Network Working Group                                    S. Previdi, Ed.
Internet-Draft                                               C. Filsfils
Intended status: Standards Track                     Cisco Systems, Inc.
Expires: April 4, 2016                                          B. Field
                                                                 Comcast
                                                                I. Leung
                                                   Rogers Communications
                                                              J. Linkova
                                                                  Google
                                                                E. Aries
                                                                Facebook
                                                               T. Kosugi
                                                                     NTT
                                                               E. Vyncke
                                                     Cisco Systems, Inc.
                                                               D. Lebrun
                                        Universite Catholique de Louvain
                                                         October 2, 2015


                   IPv6 Segment Routing Header (SRH)
              draft-previdi-6man-segment-routing-header-08

Abstract

   Segment Routing (SR) allows a node to steer a packet through a
   controlled set of instructions, called segments, by prepending a SR
   header to the packet.  A segment can represent any instruction,
   topological or service-based.  SR allows to enforce a flow through
   any path (topological, or application/service based) while
   maintaining per-flow state only at the ingress node to the SR domain.

   Segment Routing can be applied to the IPv6 data plane with the
   addition of a new type of Routing Extension Header.  This draft
   describes the Segment Routing Extension Header Type and how it is
   used by SR capable nodes.

Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].

Status of This Memo

   This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the
   provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79.




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Table of Contents

   1.  Segment Routing Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.1.  Data Planes supporting Segment Routing  . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.2.  Segment Routing (SR) Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
       2.2.1.  SR Domain in a Service Provider Network . . . . . . .   5
       2.2.2.  SR Domain in a Overlay Network  . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     2.3.  Illustration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   3.  IPv6 Instantiation of Segment Routing . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     3.1.  Segment Identifiers (SIDs)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
       3.1.1.  Node-SID  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
       3.1.2.  Adjacency-SID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     3.2.  Segment Routing Extension Header (SRH)  . . . . . . . . .  11
       3.2.1.  SRH and RFC2460 behavior  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   4.  SRH Procedures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
     4.1.  Segment Routing Node Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
       4.1.1.  Source SR Node  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
       4.1.2.  SR Domain Ingress Node  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
       4.1.3.  Transit Node  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
       4.1.4.  SR Segment Endpoint Node  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17



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   5.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
     5.1.  Threat model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
       5.1.1.  Source routing threats  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
       5.1.2.  Applicability of RFC 5095 to SRH  . . . . . . . . . .  19
       5.1.3.  Service stealing threat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
       5.1.4.  Topology disclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
       5.1.5.  ICMP Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
     5.2.  Security fields in SRH  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
       5.2.1.  Selecting a hash algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
       5.2.2.  Performance impact of HMAC  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
       5.2.3.  Pre-shared key management . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
     5.3.  Deployment Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
       5.3.1.  Nodes within the SR domain  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
       5.3.2.  Nodes outside of the SR domain  . . . . . . . . . . .  24
       5.3.3.  SR path exposure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
       5.3.4.  Impact of BCP-38  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
   6.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
   7.  Manageability Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
   8.  Contributors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
   9.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26
   10. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26
     10.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26
     10.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  28

1.  Segment Routing Documents

   Segment Routing terminology is defined in
   [I-D.ietf-spring-segment-routing].

   Segment Routing use cases are described in
   [I-D.ietf-spring-problem-statement] and
   [I-D.ietf-spring-ipv6-use-cases].

   Segment Routing protocol extensions are defined in
   [I-D.ietf-isis-segment-routing-extensions], and
   [I-D.ietf-ospf-ospfv3-segment-routing-extensions].

2.  Introduction

   Segment Routing (SR), defined in [I-D.ietf-spring-segment-routing],
   allows a node to steer a packet through a controlled set of
   instructions, called segments, by prepending a SR header to the
   packet.  A segment can represent any instruction, topological or
   service-based.  SR allows to enforce a flow through any path
   (topological or service/application based) while maintaining per-flow
   state only at the ingress node to the SR domain.  Segments can be
   derived from different components: IGP, BGP, Services, Contexts,



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   Locators, etc.  The list of segment forming the path is called the
   Segment List and is encoded in the packet header.

   SR allows the use of strict and loose source based routing paradigms
   without requiring any additional signaling protocols in the
   infrastructure hence delivering an excellent scalability property.

   The source based routing model described in
   [I-D.ietf-spring-segment-routing] is inherited from the ones proposed
   by [RFC1940] and [RFC2460].  The source based routing model offers
   the support for explicit routing capability.

2.1.  Data Planes supporting Segment Routing

   Segment Routing (SR), can be instantiated over MPLS
   ([I-D.ietf-spring-segment-routing-mpls]) and IPv6.  This document
   defines its instantiation over the IPv6 data-plane based on the use-
   cases defined in [I-D.ietf-spring-ipv6-use-cases].

   This document defines a new type of Routing Header (originally
   defined in [RFC2460]) called the Segment Routing Header (SRH) in
   order to convey the Segment List in the packet header as defined in
   [I-D.ietf-spring-segment-routing].  Mechanisms through which segment
   are known and advertised are outside the scope of this document.

   A segment is materialized by an IPv6 address.  A segment identifies a
   topological instruction or a service instruction.  A segment can be
   either:

   o  global: a global segment represents an instruction supported by
      all nodes in the SR domain and it is instantiated through an IPv6
      address globally known in the SR domain.

   o  local: a local segment represents an instruction supported only by
      the node who originates it and it is instantiated through an IPv6
      address that is known only by the local node.

2.2.  Segment Routing (SR) Domain

   We define the concept of the Segment Routing Domain (SR Domain) as
   the set of nodes participating into the source based routing model.
   These nodes may be connected to the same physical infrastructure
   (e.g.: a Service Provider's network) as well as nodes remotely
   connected to each other (e.g.: an enterprise VPN or an overlay).

