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A Generic Discovery and Negotiation Protocol for Autonomic Networking
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Network Working Group                                       B. Carpenter
Internet-Draft                                         Univ. of Auckland
Intended status: Standards Track                                  B. Liu
Expires: August 23, 2015                    Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
                                                       February 19, 2015

 A Generic Discovery and Negotiation Protocol for Autonomic Networking
                 draft-carpenter-anima-gdn-protocol-02

Abstract

   This document establishes requirements for a protocol that enables
   intelligent devices to dynamically discover peer devices, to
   synchronize state with them, and to negotiate parameter settings
   mutually with them.  The document then defines a general protocol for
   discovery, synchronization and negotiation, while the technical
   objectives for specific scenarios are to be described in separate
   documents.  An Appendix briefly discusses existing protocols with
   comparable features.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  Requirement Analysis of Discovery, Synchronization and
       Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.1.  Requirements for Discovery  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.2.  Requirements for Synchronization and Negotiation
           Capability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.3.  Specific Technical Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   3.  GDNP Protocol Overview  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     3.1.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     3.2.  High-Level Design Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     3.3.  GDNP Protocol Basic Properties and Mechanisms . . . . . .  13
       3.3.1.  Discovery Mechanism and Procedures  . . . . . . . . .  13
       3.3.2.  Certificate-based Security Mechanism  . . . . . . . .  15
       3.3.3.  Negotiation Procedures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
       3.3.4.  Synchronization Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
     3.4.  GDNP Constants  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
     3.5.  Device Identifier and Certificate Tag . . . . . . . . . .  20
     3.6.  Session Identifier (Session ID) . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
     3.7.  GDNP Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
       3.7.1.  GDNP Message Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
       3.7.2.  Discovery Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
       3.7.3.  Response Message  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
       3.7.4.  Request Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
       3.7.5.  Negotiation Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
       3.7.6.  Negotiation-ending Message  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
       3.7.7.  Confirm-waiting Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
     3.8.  GDNP General Options  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
       3.8.1.  Format of GDNP Options  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
       3.8.2.  Divert Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
       3.8.3.  Accept Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26
       3.8.4.  Decline Option  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26
       3.8.5.  Waiting Time Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
       3.8.6.  Certificate Option  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  28
       3.8.7.  Signature Option  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  28
       3.8.8.  Locator Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
     3.9.  Objective Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
       3.9.1.  Format of Objective Options . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
       3.9.2.  General Considerations for Objective Options  . . . .  32
       3.9.3.  Organizing of Objective Options . . . . . . . . . . .  32
       3.9.4.  Vendor Specific Objective Options . . . . . . . . . .  33
       3.9.5.  Experimental Objective Options  . . . . . . . . . . .  34

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   4.  Items for Future Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
   5.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
   6.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
   7.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  39
   8.  Change log [RFC Editor: Please remove]  . . . . . . . . . . .  39
   9.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  40
     9.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  40
     9.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  40
   Appendix A.  Capability Analysis of Current Protocols . . . . . .  43
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  45

1.  Introduction

   The success of the Internet has made IP-based networks bigger and
   more complicated.  Large-scale ISP and enterprise networks have
   become more and more problematic for human based management.  Also,
   operational costs are growing quickly.  Consequently, there are
   increased requirements for autonomic behavior in the networks.
   General aspects of autonomic networks are discussed in
   [I-D.irtf-nmrg-autonomic-network-definitions] and
   [I-D.irtf-nmrg-an-gap-analysis].  In order to fulfil autonomy,
   devices that embody autonomic service agents need to be able to
   discover each other, to synchronize state with each other, and to
   negotiate parameters and resources directly with each other.  There
   is no restriction on the type of parameters and resources concerned,
   which include very basic information needed for addressing and
   routing, as well as anything else that might be configured in a
   conventional network.

   Following this Introduction, Section 2 describes the requirements for
   network device discovery, synchronization and negotiation.
   Negotiation is an iterative process, requiring multiple message
   exchanges forming a closed loop between the negotiating devices.
   State synchronization, when needed, can be regarded as a special case
   of negotiation, without iteration.  Section 3.2 describes a behavior
   model for a protocol intended to support discovery, synchronization
   and negotiation.  The design of Generic Discovery and Negotiation
   Protocol (GDNP) in Section 3 of this document is mainly based on this
   behavior model.  The relevant capabilities of various existing
   protocols are reviewed in Appendix A.

   The proposed discovery mechanism is oriented towards synchronization
   and negotiation objectives.  It is based on a neighbor discovery
   process, but also supports diversion to off-link peers.  Although
   many negotiations will occur between horizontally distributed peers,
   many target scenarios are hierarchical networks, which is the
   predominant structure of current large-scale networks.  However, when
   a device starts up with no pre-configuration, it has no knowledge of

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   a hierarchical superior.  The protocol itself is capable of being
   used in a small and/or flat network structure such as a small office
   or home network as well as a professionally managed network.
   Therefore, the discovery mechanism needs to be able to allow a device
   to bootstrap itself without making any prior assumptions about
   network structure.

   Because GDNP can be used to perform a decision process among
   distributed devices or between networks, it adopts a tight
   certificate-based security mechanism, which needs a Public Key
   Infrastructure (PKI) [RFC5280] system.  The PKI may be managed by an
   operator or be autonomic, as discussed in
   [I-D.pritikin-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra].

   It is understood that in realistic deployments, not all devices will
   support GDNP.  It is expected that some autonomic service agents will
   manage a group of non-autonomic nodes, and that other non-autonomic
   nodes will be managed traditionally.  Such mixed scenarios are not
   discussed in this specification.

2.  Requirement Analysis of Discovery, Synchronization and Negotiation

   This section discusses the requirements for discovery, negotiation
   and synchronization capabilities.

2.1.  Requirements for Discovery

   In an autonomic network we must assume that when a device starts up
   it has no information about any peer devices, the network structure,
   or what specific role it must play.  In some cases, when a new
   application session starts up within a device, the device may again
   lack information about relevant peer devices.  It might be necessary
   to set up resources on multiple other devices, coordinated and
   matched to each other so that there is no wasted resource.  Security
   settings might also need updating to allow for the new device or
   user.  Therefore a basic requirement is that there must be a
   mechanism by which a device can separately discover peer devices for
   each of the technical objectives that it needs to manage.  Some
   objectives may only be significant on the local link, but others may
   be significant across the routed network and require off-link
   operations.  Thus, the relevant peer devices might be immediate
   neighbors on the same layer 2 link or they might be more distant and
   only accessible via layer 3.  The mechanism must therefore support
   both on-link discovery and off-link discovery of peers that support
   specific technical objectives.

   The relevant peer devices may be different for different technical
   objectives.  Therefore discovery needs to be repeated as often as

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   necessary to find peers capable of acting as counterparts for each
   objective that a discovery initiator needs to handle.  In many
   scenarios, the discovery process may be followed by a synchronization
   or negotiation process.  Therefore, a discovery objective may be
   associated with one or more synchronization or negotiation
   objectives.

   When a device first starts up, it has no knowledge of the network
   structure.  Therefore the discovery process must be able to support
   any network scenario, assuming only that the device concerned is
   bootstrapped from factory condition.

   In some networks, as mentioned above, there will be some hierarchical
   structure, at least for certain synchronization or negotiation
   objectives.  A special case of discovery is that each device must be
   able to discover its hierarchical superior for each such objective
   that it is capable of handling.  This is part of the more general
   requirement to discover off-link devices.

   During initialisation, a device must be able to establish mutual
   trust with the rest of the network and join the PKI.  Although this
   must inevitably start with a discovery action, it is a special case
   precisely because trust is not yet established.  This topic is the
   subject of [I-D.pritikin-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra].  In addition,
   depending on the type of network involved, discovery of other central
   functions might be needed, such as the Network Operations Center
   (NOC) [I-D.eckert-anima-stable-connectivity].

2.2.  Requirements for Synchronization and Negotiation Capability

   We start by considering routing protocols, the closest approximation
   to autonomic networking in widespread use.  Routing protocols use a
   largely autonomic model based on distributed devices that communicate
   repeatedly with each other.  However, routing is mainly based on one-
   way information synchronization (in either direction), rather than on
   bi-directional negotiation.  The focus is reachability, so current
   routing protocols only consider simple link status, i.e., up or down.
   More information, such as latency, congestion, capacity, and
   particularly unused capacity, would be helpful to get better path
   selection and utilization rate.  Also, autonomic networks need to be
   able to manage many more dimensions, such as security settings, power
   saving, load balancing, etc.  A basic requirement for the protocol is
   therefore the ability to represent, discover, synchronize and
   negotiate almost any kind of network parameter.

   Human intervention in complex situations is costly and error-prone.
   Therefore, synchronization or negotiation of parameters without human
   intervention is desirable whenever the coordination of multiple

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   devices can improve overall network performance.  It follows that a
   requirement for the protocol is to be capable of running in any
   device that would otherwise need human intervention.

   Human intervention in large networks is often replaced by use of a
   top-down network management system (NMS).  It therefore follows that
   a requirement for the protocol is to be capable of running in any
   device that would otherwise be managed by an NMS, and that it can co-
   exist with an NMS.

   Since the goal is to minimize human intervention, it is necessary
   that the network can in effect "think ahead" before changing its
   parameters.  In other words there must be a possibility of
   forecasting the effect of a change by a "dry run" mechanism before
   actually installing the change.  This will be an application of the
   protocol rather than a feature of the protocol itself.

