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The Incentive Consideration for Source Address Validation in Intra-domain and Inter-domain Networks (SAVNET)
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Network Working Group                                             L. Qin
Internet-Draft                                                     D. Li
Intended status: Informational                                     J. Wu
Expires: 19 March 2023                               Tsinghua University
                                                       15 September 2022

  The Incentive Consideration for Source Address Validation in Intra-
               domain and Inter-domain Networks (SAVNET)
                     draft-qin-savnet-incentive-00

Abstract

   Source address spoofing remains a significant challenge in today's
   Internet.  Although source address validation (SAV) mechanisms, such
   as ingress filtering [RFC2827], unicast Reverse Path Forwarding
   (uRPF)[RFC3704], and the Enhanced Feasible-Path Unicast Reverse Path
   Forwarding (EFP-uRPF) [RFC8704], have been proposed for a long time,
   none of them have been widely deployed due to their technical
   limitations, lack of incentive, or other problems.  This document
   specifically explains the incentive problem of existing SAV
   mechanisms and clarifies the incentive that SAVNET hopes to achieve.

Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 8174 [RFC8174].

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  The importance of incentive for SAV deployment  . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Incentive comparison between EFP-uRPF and SAVNET  . . . . . .   4
     4.1.  Scenario 1  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
       4.1.1.  Case 1: only AS3 deploys SAV  . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
       4.1.2.  Case 2: AS1 and AS3 deploy SAV  . . . . . . . . . . .   6
       4.1.3.  Case 3: AS2 and AS3 deploy SAV  . . . . . . . . . . .   6
       4.1.4.  Case 4: AS1, AS2, and AS3 deploy SAV  . . . . . . . .   7
     4.2.  Scenario 2  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       4.2.1.  Case 1: only AS3 deploys SAV  . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       4.2.2.  Case 2: AS1 and AS3 deploy SAV  . . . . . . . . . . .   9
       4.2.3.  Case 3: AS2 and AS3 deploy SAV  . . . . . . . . . . .   9
       4.2.4.  Case 4: AS1, AS2, and AS3 deploy SAV  . . . . . . . .  10
     4.3.  Scenario 3  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
       4.3.1.  Case 1: only AS3 deploys SAV  . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
       4.3.2.  Case 2: AS1 and AS3 deploy SAV  . . . . . . . . . . .  12
       4.3.3.  Case 3: AS2 and AS3 deploy SAV  . . . . . . . . . . .  12
       4.3.4.  Case 4: AS1, AS2, and AS3 deploy SAV  . . . . . . . .  13
   5.  Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   6.  Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   7.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14

1.  Introduction

   Source address spoofing is one of the most important security threats
   in the Internet.  By using forged source IP addresses, attackers can
   well hide their real identities and carry out various malicious
   attacks [RFC6959], among which reflection attack is the most common
   and harmful.  In the reflection attack, the attacker spoofs the
   victim's source IP address and sends requests to servers with

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   reflection and amplification functions, such as DNS or NTP servers.
   Upon receiving the requests, these servers reply a large number of
   responses to the victim, resulting in a large-scale Distributed
   Denial of Service (DDoS) attack to the victim.

   To mitigate source address spoofing, several source address
   validation (SAV) mechanisms (e.g., ingress filtering [RFC2827],
   unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) [RFC3704], and the Enhanced
   Feasible-Path Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (EFP-uRPF) [RFC8704])
   have been proposed to identify and reject traffic with forged source
   IP addresses.  However, they have not been widely deployed due to
   their technical limitations, lack of incentive, or other problems.
   Source address spoofing remains a significant challenge in today's
   Internet.

   To help narrow the gap of existing SAV mechanisms,
   [draft-li-savnet-intra-domain-problem-statement] and
   [draft-wu-savnet-inter-domain-problem-statement] describe the
   fundamental problems of existing SAV mechanisms and define the
   requirements for the new SAV mechanism.  This document further
   explains the incentive problem of existing SAV mechanisms and
   specifies the incentive that SAVNET hopes to achieve.

2.  Terminology

   SAV: Source Address Validation, i.e. validating the authenticity of a
   packet's source IP address.

   Three roles in a reflection attack:

   *  Attacker.  A malicious host that spoofs the victim's source IP
      address when sending a request to the reflector.

