Synchronizing Service Boundaries and <mapping> Elements Based on the Location-to-Service Translation (LoST) Protocol
RFC 6739
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) H. Schulzrinne
Request for Comments: 6739 Columbia University
Category: Experimental H. Tschofenig
ISSN: 2070-1721 Nokia Siemens Networks
October 2012
Synchronizing Service Boundaries and <mapping> Elements Based on the
Location-to-Service Translation (LoST) Protocol
Abstract
The Location-to-Service Translation (LoST) protocol is an XML-based
protocol for mapping service identifiers and geodetic or civic
location information to service URIs and service boundaries. In
particular, it can be used to determine the location-appropriate
Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) for emergency services.
The <mapping> element in the LoST protocol specification encapsulates
information about service boundaries and circumscribes the region
within which all locations map to the same service Uniform Resource
Identifier (URI) or set of URIs for a given service.
This document defines an XML protocol to exchange these mappings
between two nodes. This mechanism is designed for the exchange of
authoritative <mapping> elements between two entities. Exchanging
cached <mapping> elements, i.e., non-authoritative elements, is
possible but not envisioned. Even though the <mapping> element
format is reused from the LoST specification, the mechanism in this
document can be used without the LoST protocol.
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/rfc6739.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. A Motivating Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Querying for Mappings with a
<getMappingsRequest>/<getMappingsResponse> Exchange . . . . . 9
4.1. Behavior of the LoST Sync Destination . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2. Behavior of the LoST Sync Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.3. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. Pushing Mappings via <pushMappings> and
<pushMappingsResponse> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.1. Behavior of the LoST Sync Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.2. Behavior of the LoST Sync Destination . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.3. Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6. Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7. RELAX NG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
8. Operational Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
9. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
10. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
10.1. Media Type Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
10.2. LoST Sync RELAX NG Schema Registration . . . . . . . . . . 22
10.3. LoST Synchronization Namespace Registration . . . . . . . 22
11. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
12. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
12.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
12.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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1. Introduction
Since the early days of emergency services, there has been a desire
to route emergency calls to Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs)
that are nearest to the location of the emergency caller. For this
purpose each PSAP discloses one or more service boundaries so that
this information can be used to select the appropriate PSAP and to
route the call to it. RFC 5222 [RFC5222] defines this data structure
in the following way:
A service boundary circumscribes the region within which all
locations map to the same service URI or set of URIs for a given
service. A service boundary may consist of several non-contiguous
geometric shapes.
RFC 5222 [RFC5222] also specifies the data structure itself as the
<mapping> element.
This document reuses this existing data structure and defines an XML-
based protocol to exchange authoritative service boundaries between
two entities, namely, the LoST Sync source and the LoST Sync
destination. This protocol can be used whether or not the LoST
protocol is used for querying for service boundary information.
The rest of the document is structured as follows. Section 3 starts
with an example usage of the LoST protocol. In Sections 4, 5, 6, and
7, we describe the protocol semantics, transport considerations, and
the schema. Finally, we conclude with operational, security, and
IANA considerations in Sections 8, 9, and 10.
2. Terminology
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].
This document reuses terminology introduced by the mapping
architecture document [RFC5582], such as 'coverage region', 'forest
guide', 'mapping', and 'authoritative mapping server'. This document
also uses the term 'ESRP', defined in [RFC5012].
Throughout this document, we use the terms 'LoST Sync source' and
'LoST Sync destination' to denote the protocol endpoints of the
exchange. The protocol is referred to as 'LoST Sync' within the
text.
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3. A Motivating Example
The LoST Sync mechanism can, for example, be used in the LoST
architecture, as specified in [RFC5582]. There, LoST servers
cooperate to provide an ubiquitous, globally scalable, and resilient
mapping service. In the LoST mapping architecture, LoST servers can
peer, i.e., have an ongoing data exchange relationship. Peering
relationships are set up manually, based on local policies. A LoST
server may peer with any number of other LoST servers. Forest guides
peer with other forest guides; authoritative mapping servers peer
with forest guides and other authoritative servers, either in the
same cluster or above or below them in the tree. Authoritative
mapping servers push coverage regions "up" the tree, i.e., from child
nodes to parent nodes. The child informs the parent of the
geospatial or civic region that it covers for a specific service.
