Proxying IP in HTTP
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draft-ietf-masque-connect-ip-05
MASQUE T. Pauly, Ed.
Internet-Draft Apple Inc.
Updates: 9298 (if approved) D. Schinazi
Intended status: Standards Track A. Chernyakhovsky
Expires: 24 July 2023 Google LLC
M. Kuehlewind
M. Westerlund
Ericsson
20 January 2023
Proxying IP in HTTP
draft-ietf-masque-connect-ip-05
Abstract
This document describes how to proxy IP packets in HTTP. This
protocol is similar to UDP proxying in HTTP, but allows transmitting
arbitrary IP packets. More specifically, this document defines a
protocol that allows an HTTP client to create an IP tunnel through an
HTTP server that acts as a proxy. This document updates RFC 9298.
About This Document
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Conventions and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Configuration of Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Tunnelling IP over HTTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1. HTTP/1.1 Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. HTTP/1.1 Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.3. HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.4. HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.5. Limiting Request Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.6. Capsules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.6.1. ADDRESS_ASSIGN Capsule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.6.2. ADDRESS_REQUEST Capsule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.6.3. ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT Capsule . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5. Context Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6. HTTP Datagram Payload Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7. Error Signalling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
8. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
8.1. Remote Access VPN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
8.2. IP Flow Forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
8.3. Proxied Connection Racing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
9. Extensibility Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
11. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
11.1. HTTP Upgrade Token . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
11.2. Creation of the MASQUE URI Suffixes Registry . . . . . . 24
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11.3. Updates to masque Well-Known URI . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
11.4. Capsule Type Registrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
12. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
12.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
12.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
1. Introduction
HTTP provides the CONNECT method (see Section 9.3.6 of [HTTP]) for
creating a TCP [TCP] tunnel to a destination and a similar mechanism
for UDP [CONNECT-UDP]. However, these mechanisms cannot tunnel other
protocols nor convey fields of the IP header.
This document describes a protocol for tunnelling IP to an HTTP
server acting as an IP-specific proxy over HTTP. This can be used
for various use cases such as point-to-network VPN, secure point-to-
point communication, or general-purpose packet tunnelling.
IP proxying operates similarly to UDP proxying [CONNECT-UDP], whereby
the proxy itself is identified with an absolute URL, optionally
containing the traffic's destination. Clients generate these URLs
using a URI Template [TEMPLATE], as described in Section 3.
This protocol supports all existing versions of HTTP by using HTTP
Datagrams [HTTP-DGRAM]. When using HTTP/2 [HTTP/2] or HTTP/3
[HTTP/3], it uses HTTP Extended CONNECT as described in
[EXT-CONNECT2] and [EXT-CONNECT3]. When using HTTP/1.x [HTTP/1.1],
it uses HTTP Upgrade as defined in Section 7.8 of [HTTP].
2. Conventions and Definitions
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.
In this document, we use the term "IP proxy" to refer to the HTTP
server that responds to the IP proxying request. If there are HTTP
intermediaries (as defined in Section 3.7 of [HTTP]) between the
client and the proxy, those are referred to as "intermediaries" in
this document.
Note that, when the HTTP version in use does not support multiplexing
streams (such as HTTP/1.1), any reference to "stream" in this
document represents the entire connection.
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3. Configuration of Clients
Clients are configured to use IP proxying over HTTP via an URI
Template [TEMPLATE]. The URI template MAY contain two variables:
"target" and "ipproto" (Section 4.5). The optionality of the
variables needs to be considered when defining the template so that
either the variable is self-identifying or it is possible to exclude
it in the syntax.
Examples are shown below:
https://example.org/.well-known/masque/ip/{target}/{ipproto}/
https://proxy.example.org:4443/masque/ip?t={target}&i={ipproto}
https://proxy.example.org:4443/masque/ip{?target,ipproto}
https://masque.example.org/?user=bob
Figure 1: URI Template Examples
The following requirements apply to the URI Template:
* The URI Template MUST be a level 3 template or lower.
* The URI Template MUST be in absolute form, and MUST include non-
empty scheme, authority and path components.
* The path component of the URI Template MUST start with a slash
"/".
* All template variables MUST be within the path or query components
of the URI.
* The URI template MAY contain the two variables "target" and
"ipproto" and MAY contain other variables. If the "target" or
"ipproto" variables are included, their values MUST NOT be empty.
Clients can instead use "*" to indicate wildcard or no-preference
values; see Section 4.5.
* The URI Template MUST NOT contain any non-ASCII unicode characters
and MUST only contain ASCII characters in the range 0x21-0x7E
inclusive (note that percent-encoding is allowed; see Section 2.1
of [URI].
* The URI Template MUST NOT use Reserved Expansion ("+" operator),
Fragment Expansion ("#" operator), Label Expansion with Dot-
Prefix, Path Segment Expansion with Slash-Prefix, nor Path-Style
Parameter Expansion with Semicolon-Prefix.
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Clients SHOULD validate the requirements above; however, clients MAY
use a general-purpose URI Template implementation that lacks this
specific validation. If a client detects that any of the
requirements above are not met by a URI Template, the client MUST
reject its configuration and abort the request without sending it to
the IP proxy.
As with UDP proxying, some client configurations for IP proxies will
only allow the user to configure the proxy host and proxy port.
Clients with such limitations MAY attempt to access IP proxying
capabilities using the default template, which is defined as:
"https://$PROXY_HOST:$PROXY_PORT/.well-known/masque/
ip/{target}/{ipproto}/", where $PROXY_HOST and $PROXY_PORT are the
configured host and port of the IP proxy, respectively. IP proxy
deployments SHOULD offer service at this location if they need to
interoperate with such clients.