   A non-exhaustive list of examples of SR Domains is:





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   o  The network of an operator, service provider, content provider,
      enterprise including nodes, links and Autonomous Systems.

   o  A set of nodes connected as an overlay over one or more transit
      providers.  The overlay nodes exchange SR-enabled traffic with
      segments belonging solely to the overlay routers (the SR domain).
      None of the segments in the SR-enabled packets exchanged by the
      overlay belong to the transit networks

   The source based routing model through its instantiation of the
   Segment Routing Header (SRH) defined in this document equally applies
   to all the above examples.

   While the source routing model defined in [RFC2460] doesn't mandate
   which node is allowed to insert (or modify) the SRH, it is assumed in
   this document that the SRH is inserted in the packet by its source.
   For example:

   o  At the node originating the packet (host, server).

   o  At the ingress node of a SR domain where the ingress node receives
      an IPv6 packet and encapsulates it into an outer IPv6 header
      followed by a Segment Routing header.

2.2.1.  SR Domain in a Service Provider Network

   The following figure illustrates an SR domain consisting of an
   operator's network infrastructure.

     (-------------------------- Operator 1 -----------------------)
     (                                                             )
     (  (-----AS 1-----)  (-------AS 2-------)  (----AS 3-------)  )
     (  (              )  (                  )  (               )  )
 A1--(--(--11---13--14-)--(-21---22---23--24-)--(-31---32---34--)--)--Z1
     (  ( /|\  /|\  /| )  ( |\  /|\  /|\  /| )  ( |\  /|\  /| \ )  )
 A2--(--(/ | \/ | \/ | )  ( | \/ | \/ | \/ | )  ( | \/ | \/ |  \)--)--Z2
     (  (  | /\ | /\ | )  ( | /\ | /\ | /\ | )  ( | /\ | /\ |   )  )
     (  (  |/  \|/  \| )  ( |/  \|/  \|/  \| )  ( |/  \|/  \|   )  )
 A3--(--(--15---17--18-)--(-25---26---27--28-)--(-35---36---38--)--)--Z3
     (  (              )  (                  )  (               )  )
     (  (--------------)  (------------------)  (---------------)  )
     (                                                             )
     (-------------------------------------------------------------)

                   Figure 1: Service Provider SR Domain

   Figure 1 describes an operator network including several ASes and
   delivering connectivity between endpoints.  In this scenario, Segment



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   Routing is used within the operator networks and across the ASes
   boundaries (all being under the control of the same operator).  In
   this case segment routing can be used in order to address use cases
   such as end-to-end traffic engineering, fast re-route, egress peer
   engineering, data-center traffic engineering as described in
   [I-D.ietf-spring-problem-statement], [I-D.ietf-spring-ipv6-use-cases]
   and [I-D.ietf-spring-resiliency-use-cases].

   Typically, an IPv6 packet received at ingress (i.e.: from outside the
   SR domain), is classified according to network operator policies and
   such classification results into an outer header with an SRH applied
   to the incoming packet.  The SRH contains the list of segment
   representing the path the packet must take inside the SR domain.
   Thus, the SA of the packet is the ingress node, the DA (due to SRH
   procedures described in Section 4) is set as the first segment of the
   path and the last segment of the path is the egress node of the SR
   domain.

   The path may include intra-AS as well as inter-AS segments.  It has
   to be noted that all nodes within the SR domain are under control of
   the same administration.  When the packet reaches the egress point of
   the SR domain, the outer header and its SRH are removed so that the
   destination of the packet is unaware of the SR domain the packet has
   traversed.

   The outer header with the SRH is no different from any other
   tunneling encapsulation mechanism and allows a network operator to
   implement traffic engineering mechanisms so to efficiently steer
   traffic across his infrastructure.

2.2.2.  SR Domain in a Overlay Network

   The following figure illustrates an SR domain consisting of an
   overlay network over multiple operator's networks.

















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       (--Operator 1---)  (-----Operator 2-----)  (--Operator 3---)
       (               )  (                    )  (               )
   A1--(--11---13--14--)--(--21---22---23--24--)--(-31---32---34--)--C1
       ( /|\  /|\  /|  )  (  |\  /|\  /|\  /|  )  ( |\  /|\  /| \ )
   A2--(/ | \/ | \/ |  )  (  | \/ | \/ | \/ |  )  ( | \/ | \/ |  \)--C2
       (  | /\ | /\ |  )  (  | /\ | /\ | /\ |  )  ( | /\ | /\ |   )
       (  |/  \|/  \|  )  (  |/  \|/  \|/  \|  )  ( |/  \|/  \|   )
   A3--(--15---17--18--)--(--25---26---27--28--)--(-35---36---38--)--C3
       (               )  (  |    |         |  )  (               )
       (---------------)  (--|----|---------|--)  (---------------)
                             |    |         |
                             B1   B2        B3

                        Figure 2: Overlay SR Domain

   Figure 2 describes an overlay consisting of nodes connected to three
   different network operators and forming a single overlay network
   where Segment routing packets are exchanged.

   The overlay consists of nodes A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, C1, C2 and C3.
   These nodes are connected to their respective network operator and
   form an overlay network.

   Each node may originate packets with an SRH which contains, in the
   segment list of the SRH or in the DA, segments identifying other
   overlay nodes.  This implies that packets with an SRH may traverse
   operator's networks but, obviously, these SRHs cannot contain an
   address/segment of the transit operators 1, 2 and 3.  The SRH
   originated by the overlay can only contain address/segment under the
   administration of the overlay (e.g. address/segments supported by A1,
   A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, C1,C2 or C3).

   In this model, the operator network nodes are transit nodes and,
   according to [RFC2460], MUST NOT inspect the routing extension header
   since there are not the DA of the packet.

   It is a common practice in operators networks to filter out, at
   ingress, any packet whose DA is the address of an internal node and
   it is also possible that an operator would filter out any packet
   destined to an internal address and having an extension header in it.

