DHC Working Group                                         D. Raghuvanshi
Internet-Draft                                                K. Kinnear
Updates: 5460 (if approved)                                   D. Kukrety
Intended status: Standards Track                     Cisco Systems, Inc.
Expires: September 3, 2015                                 March 2, 2015


                        DHCPv6 Active Leasequery
               draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-active-leasequery-02

Abstract

   The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) has been
   extended with a Leasequery capability that allows a requestor to
   request information about DHCPv6 bindings.  That mechanism is limited
   to queries for DHCPv6 binding data updates prior to the time the
   DHCPv6 server receives the Leasequery request.  Continuous update of
   an external requestor with Leasequery data is sometimes desired.
   This document expands on the DHCPv6 Leasequery protocol, and allows
   for active transfer of real-time DHCPv6 binding information data via
   TCP.  This document also updates DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery (RFC5460) by
   adding new options.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Protocol Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   4.  Interaction Between Active Leasequery and Bulk Leasequery . .   7
   5.  Extension to DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   6.  Message and Option Definitions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     6.1.  Message Framing for TCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     6.2.  Messages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       6.2.1.  ACTIVELEASEQUERY  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       6.2.2.  STARTTLS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     6.3.  Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
       6.3.1.  OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
       6.3.2.  OPTION_LQ_START_TIME  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
       6.3.3.  OPTION_LQ_END_TIME  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     6.4.  Connection and Transmission Parameters  . . . . . . . . .  11
   7.  Information Communicated by Active Leasequery . . . . . . . .  12
   8.  Requestor Behavior  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
     8.1.  General Processing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
     8.2.  Initiating a Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
     8.3.  Forming an Active Leasequery  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
     8.4.  Processing Active Replies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
       8.4.1.  Processing Replies from a Request Containing a
               OPTION_LQ_START_TIME  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
     8.5.  Processing Time Values in Leasequery messages . . . . . .  19
     8.6.  Examples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
       8.6.1.  Query Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
       8.6.2.  Data Missing on Server  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
       8.6.3.  Successful Query  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
     8.7.  Closing Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
   9.  Server Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
     9.1.  Accepting Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
     9.2.  Rejecting Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
     9.3.  Replying to an Active Leasequery  . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
     9.4.  Multiple or Parallel Queries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
     9.5.  Closing Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
   10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
   11. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26
   12. Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
   13. Modification History  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27



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   14. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
     14.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
     14.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  28

1.  Introduction

   The DHCPv6 [RFC3315] protocol specifies a mechanism for the
   assignment of IPv6 address and configuration information to IPv6
   nodes.  IPv6 Prefix Delegation for DHCPv6 (PD) [RFC3633] specifies a
   mechanism for DHCPv6 delegation of IPv6 prefixes and related data.
   DHCPv6 servers maintain authoritative information including binding
   information for delegated IPv6 prefixes.

   Requirements exist for external entities to keep up to date on the
   correspondence between DHCPv6 clients and their bindings.  These
   entities need to keep up with the current binding activity of the
   DHCPv6 server.  Keeping up with these binding activity is termed
   "active" leasequery.

   The DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery [RFC5460] capability can be used to
   recover useful information from a DHCPv6 server when some external
   entity starts up.  This entity could be one which is directly
   involved in the DHCPv6 client - server transactions (e.g., a relay
   agent), or it could be an external process which needs information
   present in the DHCPv6 server's lease state database.

   The Active Leasequery capability documented here is designed to allow
   an entity not directly involved in DHCPv6 client - server
   transactions to nevertheless keep current with the state of the
   DHCPv6 lease state information in real-time.

   This document updates DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery [RFC5460] by adding new
   options, as described in Section 6.2.1.  For the DHCPv6 servers,
   supporting Bulk Leasequery and not Active Leasequery, Section 9.2
   specifies the mechanism to reject incoming Active Leasequery
   requests.

2.  Terminology

   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 2119 [RFC2119].

   DHCPv6 terminology is defined in [RFC3315].  Terminology specific to
   DHCPv6 Active Leasequery can be found below:

   o  "Absolute Time"



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      A 32-bit quantity containing the number of seconds since midnight
      January 1, 2000 UTC.



   o  "Active Leasequery"

      Keeping up to date in real-time (or near real-time) with DHCPv6
      binding activity.



   o  "Bulk Leasequery"

      Requesting and receiving the information about all or some of the
      existing DHCPv6 binding information in an efficient manner, as
      defined by [RFC5460].



   o  "blocked TCP connection"

      A TCP connection is considered blocked if the underlying TCP
      transport will not accept new messages to be sent without blocking
      the thread that is attempting to send the message.



   o  "binding change/update"

      Any change in the DHCPv6 binding state or data stored on the
      DHCPv6 server related to binding.  This also includes expiration
      or deletion of the binding.



   o  "catch-up information, catch-up phase"

      If a DHCPv6 Active Leasequery requestor sends OPTION_LQ_START_TIME
      option in an ACTIVELEASEQUERY message, the DHCPv6 server will
      attempt to send the requestor the information that changed since
      the time specified in the OPTION_LQ_START_TIME option.  The
      binding information sent to satisfy this request is the catch-up
      information, and the period while it is being sent is the catch-up
      phase.






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   o  "clock skew"

      The difference between the absolute time on a DHCPv6 server and
      the absolute time on the system where a requestor of an Active or
      Bulk Leasequery is executing is termed the "clock skew" for that
      Active or Bulk Leasequery connection.  It is not absolutely
      constant but is likely to vary only slowly.  While it is easy to
      think that this can be calculated precisely after one message is
      received by a requestor from a DHCPv6 server, a more accurate
      value is derived from continuously examining the instantaneous
      value developed from each message received from a DHCPv6 server
      and using it to make small adjustments to the existing value held
      in the requestor.



   o  "requestor"

      The node that sends LEASEQUERY messages to one or more servers to
      retrieve information on the bindings for a client.



   o  "Transaction ID"

      An opaque value used to match responses with queries initiated by
      an Active Leasequery requestor.

3.  Protocol Overview

   The Active Leasequery mechanism is modeled on the existing DHCPv6
   Bulk Leasequery [RFC5460]; most differences arise from the long term
   nature of the TCP [RFC4614] connection required for Active
   Leasequery.  A DHCPv6 server which supports Active Leasequery MUST
   support Bulk Leasequery [RFC5460] as well.