4. Tunnelling IP over HTTP
To allow negotiation of a tunnel for IP over HTTP, this document
defines the "connect-ip" HTTP Upgrade Token. The resulting IP
tunnels use the Capsule Protocol (see Section 3.2 of [HTTP-DGRAM])
with HTTP Datagrams in the format defined in Section 6.
To initiate an IP tunnel associated with a single HTTP stream, a
client issues a request containing the "connect-ip" upgrade token.
The target of the tunnel is indicated by the client to the IP proxy
via the "target_host" and "target_port" variables of the URI
Template; see Section 3.
When sending its IP proxying request, the client SHALL perform URI
template expansion to determine the path and query of its request,
see Section 3.
A successful response indicates that the IP proxy is willing to open
an IP forwarding tunnel between it and the client. Any response
other than a successful response indicates that the tunnel has not
been formed.
The lifetime of the IP forwarding tunnel is tied to the IP proxying
request stream. Closing that stream (in HTTP/3 via the FIN bit on a
QUIC STREAM frame, or a QUIC RESET_STREAM frame) closes the
associated IP tunnel.
Along with a successful response, the IP proxy can send capsules to
assign addresses and advertise routes to the client (Section 4.6).
The client can also assign addresses and advertise routes to the IP
proxy for network-to-network routing.
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By virtue of the definition of the Capsule Protocol (see Section 3.2
of [HTTP-DGRAM]), IP proxying requests do not carry any message
content. Similarly, successful IP proxying responses also do not
carry any message content.
4.1. HTTP/1.1 Request
When using HTTP/1.1 [HTTP/1.1], an IP proxying request will meet the
following requirements:
* the method SHALL be "GET".
* the request SHALL include a single Host header field containing
the origin of the IP proxy.
* the request SHALL include a Connection header field with value
"Upgrade" (note that this requirement is case-insensitive as per
Section 7.6.1 of [HTTP]).
* the request SHALL include an Upgrade header field with value
"connect-ip".
An IP proxying request that does not conform to these restrictions is
malformed. The recipient of such a malformed request MUST respond
with an error and SHOULD use the 400 (Bad Request) status code.
4.2. HTTP/1.1 Response
The IP proxy SHALL indicate a successful response by replying with
the following requirements:
* the HTTP status code on the response SHALL be 101 (Switching
Protocols).
* the response SHALL include a Connection header field with value
"Upgrade" (note that this requirement is case-insensitive as per
Section 7.6.1 of [HTTP]).
* the response SHALL include a single Upgrade header field with
value "connect-ip".
* the response SHALL meet the requirements of HTTP responses that
start the Capsule Protocol; see Section 3.2 of [HTTP-DGRAM].
If any of these requirements are not met, the client MUST treat this
proxying attempt as failed and abort the connection.
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4.3. HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 Requests
When using HTTP/2 [HTTP/2] or HTTP/3 [HTTP/3], IP proxying requests
use HTTP Extended CONNECT. This requires that servers send an HTTP
Setting as specified in [EXT-CONNECT2] and [EXT-CONNECT3] and that
requests use HTTP pseudo-header fields with the following
requirements:
* The :method pseudo-header field SHALL be "CONNECT".
* The :protocol pseudo-header field SHALL be "connect-ip".
* The :authority pseudo-header field SHALL contain the authority of
the IP proxy.
* The :path and :scheme pseudo-header fields SHALL NOT be empty.
Their values SHALL contain the scheme and path from the URI
Template after the URI Template expansion process has been
completed; see Section 3. Variables in the URI template can
determine the scope of the request, such as requesting full-tunnel
IP packet forwarding, or a specific proxied flow; see Section 4.5.
An IP proxying request that does not conform to these restrictions is
malformed (see Section 8.1.1 of [HTTP/2] and Section 4.1.2 of
[HTTP/3]).
4.4. HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 Responses
The IP proxy SHALL indicate a successful response by replying with
the following requirements:
* the HTTP status code on the response SHALL be in the 2xx
(Successful) range.
* the response SHALL meet the requirements of HTTP responses that
start the Capsule Protocol; see Section 3.2 of [HTTP-DGRAM].
If any of these requirements are not met, the client MUST treat this
proxying attempt as failed and abort the request.
4.5. Limiting Request Scope
Unlike UDP proxying requests, which require specifying a target host,
IP proxying requests can allow endpoints to send arbitrary IP packets
to any host. The client can choose to restrict a given request to a
specific IP prefix or IP protocol by adding parameters to its
request. When the IP proxy knows that a request is scoped to a
target prefix or protocol, it can leverage this information to
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optimize its resource allocation; for example, the IP proxy can
assign the same public IP address to two IP proxying requests that
are scoped to different prefixes and/or different protocols.
The scope of the request is indicated by the client to the IP proxy
via the "target" and "ipproto" variables of the URI Template; see
Section 3. Both the "target" and "ipproto" variables are optional;
if they are not included, they are considered to carry the wildcard
value "*".
target: The variable "target" contains a hostname or IP prefix of a
specific host to which the client wants to proxy packets. If the
"target" variable is not specified or its value is "*", the client
is requesting to communicate with any allowable host. "target"
supports using DNS names, IPv6 prefixes and IPv4 prefixes. Note
that IPv6 scoped addressing zone identifiers are not supported.
