Network Working Group                                         R. Stewart
Internet-Draft                                                    Huawei
Intended status: Standards Track                                  P. Lei
Expires: August 27, 2010                             Cisco Systems, Inc.
                                                               M. Tuexen
                                      Muenster Univ. of Applied Sciences
                                                       February 23, 2010


   Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Stream Reconfiguration
                  draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-strrst-04.txt

Abstract

   Many applications that desire to use SCTP have requested the ability
   to "reset" a stream.  The intention of resetting a stream is to start
   the numbering sequence of the stream back at 'zero' with a
   corresponding notification to the upper layer that this act as been
   performed.  The applications that have requested this feature
   normally desire it so that they can "re-use" streams for different
   purposes but still utilize the stream sequence number for the
   application to track the message flows.  Thus, without this feature,
   a new use on an old stream would result in message numbers larger
   than expected without a protocol mechanism to "start the streams back
   at zero".  This documents presents also a method for resetting the
   transport sequence numbers, adding additional streams and resetting
   all stream sequence numbers.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   2.  Conventions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   3.  New Chunk Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     3.1.  STREAM RESET Chunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   4.  New Parameter Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     4.1.  Outgoing SSN Reset Request Parameter . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     4.2.  Incoming SSN Reset Request Parameter . . . . . . . . . . .  9
     4.3.  SSN/TSN Reset Request Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
     4.4.  Stream Reset Response Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     4.5.  Add Outgoing Streams Request Parameter . . . . . . . . . . 11
   5.  Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     5.1.  Sender Side Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
       5.1.1.  Sender Side Procedures for the Stream Reset Chunk  . . 13
       5.1.2.  Sender Side Procedures for the Outgoing SSN Reset
               Request Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
       5.1.3.  Sender Side Procedures for the Incoming SSN Reset
               Request Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
       5.1.4.  Sender Side Procedures for the SSN/TSN Reset
               Request Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
       5.1.5.  Sender Side Procedures for the Stream Reset
               Response Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
       5.1.6.  Sender Side Procedures for the Add Outgoing
               Streams Request Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
     5.2.  Receiver Side Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
       5.2.1.  Receiver Side Procedures for the Stream Reset Chunk  . 16
       5.2.2.  Receiver Side Procedures for the Outgoing SSN
               Reset Request Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
       5.2.3.  Receiver Side Procedures for the Incoming SSN
               Reset Request Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
       5.2.4.  Receiver Side Procedures for the SSN/TSN Reset
               Request Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
       5.2.5.  Receiver Side Procedures for the Add Outgoing
               Streams Request Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
       5.2.6.  Receiver Side Procedures for the Stream Reset
               Response Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
     5.3.  Various Examples of the Stream Reset procedures  . . . . . 20
   6.  Socket API Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
     6.1.  Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
       6.1.1.  Stream Reset Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
       6.1.2.  Association Reset Event  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
       6.1.3.  Stream Change Event  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
     6.2.  Event Subscription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
     6.3.  Socket Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
       6.3.1.  Enable/Disable Stream Reset
               (SCTP_ENABLE_STREAM_RESET) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
       6.3.2.  Reset Incoming and/or Outgoing Streams



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               (SCTP_RESET_STREAMS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
       6.3.3.  Reset SSN/TSN (SCTP_RESET_ASSOC) . . . . . . . . . . . 27
       6.3.4.  Add Outgoing Streams (SCTP_ADD_OUT_STREAMS)  . . . . . 28
   7.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
   8.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
     8.1.  A New Chunk Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
     8.2.  Five New Parameter Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
   9.  Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
   10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
     10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
     10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30







































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1.  Introduction

   Many applications that desire to use SCTP have requested the ability
   to "reset" a stream.  The intention of resetting a stream is to start
   the numbering sequence of the stream back at 'zero' with a
   corresponding notification to the upper layer that this act as been
   performed.  The applications that have requested this feature
   normally desire it so that they can "re-use" streams for different
   purposes but still utilize the stream sequence number for the
   application to track the message flows.  Thus, without this feature,
   a new use on an old stream would result in message numbers larger
   than expected without a protocol mechanism to "start the streams back
   at zero".  This documents presents also a method for resetting the
   transport sequence numbers, adding additional streams and resetting
   all stream sequence numbers.


2.  Conventions

   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].


3.  New Chunk Type

   This section defines the new chunk type that will be used to reset
   streams.  Table 1 illustrates the new chunk type.

            +------------+-----------------------------------+
            | Chunk Type | Chunk Name                        |
            +------------+-----------------------------------+
            | 0x82       | Stream Reset Chunk (STREAM_RESET) |
            +------------+-----------------------------------+

                                  Table 1

   It should be noted that the STREAM_RESET-chunk format requires the
   receiver to ignore the chunk if it is not understood and continue
   processing all chunks that follow.  This is accomplished by the use
   of the upper bits of the chunk type as described in section 3.2 of
   [RFC4960].

   All transported integer numbers are in "network byte order" a.k.a.,
   Big Endian, unless otherwise noted.






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3.1.  STREAM RESET Chunk

   This document adds one new chunk type to SCTP.  The chunk has the
   following format:

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | Type = 0x82   |  Chunk Flags  |      Chunk Length             |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                    Stream Reset Parameter                     |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                    Stream Reset Parameter (optional)          |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Chunk Type: 1 byte (unsigned integer)
      This field holds the IANA defined chunk type for the STREAM RESET
      chunk.

   Chunk Flags: 1 byte (unsigned integer)
      This field is set to 0 by the sender and ignored by the receiver.

   Chunk Length: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This field holds the length of the chunk, including the Chunk
      Type, Chunk Flags and Chunk Length.

   Stream Reset Parameter
      This field holds a Stream Reset Request Parameter or a Stream
      Reset Response Parameter.

