Framework for Interface to Network Security Functions
draft-ietf-i2nsf-framework-09
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| Last updated | 2017-11-12 (latest revision 2017-10-10) | ||
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I2NSF D. Lopez
Internet-Draft Telefonica I+D
Intended status: Informational E. Lopez
Expires: May 12, 2018 Curveball Networks
L. Dunbar
J. Strassner
Huawei
R. Kumar
Juniper Networks
November 12, 2017
Framework for Interface to Network Security Functions
draft-ietf-i2nsf-framework-09
Abstract
This document describes the framework for the Interface to Network
Security Functions (I2NSF), and defines a reference model (including
major functional components) for I2NSF. Network security functions
(NSFs) are packet-processing engines that inspect and optionally
modify packets traversing networks, either directly or in the context
of sessions to which the packet is associated.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Conventions used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. I2NSF Reference Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. I2NSF Consumer-Facing Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.2. I2NSF NSF-Facing Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.3. I2NSF Registration Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4. Threats Associated with Externally Provided NSFs . . . . . . . 7
5. Avoiding NSF Ossification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6. The Network Connecting I2NSF Components . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.1. Network Connecting I2NSF Users and I2NSF Controller . . . 9
6.2. Network Connecting the Controller and NSFs . . . . . . . 10
6.3. Interface to vNSFs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.4. Consistency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7. I2NSF Flow Security Policy Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.1. Customer-Facing Flow Security Policy Structure . . . . . . 12
7.2. NSF-Facing Flow Security Policy Structure . . . . . . . . 13
7.3. Differences from ACL Data Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
8. Capability Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
9. Registration Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
9.1. Flow-Based NSF Capability Characterization . . . . . . . . 16
9.2. Registration Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
10. Manageability Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
11. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
12. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
13. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
14. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
14.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
14.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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