If the target is an IP prefix (IP address optionally followed by a
percent-encoded slash followed by the prefix length in bits), the
request will only support a single IP version. If the target is a
hostname, the IP proxy is expected to perform DNS resolution to
determine which route(s) to advertise to the client. The IP proxy
SHOULD send a ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule that includes routes for
all addresses that were resolved for the requested hostname, that
are accessible to the IP proxy, and belong to an address family
for which the IP proxy also sends an Assigned Address.
ipproto: The variable "ipproto" contains an IP protocol number, as
defined in the "Assigned Internet Protocol Numbers" IANA registry
maintained at <https://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers/
protocol-numbers.xhtml>. If present, it specifies that a client
only wants to proxy a specific IP protocol for this request. If
the value is "*", or the variable is not included, the client is
requesting to use any IP protocol.
Using the terms IPv6address, IPv4address, and reg-name from [URI],
the "target" and "ipproto" variables MUST adhere to the format in
Figure 2, using notation from [ABNF]. Additionally:
* if "target" contains an IPv6 literal or prefix, the colons (":")
MUST be percent-encoded. For example, if the target host is
"2001:db8::42", it will be encoded in the URI as
"2001%3Adb8%3A%3A42".
* If present, the IP prefix length in "target" SHALL be preceded by
a percent-encoded slash ("/"): "%2F". The IP prefix length MUST
represent an integer between 0 and the length of the IP address in
bits, inclusive.
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* "ipproto" MUST represent an integer between 0 and 255 inclusive,
or the wildcard value "*".
target = IPv6prefix / IPv4prefix / reg-name / "*"
IPv6prefix = IPv6address ["%2F" 1*3DIGIT]
IPv4prefix = IPv4address ["%2F" 1*2DIGIT]
ipproto = 1*3DIGIT / "*"
Figure 2: URI Template Variable Format
4.6. Capsules
This document defines multiple new capsule types that allow endpoints
to exchange IP configuration information. Both endpoints MAY send
any number of these new capsules.
4.6.1. ADDRESS_ASSIGN Capsule
The ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsule (see Section 11.4 for the value of the
capsule type) allows an endpoint to inform its peer of the list of IP
addresses or prefixes it has assigned to it. Every capsule contains
the full list of IP prefixes currently assigned to the receiver. Any
of these addresses can be used as the source address on IP packets
originated by the receiver of this capsule.
ADDRESS_ASSIGN Capsule {
Type (i) = ADDRESS_ASSIGN,
Length (i),
Assigned Address (..) ...,
}
Figure 3: ADDRESS_ASSIGN Capsule Format
The ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsule contains a sequence of zero or more
Assigned Addresses.
Assigned Address {
Request ID (i),
IP Version (8),
IP Address (32..128),
IP Prefix Length (8),
}
Figure 4: Assigned Address Format
Request ID: Request identifier, encoded as a variable-length
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integer. If this address assignment is in response to an Address
Request (see Section 4.6.2), then this field SHALL contain the
value of the corresponding field in the request. Otherwise, this
field SHALL be zero.
IP Version: IP Version of this address assignment, encoded as an
unsigned 8-bit integer. MUST be either 4 or 6.
IP Address: Assigned IP address. If the IP Version field has value
4, the IP Address field SHALL have a length of 32 bits. If the IP
Version field has value 6, the IP Address field SHALL have a
length of 128 bits.
IP Prefix Length: The number of bits in the IP Address that are used
to define the prefix that is being assigned, encoded as an
unsigned 8-bit integer. This MUST be less than or equal to the
length of the IP Address field, in bits. If the prefix length is
equal to the length of the IP Address, the receiver of this
capsule is only allowed to send packets from a single source
address. If the prefix length is less than the length of the IP
address, the receiver of this capsule is allowed to send packets
from any source address that falls within the prefix.
If an ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsule does not contain an address that was
previously transmitted in another ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsule, that
indicates that the address has been removed. An ADDRESS_ASSIGN
capsule can also be empty, indicating that all addresses have been
removed.
In some deployments of IP proxying in HTTP, an endpoint needs to be
assigned an address by its peer before it knows what source address
to set on its own packets. For example, in the Remote Access case
(Section 8.1) the client cannot send IP packets until it knows what
address to use. In these deployments, the endpoint that is expecting
an address assignment MUST send an ADDRESS_REQUEST capsule. This
isn't required if the endpoint does not need any address assignment,
for example when it is configured out-of-band with static addresses.
While ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsules are commonly sent in response to
ADDRESS_REQUEST capsules, endpoints MAY send ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsules
unprompted.
4.6.2. ADDRESS_REQUEST Capsule
The ADDRESS_REQUEST capsule (see Section 11.4 for the value of the
capsule type) allows an endpoint to request assignment of IP
addresses from its peer. The capsule allows the endpoint to
optionally indicate a preference for which address it would get
assigned.
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ADDRESS_REQUEST Capsule {
Type (i) = ADDRESS_REQUEST,
Length (i),
Requested Address (..) ...,
}
Figure 5: ADDRESS_REQUEST Capsule Format
The ADDRESS_REQUEST capsule contains a sequence of one or more
Requested Addresses.
Requested Address {
Request ID (i),
IP Version (8),
IP Address (32..128),
IP Prefix Length (8),
}
Figure 6: Requested Address Format
Request ID: Request identifier, encoded as a variable-length
integer. This is the identifier of this specific address request.
Each request from a given endpoint carries a different identifier.
Request IDs MUST NOT be reused by an endpoint, and MUST NOT be
zero.
