| Network Working Group | X. Marjou, Ed. |
| Internet-Draft | A. Braud |
| Intended status: Informational | Orange |
| Expires: January 1, 2017 | R. Romuald |
| Telecom Bretagne | |
| June 30, 2016 |
Traceroute Use Case for SPUD
draft-marjou-spud-traceroute-use-cases-00
In the context of the Substrate Protocol for User Datagrams (SPUD), this document proposes a new use case and its derived requirements: a traceroute function allowing users to explicitly ask middleboxes (a.k.a. network devices) to provide their geospatial information.
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The IAB is currently working on the evolution of the IP stack program, as captured in [I-D.trammell-stackevo-explicit-coop] to de-ossify the IP stack. The Substrate Protocol for User Datagrams (SPUD) is a candidate for solving some of the needs identified by this work. A first set of SPUD use-cases has already been identified as described in [I-D.trammell-spud-req].
This document proposes an additional use-case and the derived requirements: a traceroute function allowing users to explicitly ask middleboxes (a.k.a. network devices) to provide their geospatial information.
Middlebox: As defined in [RFC3234], a middlebox is any intermediary device performing functions other than the normal, standard functions of an IP router on the datagram path between a source host and destination host; e.g. making decisions about forwarding behavior based on other than addressing information, and/or modifying a packet before forwarding.
Geospatial information: A set of coordinates containing a longitude, a latitude and possibly a timestamp which describes the location of the middlebox.
A user wishes to obtain hints about the route taken by its IP flows. More precisely, the user wishes to get the geospatial information of the middleboxes located on the path between his device and the remote server.
A service provider like an online bank service wishes to obtain hints about the route taken by the IP flows of their users in order to increase the probabilities that the remote device is under control of the real user and not under control of a fake user. The activation of the traceroute requires the consent of the user.
A user wishes to activate the traceroute function on the first encountered middlebox to get an approximate location for his device.
At any time, the user can require the middleboxes to stop providing geospatial information.
REQ-1: A server endpoint MAY propose the traceroute activation. It will be up to the user to accept or reject the proposal.
REQ-2: A SPUD client MUST be able to request one or more middleboxes to provide their geospatial information.
REQ-3: The geospatial information provided by a middlebox MUST be non repudiable.
REQ-4: Providing geospatial information MUST not add significant delay to the packets of the flow.
REQ-5: A SPUD client MUST be able to request the middleboxes not to provide geospatial information.
REQ-6: A middlebox MUST NOT provide geospatial information without an explicit consent of the user.
When there is a Graphical User Interface (GUI), the user needs an explicit notification indicating whether the traceroute mechanism is used or not.
None.
To do.
| [I-D.trammell-spud-req] | Trammell, B. and M. KĂźhlewind, "Requirements for the design of a Substrate Protocol for User Datagrams (SPUD)", Internet-Draft draft-trammell-spud-req-01, October 2015. |
| [I-D.trammell-stackevo-explicit-coop] | Trammell, B., "Architectural Considerations for Transport Evolution with Explicit Path Cooperation", Internet-Draft draft-trammell-stackevo-explicit-coop-00, September 2015. |
| [RFC3234] | Carpenter, B. and S. Brim, "Middleboxes: Taxonomy and Issues", RFC 3234, DOI 10.17487/RFC3234, February 2002. |