   Status information and traffic metrics need to be shared between
   nodes for dynamic adjustment of resources and for monitoring
   purposes.  While this might be achieved by existing protocols when
   they are available, the new protocol needs to be able to support
   parameter exchange, including mutual synchronization, even when no
   negotiation as such is required.

   Recovery from faults and identification of faulty devices should be
   as automatic as possible.  However, the protocol's role is limited to
   the ability to handle discovery, synchronization and negotiation at
   any time, in case an autonomic service agent detects an anomaly such
   as a negotiation counterpart failing.

   Management logging, monitoring, alerts and tools for intervention are
   required.  However, these can only be features of individual
   autonomic service agents.  Another document
   [I-D.eckert-anima-stable-connectivity] discusses how such agents may
   be linked into conventional OAM systems via an Autonomic Control
   Plane [I-D.behringer-anima-autonomic-control-plane].

   The protocol needs to be able to deal with a wide variety of
   technical objectives, covering any type of network parameter.
   Therefore the protocol will need either an explicit information model
   describing its messages, or at least a flexible and extensible
   message format.  One design consideration is whether to adopt an
   existing information model or to design a new one.  Another
   consideration is whether it should be able to carry some or all of
   the message formats used by existing configuration protocols.

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2.3.  Specific Technical Requirements

   To be a generic platform, the protocol payload format should be
   independent of the transport protocol or IP version.  In particular,
   it should be able to run over IPv6 or IPv4.  However, some functions,
   such as multicasting or broadcasting on a link, might need to be IP
   version dependent.  In case of doubt, IPv6 should be preferred.

   The protocol must be able to access off-link counterparts via
   routable addresses, i.e., must not be restricted to link-local
   operation.

   The negotiation process must be guaranteed to terminate (with success
   or failure) and if necessary it must contain tie-breaking rules for
   each technical objective that requires them.  While this must be
   defined specifically for each use case, the protocol should have some
   general mechanisms in support of loop and deadlock prevention.

   Dependencies: In order to decide a configuration on a given device,
   the device may need information from neighbors.  This can be
   established through the negotiation procedure, or through
   synchronization if that is sufficient.  However, a given item in a
   neighbor may depend on other information from its own neighbors,
   which may need another negotiation or synchronization procedure to
   obtain or decide.  Therefore, there are potential dependencies among
   negotiation or synchronization procedures.  Thus, there need to be
   clear boundaries and convergence mechanisms for these negotiation
   dependencies.  Also some mechanisms are needed to avoid loop
   dependencies.

   Policy constraints: There must be provision for general policy intent
   rules to be applied by all devices in the network (e.g., security
   rules, prefix length, resource sharing rules).  However, policy
   intent distribution might not use the negotiation protocol itself.

   Management monitoring, alerts and intervention: Devices should be
   able to report to a monitoring system.  Some events must be able to
   generate operator alerts and some provision for emergency
   intervention must be possible (e.g.  to freeze synchronization or
   negotiation in a mis-behaving device).  These features may not use
   the negotiation protocol itself.

   The protocol needs to be fully secure against forged messages and
   man-in-the middle attacks, and as secure as reasonably possible
   against denial of service attacks.  It needs to be capable of
   encryption in order to resist unwanted monitoring, although this
   capability may not be required in all deployments.

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3.  GDNP Protocol Overview

3.1.  Terminology

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
   [RFC2119] when they appear in ALL CAPS.  When these words are not in
   ALL CAPS (such as "should" or "Should"), they have their usual
   English meanings, and are not to be interpreted as [RFC2119] key
   words.

   The following terms are used throughout this document:

   o  Discovery: a process by which a device discovers peer devices
      according to a specific discovery objective.  The discovery
      results may be different according to the different discovery
      objectives.  The discovered peer devices may later be used as
      negotiation counterparts or as sources of synchronization data.

   o  Negotiation: a process by which two (or more) devices interact
      iteratively to agree on parameter settings that best satisfy the
      objectives of one or more devices.

   o  State Synchronization: a process by which two (or more) devices
      interact to agree on the current state of parameter values stored
      in each device.  This is a special case of negotiation in which
      information is sent but the devices do not request their peers to
      change parameter settings.  All other definitions apply to both
      negotiation and synchronization.

   o  Objective: An objective in GDNP is a configurable state of some
      kind, which occurs in three contexts: Discovery, Negotiation and
      Synchronization.  In the protocol, an objective is represented by
      an identifier (actually a GDNP option number) and if relevant a
      value.  Normally, a given objective will occur during discovery
      and negotiation, or during discovery and synchronization, but not
      in all three contexts.

      *  One device may support multiple independent objectives.

      *  The parameter described by a given objective is naturally based
         on a specific service or function or action.  It may in
         principle be anything that can be set to a specific logical,
         numerical or string value, or a more complex data structure, by
         a network node.  That node is generally expected to be an
         autonomic service agent which may itself manage other nodes.

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      *  Discovery Objective: if a node needs to synchronize or
         negotiate a specific objective but does not know a peer that
         supports this objective, it starts a discovery process.  The
         objective is called a Discovery Objective during this process.

      *  Synchronization Objective: an objective whose specific
         technical content needs to be synchronized among two or more
         devices.

      *  Negotiation Objective: an objective whose specific technical
         content needs to be decided in coordination with another
         network device.

   o  Discovery Initiator: a device that spontaneously starts discovery
      by sending a discovery message referring to a specific discovery
      objective.

   o  Discovery Responder: a peer device which responds to the discovery
      objective initiated by the discovery initiator.

   o  Synchronization Initiator: a device that spontaneously starts
      synchronization by sending a request message referring to a
      specific synchronization objective.

   o  Synchronization Responder: a peer device which responds with the
      value of a synchronization objective.

   o  Negotiation Initiator: a device that spontaneously starts
      negotiation by sending a request message referring to a specific
      negotiation objective.

   o  Negotiation Counterpart: a peer device with which the Negotiation
      Initiator negotiates a specific negotiation objective.

   o  Device Identifier: a public key, which identifies the device in
      GDNP messages.  It is assumed that its associated private key is
      maintained in the device only.

   o  Device Certificate: A certificate for a single device, also the
      identifier of the device, further described in Section 3.5.

   o  Device Certificate Tag: a tag, which is bound to the device
      identifier.  It is used to present a Device Certificate in short
      form.

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3.2.  High-Level Design Choices

   This section describes a behavior model and some considerations for
   designing a generic discovery, synchronization and negotiation
   protocol, which can act as a platform for different technical
   objectives.

   NOTE: This protocol is described here in a stand-alone fashion as a
   proof of concept.  An elementary version has been prototyped by
   Huawei and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
   However, this is not yet a definitive proposal for IETF adoption.  In
   particular, adaptation and extension of one of the protocols
   discussed in Appendix A might be an option.  Also, the security model
   outlined below would in practice be part of a general security
   mechanism in an autonomic control plane
   [I-D.behringer-anima-autonomic-control-plane].  This whole
   specification is subject to change as a result.

   o  A generic platform

      The protocol is designed as a generic platform, which is
      independent from the synchronization or negotiation contents.  It
      takes care of the general intercommunication between counterparts.
      The technical contents will vary according to the various
      synchronization or negotiation objectives and the different pairs
      of counterparts.

   o  Security infrastructure and trust relationship

      Because this negotiation protocol may directly cause changes to
      device configurations and bring significant impacts to a running
      network, this protocol is based on a restrictive security
      infrastructure, allowing it to be trusted and monitored so that
      every device in this negotiation system behaves well and remains
      well protected.

      On the other hand, a limited negotiation model might be deployed
      based on a limited trust relationship.  For example, between two
      administrative domains, devices might also exchange limited
      information and negotiate some particular configurations based on
      a limited conventional or contractual trust relationship.

   o  Discovery, synchronization and negotiation designed together

      The discovery method and the synchronization and negotiation
      methods are designed in the same way and can be combined when this

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      is useful.  These processes can also be performed independently
      when appropriate.

   o  A uniform pattern for technical contents

      The synchronization and negotiation contents are defined according
      to a uniform pattern.  They could be carried either in simple TLV
      (Type, Length and Value) format or in payloads described by a
      flexible language.  The initial protocol design uses the TLV
      approach.  The format is extensible for unknown future
      requirements.

   o  A conservative model for synchronization

      Synchronization across a number of nodes is not a new problem and
      the Trickle model that is already known to be effective and
      efficient is suggested.

   o  A simple initiator/responder model for negotiation

      Multi-party negotiations are too complicated to be modeled and
      there might be too many dependencies among the parties to converge
      efficiently.  A simple initiator/responder model is more feasible
      and can complete multiple-party negotiations by indirect steps.

   o  Organizing of synchronization or negotiation content

      Naturally, the technical content will be organized according to
      the relevant function or service.  The content from different
      functions or services is kept independent from each other.  They
      are not combined into a single option or single session because
      these contents may be negotiated or synchronized with different
      counterparts or may be different in response time.

   o  Self aware network device

      Every network device will be pre-loaded with various functions and
      be aware of its own capabilities, typically decided by the
      hardware, firmware or pre-installed software.  Its exact role may
      depend on the surrounding network behaviors, which may include
      forwarding behaviors, aggregation properties, topology location,
      bandwidth, tunnel or translation properties, etc.  The surrounding
      topology will depend on the network planning.  Following an

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      initial discovery phase, the device properties and those of its
      neighbors are the foundation of the synchronization or negotiation
      behavior of a specific device.  A device has no pre-configuration
      for the particular network in which it is installed.

   o  Requests and responses in negotiation procedures

      The initiator can negotiate with its relevant negotiation
      counterpart devices, which may be different according to the
      specific negotiation objective.  It can request relevant
      information from the negotiation counterpart so that it can decide
      its local configuration to give the most coordinated performance.
      It can request the negotiation counterpart to make a matching
      configuration in order to set up a successful communication with
      it.  It can request certain simulation or forecast results by
      sending some dry run conditions.

