Network Working Group J. Korhonen, Ed.
Internet-Draft Nokia Siemens Networks
Intended status: Standards Track S. Gundavelli
Expires: September 12, 2011 Cisco
H. Yokota
KDDI Lab
X. Cui
Huawei Technologies
March 11, 2011
Runtime LMA Assignment Support for Proxy Mobile IPv6
draft-ietf-netext-redirect-07.txt
Abstract
This document describes a runtime Local Mobility Anchor assignment
functionality and corresponding mobility options for Proxy Mobile
IPv6.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Requirements and Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1. Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Proxy Mobile IPv6 Domain Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. Mobility Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1. Redirect-Capability Mobility Option . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. Redirect Mobility Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5. Runtime LMA Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.1. Common Mobile Access Gateway Operation . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.2. Common Local Mobility Anchor Operation . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.3. Mobility Session Created During the Runtime Assignment . . 10
5.3.1. General Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.3.2. Mobile Access Gateway Operation . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.3.3. Local Mobility Anchor Operation for Collocated
rfLMA and r2LMA Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.3.4. Local Mobility Anchor Operation for Separate rfLMA
and r2LMA Functions (Proxy-MAG) . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.4. Mobility Session Created After the Runtime Assignment . . 13
5.4.1. General Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.4.2. Mobile Access Gateway Operation . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.4.3. Local Mobility Anchor Operation . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6. Multi-Homing Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
7. Configuration Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
10. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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1. Introduction
This document describes the Redirect-Capability and the Redirect
mobility options, and the corresponding functionality for a runtime
assignment of the Local Mobility Anchor (LMA) for Proxy Mobile IPv6
(PMIPv6). The runtime LMA assignment takes place during a Proxy
Binding Update (PBU) and a Proxy Binding Acknowledgement (PBA)
message exchange between a Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) and a LMA.
The runtime LMA assignment functionality defined in this
specification can be used, for example, for load balancing purposes
during the initial PBU/PBA message exchange. The MAGs and LMAs can
implement other load balancing mechanisms that are completely
transparent at PMIPv6 protocol level and do not depend on the
functionality defined in this specification.
The runtime LMA assignment functionality described in this
specification does not depend on information provisioned to external
entities, such as the Domain Name System (DNS) or the Authentication,
Authorization and Accounting (AAA) infrastructure. The trust
relationship and coordination management between LMAs within a PMIPv6
domain is deployment specific and not described in this
specification.
There are number of reasons, why the runtime LMA assignment is a
useful addition to the PMIPv6 protocol. The following list describes
some identified ones:
o LMAs with multiple IP addresses: a cluster of LMAs or a blade
architecture LMA may appear to the routing system as multiple LMAs
with separate unicast IP addresses. A MAG can initially select
any of those LMA IP addresses as the LMA Address using e.g., DNS-
and AAA-based solutions. However, MAG's initial selection may be
suboptimal from the LMA point of view and immediate runtime
assignment to a "proper LMA" would be needed. The LMA could use
[RFC5142] based approach but that would imply unnecessary setting
up of a mobility session in a "wrong LMA" with associated backend
support system interactions, involve additional signaling between
the MAG and the LMA, and re-establishing mobility session to the
new LMA again with associated signaling.
o Bypassing a load balancer: a cluster of LMAs or a blade
architecture LMA may have a load balancer in front of them or
integrated in one of the LMAs. The load balancer would represent
multiple LMAs during the LMA discovery phase and only its IP
address would be exposed to the MAG hiding possible individual LMA
or LMA blade IP addresses from the MAG. However, if all traffic
must always go through the load balancer it becomes quickly a
bottleneck. Therefore, a PMIPv6 protocol level support for
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bypassing the load balancer after the initial PBU/PBA exchange
would greatly help scalability. Also bypassing the load balancer
as soon as possible allows implementing load balancers that do not
maintain any MN specific state information.