   An Active Leasequery requestor opens a TCP connection to a DHCPv6
   Server, using the DHCPv6 port 547.  Note that this implies that the
   Leasequery requestor has server IP address(es) available via
   configuration or some other means, and that it has unicast IP
   reachability to the DHCPv6 server.  No relaying for Active Leasequery
   is specified.

   After establishing a connection, the requestor sends an
   ACTIVELEASEQUERY message over the connection.  In response, the
   server sends updates to the requestor using LEASEQUERY-REPLY and
   LEASEQUERY-DATA messages.  This response procedure is identical to
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   sends updates whenever some activity occurs to change the binding
   state - thus the need for long lived connection.

   Active Leasequery has features which allow this external entity to
   lose its connection and then reconnect and receive the latest
   information concerning any IPv6 bindings changed while it was not
   connected.

   These features are designed to allow the Active Leasequery requestor
   to efficiently become current with respect to the lease state
   database after it has been restarted or the machine on which it is
   running has been reinitialized.  It is easy to define a protocol
   which works when the requestor is always connected to the DHCPv6
   server.  Since that isn't sufficiently robust, much of the mechanism
   in this document is designed to deal efficiently with situations that
   occur when the Active Leasequery requestor becomes disconnected from
   the DHCPv6 server from which it is receiving updates and then
   reconnects to that server.

   Central to this approach, if the Active Leasequery requestor loses
   service, it is allowed to specify the time of its most recent update
   in a subsequent Active Leasequery request and the DHCPv6 server will
   determine whether or not data was missed while the Active Leasequery
   requestor was not connected.

   The DHCPv6 server processing the Active Leasequery request may limit
   the amount of data saved, and methods exist for the DHCPv6 server to
   inform the Active Leasequery requestor that data was missed - not all
   could be saved.  In this situation, the Active Leasequery requestor
   should issue a Bulk Leasequery [RFC5460] to recover information not
   available through an Active Leasequery.

   DHCPv6 servers are not required to keep any data corresponding to
   data missed on an Active Leasequery connection, but will typically
   choose to keep data corresponding to some recent activity available
   for subsequent queries by a DHCPv6 Active Leasequery requestor whose
   connection was temporarily interrupted.  In other words, DHCPv6
   servers supporting catch-up are required to have some mechanism to
   keep/save historic information of bindings.

   An Active Leasequery requestor would typically use Bulk Leasequery to
   initialize its database with all current data when that database
   contains no binding information.  In addition, it would use Bulk
   Leasequery to recover missed information in the event that its
   connection with the DHCPv6 server was lost for a longer time than the
   DHCPv6 server would keep track of the specific changes to the IPv6
   binding information.




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   The messages sent by the server in response to an Active Leasequery
   request SHOULD be identical to the messages sent by the server to a
   Bulk Leasequery request regarding the way the data is encoded into
   the Active Leasequery responses.  In addition, the actions taken by
   the Active Leasequery requestor to interpret the responses to an
   Active Leasequery request SHOULD be identical to the way that the
   requestor interprets the responses to a Bulk Leasequery request.
   Thus, the handling of OPTION_CLIENT_DATA and additional options
   discussed in the Bulk Leasequery specification [RFC5460] are to be
   followed when implementing Active Leasequery.

4.  Interaction Between Active Leasequery and Bulk Leasequery

   Active Leasequery is an extension of the Bulk Leasequery protocol
   [RFC5460].  The format of messages returned to an Active Leasequery
   requestor are identical to that defined for the Bulk Leasequery
   protocol [RFC5460].

   Applications which employ Active Leasequery to keep a database up to
   date with respect to the DHCPv6 server's lease state database will
   usually use an initial Bulk Leasequery to bring their database into
   equivalence with that of the DHCPv6 server, and then use Active
   Leasequery to keep that database current with respect to the DHCPv6
   server's lease state database.

   There are several differences between the Active and Bulk Leasequery
   protocols.  Active Leasequery defines a new message
   (ACTIVELEASEQUERY) to send Active Leasequery request to DHCPv6
   server.  An Active Leasequery connection sends all available updates
   to the requestor, based on OPTION_LQ_QUERY option (see
   Section 6.2.1).

   An Active Leasequery connection does not ever "complete", though the
   DHCPv6 server may drop the connection for a variety of reasons
   associated with some sort of exception condition.

5.  Extension to DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery

   This document extends to the capabilities of DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery
   protocol [RFC5460] by defining new options (OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME,
   OPTION_LQ_START_TIME and OPTION_LQ_END_TIME).  DHCPv6 server sends
   OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME option in Bulk Leasequery response if requestor
   ask for the same in Bulk Leasequery request.  OPTION_LQ_START_TIME
   and OPTION_LQ_END_TIME can be used in Bulk Leasequery request made to
   DHCPv6 server.  More details about these options are specified in
   Section 6.3.





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6.  Message and Option Definitions

6.1.  Message Framing for TCP

   The use of TCP for the Active Leasequery protocol permits one or more
   DHCPv6 messages to be sent in response to single Active Leasequery
   request.  The receiver needs to be able to determine how large each
   message is.  The same message framing technique used for DHCPv6 Bulk
   Leasequery [RFC5460] is used for Active Leasequery as well.

   The intent in using the same format is that code which currently
   knows how to deal with a message returned from DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery
   [RFC5460] will be able to deal with the message held inside of the
   TCP framing.

6.2.  Messages

   The LEASEQUERY-REPLY message is defined in [RFC5007].  The
   LEASEQUERY-DATA and LEASEQUERY-DONE messages are defined in
   [RFC5460].

   In an Active Leasequery exchange, a single LEASEQUERY-REPLY message
   is used to indicate the success or failure of a query, and to carry
   data that do not change in the context of a single query and answer,
   such as the Server-ID and Client-ID options.  If a query is
   successful, the DHCPv6 server MUST respond to it with exactly one
   LEASEQUERY-REPLY message.  If the server is returning binding data,
   the LEASEQUERY-REPLY also contains the first client's binding data in
   an OPTION_CLIENT_DATA option.  Additional binding data is returned
   using LEASEQUERY-DATA message as explained in DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery
   [RFC5460].  In case of failure query, single LEASEQUERY-REPLY message
   is returned without any binding data.

6.2.1.  ACTIVELEASEQUERY

   The new message type (ACTIVELEASEQUERY) is designed for keeping the
   requestor up to date in real-time (or near real-time) with DHCPv6
   bindings.  It asks the server to return DHCPv6 bindings activity that
   occurs subsequent to the receipt of the Active Leasequery request.

