| ECRIT | H. Schulzrinne |
| Internet-Draft | Columbia University |
| Intended status: Experimental | H. Tschofenig |
| Expires: April 19, 2013 | Nokia Siemens Networks |
| October 18, 2012 |
Synchronizing Location-to-Service Translation (LoST) Protocol based Service Boundaries and Mapping Elements
draft-ietf-ecrit-lost-sync-14.txt
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 main data structure, the <mapping> element, used for encapsulating information about service boundaries is defined in the LoST protocol specification 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. In any case, this document can also be used without the LoST protocol even though the format of the <mapping> element is re-used from the LoST specification.
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The LoST (Location-to-Service Translation) protocol [RFC5222] maps service identifiers and geodetic or civic location information to service URIs. The main data structure, the <mapping> element, used for encapsulating information about service boundaries is defined in the LoST protocol specification 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 mechanism is designed for the exchange of authoritative <mapping> elements between two entities (the LoST Sync source and the LoST Sync destination).
The LoST Sync mechanism can, for example, be used in the LoST architecture, as specified in the [RFC5582]. There, LoST servers act in different roles that cooperate to provide an ubiquitous, globally scalable and resilient mapping service. In the LoST mapping architecture, LoST servers can peer, i.e., have an on-going 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 deployent of LoST in two countries, we call them Austria and Finland. Austria, in our example, runs three authoritative LoST servers labeled as 'East', 'West' and 'Vienna' whereby the former two cover the entire country expect for Vienna, which is covered by a separate LoST server. There may be other caching LoST servers run by ISPs, universities, and 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.
+---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
Figure 1 shows the example deployment.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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 Example
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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 Example
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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 Example
The configuration of these nodes would therefore be as follows:
The LoST sync mechanism described in this document could be run between the two Forest Guides. Thereby, the three mappings stored in the Austria FG 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 LoST servers in Austria would be responsible to maintain 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 and those are best described by the exchange between two nodes as shown in Figure 5 and Figure 6. The protocol exchange always runs between a LoST Sync source and a LoST Sync destination. Node A in the examples of Figure 5 and Figure 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.
+---------+ +---------+
| 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
The <getMappingsRequest> request allows a LoST Sync source to request mappings from a LoST Sync destination.
Note that in the exchange illustrated in Figure 5 Node B issuing the first request and plays the role of the HTTP/HTTPS client (with HTTP as selected transport) and Node A plays the role of the HTTP/HTTPS server.
+---------+ +---------+
| Node A | | Node B |
| acting | | acting |
| as | | as |
| LoST | | LoST |
| Sync | | Sync |
| Source | | Dest. |
+---------+ +---------+
| |
| |
| |
| <pushMappingsRequest> |
|----------------------------->|
| |
| <pushMappingsResponse> |
|<-----------------------------|
| |
| |
| |
Figure 6: Pushing Mappings with a <pushMappingsRequest> Message
The <pushMappingsRequest> exchange allows a LoST Sync source to push mappings to LoST Sync destination. The assumption is being made that Node A and B have previously been configured in a way that they push mappings in such a fashion and that Node A maintains state about the mappings have to be pushed to Node B. No subscribe mechanism is defined in this document that would allow Node B to tell Node A about what mappings it is interested nor a mechanism for learning to which entities mappings have to be pushed.
Note that in the exchange illustrated in Figure 6 Node A issuing the first request and plays the role of the HTTP/HTTPS client (with HTTP as selected transport) and Node B plays the role of the HTTP/HTTPS server.
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].
Throughout this document we use the term LoST Sync source and LoST Sync destination to denote the protocol end points of the exchange. The protocol is referred as LoST Sync within the text.
A LoST Sync destination has two ways to retrieve mapping elements from a LoST Sync source.
In response to 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 replace.
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 multiple <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' attribut 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>, <serverTimeout> errors, defined in [RFC5222], are utilized by this specification. Neither the <redirect> nor the <warnings> messages are reused by this message.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <getMappingsRequest xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lostsync1"/>
Figure 7: Example of empty <getMappingsRequest> message
The first example shows an empty <getMappingsRequest> message that would retrieve all locally stored mappings at the LoST Sync source.
A further example request is shown in Figure 8 and the corresponding response is depicted in Figure 9. In this example a request is made for a specific mapping (with source="authoritative.bar.example" and sourceId="7e3f40b098c711dbb6060800200c9a66") that is more recent than "2006-11-01T01:00:00Z" 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 mapping that matched 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>
<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
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.
The LoST Sync source SHOULD keep track to which LoST Sync destination it has pushed mapping elements. 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. It is RECOMMENDED not to push the same information to the same peer more than once.