   This common practice does not impact the SR-enabled traffic between
   the overlay nodes as the intermediate transit networks do never see a
   destination address belonging to their infrastructure.  These SR-
   enabled overlay packets will thus never be filtered by the transit
   operators.





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   In all cases, transit packets (i.e.: packets whose DA is outside the
   domain of the operator's network) will be forwarded accordingly
   without introducing any security concern in the operator's network.
   This is similar to tunneled packets.

2.3.  Illustration

   In the context of Figure 3 we illustrate an example of how segment
   routing an be used within a SR domain in order to engineer traffic.
   Let's assume that the SR domain is configured as a single AS and the
   IGP (OSPF or IS-IS) is configured using the same cost on every link.
   Let's also assume that a packet P enters the SR domain at an ingress
   edge router I and that the operator requests the following
   requirements for packet P:

   o  The local service S offered by node B must be applied to packet P.

   o  The links AB and CE cannot be used to transport the packet P.

   o  Any node N along the journey of the packet should be able to
      determine where the packet P entered the SR domain and where it
      will exit.  The intermediate node should be able to determine the
      paths from the ingress edge router to itself, and from itself to
      the egress edge router.

   o  Per-flow State for packet P should only be created at the ingress
      edge router.

   o  The operator can forbid, for security reasons, anyone outside the
      operator domain to exploit its intra-domain SR capabilities.

                                     S
                             I---A---B---C---E
                                  \  |  / \ /
                                   \ | /   F
                                    \|/
                                     D

                Figure 3: An illustration of SR properties

   All these properties may be realized by instructing the ingress SR
   edge router I to create a SRH with the list of segments the packet
   must traverse: D, B, S, F, E.  Therefore, the ingress router I
   creates an outer header where:

   o  the SA is the IPv6 address of I





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   o  the final destination of the packet is the SR egress node E
      however, D being the first segment of the path, the DA is set to D
      IPv6 address.

   o  the SRH is inserted with the segment list consisting of following
      IPv6 addresses: D, B, S, F, E

   The SRH contains a source route encoded as a list of segments (D, B,
   S, F, E).  The ingress and egress nodes are identified in the packet
   respectively by the SA and the last segment of the segment list.

   The packet P reaches the ingress SR node I.  Node I pushes the newly
   created outer header and SRH with the Segment List as illustrated
   above (D, B, S, F, E)

   D is the IPv6 address of node D and it is recognized by all nodes in
   the SR domain as the forwarding instruction "forward to D according
   to D route in the IPv6 routing table".  The routing table being built
   through IGPs (OSPF or IS-IS) it is equivalent to say "forward
   according to shortest path to D".

   Once at D, the next segment is inspected and executed (segment B).

   B is an instruction recognized by all the nodes in the SR domain
   which causes the packet to be forwarded along the shortest path to B.

   Once at B, the next segment is executed (segment S).

   S is an instruction only recognized by node B which causes the packet
   to receive service S.

   Once the service S is applied, the next segment is executed (segment
   F) which causes the packet to be forwarded along the shortest path to
   F.

   Once at F, the next segment is executed (segment E).

   E is an instruction recognized by all the nodes in the SR domain
   which causes the packet to be forwarded along the shortest path to E.

   E being the destination of the packet, removes the outer header and
   the SRH.  Then, it inspects the inner packet header and forwards the
   packet accordingly.

   All of the requirements are met:

   o  First, the packet P has not used links AB and CE: the shortest-
      path from I to D is I-A-D, the shortest-path from D to B is D-B,



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      the shortest-path from B to F is B-C-F and the shortest-path from
      F to E is F-E, hence the packet path through the SR domain is
      I-A-D-B-C-F-E and the links AB and CE have been avoided.

   o  Second, the service S supported by B has been applied on packet P.

   o  Third, any node along the packet path is able to identify the
      service and topological journey of the packet within the SR domain
      by inspecting the SRH and SA/DA fields of the packet header.

   o  Fourth, only node I maintains per-flow state for packet P.  The
      entire program of topological and service instructions to be
      executed by the SR domain on packet P is encoded by the ingress
      edge router I in the SR header in the form of a list of segments
      where each segment identifies a specific instruction.  No further
      per-flow state is required along the packet path.  Intermediate
      nodes only hold states related to the global node segments and
      their local segments.  These segments are not per-flow specific
      and hence scale very well.  Typically, an intermediate node would
      maintain in the order of 100's to 1000's global node segments and
      in the order of 10's to 100 of local segments.

   o  Fifth, the SR header (and its outer header) is inserted at the
      entrance to the domain and removed at the exit of the operator
      domain.  For security reasons, the operator can forbid anyone
      outside its domain to use its intra-domain SR capability (e.g.
      configuring ACL that deny any packet with a DA towards its
      infrastructure segment).

3.  IPv6 Instantiation of Segment Routing

3.1.  Segment Identifiers (SIDs)

   Segment Routing, as described in [I-D.ietf-spring-segment-routing],
   defines Node-SID and Adjacency-SID.  When SR is used over IPv6 data-
   plane the following applies.

3.1.1.  Node-SID

   The Node-SID identifies a node.  With SR-IPv6 the Node-SID is an IPv6
   address that the operator configured on the node and that is used as
   the node identifier.  Typically, in case of a router, this is the
   IPv6 address of the node loopback interface.  Therefore, SR-IPv6 does
   not require any additional SID advertisement for the Node Segment.
   The Node-SID is in fact the IPv6 address of the node.






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3.1.2.  Adjacency-SID

   Adjacency-SIDs can be either globally scoped IPv6 addresses or IPv6
   addresses known locally by the node but not advertised in any control
   plane (in other words an Adjacency-SID may well be any 128-bit
   identifier).  Obviously, in the latter case, the scope of the
   Adjacency-SID is local to the router and any packet with the a such
   Adjacency-SID would need first to reach the node through the node's
   Segment Identifier (i.e.: Node-SID) prior for the node to process the
   Adjacency-SID.  In other words, two segments (SIDs) would then be
   required: the first is the node's Node-SID that brings the packet to
   the node and the second is the Adjacency-SID that will make the node
   to forward the packet through the interface the Adjacency-SID is
   allocated to.

