IPPM Working Group                                             G. Mirsky
Internet-Draft                                                 ZTE Corp.
Intended status: Standards Track                            W. Lingqiang
Expires: June 7, 2021                                            G. Zhui
                                                         ZTE Corporation
                                                                 H. Song
                                                  Futurewei Technologies
                                                        December 4, 2020


             Hybrid Two-Step Performance Measurement Method
                  draft-mirsky-ippm-hybrid-two-step-07

Abstract

   Development of, and advancements in, automation of network operations
   brought new requirements for measurement methodology.  Among them is
   the ability to collect instant network state as the packet being
   processed by the networking elements along its path through the
   domain.  This document introduces a new hybrid measurement method,
   referred to as hybrid two-step, as it separates the act of measuring
   and/or calculating the performance metric from the act of collecting
   and transporting network state.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Conventions used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.1.  Acronyms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.2.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   3.  Problem Overview  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   4.  Theory of Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     4.1.  Operation of the HTS Ingress Node . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     4.2.  Operation of the HTS Intermediate Node  . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.3.  Operation of the HTS Egress Node  . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     4.4.  Considerations for HTS Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     4.5.  Deploying HTS in a Multicast Network  . . . . . . . . . .  10
   5.  Authentication in HTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   6.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     6.1.  IOAM Option-Type for HTS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     6.2.  HTS TLV Registry  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     6.3.  HTS Sub-TLV Type Sub-registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     6.4.  HMAC Type Sub-registry  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   7.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   8.  Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   9.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
     9.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
     9.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16

1.  Introduction

   Successful resolution of challenges of automated network operation,
   as part of, for example, overall service orchestration or data center
   operation, relies on a timely collection of accurate information that
   reflects the state of network elements on an unprecedented scale.
   Because performing the analysis and act upon the collected
   information requires considerable computing and storage resources,
   the network state information is unlikely to be processed by the
   network elements themselves but will be relayed into the data storage
   facilities, e.g., data lakes.  The process of producing, collecting
   network state information also referred to in this document as
   network telemetry, and transporting it for post-processing should
   work equally well with data flows or injected in the network test



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   packets.  RFC 7799 [RFC7799] describes a combination of elements of
   passive and active measurement as a hybrid measurement.

   Several technical methods have been proposed to enable the collection
   of network state information instantaneous to the packet processing,
   among them [P4.INT] and [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-data].  The
   instantaneous, i.e., in the data packet itself, collection of
   telemetry information simplifies the process of attribution of
   telemetry information to the particular monitored flow.  On the other
   hand, this collection method impacts the data packets, potentially
   changing their treatment by the networking nodes.  Also, the amount
   of information the instantaneous method collects might be incomplete
   because of the limited space it can be allotted.  Other proposals
   defined methods to collect telemetry information in a separate packet
   from each node traversed by the monitored data flow.  Examples of
   this approach to collecting telemetry information are
   [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-direct-export] and
   [I-D.song-ippm-postcard-based-telemetry].  These methods allow data
   collection from any arbitrary path and avoid directly impacting data
   packets.  On the other hand, the correlation of data and the
   monitored flow requires that each packet with telemetry information
   also includes characteristic information about the monitored flow.

   This document introduces Hybrid Two-Step (HTS) as a new method of
   telemetry collection that improvers accuracy of a measurement by
   separating the act of measuring or calculating the performance metric
   from the collecting and transporting this information while
   minimizing the overhead of the generated load in a network.  HTS
   method extends the two-step mode of Residence Time Measurement (RTM)
   defined in [RFC8169] to on-path network state collection and
   transport.  HTS allows the collection of telemetry information from
   any arbitrary path, does not change data packets of the monitored
   flow and makes the process of attribution of telemetry to the data
   flow simple.

2.  Conventions used in this document

2.1.  Acronyms

   RTM Residence Time Measurement

   ECMP Equal Cost Multipath

   MTU Maximum Transmission Unit

   HTS Hybrid Two-Step

   HMAC Hashed Message Authentication Code



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   Network telemetry - the process of collecting and reporting of
   network state

2.2.  Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
   14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.

