An Authorization Information Format (AIF) for ACE
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draft-ietf-ace-aif-05
ACE Working Group C. Bormann
Internet-Draft Universität Bremen TZI
Intended status: Standards Track 15 February 2022
Expires: 19 August 2022
An Authorization Information Format (AIF) for ACE
draft-ietf-ace-aif-05
Abstract
Information about which entities are authorized to perform what
operations on which constituents of other entities is a crucial
component of producing an overall system that is secure. Conveying
precise authorization information is especially critical in highly
automated systems with large numbers of entities, such as the
"Internet of Things".
This specification provides a generic information model and format
for representing such authorization information, as well as two
variants of a specific instantiation of that format for use with REST
resources identified by URI path.
About This Document
This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC.
Status information for this document may be found at
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ace-aif/.
Discussion of this document takes place on the Authentication and
Authorization for Constrained Environments (ace) Working Group
mailing list (mailto:ace@ietf.org), which is archived at
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/ace/.
Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at
https://github.com/cabo/ace-aif.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Information Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. REST-specific Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3. REST-specific Model With Dynamic Resource Creation . . . 6
3. Data Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. Media Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.1. Media Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.2. Registries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.3. Content-Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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1. Introduction
Constrained Devices as they are used in the "Internet of Things" need
security in order to operate correctly and prevent misuse. One
important element of this security is that devices in the Internet of
Things need to be able to decide which operations requested of them
should be considered authorized, need to ascertain that the
authorization to request the operation does apply to the actual
requester as authenticated, and need to ascertain that other devices
they make requests of are the ones they intended.
To transfer detailed authorization information from an authorization
manager (such as an ACE-OAuth Authorization Server
[I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz]) to a device, a compact representation
format is needed. This document defines such a format, the
Authorization Information Format (AIF). AIF is defined both as a
general structure that can be used for many different applications
and as a specific instantiation tailored to REST resources and the
permissions on them, including some provision for dynamically created
resources.
1.1. Terminology
This memo uses terms from [RFC7252] and [RFC4949]; CoAP is used for
the explanatory examples as it is a good fit for Constrained Devices.
The shape of data is specified in CDDL [RFC8610] [RFC9165].
Terminology for Constrained Devices is defined in [RFC7228].
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
BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
capitals, as shown here.
The term "byte", abbreviated by "B", is used in its now customary
sense as a synonym for "octet".
2. Information Model
Authorizations are generally expressed through some data structures
that are cryptographically secured (or transmitted in a secure way).
This section discusses the information model underlying the payload
of that data (as opposed to the cryptographic armor around it).
For the purposes of this specification, the underlying access control
model will be that of an access matrix, which gives a set of
permissions for each possible combination of a subject and an object.
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We are focusing the AIF data item on a single row in the access
matrix (such a row traditionally is also called a capability list),
without concern to the subject for which the data item is issued. As
a consequence, AIF MUST be used in a way that the subject of the
authorizations is unambiguously identified (e.g., as part of the
armor around it).
The generic model of such a capability list is a list of pairs of
object identifiers and the permissions the subject has on the
object(s) identified.
AIF-Generic<Toid, Tperm> = [* [Toid, Tperm]]
Figure 1: Definition of Generic AIF
In a specific data model (such as the one also specified in this
document), the object identifier (Toid) will often be a text string,
and the set of permissions (Tperm) will be represented by a bitset in
turn represented as a number (see Section 3).
AIF-Specific = AIF-Generic<tstr, uint>
Figure 2: Commonly used shape of a specific AIF
2.1. REST-specific Model
In the specific instantiation of the REST resources and the
permissions on them, for the object identifiers (Toid), we use the
URI of a resource on a CoAP server. More specifically, since the
parts of the URI that identify the server ("authority" in [RFC3986])
are what are authenticated during REST resource access (Section 4.2.2
of [I-D.ietf-httpbis-semantics] and Section 6.2 of [RFC7252]), they
naturally fall into the realm handled by the cryptographic armor); we
therefore focus on the "path" ("path-abempty") and "query" parts of
the URI (URI "local-part" in this specification, as expressed by the
Uri-Path and Uri-Query options in CoAP). As a consequence, AIF MUST
be used in a way that it is clear who is the target (enforcement
point) of these authorizations (note that there may be more than one
target that the same authorization applies to, e.g., in a situation
with homogeneous devices).