   In the SR architecture defined in [I-D.ietf-spring-segment-routing] a
   node may advertise one (or more) Adj-SIDs allocated to the same
   interface as well as a node can advertise the same Adj-SID for
   multiple interfaces.  Use cases of Adj-SID advertisements are
   described in [I-D.ietf-spring-segment-routing]The semantic of the
   Adj-SID is:

      Send out the packet to the interface this Adj-SID is allocated to.

   Advertisement of Adj-SID may be done using multiple mechanisms among
   which the ones described in ISIS and OSPF protocol extensions:
   [I-D.ietf-isis-segment-routing-extensions] and
   [I-D.ietf-ospf-ospfv3-segment-routing-extensions].  The distinction
   between local and global significance of the Adj-SID is given in the
   encoding of the Adj-SID advertisement.

3.2.  Segment Routing Extension Header (SRH)

   A new type of the Routing Header (originally defined in [RFC2460]) is
   defined: the Segment Routing Header (SRH) which has a new Routing
   Type, (suggested value 4) to be assigned by IANA.

   The Segment Routing Header (SRH) is defined as follows:


     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
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    | Next Header   |  Hdr Ext Len  | Routing Type  | Segments Left |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    | First Segment |             Flags             |  HMAC Key ID  |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                                                               |



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    |            Segment List[0] (128 bits ipv6 address)            |
    |                                                               |
    |                                                               |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                                                               |
    |                                                               |
                                  ...
    |                                                               |
    |                                                               |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                                                               |
    |            Segment List[n] (128 bits ipv6 address)            |
    |                                                               |
    |                                                               |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                                                               |
    |            Policy List[0] (optional)                          |
    |                                                               |
    |                                                               |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                                                               |
    |            Policy List[1] (optional)                          |
    |                                                               |
    |                                                               |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                                                               |
    |            Policy List[2] (optional)                          |
    |                                                               |
    |                                                               |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                                                               |
    |            Policy List[3] (optional)                          |
    |                                                               |
    |                                                               |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                                                               |
    |                                                               |
    |                                                               |
    |                       HMAC (256 bits)                         |
    |                        (optional)                             |
    |                                                               |
    |                                                               |
    |                                                               |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   where:





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   o  Next Header: 8-bit selector.  Identifies the type of header
      immediately following the SRH.

   o  Hdr Ext Len: 8-bit unsigned integer, is the length of the SRH
      header in 8-octet units, not including the first 8 octets.

   o  Routing Type: TBD, to be assigned by IANA (suggested value: 4).

   o  Segments Left.  Defined in [RFC2460], it contains the index, in
      the Segment List, of the next segment to inspect.  Segments Left
      is decremented at each segment.

   o  First Segment: contains the index, in the Segment List, of the
      first segment of the path which is in fact the last element of the
      Segment List.

   o  Flags: 16 bits of flags.  Following flags are defined:

                              1
          0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
         +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
         |C|P|R|R|    Policy Flags       |
         +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

         C-flag: Clean-up flag.  Set when the SRH has to be removed from
         the packet when packet reaches the last segment.

         P-flag: Protected flag.  Set when the packet has been rerouted
         through FRR mechanism by a SR endpoint node.

         R-flags.  Reserved and for future use.

         Policy Flags.  Define the type of the IPv6 addresses encoded
         into the Policy List (see below).  The following have been
         defined:

            Bits 4-6: determine the type of the first element after the
            segment list.

            Bits 7-9: determine the type of the second element.

            Bits 10-12: determine the type of the third element.

            Bits 13-15: determine the type of the fourth element.

         The following values are used for the type:





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            0x0: Not present.  If value is set to 0x0, it means the
            element represented by these bits is not present.

            0x1: SR Ingress.

            0x2: SR Egress.

            0x3: Original Source Address.

            0x4 to 0x7: currently unused and SHOULD be ignored on
            reception.

   o  HMAC Key ID and HMAC field, and their use are defined in
      Section 5.

   o  Segment List[n]: 128 bit IPv6 addresses representing the nth
      segment in the Segment List.  The Segment List is encoded starting
      from the last segment of the path.  I.e., the first element of the
      segment list (Segment List [0]) contains the last segment of the
      path while the last segment of the Segment List (Segment List[n])
      contains the first segment of the path.  The index contained in
      "Segments Left" identifies the current active segment.

   o  Policy List.  Optional addresses representing specific nodes in
      the SR path such as:

         SR Ingress: a 128 bit generic identifier representing the
         ingress in the SR domain (i.e.: it needs not to be a valid IPv6
         address).

         SR Egress: a 128 bit generic identifier representing the egress
         in the SR domain (i.e.: it needs not to be a valid IPv6
         address).

         Original Source Address: IPv6 address originally present in the
         SA field of the packet.

      The segments in the Policy List are encoded after the segment list
      and they are optional.  If none are in the SRH, all bits of the
      Policy List Flags MUST be set to 0x0.

3.2.1.  SRH and RFC2460 behavior

   The SRH being a new type of the Routing Header, it also has the same
   properties:

      SHOULD only appear once in the packet.




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      Only the router whose address is in the DA field of the packet
      header MUST inspect the SRH.

   Therefore, Segment Routing in IPv6 networks implies that the segment
   identifier (i.e.: the IPv6 address of the segment) is moved into the
   DA of the packet.

   The DA of the packet changes at each segment termination/completion
   and therefore the original DA of the packet MUST be encoded as the
   last segment of the path.

   As illustrated in Section 2.3, nodes that are within the path of a
   segment will forward packets based on the DA of the packet without
   inspecting the SRH.  This ensures full interoperability between SR-
   capable and non-SR-capable nodes.

4.  SRH Procedures

   In this section we describe the different procedures on the SRH.

