| AVTCORE | M. Petit-Huguenin |
| Internet-Draft | Impedance Mismatch |
| Updates: 5764 (if approved) | G. Salgueiro |
| Intended status: Standards Track | Cisco Systems |
| Expires: November 26, 2016 | May 25, 2016 |
Multiplexing Scheme Updates for Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) Extension for Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
draft-ietf-avtcore-rfc5764-mux-fixes-08
This document defines how Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS), Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), RTP Control Protocol (RTCP), Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN), and Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) packets are multiplexed on a single receiving socket. It overrides the guidance from SRTP Extension for DTLS [RFC5764], which suffered from three issues described and fixed in this document.
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Section 5.1.2 of Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) Extension for DTLS [RFC5764] defines a scheme for a Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) [RFC3550] receiver to demultiplex Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) [RFC6347], Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) [RFC5389] and Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)/Secure RTP Control Protocol (SRTCP) [RFC3711] packets that are arriving on the RTP port. Unfortunately, this demultiplexing scheme has created problematic issues:
Having overlapping ranges between different IANA registries becomes an issue when a new codepoint is allocated in one of these registries without carefully analyzing the impact it could have on the other registries when that codepoint is demultiplexed. Among other downsides of the bad design of the demultiplexing algorithm detailed in [RFC5764], it creates a requirement for coordination between codepoint assignments where none should exist, and that is organizationally and socially undesirable. However, RFC 5764 has been widely deployed so there must be an awareness of this issue and how it must be dealt with. Thus, even if a codepoint is not initially thought to be useful, the respective IANA registry expert should at least raise a flag when the allocated codepoint irrevocably prevents multiplexing.
The first goal of this document is to make sure that future allocations in any of the affected protocols are done with the full knowledge of their impact on multiplexing. This is achieved by modifying the IANA registries with instructions for coordination between the protocols at risk.
A second goal is to permit the addition of new protocols to the list of existing multiplexed protocols in a manner that does not break existing implementations.
The flaws in the demultiplexing scheme were unavoidably inherited by other documents, such as [RFC7345] and [I-D.ietf-mmusic-sdp-bundle-negotiation]. So in addition, these and any other affected documents will need to be corrected with the updates this document provides.
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119] when they appear in ALL CAPS. When these words are not in ALL CAPS (such as "must" or "Must"), they have their usual English meanings, and are not to be interpreted as RFC 2119 key words.
The demultiplexing scheme in [RFC5764] states that the receiver can identify the packet type by looking at the first byte. If the value of this first byte is 0 or 1, the packet is identified to be STUN. The problem that arises as a result of this implicit allocation is that this restricts the codepoints for STUN methods (as described in Section 18.1 of [RFC5389]) to values between 0x000 and 0x07F, which in turn reduces the number of possible STUN method codepoints assigned by IETF Review (i.e., the range from (0x000 - 0x7FF) from 2048 to only 128 and eliminating the possibility of having STUN method codepoints assigned by Designated Expert (i.e., the range 0x800 - 0xFFF).
To preserve the Designated Expert range, this document allocates the value 2 and 3 to also identify STUN methods.
The IANA Registry for STUN methods is modified to mark the codepoints from 0x100 to 0xFFF as Reserved. These codepoints can still be allocated, but require IETF Review with a document that will properly evaluate the risk of an assignment overlapping with other registries.
In addition, this document also updates the IANA registry such that the STUN method codepoints assigned in the 0x080-0x0FF range are also assigned via Designated Expert. The proposed changes to the STUN Method Registry are:
OLD:
0x000-0x7FF IETF Review 0x800-0xFFF Designated Expert
NEW:
0x000-0x07F IETF Review 0x080-0x0FF Designated Expert 0x100-0xFFF Reserved
The demultiplexing scheme in [RFC5764] dictates that if the value of the first byte is between 20 and 63 (inclusive), then the packet is identified to be DTLS. For DTLS 1.0 [RFC4347] and DTLS 1.2 [RFC6347] that first byte corresponds to the TLS ContentType field. Considerations must be taken into account when assigning additional ContentTypes in the code point ranges 0 to 19 and 64 to 255 so this does not prevent demultiplexing when this functionality is desirable. Note that [RFC5764] describes a narrow use of DTLS that works as long as the specific DTLS version used abides by the restrictions on the demultiplexing byte (the ones that this document imposes on the TLS ContentType Registry). Any extension or revision to DTLS that causes it to no longer meet these constraints should consider what values may occur in the first byte of the DTLS message and what impact it would have on the multiplexing that [RFC5764] describes.
With respect to TLS packet identification, this document explicitly adds a warning to the codepoints from 0 to 19 and from 64 to 255 indicating that allocations in these ranges require coordination, as described in this document. The proposed changes to the TLS ContentType Registry are:
OLD:
0-19 Unassigned 20 change_cipher_spec 21 alert 22 handshake 23 application_data 24 heartbeat 25-255 Unassigned
NEW:
0-19 Unassigned (Requires coordination, see RFCXXXX) 20 change_cipher_spec 21 alert 22 handshake 23 application_data 24 heartbeat 25-63 Unassigned 64-255 Unassigned (Requires coordination, see RFCXXXX)
+------+
| TURN |<------------------------+
+------+ |
| |
| +-------------------------+ |
| | | |
v v | |
NAT ----------- | |
| | +---------------------+ | |
| | | | | |
v v v | | |
+----------+ +----------+
| RFC 5764 | | RFC 5764 |
+----------+ +----------+
Figure 1: Packet Reception by an RFC 5764 Implementation
When used with ICE [RFC5245], an RFC 5764 implementation can receive packets on the same socket from three different paths, as shown in Figure 1:
TURN channels are an optimization where data packets are exchanged with a 4-byte prefix, instead of the standard 36-byte STUN overhead (see Section 2.5 of [RFC5766]). The problem is that the RFC 5764 demultiplexing scheme does not define what to do with packets received over a TURN channel since these packets will start with a first byte whose value will be between 64 and 127 (inclusive). If the TURN server was instructed to send data over a TURN channel, then the current RFC 5764 demultiplexing scheme will reject these packets. Current implementations violate RFC 5764 for values 64 to 127 (inclusive) and they instead parse packets with such values as TURN.