IP Version: IP Version of this address request, encoded as an
unsigned 8-bit integer. MUST be either 4 or 6.
IP Address: Requested IP address. If the IP Version field has value
4, the IP Address field SHALL have a length of 32 bits. If the IP
Version field has value 6, the IP Address field SHALL have a
length of 128 bits.
IP Prefix Length: Length of the IP Prefix requested, in bits,
encoded as an unsigned 8-bit integer. MUST be lesser or equal to
the length of the IP Address field, in bits.
If the IP Address is all-zero (0.0.0.0 or ::), this indicates that
the sender is requesting an address of that address family but does
not have a preference for a specific address. In that scenario, the
prefix length still indicates the sender's preference for the prefix
length it is requesting.
Upon receiving the ADDRESS_REQUEST capsule, an endpoint SHOULD assign
an IP address to its peer, and then respond with an ADDRESS_ASSIGN
capsule to inform the peer of the assignment. Note that the receiver
of the ADDRESS_REQUEST capsule is not required to assign the
requested address, and that it can also assign some requested
addresses but not others.
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If an endpoint receives an ADDRESS_REQUEST capsule that contains zero
Requested Addresses, it MUST abort the IP proxying request stream.
4.6.3. ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT Capsule
The ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule (see Section 11.4 for the value of
the capsule type) allows an endpoint to communicate to its peer that
it is willing to route traffic to a set of IP address ranges. This
indicates that the sender has an existing route to each address
range, and notifies its peer that if the receiver of the
ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule sends IP packets for one of these ranges
in HTTP Datagrams, the sender of the capsule will forward them along
its preexisting route. Any address which is in one of the address
ranges can be used as the destination address on IP packets
originated by the receiver of this capsule.
ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT Capsule {
Type (i) = ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT,
Length (i),
IP Address Range (..) ...,
}
Figure 7: ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT Capsule Format
The ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule contains a sequence of IP Address
Ranges.
IP Address Range {
IP Version (8),
Start IP Address (32..128),
End IP Address (32..128),
IP Protocol (8),
}
Figure 8: IP Address Range Format
IP Version: IP Version of this range, encoded as an unsigned 8-bit
integer. MUST be either 4 or 6.
Start IP Address and End IP Address: Inclusive start and end IP
address of the advertised range. If the IP Version field has
value 4, these fields SHALL have a length of 32 bits. If the IP
Version field has value 6, these fields SHALL have a length of 128
bits. The Start IP Address MUST be lesser or equal to the End IP
Address.
IP Protocol: The Internet Protocol Number for traffic that can be
sent to this range, encoded as an unsigned 8-bit integer. If the
value is 0, all protocols are allowed. ICMP traffic is always
allowed, regardless of the value of this field.
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Upon receiving the ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule, an endpoint MAY start
routing IP packets in these ranges to its peer.
Each ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT contains the full list of address ranges.
If multiple ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsules are sent in one direction,
each ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule supersedes prior ones. In other
words, if a given address range was present in a prior capsule but
the most recently received ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule does not
contain it, the receiver will consider that range withdrawn.
If multiple ranges using the same IP protocol were to overlap, some
routing table implementations might reject them. To prevent overlap,
the ranges are ordered; this places the burden on the sender and
makes verification by the receiver much simpler. If an IP Address
Range A precedes an IP address range B in the same
ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule, they MUST follow these requirements:
* IP Version of A MUST be lesser or equal than IP Version of B
* If the IP Version of A and B are equal, the IP Protocol of A MUST
be lesser or equal than IP Protocol of B.
* If the IP Version and IP Protocol of A and B are both equal, the
End IP Address of A MUST be strictly less than the Start IP
Address of B.
If an endpoint receives a ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule that does not
meet these requirements, it MUST abort the IP proxying request
stream.
5. Context Identifiers
The mechanism for proxying IP in HTTP defined in this document allows
future extensions to exchange HTTP Datagrams that carry different
semantics from IP payloads. Some of these extensions can augment IP
payloads with additional data or compress IP header fields, while
others can exchange data that is completely separate from IP
payloads. In order to accomplish this, all HTTP Datagrams associated
with IP proxying request streams start with a Context ID field; see
Section 6.
Context IDs are 62-bit integers (0 to 2^62-1). Context IDs are
encoded as variable-length integers; see Section 16 of [QUIC]. The
Context ID value of 0 is reserved for IP payloads, while non-zero
values are dynamically allocated. Non-zero even-numbered Context IDs
are client-allocated, and odd-numbered Context IDs are proxy-
allocated. The Context ID namespace is tied to a given HTTP request;
it is possible for a Context ID with the same numeric value to be
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simultaneously allocated in distinct requests, potentially with
different semantics. Context IDs MUST NOT be re-allocated within a
given HTTP namespace but MAY be allocated in any order. The Context
ID allocation restrictions to the use of even-numbered and odd-
numbered Context IDs exist in order to avoid the need for
synchronization between endpoints. However, once a Context ID has
been allocated, those restrictions do not apply to the use of the
Context ID; it can be used by any client or IP proxy, independent of
which endpoint initially allocated it.
Registration is the action by which an endpoint informs its peer of
the semantics and format of a given Context ID. This document does
not define how registration occurs. Future extensions MAY use HTTP
header fields or capsules to register Context IDs. Depending on the
method being used, it is possible for datagrams to be received with
Context IDs that have not yet been registered. For instance, this
can be due to reordering of the packet containing the datagram and
the packet containing the registration message during transmission.