   Note each STREAM RESET chunk holds at least one parameter and at most
   two parameters.  Only the following combinations are allowed:

   1.  Outgoing SSN Reset Request Parameter.

   2.  Incoming SSN Reset Request Parameter.

   3.  Outgoing SSN Reset Request Parameter, Incoming SSN Reset Request
       Parameter.

   4.  SSN/TSN Reset Request Parameter.

   5.  Add Outgoing Streams Request Parameter.

   6.  Stream Reset Response Parameter.

   7.  Stream Reset Response Parameter, Outgoing SSN Reset Request
       Parameter.



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   8.  Stream Reset Response Parameter, Stream Reset Response Parameter.

   If a sender transmits an unsupported combination, the receiver SHOULD
   send an ERROR chunk with a protocol violation cause.


4.  New Parameter Types

   This section defines the new parameter types that will be used in the
   STREAM_RESET chunk.  Table 2 illustrates the new parameter types.

        +----------------+----------------------------------------+
        | Parameter Type | Parameter Name                         |
        +----------------+----------------------------------------+
        | 0x000d         | Outgoing SSN Reset Request Parameter   |
        | 0x000e         | Incoming SSN Reset Request Parameter   |
        | 0x000f         | SSN/TSN Reset Request Parameter        |
        | 0x0010         | Stream Reset Response Parameter        |
        | 0x0011         | Add Outgoing Streams Request Parameter |
        +----------------+----------------------------------------+

                                  Table 2

   It should be noted that the parameter format requires the receiver to
   stop processing the parameter and not to process any further
   parameters within the chunk if the parameter type is not recognized.
   This is accomplished by the use of the upper bits of the parameter
   type as described in section 3.2.1 of [RFC4960].

   All transported integer numbers are in "network byte order" a.k.a.,
   Big Endian, unless otherwise noted.

4.1.  Outgoing SSN Reset Request Parameter

   This parameter is used by the sender to request some outgoing streams
   to be reset.















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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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |     Parameter Type = 0x000d   |      Parameter Length         |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |             Stream Reset Request Sequence Number              |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |             Stream Reset Response Sequence Number             |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                Senders Last Assigned TSN                      |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |  Stream Number 1 (optional)   |    Stream Number 2 (optional) |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   /                            ......                             /
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |  Stream Number N-1 (optional) |    Stream Number N (optional) |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Parameter Type: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This field holds the IANA defined parameter type for Stream Reset
      Request Parameter.  The suggested value of this field for IANA is
      0x000d.

   Parameter Length: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This field holds the length of the parameter.

   Stream Reset Request Sequence Number: 4 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This field is used to identify the request.  It is a monotonically
      increasing number that is initialized to the same value as the
      Initial TSN number.  It is increased by 1.

   Stream Reset Response Sequence Number: 4 bytes (unsigned integer)
      In case that this Outgoing SSN Reset Request Parameter is sent in
      response to an Incoming SSN Reset Request Parameter this parameter
      is also an implicit response to the incoming request.  Then this
      field holds the Stream Reset Request Sequence Number of the
      incoming request.  In the other case it holds the next expected
      Stream Reset Request Sequence Number - 1.

   Senders last assigned TSN: 4 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This value holds the next TSN minus 1, in other words the last TSN
      that this sender assigned.

   Stream Number N: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This optional field, if included, is used to indicates specific
      streams that are to be reset.  If no streams are listed, then all
      streams are to be reset.




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   This parameter can appear in a STREAM RESET chunk.  This parameter
   MUST NOT appear in any other chunk type.

4.2.  Incoming SSN Reset Request Parameter

   This parameter is used by the sender to request that the peer
   requests some of its outgoing streams to be reset.

    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |     Parameter Type = 0x000e   |      Parameter Length         |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |            Stream Reset Request Sequence Number               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |  Stream Number 1 (optional)   |    Stream Number 2 (optional) |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   /                            ......                             /
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |  Stream Number N-1 (optional) |    Stream Number N (optional) |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Parameter Type: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This field holds the IANA defined parameter type for Stream Reset
      Request Parameter.  The suggested value of this field for IANA is
      0x000e.

   Parameter Length: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This field holds the length of the parameter.

   Stream Reset Request Sequence Number: 4 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This field is used to identify the request.  It is a monotonically
      increasing number that is initialized to the same value as the
      Initial TSN number.  It is increased by 1.

   Stream Number N: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This optional field, if included, is used to indicate specific
      streams that are to be reset.  If no streams are listed, then all
      streams are to be reset.

   This parameter can appear in a STREAM RESET chunk.  This parameter
   MUST NOT appear in any other chunk type.

4.3.  SSN/TSN Reset Request Parameter

   This parameter is used by the sender to request to reset the TSN and
   SSN numbering of all streams.




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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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |     Parameter Type = 0x000f   |      Parameter Length         |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |           Stream Reset Request Sequence Number                |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Parameter Type: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This field holds the IANA defined parameter type for Stream Reset
      Request Parameter.  The suggested value of this field for IANA is
      0x000f.

   Parameter Length: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This field holds the length of the parameter.

   Stream Reset Request Sequence Number: 4 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This field is used to identify the request.  It is a monotonically
      increasing number that is initialized to the same value as the
      Initial TSN number.  It is increased by 1.

   This parameter can appear in a STREAM RESET chunk.  This parameter
   MUST NOT appear in any other chunk type.

4.4.  Stream Reset Response Parameter

   This parameter is used by the receiver of a stream reset request
   parameter to respond to the stream reset request.

    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |     Parameter Type = 0x0010   |      Parameter Length         |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |           Stream Reset Response Sequence Number               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                            Result                             |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                   Sender's next TSN (optional)                |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                 Receiver's next TSN   (optional)              |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Parameter Type: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This field holds the IANA defined parameter type for Stream Reset
      Response Parameter.  The suggested value of this field for IANA is
      0x0010.




