +-----+
                                    \          /
                                     \        /                       /-
                                      \      /                       / I
   UE     BS                           \    /                       /  n
    |     /\    +-----+ /-----------\ +-----+ /-----------\ +----+ /   t
  +-+    /_ \---| ANG |/ Operator's  \| PCEF|/ Operator's  \| BR |/    e
  | |---/    \  +-----+\ IP Network  /+-----+\ IP Network  /+----+\    r
  +-+                   \-----------/         \-----------/        \   n
                                                                    \  e
                                                                     \ t
                                       +-----+
                                       |  AF |
                                       +-----+

                   Figure 1: Mobile Network Archtecture

   The main involved functional elements are:

   o  UE (User Equipment) is a mobile node.

   o  Policy and Charging Rule Function (PCRF) which is responsible for
      determining which policy and charging control rules are to be
      applied [TS.23203].

   o  Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) which performs
      policy enforcement (e.g., Quality of Service (QoS)) and flow-based
      charging [TS.23203].

   o  Application Function (AF) is an element offering applications that
      require dynamic policy and/or charging control [TS.23203].

   o  Access Network Gateway (ANG), Base Station (BS) and Border Router
      (BR) are defined in [RFC6342].

   Section 3.2 and Section 3.3 explain the encountered problems to
   identify individual UEs when a NAT is involved in the data path.  The
   use of PCP to solve those problems is analyzed in Section 4.

3.2.  NAT between the PCEF and AF

   Figure 2 shows a scenario where a NAT function is located between the
   PCEF and AF.

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                               PCP Client
                                +------+
                                | PCRF |-----------------+
                                +------+                 |
                                   |                     |
                    +----+      +------+   +-----+    +-----+
                    | UE |------| PCEF |---| NAT |----|  AF |
                    +----+      +------+   +-----+    +-----+
                                             PCP
                                            Aware

                     Figure 2: NAT between PCEF and AF

   The main issue in this case is that PCEF, PCRF and AF all receive
   information bound to the same UE but cannot correlate between the
   piece of data visible for each entity.  Concretely,

   o  PCEF is aware of the IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber
      Identity) and an internal IP address assigned to the UE.

   o  AF receives an external IP address and port as assigned by the NAT
      function.

   o  PCRF is not able to correlate between the external IP address/port
      assigned by the NAT and the internal IP address and IMSI of the
      UE.  For instance, the offered QoS on internal IPv4 address and
      the (shared) external IPv4 address may need to be correlated for
      accounting purposes.

   o  The IP address seen by the AF is shared among multiple UEs using
      NAT, the PCRF needs to be able to inspect the NAT binding to
      disambiguate among the individual UEs.  AF will not be able to
      treat UE traffic based on policy provided by PCRF.

   This scenario can be generalized as follows (Figure 3):

   o  Policy Enforcement Point (PEP, [RFC2753])

   o  Policy Decision Point (PDP, [RFC2753])

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                               PCP Client
                                +------+
                                | PDP  |-----------------+
                                +------+                 |
                                   |                     |
                    +----+      +------+   +-----+    +------+
                    |Host|------| PEP  |---| NAT |----|Server|
                    +----+      +------+   +-----+    +------+
                                            PCP
                                           Aware

                   Figure 3: NAT between PEP and Server

3.3.  NAT before PCEF

   Figure 4 shows an alternative scenario in which a NAT function is
   located before PCEF.  The main issue is that PCEF and AF are only
   aware of the external IP address and the external port number
   assigned by the NAT function.  PCEF/AF will fail to identify each UE
   behind NAT since multiple UEs share the same external IP address and
   thus are unable to treat incoming connections differently.

                                         PCP Client
                                          +-------+
                                          | PCRF  |------+
                                          +-------+      |
                                              |          |
                    +----+      +------+   +-----+    +-----+
                    | UE |------| NAT  |---|PCEF |----|  AF |
                    +----+      +------+   +-----+    +-----+
                                  PCP
                                 Aware

                         Figure 4: NAT before PCEF

   This scenario can be generalized as follows (Figure 5):

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                                         PCP Client
                                           +------+
                                           |  PDP |------+
                                           +------+      |
                                              |          |
                    +----+      +------+   +-----+    +------+
                    |Host|------| NAT  |---| PEP |----|Server|
                    +----+      +------+   +-----+    +------+
                                  PCP
                                 Aware

                         Figure 5: NAT before PEP

4.  PCP Applicability

   This section discusses how PCP can be used to solve the problems
   described in Section 3.2 and Section 3.3.

