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PASSporT SHAKEN Extension (SHAKEN)
draft-ietf-stir-passport-shaken-05

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draft-ietf-stir-passport-shaken-05
STIR                                                            C. Wendt
Internet-Draft                                                   Comcast
Intended status: Standards Track                               M. Barnes
Expires: May 10, 2019                                          iconectiv
                                                       November 06, 2018

                   PASSporT SHAKEN Extension (SHAKEN)
                   draft-ietf-stir-passport-shaken-05

Abstract

   This document extends PASSporT, which is a token object that conveys
   cryptographically-signed information about the participants involved
   in communications.  The extension is defined, corresponding to the
   SHAKEN specification, to provide both a specific set of levels-of-
   confidence to the correctness of the originating identity for a SIP
   based Communication Service Provider (CSP) telephone network
   originated call as well as an identifier that allows the CSP to
   uniquely identify the origination of the call within its network.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Overview of 'shaken' PASSporT extension . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  PASSporT 'attest' Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   5.  PASSporT 'origid' Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   6.  Example "shaken" PASSporT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   7.  Using 'shaken' in SIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   8.  Order of Claim Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   9.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   10. Privacy Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   11. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     11.1.  JSON Web Token claims  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     11.2.  PASSporT Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   12. Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   13. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     13.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     13.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9

1.  Introduction

   The Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs
   (SHAKEN) [ATIS-1000074] specification defines a framework for using
   Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (STIR) protocols including
   PASSporT [RFC8225], SIP Authenticated Identity Management [RFC8224]
   and the STIR certificate framework [RFC8226] for implementing the
   cryptographic validation of an authorized originator of telephone
   calls using SIP.  Because the current telephone network contains both
   VoIP and TDM/SS7 originated traffic, there are many scenarios that
   need to be accounted for where PASSporT signatures may represent
   either direct or indirect call origination scenarios.  The SHAKEN
   [ATIS-1000074] specification defines levels of attestation of the
   origination of the call as well as an origination identifier that can
   help create a unique association with the origination of calls from
   various parts of the VoIP or TDM telephone network.  This document
   specifies these values as claims to extend the base set of PASSporT
   claims.

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2.  Terminology

   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 addition, the following terms are used in this document:

   o  Verified association: is typically defined as an authenticated
      relationship with a device that initiated a call, for example, a
      subscriber account with a specific SIM card or set of SIP
      credentials.

   o  PASSporT: Defined in [RFC8225] is a JSON Web Token [RFC7519]
      defined specifically for securing the identity of an initiator of
      personal communication.  This document defines a specific
      extension to PASSporT.

3.  Overview of 'shaken' PASSporT extension

   The SHAKEN framework is designed to use PASSporT [RFC8225] as a
   method of asserting the telephone number calling identity.  In
   addition to the PASSporT base claims, there are two additional claims
   that have been defined for the needs of a service provider to signal
   information beyond just the telephone identity.  First, in order to
   help bridge the transition of the state of the current telephone
   network which has calls with no authentication and non-SIP [RFC3261]
   signaling not compatible with the use of PASSporT and Secure
   Telephone Identity (STI) in general, there is an attestation claim.
   This provides three levels of attestation, including a full
   attestation when the service provider can fully attest to the calling
   identity, a partial attestation, when the service provider originated
   a telephone call but can not fully attest to the calling identity,
   and a gateway attestation which is the lowest level of attestation
   and represents the service provider receiving a call from a non-
   PASSporT and non-STI supporting telephone gateway.

   The second claim is a unique origination identifier that should be
   used by the service provider to identify different sources of
   telephone calls to support a traceback mechanism that can be used for
   enforcement and identification of a source of illegitimate calls.

   The use of the compact form of PASSporT is not specified in this
   document and is not specified for use in SHAKEN [ATIS-1000074].

   The next two sections define these new claims.