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   Parameter Type Length: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This field holds the length of the parameter.

   Stream Reset Response Sequence Number: 4 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This value is copied from the request parameter and is used by the
      receiver of the Stream Reset Response Parameter to tie the
      response to the request.

   Result: 4 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This value describes the result of the processing of the request.
      It is encoded as given by the following table

             +--------+-------------------------------------+
             | Result | Description                         |
             +--------+-------------------------------------+
             | 0      | Nothing to do                       |
             | 1      | Performed                           |
             | 2      | Denied                              |
             | 3      | Error - Wrong SSN                   |
             | 4      | Error - Request already in progress |
             | 5      | Error - Bad Sequence Number         |
             +--------+-------------------------------------+

                                  Table 3

   Sender's next TSN: 4 bytes (unsigned integer)  This field holds the
      TSN the sender of the Response will use to send the next DATA
      chunk.  The field is only applicable in responses to SSN/TSN reset
      requests.

   Receiver's next TSN: 4 bytes (unsigned integer)  This field holds the
      TSN the receiver of the response must use to send the next DATA
      chunk.  The field is only applicable in responses to SSN/TSN reset
      requests.

   This parameter can appear in a STREAM RESET chunk.  This parameter
   MUST NOT appear in any other chunk type.

4.5.  Add Outgoing Streams Request Parameter

   This parameter is used by the sender to request an additional number
   of outgoing streams (i.e. the receiver's incoming streams) be added
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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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |     Parameter Type = 0x0011   |      Parameter Length=12      |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |            Stream Reset Request Sequence Number               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |      Number of new streams    |         Reserved              |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Parameter Type: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This field holds the IANA defined parameter type for the Add
      Streams Parameter.  The suggested value of this field for IANA is
      0x0011.

   Parameter Length: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This field holds the length of the parameter, a fixed value of 12
      MUST be found in this field.

   Stream Reset Request Sequence Number: 4 bytes (unsigned integer)
      This field is used to identify the request.  It is a monotonically
      increasing number that is initialized to the same value as the
      Initial TSN number.  It is increased by 1.

   Number of new streams: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)  This value holds
      the number of additional outgoing streams the sender would like
      added to the association.  Streams are added in order and are
      consecutive, e.g. if an association has four outgoing streams
      (0-3) and a requested is made to add 3 streams then the new
      streams will be 4, 5 and 6.

   Reserved: 2 bytes (unsigned integer)  This field is reserved.  It
      SHOULD be set to 0 by the sender and ignored by the receiver.

   This parameter can appear in a STREAM RESET chunk.  This parameter
   MUST NOT appear in any other chunk type.


5.  Procedures

   This section defines the procedures used by both the sender and
   receiver of a stream reset.  We also give various example stream
   reset scenarios.

5.1.  Sender Side Procedures

   This section describes the procedures related to the sending of
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   Length Value (TLV) parameters.

5.1.1.  Sender Side Procedures for the Stream Reset Chunk

   This SCTP extension uses the Supported Extensions Parameter defined
   in [RFC5061] for negotiating the support of it.

   An SCTP endpoint supporting this extension MUST include the chunk
   type of the STREAM_RESET chunk in the Supported Extensions Parameter
   in either the INIT or INIT-ACK.  Before sending a Stream Reset Chunk
   the sender MUST ensure that the peer advertised support for the
   stream reset extension.  If the chunk type of the STREAM_RESET chunk
   does NOT appear in the supported extensions list of chunks, then the
   sender MUST NOT send any stream reset request to the peer and any
   request by the application for such service SHOULD be responded to
   with an appropriate error indicating the peer SCTP stack does not
   support the stream reset extension.

   After packaging the Stream Reset Chunk and sending it to the peer the
   sender MUST start a 'Stream Reset Timer' when the STREAM RESET chunk
   contains at least one request parameter.  If it contains no request
   parameter, the Stream Reset Timer MUST NOT be started.  This timer
   MUST use the same value as SCTP's Data transmission timer (i.e. the
   RTO timer) and MUST use exponential backoff doubling the value at
   every expiration.  If the timer does expire, besides doubling the
   value, the sender MUST retransmit the Stream Reset Chunk, increment
   the appropriate error counts (both for the association and the
   destination), and do threshold management possibly destroying the
   association if SCTP retransmission thresholds are surpassed.

5.1.2.  Sender Side Procedures for the Outgoing SSN Reset Request
        Parameter

   When an SCTP sender wants to reset the SSNs of some or all outgoing
   streams it can send an Outgoing SSN Reset Request Parameter if the
   Stream Reset Timer is not running.  The following steps MUST be
   followed:

   A1:  The sender MUST stop assigning new SSNs to new user data
        provided by the upper layer.  This is because it is unknown as
        to if the receiver of the request will accept or deny it and
        more so, a lost request might cause an out-of-sequence error in
        a stream that the receiver is not yet prepared to handle.

   A2:  The sender MUST assign the next stream reset request sequence
        number and put it into the Stream Reset Request Sequence Number
        field of the Outgoing SSN Reset Request Parameter.  After
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        be incremented by '1'.

   A3:  If this Outgoing SSN Reset Request Parameter is sent in response
        to an Incoming SSN Request Parameter, the Stream Numbers between
        the Outgoing and the Incoming parameters MUST match.  If the
        Outgoing SSN Reset Request Parameter is sent on request of the
        upper layer the Stream Reset Response Sequence Number is the
        next expected Stream Reset Request Sequence Number of the peer -
        3.

   A4:  The sender fills in the TSN it has assigned last.