6. HTTP Datagram Payload Format
When associated with IP proxying request streams, the HTTP Datagram
Payload field of HTTP Datagrams (see [HTTP-DGRAM]) has the format
defined in Figure 9. Note that when HTTP Datagrams are encoded using
QUIC DATAGRAM frames, the Context ID field defined below directly
follows the Quarter Stream ID field which is at the start of the QUIC
DATAGRAM frame payload:
IP Proxying HTTP Datagram Payload {
Context ID (i),
Payload (..),
}
Figure 9: IP Proxying HTTP Datagram Format
Context ID: A variable-length integer that contains the value of the
Context ID. If an HTTP/3 datagram which carries an unknown
Context ID is received, the receiver SHALL either drop that
datagram silently or buffer it temporarily (on the order of a
round trip) while awaiting the registration of the corresponding
Context ID.
Payload: The payload of the datagram, whose semantics depend on
value of the previous field. Note that this field can be empty.
IP packets are encoded using HTTP Datagrams with the Context ID set
to zero. When the Context ID is set to zero, the Payload field
contains a full IP packet (from the IP Version field until the last
byte of the IP Payload).
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Clients MAY optimistically start sending proxied IP packets before
receiving the response to its IP proxying request, noting however
that those may not be processed by the IP proxy if it responds to the
request with a failure, or if the datagrams are received by the IP
proxy before the request. Since receiving addresses and routes is
required in order to know that a packet can be sent through the
tunnel, such optimistic packets might be dropped by the IP proxy if
it chooses to provide different addressing or routing information
than what the client assumed.
When an endpoint receives an HTTP Datagram containing an IP packet,
it will parse the packet's IP header, perform any local policy checks
(e.g., source address validation), check their routing table to pick
an outbound interface, and then send the IP packet on that interface
or pass it to a local application.
In the other direction, when an endpoint receives an IP packet, it
checks to see if the packet matches the routes mapped for an IP
tunnel, and performs the same forwarding checks as above before
transmitting the packet over HTTP Datagrams.
Note that endpoints will decrement the IP Hop Count (or TTL) upon
encapsulation but not decapsulation. In other words, the Hop Count
is decremented right before an IP packet is transmitted in an HTTP
Datagram. This prevents infinite loops in the presence of routing
loops, and matches the choices in IPsec [IPSEC].
IPv6 requires that every link have an MTU of at least 1280 bytes
[IPv6]. Since IP proxying in HTTP conveys IP packets in HTTP
Datagrams and those can in turn be sent in QUIC DATAGRAM frames which
cannot be fragmented [DGRAM], the MTU of an IP tunnel can be limited
by the MTU of the QUIC connection that IP proxying is operating over.
This can lead to situations where the IPv6 minimum link MTU is
violated. IP proxying endpoints that support IPv6 MUST ensure that
the IP tunnel link MTU is at least 1280 (i.e., that they can send
HTTP Datagrams with payloads of at least 1280 bytes). This can be
accomplished using various techniques:
* if both IP proxying endpoints know for certain that HTTP
intermediaries are not in use, the endpoints can pad the QUIC
INITIAL packets of the underlying QUIC connection that IP proxying
is running over. (Assuming QUIC version 1 is in use, the overhead
is 1 byte type, 20 bytes maximal connection ID length, 4 bytes
maximal packet number length, 1 byte DATAGRAM frame type, 8 bytes
maximal quarter stream ID, one byte for the zero Context ID, and
16 bytes for the AEAD authentication tag, for a total of 51 bytes
of overhead which corresponds to padding QUIC INITIAL packets to
1331 bytes or more.)
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* IP proxying endpoints can also send ICMPv6 echo requests with 1232
bytes of data to ascertain the link MTU and tear down the tunnel
if they do not receive a response. Unless endpoints have an out
of band means of guaranteeing that the previous techniques is
sufficient, they MUST use this method.
If an endpoint is using QUIC DATAGRAM frames to convey IPv6 packets,
and it detects that the QUIC MTU is too low to allow sending 1280
bytes, it MUST abort the IP proxying request stream.
Endpoints MAY implement additional filtering policies on the IP
packets they forward.
7. Error Signalling
Since IP proxying endpoints often forward IP packets onwards to other
network interfaces, they need to handle errors in the forwarding
process. For example, forwarding can fail if the endpoint does not
have a route for the destination address, or if it is configured to
reject a destination prefix by policy, or if the MTU of the outgoing
link is lower than the size of the packet to be forwarded. In such
scenarios, IP proxying endpoints SHOULD use ICMP [ICMP] [ICMPv6] to
signal the forwarding error to its peer.
Endpoints are free to select the most appropriate ICMP errors to
send. Some examples that are relevant for IP proxying include:
* For invalid source addresses, send Destination Unreachable
Section 3.1 of [ICMPv6] with code 5, "Source address failed
ingress/egress policy".
* For unroutable destination addresses, send Destination Unreachable
Section 3.1 of [ICMPv6] with a code 0, "No route to destination",
or code 1, "Communication with destination administratively
prohibited".
* For packets that cannot fit within the MTU of the outgoing link,
send Packet Too Big Section 3.2 of [ICMPv6].
In order to receive these errors, endpoints need to be prepared to
receive ICMP packets. If an endpoint sends ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT
capsules, its routes SHOULD include an allowance for receiving ICMP
messages. If an endpoint does not send ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsules,
such as a client opening an IP flow through an IP proxy, it SHOULD
process proxied ICMP packets from its peer in order to receive these
errors. Note that ICMP messages can originate from a source address
different from that of the IP proxying peer.