Consider a hypothetical deployment of LoST in two countries, for
example, Austria and Finland. Austria, in our example, runs three
authoritative mapping servers labeled as 'East', 'West', and
'Vienna', where the former two cover the entire country except for
Vienna, which is covered by a separate LoST server. There may be
other caching LoST servers run by ISPs, universities, and Voice
Service Providers (VSPs), but they are not relevant for this
illustration. Finland, on the other hand, decided to only deploy a
single LoST server that also acts as a forest guide. For this
simplistic illustration, we assume that only one service is
available, namely 'urn:service:sos' since otherwise the number of
stored mappings would have to be multiplied by the number of used
services.
Figure 1 shows the example deployment.
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+---LoST-Sync-->\\ //<--LoST-Sync----+
| ----- |
| |
\/ \/
----- -----
// \\ // \\
/ \ / \
| Forest | | Forest |
| Guide | | Guide |
| Austria | | Finland
\ / \ /
+--------->\\ //<--------+ \\ //
| ----- | -----
| /\ | |
LoST | LoST //------\\
Sync LoST Sync |Co-Located|
| Sync | | LoST |
\/ | \/ | Server |
//----\\ \/ //----\\ \\------//
| LoST | //----\\ | LoST |
| Server | | LoST | | Server |
| 'East' | | Server | |'Vienna'|
\\----// | 'West' | \\----//
\\----//
Figure 1: LoST Deployment Example
The nodes are configured as follows:
Forest Guide Austria: This forest guide contains mappings for the
three authoritative mapping servers (East, West, and Vienna)
describing the area for which they are responsible. Note that
each mapping contains a service URN, and these mappings point to
LoST servers rather than to PSAPs or Emergency Services Routing
Proxies (ESRPs).
LoST Server 'East': This LoST server contains all the mappings to
PSAPs covering the eastern part of the country.
Additionally, the LoST server aggregates all the information it
has and provides an abstracted view towards the forest guide
indicating that it is responsible for a certain area (for a given
service and for a given location profile). For our example, the
structure of a mapping is shown below:
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<mapping
xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lost1"
xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
expires="2009-01-01T01:44:33Z"
lastUpdated="2009-12-01T01:00:00Z"
source="east-austria.lost-example.com"
sourceId="e8b05a41d8d1415b80f2cdbb96ccf109">
<displayName xml:lang="en">LoST Server 'East'</displayName>
<service>urn:service:sos</service>
<serviceBoundary profile="geodetic-2d">
<gml:Polygon srsName="urn:ogc:def::crs:EPSG::4326">
<gml:exterior>
<gml:LinearRing>
<gml:pos> ... </gml:pos>
..... list of coordinates for
boundary of LoST server 'East'
<gml:pos> ... </gml:pos>
</gml:LinearRing>
</gml:exterior>
</gml:Polygon>
</serviceBoundary>
<uri/>
</mapping>
Figure 2: Forest Guide Austria Mapping XML Snippet
Note that the XML code snippet in Figure 2 serves illustrative
purposes only and does not validate. As can be seen in this
example, the <uri> element is absent, and the 'source' attribute
identifies the LoST server, namely "east-austria.lost-
example.com".
The mapping shown above is what is the LoST server "east-
austria.lost-example.com" provides to the Austrian forest guide.
LoST Server 'West': This LoST server contains all the mappings to
PSAPs covering the western half of the country.
LoST Server 'Vienna': This LoST server contains all the mappings to
PSAPs for the city of Vienna.
Forest Guide Finland: In our example, we assume that Finland deploys
a single ESRP for the entire country as their IP-based emergency
services solution. There is only a single LoST server, and it is
co-located with the forest guide, as shown in Figure 1. The
mapping data this forest guide (FG) then distributes via LoST Sync
is shown in Figure 3.
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<mapping xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lost1"
expires="2007-01-01T01:44:33Z"
lastUpdated="2006-11-01T01:00:00Z"
source="finland.lost-example.com"
sourceId="7e3f40b098c711dbb6060800200c9a66">
<displayName xml:lang="en">Finland ESRP</displayName>
<service>urn:service:sos</service>
<serviceBoundary profile="civic">
<civicAddress
xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:geopriv10:civicAddr">
<country>FI</country>
</civicAddress>
</serviceBoundary>
<uri/>
</mapping>
Figure 3: Forest Guide Finland Mapping XML Snippet
An example mapping stored at the co-located LoST server is shown
in Figure 4.
