Internet DRAFT - draft-peltan-edns-presentation-format
draft-peltan-edns-presentation-format
Network Working Group L. Peltan
Internet-Draft CZ.NIC
Updates: 8427 (if approved) T. Carpay
Intended status: Standards Track NLnet Labs
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EDNS Presentation and JSON Format
draft-peltan-edns-presentation-format-02
Abstract
This document describes the textual and JSON representation formats
of EDNS options. It also modifies the escaping rules of the JSON
representation of DNS messages, previously defined in RFC8427.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Generic EDNS Presentation Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Generic EDNS JSON representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Common Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6. EDNS Presentation Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7. EDNS Representation in JSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8. Field Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
8.1. Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
8.2. Flags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
8.3. Extended RCODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
8.4. UDP Payload Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8.5. Unrecognized Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8.6. LLQ Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8.7. NSID Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8.8. DAU, DHU and N3U Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8.9. Edns-Client-Subnet Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8.10. EDNS EXPIRE Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
8.11. Cookie Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
8.12. Edns-Tcp-Keepalive Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
8.13. Padding Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
8.14. CHAIN Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
8.15. Edns-Key-Tag Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
8.16. Extended DNS Error Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9. Examples of EDNS Presentation Format . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10. Examples of EDNS Representation in JSON . . . . . . . . . . . 13
11. Guidelines for Future EDNS Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
12. Forward-Compatibility Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
13. Update Representing DNS Messages in JSON . . . . . . . . . . 14
14. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
15. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
16. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
17. Implementation Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
18. Change History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
19. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
19.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
19.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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1. Introduction
A DNS record[RFC1035] of any type can be converted between its binary
Wire format and textual Presentation format. The Wire format is used
in DNS messages transferred over the Internet, while the Presentation
format is used not only in Zone Files (called "master files" in the
referenced document), but also to display the contents of DNS
messages to humans by debugging utilities and possible other use-
cases.
The Presentation format can, however, be processed programatically
and also converted back to Wire Format unambiguously.
The EDNS[RFC6891] option pseudo-record does not appear in Zone Files,
but it sometimes needs to be converted to human-readable or even
machine-readable textual representation. This document describes
such a Presentation Format of the OPT pseudo-record. It is advised
to use this when displaying an OPT pseudo-record to humans. It is
recommended to use this when the textual format is expected to be
machine-processed further.
The JSON[RFC8259] representation[RFC8427] of DNS messages is also
helpful as both human-readable and machine-readable format (despite
the limitation in non-preservation of the order of options, which
prevents reversing the conversion unambiguously), but it did not
define a JSON representation of EDNS option pseudo-record. This
document defines it.
The aforementioned document[RFC8427] also defined ambiguous and
possibly conflicting rules for escaping special characters when
representing DNS names in JSON. This document modifies and clarifies
those rules.
2. Terminology
The key words "*MUST*", "*MUST NOT*", "*REQUIRED*", "*SHALL*",
"*SHALL NOT*", "*SHOULD*", "*SHOULD NOT*", "*RECOMMENDED*", "*NOT
RECOMMENDED*", "*MAY*", and "*OPTIONAL*" in this document is to be
interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119][RFC8174] when, and only
when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.
* Base16 is the representation of arbitrary binary data by an even
number of case-insensitive hexadecimal digits ([RFC4648],
Section 8).
* Backslash is the character, also called Reverse Solidus, ASCII
code 0x5c.
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* ID-string is a string of characters containing only (uppercase or
lowercase) letters, digits, dashes, and underscores, and its first
character is a (uppercase or lowercase) letter.
* "Note" denotes a sentence that is not normative. Instead, it
points out some non-obvious consequences of previous statements.
3. Generic EDNS Presentation Format
A malformed EDNS record or a record of an unsupported EDNS version
can be converted to Presentation format using this generic method.
OPT pseudo-record is, in this case, represented the same way as a RR
of unknown type according to [RFC3597], Section 5. In specific:
* Owner Name is the Owner Name of the OPT record. Note that this is
usually . (DNS Root Domain Name) unless malformed.
* TTL is the 32-bit big-endian integer appearing at the TTL position
of the OPT pseudo-record Wire format, see [RFC6891],
Section 6.1.3.
* CLASS is a text representation of the 16-bit integer at the CLASS
position of the OPT pseudo-record Wire format (UDP payload size
happens to appear there). This will usually result in CLASS####
(where #### will be the integer), but it might also result, for
example in IN or CH if the value is 1 or 4, respectively.
* TYPE is either TYPE41 or OPT.
* RDATA is formatted by \#, its length as a decadic number, and data
as Base16 as per [RFC3597], Section 5.
Example:
. 16859136 CLASS1232 TYPE41 \# 6 000F00020015
4. Generic EDNS JSON representation
A malformed EDNS record or a record of an unsupported EDNS version
can be converted to JSON using this generic method. The OPT pseudo-
record is, in this case, represented in JSON as an object with
following members:
* NAME - String with the Owner Name of the OPT record. Note that
this is usually . (DNS Root Domain Name) unless malformed. See
Section 13 for representing DNS names in JSON.
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* TTL - Integer with the 32-bit big-endian value appearing at the
TTL position of the OPT pseudo-record Wire format, see [RFC6891],
Section 6.1.3.
* CLASS - Integer with the 16-bit value at the CLASS position of the
OPT pseudo-record Wire format (UDP payload size happens to appear
there).
* TYPE - Integer with the value 41.
* RDATAHEX - String with the pseudo-record RDATA formatted as
Base16.