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4.  PASSporT 'attest' Claim

   This indicator allows for both identifying the service provider that
   is vouching for the call as well as clearly indicating what
   information the service provider is attesting to.  The 'attest' claim
   can be one of the following three values: 'A', 'B', or 'C' as defined
   in [ATIS-1000074].

   'A' represents 'Full Attestation' where the signing provider MUST
   satisfy all of the following conditions:

   o  Is responsible for the origination of the call onto the IP based
      service provider voice network.

   o  Has a direct authenticated relationship with the initiator of the
      call and can identify the customer associated with the initiator.

   o  Has established a verified association with the calling party
      telephone number used for the call.

   'B' represents 'Partial Attestation' where the signing provider MUST
   satisfy all of the following conditions:

   o  Is responsible for the origination of the call onto its IP-based
      voice network.

   o  Has a direct authenticated relationship with the initiator of the
      call and can identify the customer associated with the initiator.

   o  Has NOT established a verified association with the calling party
      telephone number being used for the call.

   'C' represents 'Gateway Attestation' where the signing provider MUST
   satisfy all of the following conditions:

   o  Is the entry point of the call into its VoIP network.

   o  Has no relationship with the initiator of the call (e.g.,
      international gateways)

5.  PASSporT 'origid' Claim

   The purpose of the unique origination identifier is to assign an
   opaque identifier corresponding to the service-provider-initiated
   calls themselves, customers, classes of devices, or other groupings
   that a service provider might want to use for determining things like
   reputation or trace back identification of customers or gateways.
   The value of 'origid' claim is a UUID as defined in [RFC4122].

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   SHAKEN isn't prescriptive in the exact usage of origid other than the
   UUID format as a globally unique identifier representing the
   originator of the call to whatever granularity the PASSporT signer
   determines is sufficient for the ability to trace the original
   origination point of the call.

6.  Example "shaken" PASSporT

   Protected Header
   {
      "alg":"ES256",
      "typ":"passport",
      "ppt":"shaken",
      "x5u":"https://cert.example.org/passport.cer"
   }
   Payload
   {
      "attest":"A"
      "dest":{"uri":["sip:alice@example.com"]}
      "iat":"1443208345",
      "orig":{"tn":"12155550121"},
      "origid":"123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426655440000"
   }

7.  Using 'shaken' in SIP

   The use of the 'shaken' PASSporT type and the claims 'attest' and
   'origid' are formally defined in [ATIS-1000074] for usage in SIP
   [RFC3261] aligned with the use of the identity header field defined
   in [RFC8224].

8.  Order of Claim Keys

   The order of the claim keys MUST follow the rules of [RFC8225]
   Section 9; the claim keys MUST appear in lexicographic order.
   Therefore, the claim keys discussed in this document appear in the
   PASSporT Payload in the following order,

   o  attest

   o  dest

   o  iat

   o  orig

   o  origid

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9.  Security Considerations

   This document defines a new PASSporT [RFC8225] extension.  The
   considerations related to the security of the PASSporT object itself
   are the same as those described in [RFC8225].

   [RFC8224] defines how to compare the values of the "dest", "orig" and
   "iat" claims against fields in a SIP containing a PASSporT as part of
   validating that request.  The values of the new "attest" and "origid"
   claims added by this extension are not used in such a validation
   step.  They are not compared to fields in the SIP message.  Instead,
   they simply carry additional information from the signer to the
   consumer of the PASSport.  This new information shares the same
   integrity protection and non-repudiation properties as the base
   claims in the PASSporT.

