Network Working Group M. Bagnulo Internet-Draft UC3M Updates: 3972 (if approved) J. Arkko Expires: September 18, 2006 Ericsson March 17, 2006 Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA) Extension Field Format draft-bagnulo-cga-ext-02 Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on September 18, 2006. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006). Abstract This document defines a Type-Length-Value format for Cryptographically Generated Address (CGA) Extensions. This document updates RFC 3972. Bagnulo & Arkko Expires September 18, 2006 [Page 1]
Internet-Draft CGA Extension Field Format March 2006 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. CGA Extension Field Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. IANA considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Security considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . . . 6 Bagnulo & Arkko Expires September 18, 2006 [Page 2]
Internet-Draft CGA Extension Field Format March 2006 1. Introduction Cryptographically Generated Address (CGA) specification [1] defines Extension Fields that allow including additional information into the CGA Parameter Data Structure. So far there seems to be enough interest in including additional data items into the CGA Parameter Data Structure through these Extension Fields that it seems reasonable to expect that more than one mechanism will require its usage. In order to simplify the addition of multiple data items, this document updates RFC 3972 [1] and it defines a Type-Length-Value format for the Extension Fields. 2. CGA Extension Field Format Data items to be included in Extension Fields of the CGA Parameter Data Structure MUST be encoded using the following Type-Length-Value (TLV) format: 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Extension Type | Extension Data Length | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | | ~ Extension Data ~ | | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ . Extension Type: 16-bit identifier of the type of the Extension Field. Extension Data Length: 16-bit unsigned integer. Length of the Extension Data field of this option, in octets. Extension Data: Variable-length field. Extension-Type-specific data. 3. IANA considerations This document defines a Extension Type field for which IANA is to create and maintain a registry entitled "CGA Extension Type". The values in this name space are 16-bit unsigned integers. Initial values for the CGA Extension Type field are given below; future assignments are to be made through Standards Action [2]. Assignments Bagnulo & Arkko Expires September 18, 2006 [Page 3]
Internet-Draft CGA Extension Field Format March 2006 consist of a name and the value. As recommended in [3], this document makes the following assignments for experimental and testing use: the value 0xFFFD with name Exp_FFFD, the value 0xFFFE with name Exp_FFFE and the value 0xFFFF with name Exp_FFFF. 4. Security considerations No security concerns are raised by the adoption of the CGA Extension format described in this document. However, proper security analysis is required when new CGA Extensions are defined in order to make sure that no new vulnerabilities are introduced by them to the existing CGA schemes. 5. Acknowledgments Comments to this document were provided by Sam Hartman, Allison Makin, Pekka Savola, Thomas Narten, Tuomas Aura, Stefan Rommer, Julien Laganier and James Kempf. 6. Normative References [1] Aura, T., "Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA)", RFC 3972, March 2005. [2] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 2434, October 1998. [3] Narten, T., "Assigning Experimental and Testing Numbers Considered Useful", BCP 82, RFC 3692, January 2004. Bagnulo & Arkko Expires September 18, 2006 [Page 4]
Internet-Draft CGA Extension Field Format March 2006 Authors' Addresses Marcelo Bagnulo Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Av. Universidad 30 Leganes, Madrid 28911 SPAIN Phone: 34 91 6249500 Email: marcelo@it.uc3m.es URI: http://www.it.uc3m.es Jari Arkko Ericsson Jorvas 02420 Finland Email: jari.arkko@ericsson.com Bagnulo & Arkko Expires September 18, 2006 [Page 5]
Internet-Draft CGA Extension Field Format March 2006 Intellectual Property Statement The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any Intellectual Property Rights or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in this document or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has made any independent effort to identify any such rights. Information on the procedures with respect to rights in RFC documents can be found in BCP 78 and BCP 79. Copies of IPR disclosures made to the IETF Secretariat and any assurances of licenses to be made available, or the result of an attempt made to obtain a general license or permission for the use of such proprietary rights by implementers or users of this specification can be obtained from the IETF on-line IPR repository at http://www.ietf.org/ipr. The IETF invites any interested party to bring to its attention any copyrights, patents or patent applications, or other proprietary rights that may cover technology that may be required to implement this standard. Please address the information to the IETF at ietf-ipr@ietf.org. Disclaimer of Validity This document and the information contained herein are provided on an "AS IS" basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE REPRESENTS OR IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Copyright Statement Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006). This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights. Acknowledgment Funding for the RFC Editor function is currently provided by the Internet Society. Bagnulo & Arkko Expires September 18, 2006 [Page 6]