o Independence from DNS: DNS-based load balancing is a common
practise. However, keeping MAGs up-to-date with LMA load status
using DNS is hard e.g., due caching and unpredictable zone update
delays [RFC6097]. Generally, LMAs constantly updating [RFC2136]
zone's master DNS server might not feasible in a large PMIPv6
domain due to increased load on the master DNS server and
additional background signaling. Furthermore, MAGs may do (LMA)
destination address selection decisions that are not in-line what
the DNS administrator actually wanted [RFC3484].
o Independence from AAA: AAA-based solutions have basically the same
arguments as DNS-based solutions above. It is also typical that
AAA-based solutions offload the initial LMA selection to the DNS
infrastructure [RFC5779]. The AAA infrastructure does not return
an IP address or a Fully Qualified domain Name (FQDN) to a single
LMA, rather a FQDN representing a group of LMAs.
o Support for IPv6 anycast addressing [RFC4291]: the current PMIPv6
specification does not specify how the PMIPv6 protocol should
treat anycast addresses assigned to mobility agents. For example,
a blade architecture LMA may appear to the routing system as
multiple LMAs with separate unicast IP addresses and with one or
more "grouping" anycast addresses. A MAG could then initially
send a PBU to an anycast LMA address and receive a PBA from an
anycast LMA address. Once the MAG receives the unicast address of
the runtime assigned LMA through the initial PBU/PBA exchange,
then the MAG must start using the unicast address for the mobility
session.
As a summary, the DNS/AAA based approaches cannot be used to select
an "appropriate" LMA at runtime. Therefore, this specification
defines a solution that is applicable for bladed/cluster LMA
implementations where the IP address known to the MAG is not the best
LMA of choice at runtime.
2. Requirements and Terminology
2.1. Requirements
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 [RFC2119].
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2.2. Terminology
In addition to the terminology defined in [RFC5213], the following
terminology is also used:
rfLMA
An LMA which receives a PBU from a MAG and decides to assign an IP
mobility session with a new target LMA (r2LMA).
r2LMA
The LMA assigned to a MAG as a result of the runtime LMA
assignment.
Runtime Assignment Domain
A group of LMAs that consist of at least one rfLMA and one or more
r2LMAs. A rfLMA is allowed to assign MAGs only with r2LMAs that
belong to the same runtime assignment domain. The rfLMA and one
or more r2LMAs may consist of multiple blades in a single network
element, multiple physical network elements, or multiple LMAs
distributed geographically.
3. Proxy Mobile IPv6 Domain Assumptions
The runtime LMA assignment functionality has several assumptions on
the PMIPv6 domain. They are discussed here as they have an impact on
PMIPv6 deployment.
Each LMA in a runtime assignment domain MUST be reachable at an
unicast IP address. The rfLMA and the r2LMA MUST have a prior
agreement, adequate means to secure their inter-LMA communication and
an established trust relationship to perform the runtime LMA
assignment.
The rfLMA MUST NOT assign a MAG with a r2LMA, if the rfLMA knows the
r2LMA cannot accept a mobility session from the MAG. That is, the
runtime assignment functionality specified in this document is not
enabled in the r2LMA, or the r2LMA does not belong to the same
runtime assignment domain as the rfLMA, or the r2LMA is down or
otherwise unreachable. How the rfLMA learns and knows the
capabilities of other r2LMAs in the runtime assignment domain, is not
covered by this specification.
Each LMA and MAG participating in the runtime LMA assignment is
assumed to have required Security Associations (SA) already set up in
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advance. Dynamic negotiation of the SAs using e.g., IKEv2 [RFC5996]
SHOULD be supported but is out of scope of this specification.
The LMA MUST NOT include the Redirect mobility option in the PBA and
perform the runtime LMA assignment, unless the MAG indicated the
runtime LMA assignment functionality support in the corresponding PBU
using the Redirection-Capability mobility option. The LMA MUST NOT
include the Redirect mobility option unsolicited even if the MAG had
earlier indicated support for the runtime LMA assignment
functionality. MAGs and LMAs implementing the runtime LMA assignment
functionality MUST support the runtime LMA assignment during the
initial PBU/PBA exchange which creates a new mobility session. A
mid-session LMA assignment may make use of [RFC5142]
4. Mobility Options
4.1. Redirect-Capability Mobility Option
If the runtime LMA assignment functionality is supported and also
enabled, then the MAG SHOULD include the Redirect-Capability mobility
option in a PBU that establishes a new mobility session. When this
option is included, the MAG may be assigned with another LMA, and the
assigned LMA may simultaneously create a Binding Cache Entry (BCE).