4.1.  NAT between the PCEF and AF

   A solution to solve the problem discussed in Section 3.2 is to enable
   a PCP Server to control the NAT and enable a PCP Client in the PCRF.
   The updated interaction between PCRF, PCEF and AF is detailed below.

   o  The PCP server controlling the NAT is configured to accept PCP
      requests with THIRD_PARTY Option from authorized PCP clients
      (i.e., PCRF).

   o  PCRF is configured with the IP address of the PCP Server.

   o  The PCRF is aware of the following 5-tuple of each flow {Internal
      IP address of UE, Internal Port, Protocol, Remote Peer IP address,
      Remote Port number} learnt from PCEF.  PCRF is also aware of the
      following 5-tuple of each flow {External IP address, External
      Port, Protocol, Remote Peer IP address, Remote Port number} learnt
      from AF.

   o  The PCRF generates PCP PEER request with THIRD_PARTY option which
      has Internal IP Address set to the UE's Internal IP address
      provided by the PCEF.

      *  The Internal Port, Protocol, Remote Peer Port, Remote Peer IP
         Address fields of the PEER request are set by the PCRF
         according to the 5-tuple flow information provided by PCEF.

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      *  Suggested External Port and Suggested External IP Address are
         set to zero.

      *  Requested Lifetime field is set to a very low value (see
         Section 12.3 of [I-D.ietf-pcp-base]).

   o  Upon the receipt of the PEER response, the PCRF compares the
      External IP Address and Port learnt with the 5-tuple flow
      information provided by the AF to correlate external IP address/
      port associated with the mapping and the internal IP address/port
      of the flow.

   o  PCRF notifies PCEF/AF to enforce relevant policies for the UE.

4.2.  NAT before PCEF

   A solution to solve the problem discussed in Section 3.3 is to extend
   PCP with a new OpCode called QUERY (see Section 5).

   The updated interaction between PCRF, PCEF and AF is detailed below:

   o  The PCP server controlling the NAT is configured to accept QUERY
      requests Section 5 from authorized PCP clients such as PCRF.
      Query requests must not be received in the Internet-facing
      interface but from an internal interface (e.g., dedicated
      management interface).

   o  PCRF generates a PCP QUERY request with External IP Address,
      External Port, Remote Peer IP address, Remote Peer Port and
      Protocol fields for the flow learnt from PCEF or AF.

   o  PCRF learns the internal IP address and internal port number in
      the QUERY response.  This correlation is used by the PCRF to
      retrieve the UE's policy to be passed to the PCEF.

   Figure 6 shows an example of the use of QUERY OpCode.  In this
   example, an HTTP connection is initiated by the UA (192.0.2.1:33041)
   to an HTTP server (198.51.100.2:80).  The NAT assigns 198.51.100.1/
   23432 as external IP Address/Port.  PCRF learns Internal IP Address
   and Port associated with the NAT mapping using PCP QUERY request/
   response.

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    +------+             +-----+                +------+       +------+
    |  UE  |             | NAT |                | PCRF |       |  AF  |
    +------+             +-----+                +------+       +------+
    192.0.2.1                                       |       198.51.100.2
       |                    |                                      |
       |Src IP Address:Port |                                      |
       |  = 192.0.2.1:33041 |                                      |
       |Dst IP Address:Port |                                      |
       |  = 198.51.100.2:80 |                                      |
       |===================>|=====================================>|
       |                    |Src IP Address:Port=198.51.100.1:23432|
       |                    |Dst IP Address:Port=198.51.100.2:80   |
       |                    |                                      |
       |                                   {PCRF learns 5-tuple    |
       |                                        from AF or PCEF}   |
       |                    |                        |             |
       |                    | PCP QUERY Request      |             |
       |                    | External IP:Port =     |             |
       |                    |    198.51.100.1:23432  |             |
       |                    | Remote Peer IP:Port =  |             |
       |                    |    198.51.100.2:80     |             |
       |                    | Protocol = TCP         |             |
       |                    |<=======================|             |
       |                    | PCP QUERY Response     |             |
       |                    | External IP:Port =     |             |
       |                    |    198.51.100.1:23432  |             |
       |                    | Internal IP:Port =     |             |
       |                    |    192.0.2.1:33041     |             |
       |                    | Protocol = TCP         |             |
       |                    | Lifetime = 1000 sec    |             |
       |                    |=======================>|             |
       |                    |                        |             |
       |                                     Generate Policy Rules

                          Figure 6: Usage Example

5.  QUERY OpCode

   This section defines a new PCP OpCode which can be used to query PCP-
   aware NAT to retrieve the Internal IP Address and Internal Port of a
   given mapping.

   The PCP Server MUST provide a configuration option to allow
   administrators to enable/disable QUERY OpCode.

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5.1.  QUERY Request Format

   The following diagram shows the format of the OpCode-specific
   information in a request for the QUERY OpCode.