   An ACTIVELEASEQUERY request MUST contain a transaction-id, and that
   transaction-id MUST BE locally unique on the TCP connection on which
   it is sent to the DHCPv6 server.

   When sending an Active Leasequery request, the requestor MAY include
   the OPTION_LQ_START_TIME option in the ACTIVELEASEQUERY request.  In
   this case, DHCPv6 server returns all the bindings changed on or after
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   If the requestor is interested in receiving all binding updates from
   the DHCPv6 server, it MUST NOT include the OPTION_LQ_QUERY option in
   the ACTIVELEASEQUERY message.  But if the requestor is only
   interested in specific binding updates, it MAY include an
   OPTION_LQ_QUERY option along with a query-types defined in [RFC5007]
   and [RFC5460].

   Other DHCPv6 options used in the LEASEQUERY message (as specified in
   [RFC5460]) can also be used in the ACTIVELEASEQUERY request.

6.2.2.  STARTTLS

   The new message type (STARTTLS) is designed for establishment of a
   TLS connection between requestor and DHCPv6 server.

   More details about this message are specified in Section 8.2.

6.3.  Options

   New options (OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME, OPTION_LQ_START_TIME and
   OPTION_LQ_END_TIME) are defined as an extension to DHCPv6 Bulk
   Leasequery [RFC5460].  The reply messages for Active Leasequery uses
   these options along with the options defined in [RFC3315], [RFC5007]
   and [RFC5460].

6.3.1.  OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME

   The OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME option is the current time the message was
   created to be sent by the DHCPv6 server to the requestor of the
   Active or Bulk Leasequery if requestor ask for the same in Active or
   Bulk Leasequery request.  This MUST be an absolute time (i.e. seconds
   since midnight January 1, 2000 UTC).  All of the other time based
   options in the reply message are relative to this time, including
   OPTION_CLT_TIME [RFC5007].  This time is in the context of the DHCPv6
   server who placed this option in a message.

   This is an unsigned integer in network byte order.

   The code for this option is TBD.












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       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
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |      OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME      |          option-len           |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                           base-time                           |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

        option-code       OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME (TBD).
        option-len        4.
        base-time         DHCPv6 Server Base Time.


6.3.2.  OPTION_LQ_START_TIME

   The OPTION_LQ_START_TIME option specifies a query start time to the
   DHCPv6 server.  If specified, only bindings that have changed on or
   after the OPTION_LQ_START_TIME should be included in the response to
   the query.  This option MAY be used in Active or Bulk Leasequery
   requests made to a DHCPv6 server.

   The requestor MUST determine the OPTION_LQ_START_TIME using lease
   information it has received from the DHCPv6 server.  This MUST be an
   absolute time in the DHCPv6 server's context (see Section 8.5).

   Typically (though this is not a requirement) the OPTION_LQ_START_TIME
   option will contain the value most recently received in a
   OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME option by the requestor, as this will indicate
   the last successful communication with the DHCPv6 server.

   This is an unsigned integer in network byte order.

   The code for this option is TBD.


       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
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |      OPTION_LQ_START_TIME     |          option-len           |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                       query-start-time                        |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

        option-code       OPTION_LQ_START_TIME (TBD).
        option-len        4.
        query-start-time  DHCPv6 Server Query Start Time.





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6.3.3.  OPTION_LQ_END_TIME

   The OPTION_LQ_END_TIME option specifies a query end time to the
   DHCPv6 server.  If specified, only bindings that have changed on or
   before the OPTION_LQ_END_TIME should be included in the response to
   the query.  This option MAY be used in a Bulk Leasequery request.
   But it MUST NOT be used in an Active Leasequery request.

   The requestor MUST determine the OPTION_LQ_END_TIME based on lease
   information it has received from the DHCPv6 server.  This MUST be an
   absolute time in the context of the DHCPv6 server.

   In the absence of information to the contrary, the requestor SHOULD
   assume that the time context of the DHCPv6 server is identical to the
   time context of the requestor (see Section 8.5).

   This is an unsigned integer in network byte order.

   The code for this option is TBD.


       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
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |      OPTION_LQ_END_TIME       |          option-len           |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                        query-end-time                         |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

        option-code       OPTION_LQ_END_TIME (TBD).
        option-len        4.
        query-end-time    DHCPv6 Server Query End Time.


6.4.  Connection and Transmission Parameters

   Active Leasequery uses the same port configuration as DHCPv6 Bulk
   Leasequery [RFC5460].  It also uses the other transmission parameters
   (BULK_LQ_DATA_TIMEOUT and BULK_LQ_MAX_CONNS) as defined in [RFC5460].

   This section presents a table of values used to control Active
   Leasequery behavior, including recommended defaults.  Implementations
   MAY make these values configurable.  However, configuring too-small
   timeout values may lead to harmful behavior both to this application
   as well as to other traffic in the network.  As a result, timeout
   values smaller than the default values SHOULD NOT be used.





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   +------------------------+----------+-------------------------------+
   | Parameter              | Default  | Description                   |
   +------------------------+----------+-------------------------------+
   | ACTIVE_LQ_RCV_TIMEOUT  | 120 secs | Active Leasequery receive     |
   |                        |          | timeout                       |
   | ACTIVE_LQ_SEND_TIMEOUT | 120 secs | Active Leasequery send        |
   |                        |          | timeout                       |
   | ACTIVE_LQ_IDLE_TIMEOUT | 60 secs  | Active Leasequery idle        |
   |                        |          | timeout                       |
   +------------------------+----------+-------------------------------+

7.  Information Communicated by Active Leasequery

   While the information communicated by a DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery
   [RFC5460] is taken directly from the DHCPv6 server's lease state
   database, the information communicated by an Active Leasequery is
   real-time information.  As such, it is the information which is
   currently associated with a particular binding in the DHCPv6 server's
   lease state database.

   This is of significance, because if the Active Leasequery requestor
   runs slowly or the requestor disconnects from the DHCPv6 server and
   then reconnects with an OPTION_LQ_START_TIME option (signaling a
   catch-up operation), the information communicated to the Active
   Leasequery requestor is only the most current information from the
   DHCPv6 server's lease state database.

   The requestor of an Active Leasequery MUST NOT assume that every
   lease state change is communicated across an Active Leasequery
   connection.  Even if the Active Leasequery requestor remains
   connected, the DHCPv6 server is only required to transmit information
   about a binding that is current when the message is created and
   handed off to the TCP stack to send to the requestor.