   *  Reflector.  A reflective server (e.g., DNS or NTP server) that
      receives the forged request and responds to the victim.

   *  Victim.  An innocent host that receives a lot of responses from
      the reflector, resulting in a DoS attack.

3.  The importance of incentive for SAV deployment

   Ingress filtering, or BCP38 [RFC2827] requires the network to
   implement SAV filtering on its outgoing traffic.  If all networks
   deploy BCP38 and only allow outgoing traffic with legitimate source
   addresses, source address spoofing can be effectively prevented.
   However, although BCP38 has been proposed for more than 20 years and
   is highly recommended by the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing

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   Security (MANRS), it is still not widely deployed in today's
   Internet.  One main reason is that operators lack incentive to deploy
   BCP38 in their networks.  The benefits from deploying BCP38 do not
   flow to the deployed network, but to the rest of the Internet.
   Specifically, if a network deploys BCP38, it does not get any benefit
   from the deployment and is still vulnerable to reflection attacks
   from other networks.  As a result, most networks are reluctant to
   deploy BCP38 and prefer to wait for others to deploy.

   The deployment problem faced by BCP38 tells us that a desirable SAV
   mechanism must provide direct incentive/benefits to the deployed
   network.  If a network deploys SAV but finds that it only helps other
   networks, the network will not be motivated to deploy SAV.  If a
   network deploys SAV and finds that sometimes it can help itself
   (compared with not deploying), the network will be more motivated to
   deploy SAV.

4.  Incentive comparison between EFP-uRPF and SAVNET

   More recently, RFC8704 or BCP84 [RFC8704] proposes the Enhanced
   Feasible-Path Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (EFP-uRPF) and
   recommends operators to adopt EFP-uRPF in most inter-domain
   scenarios.  However, EFP-uRPF is essentially performing ingress
   filtering at a higher aggregation point (i.e., the top AS of a
   customer cone) and also has misaligned incentive problems.

   In the following, we use reflection attack as an example to measure
   the incentive that EFP-uRPF or SAVNET can provide to the victim
   network.  We simplify the participants in a reflection attack into
   three roles (attacker network, reflector network, and victim network)
   and enumerate three attack scenarios by changing the relative
   positions of the three roles.  In each scenario, we suppose the
   victim network always deploys SAV mechanism (EFP-uRPF or SAVNET),
   because only the victim can get benefit from the SAV mechanism.
   Then, for any deployment case of the other two networks (i.e.,
   attacker network and reflector network), we check whether the
   reflection attack can be prevented.  If so, the victim network has
   strong motivation to deploy SAV; if not, the victim network has weak
   motivation to deploy SAV.

4.1.  Scenario 1

   Figure 1 shows the first reflection attack scenario where the
   reflector network is located between the attacker network and the
   victim network.  The attacker spoofs the source address of the victim
   and sends a forged request to the reflector.  After receiving the
   request from attacker, the reflector responds to the victim.

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                                +---------+
                                |   AS2   +-+Reflector
                                ++/\+-----+
                                  /     \
                         request /       \ response
                                /         \
                               /           \
                       +---------+      +-+\/+----+
             Attacker+-+   AS1   |      |   AS3   +-+ Victim
                       +---------+      +---------+

                           AS1: Attacker network
                           AS2: Reflector network
                           AS3: Victim network

              Figure 1: The first reflection attack scenario.

4.1.1.  Case 1: only AS3 deploys SAV

     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | Relationship | Relationship | EFP-uRPF  | EFP-uRPF  | SAVNET |
     | between AS1  | between AS2  | algorithm | algorithm |        |
     | and AS2      | and AS3      | A         | B         |        |
     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | P2C          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | P2P          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | C2P          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2P          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+

       Table 1: All SAV mechanisms fail if only AS3 deploys SAV in
                                scenario 1

   Table 1 shows the effectiveness of EFP-uRPF and SAVNET against the
   reflection attack under different relationships among AS1, AS2, and
   AS3.  We omit combinations of relationships that violate valley-free
   principle.  If only the victim network deploys SAV, both EFP-uRPF and
   SAVNET fail to prevent the reflection attack in scenario 1, because
   the victim network does not receive the forged request at all.