For the permissions (Tperm), we use a simple permissions model that
lists the subset of the REST (CoAP or HTTP) methods permitted. This
model is summarized in Table 1.
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+============+================+
| local-part | Permission Set |
+============+================+
| /s/temp | GET |
+------------+----------------+
| /a/led | PUT, GET |
+------------+----------------+
| /dtls | POST |
+------------+----------------+
Table 1: An authorization
instance in the AIF
Information Model
In this example, a device offers a temperature sensor /s/temp for
read-only access, a LED actuator /a/led for read/write, and a /dtls
resource for POST access.
As will be seen in the data model (Section 3), the representations of
REST methods provided are limited to those that have a CoAP method
number assigned; an extension to the model may be necessary to
represent permissions for exotic HTTP methods.
2.2. Limitations
This simple information model only allows granting permissions for
statically identifiable objects, e.g., URIs for the REST-specific
instantiation. One might be tempted to extend the model towards URI
templates [RFC6570] (for instance, to open up an authorization for
many parameter values as in /s/temp{?any*}), however, that requires
some considerations of the ease and unambiguity of matching a given
URI against a set of templates in an AIF object.
This simple information model also does not allow further
conditionalizing access based on state outside the identification of
objects (e.g., "opening a door is allowed if that is not locked").
Finally, the model does not provide any special access for a set of
resources that are specific to a subject, e.g., that the subject
created itself by previous operations (PUT, POST, or PATCH/iPATCH
[RFC8132]) or that were specifically created for the subject by
others.
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2.3. REST-specific Model With Dynamic Resource Creation
The REST-specific Model With Dynamic Resource Creation addresses the
need to provide defined access to dynamic resources that were created
by the subject itself, specifically, a resource that is made known to
the subject by providing Location-* options in a CoAP response or
using the Location header field in HTTP [I-D.ietf-httpbis-semantics]
(the Location-indicating mechanisms). (The concept is somewhat
comparable to "ACL inheritance" in NFSv4 [RFC8881], except that it
does not use a containment relationship but the fact that the dynamic
resource was created from a resource to which the subject had
access.) In other words, it addresses an important subset of the
third limitation mentioned in Section 2.2.
+================+===================================+
| local-part | Permission Set |
+================+===================================+
| /a/make-coffee | POST, Dynamic-GET, Dynamic-DELETE |
+----------------+-----------------------------------+
Table 2: An authorization instance in the AIF
Information Model
For a method X, the presence of a Dynamic-X permission means that the
subject holds permission to exercise the method X on resources that
have been returned in a 2.01 (201) response by a Location-indicating
mechanism to a request that the subject made to the resource listed
(/a/make-coffee in the example shown in Table 2, which might return
the location of a resource that allows GET to find out about the
status and DELETE to cancel the coffee-making operation).
Since the use of the extension defined in this section can be
detected by the mentioning of the Dynamic-X permissions, there is no
need for another explicit switch between the basic and the model
extended by dynamic resource creation; the extended model is always
presumed once a Dynamic-X permission is present.
3. Data Model
Different data model specializations can be defined for the generic
information model given above.
In this section, we will give the data model for simple REST
authorization as per Section 2.1 and Section 2.3. As discussed, in
this case the object identifier is specialized as a text string
giving a relative URI (local-part as absolute path on the server
serving as enforcement point). The permission set is specialized to
a single number by the following steps:
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* The entries in the table that specify the same local-part are
merged into a single entry that specifies the union of the
permission sets.
* The (non-dynamic) methods in the permission sets are converted
into their CoAP method numbers, minus 1.
* Dynamic-X permissions are converted into what the number would
have been for X, plus a Dynamic-Offset chosen as 32 (e.g., 35 for
Dynamic-DELETE).
* The set of numbers is converted into a single number by taking
each number to the power of two and computing the inclusive OR of
the binary representations of all the power values.
This data model could be interchanged in the JSON [RFC8259]
representation given in Figure 3.