   If the TCP connection blocks and the DHCPv6 server is waiting to send
   information down the connection, when the connection becomes
   available to be written the DHCPv6 server MAY create the message to
   send at this time.  The current state of the binding will be sent,
   and any transition in state or other information that occurred while
   the TCP connection was blocked will be lost.

   Thus, the Active Leasequery protocol does not allow the requestor to
   build a complete history of every activity on every lease.  An
   effective history of the important state changes for a lease can be
   created if the parameters of the DHCPv6 server are tuned to take into
   account the requirements of an Active Leasequery requestor.  For
   instance, the period after the expiration or release of a binding
   could be configured long enough (say several minutes, well more than



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   the receive timeout), so that an Active Leasequery requestor would be
   less likely to miss any changes in the binding.

8.  Requestor Behavior

8.1.  General Processing

   A requestor attempts to establish a TCP connection to a DHCPv6 Server
   in order to initiate an Active Leasequery exchange.  If the attempt
   fails, the Requestor MAY retry.

   If an Active Leasequery is terminated prematurely by a LEASEQUERY-
   DONE with a DHCPv6 status code (carried in an OPTION_STATUS_CODE
   option) of QueryTerminated or by the failure of the connection over
   which it was being submitted, the requestor MAY retry the request
   after the creation of a new connection.

   Messages from the DHCPv6 server come as multiple responses to a
   single ACTIVELEASEQUERY message.  Thus, each ACTIVELEASEQUERY request
   MUST have an xid (transaction-id) unique on the connection on which
   it is sent, and all of the messages which come as a response to it
   contain the same xid as the request.  It is the xid which allows the
   data-streams of two or more different ACTIVELEASEQUERY requests to be
   de-multiplexed by the requestor.

8.2.  Initiating a Connection

   A Requestor SHOULD attempt to negotiate a TLS [RFC5246] connection
   over the TCP connection.  If this negotiation fails, a requestor MAY
   choose to proceed with the Active Leasequery request without TLS.

   A requestor requests the establishment of a TLS connection by sending
   the STARTTLS message to the DHCPv6 server as the first message over
   the TCP connection.  This message indicates to the DHCPv6 server that
   a TLS connection over this TCP connection is desired.  There are four
   possibilities after the requestor sends the STARTTLS message to the
   DHCPv6 server:

   1.  No response from the DHCPv6 server.

   2.  The DHCPv6 server drops the TCP connection after it receives the
       STARTTLS message.

   3.  DHCPv6 server responds with REPLY [RFC3315] message with DHCPv6
       status code of TLSConnectionRefused.

   4.  DHCPv6 server responds with REPLY [RFC3315] message without
       DHCPv6 status code, indicating success.



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   In any of the first three possibilities, the DHCPv6 server can be
   assumed to not support TLS.  In this case, the requestor MAY choose
   to proceed with the Active Leasequery request without having it
   protected by TLS.

   In the final possibility, where the DHCPv6 server has responded with
   a REPLY message without DHCPv6 status code in response to the
   requestor's STARTTLS message, the requestor SHOULD initiate the
   exchange of the messages involved in a TLS handshake [RFC5246].

   If the handshake exchange yields a functioning TLS connection, then
   the requestor SHOULD transmit an Active Leasequery message over that
   TLS connection and use that TLS connection for all further
   interactions in which it engages with the DHCPv6 server over this TCP
   connection.

   If the handshake exchange does not yield a functioning TLS
   connection, then the requestor MUST drop the TCP connection.  The
   requestor MAY create a new TCP connection and MAY choose to proceed
   with an Active Leasequery request without using TLS.

8.3.  Forming an Active Leasequery

   The Active Leasequery is designed to create a long lived connection
   between the requestor and the DHCPv6 server processing the active
   query.  The DHCPv6 server SHOULD send binding information back across
   this connection with minimal delay after it learns of the binding
   information.  It learns about bindings either because it makes the
   bindings itself or because it has received information about a
   binding from another server.

   An important capability of the Active Leasequery is the ability of
   the requestor to specify that some recent data be sent immediately to
   the requestor in parallel with the transmission of the ongoing
   binding information in more or less real time.  This capability is
   used in order to allow an Active Leasequery requestor to recover
   missed information in the event that it temporarily loses
   connectivity with the DHCPv6 server processing a previous Active
   Leasequery.

   Note that until all of the recent data (catch-up data) has been
   received, the requestor MUST NOT keep track of the base-time
   (OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME) received in Leasequery reply messages to use
   later in a subsequent Active Leasequery request.

   This capability is enabled by the transmission of an
   OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME option with each Leasequery reply sent as the
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   track of the highest base-time received from a particular DHCPv6
   server over an Active Leasequery connection, and in the event that
   the requestor finds it necessary (for whatever reason) to reestablish
   an Active Leasequery connection to that DHCPv6 server, the requestor
   SHOULD place this highest base-time value into an
   OPTION_LQ_START_TIME option in the new Active Leasequery request.

   If the requestor doesn't wish to request an update of information
   missed when it was not connected to the DHCPv6 server, then it SHOULD
   NOT include the OPTION_LQ_START_TIME option in the Active Leasequery
   request.

   If the TCP connection becomes blocked or stops being writable while
   the requestor is sending its query, the requestor SHOULD terminate
   the connection after BULK_LQ_DATA_TIMEOUT.  We make this
   recommendation to allow requesters to control the period of time they
   are willing to wait before abandoning a connection, independent of
   notifications from the TCP implementations they may be using.

8.4.  Processing Active Replies

   The Requestor attempts to read a DHCPv6 LEASEQUERY-REPLY message from
   the TCP connection.  If the stream of replies becomes blocked, the
   Requestor SHOULD terminate the connection after
   ACTIVE_LQ_RCV_TIMEOUT, and MAY begin retry processing if configured
   to do so.

   The requestor examines the LEASEQUERY-REPLY message, and determines
   how to proceed.  Message validation rules are specified in DHCPv6
   Leasequery [RFC5007] and DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery [RFC5460].  If the
   reply contains an DHCPv6 status code (carried in an
   OPTION_STATUS_CODE option), the requestor should follow the
   recommendations in [RFC5007].