        0                   1                   2                   3
        0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |                                                               |
       |                   QUERY Nonce (96 bits)                       |
       |                                                               |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |   Protocol    |          Reserved (24 bits)                   |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |        External Port        |    Remote Peer Port             |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |                                                               |
       |              External IP Address (128 bits)                   |
       |                                                               |
       |                                                               |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |                                                               |
       |              Remote Peer IP Address (128 bits)                |
       |                                                               |
       |                                                               |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                      Figure 7: Query Opcode Request

   These fields are described below:

   Requested Lifetime (in common header):  This field is positioned to
      0.

   Mapping Nonce:  Random value chosen by the PCP client.  See Section
      12.2 of [I-D.ietf-pcp-base]

   Protocol:  Upper-layer protocol associated with this OpCode.  Values
      are taken from the IANA protocol registry [proto_numbers].  For
      example, this field contains 6 (TCP) if the OpCode is describing a
      TCP mapping.  Protocol MUST NOT be zero.

   Reserved:  24 reserved bits, MUST be set to 0 on transmission and
      MUST be ignored on reception.

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   External Port:  External port allocated by NAT for the flow.
      External Port MUST NOT be zero

   Remote Peer Port:  Remote peer's port for the flow.  Remote Peer Port
      MUST NOT be zero

   External IP address:  External IP address allocated by NAT for the
      flow.  External IP address MUST NOT be zero

   Remote Peer IP address:  Remote peer IP address for the flow.  Remote
      Peer IP address MUST NOT be zero.

5.2.  QUERY Response Format

   The following diagram shows the format of OpCode-specific information
   in a response packet for the QUERY OpCode:

        0                   1                   2                   3
        0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |                                                               |
       |                   QUERY Nonce (96 bits)                       |
       |                                                               |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |   Protocol    |          Reserved (24 bits)                   |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |        External Port        |      Internal Port              |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |                                                               |
       |              External IP Address (128 bits)                   |
       |                                                               |
       |                                                               |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |                                                               |
       |              Internal IP Address (128 bits)                   |
       |                                                               |
       |                                                               |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                      Figure 8: Query Opcode Response

   These fields are described below:

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   Lifetime (in common header):  On a success response, this indicates
      the lifetime for this mapping, in seconds.  On an error response,
      this indicates that mapping does not exist.

   Mapping Nonce:  Copied from the request.

   Protocol:  Copied from the request.

   Reserved:  24 reserved bits, MUST be set to 0.

   External Port:  Copied from the request.

   External IP address:  Copied from the request.

   Internal Port:  Internal Port as assigned by the PCP-controlled
      device.

   Internal IP address:  Internal IP address as assigned by the PCP-
      controlled controlled device.

5.3.  Generating a QUERY Request

   This section describes the operation of a PCP client when sending
   requests with the QUERY OpCode.

   PCP QUERY request is used by an authorized third party PCP client
   that is only aware of the 5-tuple {External IP address and Port,
   Protocol, Remote Peer IP address and Port} and needs to learn the
   Internal IP address and Port associated with the NAT mapping.  The
   request MUST contain non-zero values of Protocol, External Port,
   Remote Peer Port, External IP address and Remote Peer IP address.
   The Requested Lifetime MUST be set to zero.

5.4.  Processing a QUERY Request

   This section describes the operation of a PCP server when processing
   a QUERY request.

   For EIM/EIF port-mapping NAT, the processing of the QUERY request is
   as follows:

   o  If any of the values Protocol, External Port and External IP
      address are equal to zero, the request is invalid and the PCP
      server MUST return a MALFORMED_REQUEST to the client.

   o  If Protocol, External Port and External IP address do not match
      any existing implicit dynamic mapping, then the PCP server MUST
      return NONEXIST_MAP error response (also needed in

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      [I-D.boucadair-pcp-failure]).

   o  If Protocol, External Port and External IP address match an
      existing implicit dynamic mapping, then the PCP server MUST build
      a QUERY response with the Internal IP address, Internal Port and
      the lifetime associated with the mapping.

   For EDM port-mapping NAT, the processing of the QUERY request is as
   follows:

   o  If any of the values Protocol, External Port, Remote Peer Port,
      External IP address and Remote Peer IP Address are zero, the
      request is invalid and PCP server MUST return a MALFORMED_REQUEST
      to the client.

   o  If Protocol, External Port, Remote Peer Port, External IP address
      and Remote Peer IP address do not match any existing implicit
      dynamic mapping then the PCP server MUST return NONEXIST_MAP error
      response (also needed in [I-D.boucadair-pcp-failure]).

   o  If Protocol, External Port, Remote Peer Port, External IP address
      and Remote Peer IP address matches an existing implicit dynamic
      mapping then the PCP server builds a QUERY response with the
      Internal IP address, Internal Port and the lifetime associated
      with the mapping.

   PCP QUERY requests received on the Internet-facing interface MUST be
   silently drooped.

   In DS-Lite context [RFC6333], the Internal IP address returned in the
   QUERY response MUST be the IPv6 address of the remote tunnel endpoint
   and not the internal private IPv4 address.