3.  Problem Overview

   Performance measurements are meant to provide data that characterize
   conditions experienced by traffic flows in the network and possibly
   trigger operational changes (e.g., re-route of flows, or changes in
   resource allocations).  Modifications to a network are determined
   based on the performance metric information available when a change
   is to be made.  The correctness of this determination is based on the
   quality of the collected metrics data.  The quality of collected
   measurement data is defined by:

   o  the resolution and accuracy of each measurement;

   o  predictability of both the time at which each measurement is made
      and the timeliness of measurement collection data delivery for
      use.

   Consider the case of delay measurement that relies on collecting time
   of packet arrival at the ingress interface and time of the packet
   transmission at the egress interface.  The method includes recording
   a local clock value on receiving the first octet of an affected
   message at the device ingress, and again recording the clock value on
   transmitting the first byte of the same message at the device egress.
   In this ideal case, the difference between the two recorded clock
   times corresponds to the time that the message spent in traversing
   the device.  In practice, the time recorded can differ from the ideal
   case by any fixed amount.  A correction can be applied to compute the
   same time difference taking into account the known fixed time
   associated with the actual measurement.  In this way, the resulting
   time difference reflects any variable delay associated with queuing.

   Depending on the implementation, it may be a challenge to compute the
   difference between message arrival and departure times and - on the
   fly - add the necessary residence time information to the same
   message.  And that task may become even more challenging if the
   packet is encrypted.  Recording the departure of a packet time in the
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   because the departure time includes the variable time component (such
   as that associated with buffering and queuing of the packet).  A
   similar problem may lower the quality of, for example, information
   that characterizes utilization of the egress interface.  If unable to
   obtain the data consistently, without variable delays for additional
   processing, information may not accurately reflect the egress
   interface state.  To mitigate this problem [RFC8169] defined an RTM
   two-step mode.

   Another challenge associated with methods that collect network state
   information into the actual data packet is the risk to exceed the
   Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) size, especially if the packet
   traverses overlay domains or VPNs.  Since the fragmentation is not
   available at the transport network, operators may have to reduce MTU
   size advertised to the client layer or risk missing network state
   data for the part, most probably the latter part, of the path.

4.  Theory of Operation

   The HTS method consists of two phases:

   o  performing a measurement or obtaining network state information,
      one or more than one type, on a node;

   o  collecting and transporting the measurement.

   HTS uses HTS Trigger carried in a data packet or a specially
   constructed test packet.  For example, an HTS Trigger could be a
   packet that has IOAM Option-Type set to the "IOAM Hybrid Two-Step
   Option-Type" value (TBA1) allocated by IANA (see Section 6.1).  The
   HTS Trigger also includes IOAM Namespace-ID and IOAM-Trace-Type
   information [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-data].  A packet in the flow to which
   the Alternate-Marking method [RFC8321] is applied can be used as an
   HTS Trigger.  The nature of the HTS Trigger is a transport network
   layer-specific, and its description is outside the scope of this
   document.  The packet that includes the HTS Trigger in this document
   is also referred to as the trigger packet.

   The HTS method uses the HTS Follow-up packet, referred to as the
   follow-up packet, to collect measurement and network state data from
   the nodes.  The node that creates the HTS Trigger also generates the
   HTS Follow-up packet.  The follow-up packet contains characteristic
   information, copied from the trigger packet, sufficient for
   participating HTS nodes to associate it with the original packet.
   The exact composition of the characteristic information is specific
   for each transport network, and its definition is outside the scope
   of this document.  The follow-up packet also uses the same
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   information used to load-balance flows in equal cost multipath
   (ECMP), use of the network encapsulation identical to the trigger
   packet should guarantee that the follow-up packet remains in-band,
   i.e., traverses the same set of network elements, with the original
   data packet with the HTS Trigger.  Only one outstanding follow-up
   packet MUST be on the node for the given path.  That means that if
   the node receives an HTS Trigger for the flow on which it still waits
   for the follow-up packet to the previous HTS Trigger, the node will
   originate the follow-up packet to transport the former set of the
   network state data and transmit it before it sends the follow-up
   packet with the latest collection of network state information.