[["/s/temp",1],["/a/led",5],["/dtls",2]]
Figure 3: An authorization instance encoded in JSON (40 bytes)
In Figure 4, a straightforward specification of the data model
(including both the methods from [RFC7252] and the new ones from
[RFC8132], identified by the method code minus 1) is shown in CDDL
[RFC8610] [RFC9165]:
AIF-REST = AIF-Generic<path, permissions>
path = tstr ; URI relative to enforcement point
permissions = uint .bits methods
methods = &(
GET: 0
POST: 1
PUT: 2
DELETE: 3
FETCH: 4
PATCH: 5
iPATCH: 6
Dynamic-GET: 32; 0 .plus Dynamic-Offset
Dynamic-POST: 33; 1 .plus Dynamic-Offset
Dynamic-PUT: 34; 2 .plus Dynamic-Offset
Dynamic-DELETE: 35; 3 .plus Dynamic-Offset
Dynamic-FETCH: 36; 4 .plus Dynamic-Offset
Dynamic-PATCH: 37; 5 .plus Dynamic-Offset
Dynamic-iPATCH: 38; 6 .plus Dynamic-Offset
)
Figure 4: AIF in CDDL
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For the information shown in Table 1 and Figure 3, a representation
in CBOR [RFC8949] is given in Figure 5; again, several optimizations/
improvements are possible.
83 # array(3)
82 # array(2)
67 # text(7)
2f732f74656d70 # "/s/temp"
01 # unsigned(1)
82 # array(2)
66 # text(6)
2f612f6c6564 # "/a/led"
05 # unsigned(5)
82 # array(2)
65 # text(5)
2f64746c73 # "/dtls"
02 # unsigned(2)
Figure 5: An authorization instance encoded in CBOR (28 bytes)
Note that choosing 32 as Dynamic-Offset means that all future CoAP
methods that can be registered can be represented both as themselves
and in the Dynamic-X variant, but only the dynamic forms of methods 1
to 21 are typically usable in a JSON form [RFC7493].
4. Media Types
This specification defines media types for the generic information
model, expressed in JSON (application/aif+json) or in CBOR
(application/aif+cbor). These media types have parameters for
specifying Toid and Tperm; default values are the values "local-uri"
for Toid and "REST-method-set" for Tperm.
A specification that wants to use Generic AIF with different Toid
and/or Tperm is expected to request these as media type parameters
(Section 5.2) and register a corresponding Content-Format
(Section 5.3).
5. IANA Considerations
// RFC Ed.: throughout this section, please replace RFC XXXX with the
// RFC number of this specification and remove this note.
5.1. Media Types
IANA is requested to add the following Media-Types to the "Media
Types" registry.
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+==========+======================+=====================+
| Name | Template | Reference |
+==========+======================+=====================+
| aif+cbor | application/aif+cbor | RFC XXXX, Section 4 |
+----------+----------------------+---------------------+
| aif+json | application/aif+json | RFC XXXX, Section 4 |
+----------+----------------------+---------------------+
Table 3
For application/aif+cbor:
Type name: application
Subtype name: aif+cbor
Required parameters: none
Optional parameters:
* Toid: the identifier for the object for which permissions are
supplied. A value from the media-type parameter sub-registry
for Toid. Default value: "local-uri" (RFC XXXX).
* Tperm: the data type of a permission set for the object
identified via a Toid. A value from the media-type parameter
sub-registry for Tperm. Default value: "REST-method-set" (RFC
XXXX).
Encoding considerations: binary (CBOR)
Security considerations: Section 6 of RFC XXXX
Interoperability considerations: none
Published specification: Section 4 of RFC XXXX
Applications that use this media type: Applications that need to
convey structured authorization data for identified resources,
conveying sets of permissions.
Fragment identifier considerations: The syntax and semantics of
fragment identifiers is as specified for "application/cbor". (At
publication of RFC XXXX, there is no fragment identification
syntax defined for "application/cbor".)
Person & email address to contact for further information: ACE WG
mailing list (ace@ietf.org), or IETF Applications and Real-Time
Area (art@ietf.org)
Intended usage: COMMON
Restrictions on usage: none
Author/Change controller: IETF
Provisional registration: no
For application/aif+json:
Type name: application
Subtype name: aif+json
Required parameters: none
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Optional parameters:
* Toid: the identifier for the object for which permissions are
supplied. A value from the media-type parameter sub-registry
for Toid. Default value: "local-uri" (RFC XXXX).