Hence, the MAG including this option MUST be able to support runtime
LMA assignment with and without a creation of a BCE in the runtime
assigned LMA. The Redirect-Capability mobility option has the
alignment requirement of 4n. There can zero or one Redirect-
Capability mobility option in the PBU. The format of the Redirect-
Capability mobility option is shown below:
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 Type | Option Length |S|F| Reserved |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Redirect-Capability Mobility Option
o Option Type: 8-bit identifier set to TBD1.
o Option Length: 8-bit unsigned integer, representing the length of
the Redirect-Capability mobility option in octets, excluding the
Option Type and Length fields. The Option Length MUST be set to
2.
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o 'S' flag: This bit is set (1) if the MAG supports IPv6 transport.
Otherwise, the bit is unset (0).
o 'F' flag: This bit is set (1) if the MAG supports IPv4 transport.
Otherwise, the bit is unset (0).
o Reserved: This field is reserved for future use. MUST be set to
zero.
Both 'S' and 'F' flags MUST NOT be unset at the same time.
4.2. Redirect Mobility Option
The LMA MUST include the Redirect mobility option in a PBA only if
the MAG indicated support for the runtime LMA assignment
functionality and runtime LMA assignment took place. The Redirect
mobility option in the PBA MUST contain at least one unicast address
of the r2LMA. There can at most one Redirect mobility option in the
PBA.
The Redirect mobility option has the alignment requirement of 4n.
The format of the Redirect mobility option is shown below:
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 Type | Option Length |K|N| Reserved |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
| Optional IPv6 r2LMA Address |
| |
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Optional IPv4 r2LMA Address |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Redirect Mobility Option
o Option Type: 8-bit identifier set to TBD2.
o Option Length: 8-bit unsigned integer, representing the length of
the Redirect mobility option in octets, excluding the Option Type
and Length fields. If 'K' flag is set and 'N' is unset, then the
length MUST be 18. If 'K' flag is unset and 'N' is set, then the
length MUST be 6. If both 'K' and 'N' flags are set, then the
length MUST be 22.
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o 'K' flag: This bit is set (1) if the 'Optional IPv6 r2LMA Address'
is included in the mobility option. Otherwise, the bit is unset
(0).
o 'N' flag: This bit is set (1) if the 'Optional IPv4 r2LMA Address'
is included in the mobility option. Otherwise, the bit is unset
(0).
o Reserved: This field is reserved for future use. MUST be set to
zero.
o Optional IPv6 r2LMA Address: the unicast IPv6 address of the
r2LMA. This value is present if the r2LMA IPv6 address is
available and the 'S' flag was set in the corresponding Redirect-
Capability mobility option.
o Optional IPv4 r2LMA Address: the IPv4 address of the r2LMA. This
value is present if the r2LMA IPv4 address is available and the
'F' flag was set in the corresponding Redirect-Capability mobility
option.
Both 'K' and 'N' flags MUST NOT be unset at the same time.
5. Runtime LMA Assignment
5.1. Common Mobile Access Gateway Operation
In the base PMIPv6 protocol [RFC5213] a MAG sends a PBU to an LMA,
which results in a BCE creation at the LMA and the LMA sending a PBA
sent back to the MAG. The MAG in turn creates an entry in its
Binding Update List (BUL). This specification extends the base
protocol with the runtime LMA assignment functionality.
