NSIS Operation over IP Tunnels
RFC 5979

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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                           C. Shen
Request for Comments: 5979                                H. Schulzrinne
Category: Experimental                                       Columbia U.
ISSN: 2070-1721                                                   S. Lee
                                                                 Samsung
                                                                 J. Bang
                                                             Samsung AIT
                                                              March 2011

                     NSIS Operation over IP Tunnels

Abstract

   NSIS Quality of Service (QoS) signaling enables applications to
   perform QoS reservation along a data flow path.  When the data flow
   path contains IP tunnel segments, NSIS QoS signaling has no effect
   within those tunnel segments.  Therefore, the resulting tunnel
   segments could become the weakest QoS link and invalidate the QoS
   efforts in the rest of the end-to-end path.  The problem with NSIS
   signaling within the tunnel is caused by the tunnel encapsulation
   that masks packets' original IP header fields.  Those original IP
   header fields are needed to intercept NSIS signaling messages and
   classify QoS data packets.  This document defines a solution to this
   problem by mapping end-to-end QoS session requests to corresponding
   QoS sessions in the tunnel, thus extending the end-to-end QoS
   signaling into the IP tunnel segments.

Status of This Memo

   This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
   published for examination, experimental implementation, and
   evaluation.

   This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
   community.  This document is a product of the Internet Engineering
   Task Force (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF
   community.  It has received public review and has been approved for
   publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Not
   all documents approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of
   Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.

   Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
   and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
   http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5979.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   3.  Problem Statement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     3.1.  IP Tunneling Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     3.2.  NSIS QoS Signaling in the Presence of IP Tunnels . . . . .  7
   4.  Design Overview  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     4.1.  Design Requirements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     4.2.  Overall Design Approach  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
     4.3.  Tunnel Flow ID for Different IP Tunneling Protocols  . . . 13
   5.  NSIS Operation over Tunnels with Preconfigured QoS Sessions  . 14
     5.1.  Sender-initiated Reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
     5.2.  Receiver-Initiated Reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   6.  NSIS Operation over Tunnels with Dynamically Created QoS