<mapping xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lost1"
expires="2007-01-01T01:44:33Z"
lastUpdated="2006-11-01T01:00:00Z"
source="finland.lost-example.com"
sourceId="7e3f40b098c711dbb6060800200c9a66">
<displayName xml:lang="en">Finland ESRP</displayName>
<service>urn:service:sos</service>
<serviceBoundary profile="civic">
<civicAddress
xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:geopriv10:civicAddr">
<country>FI</country>
</civicAddress>
</serviceBoundary>
<uri>sip:esrp@finland-example.com</uri>
<uri>xmpp:esrp@finland-example.com</uri>
<serviceNumber>112</serviceNumber>
</mapping>
Figure 4: Forest Guide Finland / Co-Located LoST Server Mapping
XML Snippet
The LoST Sync mechanism described in this document can be run between
the two forest guides. That way, the three mappings stored in the FG
Austria are sent to the FG Finland, and a single mapping in the FG
Finland is sent to the FG Austria. Additionally, the three Austrian
LoST servers could utilize LoST Sync to inform the Austrian FG about
their boundaries. These three authoritative mapping servers in
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Austria would be responsible for maintaining their own mapping
information. Since the amount of data being exchanged is small and
the expected rate of change is low, the nodes are configured to
always exchange all their mapping information whenever a change
happens.
This document defines two types of exchanges, which are best
described by the exchange between two nodes as shown in Figures 5 and
6. The protocol exchange always runs between a LoST Sync source and
a LoST Sync destination. Node A in the examples of Figures 5 and 6
has mappings that Node B is going to retrieve. Node A acts as the
source for the data and Node B is the destination.
The <getMappingsRequest> request allows a LoST Sync source to request
mappings from a LoST Sync destination.
+---------+ +---------+
| Node B | | Node A |
| acting | | acting |
| as | | as |
| LoST | | LoST |
| Sync | | Sync |
| Dest. | | Source |
+---------+ +---------+
| |
| |
| |
| <getMappingsRequest> |
|----------------------------->|
| |
| <getMappingsResponse> |
|<-----------------------------|
| |
| |
| |
Figure 5: Querying for Mappings with a <getMappingsRequest> Message
Note that in the exchange illustrated in Figure 5, Node B is issuing
the first request and plays the role of the HTTPS client, and Node A
plays the role of the HTTPS server.
In Figure 6, the <pushMappingsRequest> exchange allows a LoST Sync
source to push mappings to a LoST Sync destination. In this example,
we assume that Node A has been configured maintain state about the
mappings it had pushed to Node B.
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This document does not define a publish/subscribe mechanism. Such a
mechanism would allow Node B to tell Node A what mappings it is
interested in. This document also does not define a mechanism for
nodes to find out to which other entities mappings have to be pushed.
+---------+ +---------+
| Node A | | Node B |
| acting | | acting |
| as | | as |
| LoST | | LoST |
| Sync | | Sync |
| Source | | Dest. |
+---------+ +---------+
| |
| |
| |
| <pushMappingsRequest> |
|----------------------------->|
| |
| <pushMappingsResponse> |
|<-----------------------------|
| |
| |
| |
Figure 6: Pushing Mappings with a <pushMappingsRequest> Message
Node A issuing the first request in Figure 6 plays the role of the
HTTPS client, and Node B plays the role of the HTTPS server.
4. Querying for Mappings with a <getMappingsRequest>/
<getMappingsResponse> Exchange
4.1. Behavior of the LoST Sync Destination
A LoST Sync destination has two ways to retrieve <mapping> elements
from a LoST Sync source.
1. When the Lost Sync destination does not have any mappings, it
submits an empty <getMappingsRequest> message, as shown in
Figure 7. This indicates that it wishes to retrieve all mappings
from the LoST Sync source. Note that the request does not
propagate further to other nodes.
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2. In case a LoST Sync destination node has already obtained
mappings in previous exchanges, then it may want to check whether
these mappings have been updated in the meanwhile. The policy
regarding when to poll for updated mapping information is outside
the scope of this document. The <getMappingsRequest> message
with one or more <exists> child element(s) allows the source to
only return mappings that are missing at the destination or have
been updated.
After issuing the <getMappingsRequest> message, the LoST Sync
destination waits for the <getMappingsResponse> message. In case of
a successful response, the LoST Sync destination stores the received
mappings and determines which mappings to update.
4.2. Behavior of the LoST Sync Source
When a LoST Sync source receives an empty <getMappingsRequest>
message, then all locally available mappings MUST be returned.