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4.1.2.  Case 2: AS1 and AS3 deploy SAV

     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | Relationship | Relationship | EFP-uRPF  | EFP-uRPF  | SAVNET |
     | between AS1  | between AS2  | algorithm | algorithm |        |
     | and AS2      | and AS3      | A         | B         |        |
     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | P2C          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | P2P          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | C2P          | FAIL      | FAIL      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2P          | FAIL      | FAIL      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+

         Table 2: SAVNET works best if AS1 and AS3 deploy SAV in
                                scenario 1

   Table 2 shows that SAVNET works best when victim network and attacker
   network deploy SAV.  In our preliminary idea of SAVNET, each deployed
   network notifies the valid incoming interfaces for its source
   prefixes to other deployed networks.  If AS1 and AS3 deploy SAVNET,
   AS1 learns that traffic with victim's source address must come from
   outside the AS, not inside the AS.  Therefore, SAVNET in AS1 can
   successfully detect the forged request and prevent the reflection
   attack.  However, since EFP-uRPF in AS1 does not verify outgoing
   traffic, EFP-uRPF fails in this deployment case.

4.1.3.  Case 3: AS2 and AS3 deploy SAV

     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | Relationship | Relationship | EFP-uRPF  | EFP-uRPF  | SAVNET |
     | between AS1  | between AS2  | algorithm | algorithm |        |
     | and AS2      | and AS3      | A         | B         |        |
     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | P2C          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | P2P          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | C2P          | WORK      | WORK      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2P          | WORK      | WORK      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+

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     | C2P          | P2C          | WORK      | FAIL      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+

         Table 3: SAVNET works best if AS2 and AS3 deploy SAV in
                                scenario 1

   As shown in Table 3, SAVNET works best when victim network and
   reflector network deploy SAV.  If AS2 and AS3 deploy SAVNET, AS2
   learns that traffic with victim's source address must come from AS3,
   so it will block the forged request from AS1.  If AS2 and AS3 deploy
   EFP-uRPF, since EFP-uRPF only work for traffic from customer
   interfaces, EFP-uRPF algorithm A and algorithm B both fail when AS1
   is the provider/peer of AS2.  EFP-uRPF algorithm A works well when
   AS1 is the customer of AS2, but EFP-uRPF algorithm B still fails when
   AS1 and AS3 are both in the customer cone of AS2, because EFP-uRPF
   algorithm B cannot identify source address spoofing between ASes in
   customer cone.

4.1.4.  Case 4: AS1, AS2, and AS3 deploy SAV

     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | Relationship | Relationship | EFP-uRPF  | EFP-uRPF  | SAVNET |
     | between AS1  | between AS2  | algorithm | algorithm |        |
     | and AS2      | and AS3      | A         | B         |        |
     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | P2C          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | P2P          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | C2P          | WORK      | WORK      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2P          | WORK      | WORK      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2C          | WORK      | FAIL      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+

        Table 4: SAVNET works best if AS1, AS2, and AS3 deploy SAV
                              in scenario 1

   In scenario 1, SAVNET still works best when all three roles deploy
   SAV.  When they deploy SAVNET, both AS1 and AS2 can effectively
   identify and block the forged request.  When they deploy EFP-uRPF,
   only AS2 sometimes can prevent the reflection attack, with the same
   results as Section 4.1.3.

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4.2.  Scenario 2

   Figure 2 shows the second reflection attack scenario.  In scenario 2,
   the victim network is located between the attack network and the
   reflector network.  When attacker sends a forged request to the
   reflector, the request first arrives at the victim network and then
   be forwarded to the reflector network.  Subsequently, the reflector
   responds to the victim.

                               +---------+
                               |   AS3   +-+Victim
                               ++/\+--+/\+
                                 /    \ \
                                /      \ \
                               /request \ \ response
                              /          \ \
                       +---------+     + \/+-----+
             Attacker+-+   AS1   |     |   AS2   +-+Reflector
                       +---------+     +---------+

                           AS1: Attacker network
                           AS2: Reflector network
                           AS3: Victim network

              Figure 2: The second reflection attack scenario.