   Note that an Active Leasequery request specifically requests the
   DHCPv6 server to create a long-lived connection which may not have
   data transferring continuously during its lifetime.  Therefore the
   DHCPv6 server SHOULD send a LEASEQUERY-DATA message without binding
   data (OPTION_CLIENT_DATA) every ACTIVE_LQ_IDLE_TIMEOUT seconds
   (default 60) in order for the requestor to know that the connection
   remains alive.  This approach is followed only when connection is
   idle (i.e. server has no binding data to send).  During normal
   binding data exchange, receiving of LEASEQUERY-DATA message by
   requestor itself signifies that connection is active.  Note that the
   default for ACTIVE_LQ_RCV_TIMEOUT is 120 seconds, twice the value of
   the ACTIVE_LQ_IDLE_TIMEOUT's default of 60 seconds which drives the
   DHCPv6 server to send messages.  Thus ACTIVE_LQ_RCV_TIMEOUT controls




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   how sensitive the requestor is to be to delays by the DHCPv6 server
   in sending updates or LEASEQUERY-DATA messages.

   A single Active Leasequery can and usually will result in a large
   number of replies.  The Requestor MUST be prepared to receive more
   than one reply with transaction-ids matching a single
   ACTIVELEASEQUERY message from a single DHCPv6 server.

   An Active Leasequery has two regimes -- during the catch-up phase, if
   any, and after any catch-up phase.  If the Active Leasequery was
   requested with an OPTION_LQ_START_TIME option, the Active Leasequery
   starts out in the catch-up phase.  See Section 8.4.1 for information
   on processing during the catch-up phase, as well as how to determine
   when the catch-up phase is complete.

   The updates sent by the DHCPv6 server during the catch-up phase are
   not in the order that the lease state data was updated.  Therefore,
   the OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME option from messages during this phase MUST
   NOT be saved and used to compute the subsequent ACTIVELEASEQUERY
   message's OPTION_LQ_START_TIME option.

   After the catch-up phase, or during the entire series of messages
   received as the response to an Active Leasequery request with no
   OPTION_LQ_START_TIME (and therefore no catch-up phase), the
   OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME option of the most recent message SHOULD be saved
   as a record of the most recent time that data was received.  This
   base-time (in the context of the DHCPv6 server) can be used in a
   subsequent Active Leasequery message's OPTION_LQ_START_TIME after a
   loss of the Active Leasequery connection.

   The LEASEQUERY-DONE message MAY unilaterally terminate a successful
   Active Leasequery request which is currently in progress in the event
   that the DHCPv6 server determines that it cannot continue processing
   a ACTIVELEASEQUERY request.  For example, when a server is requested
   to shut down it SHOULD send a LEASEQUERY-DONE message with a DHCPv6
   status code of QueryTerminated and include OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME option
   in the message.  This SHOULD be the last message on that connection,
   and once the message has been transmitted, the server should close
   the connection.

   After receiving LEASEQUERY-DONE with a QueryTerminated status from a
   server, the Requestor MAY close the TCP connection to that server.









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8.4.1.  Processing Replies from a Request Containing a
        OPTION_LQ_START_TIME

   If the Active Leasequery was requested with an OPTION_LQ_START_TIME
   option, the DHCPv6 server will attempt to send information about all
   bindings that changed since the time specified in the
   OPTION_LQ_START_TIME.  This is the catch-up phase of the Active
   Leasequery processing.  The DHCPv6 server MAY also begin immediate
   updates over the same connection of real-time binding information
   changes.  Thus, the catch-up phase may run in parallel with the
   normal updates generated by the Active Leasequery request.

   A DHCPv6 server MAY keep only a limited amount of time ordered
   information available to respond to an Active Leasequery request
   containing an OPTION_LQ_START_TIME option.  Thus, it is possible that
   the time specified in the OPTION_LQ_START_TIME option represents a
   time not covered by the time ordered information kept by the DHCPv6
   server.  If this should occur, and there is not enough data saved in
   the DHCPv6 server to satisfy the request specified by the
   OPTION_LQ_START_TIME option, the DHCPv6 server will reply immediately
   with a LEASEQUERY-REPLY message with a DHCPv6 status code of
   DataMissing with a base-time option equal to the server's current
   time.  This will signal the end of the catch-up phase, and the only
   updates that will subsequently be received on this connection are the
   real-time updates from the Active Leasequery request.

   If there is enough data saved to satisfy the request, then
   LEASEQUERY-REPLY (with OPTION_STATUS_CODE of Success or reply without
   OPTION_STATUS_CODE option) and LEASEQUERY-DATA messages will begin
   arrive from the DHCPv6 server.  Some of these messages will be
   related to the OPTION_LQ_START_TIME request and be part of the catch-
   up phase.  Some of these messages will be real-time updates of
   binding changes taking place in the DHCPv6 server.  In general, there
   is no way to determine the source of each message.

   The updates sent by the DHCPv6 server during the catch-up phase are
   not in the order that the binding data was updated.  Therefore, until
   the catch-up phase is complete, the latest base-time value received
   from a DHCPv6 server processing an Active Leasequery request cannot
   be reset from the incoming messages (and used in a subsequent Active
   Leasequery's query-start-time option), because to do so would
   compromise the ability to recover lost information if the Active
   Leasequery were to terminate prior to the completion of the catch-up
   phase.

   The requestor will know that the catch-up phase is complete when the
   DHCPv6 server will transmit a LEASEQUERY-DATA message with the DHCPv6
   status code of CatchUpComplete (or LEASEQUERY-REPLY message with a



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   DHCPv6 status code of DataMissing, as discussed above).  Once this
   message is transmitted, all additional LEASEQUERY-DATA messages will
   relate to real-time ("new") binding changes in the DHCPv6 server.

   As discussed in Section 8.4, the requestor SHOULD keep track of the
   latest base-time option value received over a particular connection,
   to be used in a subsequent Active Leasequery request -- but only if
   the catch-up phase is complete.  Prior to the completion of the
   catch-up phase, if the connection should go away or if the requestor
   receives a LEASEQUERY-DONE message, then when it reconnects it MUST
   use the base-time value from the previous connection and not any
   base-time value received from the recently closed connection.

   In the event that there was enough data available to the DHCPv6
   server to begin to satisfy the request implied by the
   OPTION_LQ_START_TIME option, but during the processing of that data
   the server found that it was unable to continue (perhaps there was
   barely enough, the connection is very slow, and the aging algorithm
   causes the saved data to become unavailable) the DHCPv6 server will
   terminate the catch-up phase of processing immediately by sending a
   LEASEQUERY-DATA message with a DHCPv6 status code of DataMissing and
   with a base-time option of the current time.