In order to prevent future documents from assigning values from the unused range to a new protocol, this document modifies the RFC 5764 demultiplexing algorithm to properly account for TURN channels by allocating the values from 64 to 79 for this purpose.
This document updates the text in Section 5.1.2 of [RFC5764] as follows:
OLD TEXT
The process for demultiplexing a packet is as follows. The receiver looks at the first byte of the packet. If the value of this byte is 0 or 1, then the packet is STUN. If the value is in between 128 and 191 (inclusive), then the packet is RTP (or RTCP, if both RTCP and RTP are being multiplexed over the same destination port). If the value is between 20 and 63 (inclusive), the packet is DTLS. This process is summarized in Figure 3.
+----------------+
| 127 < B < 192 -+--> forward to RTP
| |
packet --> | 19 < B < 64 -+--> forward to DTLS
| |
| B < 2 -+--> forward to STUN
+----------------+
Figure 3: The DTLS-SRTP receiver's packet demultiplexing algorithm.
Here the field B denotes the leading byte of the packet.
END OLD TEXT
NEW TEXT
The process for demultiplexing a packet is as follows. The receiver looks at the first byte of the packet. If the value of this byte is in between 0 and 3 (inclusive), then the packet is STUN. If the value is between 20 and 63 (inclusive), then the packet is DTLS. If the value is between 64 and 79 (inclusive), then the packet is TURN Channel. If the value is in between 128 and 191 (inclusive), then the packet is RTP (or RTCP, if both RTCP and RTP are being multiplexed over the same destination port). If the value does not match any known range then the packet MUST be dropped and an alert MAY be logged. This process is summarized in Figure 3.
+----------------+
| [0..3] -+--> forward to STUN
| |
packet --> | [20..63] -+--> forward to DTLS
| |
| [64..79] -+--> forward to TURN Channel
| |
| [128..191] -+--> forward to RTP/RTCP
+----------------+
Figure 3: The DTLS-SRTP receiver's packet demultiplexing algorithm.
END NEW TEXT
[[Note to RFC Editor: Please remove this section and the reference to [RFC6982] before publication.]]
This section records the status of known implementations of the protocol defined by this specification at the time of posting of this Internet-Draft, and is based on a proposal described in [RFC6982]. The description of implementations in this section is intended to assist the IETF in its decision processes in progressing drafts to RFCs. Please note that the listing of any individual implementation here does not imply endorsement by the IETF. Furthermore, no effort has been spent to verify the information presented here that was supplied by IETF contributors. This is not intended as, and must not be construed to be, a catalog of available implementations or their features. Readers are advised to note that other implementations may exist.
According to [RFC6982], "this will allow reviewers and working groups to assign due consideration to documents that have the benefit of running code, which may serve as evidence of valuable experimentation and feedback that have made the implemented protocols more mature. It is up to the individual working groups to use this information as they see fit".
Note that there is currently no implementation declared in this section, but the intent is to add RFC 6982 templates here from implementers that support the modifications in this document.
This document updates existing IANA registries and adds a new range for TURN channels in the demuxing algorithm.
These modifications do not introduce any specific security considerations beyond those detailed in [RFC5764].
This specification contains the registration information for reserved STUN Methods codepoints, as explained in Section 3 and in accordance with the procedures defined in Section 18.1 of [RFC5389].
This specification also reassigns the ranges in the STUN Methods Registry as follow:
This specification contains the registration information for reserved TLS ContentType codepoints, as explained in Section 4 and in accordance with the procedures defined in Section 12 of [RFC5246].
This specification contains the registration information for reserved TURN Channel Numbers codepoints, as explained in Section 5 and in accordance with the procedures defined in Section 18 of [RFC5766].
[RFC EDITOR NOTE: Please replace RFCXXXX with the RFC number of this document.]
The implicit STUN Method codepoint allocations problem was first reported by Martin Thomson in the RTCWEB mailing-list and discussed further with Magnus Westerlund.
Thanks to Simon Perreault, Colton Shields, Cullen Jennings, Colin Perkins, Magnus Westerlund, Paul Jones, Jonathan Lennox, Varun Singh, Justin Uberti, Joseph Salowey, Martin Thomson, Ben Campbell, Stephen Farrell and Paul Kyzivat for the comments, suggestions, and questions that helped improve this document.
| [RFC6982] | Sheffer, Y. and A. Farrel, "Improving Awareness of Running Code: The Implementation Status Section", RFC 6982, DOI 10.17487/RFC6982, July 2013. |
| [RFC7345] | Holmberg, C., Sedlacek, I. and G. Salgueiro, "UDP Transport Layer (UDPTL) over Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)", RFC 7345, DOI 10.17487/RFC7345, August 2014. |
| [I-D.ietf-mmusic-sdp-bundle-negotiation] | Holmberg, C., Alvestrand, H. and C. Jennings, "Negotiating Media Multiplexing Using the Session Description Protocol (SDP)", Internet-Draft draft-ietf-mmusic-sdp-bundle-negotiation-23, July 2015. |
This section must be removed before publication as an RFC.