4.1.  Operation of the HTS Ingress Node

   A node that originates the HTS Trigger is referred to as the HTS
   ingress node.  As stated, the ingress node originates the follow-up
   packet.  The follow-up packet has the transport network encapsulation
   identical with the trigger packet followed by the HTS shim and one or
   more telemetry information elements encoded as Type-Length-Value
   {TLV}. Figure 1 displays an example of the follow-up packet 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
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |                                                               |
       ~                      Transport Network                        ~
       |                        Encapsulation                          |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |Ver|HTS Shim Len|    Flags     |       Sequence Number         |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |                    Telemetry Data Profile                     |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |                                                               |
       ~                     Telemetry Data TLVs                       ~
       |                                                               |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                     Figure 1: Follow-up Packet Format

   Fields of the HTS shim are as follows:

      Version (Ver) is the two-bits long field.  It specifies the
      version of the HTS shim format.  This document defines the format
      for the 0b00 value of the field.

      HTS Shim Length is the six bits-long field.  It defines the length
      of the HTS shim in bytes.  The minimal value of the field is four
      bytes.



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        0
        0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |F|  Reserved   |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                       Figure 2: Flags Field Format

      Flags is eight-bits long.  The format of the Flags field displayed
      in Figure 2.

         Full (F) flag MUST be set to zero by the node originating the
         HTS follow-up packet and MUST be set to one by the node that
         does not add its telemetry data to avoid exceeding MTU size.

         The node originating the follow-up packet MUST zero the
         Reserved field and ignore it on the receipt.

      Sequence Number is 16 bits-long field.  The zero-based value of
      the field reflects the place of the HTS follow-up packet in the
      sequence of the HTS follow-up packets that originated in response
      to the same HTS trigger.  The ingress node MUST set the value of
      the field to zero.

      Telemetry Data Profile is the optional variable-length field of
      bit-size flags.  Each flag indicates the requested type of
      telemetry data to be collected at each HTS node.  The increment of
      the field is four bytes with a minimum length of zero.  For
      example, IOAM-Trace-Type information defined in
      [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-data] can be used in the Telemetry Data
      Profile field.



        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     |    Reserved   |           Length              |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       ~                            Value                              ~
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                    Figure 3: Telemetry Data TLV Format

      Telemetry Data TLV is a variable-length field.  Multiple TLVs MAY
      be placed in an HTS packet.  Additional TLVs may be enclosed
      within a given TLV, subject to the semantics of the (outer) TLV in




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      question.  Figure 3 presents the format of a Telemetry Data TLV,
      where fields are defined as the following:

         Type - a one-octet-long field that characterizes the
         interpretation of the Value field.

         Reserved - one-octet-long field.

         Length - two-octet-long field equal to the length of the Value
         field in octets.

         Value - a variable-length field.  The value of the Type field
         determines its interpretation and encoding.  IOAM data fields,
         defined in [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-data], MAY be carried in the
         Value field.

   All multibyte fields defined in this specification are in network
   byte order.

4.2.  Operation of the HTS Intermediate Node

   Upon receiving the trigger packet, the HTS intermediate node MUST:

   o  copy the transport information;

   o  start the HTS Follow-up Timer for the obtained flow.

   Upon receiving the follow-up packet, the HTS intermediate node MUST:

   o  verify that the matching transport information exists and the Full
      flag is cleared, then stop the associated HTS Follow-up timer;

   o  collect telemetry data requested in the Telemetry Data Profile
      field or defined by the local HTS policy;

   o  if adding the collected telemetry would not exceed MTU, then
      append data as a new Telemetry Data TLV and transmit the follow-up
      packet;

   o  otherwise, set the value of the Full flag to one and transmit the
      received a follow-up packet;

   o  originate the new follow-up packet using the same transport
      information.  The value of the Sequence Number field in the HTS
      shim MUST be set to the value of the field in the received follow-
      up packet incremented by one;





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   o  copy collected telemetry data into the first Telemetry Data TLV's
      Value field and then transmit the packet.

   If the HTS Follow-up Timer expires, the intermediate node MUST:

   o  originate the follow-up packet using transport information
      associated with the expired timer;

   o  initialize the HTS shim by setting Version field to 0b00 and
      Sequence Number field to 0.  Values of HTS Shim Length and
      Telemetry Data Profile fields MAY be set according to the local
      policy.

   o  copy telemetry information into Telemetry Data TLV's Value field
      and transmit the packet.

   If the intermediate node receives a "late" follow-up packet, i.e., a
   packet to which the node has no associated HTS Follow-up timer, the
   node MUST forward the "late" packet.

4.3.  Operation of the HTS Egress Node

   Upon receiving the trigger packet, the HTS egress node MUST:

   o  copy the transport information;

   o  start the HTS Collection timer for the obtained flow.