Backwards compatibility is maintained in a deployment wherein some
MAGs may have the ability to support runtime LMA assignment while
others do not. This is accomplished by the use of the Redirect-
Capability mobility option that a MAG includes in the PBU. If the
runtime LMA assignment functionality is supported and also enabled,
then the MAG SHOULD include the Redirect-Capability mobility option
in a PBU that establishes a new mobility session. The Redirect-
Capability mobility option in the PBU is also an indication to an LMA
that the MAG supports the runtime LMA assignment functionality and is
prepared to be assigned with a different LMA. The runtime LMA
assignment concerns always one mobility session at time.
If the MAG receives a PBA that contains the Redirect mobility option
without first including the Redirect-Capability mobility option in
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the corresponding PBU, then the MAG MUST ignore the option and treat
the of the PBA as described in RFC 5213.
5.2. Common Local Mobility Anchor Operation
The text in the following sections refers to a 'LMA' when it means
the combination of the rfLMA and the r2LMA i.e., the entity where
runtime LMA assignment is possible. When the text points to a
specific LMA role during the runtime assignment, it uses either the
'rfLMA' or the 'r2LMA'.
If the runtime assignment functionality is enabled in the LMA but the
LMA assignment is not going to take place for a reason or other, and
the rfLMA is not willing to serve (or capable of) as a normal RFC
5213 LMA for the MAG, then the rfLMA MUST reject the PBU and send
back a PBA with Status Value set to 130 (Insufficient resources)
error code. Otherwise, the rfLMA MUST act as a normal RFC 5213
defined LMA for the MAG.
The rfLMA MUST only assign the MAG with a new r2LMA that it knows the
MAG has a SA with or the MAG and the r2LMA are able to create it
dynamically. The rfLMA MUST NOT assign the MAG with a r2LMA that the
rfLMA and the r2LMA do not have a prior agreement and an established
trust relationship for the runtime LMA assignment. These SA related
knowledge issues and trust relationships are deployment specific in a
PMIPv6 domain and in a runtime assignment domain, and out of scope of
this specification. Possible context transfer and other coordination
management between the rfLMA and the r2LMA, are again deployment
specific for LMAs in a runtime assignment domain.
The rfLMA MUST NOT assign a MAG using IPv6 transport with a new r2LMA
using IPv4 transport, if the MAG does not indicate support for IPv4
in the Redirect-Capability mobility option, as there is no guarantee
that the MAG supports switching from IPv6 transport to IPv4
transport. The same also applies for assigning a MAG using IPv4
transport with a r2LMA supporting only IPv6 transport.
As a result of a successful runtime LMA assignment, the PBA MUST
contain the Redirect mobility option with a valid r2LMA unicast
address and the PBA Status Value indicating success.
In general the r2LMA may be a normal RFC 5213 LMA without any runtime
LMA assignment functionality. The r2LMA may also include rfLMA
functionality in which case the consideration described in the
following sections for the rfLMA apply. If the runtime LMA
assignment functionality is implemented but not enabled in a LMA,
then the LMA MUST ignore the Redirect-Capability mobility option
received in a PBU and act as a LMA defined in RFC 5213.
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5.3. Mobility Session Created During the Runtime Assignment
5.3.1. General Operation
During the runtime LMA assignment, the PBA is returned from the LMA
Address where the PBU was sent to i.e., from the rfLMA. After the
runtime LMA assignment all PMIPv6 communication continues directly
between the MAG and the r2LMA. The overall runtime LMA assignment
flow sequence is shown in Figure 1.
MAG rfLMA r2LMA
| | |
1) |--PBU-->| ~ ~ ~ | (LMA assignment takes place, BCE gets created
2) |<--PBA--| ~ ~ ~ | in r2LMA, PBA contains r2LMA information and
| | | Status Value set to
| | | Accepted_and_Redirected_with_Binding)
3) |<=====data======>|
| | |
4) |-------PBU------>| (lifetime extension,
5) |<------PBA-------| de-registration, etc.)