10.  Privacy Considerations

   As detailed in [RFC3261] Section 26, SIP messages inherently carry
   identifying information of the caller and callee.  The value of the
   'origid' claim, as defined in SHAKEN [ATIS-1000074] and described in
   this document, is intended to be a opaque and unique identifier of an
   element on the path of a given request.  This identifier is used by
   an originating telephone service provider to identify where within
   their network (e.g. a gateway or particular service element) a call
   was initiated.  This facilitates identifying and stopping bad actors
   trying to spoof identities or make fraudulent calls.  The opacity of
   the 'origid' claim value is intended to minimize direct exposure of
   information about the origination of a set of calls sharing the
   'origid' value.  It should be recognized, however, that the potential
   for discovering patterns through correlation of those calls exists.
   This could allow a recipient of many calls to, for instance, learn
   that a set of callers are using a particular service or coming
   through a common gateway.  However, this threat already exists in
   SIP.  There is information in the SIP messages(in the form of Record-
   Route, Via, and potentially History-Info header field values that can
   be analyzed the same way (and may correlate closely with the 'origid'
   value).  If the operator of an element is concerned about the
   correlation of 'origid' values, the element could be configured to
   use a unique 'origid' value per call in such a way that the operator
   can associate those 'origid' values to the correct element when doing
   lookups in their backend systems.

11.  IANA Considerations

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11.1.  JSON Web Token claims

   This specification requests that the IANA add two new claims to the
   JSON Web Token Claims registry as defined in [RFC7519].

   Claim Name: "attest"

   Claim Description: Attestation level as defined in SHAKEN framework

   Change Controller: IESG

   Specification Document(s): [RFCThis]

   Claim Name: "origid"

   Claim Description: Originating Identifier as defined in SHAKEN
   framework

   Change Controller: IESG

   Specification Document(s): [RFCThis]

11.2.  PASSporT Types

   This specification requests that the IANA add a new entry to the
   Personal Assertion Token (PASSporT) Extensions registry for the type
   "shaken" which is specified in [RFCThis].

12.  Acknowledgements

   The authors would like to thank those that helped review and
   contribute to this document including specific contributions from Jon
   Peterson, Russ Housley, Robert Sparks, and Andrew Jurczak.  The
   authors would like to acknowledge the work of the ATIS/SIP Forum IP-
   NNI Task Force to develop the concepts behind this document.

13.  References

13.1.  Normative References

   [ATIS-1000074]
              ATIS/SIP Forum IP-NNI Task Group, "Signature-based
              Handling of Asserted information using toKENs (SHAKEN)",
              January 2017, <https://access.atis.org/apps/group_public/
              download.php/32237/ATIS-1000074.pdf>.

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   [RFC4122]  Leach, P., Mealling, M., and R. Salz, "A Universally
              Unique IDentifier (UUID) URN Namespace", RFC 4122,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4122, July 2005,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4122>.

   [RFC7519]  Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, "JSON Web Token
              (JWT)", RFC 7519, DOI 10.17487/RFC7519, May 2015,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7519>.

   [RFC8224]  Peterson, J., Jennings, C., Rescorla, E., and C. Wendt,
              "Authenticated Identity Management in the Session
              Initiation Protocol (SIP)", RFC 8224,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8224, February 2018,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8224>.

   [RFC8225]  Wendt, C. and J. Peterson, "PASSporT: Personal Assertion
              Token", RFC 8225, DOI 10.17487/RFC8225, February 2018,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8225>.

   [RFC8226]  Peterson, J. and S. Turner, "Secure Telephone Identity
              Credentials: Certificates", RFC 8226,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8226, February 2018,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8226>.

13.2.  Informative References

   [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/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC3261]  Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., Camarillo, G., Johnston,
              A., Peterson, J., Sparks, R., Handley, M., and E.
              Schooler, "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC3261, June 2002,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3261>.

   [RFC3323]  Peterson, J., "A Privacy Mechanism for the Session
              Initiation Protocol (SIP)", RFC 3323,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC3323, November 2002,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3323>.

   [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/info/rfc8174>.

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Authors' Addresses

   Chris Wendt
   Comcast
   One Comcast Center
   Philadelphia, PA  19103
   USA

   Email: chris-ietf@chriswendt.net

   Mary Barnes
   iconectiv

   Email: mary.ietf.barnes@gmail.com

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