When a LoST Sync source receives a <getMappingsRequest> message with
one or more <exists> child element(s), then it MUST consult with the
local mapping database to determine whether any of the mappings of
the client is stale and whether there are mappings locally that the
client does not yet have. The former can be determined by finding
mappings corresponding to the 'source' and 'sourceID' attributes
where a mapping with a more recent 'lastUpdated' date exists.
Processing a <getMappingsRequest> message MAY lead to a successful
response in the form of a <getMappingsResponse> or an <errors>
message. Only the <badRequest>, <forbidden>, <internalError>, and
<serverTimeout> errors, defined in [RFC5222], are used by this
specification. Neither the <redirect> nor the <warnings> messages
are reused by this message.
4.3. Examples
The first example shows an empty <getMappingsRequest> message that
would retrieve all locally stored mappings at the LoST Sync source.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<getMappingsRequest xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lostsync1"/>
Figure 7: Example of Empty <getMappingsRequest> Message
A further example request is shown in Figure 8, and the corresponding
response is depicted in Figure 9. In this example, the
<getMappingsRequest> element contains information about the mapping
that is locally available to the client inside the
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<mapping-fingerprint> element (with
source="authoritative.bar.example",
sourceId="7e3f40b098c711dbb6060800200c9a66", and lastUpdated="2006-
11-01T01:00:00Z"). The query asks for mappings that are more recent
than the available one as well as any missing mapping.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<getMappingsRequest xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lostsync1">
<exists>
<mapping-fingerprint source="authoritative.bar.example"
sourceId="7e3f40b098c711dbb6060800200c9a66"
lastUpdated="2006-11-01T01:00:00Z">
</mapping-fingerprint>
</exists>
</getMappingsRequest>
Figure 8: Example <getMappingsRequest> Message
The response to the above request is shown in Figure 9. A more
recent mapping was available with the identification of
source="authoritative.bar.example" and
sourceId="7e3f40b098c711dbb6060800200c9a66". Only one missing
mapping, with source "authoritative.foo.example", was found and
returned.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sync:getMappingsResponse
xmlns:sync="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lostsync1"
xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lost1"
xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml">
<mapping source="authoritative.bar.example"
sourceId="7e3f40b098c711dbb6060800200c9a66"
lastUpdated="2008-11-26T01:00:00Z"
expires="2009-12-26T01:00:00Z">
<displayName xml:lang="en">Leonia Police Department
</displayName>
<service>urn:service:sos.police</service>
<serviceBoundary
profile="urn:ietf:params:lost:location-profile:basic-civic">
<civicAddress
xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:geopriv10:civicAddr">
<country>US</country>
<A1>NJ</A1>
<A3>Leonia</A3>
<PC>07605</PC>
</civicAddress>
</serviceBoundary>
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<uri>sip:police@leonianj2.example.org</uri>
<serviceNumber>911</serviceNumber>
</mapping>
<mapping expires="2009-01-01T01:44:33Z"
lastUpdated="2008-11-01T01:00:00Z"
source="authoritative.foo.example"
sourceId="7e3f40b098c711dbb606011111111111">
<displayName xml:lang="en">New York City Police Department
</displayName>
<service>urn:service:sos.police</service>
<serviceBoundary profile="geodetic-2d">
<gml:Polygon srsName="urn:ogc:def::crs:EPSG::4326">
<gml:exterior>
<gml:LinearRing>
<gml:pos>37.775 -122.4194</gml:pos>
<gml:pos>37.555 -122.4194</gml:pos>
<gml:pos>37.555 -122.4264</gml:pos>
<gml:pos>37.775 -122.4264</gml:pos>
<gml:pos>37.775 -122.4194</gml:pos>
</gml:LinearRing>
</gml:exterior>
</gml:Polygon>
</serviceBoundary>
<uri>sip:nypd@example.com</uri>
<uri>xmpp:nypd@example.com</uri>
<serviceNumber>911</serviceNumber>
</mapping>
</sync:getMappingsResponse>
Figure 9: Example <getMappingsResponse> Message
5. Pushing Mappings via <pushMappings> and <pushMappingsResponse>
5.1. Behavior of the LoST Sync Source
When a LoST Sync source obtains new information that is of interest
to its peers, it may push the new mappings to its peers.
