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draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-13
Network Working Group                                       D. Farinacci
Internet-Draft                                               lispers.net
Intended status: Experimental                           November 7, 2021
Expires: May 11, 2022

                    LISP Distinguished Name Encoding
                 draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-13

Abstract

   This draft defines how to use the AFI=17 Distinguished Names in LISP.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Definition of Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Distinguished Name Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   4.  Example Use-Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   5.  Name Collision Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   6.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   7.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   8.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     8.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     8.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   Appendix A.  Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   Appendix B.  Document Change Log  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     B.1.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-13  . . . .   6
     B.2.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-12  . . . .   6
     B.3.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-11  . . . .   7
     B.4.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-10  . . . .   7
     B.5.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-09  . . . .   7
     B.6.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-08  . . . .   7
     B.7.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-07  . . . .   7
     B.8.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-06  . . . .   7
     B.9.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-05  . . . .   7
     B.10. Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-04  . . . .   8
     B.11. Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-03  . . . .   8
     B.12. Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-02  . . . .   8
     B.13. Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-01  . . . .   8
     B.14. Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-00  . . . .   8
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8

1.  Introduction

   The LISP architecture and protocols [RFC6830] introduces two new
   numbering spaces, Endpoint Identifiers (EIDs) and Routing Locators
   (RLOCs) which are intended to replace most use of IP addresses on the
   Internet.  To provide flexibility for current and future
   applications, these values can be encoded in LISP control messages
   using a general syntax that includes Address Family Identifier (AFI)
   [RFC1700].

   The length of the value field is implicit in the type of address that
   follows.  For AFI 17, a Distinguished Name can be encoded.  A name
   can be a variable length field so the length cannot be determined
   solely from the AFI value 17.  This draft defines a termination
   character, an 8-bit value of 0 to be used as a string terminator so
   the length can be determined.

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   LISP Distinguished Names are useful when encoded either in EID-
   records or RLOC-records in LISP control messages.  As EIDs, they can
   be registered in the mapping system to find resources, services, or
   simply used as a self-documenting feature that accompany other
   address specific EIDs.  As RLOCs, Distinguished Names, along with
   RLOC specific addresses and parameters, can be used as labels to
   identify equipment type, location, or any self-documenting string a
   registering device desires to convey.

2.  Definition of Terms

   Address Family Identifier (AFI):  a term used to describe an address
      encoding in a packet.  An address family currently defined for
      IPv4 or IPv6 addresses.  See [AFI] and [RFC1700] for details on
      other types of information that can be AFI encoded.

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3.  Distinguished Name Format

   An AFI=17 Distinguished Name is encoded as:

     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
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |            AFI = 17           |       ASCII String ...        |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |               ...  ASCII String             |       0         |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   The string of characters are encoded in the ASCII character-set
   definition [RFC0020].

   When Distinguished Names are encoded for EIDs, the EID-prefix length
   of the EIDs as they appear in EID-records for all LISP control
   messages is the length of the string in bits (include the null 0
   byte).  Where Distinguished Names are encoded anywhere else (i.e.
   nested in LCAF encodings), then any length field is the length of the
   ASCII string including the null 0 byte in units of bytes.

   When Map-Requests are sent for an EID encoded in Distinguished Name
   format, an exact match request is performed.  So the Map-Server (when
   configured for proxy-Map-Replying) or the ETR will return a Map-Reply
   with the same EID-prefix length.

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4.  Example Use-Cases

   This section identifies three specific use-cases for the
   Distinguished Name format.  Two are used for an EID encoding and one
   for a RLOC-record encoding.  When storing public keys in the mapping
   system, as in [I-D.ietf-lisp-ecdsa-auth], a well known format for a
   public-key hash can be encoded as a Distinguished Name.  When street
   location to GPS coordinate mappings exist in the mapping system, as
   in [I-D.farinacci-lisp-geo], the street location can be a free form
   ascii representation (with whitespace characters) encoded as a
   Distinguished Name.  An RLOC that describes an xTR behind a NAT
   device can be identified by its router name, as in
   [I-D.farinacci-lisp-simple-nat], uses a Distinguished Name encoding.
   As well as identifying the router name (neither an EID or an RLOC) in
   NAT Info-Request messages uses Distinguished Name encodings.

5.  Name Collision Considerations

   When a Distinguished Name encoding is used to format an EID, the
   uniqueness and allocation concerns are no different than registering
   IPv4 or IPv6 EIDs to the mapping system.  See
   [I-D.ietf-lisp-rfc6833bis] for more details.  Also, the use-case
   documents specified in Section 4 provide allocation recommendations
   for their specific uses.

6.  Security Considerations

   There are no security considerations.

7.  IANA Considerations

   The code-point values in this specification are already allocated in
   [AFI].

8.  References

8.1.  Normative References

   [AFI]      "Address Family Identifier (AFIs)", ADDRESS FAMILY
              NUMBERS http://www.iana.org/numbers.html, Febuary 2007.

   [I-D.ietf-lisp-rfc6833bis]
              Farinacci, D., Maino, F., Fuller, V., and A. Cabellos,
              "Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) Control-Plane",
              draft-ietf-lisp-rfc6833bis-30 (work in progress), November
              2020.

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   [RFC0020]  Cerf, V., "ASCII format for network interchange", STD 80,
              RFC 20, DOI 10.17487/RFC0020, October 1969,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc20>.

   [RFC1700]  Reynolds, J. and J. Postel, "Assigned Numbers", RFC 1700,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC1700, October 1994,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1700>.

   [RFC6830]  Farinacci, D., Fuller, V., Meyer, D., and D. Lewis, "The
              Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)", RFC 6830,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6830, January 2013,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6830>.

8.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.farinacci-lisp-geo]
              Farinacci, D., "LISP Geo-Coordinate Use-Cases", draft-
              farinacci-lisp-geo-12 (work in progress), September 2021.

   [I-D.farinacci-lisp-simple-nat]
              Farinacci, D., "A Simple LISP NAT-Traversal
              Implementation", draft-farinacci-lisp-simple-nat-02 (work
              in progress), May 2021.

   [I-D.ietf-lisp-ecdsa-auth]
              Farinacci, D. and E. Nordmark, "LISP Control-Plane ECDSA
              Authentication and Authorization", draft-ietf-lisp-ecdsa-
              auth-06 (work in progress), August 2021.

Appendix A.  Acknowledgments

   The author would like to thank the LISP WG for their review and
   acceptance of this draft.

Appendix B.  Document Change Log

B.1.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-13

   o  Submitted November 2021.

   o  Update references and document expiry timer.

B.2.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-12

   o  Submitted May 2021.

   o  Update references and document expiry timer.

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B.3.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-11

   o  Submitted November 2020.

   o  Made changes to reflect working group comments.

   o  Update references and document expiry timer.

B.4.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-10

   o  Submitted August 2020.

   o  Update references and document expiry timer.

B.5.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-09

   o  Submitted March 2020.

   o  Update references and document expiry timer.

B.6.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-08

   o  Submitted September 2019.

   o  Update references and document expiry timer.

B.7.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-07

   o  Submitted March 2019.

   o  Update referenes and document expiry timer.

B.8.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-06

   o  Submitted September 2018.

   o  Update document expiry timer.

B.9.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-05

   o  Submitted March 2018.

   o  Update document expiry timer.

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B.10.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-04

   o  Submitted September 2017.

   o  Update document expiry timer.

B.11.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-03

   o  Submitted March 2017.

   o  Update document expiry timer.

B.12.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-02

   o  Submitted October 2016.

   o  Add a comment that the distinguished-name encoding is restricted
      to ASCII character encodings only.

B.13.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-01

   o  Submitted October 2016.

   o  Update document timer.

B.14.  Changes to draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-00

   o  Initial draft submitted April 2016.

Author's Address

   Dino Farinacci
   lispers.net
   San Jose, CA
   USA

   Email: farinacci@gmail.com

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