IEEE 802.15.4 Information Element for the IETF
RFC 8137
Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(May 2017; No errata)
Was draft-kivinen-802-15-ie (individual in int area)
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Authors | Tero Kivinen , Pat Kinney | ||
Last updated | 2017-05-30 | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
Reviews | |||
Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | Francesca Palombini | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2016-12-20) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 8137 (Informational) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Suresh Krishnan | ||
Send notices to | (None) | ||
IANA | IANA review state | IANA OK - Actions Needed | |
IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) T. Kivinen Request for Comments: 8137 INSIDE Secure Category: Informational P. Kinney ISSN: 2070-1721 Kinney Consulting LLC May 2017 IEEE 802.15.4 Information Element for the IETF Abstract IEEE Std 802.15.4 defines Information Elements (IEs) that can be used to extend 802.15.4 in an interoperable manner. The IEEE 802.15 Assigned Numbers Authority (ANA) manages the registry of the Information Elements. This document formulates a request for ANA to allocate a number from that registry for the IETF and describes how the IE is formatted to provide subtypes. Status of This Memo This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. 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 7841. 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/rfc8137. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2017 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Kivinen & Kinney Informational [Page 1] RFC 8137 IEEE 802.15.4 Information Element for IETF May 2017 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Working Groups Benefiting from the IETF 802.15.4 IE . . . . . 3 4. IETF IE Subtype Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5. Request to Allocate an IETF IE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Appendix A. Vendor Specific IE in IEEE 802.15.4 . . . . . . . . 7 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1. Introduction IEEE Std 802.15.4 [IEEE802.15.4] is a standard, referred to by RFC 4944 [RFC4944] and other documents, that enables very low-cost and low-power communications. The standard defines numerous optional Physical Layers (PHYs) operating in many different frequency bands with a simple and effective Medium Access Control (MAC). IEEE Std 802.15.4 defines Information Elements (IEs) that can be used to extend 802.15.4 in an interoperable manner. An IE provides a flexible, extensible, and easily implementable method of encapsulating information. The general format of an IE as defined in Section 7.4 of IEEE Std 802.15.4-2015 [IEEE802.15.4] consists of an identification (ID) field, a length field, and a content field. Multiple IEs may be concatenated, and elements with unknown ID values in a list of IEs can be skipped since their length is known. IEs provide a flexible container for information that allows the addition of new IE definitions in future versions of the standard in a backwards-compatible manner. There are two different IE types, Header IE and Payload IE. A Header IE is part of the MAC header; it is never encrypted, but it may be authenticated. Most of the Header IE processing is done by the MAC, and IETF protocols should not have any direct effect on that processing. A Payload IE is part of the MAC payload and may be encrypted and authenticated. IETF protocols will need to insert information in the 802.15.4 frames; the 802.15.4 standard enables that by including one or more payload IEs in the frame that will contain the information. For this purpose, the IETF requests a dedicated Payload IE from the IEEEShow full document text