      Beyond the traditional yes/no answer, the responder can reply with
      a suggested alternative if its answer is 'no'.  This would start a
      bi-directional negotiation ending in a compromise between the two
      devices.

   o  Convergence of negotiation procedures

      To enable convergence, when a responder makes a suggestion of a
      changed condition in a negative reply, it should be as close as
      possible to the original request or previous suggestion.  The
      suggested value of the third or later negotiation steps should be
      chosen between the suggested values from the last two negotiation
      steps.  In any case there must be a mechanism to guarantee
      convergence (or failure) in a small number of steps, such as a
      timeout or maximum number of iterations.

      *  End of negotiation

         A limited number of rounds, for example three, or a timeout, is
         needed on each device for each negotiation objective.  It may
         be an implementation choice, a pre-configurable parameter, or a
         network-wide policy intent.  These choices might vary between
         different types of autonomic service agent.  Therefore, the
         definition of each negotiation objective MUST clearly specify
         this, so that the negotiation can always be terminated
         properly.

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      *  Failed negotiation

         There must be a well-defined procedure for concluding that a
         negotiation cannot succeed, and if so deciding what happens
         next (deadlock resolution, tie-breaking, or revert to best-
         effort service).  Again, this MUST be specified for individual
         negotiation objectives, as an implementation choice, a pre-
         configurable parameter, or a network-wide policy intent.

3.3.  GDNP Protocol Basic Properties and Mechanisms

3.3.1.  Discovery Mechanism and Procedures

   o  Separated discovery and negotiation mechanisms

         Although discovery and negotiation or synchronization are
         defined together in the GDNP, they are separated mechanisms.
         The discovery process could run independently from the
         negotiation or synchronization process.  Upon receiving a
         discovery (Section 3.7.2) or request (Section 3.7.4) message,
         the recipient device should return a message in which it either
         indicates itself as a discovery responder or diverts the
         initiator towards another more suitable device.

         The discovery action will normally be followed by a negotiation
         or synchronization action.  The discovery results could be
         utilized by the negotiation protocol to decide which device the
         initiator will negotiate with.

   o  Discovery Procedures

         Discovery starts as an on-link operation.  The Divert option
         can tell the discovery initiator to contact an off-link
         discovery objective device.  Every DISCOVERY message is sent by
         a discovery initiator via UDP to the ALL_GDNP_NEIGHBOR
         multicast address (Section 3.4).  Every network device that
         supports the GDNP always listens to a well-known UDP port to
         capture the discovery messages.

         If the neighbor device supports the requested discovery
         objective, it MAY respond with a Response message
         (Section 3.7.3) with locator option(s).  Otherwise, if the
         neigbor device has cached information about a device that
         supports the requested discovery objective (usually because it
         discovered the same objective before), it SHOULD respond with a
         Response message with a Divert option pointing to the
         appropriate Discovery Responder.

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         If no discovery response is received within a reasonable
         timeout (default GDNP_DEF_TIMEOUT milliseconds, Section 3.4),
         the DISCOVERY message MAY be repeated, with a newly generated
         Session ID (Section 3.6).  An exponential backoff MAY be used
         for subsequent repetitions.

         After a GDNP device successfully discovers a Discovery
         Responder supporting a specific objective, it MUST cache this
         information.  This cache record MAY be used for future
         negotiation or synchronization, and SHOULD be passed on when
         appropriate as a Divert option to another Discovery Initiator.
         The cache lifetime is an implementation choice.

         If multiple Discovery Responders are found for the same
         objective, they SHOULD all be cached, unless this creates a
         resource shortage.  The method of choosing between multiple
         responders is an implementation choice.

         A GDNP device with multiple link-layer interfaces (typically a
         router) MUST support discovery on all interfaces.  If it
         receives a DISCOVERY message on a given interface for a
         specific objective that it does not support and for which it
         has not previously discovered a Discovery Responder, it MUST
         relay the query by re-issuing the same DISCOVERY message on its
         other interfaces.  However, it SHOULD limit the total rate at
         which it relays discovery messages to a reasonable value.  It
         MUST cache the Session ID value of each relayed discovery
         message and, to prevent loops, MUST NOT relay a DISCOVERY
         message which carries such a cached Session ID.

         This relayed discovery mechanism, with caching of the results,
         should be sufficient to support most network bootstrapping
         scenarios.

   o  A complete discovery process will start with multicast on the
      local link; a neighbor might divert it to an off-link destination,
      which could be a default higher-level gateway in a hierarchical
      network.  Then discovery would continue with a unicast to that
      gateway; if that gateway is still not the right counterpart, it
      should divert to another device, which is in principle closer to
      the right counterpart.  Finally the right counterpart responds to
      start the negotiation or synchronization process.

   o  Rapid Mode (Discovery/Negotiation binding)

         A Discovery message MAY include one or more Negotiation
         Objective option(s).  This allows a rapid mode of negotiation

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         described in Section 3.3.3.  A similar mechanism is defined for
         synchronization.

3.3.2.  Certificate-based Security Mechanism

   A certificate-based security mechanism provides security properties
   for GDNP:

   o  the identity of a GDNP message sender can be verified by a
      recipient.

   o  the integrity of a GDNP message can be checked by the recipient of
      the message.

   o  anti-replay protection can be assured by the GDNP message
      recipient.

   The authority of the GDNP message sender depends on a Public Key
   Infrastructure (PKI) system with a Certification Authority (CA),
   which should normally be run by the network operator.  In the case of
   a network with no operator, such as a small office or home network,
   the PKI itself needs to be established by an autonomic process, which
   is out of scope for this specification.

   A Request message MUST carry a Certificate option, defined in
   Section 3.8.6.  The first Negotiation Message, responding to a
   Request message, SHOULD also carry a Certificate option.  Using these
   messages, recipients build their certificate stores, indexed by the
   Device Certificate Tags included in every GDNP message.  This process
   is described in more detail below.

   Every message MUST carry a signature option (Section 3.8.7).

   For now, the authors do not think packet size is a problem.  In this
   GDNP specification, there SHOULD NOT be multiple certificates in a
   single message.  The current most used public keys are 1024/2048
   bits; some may reach 4096.  With overhead included, a single
   certificate is less than 500 bytes.  Messages are expected to be far
   shorter than the normal packet MTU within a modern network.

3.3.2.1.  Support for algorithm agility

   Hash functions are used to provide message integrity checks.  In
   order to provide a means of addressing problems that may emerge in
   the future with existing hash algorithms, as recommended in
   [RFC4270], a mechanism for negotiating the use of more secure hashes
   in the future is provided.

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   In addition to hash algorithm agility, a mechanism for signature
   algorithm agility is also provided.

   The support for algorithm agility in this document is mainly a
   unilateral notification mechanism from sender to recipient.  If the
   recipient does not support the algorithm used by the sender, it
   cannot authenticate the message.  Senders in a single administrative
   domain are not required to upgrade to a new algorithm simultaneously.

   So far, the algorithm agility is supported by one-way notification,
   rather than negotiation mode.  As defined in Section 3.8.7, the
   sender notifies the recipient what hash/signature algorithms it uses.
   If the responder doesn't know a new algorithm used by the sender, the
   negotiation request would fail.  In order to establish a negotiation
   session, the sender MAY fall back to an older, less preferred
   algorithm.  Certificates and network policy intent SHOULD limit the
   choice of algorithms.

3.3.2.2.  Message validation on reception

   When receiving a GDNP message, a recipient MUST discard the GDNP
   message if the Signature option is absent, or the Certificate option
   is in a Request Message.

   For the Request message and the Response message with a Certification
   Option, the recipient MUST first check the authority of this sender
   following the rules defined in [RFC5280].  After successful authority
   validation, an implementation MUST add the sender's certification
   into the local trust certificate record indexed by the associated
   Device Certificate Tag (Section 3.5).

   The recipient MUST now authenticate the sender by verifying the
   Signature and checking a timestamp, as specified in Section 3.3.2.3.
   The order of two procedures is left as an implementation decision.
   It is RECOMMENDED to check timestamp first, because signature
   verification is much more computationally expensive.

   The signature field verification MUST show that the signature has
   been calculated as specified in Section 3.8.7.  The public key used
   for signature validation is obtained from the certificate either
   carried by the message or found from a local trust certificate record
   by searching the message-carried Device Certificate Tag.

   Only the messages that get through both the signature verifications
   and timestamp check are accepted and continue to be handled for their
   contained GDNP options.  Messages that do not pass the above tests
   MUST be discarded as insecure messages.

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3.3.2.3.  TimeStamp checking

   Recipients SHOULD be configured with an allowed timestamp Delta
   value, a "fuzz factor" for comparisons, and an allowed clock drift
   parameter.  The recommended default value for the allowed Delta is
   300 seconds (5 minutes); for fuzz factor 1 second; and for clock
   drift, 0.01 second.

   The timestamp is defined in the Signature Option, Section 3.8.7.  To
   facilitate timestamp checking, each recipient SHOULD store the
   following information for each sender:

   o  The receive time of the last received and accepted GDNP message.
      This is called RDlast.

   o  The time stamp in the last received and accepted GDNP message.
      This is called TSlast.