   A5:  If this Outgoing SSN Reset Request Parameter is sent in response
        to an Incoming SSN Request Parameter the Stream Numbers are
        copied from the Incoming SSN Request Parameter to the Outgoing
        SSN Reset Request Parameter.  If this Outgoing SSN Reset Request
        Parameter is sent on request of the upper layer and the sender
        wants all outgoing streams to be reset no Stream Numbers MUST be
        put into the Outgoing SSN Reset Request Parameter.  If the
        sender wants only some outgoing streams to be reset these Stream
        Numbers MUST be filled in the Outgoing SSN Reset Request
        Parameter.

   A6:  The Outgoing SSN Reset Request Parameter is put into a STREAM
        RESET Chunk.  It MAY be put together with an Incoming SSN Reset
        Request Parameter or an Stream Reset Response Parameter and MUST
        NOT be put together with any other parameter.

   A7:  The STREAM RESET Chunk is sent following the rules given in
        Section 5.1.1

5.1.3.  Sender Side Procedures for the Incoming SSN Reset Request
        Parameter

   When an SCTP sender wants to reset the SSNs of some or all incoming
   streams it can send an Incoming SSN Reset Request Parameter if the
   Stream Reset Timer is not running.  The following steps MUST be
   followed:

   B1:  The sender MUST assign the next stream reset request sequence
        number and put it into the Stream Reset Request Sequence Number
        field of the Incoming SSN Reset Request Parameter.  After
        assigning it the next stream reset request sequence number MUST
        be incremented by '1'.







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   B2:  If the sender wants all incoming streams to be reset no Stream
        Numbers MUST be put into the Incoming SSN Reset Request
        Parameter.  If the sender wants only some incoming streams to be
        reset these Stream Numbers MUST be filled in the Incoming SSN
        Reset Request Parameter.

   B3:  The Incoming SSN Reset Request Parameter is put into a STREAM
        RESET Chunk.  It MAY be put together with an Outgoing SSN Reset
        Request Parameter and MUST NOT be put together with any other
        parameter.

   B4:  The STREAM RESET Chunk is sent following the rules given in
        Section 5.1.1

5.1.4.  Sender Side Procedures for the SSN/TSN Reset Request Parameter

   When an SCTP sender wants to reset the SSNs and TSNs it can send a
   SSN/TSN Reset Request Parameter if the Stream Reset Timer is not
   running.  The following steps MUST be followed:

   C1:  The sender MUST assign the next stream reset request sequence
        number and put it into the Stream Reset Request Sequence Number
        field of the SSN/TSN Reset Request Parameter.  After assigning
        it the next stream reset request sequence number MUST be
        incremented by '1'.

   C2:  The sender MUST queue any user data suspending any new
        transmissions and TSN assignment until the reset procedure is
        finished by the peer either acknowledging or denying the
        request.

   C3:  The SSN/TSN Reset Request Parameter is put into a STREAM RESET
        Chunk.  There MUST NOT be any other parameter in this chunk.

   C4:  The STREAM RESET Chunk is sent following the rules given in
        Section 5.1.1

   There SHOULD NOT be sent more than one SSN/TSN Reset Request within a
   maximum segment lifetime.

5.1.5.  Sender Side Procedures for the Stream Reset Response Parameter

   When an implementation receives a request parameter it MUST respond
   with a Stream Reset Response Parameter in the following manner:







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   D1:  The Stream Reset Request Sequence number of the incoming request
        is copied to the Stream Reset Response Sequence Number field of
        the Stream Reset Response Parameter.

   D2:  The result of the processing of the incoming request is filled
        in the Result field of the Stream Reset Response Parameter

   D3:  If the incoming request is a SSN/TSN reset requests, the
        Sender's next TSN field is filled with the next TSN the sender
        of this Stream Reset Response Parameter will assign.  For other
        requests the Sender's next TSN field is not filled.

   D4:  If the incoming request is a SSN/TSN reset request, the
        Receiver's next TSN field is filled with a TSN such that the
        sender of the Stream Reset Response Parameter can be sure it can
        discard received DATA chunks with smaller TSNs.  A good value
        for this is the highest TSN it has seen plus some delta.  For
        other requests the Sender's next TSN field is not filled.

5.1.6.  Sender Side Procedures for the Add Outgoing Streams Request
        Parameter

   When an SCTP sender wants to increase the number of outbound streams
   it is able to send to, it may add a Add Streams parameter to the
   STREAM RESET chunk.  Upon sending the request the sender MUST await a
   positive acknowledgment (Success) before using any additional stream
   added by this request.  Note that new streams are added adjacent to
   the previous steams with no gaps.  This means that if a request is
   made to add 2 streams to an association that has already 5 (0-4) then
   the new streams, upon successful completion, are streams 5 and 6.
   Any new stream MUST number its first message to be stream sequence 0.

5.2.  Receiver Side Procedures

5.2.1.  Receiver Side Procedures for the Stream Reset Chunk

   Upon reception of a Stream Reset Chunk each parameter within it
   should be processed.  If some parameters have to be sent back, they
   MUST all be put into one STREAM RESET chunk.  If the received STREAM
   RESET chunk contains at least one request parameter, a SACK chunk
   SHOULD be sent back and MAY be bundled with the STREAM RESET chunk.
   If the received STREAM RESET chunk contains at least one request and
   based on the analysis of the Stream Reset Request Sequence Numbers
   this is the last received STREAM RESET chunk (i.e. a retransmission),
   the same STREAM RESET chunk has to be sent back in response as
   earlier.

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   decision and may be user configurable even after the association has
   formed.  If for whatever reason the endpoint does NOT wish to process
   a received request parameter it MUST send a corresponding response
   parameter as described in Section 5.1.5 with an appropriate Result
   field.

   Implementation Note: A SACK is recommended to be bundled with any
   stream reset response so that any retransmission processing that
   needs to occur can be expedited.  A SACK chunk is not required for
   this feature to work, but it will in effect help minimize the delay
   in completing a stream reset operation in the face of any data loss.

