Description Option for the Port Control Protocol (PCP)
RFC 7220
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) M. Boucadair
Request for Comments: 7220 France Telecom
Category: Standards Track R. Penno
ISSN: 2070-1721 D. Wing
Cisco
May 2014
Description Option for the Port Control Protocol (PCP)
Abstract
This document extends the Port Control Protocol (PCP) with the
ability to associate a description with a PCP-instantiated mapping.
It does this by defining a new DESCRIPTION option.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1. Introduction
This document extends the base PCP [RFC6887] with the ability to
associate a human-readable description with a PCP-instantiated
mapping. It does this by defining a new DESCRIPTION option.
This PCP option can be used in simple scenarios with a PCP client and
PCP server, as well as in more complex scenarios where an
interworking function is used to proxy between a UPnP IGD Control
Point and a PCP server [RFC6970].
Querying the PCP server to get the description text of an existing
mapping is out of scope.
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].
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2. Format
The format of the DESCRIPTION option is shown in Figure 1.
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|Option Code=128| Reserved | Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Description |
: :
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
This Option:
Option Name: DESCRIPTION
Number: 128
Purpose: Used to associate a text description with a mapping
Valid for Opcodes: MAP, PEER
Length: Variable, maximum 1016 octets.
May appear in: request. May appear in response only if it
appeared in the associated request.
Maximum occurrences: 1
Figure 1: DESCRIPTION Option
The 'Reserved' field is initialized as specified in Section 7.3 of
[RFC6887].
The Description field MUST carry UTF-8 encoded [RFC3629] description
text. The description text MUST NOT be null terminated. The length
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