Example:
{
"NAME": ".",
"TTL": 16859136,
"CLASS": 1232,
"TYPE": 41,
"RDATAHEX": "000f00020015"
}
5. Common Concept
Let's first divide the information contained in the EDNS record into
_FIELD_s: Version, FLAGS, RCODE, and UDPSIZE _FIELD_s are based on
the OPT record header, one other _FIELD_ is based on every EDNS
option that appears in the OPT record RDATA. Each _FIELD_ has a
defined _FIELD-NAME_, which is an ID-string, and _FIELD-VALUE_ of
type _FIELD-TYPE_, which is one of the following:
* _int_, a non-negative integer
* _ID-NAME_, a mnemonic string denoting a numeric value defined by
this document, other referenced RFC, and/or referenced IANA table;
mnemonics that are not ID-strings MUST NOT be used
* _ID-CODE_, a non-negative integer prefixed with a fixed ID-string
* _mixed_, a variant type that can be any of the above-defined types
* _base16_, an even number of hexadecimal (case-insensitive) digits
representing a string of arbitrary octets
* _list_, a variable-sized (possibly empty) list of values of
homogenous type defined above (possibly _mixed_)
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* _dname_, a Fully-Qualified Domain Name
* _string_, a string of arbitrary octets where quoting and escaping
is used to represent it as ASCII string
* _object_, a defined fixed number of _SUBFIELD_s, each having its
_FIELD-NAME_ and _FIELD-TYPE_ defined according to the rules above
(nested _object_s are forbidden)
6. EDNS Presentation Format
The EDNS Presentation Format follows the RR format of the master file
([RFC1035], Section 5.1), including quotation of non-printable
characters, multi-line format using round brackets, and semicolons
denoting comments. However, one difference is that <character-
string>s are not limited in size (to 255 represented octets).
Depending on the use-case, implementations MAY choose to display only
RDATA. In the event that the resource-record-like Presentation
format is desired, the following applies:
* Owner Name MUST be . (DNS Root Domain Name).
* TTL MAY be omitted. If it is present, it MUST be 0 (zero). Note
that this differs from DNS RR wire-to-text conversion as well as
Generic Presentation Format (Section 3).
* CLASS MAY be omitted. If it is present, it MUST be ANY.
* TYPE MUST be EDNS.
RDATA consists of <character-string>s, each _FIELD_ is represented by
at least two of them. First represented _FIELD_s are Version, FLAGS,
RCODE, and UDPSIZE in this order; however, Version MAY be omitted if
the EDNS Version is zero. The rest of _FIELD_s respect the EDNS
options in the same order as they appear in the OPT record, including
possibly repeated options. The following paragraph defines how a
single _FIELD_ is represented with <character-string>s.
The first <character-string> is the _FIELD-NAME_ concatenated (no
spaces in between) with a colon (:) and SHOULD NOT be enclosed in
quotes. The rest depends on the _FIELD-TYPE_:
* _int_ is represented as a decadic number with no leading zeroes
* _ID-NAME_ or _ID-CODE_ is represented as-is
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* _base16_ is represented as-is, zero-length _base16_ as an empty
string enclosed in quotes ("")
* _list_ is represented as a comma-separated list of its items with
no spaces; an empty list as an empty string enclosed in quotes
("")
* _dname_ is represented according to the rules of representing
Domain names in the master file ([RFC1035], Section 5.1);
Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) labels MAY be expressed in
their U-label form, as described in [RFC5890].
* _string_ is represented as <character-string> according to
[RFC1035], Section 5.1; and SHOULD be enclosed in quotes even when
not containing any spaces
* _object_ is represented by the same number of <character-string>s
as how many _SUBFIELD_s it has; their _FIELD-NAME_s are ignored
and _FIELD-VALUE_s are represented in their defined order
Note that each _object_ has fixed number of <character-string>s,
other types have one. This is cruical for parsing, the colon plays
only decorative role, strings might also end with a colon.
7. EDNS Representation in JSON
The EDNS OPT record can be represented in JSON as an object called
EDNS. Each _FIELD_ is represented as one object member (name-value
pair) ,where the name is _FIELD-NAME_ and the value depends on
_FIELD-TYPE_:
* _int_ is represented as an Integer
* _ID-NAME_, _ID-CODE_ or _base16_ is represented as a String
* _mixed_ is represented as a String even when it happens to be
_int_
* _list_ is represented as a JSON Array containing its members in
specified order
* _dname_ is represented as a String with quotation rules in
Section 13
* _string_ is represented as a String according to [RFC8259],
Section 7
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* _object_ is represented as a JSON object with each _SUBFIELD_
represented as one of its member according to rules above (note
that nested _object_s are forbidden)
Note that the order of members is not preserved in JSON. The
_FIELD_s FLAGS, RCODE, and UDPSIZE MUST be represented, Version MAY
be omitted if the EDNS Version is zero.
8. Field Definitions
8.1. Version
EDNS Version is represented by _FIELD-NAME_ Version, its _FIELD-TYPE_
is _int_ and _FIELD-VALUE_ is the EDNS Version.
8.2. Flags
EDNS FLAGS is represented by _FIELD-NAME_ FLAGS and its _FIELD-TYPE_
is a _list_ of _mixed_:
* _ID-NAME_ DO if the DO bit is set
* _ID-CODE_ BITn for each n-th bit (other than DO) set
Examples of Presentation format:
FLAGS: ""
FLAGS: DO,BIT1
FLAGS: BIT3,BIT7,BIT14
8.3. