Flexible Session Protocol
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Network Working Group                                             J. Gao
Internet-Draft                                                Individual
Intended status: Experimental                           October 17, 2020
Expires: April 20, 2021

                       Flexible Session Protocol
                 draft-gao-flexible-session-protocol-05

Abstract

   FSP is a connection-oriented transport layer protocol that provides
   mobility and multihoming support by introducing the concept of 'upper
   layer thread ID', which is associated with some shared secret that is
   applied with some secure hash or authenticated encryption algorithm
   to protect authenticity of the origin of the FSP packets.  It is able
   to provide following services to the upper layer application:

   o  Stream-oriented send-receive with native message boundary
   o  Ubiquitous authenticated encryption
   o  0-RTT multiplication of connections
   o  On-the-wire compression

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1.  Introduction

   Flexible Session Protocol is a connection-oriented transport layer
   provides mobility, multi-homing and multi-path support by introducing
   the concept of 'upper layer thread ID' (ULTID), which was firstly
   suggested in [Gao2002].

   An integrity check code (ICC) field associated with the ULTID is
   designed in the FSP header to protect authenticity and optionally
   privacy of the FSP packet.  An FSP packet is assumed to originate
   from the same source if the ICC value associated with certain
   destination ULTID passes validation, regardless of the source or
   destination address of the packet in the underlying layer.

   ICC is either calculated by [CRC64] which protects FSP against
   unintended modification, or a cryptographic hash function, or
   cryptographically calculated with some Authenticated Encryption with
   Additional Data [R01] algorithm, each of which requires a shared
   secret key.

   In the former case a weak key meant to obfuscate the CRC64 checksum
   is agreed by the FSP participants.  In the latter two cases, the
   shared secret key is assumed to be installed by the upper layer
   application (ULA).

   The ULTID is assigned roughly the same semantics as the Security
   Parameter Index (SPI) in MOBIKE [RFC4555].  Either the weak key or
   the shared secret key is indexed by the source or destination ULTID
   in the local context of the sender or the receiver, respectively.

   FSP facilitates secret key installation by introducing the concept of
   transmit transaction.  Mechanism of transmit transaction also
   provides the session-connection synchronization service to the upper
   layer.

   FSP is a transport layer protocol as specified in [RFC1122], provides
   services alike TCP [STD5] to ULA, with session layer features as
   suggested in [OSI_RM], most noticeably session-connection
   synchronization.

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1.1.  Features

1.1.1.  Transport Layer Mobility Support

   FSP is meant to be transport layer protocol that keeps the IP address
   as the routing locater but keeps it from being the key constituent of
   the FSP identifier or any upper layer protocol built upon FSP.  It is
   a solution to avoid the routing scalability problem.

   The dominating transport layer protocols, TCP and UDP that take use
   of the IP address to identifying the end node, introduce the