   When the egress node receives the follow-up packet for the known
   flow, i.e., the flow to which the Collection timer is running, the
   node for each of Telemetry Data TLVs MUST:

   o  if HTS is used in the authenticated mode, verify the
      authentication of the Telemetry Data TLV using the Authentication
      sub-TLV (see Section 5);

   o  copy telemetry information from the Value field;

   o  restart the corresponding Collection timer.

   When the Collection timer expires, the egress relays the collected
   telemetry information for processing and analysis to a local or
   remote agent.








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4.4.  Considerations for HTS Timers

   This specification defines two timers - HTS Follow-up and HTS
   Collection.  For the particular flow, there MUST be no more than one
   HTS Trigger, values of HTS timers bounded by the rate of the trigger
   generation for that flow.

4.5.  Deploying HTS in a Multicast Network

   Previous sections discussed the operation of HTS in a unicast
   network.  Multicast services are important, and the ability to
   collect telemetry information is invaluable in delivering a high
   quality of experience.  While the replication of data packets is
   necessary, replication of HTS follow-up packets is not.  Replication
   of multicast data packets down a multicast tree may be set based on
   multicast routing information or explicit information included in the
   special header, as, for example, in Bit-Indexed Explicit Replication
   [RFC8296].  A replicating node processes the HTS packet as defined
   below:

   o  the first transmitted multicast packet MUST be followed by the
      received corresponding HTS packet as described in Section 4.2;

   o  each consecutively transmitted copy of the original multicast
      packet MUST be followed by the new HTS packet originated by the
      replicating node that acts as an intermediate HTS node when the
      HTS Follow-up timer expired.

   As a result, there are no duplicate copies of Telemetry Data TLV for
   the same pair of ingress and egress interfaces.  At the same time,
   all ingress/egress pairs traversed by the given multicast packet
   reflected in their respective Telemetry Data TLV.  Consequently, a
   centralized controller would reconstruct and analyze the state of the
   particular multicast distribution tree based on HTS packets collected
   from egress nodes.

5.  Authentication in HTS

   Telemetry information may be used to drive network operation, closing
   the control loop for self-driving, self-healing networks.  Thus it is
   critical to provide a mechanism to protect the telemetry information
   collected using the HTS method.  This document defines an optional
   authentication of a Telemetry Data TLV that protects the collected
   information's integrity.

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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
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |Authentic. Type|   HMAC Type   |             Length            |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                                                               |
      |                            Digest                             |
      |                                                               |
      |                                                               |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                          Figure 4: HMAC sub-TLV

   where fields are defined as follows:

   o  Authentication Type - is a one-octet-long field, value TBA2
      allocated by IANA Section 6.2.

   o  Length - two-octet-long field, set equal to the length of the
      Digest field in octets.

   o  HMAC Type - is a one-octet-long field that identifies the type of
      the HMAC and the length of the digest and the length of the digest
      according to the HTS HMAC Type sub-registry (see Section 6.4).

   o  Digest - is a variable-length field that carries HMAC digest of
      the text that includes the encompassing TLV.

   This specification defines the use of HMAC-SHA-256 truncated to 128
   bits ([RFC4868]) in HTS.  Future specifications may define the use in
   HTS of more advanced cryptographic algorithms or the use of digest of
   a different length.  HMAC is calculated as defined in [RFC2104] over
   text as the concatenation of the Sequence Number field of the follow-
   up packet (see Figure 1) and the preceding data collected in the
   Telemetry Data TLV.  The digest then MUST be truncated to 128 bits
   and written into the Digest field.  Distribution and management of
   shared keys are outside the scope of this document.  In the HTS
   authenticated mode, the Authentication sub-TLV MUST be present in
   each Telemetry Data TLV.  HMAC MUST be verified before using any data
   in the included Telemetry Data TLV.  If HMAC verification fails, the
   system MUST stop processing corresponding Telemetry Data TLV and
   notify an operator.  Specification of the notification mechanism is
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6.  IANA Considerations

6.1.  IOAM Option-Type for HTS

   The IOAM Option-Type registry is requested in
   [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-data].  IANA is requested to allocate a new code
   point as listed in Table 1.

