Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules for IPv6
draft-ietf-idr-flow-spec-v6-12

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IDR Working Group                                          C. Loibl, Ed.
Internet-Draft                                   next layer Telekom GmbH
Intended status: Standards Track                          R. Raszuk, Ed.
Expires: January 11, 2021                                   Bloomberg LP
                                                           S. Hares, Ed.
                                                                  Huawei
                                                           July 10, 2020

           Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules for IPv6
                     draft-ietf-idr-flow-spec-v6-12

Abstract

   Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules I-D.ietf-idr-rfc5575bis
   provides a protocol extension for propagation of traffic flow
   information for the purpose of rate limiting or filtering.  I-D.ietf-
   idr-rfc5575bis specifies those extensions for IPv4 protocol data
   packets only.

   This specification extends I-D.ietf-idr-rfc5575bis and defines
   changes to the original document in order to make it also usable and
   applicable to IPv6 data packets.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     1.1.  Definitions of Terms Used in This Memo  . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  IPv6 Flow Specification encoding in BGP . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  IPv6 Flow Specification components  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.1.  Type 1 - Destination IPv6 Prefix  . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.2.  Type 2 - Source IPv6 Prefix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.3.  Type 3 - Next Header  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.4.  Type 7 - ICMPv6 type  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     3.5.  Type 8 - ICMPv6 code  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     3.6.  Type 12 - Fragment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     3.7.  Type 13 - Flow Label (new)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.8.  Encoding Example  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   4.  Ordering of Flow Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   5.  Validation Procedure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   6.  IPv6 Traffic Filtering Action changes . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     6.1.  Redirect IPv6 (rt-redirect-ipv6) Type/Sub-Type 0x80/TBD .   9
   7.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   8.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   9.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   10. Contributors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   11. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     11.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     11.2.  URIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   Appendix A.  Example python code: flow_rule_cmp_v6  . . . . . . .  13
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16

1.  Introduction

   The growing amount of IPv6 traffic in private and public networks
   requires the extension of tools used in the IPv4 only networks to be
   also capable of supporting IPv6 data packets.

   In this document authors analyze the differences of IPv6 [RFC8200]
   flows description from those of traditional IPv4 packets and propose
   subset of new encoding formats to enable Dissemination of Flow
   Specification Rules [I-D.ietf-idr-rfc5575bis] for IPv6.