| | |
Figure 1: Runtime LMA assignment from rfLMA to r2LMA and setting up a
mobility session in the r2LMA within a runtime assignment domain
The assumption in the signaling flow step 1) shown in Figure 1 is
that the mobility session gets created in the r2LMA, although the
rfLMA is responsible for interfacing with the MAG. There are several
possible solutions for the rfLMA and the r2LMA interaction depending
on e.g. the collocation properties of the rfLMA and the r2LMA. This
specification briefly describes two:
o Collocated rfLMA & r2LMA functions, where the 'rfLMA side of the
LMA' is reachable via an anycast address. See Section 5.3.3 for
further details.
o Separate rfLMA & r2LMA functions, where both are reachable via a
unicast address and the rfLMA acts as a 'proxy-MAG'. See
Section 5.3.4 for further details.
There are other possible implementations of the rfLMA and the r2LMA.
At the end, as long as the protocol between the MAG and the rfLMA
follows this specification , the collocation or inter-communication
properties of the rfLMA and the r2LMA do not matter.
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5.3.2. Mobile Access Gateway Operation
In addition to MAG operations described in Section 5.1, the following
considerations has to taken into account during the runtime LMA
assignment.
If the MAG receives a PBA that contains the Redirect mobility option
and the Status Value set to TBD3
(Accepted_and_Redirected_with_Binding), and the MAG had included the
Redirect-Capability mobility option in the corresponding PBU, then
the MAG MUST perform the following steps in addition to the normal
RFC 5213 PBA processing:
o The MAG updates its BUL to correspond the r2LMA address included
in the received Redirect mobility option.
o If there is no SA between the MAG and the r2LMA, the MAG SHOULD
initiate a dynamic creation of the SA between the MAG and the
r2LMA as described in Section 4 of RFC 5213.
There is no need to resend any PBUs to the r2LMA after a successful
runtime assignment. The mobility session has already been
established in the r2LMA as indicated by the Status Value TBD3
(Accepted_and_Redirected_with_Binding). The MAG MUST send subsequent
binding refreshing PBUs and user traffic to the new r2LMA address.
5.3.3. Local Mobility Anchor Operation for Collocated rfLMA and r2LMA
Functions
In this solution approach the rfLMA and the r2LMA are actually the
same 'collocated LMA', and may even be tied to the same physical LMA
network interface. The rfLMA is reachable via an anycast address and
the r2LMA is reachable via the unicast address of the LMA. The MAG-
LMA SA is between the MAG and the rfLMA (i.e. the anycast address of
the LMA). How this SA has been set up is out of scope of this
specification but a manual SA configuration is one possibility.
If the runtime LMA assignment functionality is enabled in the LMA,
then the rfLMA becomes active and the LMA is also reachable via the
anycast address. When the rfLMA receives a PBU destined to its
anycast address, and the PBU contains the Redirect-Capability
mobility option, then the 'collocated LMA' MUST create a mobility
session in a r2LMA role using the procedures described in RFC 5213.
If there in no existing tunnel between the MAG and the r2LMA unicast
address, then the r2LMA creates one.
If the mobility session creation succeeded, the 'collocated LMA' in a
rfLMA role sends a PBA to the MAG. The PBA is sourced using the
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rfLMA anycast address. The PBA MUST contain the r2LMA unicast
address (IPv6, IPv4 or both) in the Redirect mobility option and the
Status Value set to TBD3 (Accepted_and_Redirected_with_Binding).
If the PBU is received on the r2LMA unicast address, then the PBU is
processed as described in RFC 5213 and the response PBA MUST NOT
contain the Redirect mobility option. The 'collocated LMA' MAY
refuse to serve the MAG on the reception of the initial PBU as
mentioned in Section 5.2.
If the PBU is received on the rfLMA anycast address and there is no
Redirect-Capability mobility option in the PBU, then the 'collocated
LMA' MUST reject the PBU and send back a PBA in a rfLMA role with
Status Value set to 130 (Insufficient resources) error code (as
mentioned in Section 5.2).
5.3.4. Local Mobility Anchor Operation for Separate rfLMA and r2LMA
Functions (Proxy-MAG)
In this solution approach the rfLMA and the r2LMA are two isolated
functions, and may even be physically separate networking nodes.