   An accepted GDNP message is any successfully verified (for both
   timestamp check and signature verification) GDNP message from the
   given peer.  It initiates the update of the above variables.
   Recipients MUST then check the Timestamp field as follows:

   o  When a message is received from a new peer (i.e., one that is not
      stored in the cache), the received timestamp, TSnew, is checked,
      and the message is accepted if the timestamp is recent enough to
      the reception time of the packet, RDnew:

         -Delta < (RDnew - TSnew) < +Delta

      The RDnew and TSnew values SHOULD be stored in the cache as RDlast
      and TSlast.

   o  When a message is received from a known peer (i.e., one that
      already has an entry in the cache), the timestamp is checked
      against the previously received GDNP message:

         TSnew + fuzz > TSlast + (RDnew - RDlast) x (1 - drift) - fuzz

      If this inequality does not hold, the recipient SHOULD silently
      discard the message.  If, on the other hand, the inequality holds,
      the recipient SHOULD process the message.

      Moreover, if the above inequality holds and TSnew > TSlast, the
      recipient SHOULD update RDlast and TSlast.  Otherwise, the
      recipient MUST NOT update RDlast or TSlast.

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   An implementation MAY use some mechanism such as a timestamp cache to
   strengthen resistance to replay attacks.  When there is a very large
   number of nodes on the same link, or when a cache filling attack is
   in progress, it is possible that the cache holding the most recent
   timestamp per sender will become full.  In this case, the node MUST
   remove some entries from the cache or refuse some new requested
   entries.  The specific policy as to which entries are preferred over
   others is left as an implementation decision.

3.3.3.  Negotiation Procedures

   A negotiation initiator sends a negotiation request to a counterpart
   device, including a specific negotiation objective.  It may request
   the negotiation counterpart to make a specific configuration.
   Alternatively, it may request a certain simulation or forecast result
   by sending a dry run configuration.  The details, including the
   distinction between dry run and an actual configuration change, will
   be defined separately for each type of negotiation objective.

   If the counterpart can immediately apply the requested configuration,
   it will give an immediate positive (accept) answer.  This will end
   the negotiation phase immediately.  Otherwise, it will negotiate.  It
   will reply with a proposed alternative configuration that it can
   apply (typically, a configuration that uses fewer resources than
   requested by the negotiation initiator).  This will start a bi-
   directional negotiation to reach a compromise between the two network
   devices.

   The negotiation procedure is ended when one of the negotiation peers
   sends a Negotiation Ending message, which contains an accept or
   decline option and does not need a response from the negotiation
   peer.  Negotiation may also end in failure (equivalent to a decline)
   if a timeout is exceeded or a loop count is exceeded.

   A negotiation procedure concerns one objective and one counterpart.
   Both the initiator and the counterpart may take part in simultaneous
   negotiations with various other devices, or in simultaneous
   negotiations about different objectives.  Thus, GDNP is expected to
   be used in a multi-threaded mode.  Certain negotiation objectives may
   have restrictions on multi-threading, for example to avoid over-
   allocating resources.

   Rapid Mode (Discovery/Negotiation linkage)

      A Discovery message MAY include a Negotiation Objective option.
      In this case the Discovery message also acts as a Request message
      to indicate to the Discovery Responder that it could directly
      reply to the Discovery Initiator with a Negotiation message for

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      rapid processing, if it could act as the corresponding negotiation
      counterpart.  However, the indication is only advisory not
      prescriptive.

      This rapid mode could reduce the interactions between nodes so
      that a higher efficiency could be achieved.  This rapid
      negotiation function SHOULD be configured off by default and MAY
      be configured on or off by policy intent.

3.3.4.  Synchronization Procedure

   A synchronization initiator sends a synchronization request to a
   counterpart device, including a specific synchronization objective.
   The counterpart responds with a Response message containing the
   current value of the requested synchronization objective.  No further
   messages are needed.  If no Response message is received, the
   synchronization request MAY be repeated after a suitable timeout.

   In the case just described, the message exchange is unicast and
   concerns only one synchronization objective.  In the following two
   cases, multiple synchronization objectives may be combined.

   A synchronization responder MAY send an unsolicited Response message
   containing one or more Synchronization Objective option(s), if and
   only if the specification of those objectives permits it.  This MAY
   be sent as a multicast message to the ALL_GDNP_NEIGHBOR multicast
   address (Section 3.4).  In this case a suitable mechanism is needed
   to avoid excessive multicast traffic.  This mechanism MUST be defined
   as part of the specification of the synchronization objective(s)
   concerned.  It might be a simple rate limit or a more complex
   mechanism such as the Trickle algorithm [RFC6206].

   Rapid Mode (Discovery/Synchronization linkage)

      A Discovery message MAY include one or more Synchronization
      Objective option(s).  In this case the Discovery message also acts
      as a Request message to indicate to the Discovery Responder that
      it could directly reply to the Discovery Initiator with a Response
      message with synchronization data for rapid processing, if the
      discovery target supports the corresponding synchronization
      objective.  However, the indication is only advisory not
      prescriptive.

      This rapid mode could reduce the interactions between nodes so
      that a higher efficiency could be achieved.  This rapid
      synchronization function SHOULD be configured off by default and
      MAY be configured on or off by policy intent.

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3.4.  GDNP Constants

   o  ALL_GDNP_NEIGHBOR (TBD1)

      A link-local scope multicast address used by a GDNP-enabled device
      to discover GDNP-enabled neighbor (i.e., on-link) devices . All
      devices that support GDNP are members of this multicast group.

      *  IPv6 multicast address: TBD1

      *  IPv4 multicast address: TBD2

   o  GDNP Listen Port (TBD3)

      A UDP and TCP port that every GDNP-enabled network device always
      listens to.

   o  GDNP_DEF_TIMEOUT (60000 milliseconds)

      The default timeout used to determine that a discovery or
      negotiation has failed to complete.

   o  GDNP_DEF_LOOPCT (6)

      The default loop count used to determine that a negotiation has
      failed to complete.

3.5.  Device Identifier and Certificate Tag

   A GDNP-enabled Device MUST generate a stable public/private key pair
   before it participates in GDNP.  There MUST NOT be any way of
   accessing the private key via the network or an operator interface.
   The device then uses the public key as its identifier, which is
   cryptographic in nature.  It is a GDNP unique identifier for a GDNP
   participant.

   It then gets a certificate for this public key, signed by a
   Certificate Authority that is trusted by other network devices.  The
   Certificate Authority SHOULD be managed within the local
   administrative domain, to avoid needing to trust a third party.  The
   signed certificate would be used for authentication of the message
   sender.  In a managed network, this certification process could be
   performed at a central location before the device is physically
   installed at its intended location.  In an unmanaged network, this
   process must be autonomic, including the bootstrap phase.

   A 128-bit Device Certifcate Tag, which is generated by taking a
   cryptographic hash over the device certificate, is a short

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   presentation for GDNP messages.  It is the index key to find the
   device certificate in a recipient's local trusted certificate record.

   The tag value is formed by taking a SHA-1 hash algorithm [RFC3174]
   over the corresponding device certificate and taking the leftmost 128
   bits of the hash result.

3.6.  Session Identifier (Session ID)

   A 24-bit opaque value used to distinguish multiple sessions between
   the same two devices.  A new Session ID MUST be generated for every
   new Discovery or Request message, and for every unsolicited Response
   message.  All follow-up messages in the same discovery,
   synchronization or negotiation procedure, which is initiated by the
   request message, MUST carry the same Session ID.

   The Session ID SHOULD have a very low collision rate locally.  It is
   RECOMMENDED to be generated by a pseudo-random algorithm using a seed
   which is unlikely to be used by any other device in the same network
   [RFC4086].

3.7.  GDNP Messages

   This document defines the following GDNP message format and types.
   Message types not listed here are reserved for future use.  The
   numeric encoding for each message type is shown in parentheses.

3.7.1.  GDNP Message Format

   All GDNP messages share an identical fixed format header and a
   variable format area for options.  Every Message carries the Device
   Certificate Tag of its sender and a Session ID.  Options are
   presented serially in the options field, with no padding between the
   options.  Options are byte-aligned.

   The following diagram illustrates the format of GDNP messages:

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    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | MESSAGE_TYPE  |                Session ID                     |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                                                               |
   |                   Device Certificate Tag                      |
   |                                                               |
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                        Options  (variable length)             |
   .                                                               .
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   MESSAGE_TYPE:  Identifies the GDNP message type. 8-bit.

   Session ID:  Identifies this negotiation session, as defined in
      Section 3.6. 24-bit.

   Device Certificate Tag:  Represents the Device Certificate, which
      identifies the negotiation devices, as defined in Section 3.5.
      The Device Certificate Tag is 128 bit, also defined in
      Section 3.5.  It is used as index key to find the device
      certificate.

   Options:  GDNP Options carried in this message.  Options are defined
      starting at Section 3.8.

3.7.2.  Discovery Message

   DISCOVERY (MESSAGE_TYPE = 1):

   A discovery initiator sends a DISCOVERY message to initiate a
   discovery process.

   The discovery initiator sends the DISCOVERY messages to the link-
   local ALL_GDNP_NEIGHBOR multicast address for discovery, and stores
   the discovery results (including responding discovery objectives and
   corresponding unicast addresses or FQDNs).