4.1.  Segment Routing Node Functions

   SR packets are forwarded to segments endpoints (i.e.: the segment
   endpoint is the node representing the segment and whose address is in
   the segment list and in the DA of the packet when traveling in the
   segment).  The segment endpoint, when receiving a SR packet destined
   to itself, does:

   o  Inspect the SRH.

   o  Determine the next active segment.

   o  Update the Segments Left field (or, if requested, remove the SRH
      from the packet).

   o  Update the DA.

   o  Forward the packet to the next segment.

   The procedures applied to the SRH are related to the node function.
   Following nodes functions are defined:

      Source SR Node.

      SR Domain Ingress Node.

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      SR Endpoint Node.

4.1.1.  Source SR Node

   A Source SR Node can be any node originating an IPv6 packet with its
   IPv6 and Segment Routing Headers.  This include either:

      A host originating an IPv6 packet

      A SR domain ingress router encapsulating a received IPv6 packet
      into an outer IPv6 header followed by a SRH

   The mechanism through which a Segment List is derived is outside of
   the scope of this document.  As an example, the Segment List may be
   obtained through:

      Local path computation.

      Local configuration.

      Interaction with a centralized controller delivering the path.

      Any other mechanism.

   The following are the steps of the creation of the SRH:

      Next Header and Hdr Ext Len fields are set according to [RFC2460].

      Routing Type field is set as TBD (SRH).

      The Segment List is built with the FIRST segment of the path
      encoded in the LAST element of the Segment List.  Subsequent
      segments are encoded on top of the first segment.  Finally, the
      LAST segment of the path is encoded in the FIRST element of the
      Segment List.  In other words, the Segment List is encoded in the
      reverse order of the path.

      The original DA of the packet is encoded as the last segment of
      the path (encoded in the first element of the Segment List).

      The DA of the packet is set with the value of the first segment
      (found in the last element of the segment list).

      The Segments Left field is set to n-1 where n is the number of
      elements in the Segment List.

      The First Segment field is set to n-1 where n is the number of
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      The packet is sent out towards the first segment (i.e.:
      represented in the packet DA).

      HMAC and HMAC Key ID may be set according to Section 5.

4.1.2.  SR Domain Ingress Node

   The SR Domain Ingress Node is the node where ingress policies are
   applied and where the packet path (and processing) is determined.

   After policies are applied and packet classification is done, the
   result may be instantiated into a Segment List representing the path
   the packet should take.  In such case, the SR Domain Ingress Node
   instantiate a new outer IPv6 header to which the SRH is appended
   (with the computed Segment List).  The procedures for the creation
   and insertion of the new SRH are described in Section 4.1.1.

4.1.3.  Transit Node

   According to [RFC2460], the only node who is allowed to inspect the
   Routing Extension Header (and therefore the SRH), is the node
   corresponding to the DA of the packet.  Any other transit node MUST
   NOT inspect the underneath routing header and MUST forward the packet
   towards the DA and according to the IPv6 routing table.

   In the example case described in Section 2.2.2, when SR capable nodes
   are connected through an overlay spanning multiple third-party
   infrastructure, it is safe to send SRH packets (i.e.: packet having a
   Segment Routing Header) between each other overlay/SR-capable nodes
   as long as the segment list does not include any of the transit
   provider nodes.  In addition, as a generic security measure, any
   service provider will block any packet destined to one of its
   internal routers, especially if these packets have an extended header
   in it.

4.1.4.  SR Segment Endpoint Node

   The SR segment endpoint node is the node whose address is in the DA.
   The segment endpoint node inspects the SRH and does:












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   1.   IF DA = myself (segment endpoint)
   2.      IF Segments Left > 0 THEN
              decrement Segments Left
              update DA with Segment List[Segments Left]
   3.         IF Segments Left == 0 THEN
                 IF Clean-up bit is set THEN remove the SRH
   4.      ELSE give the packet to next PID (application)
                End of processing.
   5.   Forward the packet out

5.  Security Considerations

   This section analyzes the security threat model, the security issues
   and mitigation techniques of SRH.

   SRH is simply another type of the routing header as described in RFC
   2460 [RFC2460] and is:

   o  added to a new outer IP header by the ingress router when entering
      the SR domain or by the originating node itself.  The source host
      can be outside the SR domain;

   o  inspected and acted upon when reaching the destination address of
      the IP header per RFC 2460 [RFC2460].

   Per RFC2460 [RFC2460], routers on the path that simply forward an
   IPv6 packet (i.e. the IPv6 destination address is none of theirs)
   will never inspect and process the content of any routing header
   (including SRH).  Routers whose one interface IPv6 address equals the
   destination address field of the IPv6 packet MUST to parse the SRH
   and, if supported and if the local configuration allows it, MUST act
   accordingly to the SRH content.

   According to RFC2460 [RFC2460], non SR-capable (or non SR-configured)
   router upon receipt of an IPv6 packet with SRH destined to an address
   of its:

   o  must ignore the SRH completely if the Segment Left field is 0 and
      proceed to process the next header in the IPv6 packet;

   o  must discard the IPv6 packet if Segment Left field is greater than
      0 and send a Parameter Problem ICMP message back to the Source
      Address.








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5.1.  Threat model

5.1.1.  Source routing threats

   Using a SRH is a specific case of loose source routing, therefore it
   has some well-known security issues as described in RFC4942 [RFC4942]
   section 2.1.1 and RFC5095 [RFC5095]:

   o  amplification attacks: where a packet could be forged in such a
      way to cause looping among a set of SR-enabled routers causing
      unnecessary traffic, hence a Denial of Service (DoS) against
      bandwidth;

   o  reflection attack: where a hacker could force an intermediate node
      to appear as the immediate attacker, hence hiding the real
      attacker from naive forensic;

   o  bypass attack: where an intermediate node could be used as a
      stepping stone (for example in a De-Militarized Zone) to attack
      another host (for example in the datacenter or any back-end
      server).

