Port Control Protocol (PCP) Proxy Function
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PCP Working Group M. Boucadair
Internet-Draft France Telecom
Intended status: Standards Track R. Dupont
Expires: September 30, 2012 Internet Systems Consortium
R. Penno
Juniper Networks
D. Wing
Cisco
March 29, 2012
Port Control Protocol (PCP) Proxy Function
draft-ietf-pcp-proxy-00
Abstract
This document specifies the behavior of a PCP Proxy element, for
instance embedded in Customer Premise routers.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. PCP Server Discovery and Provisioning . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. PCP Proxy as a PCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Control of the Firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Embedded NAT in the CP Router . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. Simple PCP Proxy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7. Advanced Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7.1. Multiple PCP Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7.2. Epoch Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7.3. Request/Response Caching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7.4. Retransmission Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.5. Full State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
9. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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1. Introduction
PCP [I-D.ietf-pcp-base] discusses the implementation of NAT control
features that rely upon Carrier Grade NAT (CGN) devices such as DS-
Lite AFTR [RFC6333].
The Customer Premise router, the B4 element in DS-Lite, is in charge
to enforce some security controls on PCP requests so implements a PCP
Proxy function: it acts as a PCP server receiving PCP requests on
internal interfaces, and as a PCP client forwarding accepted PCP
requests on an external interface to a CGN PCP server. The CGN PCP
server in turn send replies (PCP responses) to the PCP Proxy external
interface which are finally forwarded to PCP clients.
The PCP Proxy can be simple, i.e., implement as transparent/minimal
processing as possible, or it can be smart, i.e., handle multiple CGN
PCP servers, cache requests/responses, etc. A smart Proxy can be
associated with UPnP IGD [I-D.ietf-pcp-upnp-igd-interworking] or/and
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