   A DISCOVERY message MUST include exactly one of the following:

   o  a discovery objective option (Section 3.9.1).

   o  a negotiation objective option (Section 3.9.1) to indicate to the
      discovery target that it MAY directly reply to the discovery
      initiatior with a NEGOTIATION message for rapid processing, if it
      could act as the corresponding negotiation counterpart.  The

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      sender of such a DISCOVERY message MUST initialize a negotiation
      timer and loop count in the same way as a REQUEST message
      (Section 3.7.4).

   o  one or more synchronization objective options (Section 3.9.1) to
      indicate to the discovery target that it MAY directly reply to the
      discovery initiator with a RESPONSE message for rapid processing,
      if it could act as the corresponding synchronization counterpart.

3.7.3.  Response Message

   RESPONSE (MESSAGE_TYPE = 2):

   A node which receives a DISCOVERY message sends a Response message to
   respond to a discovery.  It MUST contain the same Session ID as the
   DISCOVERY message.  It MAY include a copy of the discovery objective
   from the DISCOVERY message.

   If the responding node supports the discovery objective of the
   discovery, it MUST include at least one kind of locator option
   (Section 3.8.8) to indicate its own location.  A combination of
   multiple kinds of locator options (e.g.  IP address option + FQDN
   option) is also valid.

   If the responding node itself does not support the discovery
   objective, but it knows the locator of the discovery objective, then
   it SHOULD respond to the discovery message with a divert option
   (Section 3.8.2) embedding a locator option or a combination of
   multiple kinds of locator options which indicate the locator(s) of
   the discovery objective.

   A node which receives a synchronization request sends a Response
   message with the synchronization data.  A node MAY send an
   unsolicited Response Message with synchronization data and this MAY
   be sent to the link-local ALL_GDNP_NEIGHBOR multicast address, in
   accordance with the rules in Section 3.3.4.

   If the response contains synchronization data, this will be in the
   form of GDNP Option(s) for the specific synchronization objective(s).

3.7.4.  Request Message

   REQUEST (MESSAGE_TYPE = 3):

   A negotiation or synchronization requesting node sends the REQUEST
   message to the unicast address (directly stored or resolved from the
   FQDN) of the negotiation or synchronization counterpart (selected
   from the discovery results).

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   A request message MUST include the relevant objective option, with
   the requested value in the case of negotiation.

   When an initiator sends a REQUEST message, it MUST initialize a
   negotiation timer for the new negotiation thread with the value
   GDNP_DEF_TIMEOUT milliseconds.  Unless this timeout is modified by a
   CONFIRM-WAITING message (Section 3.7.7), the initiator will consider
   that the negotiation has failed when the timer expires.

   When an initiator sends a REQUEST message, it MUST initialize the
   loop count of the objective option with a value defined in the
   specification of the option or, if no such value is specified, with
   GDNP_DEF_LOOPCT.

3.7.5.  Negotiation Message

   NEGOTIATION (MESSAGE_TYPE = 4):

   A negotiation counterpart sends a NEGOTIATION message in response to
   a REQUEST message, a NEGOTIATION message, or a DISCOVERY message in
   Rapid Mode.  A negotiation process MAY include multiple steps.

   The NEGOTIATION message MUST include the relevant Negotiation
   Objective option, with its value updated according to progress in the
   negotiation.  The sender MUST decrement the loop count by 1.  If the
   loop count becomes zero both parties will consider that the
   negotiation has failed.

3.7.6.  Negotiation-ending Message

   NEGOTIATION-ENDING (MESSAGE_TYPE = 5):

   A negotiation counterpart sends an NEGOTIATION-ENDING message to
   close the negotiation.  It MUST contain one, but only one of accept/
   decline option, defined in Section 3.8.3 and Section 3.8.4.  It could
   be sent either by the requesting node or the responding node.

3.7.7.  Confirm-waiting Message

   CONFIRM-WAITING (MESSAGE_TYPE = 6):

   A responding node sends a CONFIRM-WAITING message to indicate the
   requesting node to wait for a further negotiation response.  It might
   be that the local process needs more time or that the negotiation
   depends on another triggered negotiation.  This message MUST NOT
   include any other options than the Waiting Time Option
   (Section 3.8.5).

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3.8.  GDNP General Options

   This section defines the GDNP general option for the negotiation and
   synchronization protocol signalling.  Option types 10~63 are reserved
   for GDNP general options defined in the future.

3.8.1.  Format of GDNP Options

    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |          option-code          |           option-len          |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                          option-data                          |
   |                      (option-len octets)                      |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Option-code:  An unsigned integer identifying the specific option
      type carried in this option.

   Option-len:  An unsigned integer giving the length of the option-data
      field in this option in octets.

   Option-data:  The data for the option; the format of this data
      depends on the definition of the option.

   GDNP options are scoped by using encapsulation.  If an option
   contains other options, the outer Option-len includes the total size
   of the encapsulated options, and the latter apply only to the outer
   option.

3.8.2.  Divert Option

   The divert option is used to redirect a GDNP request to another node,
   which may be more appropriate for the intended negotiation or
   synchronization.  It may redirect to an entity that is known as a
   specific negotiation or synchronization counterpart (on-link or off-
   link) or a default gateway.  The divert option MUST only be
   encapsulated in Response messages.  If found elsewhere, it SHOULD be
   silently ignored.

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    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |         OPTION_DIVERT         |           option-len          |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |             Locator Option(s) of Diversion Device(s)          |
   .                                                               .
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Option-code:  OPTION_DIVERT (1).

   Option-len:  The total length of diverted destination sub-option(s)
      in octets.

   Locator Option(s) of Diversion Device(s):  Embedded Locator Option(s)
      (Section 3.8.8) that point to diverted destination device(s).

3.8.3.  Accept Option

   The accept option is used to indicate to the negotiation counterpart
   that the proposed negotiation content is accepted.

   The accept option MUST only be encapsulated in Negotiation-ending
   messages.  If found elsewhere, it SHOULD be silently ignored.

    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |        OPTION_ACCEPT          |           option-len          |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Option-code:  OPTION_ACCEPT (2)

   Option-len:  0

3.8.4.  Decline Option

   The decline option is used to indicate to the negotiation counterpart
   the proposed negotiation content is declined and end the negotiation
   process.

   The decline option MUST only be encapsulated in Negotiation-ending
   messages.  If found elsewhere, it SHOULD be silently ignored.

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    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |        OPTION_DECLINE         |           option-len          |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Option-code:  OPTION_DECLINE (3)

   Option-len:  0

   Notes: there are scenarios where a negotiation counterpart wants to
   decline the proposed negotiation content and continue the negotiation
   process.  For these scenarios, the negotiation counterpart SHOULD use
   a Negotiate message, with either an objective option that contains at
   least one data field with all bits set to 1 to indicate a meaningless
   initial value, or a specific objective option that provides further
   conditions for convergence.

3.8.5.  Waiting Time Option

   The waiting time option is used to indicate that the negotiation
   counterpart needs to wait for a further negotiation response, since
   the processing might need more time than usual or it might depend on
   another triggered negotiation.

   The waiting time option MUST only be encapsulated in Confirm-waiting
   messages.  If found elsewhere, it SHOULD be silently ignored.  When
   received, its value overwrites the negotiation timer (Section 3.7.4).

   The counterpart SHOULD send a Negotiation, Negotiation-Ending or
   another Confirm-waiting message before the negotiation timer expires.
   If not, the initiator MUST abandon or restart the negotiation
   procedure, to avoid an indefinite wait.

    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |       OPTION_WAITING          |           option-len          |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                              Time                             |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Option-code:  OPTION_WAITING (4)

   Option-len:  4, in octets

   Time:  Time in milliseconds

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3.8.6.  Certificate Option

   The Certificate option carries the certificate of the sender.  The
   format of the Certificate option is as follows:

      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
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |       OPTION Certificate      |           option-len          |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                                                               |
     .                    Certificate (variable length)              .
     .                                                               .
     |                                                               |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Option-code:  OPTION_CERT_PARAMETER (5)

   Option-len:  Length of certificate in octets

   Public key:  A variable-length field containing a certificate

3.8.7.  Signature Option

   The Signature option allows public key-based signatures to be
   attached to a GDNP message.  The Signature option is REQUIRED in
   every GDNP message and could be any place within the GDNP message.
   It protects the entire GDNP header and options.  A TimeStamp has been
   integrated in the Signature Option for anti-replay protection.  The
   format of the Signature option is described as follows:

    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |     OPTION_SIGNATURE          |           option-len          |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |           HA-id               |            SA-id              |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                     Timestamp (64-bit)                        |
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                                                               |
   .                    Signature (variable length)                .
   .                                                               .
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Option-code:  OPTION_SIGNATURE (6)

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   Option-len:  12 + Length of Signature field in octets.

   HA-id:  Hash Algorithm id.  The hash algorithm is used for computing
      the signature result.  This design is adopted in order to provide
      hash algorithm agility.  The value is from the Hash Algorithm for
      GDNP registry in IANA.  The initial value assigned for SHA-1 is
      0x0001.

   SA-id:  Signature Algorithm id.  The signature algorithm is used for
      computing the signature result.  This design is adopted in order
      to provide signature algorithm agility.  The value is from the
      Signature Algorithm for GDNP registry in IANA.  The initial value
      assigned for RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 is 0x0001.

   Timestamp:  The current time of day (NTP-format timestamp [RFC5905]
      in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), a 64-bit unsigned fixed-point
      number, in seconds relative to 0h on 1 January 1900.).  It can
      reduce the danger of replay attacks.