A <pushMappings> request sent by a LoST Sync source MUST containing 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" attribute. Figure 10 shows an example request where the mapping with the source="nj.us.example", sourceId="123", lastUpdated="2008-11-01T01:00:00Z", expires="2008-11-01T01:00:00Z" is requested to be deleted. Note that the 'expires' attribute is required per 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 which peers it has distributed this update to unless it has other ways to ensure that databases do not get out of sync.
When a LoST Sync destination receives a <pushMappingsRequest> message then a newly received mapping M' MUST replace an existing mapping M if all of the following conditions hold:
If the received mapping M' does not update any existing mapping M 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', 'sourceID' and 'lastUpdated' attributes. If a mapping has been found then it MUST be deleted. If no mapping can be identified then an <errors> response MUST be returned that contains the <notDeleted> child element. The <notDeleted> element MAY carry a <message> element and MUST contain the <mapping> element(s) that caused the error.
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.)
An example is shown in Figure 10. Image a LoST node that obtained two new mappings identified as follows:
These two mappings have to be added to the peer's mapping database.
Additionally, the following mapping has to be deleted:
<?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">
<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>
<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 operation 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>
<?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
In case that a mapping could not be deleted as requested the following error response might be returned instead.
LoST Sync needs an underlying protocol transport mechanism to carry requests and responses. This document defines an XML protocol over HTTP and over HTTP-over-TLS. Client and server developers are reminded that full support of RFC 2616 HTTP facilities is expected. If clients or servers re-implement HTTP, rather than using available servers or client code as a base, careful attention must be paid to full interoperability. Other transport mechanisms are left to future documents. The selection of the transport mechanism will in most cases be determined through manual configuration although the usage of the U-NAPTR application defined in the LoST specification is possible. In protocols that support content type indication, LoST Sync uses the media type application/lostsync+xml.
When using HTTP [RFC2616] and HTTP-over-TLS [RFC2818], LoST Sync messages use the HTTP POST method. The HTTP request MUST use the Cache-Control response directive "no-cache" to HTTP-level caching even by caches that have been configured to return stale responses to client requests.
All LoST Sync responses, including those indicating a LoST warning or error, are carried in 2xx responses, typically 200 (OK). Other 2xx responses, in particular 203 (Non-authoritative information) may be returned by HTTP caches that disregard the caching instructions. 3xx, 4xx and 5xx HTTP response codes indicates that the HTTP request itself failed or was redirected; these responses do not contain any LoST Sync XML elements.
Note: In order to avoid copying pattern definitions from the LoST 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>
</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">
<element name="notDeleted">
<ref name="basicException"/>
<oneOrMore>
<ref name="mapping"/>
</oneOrMore>
</element>
</define>
</grammar>
When different LoST servers use the mechanism described in this document to synchronize their mapping data then it is important to ensure that loops are avoided. 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 would push this new mapping to B and C. When B obtained this new mapping it would find out that it has to distribute it to its peer C. C would also want to distribute the mapping to B (and vice versa). If the originally 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.
It is important that implementations MUST NOT modify mappings they receive. An entity acting maliciously would, however, intentially modify mappings or inject bogus mappings. To avoid the possibility of an untrustworthy member claiming a coverage region that it is not authorized for, any node introducing a new service boundary MUST sign the object by protecting the data with 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. Determining who can speak for a particular region is inherently difficult unless there is a small set of authorizing entities that participants in the mapping architecture can trust. Receiving systems should be particularly suspicious if an existing coverage region is replaced with a new one with a new mapping address. With this mechanism it is also possible to avoid the distribution of mappings that have been modified by servers forwarding mappings as part of the synchronization procedure.
This document defines a protocol for exchange of mapping information between two entities. Hence, the operations described in this document involve mutually-trusting LoST nodes. These nodes need to authenticate each other, using mechanisms such as HTTP Digest [RFC2617], HTTP Basic [RFC2617] over TLS [RFC5246] or TLS client and server certificates. Manual configuration for the setup of the peering relationships is required and hence the choice of the security mechanisms used between the two entities is a deployment specific decision. In any case, it MUST be ensured that the two end points are authenticated and that a secure communication channel (i.e., an integrity protected exchange of data with the help of the TLS Record Layer) is setup to avoid the possibility of injecting bogus mappings. If an adversary manages to inject false mappings then this could lead to denial of service attacks. 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) 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.
This specification requests the registration of a new MIME type according to the procedures of RFC 4288 [RFC4288] and guidelines in RFC 3023 [RFC3023].
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
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"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:lost1:sync</h2>
<p>See <a href="[URL of published RFC]">RFCXXXX
[NOTE TO IANA/RFC-EDITOR:
Please replace XXXX with the RFC number of this
specification.]</a>.</p>
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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 PROTO 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 for his AD review feedback, and Bjoern Hoehrmann for his media type review.
| [RFC5582] | Schulzrinne, H., "Location-to-URL Mapping Architecture and Framework", RFC 5582, September 2009. |