4.2.1.  Case 1: only AS3 deploys SAV

     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | Relationship | Relationship | EFP-uRPF  | EFP-uRPF  | SAVNET |
     | between AS1  | between AS3  | algorithm | algorithm |        |
     | and AS3      | and AS2      | A         | B         |        |
     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | P2C          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | P2P          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | C2P          | WORK      | WORK      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2P          | WORK      | WORK      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2C          | WORK      | WORK      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+

     Table 5: SAVNET works best if only AS3 deploys SAV in scenario 2

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   Table 5 shows the effectiveness of EFP-uRPF and SAVNET when only AS3
   in scenario 2 deploys SAV.  If AS3 deploys SAVNET, it can reject the
   forged request when it receives the forged request.  If AS3 deploys
   EFP-uRPF, it only works when AS1 is the customer of AS3 because EFP-
   uRPF only implements SAV filtering at customer interfaces.

   We also compare EFP-uRPF and SAVNET in the following three deployment
   cases.  We find that if the SAV mechanism is EFP-uRPF algorithm A or
   EFP-uRPF algorithm B, only the victim network in scenario 2 has the
   possibility to reject the forged request by implementing SAV.  Even
   if attacker network or reflector network also deploys EFP-uRPF, it
   does not provide additional assistance to victim network.  Therefore,
   on the basis that the victim network has deployed SAV, SAVNET always
   works best in different deployment cases.

4.2.2.  Case 2: AS1 and AS3 deploy SAV

     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | Relationship | Relationship | EFP-uRPF  | EFP-uRPF  | SAVNET |
     | between AS1  | between AS3  | algorithm | algorithm |        |
     | and AS3      | and AS2      | A         | B         |        |
     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | P2C          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | P2P          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | C2P          | WORK      | WORK      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2P          | WORK      | WORK      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2C          | WORK      | WORK      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+

         Table 6: SAVNET works best if AS1 and AS3 deploy SAV in
                                scenario 2

4.2.3.  Case 3: AS2 and AS3 deploy SAV

     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | Relationship | Relationship | EFP-uRPF  | EFP-uRPF  | SAVNET |
     | between AS1  | between AS3  | algorithm | algorithm |        |
     | and AS3      | and AS2      | A         | B         |        |
     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | P2C          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | P2P          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | WORK   |

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     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | C2P          | WORK      | WORK      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2P          | WORK      | WORK      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2C          | WORK      | WORK      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+

         Table 7: SAVNET works best if AS2 and AS3 deploy SAV in
                                scenario 2

4.2.4.  Case 4: AS1, AS2, and AS3 deploy SAV

     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | Relationship | Relationship | EFP-uRPF  | EFP-uRPF  | SAVNET |
     | between AS1  | between AS3  | algorithm | algorithm |        |
     | and AS3      | and AS2      | A         | B         |        |
     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | P2C          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | P2P          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | C2P          | WORK      | WORK      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2P          | WORK      | WORK      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2C          | WORK      | WORK      | WORK   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+

        Table 8: SAVNET works best if AS1, AS2, and AS3 deploy SAV
                              in scenario 2

4.3.  Scenario 3

   Figure 3 shows the third reflection attack scenario.  The attacker
   network is located between the victim network and the reflector
   network.  Attacker spoofs victim's source address in the request sent
   to reflector.  Reflector receives the request from the attacker
   network and sends a response to the victim network via the attacker
   network.

   Below we make the incentive comparison between EFP-uRPF and SAVNET in
   scenario 3.  By varying SAV deployment status of attacker network and
   reflector network, we find all SAV mechanisms fail in preventing the
   reflection attack in this scenario.  For victim network, it does not
   receive the forged request.  For attacker network and reflector
   network, SAV in their networks cannot identify this spoofing because

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   the forged source address (i.e., victim's source address) shares the
   same valid incoming interface with the actual one (i.e., attacker's
   source address).

                             +---------+
                             |   AS1   +-+Attacker
                             +----+/\+-+
                               /    \ \
                              /      \ \
                             /response\ \request
                            /          \ \
                     +----+\/+-+     +--+\/+---+
             Victim+-+   AS3   |     |   AS2   +-+Reflector
                     +---------+     +---------+

                          AS1: Attacker network
                          AS2: Reflector network
                          AS3: Victim network

              Figure 3: The third reflection attack scenario.