   Signature:  A variable-length field containing a digital signature.
      The signature value is computed with the hash algorithm and the
      signature algorithm, as described in HA-id and SA-id.  The
      signature constructed by using the sender's private key protects
      the following sequence of octets:

      1.  The GDNP message header.

      2.  All GDNP options including the Signature option (fill the
      signature field with zeroes).

      The signature field MUST be padded, with all 0, to the next 16 bit
      boundary if its size is not an even multiple of 8 bits.  The
      padding length depends on the signature algorithm, which is
      indicated in the SA-id field.

3.8.8.  Locator Options

   These locator options are used to present a device's or interface's
   reachability information.  They are Locator IPv4 Address Option,
   Locator IPv6 Address Option and Locator FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain
   Name) Option.

   Note that it is assumed that all locators are in scope throughout the
   GDNP domain.  GDNP is not intended to work across disjoint addressing
   or naming realms.

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3.8.8.1.  Locator IPv4 address option

    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |    OPTION_LOCATOR_IPV4ADDR    |           option-len          |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                          IPv4-Address                         |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Option-code:  OPTION_LOCATOR_IPV4ADDR (7)

   Option-len:  4, in octets

   IPv4-Address:  The IPv4 address locator of the device/interface

   Note: If an operator has internal network address translation for
   IPv4, this option MUST NOT be used within the Divert option.

3.8.8.2.  Locator IPv6 address option

    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   OPTION_LOCATOR_IPV6ADDR     |           option-len          |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                                                               |
   |                          IPv6-Address                         |
   |                                                               |
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Option-code:  OPTION_LOCATOR_IPV6ADDR (8)

   Option-len:  16, in octets

   IPv6-Address:  The IPv6 address locator of the device/interface

   Note: A link-local IPv6 address MUST NOT be used when this option is
   used within the Divert option.

3.8.8.3.  Locator FQDN option

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    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |         OPTION_FQDN           |           option-len          |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                   Fully Qualified Domain Name                 |
   |                       (variable length)                       |
   .                                                               .
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Option-code:  OPTION_FQDN (9)

   Option-len:  Length of Fully Qualified Domain Name in octets

   Domain-Name:  The Fully Qualified Domain Name of the entity

   Note: Any FQDN which might not be valid throughout the network in
   question, such as a Multicast DNS name [RFC6762], MUST NOT be used
   when this option is used within the Divert option.

3.9.  Objective Options

3.9.1.  Format of Objective Options

   An objective option is used to identify objectives for the purposes
   of discovery, negotiation or synchronization.  All objectives must
   follow a common format as follows:

    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |         OPTION_XXX            |           option-len          |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   loop-count  |    flags      |                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+          value                |
   .                                    (variable length)          .
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Option-code:  OPTION_XXX: The option code assigned in the
      specification of the XXX objective.

   option-len:  The total length in octets.

   loop-count:  The loop count.  This field is present if and only if
      the objective is a negotiation objective.

   flags:  Flag bits.  This field is present if and only if defined in
      the specification of the objective.

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   value:  This field is to express the actual value of a negotiation or
      synchronization objective.  Its format is defined in the
      specification of the objective and may be a single value or a data
      structure of any kind.

3.9.2.  General Considerations for Objective Options

   Objective Options MUST be assigned an option type greater than 64 in
   the GDNP option table.

   An Objective Option that contains no additional fields, i.e., has a
   length of 4 octets, is a discovery objective and MUST only be used in
   Discovery and Response messages.

   The Negotiation Objective Options contain negotiation objectives,
   which are various according to different functions/services.  They
   MUST be carried by Discovery, Request or Negotiation Messages only.
   The negotiation initiator MUST set the initial "loop-count" to a
   value specified in the specification of the objective or, if no such
   value is specified, to GDNP_DEF_LOOPCT.

   For most scenarios, there should be initial values in the negotiation
   requests.  Consequently, the Negotiation Objective options MUST
   always be completely presented in a Request message, or in a
   Discovery message in rapid mode.  If there is no initial value, the
   bits in the value field SHOULD all be set to 1 to indicate a
   meaningless value, unless this is inappropriate for the specific
   negotiation objective.

   Synchronization Objective Options are similar, but MUST be carried by
   Discovery, Request or Response messages only.  They include value
   fields only in Response messages.

3.9.3.  Organizing of Objective Options

   As noted earlier, one negotiation objective is handled by each GDNP
   negotiation thread.  Therefore, a negotiation objective, which is
   based on a specific function or action, SHOULD be organized as a
   single GDNP option.  It is NOT RECOMMENDED to organize multiple
   negotiation objectives into a single option, nor to split a single
   function or action into multiple negotiation objectives.

   A synchronization objective SHOULD also be organized as a single GDNP
   option.

   Some objectives will support more than one operational mode.  An
   example is a negotiation objective with both a "dry run" mode (where
   the negotiation is to find out whether the other end can in fact make

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   the requested change without problems) and a "live" mode.  Such modes
   will be defined in the specification of such an objective.  These
   objectives SHOULD include a "flags" octet, with bits indicating the
   applicable mode(s).

   An objective may have multiple parameters.  Parameters can be
   categorized into two classes: the obligatory ones presented as fixed
   fields; and the optional ones presented in TLV sub-options or some
   other form of data structure.  The format might be inherited from an
   existing management or configuration protocol, the objective option
   acting as a carrier for that format.  The data structure might be
   defined in a formal language, but that is a matter for the
   specifications of individual objectives.  There are many candidates,
   according to the context, such as ABNF, RBNF, XML Schema, possibly
   YANG, etc.  The GDNP protocol itself is agnostic on these questions.

   It is NOT RECOMMENDED to split parameters in a single objective into
   multiple options, unless they have different response periods.  An
   exception scenario may also be described by split objectives.

3.9.4.  Vendor Specific Objective Options

   Option codes 128~159 have been reserved for vendor specific options.
   Multiple option codes have been assigned because a single vendor
   might use multiple options simultaneously.  These vendor specific
   options are highly likely to have different meanings when used by
   different vendors.  Therefore, they SHOULD NOT be used without an
   explicit human decision and SHOULD NOT be used in unmanaged networks
   such as home networks.

   There is one general requirement that applies to all vendor specific
   options.  They MUST start with a field that uniquely identifies the
   enterprise that defines the option, in the form of a registered 32
   bit Private Enterprise Number (PEN) [I-D.liang-iana-pen].  There is
   no default value for this field.  Note that it is not used during
   discovery.  It MUST be verified during negotiation or
   synchronization.

   In the case of a vendor-specific objective, the loop count and flags,
   if present, follow the PEN.

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    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |         OPTION_vendor         |           option-len          |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                              PEN                              |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   loop-count  |    flags      |                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+          value                |
   .                                    (variable length)          .
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Option-code:  OPTION_vendor (128~159)

   Option-len:  The total length in octets.

   PEN:  Private Enterprise Number.

   loop-count:  The loop count.  This field is present if and only if
      the objective is a negotiation objective.

   flags:  Flag bits.  This field is present if and only if defined in
      the specification of the objective.

   value:  This field is to express the actual value of a negotiation or
      synchronization objective.  Its format is defined in the vendor's
      specification of the objective.

3.9.5.  Experimental Objective Options

   Option code 176~191 have been reserved for experimental options.
   Multiple option codes have been assigned because a single experiment
   may use multiple options simultaneously.  These experimental options
   are highly likely to have different meanings when used for different
   experiments.  Therefore, they SHOULD NOT be used without an explicit
   human decision and SHOULD NOT be used in unmanaged networks such as
   home networks.

   These option codes are also RECOMMENDED for use in documentation
   examples.

4.  Items for Future Work

   There are various design questions that are worthy of more work in
   the near future, as listed below (statically numbered for reference
   purposes):

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   o  1.  UDP vs TCP: For now, this specification suggests UDP and TCP
      as message transport mechanisms.  This is not clarified yet.  UDP
      is good for short conversations, is necessary for multicast
      discovery, and generally fits the discovery and divert scenarios
      well.  However, it will cause problems with large messages.  TCP
      is good for stable and long sessions, with a little bit of time
      consumption during the session establishment stage.  If messages
      exceed a reasonable MTU, a TCP mode will be required in any case.
      This question may be affected by the security discussion.

   o  2.  DTLS or TLS vs built-in security mechanism.  For now, this
      specification has chosen a PKI based built-in security mechanism
      based on asymmetric cryptography.  However, (D)TLS might be chosen
      as security solution to avoid duplication of effort.  It also
      allows essentially similar security for short messages over UDP
      and longer ones over TCP.  The implementation trade-offs are
      different.  The current approach requires expensive asymmetric
      cryptographic calculations for every message.  (D)TLS has startup
      overheads but cheaper crypto per message.  DTLS is less mature
      than TLS.

   o  The following open issues apply only if the current security model
      is retained:

      *  2.1.  For replay protection, GDNP currently requires every
         participant to have an NTP-synchronized clock.  Is this OK for
         low-end devices, and how does it work during device
         bootstrapping?  We could take the Timestamp out of signature
         option, to become an independent and OPTIONAL (or RECOMMENDED)
         option.

