Revision of the tcpControlBits IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Information Element
RFC 7125
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) B. Trammell
Request for Comments: 7125 ETH Zurich
Category: Informational P. Aitken
ISSN: 2070-1721 Cisco Systems, Inc
February 2014
Revision of the tcpControlBits
IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Information Element
Abstract
This document revises the tcpControlBits IP Flow Information Export
(IPFIX) Information Element as originally defined in RFC 5102 to
reflect changes to the TCP Flags header field since RFC 793.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
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(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
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1. Introduction
Octets 12 and 13 (counting from zero) of the TCP header encode the
data offset (header length) in 4 bits, as well as 12 bits of flags.
The least significant 6 bits of these were defined in [RFC0793] as
URG, ACK, PSH, RST, SYN, and FIN for TCP control. Subsequently,
[RFC3168] defined the CWR and ECE flags for Explicit Congestion
Notification (ECN) negotiation and signaling; [RFC3540] additionally
defined the NS flag for the ECN Nonce Sum.
As defined in the IANA IPFIX Information Element Registry
[IANA-IPFIX], taken from [RFC5102], the tcpControlBits Information
Element for IPFIX [RFC7011] only covers the original 6 bits from
[RFC0793]. To allow IPFIX to be used to measure the use of ECN, and
to bring the IPFIX Information Element definition in line with the
current definition of the TCP Flags header field, it is necessary to
revise this definition.
The revised definition of the Information Element in Section 3 was
developed and approved through the IE-DOCTORS process [RFC7013] in
August 2013. Section 5.1 of [RFC7013] states "This process should
not in any way be construed as allowing the IE-DOCTORS to overrule
IETF consensus. Specifically, Information Elements in the IANA
Information Element registry that were added with IETF consensus
require IETF consensus for revision or deprecation". Since the
tcpControlBits Information Element was originally defined in
[RFC5102], an IETF Proposed Standard, any revision of this
Information Element definition requires IETF Consensus. The
publication of this document fulfills that requirement.
Section 3 defines the revised tcpControlBits Information Element as
in Section 9.1 of [RFC7013].
2. Terminology
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
[RFC2119].
3. The tcpControlBits Information Element
ElementId: 6
Data Type: unsigned16
Data Type Semantics: flags
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Description: TCP control bits observed for the packets of this Flow.
This information is encoded as a bit field; for each TCP control
bit, there is a bit in this set. The bit is set to 1 if any
observed packet of this Flow has the corresponding TCP control bit
set to 1. The bit is cleared to 0 otherwise.
The values of each bit are shown below, per the definition of the
bits in the TCP header [RFC0793] [RFC3168] [RFC3540]:
MSb LSb
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