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8. Examples
IP proxying in HTTP enables many different use cases that can benefit
from IP packet proxying and tunnelling. These examples are provided
to help illustrate some of the ways in which IP proxying in HTTP can
be used.
8.1. Remote Access VPN
The following example shows a point-to-network VPN setup, where a
client receives a set of local addresses, and can send to any remote
host through the IP proxy. Such VPN setups can be either full-tunnel
or split-tunnel.
+--------+ IP A IP B +--------+ +---> IP D
| |--------------------| IP | IP C |
| Client | IP Subnet C <--> ? | Proxy |-----------+---> IP E
| |--------------------| | |
+--------+ +--------+ +---> IP ...
Figure 10: VPN Tunnel Setup
In this case, the client does not specify any scope in its request.
The IP proxy assigns the client an IPv4 address (192.0.2.11) and a
full-tunnel route of all IPv4 addresses (0.0.0.0/0). The client can
then send to any IPv4 host using a source address in its assigned
prefix.
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[[ From Client ]] [[ From IP Proxy ]]
SETTINGS
H3_DATAGRAM = 1
SETTINGS
ENABLE_CONNECT_PROTOCOL = 1
H3_DATAGRAM = 1
STREAM(44): HEADERS
:method = CONNECT
:protocol = connect-ip
:scheme = https
:path = /vpn
:authority = proxy.example.com
capsule-protocol = ?1
STREAM(44): HEADERS
:status = 200
capsule-protocol = ?1
STREAM(44): CAPSULE
Capsule Type = ADDRESS_ASSIGN
(Request ID = 0
IP Version = 4
IP Address = 192.0.2.11
IP Prefix Length = 32)
STREAM(44): CAPSULE
Capsule Type = ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT
(IP Version = 4
Start IP Address = 0.0.0.0
End IP Address = 255.255.255.255
IP Protocol = 0) // Any
DATAGRAM
Quarter Stream ID = 11
Context ID = 0
Payload = Encapsulated IP Packet
DATAGRAM
Quarter Stream ID = 11
Context ID = 0
Payload = Encapsulated IP Packet
Figure 11: VPN Full-Tunnel Example
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A setup for a split-tunnel VPN (the case where the client can only
access a specific set of private subnets) is quite similar. In this
case, the advertised route is restricted to 192.0.2.0/24, rather than
0.0.0.0/0.
[[ From Client ]] [[ From IP Proxy ]]
STREAM(44): CAPSULE
Capsule Type = ADDRESS_ASSIGN
(Request ID = 0
IP Version = 4
IP Address = 192.0.2.42
IP Prefix Length = 32)
STREAM(44): CAPSULE
Capsule Type = ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT
(IP Version = 4
Start IP Address = 192.0.2.0
End IP Address = 192.0.2.255
IP Protocol = 0) // Any
Figure 12: VPN Split-Tunnel Capsule Example
8.2. IP Flow Forwarding
The following example shows an IP flow forwarding setup, where a
client requests to establish a forwarding tunnel to
target.example.com using SCTP (IP protocol 132), and receives a
single local address and remote address it can use for transmitting
packets. A similar approach could be used for any other IP protocol
that isn't easily proxied with existing HTTP methods, such as ICMP,
ESP, etc.
+--------+ IP A IP B +--------+
| |-------------------| IP | IP C
| Client | IP C <--> D | Proxy |---------> IP D
| |-------------------| |
+--------+ +--------+
Figure 13: Proxied Flow Setup
In this case, the client specfies both a target hostname and an IP
protocol number in the scope of its request, indicating that it only
needs to communicate with a single host. The IP proxy is able to
perform DNS resolution on behalf of the client and allocate a
specific outbound socket for the client instead of allocating an
entire IP address to the client. In this regard, the request is
similar to a traditional CONNECT proxy request.
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The IP proxy assigns a single IPv6 address to the client
(2001:db8:1234::a) and a route to a single IPv6 host
(2001:db8:3456::b), scoped to SCTP. The client can send and receive
SCTP IP packets to the remote host.
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[[ From Client ]] [[ From IP Proxy ]]
SETTINGS
H3_DATAGRAM = 1
SETTINGS
ENABLE_CONNECT_PROTOCOL = 1
H3_DATAGRAM = 1
STREAM(44): HEADERS
:method = CONNECT
:protocol = connect-ip
:scheme = https
:path = /proxy?target=target.example.com&ipproto=132
:authority = proxy.example.com
capsule-protocol = ?1
STREAM(44): HEADERS
:status = 200
capsule-protocol = ?1
STREAM(44): CAPSULE
Capsule Type = ADDRESS_ASSIGN
(Request ID = 0
IP Version = 6
IP Address = 2001:db8:1234::a
IP Prefix Length = 128)
STREAM(44): CAPSULE
Capsule Type = ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT
(IP Version = 6
Start IP Address = 2001:db8:3456::b
End IP Address = 2001:db8:3456::b
IP Protocol = 132)
DATAGRAM
Quarter Stream ID = 11
Context ID = 0
Payload = Encapsulated SCTP/IP Packet
DATAGRAM
Quarter Stream ID = 11
Context ID = 0
Payload = Encapsulated SCTP/IP Packet
Figure 14: Proxied SCTP Flow Example
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8.3. Proxied Connection Racing
The following example shows a setup where a client is proxying UDP
packets through an IP proxy in order to control connection
establishment racing through an IP proxy, as defined in Happy
Eyeballs [HEv2]. This example is a variant of the proxied flow, but
highlights how IP-level proxying can enable new capabilities even for
TCP and UDP.