      *  2.2.  The Signature Option (Section 3.8.7) states that this
         option could be any place in a message.  Wouldn't it be better
         to specify a position (such as the end)?  That would be much
         simpler to implement.

   o  3.  DoS Attack Protection needs work.

   o  4.  Should we consider a distributed or centralised DNS-like
      approach to discovery (after the initial discovery needed for
      bootstrapping)?  This topic is deferred for now, but the following
      considerations apply: This could be a complementary mechanism for
      multicast based discovery, especially for a very large autonomic
      network.  Centralized registration could be automatically deployed
      incrementally.  At the very first stage, the repository could be
      empty; then it could be filled in by the objectives discovered by
      different devices (for example using Dynamic DNS Update).  The
      more records are stored in the repository, the less the multicast-

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      based discovery is needed.  However, if we adopt such a mechanism,
      there would be challenges: stateful solution, and security.

   o  5.  Need to expand description of the minimum requirements for the
      specification of an individual discovery, synchronization or
      negotiation objective.

   o  6.  Use case and protocol walkthrough.  A description of how a
      node starts up, performs discovery, and conducts negotiation and
      synchronisation for a sample use case would help readers to
      understand the applicability of this specification.  Maybe it
      should be an artificial use case or maybe a simple real one.
      However, the authors have not yet decided whether to have a
      separate document or have it in this document.

   o  7.  Cross-check against other ANIMA WG documents for consistency
      and gaps.

5.  Security Considerations

   It is obvious that a successful attack on negotiation-enabled nodes
   would be extremely harmful, as such nodes might end up with a
   completely undesirable configuration that would also adversely affect
   their peers.  GDNP nodes and messages therefore require full
   protection.

   - Authentication

      A cryptographically authenticated identity for each device is
      needed in an autonomic network.  It is not safe to assume that a
      large network is physically secured against interference or that
      all personnel are trustworthy.  Each autonomic device should be
      capable of proving its identity and authenticating its messages.
      GDNP adopts a certificate-based security mechanism to support
      authentication and data integrity protection.

      The timestamp mechanism provides an anti-replay function.

      Since GDNP is intended to be deployed in a single administrative
      domain operating its own trust anchor and CA, there is no need for
      a trusted public third party.

   - Privacy and confidentiality

      Generally speaking, no personal information is expected to be
      involved in the negotiation protocol, so there should be no direct
      impact on personal privacy.  Nevertheless, traffic flow paths,
      VPNs, etc. could be negotiated, which could be of interest for

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      traffic analysis.  Also, operators generally want to conceal
      details of their network topology and traffic density from
      outsiders.  Therefore, since insider attacks cannot be excluded in
      a large network, the security mechanism for the protocol MUST
      provide message confidentiality.

   - DoS Attack Protection

      TBD.

   - Security during bootstrap and discovery

      A node cannot authenticate GDNP traffic from other nodes until it
      has identified the trust anchor and can validate certificates for
      other nodes.  Also, until it has succesfully enrolled
      [I-D.pritikin-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra] it cannot assume that
      other nodes are able to authenticate its own traffic.  Therefore,
      GDNP discovery during the bootstrap phase for a new device will
      inevitably be insecure and GDNP synchronization and negotiation
      will be impossible until enrollment is complete.

6.  IANA Considerations

   Section 3.4 defines the following multicast addresses, which have
   been assigned by IANA for use by GDNP:

   ALL_GDNP_NEIGHBOR multicast address  (IPv6): (TBD1)

   ALL_GDNP_NEIGHBOR multicast address  (IPv4): (TBD2)

   Section 3.4 defines the following UDP and TCP port, which has been
   assigned by IANA for use by GDNP:

   GDNP Listen Port:  (TBD3)

   This document defined a new General Discovery and Negotiation
   Protocol.  The IANA is requested to create a new GDNP registry.  The
   IANA is also requested to add two new registry tables to the newly-
   created GDNP registry.  The two tables are the GDNP Messages table
   and GDNP Options table.

   Initial values for these registries are given below.  Future
   assignments are to be made through Standards Action or Specification
   Required [RFC5226].  Assignments for each registry consist of a type
   code value, a name and a document where the usage is defined.

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   GDNP Messages table.  The values in this table are 16-bit unsigned
   integers.  The following initial values are assigned in Section 3.7
   in this document:

         Type  |          Name               |   RFCs
      ---------+-----------------------------+------------
           0   |Reserved                     | this document
           1   |Discovery                    | this document
           2   |Response                     | this document
           3   |Request Message              | this document
           4   |Negotiation Message          | this document
           5   |Negotiation-end Message      | this document
           6   |Confirm-waiting Message      | this document

   GDNP Options table.  The values in this table are 16-bit unsigned
   integers.  The following initial values are assigned in Section 3.8
   and Section 3.9.1 in this document:

         Type  |          Name               |   RFCs
      ---------+-----------------------------+------------
           0   |Reserved                     | this document
           1   |Divert Option                | this document
           2   |Accept Option                | this document
           3   |Decline Option               | this document
           4   |Waiting Time Option          | this document
           5   |Certificate Option           | this document
           6   |Signature Option             | this document
           7   |Device IPv4 Address Option   | this document
           8   |Device IPv6 Address Option   | this document
           9   |Device FQDN Option           | this document
        10~63  |Reserved for future GDNP     |
               |General Options              |
        64~127 |Reserved for future GDNP     |
               |Objective Options            |
       128~159 |Vendor Specific Options      | this document
       160~175 |Reserved for future use      |
       176~191 |Experimental Options         | this document
      192~65535|Reserved for future use      |

   The IANA is also requested to create two new registry tables in the
   GDNP Parameters registry.  The two tables are the Hash Algorithm for
   GDNP table and the Signature Algorithm for GDNP table.

   Initial values for these registries are given below.  Future
   assignments are to be made through Standards Action or Specification
   Required [RFC5226].  Assignments for each registry consist of a name,
   a value and a document where the algorithm is defined.

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   Hash Algorithm for GDNP.  The values in this table are 16-bit
   unsigned integers.  The following initial values are assigned for
   Hash Algorithm for GDNP in this document:

             Name          |  Value    |  RFCs
      ---------------------+-----------+------------
            Reserved       |   0x0000  | this document
            SHA-1          |   0x0001  | this document
            SHA-256        |   0x0002  | this document

   Signature Algorithm for GDNP.  The values in this table are 16-bit
   unsigned integers.  The following initial values are assigned for
   Signature Algorithm for GDNP in this document:

             Name          |   Value   |  RFCs
      ---------------------+-----------+------------
            Reserved       |   0x0000  | this document
       RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5   |   0x0001  | this document

7.  Acknowledgements

   A major contribution to the original version of this document was
   made by Sheng Jiang.

   Valuable comments were received from Michael Behringer, Zongpeng Du,
   Yu Fu, Zhenbin Li, Dimitri Papadimitriou, Michael Richardson, Markus
   Stenberg, Rene Struik, Dacheng Zhang, and other participants in the
   NMRG research group and the ANIMA working group.

   This document was produced using the xml2rfc tool [RFC2629].

8.  Change log [RFC Editor: Please remove]

   draft-carpenter-anima-discovery-negotiation-protocol-02, 2015-02-19:

   Tuned requirements to clarify scope,

   Clarified relationship between types of objective,

   Clarified that objectives may be simple values or complex data
   structures,

   Improved description of objective options,

   Added loop-avoidance mechanisms (loop count and default timeout,
   limitations on discovery relaying and on unsolicited responses),

   Allow multiple discovery objectives in one response,

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   Provided for missing or multiple discovery responses,

   Indicated how modes such as "dry run" should be supported,

   Minor editorial and technical corrections and clarifications,

   Reorganized future work list.

   draft-carpenter-anima-discovery-negotiation-protocol-01, restructured
   the logical flow of the document, updated to describe synchronization
   completely, add unsolicited responses, numerous corrections and
   clarifications, expanded future work list, 2015-01-06.

   draft-carpenter-anima-discovery-negotiation-protocol-00, combination
   of draft-jiang-config-negotiation-ps-03 and draft-jiang-config-
   negotiation-protocol-02, 2014-10-08.

9.  References

9.1.  Normative References

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

   [RFC3174]  Eastlake, D. and P. Jones, "US Secure Hash Algorithm 1
              (SHA1)", RFC 3174, September 2001.

   [RFC4086]  Eastlake, D., Schiller, J., and S. Crocker, "Randomness
              Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC 4086, June 2005.

   [RFC5280]  Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S.,
              Housley, R., and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key
              Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List
              (CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, May 2008.

   [RFC6206]  Levis, P., Clausen, T., Hui, J., Gnawali, O., and J. Ko,
              "The Trickle Algorithm", RFC 6206, March 2011.

9.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.behringer-anima-autonomic-control-plane]
              Behringer, M., Bjarnason, S., BL, B., and T. Eckert, "An
              Autonomic Control Plane", draft-behringer-anima-autonomic-
              control-plane-00 (work in progress), October 2014.

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   [I-D.chaparadza-intarea-igcp]
              Behringer, M., Chaparadza, R., Petre, R., Li, X., and H.
              Mahkonen, "IP based Generic Control Protocol (IGCP)",
              draft-chaparadza-intarea-igcp-00 (work in progress), July
              2011.

   [I-D.eckert-anima-stable-connectivity]
              Eckert, T. and M. Behringer, "Autonomic Network Stable
              Connectivity", draft-eckert-anima-stable-connectivity-00
              (work in progress), October 2014.

   [I-D.ietf-dnssd-requirements]
              Lynn, K., Cheshire, S., Blanchet, M., and D. Migault,
              "Requirements for Scalable DNS-SD/mDNS Extensions", draft-
              ietf-dnssd-requirements-04 (work in progress), October
              2014.