5.2.2.  Receiver Side Procedures for the Outgoing SSN Reset Request
        Parameter

   In the case that the endpoint is willing to perform a stream reset
   the following steps SHOULD be followed:

   E1:  If the Senders Last Assigned TSN number is greater than the
        cumulative acknowledgment point, then the endpoint MUST enter
        "deferred reset processing".  In this mode, any data arriving
        with a TSN number larger than the 'senders last assigned TSN'
        for the effected stream(s) MUST be queued locally and held until
        the Cumulative Acknowledgment point reaches the 'senders last
        assigned TSN number'.  When the Cumulative Acknowledgment point
        reaches the last assigned TSN number then proceed to the next
        step.  Note that the receiver of a stream reset that causes it
        to entered deferred reset processing does NOT withhold the
        stream reset acknowledgment from the peer.  This also means that
        the receiver will need to queue up any additional stream reset
        requests received including the one that caused the receiver to
        enter deferred reset processing.  This is because once the
        acknowledgement is received by the sender, the sender is free to
        send a new stream reset.

   E2:  If the Stream Reset Timer is running for the Stream Reset
        Request Sequence Number indicated in the Stream Reset Response
        Sequence Number field, mark the Stream Reset Request Sequence
        Number as acknowledged.  If all Stream Reset Request Sequence
        Numbers the Stream Reset Timer is running for are acknowledged,
        stop the Stream Reset Timer.

   E3:  If no Stream Numbers are listed in the parameter, then all
        incoming streams MUST be reset to '0' as the next expected
        stream sequence number.  If specific Stream Numbers are listed,
        then only these specific streams MUST be reset to '0' and all
        other non-listed stream sequence numbers remain unchanged.




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   E4:  Optionally an Upper Layer Notification SHOULD be sent to inform
        the local endpoint that the inbound streams have been reset.

   E5:  Any queued TSN's (queued at step E1) should now be released and
        processed normally.

   E6:  A Stream Reset Response Parameter is put into a STREAM RESET
        chunk indicating successful processing.

   E7:  The STREAM RESET chunk is sent after the incoming STREAM RESET
        chunk is processed completely.

5.2.3.  Receiver Side Procedures for the Incoming SSN Reset Request
        Parameter

   In the case that the endpoint is willing to perform a stream reset
   the following steps SHOULD be followed:

   F1:  An Outgoing Stream Reset Request Parameter MUST be put into an
        STREAM RESET chunk according to Section 5.1.2.

   F2:  The STREAM RESET chunk is sent after the incoming STREAM RESET
        chunk is processed completely.

5.2.4.  Receiver Side Procedures for the SSN/TSN Reset Request Parameter

   In the case that the endpoint is willing to perform a SSN/TSN reset
   the following steps SHOULD be followed:

   G1:  Compute an appropriate value for the Receiver's next TSN, the
        TSN the peer should use to send the next DATA chunk.  The value
        SHOULD be the smallest TSN not acknowledged by the receiver of
        the request plus 2^31.

   G2:  Compute an appropriate value for the local endpoints next TSN,
        i.e. the receiver of the SSN/TSN reset chunks next TSN to be
        assigned.  The value SHOULD be the highest TSN sent by the
        receiver of the request plus 1.

   G3:  Do the same processing as if a SACK chunk with no gap report and
        a cumulative TSN ACK of Sender's next TSN - 1 was received.

   G4:  Do the same processing as if an FWD-TSN chunk with all streams
        affected and a new cumulative TSN ACK of Receiver's next TSN - 1
        was received.






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   G5:  All incoming and outgoing streams MUST be reset to '0' as the
        next expected and outgoing stream sequence numbers,
        respectively.

   G6:  A Stream Reset Response Parameter is put into a STREAM RESET
        chunk indicating successful processing.

   G7:  The STREAM RESET chunk is sent after the incoming STREAM RESET
        chunk is processed completely.

5.2.5.  Receiver Side Procedures for the Add Outgoing Streams Request
        Parameter

   When an SCTP endpoint receives a stream reset request adding
   additional streams, it MUST send a response parameter either
   acknowledging or rejecting the request.  If the response is
   successful the receiver MUST add the requested number of inbound
   streams to the association, initializing the next expected stream
   sequence number to be 0.

5.2.6.  Receiver Side Procedures for the Stream Reset Response Parameter

   On receipt of a Stream Reset Response Parameter the following MUST be
   performed:

   H1:  If the Stream Reset Timer is running for the Stream Reset
        Request Sequence Number indicated in the Stream Reset Response
        Sequence Number field, mark the Stream Reset Request Sequence
        Number as acknowledged.  If all Stream Reset Request Sequence
        Numbers the Stream Reset Timer is running for are acknowledged,
        stop the Stream Reset Timer.  If the timer was not running for
        the Stream Reset Request Sequence Number, the processing of the
        Stream Reset Response Parameter is complete.

   H2:  If the Result field does not indicate successful processing an
        Upper Layer Notification SHOULD be sent to inform the local
        endpoint of the failure to reset its outbound streams.
        Afterwards processing of this response is complete.

   H3:  If the request was an Outgoing Stream Reset Request the affected
        streams should now be reset and all queued data should be
        processed now and assigning of stream sequence numbers is
        allowed again.  Optionally an Upper Layer Notification SHOULD be
        sent to inform the local endpoint that the outbound streams have
        been reset.






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   H4:  If the request was a SSN/TSN Reset Request new DATA should be
        sent from Receiver's next TSN and beginning with stream sequence
        number '0' for all outgoing streams.  All incoming streams are
        also reset to '0' as the next expected stream sequence number.
        The peer will send DATA chunks starting with Sender's next TSN.

   H5:  If the request was to add outgoing streams and the result was
        successful, the endpoint should add the additional streams to
        the association.  Note that an implementation may allocate the
        memory at the time of the request, but it MUST NOT use the
        streams until the peer has responded with a positive
        acknowledgment.