4.3.1.  Case 1: only AS3 deploys SAV

     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | Relationship | Relationship | EFP-uRPF  | EFP-uRPF  | SAVNET |
     | between AS3  | between AS1  | algorithm | algorithm |        |
     | and AS1      | and AS2      | A         | B         |        |
     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | P2C          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | P2P          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | C2P          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2P          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+

       Table 9: All SAV mechanisms fail if only AS3 deploys SAV in
                                scenario 3

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4.3.2.  Case 2: AS1 and AS3 deploy SAV

     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | Relationship | Relationship | EFP-uRPF  | EFP-uRPF  | SAVNET |
     | between AS3  | between AS1  | algorithm | algorithm |        |
     | and AS1      | and AS2      | A         | B         |        |
     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | P2C          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | P2P          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | C2P          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2P          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+

       Table 10: All SAV mechanisms fail if AS1 and AS3 deploy SAV
                              in scenario 3

4.3.3.  Case 3: AS2 and AS3 deploy SAV

     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | Relationship | Relationship | EFP-uRPF  | EFP-uRPF  | SAVNET |
     | between AS3  | between AS1  | algorithm | algorithm |        |
     | and AS1      | and AS2      | A         | B         |        |
     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | P2C          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | P2P          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | C2P          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2P          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+

       Table 11: All SAV mechanisms fail if AS2 and AS3 deploy SAV
                              in scenario 3

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4.3.4.  Case 4: AS1, AS2, and AS3 deploy SAV

     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | Relationship | Relationship | EFP-uRPF  | EFP-uRPF  | SAVNET |
     | between AS3  | between AS1  | algorithm | algorithm |        |
     | and AS1      | and AS2      | A         | B         |        |
     +==============+==============+===========+===========+========+
     | P2C          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | P2P          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | C2P          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2P          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+
     | C2P          | P2C          | FAIL      | FAIL      | FAIL   |
     +--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+--------+

          Table 12: All SAV mechanisms fail if AS1, AS2, and AS3
                         deploy SAV in scenario 3

5.  Summary

   Overall, neither SAVNET nor EFP-uRPF completely prevents the
   reflection attack.  But for any attack scenario or deployment case,
   we find that SAVNET is doing better or not worse than EFP-uRPF.
   Therefore, a network has more incentive to deploy SAVNET as the SAV
   mechanism, because its own network will have high probability to be
   protected from reflection attacks.

6.  Acknowledgments

   TBD

7.  Normative References

   [draft-li-savnet-intra-domain-problem-statement]
              Li, D., Wu, J., Qin, L., Huang, M., and N. Geng, "Source
              Address Validation in Intra-domain Networks (Intra-domain
              SAVNET) Gap Analysis, Problem Statement and Requirements",
              10 July 2022.

   [draft-wu-savnet-inter-domain-problem-statement]
              Wu, J., Li, D., Qin, L., Huang, M., and N. Geng, "Source
              Address Validation in Inter-domain Networks (Inter-domain
              SAVNET) Gap Analysis, Problem Statement and Requirements",
              10 July 2022.

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   [RFC2827]  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/info/rfc2827>.

   [RFC3704]  Baker, F. and P. Savola, "Ingress Filtering for Multihomed
              Networks", BCP 84, RFC 3704, DOI 10.17487/RFC3704, March
              2004, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3704>.

   [RFC6959]  McPherson, D., Baker, F., and J. Halpern, "Source Address
              Validation Improvement (SAVI) Threat Scope", RFC 6959,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6959, May 2013,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6959>.

   [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>.

   [RFC8704]  Sriram, K., Montgomery, D., and J. Haas, "Enhanced
              Feasible-Path Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding", BCP 84,
              RFC 8704, DOI 10.17487/RFC8704, February 2020,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8704>.

Authors' Addresses

   Lancheng Qin
   Tsinghua University
   Beijing
   China
   Email: qlc19@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn

   Dan Li
   Tsinghua University
   Beijing
   China
   Email: tolidan@tsinghua.edu.cn

   Jianping Wu
   Tsinghua University
   Beijing
   China
   Email: jianping@cernet.edu.cn

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