Signaling Prefix Origin Validation Results from a Route-Server to Peers
draft-ietf-sidr-route-server-rpki-light-00

Network Working Group                                            T. King
Internet-Draft                                                   D. Kopp
Intended status: Standards Track                                  DE-CIX
Expires: December 10, 2016                               A. Lambrianidis
                                                                  AMS-IX
                                                              A. Fenioux
                                                               France-IX
                                                            June 8, 2016

Signaling Prefix Origin Validation Results from a Route-Server to Peers
               draft-ietf-sidr-route-server-rpki-light-00

Abstract

   This document defines the usage of the BGP Prefix Origin Validation
   State Extended Community [I-D.ietf-sidr-origin-validation-signaling]
   to signal prefix origin validation results from a route-server to its
   peers.  Upon reception of prefix origin validation results peers can
   use this information in their local routing decision process.

Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" are to
   be interpreted as described in [RFC2119] only when they appear in all
   upper case.  They may also appear in lower or mixed case as English
   words, without normative meaning.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Signaling Prefix Origin Validation Results from a Route-
       Server to Peers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Operational Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.1.  Local Routing Decision Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.2.  Route-Server Receiving the BGP Prefix Origin Validation
           State Extended Community  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.3.  Information about Validity of a BGP Prefix Origin Not
           Available at a Route-Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.4.  Error Handling at Peers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   4.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   5.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   6.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     6.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     6.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5

1.  Introduction

   RPKI-based prefix origin validation [RFC6480] can be a significant
   operational burden for BGP peers to implement and adopt.  In order to
   boost acceptance and usage of prefix origin validation and ultimately
   increase the security of the Internet routing system, IXPs may
   provide RPKI-based prefix origin validation at the route-server
   [I-D.ietf-idr-ix-bgp-route-server].  The result of this prefix origin
   validation is signaled to peers by using the BGP Prefix Origin
   Validation State Extended Community as introduced in
   [I-D.ietf-sidr-origin-validation-signaling].

   Peers receiving the prefix origin validation result from the route-
   server(s) can use this information in their local routing decision

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   process for acceptance, rejection, preference, or other traffic
   engineering purposes of a particular route.

2.  Signaling Prefix Origin Validation Results from a Route-Server to
    Peers

   The BGP Prefix Origin Validation State Extended Community (as defined
   in [I-D.ietf-sidr-origin-validation-signaling]) is utilized for
   signaling prefix origin validation result from a route-server to
   peers.

   [I-D.ietf-sidr-origin-validation-signaling] proposes an encoding of
   the prefix origin validation result [RFC6811] as follows:

                           +-------+-----------+
                           | Value | Meaning   |
                           +-------+-----------+
                           |   0   | Valid     |
                           |   1   | Not found |
                           |   2   | Invalid   |
                           +-------+-----------+

                                  Table 1

   This encoding is re-used.  Route-servers providing RPKI-based prefix
   origin validation set the validation state according to the prefix
   origin validation result (see [RFC6811]).

3.  Operational Recommendations

3.1.  Local Routing Decision Process

   A peer receiving prefix origin validation results from the route
   server MAY use the information in its own local routing decision
   process.  The local routing decision process SHOULD apply to the
   rules as described in section 5 [RFC6811].

   A peer receiving a prefix origin validation result from the route
   server MAY redistribute this information within its own AS.

3.2.  Route-Server Receiving the BGP Prefix Origin Validation State
      Extended Community

   An IXP route-server receiving routes from its peers containing the
   BGP Prefix Origin Validation State Extended Community MUST remove the
   extended community before the route is re-distributed to its peers.
   This is required regardless of whether the route-server is executing
   prefix origin validation or not.

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   Failure to do so would allow opportunistic peers to advertise routes
   tagged with arbitrary prefix origin validation results via a route-
   server, influencing maliciously the decision process of other route-
   server peers.

3.3.  Information about Validity of a BGP Prefix Origin Not Available at
      a Route-Server

   In case information about the validity of a BGP prefix origin is not
   available at the route-server (e.g., error in the ROA cache, CPU
   overload) the route-server MUST NOT add the BGP Prefix Origin
   Validation State Extended Community to the route.

3.4.  Error Handling at Peers

   A route sent by a route-server SHOULD only contain none or one BGP
   Prefix Origin Validation State Extended Community.

   A peer receiving a route from a route-server containing more than one
   BGP Prefix Origin Validation State Extended Community SHOULD only
   consider the largest value (as described in Table 1) in the
   validation result field and disregard the other values.  Values
   larger than two in the validation result field MUST be disregarded.

4.  IANA Considerations

   None.

5.  Security Considerations

   A route-server could be misused to spread malicious prefix origin
   validation results.  However, peers have to trust the route-server
   anyway as it collects and redistributes BGP routing information to
   other peers.

   The introduction of a mechanisms described in this document does not
   pose a new class of attack vectors to the relationship between route-
   servers and peers.

6.  References

6.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

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   [RFC4360]  Sangli, S., Tappan, D., and Y. Rekhter, "BGP Extended
              Communities Attribute", RFC 4360, DOI 10.17487/RFC4360,
              February 2006, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4360>.

   [RFC6811]  Mohapatra, P., Scudder, J., Ward, D., Bush, R., and R.
              Austein, "BGP Prefix Origin Validation", RFC 6811,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6811, January 2013,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6811>.

6.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-idr-ix-bgp-route-server]
              Jasinska, E., Hilliard, N., Raszuk, R., and N. Bakker,
              "Internet Exchange BGP Route Server", draft-ietf-idr-ix-
              bgp-route-server-10 (work in progress), April 2016.

   [I-D.ietf-sidr-origin-validation-signaling]
              Mohapatra, P., Patel, K., Scudder, J., Ward, D., and R.
              Bush, "BGP Prefix Origin Validation State Extended
              Community", draft-ietf-sidr-origin-validation-signaling-07
              (work in progress), November 2015.

   [RFC6480]  Lepinski, M. and S. Kent, "An Infrastructure to Support
              Secure Internet Routing", RFC 6480, DOI 10.17487/RFC6480,
              February 2012, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6480>.

Authors' Addresses

   Thomas King
   DE-CIX Management GmbH
   Lichtstrasse 43i
   Cologne  50825
   DE

   Email: thomas.king@de-cix.net

   Daniel Kopp
   DE-CIX Management GmbH
   Lichtstrasse 43i
   Cologne  50825
   DE

   Email: daniel.kopp@de-cix.net

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   Aristidis Lambrianidis
   Amsterdam Internet Exchange
   Frederiksplein 42
   Amsterdam  1017 XN
   NL

   Email: aristidis.lambrianidis@ams-ix.net

   Arnaud Fenioux
   France-IX
   88 Avenue Des Ternes
   Paris  75017
   FR

   Email: afenioux@franceix.net

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