5.3.  Various Examples of the Stream Reset procedures

   The following example illustrates an Endpoint A resetting stream 1
   and 2 for just its outgoing streams.

   E-A                                         E-Z
   ----------[STR_RESET(OUT-REQ:X/1,2)]---------->
   <-------------[STR_RESET(RESP:X)]--------------

   The following example illustrates an Endpoint A resetting stream 1
   and 2 for just its incoming streams.

   E-A                                         E-Z
   -----------[STR_RESET(IN-REQ:X/1,2)]---------->
   <-----------[STR_RESET(OUT-REQ:Y,X)]-----------
   -------------[STR_RESET(RESP:Y)]-------------->

   The following example illustrates an Endpoint A resetting all streams
   in both directions.

   E-A                                         E-Z
   -----[STR_RESET(OUT-REQ:X,Y-1)|IN-REQ:X+1]---->
   <------[STR_RESET(RESP:X|OUT-REQ:Y,X+1)]-------
   -------------[STR_RESET(RESP:Y)]-------------->

   The following example illustrates an Endpoint A requesting the
   streams and TSN's be reset.  At the completion E-A has the new
   sending TSN (selected by the peer) of B and E-Z has the new sending
   TSN of A (also selected by the peer).

   E-A                                         E-Z
   ------------[STR_RESET(TSN-REQ:X)]------------>
   <-----[STR_RESET(RESP:X/S-TSN=A, R-TSN=B)]-----

   The following example illustrates an Endpoint A requesting to add 3



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   additional outgoing streams.

   E-A                                         E-Z
   --------[STR_RESET(ADD_OUT_STRMS:X/3)]-------->
   <-------------[STR_RESET(RESP:X)]--------------


6.  Socket API Considerations

   This section describes how the socket API defined in
   [I-D.ietf-tsvwg-sctpsocket] SHOULD be extended to make the features
   of SCTP stream reset available to the application.

6.1.  Events

   The union sctp_notification {} is extended by containing three new
   fields: sn_strreset_event, sn_assocreset_event, and
   sn_strchange_event:

   union sctp_notification {
     struct {
       uint16_t sn_type;
       uint16_t sn_flags;
       uint32_t sn_length;
     } sn_header;
     ...
     struct sctp_stream_reset_event sn_strreset_event;
     struct sctp_assoc_reset_event sn_assocreset_event;
     struct sctp_stream_change_event sn_strchange_event;
     ...
   }

   The corresponding sn_type values are given in Table 4.

   +--------------------------+----------------------------------------+
   | sn_type                  | valid field in union sctp_notification |
   +--------------------------+----------------------------------------+
   | SCTP_STREAM_RESET_EVENT  | sn_strreset_event                      |
   | SCTP_ASSOC_RESET_EVENT   | sn_assocreset_event                    |
   | SCTP_STREAM_CHANGE_EVENT | sn_strchange_event                     |
   +--------------------------+----------------------------------------+

                                  Table 4

   These events are delivered when an incoming request was processed
   successfully or the processing of an outgoing request has been
   finished.




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6.1.1.  Stream Reset Event

   The event delivered has the following structure:

   struct sctp_stream_reset_event {
     uint16_t strreset_type;
     uint16_t strreset_flags;
     uint32_t strreset_length;
     sctp_assoc_t strreset_assoc_id;
     uint16_t strreset_stream_list[];
   };

   strreset_type:  It should be SCTP_STREAM_RESET_EVENT.

   strreset_flags:  This field is formed from the bitwise OR of one or
      more of the following currently defined flags:

      SCTP_STREAM_RESET_INCOMING_SSN:  The streams identifiers given in
         strreset_stream_list[] refers to incoming streams of the
         endpoint.

      SCTP_STREAM_RESET_OUTGOING_SSN:  The stream identifiers given in
         strreset_stream_list[] refers to outgoing streams of the
         endpoint.

      SCTP_STREAM_RESET_DENIED:  The corresponding request was denied by
         the peer.

      SCTP_STREAM_RESET_FAILED:  The corresponding request failed.

      At least one of SCTP_STREAM_RESET_INCOMING_SSN and
      SCTP_STREAM_RESET_OUTGOING_SSN are set.  SCTP_STREAM_RESET_DENIED
      and SCTP_STREAM_RESET_FAILED are mutual exclusive.  If the request
      was successful, none of these are set.

   strreset_length:  This field is the total length of the delivered
      event, including the header.

   strreset_assoc_id:  The association id field, holds the identifier
      for the association.  All notifications for a given association
      have the same association identifier.  For one-to-one style
      socket, this field is ignored.

   strreset_stream_list:  The list of stream identifiers this event
      refers to.  An empty list identifies all streams as being reset.
      Depending on strreset_flags the identifiers refer to incoming or
      outgoing streams or both.




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6.1.2.  Association Reset Event

   The event delivered has the following structure:

   struct sctp_assoc_reset_event {
     uint16_t assocreset_type;
     uint16_t assocreset_flags;
     uint32_t assocreset_length;
     sctp_assoc_t assocreset_assoc_id;
     uint32_t assocreset_local_tsn;
     uint32_t assocreset_remote_tsn;
   };

   assocreset_type:  It should be SCTP_ASSOC_RESET_EVENT.

   assocreset_flags:  This field is formed from the bitwise OR of one or
      more of the following currently defined flags:

      SCTP_ASSOC_RESET_DENIED:  The corresponding outgoing request was
         denied by the peer.

      SCTP_ASSOC_RESET_FAILED:  The corresponding outgoing request
         failed.