Configuration settings at both peers decide whether this
functionality is used and what mappings are pushed to which other
peers. New mappings may arrive through various means, such as a
manual addition to the local mapping database, or through the
interaction with other entities. Deleting mappings may also trigger
a protocol interaction.
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The LoST Sync source SHOULD keep track of which LoST Sync destination
it has pushed <mapping> elements to. If it does not keep state
information, then it always has to push the complete data set. As
discussed in Section 5.1 of [RFC5222], <mapping> elements are
identified by the 'source', 'sourceID', and 'lastUpdated' attributes.
A mapping is considered the same if these three attributes match.
A <pushMappings> request sent by a LoST Sync source MUST contain one
or more <mapping> elements.
To delete a mapping, the content of the mapping is left empty, i.e.,
the <mapping> element only contains the 'source', 'sourceID',
'lastUpdated', and 'expires' attributes. Figure 10 shows an example
request where the mapping with the source="nj.us.example",
sourceId="123", lastUpdated="2008-11-01T01:00:00Z", and
expires="2008-11-01T01:00:00Z" is requested to be deleted. Note that
the 'expires' attribute is required per the schema definition but
will be ignored in processing the request on the receiving side. A
sync source may want to delete the mapping from its internal mapping
database but has to remember the peers to which it has distributed
this update unless it has other ways to ensure that databases do not
get out of sync.
5.2. Behavior of the LoST Sync Destination
When a LoST Sync destination receives a <pushMappingsRequest>
message, then the cache with the existing mappings is inspected to
determine whether the received mapping should lead to an update of an
already existing mapping, should create a new mapping in the cache,
or should be discarded.
If a newly received mapping has a more recent time in its
'lastUpdated' attribute, it MUST update an existing mapping that has
matching 'source' and 'sourceID' attributes.
If the received mapping does not match with any existing mapping
based on the 'source' and 'sourceId', then it MUST be added to the
local cache as an independent mapping.
If a <pushMappingsRequest> message with an empty <mapping> element is
received, then a corresponding mapping has to be determined based on
the 'source' and the 'sourceID'.
If no mapping can be identified, then an <errors> response MUST be
returned that contains the <notDeleted> child element. The
<notDeleted> element MAY contain a 'message' attribute with an error
description used for debugging purposes. The <notDeleted> element
MUST contain the <mapping> element(s) that caused the error.
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The response to a <pushMappingsRequest> request is a
<pushMappingsResponse> message. With this specification, a
successful response message returns no additional elements, whereas
an <errors> response is returned in the response message if the
request failed. Only the <badRequest>, <forbidden>, <internalError>,
or <serverTimeout> errors defined in Section 13.1 of [RFC5222] are
used. The <redirect> and <warnings> messages are not used for this
query/response.
If the set of nodes that are synchronizing their data does not form a
tree, it is possible that the same information arrives through
several other nodes. This is unavoidable but generally only imposes
a modest overhead. (It would be possible to create a spanning tree
in the same fashion as IP multicast, but the complexity does not seem
warranted, given the relatively low volume of data.)
5.3. Example
An example is shown in Figure 10. Imagine a LoST node that obtained
two new mappings identified as follows:
o source="authoritative.example"
sourceId="7e3f40b098c711dbb6060800200c9a66"
lastUpdated="2008-11-26T01:00:00Z"
o source="authoritative.example"
sourceId="7e3f40b098c711dbb606011111111111"
lastUpdated="2008-11-01T01:00:00Z"
These two mappings have to be added to the peer's mapping database.