   The requestor MUST NOT assume that every individual state change of
   every binding during the period from the time specified in the
   OPTION_LQ_START_TIME and the present is replicated in an Active
   Leasequery reply message.  The requestor MAY assume that at least one
   Active Leasequery reply message will exist for every binding which
   had one or more changes of state during the period specified by the
   OPTION_LQ_START_TIME and the current time.  The last message for each
   binding will contain the state at the current time, and there may be
   one or more messages concerning a single binding during the catch-up
   phase of processing.

   Bindings can change multiple times while the requester was not
   connected (that is, during the time from the OPTION_LQ_START_TIME and
   the present).  The requestor will only receive information about the
   current state of the binding, not information about each state change
   that occurred during the period from the OPTION_LQ_START_TIME to the
   present.

   If the LEASEQUERY-REPLY or LEASEQUERY-DATA message containing a
   DHCPv6 status code of DataMissing is received and the requestor is
   interested in keeping its database up to date with respect to the
   current state of bindings in the DHCPv6 server, then the requestor
   SHOULD issue a Bulk Leasequery request to recover the information
   missing from its database.  This Bulk Leasequery request should
   include a OPTION_LQ_START_TIME option with the same value as the



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   OPTION_LQ_START_TIME option previously included in the
   ACTIVELEASEQUERY responses from the DHCPv6 server, and an
   OPTION_LQ_END_TIME option equal to the OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME option
   returned by the DHCPv6 server in the LEASEQUERY-REPLY or LEASEQUERY-
   DATA message with the DHCPv6 status code of DataMissing.

   Typically, the requestor would have one connection open to a DHCPv6
   server for an Active Leasequery request and possibly one additional
   connection open for a Bulk Leasequery request to the same DHCPv6
   server to fill in the data that might have been missed prior to the
   initiation of the Active Leasequery.  The Bulk Leasequery connection
   would typically run to completion and be closed, leaving one Active
   Leasequery connection open to a single DHCPv6 server.  Alternatively,
   both requests could be issued over a single connection.

8.5.  Processing Time Values in Leasequery messages

   Active or Bulk Leasequery requests may be made to a DHCPv6 server
   whose absolute time may not be synchronized with the local time of
   the requestor.  Thus, there are at least two time contexts in even
   the simplest Active or Bulk Leasequery response.

   If the requestor of an Active or Bulk Leasequery is saving the data
   returned in some form, it has a requirement to store a variety of
   time values, and some of these will be time in the context of the
   requestor and some will be time in the context of the DHCPv6 server.

   When receiving an Active or Bulk Leasequery reply message from the
   DHCPv6 server, the message will contain an OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME
   option.  The time contained in this OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME option is in
   the context of the DHCPv6 server.  As such, it is an ideal time to
   save and use as input to an Active or Bulk Leasequery message in the
   OPTION_LQ_START_TIME or OPTION_LQ_END_TIME option, should the
   requestor need to ever issue an Active or Bulk Leasequery message
   using these option as part of a later query, since these option
   requires a time in the context of the DHCPv6 server.

   In addition to saving the OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME for possible future use
   in OPTION_LQ_START_TIME or OPTION_LQ_END_TIME option, the
   OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME is used as part of the conversion of the other
   times in the Leasequery message to values which are meaningful in the
   context of the requestor.

   In systems whose clocks are synchronized, perhaps using NTP, the
   clock skew will usually be zero, which is not only acceptable, but
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8.6.  Examples

   These examples illustrate what a series of queries and responses
   might look like.  These are only examples -- there are no requirement
   that these sequence must be followed.

8.6.1.  Query Failure

   This example illustrates the message flows in case DHCPv6 server
   identifies that it cannot accept and/or process Active Leasequery
   request from the requestor.  This could be because of various reasons
   (i.e.  UnknownQueryType, MalformedQuery, NotConfigured, NotAllowed,
   NotSupported).


      Client                          Server
      ------                          ------
      ACTIVELEASEQUERY xid 1  ----->
                              <-----  LEASEQUERY-REPLY xid 1 (w/error)


8.6.2.  Data Missing on Server

   This example illustrates the message flows in case DHCPv6 server
   identifies that it does not have enough data saved to satisfy the
   request specified by the OPTION_LQ_START_TIME option.

   In this case the DHCPv6 server will reply immediately with a
   LEASEQUERY-REPLY message with a DHCPv6 status code of DataMissing
   with a base-time option equal to the server's current time.  This
   will signal the end of the catch-up phase, and the only updates that
   will subsequently be received on this connection are the real-time
   updates from the Active Leasequery request.


      Client                          Server
      ------                          ------
      ACTIVELEASEQUERY xid 2  ----->
                              <-----  LEASEQUERY-REPLY xid 2 (w/error)
                              <-----  LEASEQUERY-DATA xid 2
                              <-----  LEASEQUERY-DATA xid 2
                              <-----  LEASEQUERY-DATA xid 2

8.6.3.  Successful Query

   This example illustrates the message flows in case of successful
   query processing by DHCPv6 server.




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   In this case the DHCPv6 server will reply immediately with a
   LEASEQUERY-REPLY message (with OPTION_STATUS_CODE of Success or reply
   without OPTION_STATUS_CODE option), followed by binding data in
   LEASEQUERY-DATA messages.  In case, DHCPv6 server wants to abort in-
   process request and terminate the connection due to some reason, it
   sends LEASEQUERY-DONE with error code present in OPTION_STATUS_CODE
   option.


      Client                          Server
      ------                          ------
      ACTIVELEASEQUERY xid 3  ----->
                              <-----  LEASEQUERY-REPLY xid 3
                              <-----  LEASEQUERY-DATA xid 3
                              <-----  LEASEQUERY-DATA xid 3
                              <-----  LEASEQUERY-DATA xid 3
                              <-----  LEASEQUERY-DATA xid 3
                              <-----  LEASEQUERY-DONE xid 3 (w/error)

8.7.  Closing Connections

   The Requestor or DHCPv6 Leasequery server MAY close its end of the
   TCP connection at any time.  The Requestor MAY choose to retain the
   connection if it intends to issue additional queries.  Note that this
   requestor behavior does not guarantee that the connection will be
   available for additional queries: the server might decide to close
   the connection based on its own configuration.

9.  Server Behavior

   A DHCPv6 server which supports Active Leasequery MUST support DHCPv6
   Bulk Leasequery [RFC5460] and as extended herein.

9.1.  Accepting Connections

   DHCPv6 servers that implement DHCPv6 Active Leasequery listen for
   incoming TCP connections.  Approach used in accepting the requestor
   connection is same as specified in DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery [RFC5460].