      SCTP_ASSOC_RESET_DENIED and SCTP_ASSOC_RESET_FAILED are mutual
      exclusive.  If the request was successful, none of these are set.

   assocreset_length:  This field is the total length of the delivered
      event, including the header.

   assocreset_assoc_id:  The association id field, holds the identifier
      for the association.  All notifications for a given association
      have the same association identifier.  For one-to-one style
      socket, this field is ignored.

   assocreset_local_tsn:  The next TSN used by the endpoint.

   assocreset_remote_tsn:  The next TSN used by the peer.

6.1.3.  Stream Change Event

   The event delivered has the following structure:









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   struct sctp_stream_change_event {
     uint16_t strchange_type;
     uint16_t strchange_flags;
     uint32_t strchange_length;
     sctp_assoc_t strchange_assoc_id;
     uint16_t strchange_instrms;
     uint16_t strchange_outstrms;
   };

   strchange_type:  It should be SCTP_STREAM_CHANGE_EVENT.

   strchange_flags:  This field is formed from the bitwise OR of one or
      more of the following currently defined flags:

      SCTP_STREAM_CHANGE_DENIED:  The corresponding request was denied
         by the peer.

      SCTP_STREAM_CHANGE_FAILED:  The corresponding request failed.

      SCTP_STREAM_CHANGE_DENIED and SCTP_STREAM_CHANGE_FAILED are mutual
      exclusive.  If the request was successful, none of these are set.

   strchange_length:  This field is the total length of the delivered
      event, including the header.

   strchange_assoc_id:  The association id field, holds the identifier
      for the association.  All notifications for a given association
      have the same association identifier.  For one-to-one style
      socket, this field is ignored.

   strchange_instrms:  The number of streams that the peer is allowed to
      use outbound.

   strchange_outstrms:  The number of streams that the endpoint is
      allowed to use outbound.

6.2.  Event Subscription

   There are two methods defined in the SCTP socket API to subscribe to
   events.  The original method defined was an events structure with the
   socket option SCTP_EVENTS.  Some implementations may have already
   expanded their data structure for this API to include the stream
   reset subscriptions.  The new API is to use a setsockopt with the
   SCTP_SET_EVENT socket option.  This option takes a structure that
   defines the association, the event type (using the same value found
   in the event type field) and a on/off boolean.  This newer API is the
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   For some implementations the structure now takes on the form:

   struct sctp_event_subscribe {
           uint8_t sctp_data_io_event;
           uint8_t sctp_association_event;
           uint8_t sctp_address_event;
           uint8_t sctp_send_failure_event;
           uint8_t sctp_peer_error_event;
           uint8_t sctp_shutdown_event;
           uint8_t sctp_partial_delivery_event;
           uint8_t sctp_adaptation_layer_event;
           uint8_t sctp_authentication_event;
           uint8_t sctp_sender_dry_event;
           uint8_t sctp_stream_reset_event;
           uint8_t sctp_assoc_reset_event;
           uint8_t sctp_stream_change_event;
   };

   For those implementations that support this method simply putting a 1
   or 0 in the sctp_stream_reset_event and setting the SCTP_EVENTS
   socket option will work.  However not all implementations support
   this method.

   The preferred method is to use the SCTP_SET_EVENT socket option and
   fill in the structure sctp_set_event structure.

   struct sctp_set_event {
           sctp_assoc_t se_assoc_id;
           uint16_t     se_type;
           uint8_t      se_on;
   };

   Using this method, the user fill in the se_type with the same value
   found in strreset_type field i.e.  SCTP_STREAM_RESET_EVENT.  The user
   will also fill in the se_assoc_id field with either the association
   to set this event on (this field is ignored for one-to-one style
   sockets) or one of the reserved constant values defined in the socket
   API document.  Finally the se_on field is set with a 1 to enable the
   event or a 0 to disable the event.

6.3.  Socket Options

   The following table describes the new socket options which make the
   SCTP stream reset features accessible to the user.  They all use
   IPPROTO_SCTP as their level.






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   +--------------------------+---------------------------+-----+-----+
   | option name              | data type                 | get | set |
   +--------------------------+---------------------------+-----+-----+
   | SCTP_ENABLE_STREAM_RESET | struct sctp_assoc_value   |  X  |  X  |
   | SCTP_RESET_STREAMS       | struct sctp_reset_streams |     |  X  |
   | SCTP_RESET_ASSOC         | sctp_assoc_t              |     |  X  |
   | SCTP_ADD_OUT_STREAMS     | struct sctp_assoc_value   |     |  X  |
   +--------------------------+---------------------------+-----+-----+

                                  Table 5

6.3.1.  Enable/Disable Stream Reset (SCTP_ENABLE_STREAM_RESET)

   This option allows a user to control whether the SCTP implementation
   processes or denies incoming requests in STREAM_RESET chunks.

   The default is not to process incoming requests.

   To set or get this option the user fills in the following structure:

   struct sctp_assoc_value {
     sctp_assoc_t assoc_id;
     uint32_t assoc_value;
   };

   assoc_id:  This parameter is ignored for one-to-one style sockets.
      For one-to-many style sockets this parameter indicates which
      association the user is performing an action upon.

   assoc_value:  It is formed from the bitwise OR of one or more of the
      following currently defined flags:

      SCTP_DENY_RESET_IN_STREAM_REQ:  Deny received Incoming SSN Reset
         Requests if this flag is set, process it if not.

      SCTP_DENY_RESET_OUT_STREAM_REQ:  Deny received Outgoing SSN Reset
         Requests if this flag is set, process it if not.

      SCTP_DENY_RESET_ASSOC_REQ:  Deny received SSN/TSN Reset Requests
         if this flag is set, process it if not.

      SCTP_DENY_CHANGE_ASSOC_REQ:  Deny received Add Outgoing Streams
         Requests if this flag is set, process it if not.

      The default value is ~(SCTP_DENY_IN_STREAM_RESET|
      SCTP_DENY_OUT_STREAM_RESET|SCTP_DENY_ASSOC_RESET|
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   Please note that using the option does not have any impact on
   subscribing to any related events.