Additionally, the following mapping has to be deleted:
o source="nj.us.example"
sourceId="123"
lastUpdated="2008-11-01T01:00:00Z"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sync:pushMappings
xmlns:sync="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lostsync1"
xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lost1"
xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml">
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<mapping source="authoritative.example"
sourceId="7e3f40b098c711dbb6060800200c9a66"
lastUpdated="2008-11-26T01:00:00Z"
expires="2009-12-26T01:00:00Z">
<displayName xml:lang="en">Leonia Police Department
</displayName>
<service>urn:service:sos.police</service>
<serviceBoundary
profile="urn:ietf:params:lost:location-profile:basic-civic">
<civicAddress
xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:geopriv10:civicAddr">
<country>US</country>
<A1>NJ</A1>
<A3>Leonia</A3>
<PC>07605</PC>
</civicAddress>
</serviceBoundary>
<uri>sip:police@leonianj.example.org</uri>
<serviceNumber>911</serviceNumber>
</mapping>
<mapping expires="2009-01-01T01:44:33Z"
lastUpdated="2008-11-01T01:00:00Z"
source="authoritative.example"
sourceId="7e3f40b098c711dbb606011111111111">
<displayName xml:lang="en">New York City Police Department
</displayName>
<service>urn:service:sos.police</service>
<serviceBoundary profile="geodetic-2d">
<gml:Polygon srsName="urn:ogc:def::crs:EPSG::4326">
<gml:exterior>
<gml:LinearRing>
<gml:pos>37.775 -122.4194</gml:pos>
<gml:pos>37.555 -122.4194</gml:pos>
<gml:pos>37.555 -122.4264</gml:pos>
<gml:pos>37.775 -122.4264</gml:pos>
<gml:pos>37.775 -122.4194</gml:pos>
</gml:LinearRing>
</gml:exterior>
</gml:Polygon>
</serviceBoundary>
<uri>sip:nypd@example.com</uri>
<uri>xmpp:nypd@example.com</uri>
<serviceNumber>911</serviceNumber>
</mapping>
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<mapping source="nj.us.example"
sourceId="123"
lastUpdated="2008-11-01T01:00:00Z"
expires="2008-11-01T01:00:00Z"/>
</sync:pushMappings>
Figure 10: Example <pushMappingsRequest> Message
In response, the peer performs the necessary operations and updates
its mapping database. In particular, it will check whether the other
peer is authorized to perform the update and whether the elements and
attributes contain values that it understands. In our example, a
positive response is returned as shown in Figure 11.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<pushMappingsResponse xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lostsync1" />
Figure 11: Example <pushMappingsResponse>
In case a mapping could not be deleted as requested, the following
error response might be returned instead.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<errors xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lost1"
xmlns:sync="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lostsync1"
source="nodeA.example.com">
<sync:notDeleted
message="Could not delete the indicated mapping."
xml:lang="en">
<mapping source="nj.us.example"
sourceId="123"
lastUpdated="2008-11-01T01:00:00Z"
expires="2008-11-01T01:00:00Z"/>
</sync:notDeleted>
</errors>
Figure 12: Example <errors> Message
6. Transport
LoST Sync needs an underlying protocol transport mechanism to carry
requests and responses. This document uses HTTPS as a transport to
exchange XML documents. No fallback to HTTP is provided.
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When using HTTP over Transport Layer Security (TLS) [RFC2818], LoST
Sync messages use the POST method. Requests MUST use the Cache-
Control response directive "no-cache".
All LoST Sync responses, including those indicating a LoST warning or
error, are carried in 2xx responses, typically 200 (OK). 3xx, 4xx,
and 5xx HTTP response codes indicate that the request itself failed
or was redirected; these responses do not contain any LoST Sync XML
elements.
7. RELAX NG
Note: In order to avoid copying pattern definitions from the LoST
Regular Language for XML Next Generation (RELAX NG) schema [RFC5222]
to this document, we include it as "lost.rng" (XML syntax) in the
RELAX NG schema below.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<grammar ns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lostsync1"
xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"
xmlns:a="http://relaxng.org/ns/compatibility/annotations/1.0"
datatypeLibrary="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes">
<include href="lost.rng"/>
<start combine="choice">
<a:documentation> Location-to-Service Translation (LoST)
Synchronization Protocol</a:documentation>
<choice>
<ref name="pushMappings"/>
<ref name="pushMappingsResponse"/>
<ref name="getMappingsRequest"/>
<ref name="getMappingsResponse"/>
</choice>
</start>
<define name="pushMappings">
<element name="pushMappings">
<oneOrMore>
<ref name="mapping"/>
</oneOrMore>
<ref name="extensionPoint"/>
</element>
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</define>
<define name="pushMappingsResponse">
<element name="pushMappingsResponse">
<ref name="extensionPoint"/>
</element>
</define>
<define name="getMappingsRequest">
<element name="getMappingsRequest">
<choice>
<ref name="exists"></ref>
<ref name="extensionPoint"/>
</choice>
</element>
</define>
<define name="exists">
<element name="exists">
<oneOrMore>
<element name="mapping-fingerprint">
<attribute name="source">
<data type="token"/>
</attribute>
<attribute name="sourceId">
<data type="token"/>
</attribute>
<attribute name="lastUpdated">
<data type="dateTime"/>
</attribute>
<ref name="extensionPoint"/>
</element>
</oneOrMore>
</element>
</define>
<define name="getMappingsResponse">
<element name="getMappingsResponse">
<oneOrMore>
<ref name="mapping"/>
</oneOrMore>
<ref name="extensionPoint"/>
</element>
</define>
<!-- error messages -->
<define name="notDeleted">
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<element name="notDeleted">
<ref name="basicException"/>
<oneOrMore>
<ref name="mapping"/>
</oneOrMore>
</element>
</define>
</grammar>
8. Operational Considerations
It is important to avoid loops when more than two LoST servers use
the mechanism described in this document. The example shown in
Figure 13 with three LoST servers A, B, and C (each of them acts as a
sync source and a sync destination) illustrates the challenge in more
detail. A and B synchronize data between each other; the same is
true for A and C, and B and C, respectively.