   DHCPv6 servers SHOULD support TLS [RFC5246] to protect the integrity
   and privacy of the data transmitted over the TCP connection.  DHCPv6
   servers SHOULD negotiate a TLS connection with the requestor who asks
   for one, and MAY choose to accept DHCPv6 Active Leasequery request
   over connections which are not secured with TLS.

   A requestor will request a TLS connection by sending a STARTTLS as
   the first message over a newly created TCP connection.  If the DHCPv6
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   allow them on this link, the DHCPv6 server SHOULD respond to this
   STARTTLS message by sending a REPLY [RFC3315] message without DHCPv6
   status code back to the requestor.  This indicates to the requestor
   that the DHCPv6 server will support the negotiation of a TLS
   connection over this existing TCP connection.

   If for some reason the DHCPv6 server cannot or has been configured to
   not support a TLS connection, then it SHOULD send a REPLY message
   with DHCPv6 status code of TLSConnectionRefused back to the
   requestor.

   In the event that the DHCPv6 server sends a REPLY message without
   DHCPv6 status code option included (which indicates success), the
   requestor is supposed to initiate a TLS handshake [RFC5246] (see
   Section 8.2).

   If the TLS handshake is not successful in creating a TLS connection,
   the server MUST drop the TCP connection.

9.2.  Rejecting Connections

   Servers that do not implement DHCPv6 Active and Bulk Leasequery
   SHOULD NOT listen for incoming TCP connections for these requests.

   If the DHCPv6 server supporting Bulk Leasequery and not Active
   Leasequery receives an Active Leasequery request, it SHOULD send a
   LEASEQUERY-REPLY with DHCPv6 status code as NotSupported.  It SHOULD
   close the TCP connection after this error is signaled.

9.3.  Replying to an Active Leasequery

   The DHCPv6 Leasequery [RFC5007] specification describes the initial
   construction of LEASEQUERY-REPLY messages.  Use of the LEASEQUERY-
   REPLY and LEASEQUERY-DATA messages to carry multiple bindings is
   described in DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery [RFC5460].  Message transmission
   and framing for TCP is described in Section 6.1.

   If the connection becomes blocked while the server is attempting to
   send reply messages, the server SHOULD terminate the TCP connection
   after ACTIVE_LQ_SEND_TIMEOUT.  This timeout governs for how long the
   DHCPv6 server is prepared to wait for the requestor to read and
   process enough information to unblock the TCP connection.  The
   default is two minutes, which means that if more than two minutes
   goes by without the requestor reading enough information to unblock
   the TCP connection, the DHCPv6 server SHOULD drop the TCP connection.

   If the DHCPv6 server encounters an error during initial processing of
   the ACTIVELEASEQUERY message, it SHOULD send a LEASEQUERY-REPLY



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   message containing an error code of some kind in a DHCPv6 status code
   option.  It SHOULD close the connection after this error is signaled.

   If the DHCPv6 server encounters an error during later processing of
   the ACTIVELEASEQUERY message, it SHOULD send a LEASEQUERY-DONE
   containing an error code of some kind in a DHCPv6 status code option.
   It SHOULD close the connection after this error is signaled.

   If the server finds any bindings satisfying a query, it SHOULD send
   each binding's data in a reply message.  The first reply message is a
   LEASEQUERY-REPLY.  The binding data is carried in an
   OPTION_CLIENT_DATA option, as specified in [RFC5007].  The server
   SHOULD send subsequent bindings in LEASEQUERY-DATA messages, which
   can avoid redundant data (such as the requestor's Client-ID).

   Every reply to an Active Leasequery request MUST contain the
   information specified in replies to a DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery request
   [RFC5460].

   Some servers can be configured to respond to a DHCPv6 Leasequery
   [RFC5007] and DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery [RFC5460] for an IPv6 binding
   which is reserved in such a way that it appears that the IPv6 binding
   is leased to the DHCP client for which it is reserved.  These servers
   SHOULD also respond to an Active Leasequery request with the same
   information as they would to a Bulk Leasequery request when they
   first determine that the IPv6 binding is reserved to a DHCP client.

   If an Active Leasequery or Bulk Leasequery request contains
   OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME option code present in OPTION_ORO, the DHCPv6
   server MUST include OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME option in every reply for
   this request.  The value for base-time option is current absolute
   time in the DHCPv6 server's context.

   If an Active Leasequery request contains an OPTION_LQ_START_TIME
   option, it indicates that the requestor would like the DHCPv6 server
   to send it not only messages that correspond to DHCPv6 binding
   activity that occurs subsequent to the receipt of the Active
   Leasequery request, but also messages that correspond to DHCPv6
   binding activity that occurred prior to the Active Leasequery
   request.

   If OPTION_LQ_END_TIME option appears in an Active Leasequery request,
   the DHCPv6 server SHOULD send a LEASEQUERY-REPLY message with a
   DHCPv6 status code of MalformedQuery and terminate the connection.

   In order to implement a meaningful response to this query, the DHCPv6
   server MAY keep track of the binding activity and associate changes
   with particular base-time values from the messages.  Then, when



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   requested to do so by an Active Leasequery request containing a
   OPTION_LQ_START_TIME option, the DHCPv6 server can respond with
   replies for all binding activity occurring on that
   OPTION_LQ_START_TIME or later times.

   These replies based on the OPTION_LQ_START_TIME MAY be interleaved
   with the messages generated due to current binding activity.

   Once the transmission of the DHCPv6 Leasequery messages associated
   with the OPTION_LQ_START_TIME option are complete, a LEASEQUERY-DATA
   message MUST be sent with a DHCPv6 status code value of
   CatchUpComplete.

   The DHCPv6 server SHOULD, but is not required to, keep track of a
   limited amount of previous binding activity.  The DHCPv6 server MAY
   choose to only do this in the event that it has received at least one
   Active Leasequery request in the past, as to do so will almost
   certainly entail some utilization of resources which would be wasted
   if there are no Active Leasequery requestors for this DHCPv6 server.
   The DHCPv6 server SHOULD make the amount of previous binding activity
   it retains configurable.  There is no requirement on the DHCPv6
   server to retain this information over a server restart (or even to
   retain such information at all).

   Unless there is an error or some requirement to cease processing a
   Active Leasequery request yielding a LEASEQUERY-DONE message, such as
   a server shutdown, there will be no LEASEQUERY-DONE message at the
   conclusion of the Active Leasequery processing because that
   processing will not conclude but will continue until either the
   requestor or the server drops the connection.