* Tperm: the data type of a permission set for the object
identified via a Toid. A value from the media-type parameter
sub-registry for Tperm. Default value: "REST-method-set" (RFC
XXXX).
Encoding considerations: binary (JSON is UTF-8-encoded text)
Security considerations: Section 6 of RFC XXXX
Interoperability considerations: none
Published specification: Section 4 of RFC XXXX
Applications that use this media type: Applications that need to
convey structured authorization data for identified resources,
conveying sets of permissions.
Fragment identifier considerations: The syntax and semantics of
fragment identifiers is as specified for "application/json". (At
publication of RFC XXXX, there is no fragment identification
syntax defined for "application/json".)
Person & email address to contact for further information: ACE WG
mailing list (ace@ietf.org), or IETF Applications and Real-Time
Area (art@ietf.org)
Intended usage: COMMON
Restrictions on usage: none
Author/Change controller: IETF
Provisional registration: no
5.2. Registries
IANA is requested to create a sub-registry for application/aif+cbor
and application/aif+json within [IANA.media-type-sub-parameters] for
the two media-type parameters Toid and Tperm, populated with:
+===========+=================+=====================+===========+
| Parameter | name | Description/ | Reference |
| | | Specification | |
+===========+=================+=====================+===========+
| Toid | local-part | local-part of URI | RFC XXXX |
+-----------+-----------------+---------------------+-----------+
| Tperm | REST-method-set | set of REST methods | RFC XXXX |
| | | represented | |
+-----------+-----------------+---------------------+-----------+
Table 4
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The registration policy is Specification required [RFC8126]. The
designated expert will engage with the submitter to ascertain the
requirements of this document are addressed.
5.3. Content-Format
IANA is requested to register Content-Format numbers in the "CoAP
Content-Formats" sub-registry, within the "Constrained RESTful
Environments (CoRE) Parameters" Registry [IANA.core-parameters], as
follows:
+======================+================+======+===========+
| Media Type | Content Coding | ID | Reference |
+======================+================+======+===========+
| application/aif+cbor | - | TBD1 | RFC XXXX |
+----------------------+----------------+------+-----------+
| application/aif+json | - | TBD2 | RFC XXXX |
+----------------------+----------------+------+-----------+
Table 5
// RFC Ed.: please replace TBD1 and TBD2 with assigned IDs and remove
this note.
Note that applications that register Toid and Tperm values are
encouraged to also register Content-Formats for the relevant
combinations.
6. Security Considerations
The security considerations of [RFC7252] apply. Some wider issues
are discussed in [RFC8576].
The semantics of the authorization information defined in this
documents are that of an _allow-list_: everything is denied until it
is explicitly allowed.
When applying these formats, the referencing specification needs to
be careful to:
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* ensure that the cryptographic armor employed around this format
fulfills the referencing specification's security objectives, and
that the armor or some additional information included in it with
the AIF information (1) unambiguously identifies the subject to
which the authorizations shall apply and provides (2) any context
information needed to derive the identity of the object to which
authorization is being granted from the object identifiers (such
as, for the data models defined in the present specification, the
scheme and authority information that is used to construct the
full URI), and
* ensure that the types used for Toid and Tperm provide the
appropriate granularity and precision so that application
requirements on the precision of the authorization information are
fulfilled, and that all parties understand Toid/Tperm pairs to
signify the same operations.
For the data formats, the security considerations of [RFC8259] and
[RFC8949] apply.
A plain implementation of AIF might implement just the basic REST
model as per Section 2.1. If it receives authorizations that include
permissions that use the REST-specific Model With Dynamic Resource
Creation Section 2.3, it needs to either reject the AIF data item
entirely or act only on the permissions that it does understand. In
other words, the semantics underlying an allow-list as discussed
above need to hold here as well.
An implementation of the REST-specific Model With Dynamic Resource
Creation Section 2.3 needs to carefully keep track of the dynamically
created objects and the subjects to which the Dynamic-X permissions
apply -- both on the server side to enforce the permissions and on
the client side to know which permissions are available.