   [I-D.ietf-homenet-dncp]
              Stenberg, M. and S. Barth, "Distributed Node Consensus
              Protocol", draft-ietf-homenet-dncp-00 (work in progress),
              January 2015.

   [I-D.ietf-homenet-hncp]
              Stenberg, M., Barth, S., and P. Pfister, "Home Networking
              Control Protocol", draft-ietf-homenet-hncp-03 (work in
              progress), January 2015.

   [I-D.ietf-netconf-restconf]
              Bierman, A., Bjorklund, M., and K. Watsen, "RESTCONF
              Protocol", draft-ietf-netconf-restconf-04 (work in
              progress), January 2015.

   [I-D.irtf-nmrg-an-gap-analysis]
              Jiang, S., Carpenter, B., and M. Behringer, "Gap Analysis
              for Autonomic Networking", draft-irtf-nmrg-an-gap-
              analysis-03 (work in progress), December 2014.

   [I-D.irtf-nmrg-autonomic-network-definitions]
              Behringer, M., Pritikin, M., Bjarnason, S., Clemm, A.,
              Carpenter, B., Jiang, S., and L. Ciavaglia, "Autonomic
              Networking - Definitions and Design Goals", draft-irtf-
              nmrg-autonomic-network-definitions-05 (work in progress),
              December 2014.

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   [I-D.liang-iana-pen]
              Liang, P., Melnikov, A., and D. Conrad, "Private
              Enterprise Number (PEN) practices and Internet Assigned
              Numbers Authority (IANA) registration considerations",
              draft-liang-iana-pen-04 (work in progress), July 2014.

   [I-D.pritikin-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra]
              Pritikin, M., Behringer, M., and S. Bjarnason,
              "Bootstrapping Key Infrastructures", draft-pritikin-anima-
              bootstrapping-keyinfra-01 (work in progress), February
              2015.

   [RFC2205]  Braden, B., Zhang, L., Berson, S., Herzog, S., and S.
              Jamin, "Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1
              Functional Specification", RFC 2205, September 1997.

   [RFC2608]  Guttman, E., Perkins, C., Veizades, J., and M. Day,
              "Service Location Protocol, Version 2", RFC 2608, June
              1999.

   [RFC2629]  Rose, M., "Writing I-Ds and RFCs using XML", RFC 2629,
              June 1999.

   [RFC2865]  Rigney, C., Willens, S., Rubens, A., and W. Simpson,
              "Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)", RFC
              2865, June 2000.

   [RFC3209]  Awduche, D., Berger, L., Gan, D., Li, T., Srinivasan, V.,
              and G. Swallow, "RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP
              Tunnels", RFC 3209, December 2001.

   [RFC3315]  Droms, R., Bound, J., Volz, B., Lemon, T., Perkins, C.,
              and M. Carney, "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for
              IPv6 (DHCPv6)", RFC 3315, July 2003.

   [RFC3416]  Presuhn, R., "Version 2 of the Protocol Operations for the
              Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", STD 62, RFC
              3416, December 2002.

   [RFC4270]  Hoffman, P. and B. Schneier, "Attacks on Cryptographic
              Hashes in Internet Protocols", RFC 4270, November 2005.

   [RFC4861]  Narten, T., Nordmark, E., Simpson, W., and H. Soliman,
              "Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 4861,
              September 2007.

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   [RFC5226]  Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
              IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
              May 2008.

   [RFC5905]  Mills, D., Martin, J., Burbank, J., and W. Kasch, "Network
              Time Protocol Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms
              Specification", RFC 5905, June 2010.

   [RFC5971]  Schulzrinne, H. and R. Hancock, "GIST: General Internet
              Signalling Transport", RFC 5971, October 2010.

   [RFC6241]  Enns, R., Bjorklund, M., Schoenwaelder, J., and A.
              Bierman, "Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)", RFC
              6241, June 2011.

   [RFC6733]  Fajardo, V., Arkko, J., Loughney, J., and G. Zorn,
              "Diameter Base Protocol", RFC 6733, October 2012.

   [RFC6762]  Cheshire, S. and M. Krochmal, "Multicast DNS", RFC 6762,
              February 2013.

   [RFC6763]  Cheshire, S. and M. Krochmal, "DNS-Based Service
              Discovery", RFC 6763, February 2013.

   [RFC6887]  Wing, D., Cheshire, S., Boucadair, M., Penno, R., and P.
              Selkirk, "Port Control Protocol (PCP)", RFC 6887, April
              2013.

Appendix A.  Capability Analysis of Current Protocols

   This appendix discusses various existing protocols with properties
   related to the above negotiation and synchronisation requirements.
   The purpose is to evaluate whether any existing protocol, or a simple
   combination of existing protocols, can meet those requirements.

   Numerous protocols include some form of discovery, but these all
   appear to be very specific in their applicability.  Service Location
   Protocol (SLP) [RFC2608] provides service discovery for managed
   networks, but requires configuration of its own servers.  DNS-SD
   [RFC6763] combined with mDNS [RFC6762] provides service discovery for
   small networks with a single link layer.
   [I-D.ietf-dnssd-requirements] aims to extend this to larger
   autonomous networks.  However, both SLP and DNS-SD appear to target
   primarily application layer services, not the layer 2 and 3
   objectives relevant to basic network configuration.

   Routing protocols are mainly one-way information announcements.  The
   receiver makes independent decisions based on the received

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   information and there is no direct feedback information to the
   announcing peer.  This remains true even though the protocol is used
   in both directions between peer routers; there is state
   synchronization, but no negotiation, and each peer runs its route
   calculations independently.

   Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) [RFC3416] uses a command/
   response model not well suited for peer negotiation.  Network
   Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) [RFC6241] uses an RPC model that
   does allow positive or negative responses from the target system, but
   this is still not adequate for negotiation.

   There are various existing protocols that have elementary negotiation
   abilities, such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6
   (DHCPv6) [RFC3315], Neighbor Discovery (ND) [RFC4861], Port Control
   Protocol (PCP) [RFC6887], Remote Authentication Dial In User Service
   (RADIUS) [RFC2865], Diameter [RFC6733], etc.  Most of them are
   configuration or management protocols.  However, they either provide
   only a simple request/response model in a master/slave context or
   very limited negotiation abilities.

   There are also signalling protocols with an element of negotiation.
   For example Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) [RFC2205] was
   designed for negotiating quality of service parameters along the path
   of a unicast or multicast flow.  RSVP is a very specialised protocol
   aimed at end-to-end flows.  However, it has some flexibility, having
   been extended for MPLS label distribution [RFC3209].  A more generic
   design is General Internet Signalling Transport (GIST) [RFC5971], but
   it is complex, tries to solve many problems, and is also aimed at
   per-flow signalling across many hops rather than at device-to-device
   signalling.  However, we cannot completely exclude extended RSVP or
   GIST as a synchronization and negotiation protocol.  They do not
   appear to be directly useable for peer discovery.

   We now consider two protocols that are works in progress at the time
   of this writing.  Firstly, RESTCONF [I-D.ietf-netconf-restconf] is a
   protocol intended to convey NETCONF information expressed in the YANG
   language via HTTP, including the ability to transit HTML
   intermediaries.  While this is a powerful approach in the context of
   centralised configuration of a complex network, it is not well
   adapted to efficient interactive negotiation between peer devices,
   especially simple ones that are unlikely to include YANG processing
   already.

   Secondly, we consider Distributed Node Consensus Protocol (DNCP)
   [I-D.ietf-homenet-dncp].  This is defined as a generic form of state
   synchronization protocol, with a proposed usage profile being the

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   Home Networking Control Protocol (HNCP) [I-D.ietf-homenet-hncp] for
   configuring Homenet routers.

   Specific features of DNCP include:

   o  Every participating node has a unique node identifier.

   o  DNCP messages are encoded as a sequence of TLV objects, sent over
      unicast UDP or TCP, with or without (D)TLS security.

   o  Multicast, if available, is used only for discovery of DNCP
      neighbors when lower security is acceptable.

   o  Synchronization of state is maintained by the Trickle algorithm.
      There is no negotiation capability.

   o  The HNCP profile of DNCP is designed to operate between directly
      connected neighbors on a shared link using UDP and link-local IPv6
      addresses.

   Clearly DNCP does not meet the needs of a general negotiation
   protocol, especially in its HNCP profile due to the limitation to
   link-local messages and its strict dependency on IPv6.  However, at
   the minimum it is a very interesting test case for this style of
   interaction between devices without needing a central authority.

   A proposal was made some years ago for an IP based Generic Control
   Protocol (IGCP) [I-D.chaparadza-intarea-igcp].  This was aimed at
   information exchange and negotiation but not directly at peer
   discovery.  However, it has many points in common with the present
   work.

   None of the above solutions appears to completely meet the needs of
   generic discovery, state synchronization and negotiation in a single
   solution.  Neither is there an obvious combination of protocols that
   does so.  Therefore, this document proposes the design of a protocol
   that does meet those needs.  However, this proposal needs to be
   compared with alternatives such as extension and adaptation of GIST
   or DNCP, or combination with IGCP.

Authors' Addresses

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   Brian Carpenter
   Department of Computer Science
   University of Auckland
   PB 92019
   Auckland  1142
   New Zealand

   Email: brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com

   Bing Liu
   Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
   Q14, Huawei Campus
   No.156 Beiqing Road
   Hai-Dian District, Beijing  100095
   P.R. China

   Email: leo.liubing@huawei.com

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