Both the rfLMA and the r2LMA are reachable via a unicast address.
The r2LMA can be any RFC 5213 compliant LMA without any knowledge of
this specification.
The rfLMA is actually a 'proxy-MAG' which shows up as an LMA
implementing this specification towards the MAG, and as a base RFC
5213 compliant MAG to the r2LMA. This type of operation is also
referred as 'chaining' in other contexts.
The MAG-LMA SA is between the MAG and the rfLMA, and RFC 5213 SA
considerations apply fully. The MAG has no knowledge of the 'proxy-
MAG'-r2LMA SA. RFC 5213 considerations regarding the SA between the
'proxy-MAG' and the r2LMA apply fully. It is also possible that
'proxy-MAG'-r2LMA security is arranged using other means than IPsec,
for example using layer-2 VPNs. The 'proxy-MAG'-r2LMA communication
could even be some inter-blade remote call procedure in a blade
architecture LMA.
When the rfLMA receives a PBU, and the PBU contains the Redirect-
Capability mobility option, then the rfLMA:
o Processes the PBU using the procedures described in RFC 5213
except that no mobility session gets created. Instead the rfLMA
creates a MAG-rfLMA-r2LMA proxy state (including the mobility
option information received in the PBU),
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o Assigns a r2LMA to the MAG,
o Creates a new PBU', which includes all non-security related
mobility options from the original PBU and the Alternate Care-of
Address option containing the address of the original MAG,
o Sends a new PBU' sourced from its 'proxy-MAG' address to the r2LMA
using the procedures described in RFC 5213.
The r2LMA processed the received PBU' using the procedures described
in RFC 5213.
Once the rfLMA in a 'proxy-MAG' role receives a reply PBA' from the
r2LMA and the mobility session creation succeeded in the r2LMA, the
rfLMA sends a PBA to the MAG. The PBA is sourced using the rfLMA
address. The PBA MUST contain the r2LMA unicast address (IPv6, IPv4
or both) in the Redirect mobility option and the Status Value set to
TBD3 (Accepted_and_Redirected_with_Binding). Note that the Status
Value received from PBA' gets replaced by the rfLMA.
If the PBA' indicates that the mobility session creation failed in
the r2LMA, then the rfLMA MUST set the Status Value in the PBA as
received from the PBA' Status Value.
Once the rfLMA has sent the reply PBA to the MAG, it can remove the
MAG-rfLMA-r2LMA proxy state. Subsequent traffic between the MAG and
the r2LMA will bypass the rfLMA.
If the rfLMA receives a PBU with no Redirect-Capability mobility
option in the PBU, then the proceeds as mentioned in Section 5.2),
i.e. may or may not act as a RFC 5213 LMA to the MAG.
5.4. Mobility Session Created After the Runtime Assignment
5.4.1. General Operation
During the runtime LMA assignment the PBA is returned from the LMA
Address where the PBU was sent to i.e., from the rfLMA. After the
runtime LMA assignment, the MAG has to initiate another PBU/PBA
exchange with the r2LMA and after that all PMIPv6 communication
continues between the MAG and the r2LMA. The overall runtime LMA
assignment flow sequence is shown in Figure 2.
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MAG rfLMA r2LMA
| | |
1) |--PBU-->| | (assignment takes place, PBA contain
2) |<--PBA--| | r2LMA information, Status Value set
| | | to Rejected_but_Redirected)
| | |
3) |-------PBU------>| (BCE gets created in r2LMA)
4) |<------PBA-------|
| | |
5) |<=====data======>|
| | |
6) |-------PBU------>| (lifetime extension,
7) |<------PBA-------| de-registration, etc.)
| | |
Figure 2: Runtime LMA assignment from rfLMA to r2LMA within a runtime
assignment domain
The assumption in the signaling flow steps 1) and 2) shown in
Figure 2 is that the MAG is only assigned with the r2LMA. The
mobility session creation with the r2LMA requires a new PBU/PBA
exchange with the r2LMA using the normal RFC 5213 procedures.