5.1.2.  Applicability of RFC 5095 to SRH

   First of all, the reader must remember this specific part of section
   1 of RFC5095 [RFC5095], "A side effect is that this also eliminates
   benign RH0 use-cases; however, such applications may be facilitated
   by future Routing Header specifications.".  In short, it is not
   forbidden to create new secure type of Routing Header; for example,
   RFC 6554 (RPL) [RFC6554] also creates a new Routing Header type for a
   specific application confined in a single network.

   The main use case for SR consists of the single administrative domain
   (or cooperating administrative domains) where only trusted nodes with
   SR enabled and explicitely configured participate in SR: this is the
   same model as in RFC6554 [RFC6554].  All non-trusted nodes do not
   participate as either SR processing is not enabled by default or
   because they only process SRH from nodes within their domain.

   Moreover, all SR routers SHOULD ignore SRH created by outsiders based
   on topology information (received on a peering or internal interface)
   or on presence and validity of the HMAC field.  Therefore, if
   intermediate SR routers ONLY act on valid and authorized SRH (such as
   within a single administrative domain), then there is no security
   threat similar to RH-0.  Hence, the RFC 5095 [RFC5095] attacks are
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5.1.3.  Service stealing threat

   Segment routing is used for added value services, there is also a
   need to prevent non-participating nodes to use those services; this
   is called 'service stealing prevention'.

5.1.4.  Topology disclosure

   The SRH may also contains IPv6 addresses of some intermediate SR
   routers in the path towards the destination, this obviously reveals
   those addresses to the potentially hostile attackers if those
   attackers are able to intercept packets containing SRH.  On the other
   hand, if the attacker can do a traceroute whose probes will be
   forwarded along the SR path, then there is little learned by
   intercepting the SRH itself.  The clean-bit of SRH can help by
   removing the SRH before forwarding the packet to potentially a non-
   trusted part of the network; if the attacker can force the generation
   of an ICMP message during the transit in the SR domain, then the ICMP
   will probably contain the SRH header (totally or partially) depending
   on the ICMP-generating router behavior.

5.1.5.  ICMP Generation

   Per section 4.4 of RFC2460 [RFC2460], when destination nodes (i.e.
   where the destination address is one of theirs) receive a Routing
   Header with unsupported Routing Type, the required behavior is:

   o  If Segments Left is zero, the node must ignore the Routing header
      and proceed to process the next header in the packet.

   o  If Segments Left is non-zero, the node must discard the packet and
      SHOULD send an ICMP Parameter Problem, Code 0, message to the
      packet's Source Address, pointing to the unrecognized Routing
      Type.

   This required behavior could be used by an attacker to force the
   generation of ICMP message by any node.  The attacker could send
   packets with SRH (with Segment Left different than 0) destined to a
   node not supporting SRH.  Per RFC2460 [RFC2460], the destination node
   must then generate an ICMP message per RFC 2460, causing a local CPU
   utilization and if the source of the offending packet with SRH was
   spoofed could lead to a reflection attack without any amplification.

   It must be noted that this is a required behavior for any unsupported
   Routing Type and not limited to SRH packets.  So, it is not specific
   to SRH and the usual rate limiting for ICMP generation is required
   anyway for any IPv6 implementation and has been implemented and
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5.2.  Security fields in SRH

   This section summarizes the use of specific fields in the SRH.  They
   are based on a key-hashed message authentication code (HMAC).

   The security-related fields in SRH are:

   o  HMAC Key-id, 8 bits wide;

   o  HMAC, 256 bits wide (optional, exists only if HMAC Key-id is not
      0).

   The HMAC field is the output of the HMAC computation (per RFC 2104
   [RFC2104]) using a pre-shared key and hashing algorithm identified by
   HMAC Key-id and of the text which consists of the concatenation of:

   o  the source IPv6 address;

   o  First Segment field;

   o  an octet whose bit-0 is the clean-up bit flag and others are 0;

   o  HMAC Key-id;

   o  all addresses in the Segment List.

   The purpose of the HMAC field is to verify the validity, the
   integrity and the authorization of the SRH itself.  If an outsider of
   the SR domain does not have access to a current pre-shared secret,
   then it cannot compute the right HMAC field and the first SR router
   on the path processing the SRH and configured to check the validity
   of the HMAC will simply reject the packet.

   The HMAC field is located at the end of the SRH simply because only
   the router on the ingress of the SR domain needs to process it, then
   all other SR nodes can ignore it (based on local policy) because they
   trust the upstream router.  This is to speed up forwarding operations
   because SR routers which do not validate the SRH do not need to parse
   the SRH until the end.

   The HMAC Key-id field allows for the simultaneous existence of
   several hash algorithms (SHA-256, SHA3-256 ... or future ones) as
   well as pre-shared keys.  This allows for pre-shared key roll-over
   when two pre-shared keys are supported for a while when all SR nodes
   converged to a fresher pre-shared key.  The HMAC Key-id field is
   opaque, i.e., it has neither syntax not semantic except as an index
   to the right combination of pre-shared key and hash algorithm and
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   also allow for interoperation among different SR domains if allowed
   by local policy and assuming a collision-free Key Id allocation which
   is out of scope of this memo.

   When a specific SRH is linked to a time-related service (such as
   turbo-QoS for a 1-hour period), then it is important to refresh the
   shared-secret frequently as the HMAC validity period expires only
   when the HMAC Key-id and its associated shared-secret expires.

5.2.1.  Selecting a hash algorithm

   The HMAC field in the SRH is 256 bits wide.  Therefore, the HMAC MUST
   be based on a hash function whose output is at least 256 bits.  If
   the output of the hash function is 256, then this output is simply
   inserted in the HMAC field.  If the output of the hash function is
   larger than 256 bits, then the output value is truncated to 256 by
   taking the least-significant 256 bits and inserting them in the HMAC
   field.

   SRH implementations can support multiple hash functions but MUST
   implement SHA-2 [FIPS180-4] in its SHA-256 variant.