+--------+ IP A IP B +--------+ IP C
| |-------------------| |<------------> IP E
| Client | IP C <--> E | IP |
| | D <--> F | Proxy |
| |-------------------| |<------------> IP F
+--------+ +--------+ IP D
Figure 15: Proxied Connection Racing Setup
As with proxied flows, the client specfies both a target hostname and
an IP protocol number in the scope of its request. When the IP proxy
performs DNS resolution on behalf of the client, it can send the
various remote address options to the client as separate routes. It
can also ensure that the client has both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
assigned.
The IP proxy assigns the client both an IPv4 address (192.0.2.3) and
an IPv6 address (2001:db8:1234::a) to the client, as well as an IPv4
route (198.51.100.2) and an IPv6 route (2001:db8:3456::b), which
represent the resolved addresses of the target hostname, scoped to
UDP. The client can send and recieve UDP IP packets to the either of
the IP proxy addresses to enable Happy Eyeballs through the IP proxy.
[[ From Client ]] [[ From IP Proxy ]]
SETTINGS
H3_DATAGRAM = 1
SETTINGS
ENABLE_CONNECT_PROTOCOL = 1
H3_DATAGRAM = 1
STREAM(44): HEADERS
:method = CONNECT
:protocol = connect-ip
:scheme = https
:path = /proxy?ipproto=17
:authority = proxy.example.com
capsule-protocol = ?1
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STREAM(44): HEADERS
:status = 200
capsule-protocol = ?1
STREAM(44): CAPSULE
Capsule Type = ADDRESS_ASSIGN
(Request ID = 0
IP Version = 4
IP Address = 192.0.2.3
IP Prefix Length = 32),
(Request ID = 0
IP Version = 6
IP Address = 2001:db8::1234:1234
IP Prefix Length = 128)
STREAM(44): CAPSULE
Capsule Type = ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT
(IP Version = 4
Start IP Address = 198.51.100.2
End IP Address = 198.51.100.2
IP Protocol = 17),
(IP Version = 6
Start IP Address = 2001:db8:3456::b
End IP Address = 2001:db8:3456::b
IP Protocol = 17)
...
DATAGRAM
Quarter Stream ID = 11
Context ID = 0
Payload = Encapsulated IPv6 Packet
DATAGRAM
Quarter Stream ID = 11
Context ID = 0
Payload = Encapsulated IPv4 Packet
Figure 16: Proxied Connection Racing Example
9. Extensibility Considerations
Extensions to IP proxying in HTTP can define behavior changes to this
mechanism. Such extensions SHOULD define new capsule types to
exchange configuration information if needed. It is RECOMMENDED for
extensions that modify addressing to specify that their extension
capsules be sent before the ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsule and that they do
not take effect until the ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsule is parsed. This
allows modifications to address assignement to operate atomically.
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Similarly, extensions that modify routing SHOULD behave similarly
with regards to the ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule.
10. Security Considerations
There are significant risks in allowing arbitrary clients to
establish a tunnel that permits sending to arbitrary hosts, as that
could allow bad actors to send traffic and have it attributed to the
IP proxy. IP proxies SHOULD restrict its use to authenticated users.
The HTTP Authorization header [HTTP] MAY be used to authenticate
clients. More complex authentication schemes are out of scope for
this document but can be implemented using extensions.
Falsifying IP source addresses in sent traffic has been common for
denial of service attacks. Implementations of this mechanism need to
ensure that they do not facilitate such attacks. In particular,
there are scenarios where an endpoint knows that its peer is only
allowed to send IP packets from a given prefix. For example, that
can happen through out of band configuration information, or when
allowed prefixes are shared via ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsules. In such
scenarios, endpoints MUST follow the recommendations from [BCP38] to
prevent source address spoofing.
11. IANA Considerations
11.1. HTTP Upgrade Token
This document will request IANA to register "connect-ip" in the HTTP
Upgrade Token Registry maintained at
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-upgrade-tokens>.
Value: connect-ip
Description: Proxying of IP Payloads
Expected Version Tokens: None
References: This document
11.2. Creation of the MASQUE URI Suffixes Registry
This document requests that IANA create a new "MASQUE URI Suffixes"
registry maintained at IANA_URL_TBD. This new registry governs the
path segment that immediately follows "masque" in paths that start
with "/.well-known/masque/", see <https://www.iana.org/assignments/
well-known-uris> for the registration of "masque" in the "Well-Known
URIs" registry. This new registry contains three columns:
Path Segment: An ASCII string containing only characters allowed in
tokens; see Section 5.6.2 of [HTTP]. Entries in this registry
MUST all have distinct entries in this column.
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Description: A description of the entry.
Reference: An optional reference defining the use of the entry.
The registration policy for this registry is Expert Review; see
Section 4.5 of [IANA-POLICY].
There are initially two entries in this registry:
+==============+==============+===============+
| Path Segment | Description | Reference |
+==============+==============+===============+
| udp | UDP Proxying | RFC 9298 |
+--------------+--------------+---------------+
| ip | IP Proxying | This Document |
+--------------+--------------+---------------+
Table 1: New MASQUE URI Suffixes
11.3. Updates to masque Well-Known URI
This document will request IANA to update the entry for the "masque"
URI suffix in the "Well-Known URIs" registry maintained at
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/well-known-uris>.