5.5.  Processing a QUERY Response

   After performing common PCP response processing by the PCP Client,
   the response is further matched with a previously-sent QUERY request
   by comparing the QUERY Nonce, External IP Address, External Port and
   Protocol.  On a SUCCESS response, the PCP Client can use the Internal
   IP Address and Port in the QUERY response as needed.

6.  Applicability Scope of QUERY OpCode

   The PCP-Reveal solution is designed for needs within one single
   administrative domain (i.e., the PCP Client and PCP Server are
   managed by the same entity).  Considerations related to the
   activation of the PCP-Reveal solution in an inter-domain context is

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   out of scope of this document.

7.  IANA Considerations

   Authors of this document request the following OpCode:

   o  QUERY

   The following error code is requested:

   o  NONEXIST_MAP

8.  Security Considerations

   Security considerations discussed in [I-D.ietf-pcp-base] are to be
   taken into account.  In particular, QUERY OpCode MUST NOT be
   implemented or used unless the network on which the PCP QUERY
   messages are to be sent is fully trusted.  For example if Access
   Control Lists (ACLs) are installed on the PCP server, and the network
   between the PCP client and the PCP server, so those ACLs allow only
   communications from a trusted PCP client to the PCP server.

   QUERY OpCode may be generated by non legitimate PCP Clients; the PCP
   Server MUST enforce some policies such as rate limit QUERY messages.
   QUERY requests received from non legitimate PCP Clients are silently
   dropped.

   PCP authentication [I-D.ietf-pcp-authentication] MAY be used.

9.  References

9.1.  Normative References

   [I-D.ietf-pcp-base]
              Wing, D., Cheshire, S., Boucadair, M., Penno, R., and P.
              Selkirk, "Port Control Protocol (PCP)",
              draft-ietf-pcp-base-29 (work in progress), November 2012.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [proto_numbers]
              IANA, "Protocol Numbers", 2010, <http://www.iana.org/
              assignments/protocol-numbers/protocol-numbers.xml>.

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9.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.boucadair-intarea-host-identifier-scenarios]
              Boucadair, M., Binet, D., Durel, S., and T. Reddy,
              "HOST_ID: Use Cases",
              draft-boucadair-intarea-host-identifier-scenarios-01 (work
              in progress), October 2012.

   [I-D.boucadair-pcp-failure]
              Boucadair, M., Dupont, F., and R. Penno, "Port Control
              Protocol (PCP) Failure Scenarios",
              draft-boucadair-pcp-failure-04 (work in progress),
              August 2012.

   [I-D.ietf-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis]
              Boucadair, M., Touch, J., Levis, P., and R. Penno,
              "Analysis of Solution Candidates to Reveal a Host
              Identifier (HOST_ID) in Shared Address Deployments",
              draft-ietf-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-04 (work in
              progress), August 2012.

   [I-D.ietf-pcp-authentication]
              Wasserman, M., Hartman, S., and D. Zhang, "Port Control
              Protocol (PCP) Authentication Mechanism",
              draft-ietf-pcp-authentication-01 (work in progress),
              October 2012.

   [RFC2753]  Yavatkar, R., Pendarakis, D., and R. Guerin, "A Framework
              for Policy-based Admission Control", RFC 2753,
              January 2000.

   [RFC6269]  Ford, M., Boucadair, M., Durand, A., Levis, P., and P.
              Roberts, "Issues with IP Address Sharing", RFC 6269,
              June 2011.

   [RFC6333]  Durand, A., Droms, R., Woodyatt, J., and Y. Lee, "Dual-
              Stack Lite Broadband Deployments Following IPv4
              Exhaustion", RFC 6333, August 2011.

   [RFC6342]  Koodli, R., "Mobile Networks Considerations for IPv6
              Deployment", RFC 6342, August 2011.

   [RFC6346]  Bush, R., "The Address plus Port (A+P) Approach to the
              IPv4 Address Shortage", RFC 6346, August 2011.

   [TS.23203]
              3GPP, "Policy and charging control architecture",
              September 2012.

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Authors' Addresses

   Mohamed Boucadair
   France Telecom
   Rennes,   35000
   France

   Email: mohamed.boucadair@orange.com

   Tirumaleswar Reddy
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   Cessna Business Park, Varthur Hobli
   Sarjapur Marathalli Outer Ring Road
   Bangalore, Karnataka  560103
   India

   Email: tireddy@cisco.com

   Prashanth Patil
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   Cessna Business Park, Varthur Hobli
   Sarjapur Marthalli Outer Ring Road
   Bangalore, Karnataka  560103
   India

   Email: praspati@cisco.com

   Dan Wing
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   170 West Tasman Drive
   San Jose, California  95134
   USA

   Email: dwing@cisco.com

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