   NOTE: SHA-1 is currently used by some early implementations used for
   quick interoperations testing, the 160-bit hash value must then be
   right-hand padded with 96 bits set to 0.  The authors understand that
   this is not secure but is ok for limited tests.

5.2.2.  Performance impact of HMAC

   While adding a HMAC to each and every SR packet increases the
   security, it has a performance impact.  Nevertheless, it must be
   noted that:

   o  the HMAC field SHOULD be used only when SRH is inserted by a
      device (such as a home set-up box) which is outside of the segment
      routing domain.  If the SRH is added by a router in the trusted
      segment routing domain, then, there is no need for a HMAC field,
      hence no performance impact.

   o  when present, the HMAC field MUST be checked and validated only by
      the first router of the segment routing domain, this router is
      named 'validating SR router'.  Downstream routers may not inspect
      the HMAC field.

   o  this validating router can also have a cache of <IPv6 header +
      SRH, HMAC field value> to improve the performance.  It is not the
      same use case as in IPsec where HMAC value was unique per packet,
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   o  Last point, hash functions such as SHA-2 have been optmized for
      security and performance and there are multiple implementations
      with good performance.

   With the above points in mind, the performance impact of using HMAC
   is minimized.

5.2.3.  Pre-shared key management

   The field HMAC Key-id allows for:

   o  key roll-over: when there is a need to change the key (the hash
      pre-shared secret), then multiple pre-shared keys can be used
      simultaneously.  The validating routing can have a table of <HMAC
      Key-id, pre-shared secret, hash algorithm> for the currently
      active and future keys.

   o  different algorithm: by extending the previous table to <HMAC Key-
      id, hash function, pre-shared secret>, the validating router can
      also support simultaneously several hash algorithms (see section
      Section 5.2.1)

   The pre-shared secret distribution can be done:

   o  in the configuration of the validating routers, either by static
      configuration or any SDN oriented approach;

   o  dynamically using a trusted key distribution such as [RFC6407]

   The intent of this document is NOT to define yet-another-key-
   distribution-protocol.

5.3.  Deployment Models

5.3.1.  Nodes within the SR domain

   The routers inside a SR domain can be trusted to generate the outer
   IP header and the SRH and to process SRH received on interfaces that
   are part of the SR domain.  These nodes MUST drop all SRH packets
   received on any interface that is not part of the SR domain and
   containing a SRH whose HMAC field cannot be validated by local
   policies.  This includes obviously packet with a SRH generated by a
   non-cooperative SR domain.

   If the validation fails, then these packets MUST be dropped, ICMP
   error messages (parameter problem) SHOULD be generated (but rate
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5.3.2.  Nodes outside of the SR domain

   Nodes outside of the SR domain cannot be trusted for physical
   security; hence, they need to obtain by some trusted means (outside
   of the scope of this document) a complete SRH for each new connection
   (i.e. new destination address).  The received SRH MUST include a HMAC
   Key-id and HMAC field which has been computed correctly (see
   Section 5.2).

   When a outside the SR domain sends a packet with a SRH and towards a
   SR domain ingress node, the packet MUST contain the HMAC Key-id and
   HMAC field and the the destination address MUST be an address of a SR
   domain ingress node .

   The ingress SR router, i.e., the router with an interface address
   equals to the destination address, MUST verify the HMAC field with
   respect to the HMAC Key-id.

   If the validation is successful, then the packet is simply forwarded
   as usual for a SR packet.  As long as the packet travels within the
   SR domain, no further HMAC check needs to be done.  Subsequent
   routers in the SR domain MAY verify the HMAC field when they process
   the SRH (i.e. when they are the destination).

   If the validation fails, then this packet MUST be dropped, an ICMP
   error message (parameter problem) SHOULD be generated (but rate
   limited) and SHOULD be logged.

5.3.3.  SR path exposure

   As the intermediate SR nodes addresses appears in the SRH, if this
   SRH is visible to an outsider then he/she could reuse this knowledge
   to launch an attack on the intermediate SR nodes or get some insider
   knowledge on the topology.  This is especially applicable when the
   path between the source node and the first SR domain ingress router
   is on the public Internet.

   The first remark is to state that 'security by obscurity' is never
   enough; in other words, the security policy of the SR domain SHOULD
   assume that the internal topology and addressing is known by the
   attacker.

   IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload [RFC4303] cannot be use to
   protect the SRH as per RFC4303 the ESP header must appear after any
   routing header (including SRH).

   When the SRH is not generated by the actual source node but by an SR
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   means that a normal traceroute will not reveal the routers in the SR
   domain (pretty much like in a MPLS network) and that if ICMP are
   generated by routers in the SR domain they will be sent to the
   ingress router of the SR domain without revealing anything to the
   outside of the SR domain.

   To prevent a user to leverage the gained knowledge by intercepting
   SRH, it it recommended to apply an infrastructure Access Control List
   (iACL) at the edge of the SR domain.  This iACL will drop all packets
   from outside the SR-domain whose destination is any address of any
   router inside the domain.  This security policy should be tuned for
   local operations.

5.3.4.  Impact of BCP-38

   BCP-38 [RFC2827], also known as "Network Ingress Filtering", checks
   whether the source address of packets received on an interface is
   valid for this interface.  The use of loose source routing such as
   SRH forces packets to follow a path which differs from the expected
   routing.  Therefore, if BCP-38 was implemented in all routers inside
   the SR domain, then SR packets could be received by an interface
   which is not expected one and the packets could be dropped.

   As a SR domain is usually a subset of one administrative domain, and
   as BCP-38 is only deployed at the ingress routers of this
   administrative domain and as packets arriving at those ingress
   routers have been normally forwarded using the normal routing
   information, then there is no reason why this ingress router should
   drop the SRH packet based on BCP-38.  Routers inside the domain
   commonly do not apply BCP-38; so, this is not a problem.