7. References
7.1. Normative References
[I-D.ietf-httpbis-semantics]
Fielding, R. T., Nottingham, M., and J. Reschke, "HTTP
Semantics", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-
httpbis-semantics-19, 12 September 2021,
<https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-
semantics-19.txt>.
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[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
[RFC3986] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66,
RFC 3986, DOI 10.17487/RFC3986, January 2005,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3986>.
[RFC7252] Shelby, Z., Hartke, K., and C. Bormann, "The Constrained
Application Protocol (CoAP)", RFC 7252,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7252, June 2014,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7252>.
[RFC8126] Cotton, M., Leiba, B., and T. Narten, "Guidelines for
Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26,
RFC 8126, DOI 10.17487/RFC8126, June 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8126>.
[RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.
[RFC8610] Birkholz, H., Vigano, C., and C. Bormann, "Concise Data
Definition Language (CDDL): A Notational Convention to
Express Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) and
JSON Data Structures", RFC 8610, DOI 10.17487/RFC8610,
June 2019, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8610>.
[RFC9165] Bormann, C., "Additional Control Operators for the Concise
Data Definition Language (CDDL)", RFC 9165,
DOI 10.17487/RFC9165, December 2021,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9165>.
7.2. Informative References
[I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz]
Seitz, L., Selander, G., Wahlstroem, E., Erdtman, S., and
H. Tschofenig, "Authentication and Authorization for
Constrained Environments (ACE) using the OAuth 2.0
Framework (ACE-OAuth)", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft,
draft-ietf-ace-oauth-authz-46, 8 November 2021,
<https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-ace-oauth-
authz-46.txt>.
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[IANA.core-parameters]
IANA, "Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE)
Parameters",
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/core-parameters>.
[IANA.media-type-sub-parameters]
IANA, "MIME Media Type Sub-Parameter Registries",
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-type-sub-
parameters>.
[RFC4949] Shirey, R., "Internet Security Glossary, Version 2",
FYI 36, RFC 4949, DOI 10.17487/RFC4949, August 2007,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4949>.
[RFC6570] Gregorio, J., Fielding, R., Hadley, M., Nottingham, M.,
and D. Orchard, "URI Template", RFC 6570,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6570, March 2012,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6570>.
[RFC7228] Bormann, C., Ersue, M., and A. Keranen, "Terminology for
Constrained-Node Networks", RFC 7228,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7228, May 2014,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7228>.
[RFC7493] Bray, T., Ed., "The I-JSON Message Format", RFC 7493,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7493, March 2015,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7493>.
[RFC8132] van der Stok, P., Bormann, C., and A. Sehgal, "PATCH and
FETCH Methods for the Constrained Application Protocol
(CoAP)", RFC 8132, DOI 10.17487/RFC8132, April 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8132>.
[RFC8259] Bray, T., Ed., "The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data
Interchange Format", STD 90, RFC 8259,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8259, December 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8259>.
[RFC8576] Garcia-Morchon, O., Kumar, S., and M. Sethi, "Internet of
Things (IoT) Security: State of the Art and Challenges",
RFC 8576, DOI 10.17487/RFC8576, April 2019,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8576>.
[RFC8881] Noveck, D., Ed. and C. Lever, "Network File System (NFS)
Version 4 Minor Version 1 Protocol", RFC 8881,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8881, August 2020,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8881>.
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Internet-Draft ACE AIF February 2022
[RFC8949] Bormann, C. and P. Hoffman, "Concise Binary Object
Representation (CBOR)", STD 94, RFC 8949,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8949, December 2020,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8949>.
Acknowledgements
Jim Schaad, Francesca Palombini, Olaf Bergmann, Marco Tiloca, and
Christian Amsüss provided comments that shaped the direction of this
document. Alexey Melnikov pointed out that there were gaps in the
media type specifications, and Loganaden Velvindron provided a
shepherd review with further comments. Benjamin Kaduk provided an
extensive review as responsible Area Director, and indeed is
responsible for much improvement in the document.
Author's Address
Carsten Bormann
Universität Bremen TZI
Postfach 330440
D-28359 Bremen
Germany
Phone: +49-421-218-63921
Email: cabo@tzi.org
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