5.4.2. Mobile Access Gateway Operation
The MAG operation is exactly the same as described in Section 5.1 and
Section 5.3.2 except for two aspects:
o The Status Value in the received PBA is set to TBD4
(Rejected_but_Redirected). This indicates to the MAG that there
is no mobility session (i.e. BCE) created in the r2LMA and not in
the rfLMA either. The MAG was only assigned with a new r2LMA
Address information.
o The MAG MUST initiate a new PBU/PBA exchange with the r2LMA in
order to establish a mobility session. Only after a successful
PBU/PBA exchange with the r2LMA, the runtime assignment has
completed. The PBU sent to the r2LMA MUST NOT contain the
Redirect-Capability mobility option in order to avoid immediate
new runtime LMA assignment.
5.4.3. Local Mobility Anchor Operation
If the runtime LMA assignment functionality is enabled in the LMA and
the received PBU contains the Redirect-Capability mobility option,
then the rfLMA MAY assign the MAG with a new r2LMA. In the case of
runtime LMA assignment, the PBA returned to the MAG MUST always
include the unicast IP address (IPv6, IPv4 or both) of the r2LMA in
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the Redirect mobility option and the Status Value set to TBD4
(Rejected_but_Redirected). If the rfLMA did not assign the MAG with
a new r2LMA or the runtime assignment failed, then the PBA MUST NOT
contain the Redirect mobility option and the PBA is processed
according to RFC 5213.
6. Multi-Homing Considerations
A MN can be multi-homed. A single LMA entity should have the control
over all possible multi-homed mobility sessions the MN has. All
mobility sessions a multi-homed MN may have SHOULD be anchored in the
single LMA entity. Therefore, once the MN has established one
mobility session with one LMA, the subsequent mobility sessions of
the same MN SHOULD be anchored to the LMA that was initially
assigned.
One possible solution already supported by this specification is
applying the runtime LMA assignment only for the very first initial
attach a multi-homed MN does towards a PMIPv6 domain. After the
initial attach, the assigned r2LMA Address has been stored in the
policy profile. For the subsequent mobility sessions of the multi-
homed MN, the same assigned r2LMA Address would be used and there is
no need to contact the rfLMA.
MAGs have a control over selectively enabling and disabling the
runtime assignment of the LMA. If the multi-homed MN is attached to
a PMIPv6 domain via multiple MAGs, the assigned r2LMA Address should
be stored in the remote policy store and downloaded as a part of the
policy profile download to a MAG. Alternatively, MAGs can share
policy profile information using other means. In both cases, the
actual implementation of the policy profile information sharing is
specific to a PMIPv6 deployment and out of scope of this
specification.
7. Configuration Variables
This specification defines three configuration variables that control
the runtime LMA assignment functionality within a PMIPv6 domain.
EnableLMARedirectFunction
This configuration variable is available in both a MAG and in a
rfLMA. When set to TRUE (i.e., enabled), the PMIPv6 node enables
the runtime LMA assignment functionality. The default value is
FALSE (i.e., disabled).
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EnableLMARedirectAcceptFunction
This configuration variable is available in a r2LMA. When set to
TRUE (i.e., enabled), the r2LMA is able to accept runtime LMA
assignment mobility sessions from a rfLMA. The default value is
FALSE (i.e., disabled).
8. Security Considerations
The security considerations of PMIPv6 signaling described in RFC 5213
apply to this document. An incorrectly configured LMA may cause
unwanted runtime LMA assignment attempts to non-existing LMAs or to
other LMAs that do not have and will not have a SA with the MAG.
Consequently, the MAG will experience failed binding updates or
unsuccessful creation of mobility sessions. An incorrectly
configured LMA may also cause biased load distribution within a
PMIPv6 domain. This document also assumes that the LMAs that
participate to runtime LMA assignment have adequate prior agreement
and trust relationship between each other.