9.4.  Multiple or Parallel Queries

   Requesters may want to use an existing connection if they need to
   make multiple queries.  Servers MAY support reading and processing
   multiple queries from a single connection.  A server MUST NOT read
   more query messages from a connection than it is prepared to process
   simultaneously.

   Typically, a requestor of an Active Leasequery would not need to send
   a second Active Leasequery while the first is still active.  However,
   sending an Active Leasequery and a Bulk Leasequery over the same
   connection would be possible and reasonable.  But it is RECOMMENDED
   to use different connection in case of parallel Active and Bulk
   Leasequeries.

   This MAY be a feature that is administratively controlled.  Servers
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   configuration that limits the number of simultaneous queries
   permitted from any one requestor, in order to control resource use if
   there are multiple requesters seeking service.

9.5.  Closing Connections

   The server MUST close its end of the TCP connection if it encounters
   an error sending data on the connection.  The server MUST close its
   end of the TCP connection if it finds that it has to abort an in-
   process request.  A server aborting an in-process request SHOULD
   attempt to signal that to its requestors by using the QueryTerminated
   status code in the DHCPv6 status code option in a LEASEQUERY-DONE
   message.  If the server detects that the requestor end has been
   closed, the server MUST close its end of the connection after it has
   finished processing any outstanding requests from the requestor.

   The server SHOULD limit the number of connections it maintains, and
   SHOULD close idle connections to enforce the limit.

10.  Security Considerations

   The "Security Considerations" section of [RFC3315] details the
   general threats to DHCPv6.  The DHCPv6 Leasequery specification
   [RFC5007] describes recommendations for the Leasequery protocol,
   especially with regard to relayed Leasequery messages, mitigation of
   packet-flooding denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, restriction to
   trusted requestors, and use of IPsec [RFC4301].

   The use of TCP introduces some additional concerns.  Attacks that
   attempt to exhaust the DHCPv6 server's available TCP connection
   resources, such as SYN flooding attacks, can compromise the ability
   of legitimate requestors to receive service.  Malicious requestors
   who succeed in establishing connections, but who then send invalid
   queries, partial queries, or no queries at all also can exhaust a
   server's pool of available connections.  We recommend that servers
   offer configuration to limit the sources of incoming connections,
   that they limit the number of accepted connections and the number of
   in-process queries from any one connection, and that they limit the
   period of time during which an idle connection will be left open.

   There are two specific issues regarding Active Leasequery security
   that deserve explicit mention.  The first is preventing information
   that Active Leasequery can provide from reaching requestors who are
   not authorized to receive such information.  The second is ensuring
   that authorized requestors of the Active Leasequery capability
   receive accurate information from the Server (and that this
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   To prevent information leakage to unauthorized requestors, Servers
   SHOULD restrict Active Leasequery connections and ACTIVELEASEQUERY
   messages to certain requestors, either through explicit configuration
   of the Server itself or by employing external network elements to
   provide such restrictions.

   Connections not from permitted requestors SHOULD be closed
   immediately, to avoid server connection resource exhaustion or
   alternatively, simply not be allowed to reach the server at all.
   Servers SHOULD have the capability to restrict certain requestors to
   certain query types.  Servers MAY reply to queries that are not
   permitted with the LEASEQUERY-DONE message with a status-code option
   status of NotAllowed, or MAY simply close the connection.

   In addition, requestors and servers SHOULD use TLS [RFC5246] to
   protect the integrity and privacy of the Active Leasequery data
   transmitted over the TCP connection.

   Authentication for DHCP Messages [RFC3315] MUST NOT be used to
   attempt to secure transmission of the messages described in this
   document.

11.  IANA Considerations

   IANA is requested to assign new DHCPv6 Option Codes in the registry
   maintained in http://www.iana.org/assignments/dhcpv6-parameters:

      OPTION_LQ_BASE_TIME

      OPTION_LQ_START_TIME

      OPTION_LQ_END_TIME



   IANA is requested to assign new values in the registry of DHCPv6
   Status Codes maintained in http://www.iana.org/assignments/
   dhcpv6-parameters:

      DataMissing

      CatchUpComplete

      NotSupported

      TLSConnectionRefused





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   IANA is requested to assign value for the following new DHCPv6
   Message type in the registry maintained in
   http://www.iana.org/assignments/dhcpv6-parameters:

      ACTIVELEASEQUERY

      STARTTLS



12.  Acknowledgements

   Some of the concept and content, present in this document, are based
   on DHCPv4 Active Leasequery which was originally proposed by Kim
   Kinnear, Bernie Volz, Mark Stapp and Neil Russell.

13.  Modification History

14.  References

14.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC3315]  Droms, R., Bound, J., Volz, B., Lemon, T., Perkins, C.,
              and M. Carney, "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for
              IPv6 (DHCPv6)", RFC 3315, July 2003.

   [RFC3633]  Troan, O. and R. Droms, "IPv6 Prefix Options for Dynamic
              Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) version 6", RFC 3633,
              December 2003.

   [RFC5007]  Brzozowski, J., Kinnear, K., Volz, B., and S. Zeng,
              "DHCPv6 Leasequery", RFC 5007, September 2007.

   [RFC5246]  Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security
              (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, August 2008.

   [RFC5460]  Stapp, M., "DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery", RFC 5460, February
              2009.

14.2.  Informative References

   [RFC4301]  Kent, S. and K. Seo, "Security Architecture for the
              Internet Protocol", RFC 4301, December 2005.





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   [RFC4614]  Duke, M., Braden, R., Eddy, W., and E. Blanton, "A Roadmap
              for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification
              Documents", RFC 4614, September 2006.

Authors' Addresses

   Dushyant Raghuvanshi
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   Cessna Business Park,
   Varthur Hobli, Outer Ring Road,
   Bangalore, Karnataka  560037
   India

   Phone: +91 (080) 4365-7476
   Email: draghuva@cisco.com


   Kim Kinnear
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   1414 Massachusetts Ave.
   Boxborough, Massachusetts  01719
   USA

   Phone: +1 (978) 936-0000
   Email: kkinnear@cisco.com


   Deepak Kukrety
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   Cessna Business Park,
   Varthur Hobli, Outer Ring Road,
   Bangalore, Karnataka  560037
   India

   Phone: +91 (080) 4365-7474
   Email: dkukrety@cisco.com















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