6.  IANA Considerations

   TBD but should at least require a new type for routing header

7.  Manageability Considerations

   TBD should we talk about traceroute? about SRH in ICMP replies?

8.  Contributors

   The authors would like to thank Dave Barach, John Leddy, John
   Brzozowski, Pierre Francois, Nagendra Kumar, Mark Townsley, Christian
   Martin, Roberta Maglione, James Connolly, Aloys Augustin and Fred
   Baker for their contribution to this document.






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9.  Acknowledgements

   TBD

10.  References

10.1.  Normative References

   [FIPS180-4]
              National Institute of Standards and Technology, "FIPS
              180-4 Secure Hash Standard (SHS)", March 2012,
              <http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-4/
              fips-180-4.pdf>.

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

   [RFC2460]  Deering, S. and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version 6
              (IPv6) Specification", RFC 2460, DOI 10.17487/RFC2460,
              December 1998, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2460>.

   [RFC4303]  Kent, S., "IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)",
              RFC 4303, DOI 10.17487/RFC4303, December 2005,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4303>.

   [RFC5095]  Abley, J., Savola, P., and G. Neville-Neil, "Deprecation
              of Type 0 Routing Headers in IPv6", RFC 5095,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5095, December 2007,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5095>.

   [RFC6407]  Weis, B., Rowles, S., and T. Hardjono, "The Group Domain
              of Interpretation", RFC 6407, DOI 10.17487/RFC6407,
              October 2011, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6407>.

10.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-isis-segment-routing-extensions]
              Previdi, S., Filsfils, C., Bashandy, A., Gredler, H.,
              Litkowski, S., Decraene, B., and J. Tantsura, "IS-IS
              Extensions for Segment Routing", draft-ietf-isis-segment-
              routing-extensions-05 (work in progress), June 2015.








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   [I-D.ietf-ospf-ospfv3-segment-routing-extensions]
              Psenak, P., Previdi, S., Filsfils, C., Gredler, H.,
              Shakir, R., Henderickx, W., and J. Tantsura, "OSPFv3
              Extensions for Segment Routing", draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-
              segment-routing-extensions-03 (work in progress), June
              2015.

   [I-D.ietf-spring-ipv6-use-cases]
              Brzozowski, J., Leddy, J., Leung, I., Previdi, S.,
              Townsley, W., Martin, C., Filsfils, C., and R. Maglione,
              "IPv6 SPRING Use Cases", draft-ietf-spring-ipv6-use-
              cases-05 (work in progress), September 2015.

   [I-D.ietf-spring-problem-statement]
              Previdi, S., Filsfils, C., Decraene, B., Litkowski, S.,
              Horneffer, M., and R. Shakir, "SPRING Problem Statement
              and Requirements", draft-ietf-spring-problem-statement-04
              (work in progress), April 2015.

   [I-D.ietf-spring-resiliency-use-cases]
              Francois, P., Filsfils, C., Decraene, B., and R. Shakir,
              "Use-cases for Resiliency in SPRING", draft-ietf-spring-
              resiliency-use-cases-01 (work in progress), March 2015.

   [I-D.ietf-spring-segment-routing]
              Filsfils, C., Previdi, S., Decraene, B., Litkowski, S.,
              and r. rjs@rob.sh, "Segment Routing Architecture", draft-
              ietf-spring-segment-routing-05 (work in progress),
              September 2015.

   [I-D.ietf-spring-segment-routing-mpls]
              Filsfils, C., Previdi, S., Bashandy, A., Decraene, B.,
              Litkowski, S., Horneffer, M., Shakir, R., Tantsura, J.,
              and E. Crabbe, "Segment Routing with MPLS data plane",
              draft-ietf-spring-segment-routing-mpls-01 (work in
              progress), May 2015.

   [RFC1940]  Estrin, D., Li, T., Rekhter, Y., Varadhan, K., and D.
              Zappala, "Source Demand Routing: Packet Format and
              Forwarding Specification (Version 1)", RFC 1940,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC1940, May 1996,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1940>.

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




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   [RFC2827]  Ferguson, P. and D. Senie, "Network Ingress Filtering:
              Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source
              Address Spoofing", BCP 38, RFC 2827, DOI 10.17487/RFC2827,
              May 2000, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2827>.

   [RFC4942]  Davies, E., Krishnan, S., and P. Savola, "IPv6 Transition/
              Co-existence Security Considerations", RFC 4942,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4942, September 2007,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4942>.

   [RFC6554]  Hui, J., Vasseur, JP., Culler, D., and V. Manral, "An IPv6
              Routing Header for Source Routes with the Routing Protocol
              for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL)", RFC 6554,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6554, March 2012,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6554>.

Authors' Addresses

   Stefano Previdi (editor)
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   Via Del Serafico, 200
   Rome  00142
   Italy

   Email: sprevidi@cisco.com


   Clarence Filsfils
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   Brussels
   BE

   Email: cfilsfil@cisco.com


   Brian Field
   Comcast
   4100 East Dry Creek Road
   Centennial, CO  80122
   US

   Email: Brian_Field@cable.comcast.com









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   Ida Leung
   Rogers Communications
   8200 Dixie Road
   Brampton, ON  L6T 0C1
   CA

   Email: Ida.Leung@rci.rogers.com


   Jen Linkova
   Google
   1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
   Mountain View, CA 94043
   US

   Email: furry@google.com


   Ebben Aries
   Facebook
   US

   Email: exa@fb.com


   Tomoya Kosugi
   NTT
   3-9-11, Midori-Cho Musashino-Shi,
   Tokyo  180-8585
   JP

   Email: kosugi.tomoya@lab.ntt.co.jp


   Eric Vyncke
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   De Kleetlaann 6A
   Diegem  1831
   Belgium

   Email: evyncke@cisco.com










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   David Lebrun
   Universite Catholique de Louvain
   Place Ste Barbe, 2
   Louvain-la-Neuve, 1348
   Belgium

   Email: david.lebrun@uclouvain.be












































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