       +-------+----------------------------------+---------------+
       | Value |           Description            | Reference     |
       +-------+----------------------------------+---------------+
       | TBA1  | IOAM Hybrid Two-Step Option-Type | This document |
       +-------+----------------------------------+---------------+

                     Table 1: IOAM Option-Type for HTS

6.2.  HTS TLV Registry

   IANA is requested to create the HTS TLV Type registry.  All code
   points in the range 1 through 175 in this registry shall be allocated
   according to the "IETF Review" procedure specified in [RFC8126].
   Code points in the range 176 through 239 in this registry shall be
   allocated according to the "First Come First Served" procedure
   specified in [RFC8126].  The remaining code points are allocated
   according to Table 2:

               +-----------+--------------+---------------+
               | Value     | Description  | Reference     |
               +-----------+--------------+---------------+
               | 0         |   Reserved   | This document |
               | 1- 175    |  Unassigned  | This document |
               | 176 - 239 |  Unassigned  | This document |
               | 240 - 251 | Experimental | This document |
               | 252 - 254 | Private Use  | This document |
               | 255       |   Reserved   | This document |
               +-----------+--------------+---------------+

                      Table 2: HTS TLV Type Registry

6.3.  HTS Sub-TLV Type Sub-registry

   IANA is requested to create the HTS sub-TLV Type sub-registry as part
   of the HTS TLV Type registry.  All code points in the range 1 through
   175 in this registry shall be allocated according to the "IETF
   Review" procedure specified in [RFC8126].  Code points in the range
   176 through 239 in this registry shall be allocated according to the
   "First Come First Served" procedure specified in [RFC8126].  The
   remaining code points are allocated according to Table 3:



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               +-----------+--------------+---------------+
               | Value     | Description  | Reference     |
               +-----------+--------------+---------------+
               | 0         |   Reserved   | This document |
               | 1- 175    |  Unassigned  | This document |
               | 176 - 239 |  Unassigned  | This document |
               | 240 - 251 | Experimental | This document |
               | 252 - 254 | Private Use  | This document |
               | 255       |   Reserved   | This document |
               +-----------+--------------+---------------+

                  Table 3: HTS Sub-TLV Type Sub-registry

   This document defines the following new values in the IETF Review
   range of the HTS sub-TLV Type sub-registry:

            +-------+-------------+----------+---------------+
            | Value | Description | TLV Used | Reference     |
            +-------+-------------+----------+---------------+
            | TBA2  |     HMAC    | Any      | This document |
            +-------+-------------+----------+---------------+

                        Table 4: HTS sub-TLV Types

6.4.  HMAC Type Sub-registry

   IANA is requested to create the HMAC Type sub-registry as part of the
   HTS TLV Type registry.  All code points in the range 1 through 127 in
   this registry shall be allocated according to the "IETF Review"
   procedure specified in [RFC8126].  Code points in the range 128
   through 239 in this registry shall be allocated according to the
   "First Come First Served" procedure specified in [RFC8126].  The
   remaining code points are allocated according to Table 5:

               +-----------+--------------+---------------+
               | Value     | Description  | Reference     |
               +-----------+--------------+---------------+
               | 0         |   Reserved   | This document |
               | 1- 127    |  Unassigned  | This document |
               | 128 - 239 |  Unassigned  | This document |
               | 240 - 249 | Experimental | This document |
               | 250 - 254 | Private Use  | This document |
               | 255       |   Reserved   | This document |
               +-----------+--------------+---------------+

                      Table 5: HMAC Type Sub-registry





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   This document defines the following new values in the HMAC Type sub-
   registry:

          +-------+-----------------------------+---------------+
          | Value |         Description         | Reference     |
          +-------+-----------------------------+---------------+
          | 1     | HMAC-SHA-256 16 octets long | This document |
          +-------+-----------------------------+---------------+

                            Table 6: HMAC Types

7.  Security Considerations

   Nodes that practice the HTS method are presumed to share a trust
   model that depends on the existence of a trusted relationship among
   nodes.  This is necessary as these nodes are expected to correctly
   modify the specific content of the data in the follow-up packet, and
   the degree to which HTS measurement is useful for network operation
   depends on this ability.  In practice, this means either
   confidentiality or integrity protection cannot cover those portions
   of messages that contain the network state data.  Though there are
   methods that make it possible in theory to provide either or both
   such protections and still allow for intermediate nodes to make
   detectable yet authenticated modifications, such methods do not seem
   practical at present, particularly for protocols that used to measure
   latency and/or jitter.