A -------- B
\ /
\ /
\ /
\ /
C
Figure 13: Synchronization Configuration Example
Now, imagine that server A adds a new mapping. This mapping is
uniquely identified by the combination of "source", "sourceid", and
"last updated". Assume that A wants to push this new mapping to B
and C. When B obtains this new mapping, it determines that it has to
distribute it to its peer C. C also needs to distribute the mapping
to its peer B. If the original mapping with the "source",
"sourceid", and "last updated" is not modified by either B or C, then
these two servers would recognize that they already possess the
mapping and can ignore the update.
Implementations MUST NOT modify mappings they receive. An entity
acting maliciously would, however, intentionally modify mappings or
inject bogus mappings. To avoid the possibility of an untrustworthy
member claiming a coverage region for which it is not authorized,
authoritative mapping servers MUST sign mappings they distribute
using an XML digital signature [W3C.REC-xmldsig-core-20020212]. A
recipient MUST verify that the signing entity is indeed authorized to
speak for that region. In many cases, this will require an out-of-
band agreement to be in place to agree on specific entities to take
on this role. Determining who can speak for a particular region is
inherently difficult unless there is a small set of authorizing
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entities that participants in the mapping architecture can trust.
Receiving systems should be particularly suspicious if an existing
coverage region is replaced by a new one that contains a different
value in the <uri> element. When mappings are digitally signed, they
cannot be modified by intermediate LoST servers.
9. Security Considerations
This document defines a protocol for exchange of authoritative
mapping information between two entities. Hence, the protocol
operations described in this document require authentication of
neighboring nodes.
The LoST Sync client and servers MUST implement TLS and use TLS.
Which version(s) ought to be implemented will vary over time and
depend on the widespread deployment and known security
vulnerabilities at the time of implementation. At the time of this
writing, TLS version 1.2 [RFC5246] is the most recent version but has
very limited actual deployment and might not be readily available in
implementation tool kits. TLS version 1.0 [RFC2246] is the most
widely deployed version and will give the broadest interoperability.
Mutual authentication between the LoST Sync source and the LoST Sync
destination is not necessarily required in all deployments unless an
emergency service authority wants to enforce access control prior to
the distribution of their <mapping> elements. This may, for example,
be the case when certain emergency services networks distribute
internal mappings that are not meant for public distribution.
An additional threat is caused by compromised or misconfigured LoST
servers. A denial of service could be the consequence of an injected
mapping. If the mapping data contains a URL that does not exist,
then emergency services for the indicated area are not reachable. If
all mapping data contains URLs that point to a single PSAP (rather
than a large number of PSAPs), then this PSAP is likely to experience
overload conditions. If the mapping data contains a URL that points
to a server controlled by the adversary itself, then it might
impersonate PSAPs.
Section 8 discusses this security threat and mandates signed
mappings. For unusual changes to the mapping database, approval by a
system administrator of the emergency services infrastructure (or a
similar expert) may be required before any mappings are installed.
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10. IANA Considerations
10.1. Media Type Registration
This specification requests the registration of a new media type
according to the procedures of RFC 4288 [RFC4288] and guidelines in
RFC 3023 [RFC3023].
Type name: application
Subtype name: lostsync+xml
Required parameters: none
Optional parameters: charset
Same as charset parameter of application/xml as specified in RFC
3023 [RFC3023].
Encoding considerations: Identical to those of "application/xml" as
described in [RFC3023], Section 3.2.
Security considerations: This content type is designed to carry LoST
Synchronization protocol payloads, and the security considerations
section of RFC 6739 is applicable. In addition, as this media
type uses the "+xml" convention, it shares the same security
considerations as described in [RFC3023], Section 10.
