Port Control Protocol (PCP) Proxy Function
draft-ietf-pcp-proxy-02
PCP Working Group M. Boucadair
Internet-Draft France Telecom
Intended status: Standards Track R. Penno
Expires: August 17, 2013 D. Wing
Cisco
February 13, 2013
Port Control Protocol (PCP) Proxy Function
draft-ietf-pcp-proxy-02
Abstract
This document specifies a new PCP functional element denoted as PCP
Proxy. The PCP Proxy relays PCP requests received from PCP Clients
to upstream PCP Server(s). This function is mandatory when PCP
Clients can not be configured with the address of the PCP Server
located more than one hop.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. PCP Server Discovery and Provisioning . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. PCP Proxy as a PCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Control of the Firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. No NAT is Co-located with the PCP Proxy . . . . . . . . . . . 4
7. PCP Proxy Co-located with a NAT Function . . . . . . . . . . . 5
8. MAP/PEER Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
9. Mapping Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
10. Advanced Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
10.1. Multiple PCP Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
10.2. Epoch Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
10.3. Request/Response Caching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10.4. Retransmission Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10.5. Full State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
11. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
12. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
13. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
14. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
14.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
14.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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1. Introduction
This document defines a new PCP [I-D.ietf-pcp-base] function element,
called PCP Proxy, which is meant to facilitate the communication
between a PCP Client and upstream PCP Server(s). The PCP Proxy 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 PCP Server. The PCP Server in turn sends PCP
responses to the PCP Proxy external interface which are finally
forwarded to PCP Clients. A reference architecture is depicted in
Figure 1.
A PCP Proxy can be for instance embedded in a CP (Customer Premises)
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