   This document defines the use of authentication (Section 5) to
   protect the integrity of the telemetry information collected using
   the HTS method.  Privacy protection can be achieved by, for example,
   sharing the IPsec tunnel with a data flow that generates information
   that is collected using HTS.

   While it is possible for a supposed compromised node to intercept and
   modify the network state information in the follow-up packet; this is
   an issue that exists for nodes in general - for all data that to be
   carried over the particular networking technology - and is therefore
   the basis for an additional presumed trust model associated with an
   existing network.

8.  Acknowledgments

   Authors express their gratitude and appreciation to Joel Halpern for
   the most helpful and insightful discussion on the applicability of
   HTS in a Service Function Chaining domain.






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9.  References

9.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2104]  Krawczyk, H., Bellare, M., and R. Canetti, "HMAC: Keyed-
              Hashing for Message Authentication", RFC 2104,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2104, February 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2104>.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC8126]  Cotton, M., Leiba, B., and T. Narten, "Guidelines for
              Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26,
              RFC 8126, DOI 10.17487/RFC8126, June 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8126>.

   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
              2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
              May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

9.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-data]
              Brockners, F., Bhandari, S., and T. Mizrahi, "Data Fields
              for In-situ OAM", draft-ietf-ippm-ioam-data-11 (work in
              progress), November 2020.

   [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-direct-export]
              Song, H., Gafni, B., Zhou, T., Li, Z., Brockners, F.,
              Bhandari, S., Sivakolundu, R., and T. Mizrahi, "In-situ
              OAM Direct Exporting", draft-ietf-ippm-ioam-direct-
              export-02 (work in progress), November 2020.

   [I-D.song-ippm-postcard-based-telemetry]
              Song, H., Zhou, T., Li, Z., Mirsky, G., Shin, J., and K.
              Lee, "Postcard-based On-Path Flow Data Telemetry using
              Packet Marking", draft-song-ippm-postcard-based-
              telemetry-08 (work in progress), October 2020.

   [P4.INT]   "In-band Network Telemetry (INT)", P4.org Specification,
              October 2017.







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   [RFC4868]  Kelly, S. and S. Frankel, "Using HMAC-SHA-256, HMAC-SHA-
              384, and HMAC-SHA-512 with IPsec", RFC 4868,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4868, May 2007,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4868>.

   [RFC7799]  Morton, A., "Active and Passive Metrics and Methods (with
              Hybrid Types In-Between)", RFC 7799, DOI 10.17487/RFC7799,
              May 2016, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7799>.

   [RFC8169]  Mirsky, G., Ruffini, S., Gray, E., Drake, J., Bryant, S.,
              and A. Vainshtein, "Residence Time Measurement in MPLS
              Networks", RFC 8169, DOI 10.17487/RFC8169, May 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8169>.

   [RFC8296]  Wijnands, IJ., Ed., Rosen, E., Ed., Dolganow, A.,
              Tantsura, J., Aldrin, S., and I. Meilik, "Encapsulation
              for Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) in MPLS and Non-
              MPLS Networks", RFC 8296, DOI 10.17487/RFC8296, January
              2018, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8296>.

   [RFC8321]  Fioccola, G., Ed., Capello, A., Cociglio, M., Castaldelli,
              L., Chen, M., Zheng, L., Mirsky, G., and T. Mizrahi,
              "Alternate-Marking Method for Passive and Hybrid
              Performance Monitoring", RFC 8321, DOI 10.17487/RFC8321,
              January 2018, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8321>.

Authors' Addresses

   Greg Mirsky
   ZTE Corp.

   Email: gregimirsky@gmail.com


   Wang Lingqiang
   ZTE Corporation
   No 19 ,East Huayuan Road
   Beijing   100191
   P.R.China

   Phone: +86 10 82963945
   Email: wang.lingqiang@zte.com.cn









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   Guo Zhui
   ZTE Corporation
   No 19 ,East Huayuan Road
   Beijing   100191
   P.R.China

   Phone: +86 10 82963945
   Email: guo.zhui@zte.com.cn


   Haoyu Song
   Futurewei Technologies
   2330 Central Expressway
   Santa Clara
   USA

   Email: hsong@futurewei.com


































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