Interoperability considerations: None
Published specification: RFC 6739
Applications that use this media type: Emergency and Location-based
Systems
Additional information:
Magic number(s): None
File extension(s): .lostsyncxml
Macintosh file type code(s): 'TEXT'
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Hannes Tschofenig <Hannes.Tschofenig@gmx.net>
Intended usage: LIMITED USE
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Restrictions on usage: None
Author: Hannes Tschofenig <Hannes.Tschofenig@gmx.net>
Change controller:
This specification is a work item of the IETF ECRIT working group,
with mailing list address <ecrit@ietf.org>.
Change controller:
The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>
10.2. LoST Sync RELAX NG Schema Registration
The schema defined in this document has been registered under the XML
schema registry at
http://www.iana.org/assignments/xml-registry/schema.html
URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:schema:lostsync1
Registrant Contact: IETF ECRIT Working Group, Hannes Tschofenig
(Hannes.Tschofenig@gmx.net).
RELAX NG Schema: The RELAX NG schema that has been registered is
contained in Section 7.
10.3. LoST Synchronization Namespace Registration
The namespace defined in this document has been registered under the
XML namespace registry at
http://www.iana.org/assignments/xml-registry/ns.html
URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lostsync1
Registrant Contact: IETF ECRIT Working Group, Hannes Tschofenig
(Hannes.Tschofenig@gmx.net).
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XML:
BEGIN
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<title>LoST Synchronization Namespace</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Namespace for LoST server synchronization</h1>
<h2>urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lostsync1</h2>
<p>See <a href="[URL of published RFC]">RFC 6739
</a>.</p>
</body>
</html>
END
11. Acknowledgments
Robins George, Cullen Jennings, Karl Heinz Wolf, Richard Barnes,
Mayutan Arumaithurai, Alexander Mayrhofer, and Andrew Newton provided
helpful input. Jari Urpalainen assisted with the RELAX NG schema.
We would also like to thank our document shepherd Roger Marshall for
his help with the document.
We would like to particularly thank Andrew Newton for his timely and
valuable review of the XML-related content.
We would like to thank Robert Sparks, Barry Leiba, Stephen Farrell,
Brian Haberman, Pete Resnick, and Sean Turner for their AD reviews.
We would also like to thank Bjoern Hoehrmann for his media type
review, Julian Reschke and Martin Duerst for their applications area
reviews, and Wassim Haddad for his Gen-ART review.
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12. References
12.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC2246] Dierks, T. and C. Allen, "The TLS Protocol Version 1.0",
RFC 2246, January 1999.
[RFC2818] Rescorla, E., "HTTP Over TLS", RFC 2818, May 2000.
[RFC3023] Murata, M., St. Laurent, S., and D. Kohn, "XML Media
Types", RFC 3023, January 2001.
[RFC4288] Freed, N. and J. Klensin, "Media Type Specifications and
Registration Procedures", BCP 13, RFC 4288, December 2005.
[RFC5222] Hardie, T., Newton, A., Schulzrinne, H., and H.
Tschofenig, "LoST: A Location-to-Service Translation
Protocol", RFC 5222, August 2008.
[RFC5246] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security
(TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, August 2008.
[W3C.REC-xmldsig-core-20020212]
Eastlake, D., Reagle, J., Solo, D., Hirsch, F., and T.
Roessler, "XML-Signature Syntax and Processing", World
Wide Web Consortium, Second Edition, REC-xmldsig-core-
20020212, June 2008.
12.2. Informative References
[RFC5012] Schulzrinne, H. and R. Marshall, "Requirements for
Emergency Context Resolution with Internet Technologies",
RFC 5012, January 2008.
[RFC5582] Schulzrinne, H., "Location-to-URL Mapping Architecture and
Framework", RFC 5582, September 2009.
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Authors' Addresses
Henning Schulzrinne
Columbia University
Department of Computer Science
450 Computer Science Building
New York, NY 10027
USA
Phone: +1 212 939 7004
EMail: hgs+ecrit@cs.columbia.edu
URI: http://www.cs.columbia.edu
Hannes Tschofenig
Nokia Siemens Networks
Linnoitustie 6
Espoo 02600
Finland
Phone: +358 (50) 4871445
EMail: Hannes.Tschofenig@gmx.net
URI: http://www.tschofenig.priv.at
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