If the SAs between MAGs and LMAs are manually keyed (as it may be
needed by the scenario described in Section 5.3), then the anti-
replay service of ESP protected PMIPv6 traffic cannot typically be
provided. This is, however, deployment specific to a PMIPv6 domain.
If a PMIPv6 domain deployment with a runtime LMA assignment requires
that a rfLMA has to modify a PBU/PBA in any way e.g., by changing the
source and destination IP address or any other field of the
encapsulating IP packet, then the security mechanism (such as
possible authentication options) used to protect the PBU/PBA MUST NOT
cover the outer IP packet on those parts that might get modified.
Alternatively, the rfLMA can do all required security processing on
the PBU/PBA, and the communication between the rfLMA and the r2LMA
would be unprotected at the PMIPv6 protocol level. In this case the
runtime assignment domain MUST implement adequate level of security
using other means, such as layer-2 VPNs.
9. IANA Considerations
Two new mobility options for the use with PMIPv6 are defined in the
[RFC3775] "Mobility Options" registry. The mobility options are
defined in Section 4:
Redirect-Capability Mobility Option is set to TBD1
Redirect Mobility Option is set to TBD2
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This document defines the following new Status values for use in PBA
messages. The values are to be allocated from the same number space,
as defined in Section 6.1.8 of [RFC3775].
The value below MUST be less than 128 indicating that the PBU was
accepted by the LMA:
Accepted_and_Redirected_with_Binding is set to TBD3
The value below MUST be greater than 128 indicating that the PBU was
rejected by the LMA:
Rejected_but_Redirected is set to TBD4
10. Acknowledgements
The author would like to thank Basavaraj Patil, Domagoj Premec, Ahmad
Muhanna, Vijay Devarapalli, Rajeev Koodli, Yungui Wang and Qin Wu for
their discussion on this document.
11. References
11.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC3775] Johnson, D., Perkins, C., and J. Arkko, "Mobility Support
in IPv6", RFC 3775, June 2004.
[RFC5213] Gundavelli, S., Leung, K., Devarapalli, V., Chowdhury, K.,
and B. Patil, "Proxy Mobile IPv6", RFC 5213, August 2008.
11.2. Informative References
[RFC2136] Vixie, P., Thomson, S., Rekhter, Y., and J. Bound,
"Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE)",
RFC 2136, April 1997.
[RFC3484] Draves, R., "Default Address Selection for Internet
Protocol version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 3484, February 2003.
[RFC4291] Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "IP Version 6 Addressing
Architecture", RFC 4291, February 2006.
[RFC5142] Haley, B., Devarapalli, V., Deng, H., and J. Kempf,
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"Mobility Header Home Agent Switch Message", RFC 5142,
January 2008.
[RFC5779] Korhonen, J., Bournelle, J., Chowdhury, K., Muhanna, A.,
and U. Meyer, "Diameter Proxy Mobile IPv6: Mobile Access
Gateway and Local Mobility Anchor Interaction with
Diameter Server", RFC 5779, February 2010.
[RFC5996] Kaufman, C., Hoffman, P., Nir, Y., and P. Eronen,
"Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)",
RFC 5996, September 2010.
[RFC6097] Korhonen, J. and V. Devarapalli, "Local Mobility Anchor
(LMA) Discovery for Proxy Mobile IPv6", RFC 6097,
February 2011.
Authors' Addresses
Jouni Korhonen (editor)
Nokia Siemens Networks
Linnoitustie 6
FI-02600 Espoo
FINLAND
Email: jouni.nospam@gmail.com
Sri Gundavelli
Cisco
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
USA
Email: sri.gundavelli@cisco.com
Hidetoshi Yokota
KDDI Lab
2-1-15 Ohara, Fujimino
Saitama, 356-8502
Japan
Email: yokota@kddilabs.jp
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Xiangsong Cui
Huawei Technologies
KuiKe Bld., No.9 Xinxi Rd.
Shang-Di Information Industry Base
Hai-Dian District, Beijing, P.R. China, 100085
Email: Xiangsong.Cui@huawei.com
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