6.3.2.  Reset Incoming and/or Outgoing Streams (SCTP_RESET_STREAMS)

   This option allows the user to request the reset incoming and/or
   outgoing streams.

   To set or get this option the user fills in the following structure:

   struct sctp_reset_streams {
     sctp_assoc_t srs_assoc_id;
     uint16_t srs_flags;
     uint16_t srs_number_streams;
     uint16_t srs_stream_list[];
   };

   srs_assoc_id:  This parameter is ignored for one-to-one style
      sockets.  For one-to-many style sockets this parameter indicates
      which association the user is performing an action upon.

   srs_flags:  This parameter describes which class of streams are
      reset.  It is formed from the bitwise OR of one or more of the
      following currently defined flags:

      *  SCTP_STREAM_RESET_INCOMING

      *  SCTP_STREAM_RESET_OUTGOING

   srs_number_streams:  This parameter is the number of elements in the
      srs_stream_list.  If it is zero, the operation is performed on all
      streams.

   srs_stream_list:  This parameter contains a list of stream
      identifiers on which the operation is performed on.  It contains
      srs_number_streams elements.  If it is empty, the operation is
      performed on all streams.  Depending on srs_flags the identifiers
      refer to incoming or outgoing streams or both.

6.3.3.  Reset SSN/TSN (SCTP_RESET_ASSOC)

   This option allows a user to request the reset the SSN/TSN.

   To set this option the user provides an option_value of type
   sctp_assoc_t.

   On one-to-one style sockets the option_value is ignored.  For one-to-
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   the association on which the action is to be performed on.

6.3.4.  Add Outgoing Streams (SCTP_ADD_OUT_STREAMS)

   This option allows a user to request the addition a number of
   outgoing streams.

   To set this option the user fills in the following structure:

   struct sctp_assoc_value {
     sctp_assoc_t assoc_id;
     uint32_t assoc_value;
   };

   assoc_id:  This parameter is ignored for one-to-one style sockets.
      For one-to-many style sockets this parameter indicates which
      association the user is performing an action upon.

   assoc_value:  This parameter is the number of outgoing streams to
      add.

   An endpoint can limit the number of incoming streams by using the
   sinit_max_instreams field in the struct sctp_initmsg{} when issuing
   an SCTP_INIT socket option, as defined in
   [I-D.ietf-tsvwg-sctpsocket].  An incoming request asking for more
   streams than allow will be denied.


7.  Security Considerations

   Having the ability to reset a stream should not pose any additional
   security risk to SCTP.  An attacker that can successfully inject a
   stream reset would also be able to inject data or other malicious
   information into an association such as an ABORT.


8.  IANA Considerations

   [NOTE to RFC-Editor:

      "RFCXXXX" is to be replaced by the RFC number you assign this
      document.

   ]

   This document (RFCXXX) is the reference for all registrations
   described in this section.  All registrations need to be listed in
   the document available at sctp-parameters [1].  The suggested changes



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   are described below.

8.1.  A New Chunk Type

   A chunk type has to be assigned by IANA.  It is suggested to use the
   values given in Table 1.  The value MUST be from the pool of chunks
   with the upper two bits set to '10'.

   This requires an additional line in the "CHUNK TYPES" table of sctp-
   parameters [1]:

   CHUNK TYPES

   ID Value    Chunk Type                                     Reference
   -----       ----------                                     ---------
   130         Stream Reset Chunk (STREAM_RESET)              [RFCXXXX]

8.2.  Five New Parameter Types

   Five parameter types have to be assigned by IANA.  It is suggested to
   use the values given in Table 2.  The values MUST be from the pool of
   parameters with the upper two bits set to '00'.

   This requires an addition to the "CHUNK PARAMETER TPYES" tables in
   sctp-parameters [1]: An Entry for "STREAM RESET Chunk Parameter
   Types" has to be made with the following initial contents:

   --STREAM RESET Chunk Parameter Types

   Chunk Parameter Type                       Value
   --------------------                       ----------
   Outgoing SSN Reset Request Parameter       13 (0x000d)
   Incoming SSN Reset Request Parameter       14 (0x000e)
   SSN/TSN Reset Request Parameter            15 (0x000f)
   Stream Reset Response Parameter            16 (0x0010)
   Add Outgoing Streams Request Parameter     17 (0x0011)


9.  Acknowledgments

   The authors wish to thank Paul Aitken, Kacheong Poon, Irene
   Ruengeler, Robin Seggelmann, and Vlad Yasevich for there invaluable
   comments.


10.  References





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10.1.  Normative References

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

   [RFC4960]  Stewart, R., "Stream Control Transmission Protocol",
              RFC 4960, September 2007.

   [RFC5061]  Stewart, R., Xie, Q., Tuexen, M., Maruyama, S., and M.
              Kozuka, "Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
              Dynamic Address Reconfiguration", RFC 5061,
              September 2007.

10.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-tsvwg-sctpsocket]
              Stewart, R., Poon, K., Tuexen, M., Yasevich, V., and P.
              Lei, "Sockets API Extensions for Stream Control
              Transmission Protocol (SCTP)",
              draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctpsocket-21 (work in progress),
              February 2010.

URIs

   [1]  <http://www.iana.org/assignments/sctp-parameters>


Authors' Addresses

   Randall R. Stewart
   Huawei
   Chapin, SC  29036
   USA

   Phone:
   Email: rstewart@huawei.com


   Peter Lei
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   8735 West Higgins Road
   Suite 300
   Chicago, IL  60631
   USA

   Phone:
   Email: peterlei@cisco.com




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   Michael Tuexen
   Muenster Univ. of Applied Sciences
   Stegerwaldstr. 39
   48565 Steinfurt
   Germany

   Email: tuexen@fh-muenster.de












































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