IANA is requested to update the "Reference" field to include this
document in addition to previous values from that field.
IANA is requested to replace the "Related Information" field with
"For sub-suffix allocations, see registry at IANA_URL_TBD." where
IANA_URL_TBD is the URL of the new registry described in
Section 11.2.
11.4. Capsule Type Registrations
This document will request IANA to add the following values to the
"HTTP Capsule Types" registry maintained at
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-capsule-protocol/http-capsule-
protocol.xhtml>.
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+============+=====================+====================+===========+
| Value | Type | Description | Reference |
+============+=====================+====================+===========+
| 0x1ECA6A00 | ADDRESS_ASSIGN | Address | This |
| | | Assignment | Document |
+------------+---------------------+--------------------+-----------+
| 0x1ECA6A01 | ADDRESS_REQUEST | Address | This |
| | | Request | Document |
+------------+---------------------+--------------------+-----------+
| 0x1ECA6A02 | ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT | Route | This |
| | | Advertisement | Document |
+------------+---------------------+--------------------+-----------+
Table 2: New Capsules
12. References
12.1. Normative References
[ABNF] Crocker, D., Ed. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
Specifications: ABNF", RFC 2234, DOI 10.17487/RFC2234,
November 1997, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2234>.
[BCP38] Ferguson, P. and D. Senie, "Network Ingress Filtering:
Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source
Address Spoofing", BCP 38, RFC 2827, DOI 10.17487/RFC2827,
May 2000, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2827>.
[DGRAM] Pauly, T., Kinnear, E., and D. Schinazi, "An Unreliable
Datagram Extension to QUIC", RFC 9221,
DOI 10.17487/RFC9221, March 2022,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9221>.
[EXT-CONNECT2]
McManus, P., "Bootstrapping WebSockets with HTTP/2",
RFC 8441, DOI 10.17487/RFC8441, September 2018,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8441>.
[EXT-CONNECT3]
Hamilton, R., "Bootstrapping WebSockets with HTTP/3",
RFC 9220, DOI 10.17487/RFC9220, June 2022,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9220>.
[HTTP] Fielding, R., Ed., Nottingham, M., Ed., and J. Reschke,
Ed., "HTTP Semantics", STD 97, RFC 9110,
DOI 10.17487/RFC9110, June 2022,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110>.
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[HTTP-DGRAM]
Schinazi, D. and L. Pardue, "HTTP Datagrams and the
Capsule Protocol", RFC 9297, DOI 10.17487/RFC9297, August
2022, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9297>.
[HTTP/1.1] Fielding, R., Ed., Nottingham, M., Ed., and J. Reschke,
Ed., "HTTP/1.1", STD 99, RFC 9112, DOI 10.17487/RFC9112,
June 2022, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9112>.
[HTTP/2] Thomson, M., Ed. and C. Benfield, Ed., "HTTP/2", RFC 9113,
DOI 10.17487/RFC9113, June 2022,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9113>.
[HTTP/3] Bishop, M., Ed., "HTTP/3", RFC 9114, DOI 10.17487/RFC9114,
June 2022, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9114>.
[IANA-POLICY]
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/rfc/rfc8126>.
[ICMP] Postel, J., "Internet Control Message Protocol", STD 5,
RFC 792, DOI 10.17487/RFC0792, September 1981,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc792>.
[ICMPv6] Conta, A., Deering, S., and M. Gupta, Ed., "Internet
Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet
Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification", STD 89,
RFC 4443, DOI 10.17487/RFC4443, March 2006,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4443>.
[IPv6] Deering, S. and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version 6
(IPv6) Specification", STD 86, RFC 8200,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8200, July 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8200>.
[QUIC] Iyengar, J., Ed. and M. Thomson, Ed., "QUIC: A UDP-Based
Multiplexed and Secure Transport", RFC 9000,
DOI 10.17487/RFC9000, May 2021,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9000>.
[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/rfc/rfc2119>.
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[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/rfc/rfc8174>.
[TCP] Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol", RFC 793,
DOI 10.17487/RFC0793, September 1981,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc793>.
[TEMPLATE] 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/rfc/rfc6570>.
[URI] 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/rfc/rfc3986>.
12.2. Informative References
[CONNECT-UDP]
Schinazi, D., "Proxying UDP in HTTP", RFC 9298,
DOI 10.17487/RFC9298, August 2022,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9298>.
[HEv2] Schinazi, D. and T. Pauly, "Happy Eyeballs Version 2:
Better Connectivity Using Concurrency", RFC 8305,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8305, December 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8305>.
[IPSEC] Kent, S. and K. Seo, "Security Architecture for the
Internet Protocol", RFC 4301, DOI 10.17487/RFC4301,
December 2005, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4301>.
[PROXY-REQS]
Chernyakhovsky, A., McCall, D., and D. Schinazi,
"Requirements for a MASQUE Protocol to Proxy IP Traffic",
Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-masque-ip-
proxy-reqs-03, 27 August 2021,
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-masque-
ip-proxy-reqs-03>.
Acknowledgments
The design of this method was inspired by discussions in the MASQUE
working group around [PROXY-REQS]. The authors would like to thank
participants in those discussions for their feedback. Additionally,
Alejandro Sedeño provided valuable feedback on the document.
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Most of the text on client configuration is based on the
corresponding text in [CONNECT-UDP].
Authors' Addresses
Tommy Pauly (editor)
Apple Inc.
Email: tpauly@apple.com
David Schinazi
Google LLC
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
United States of America
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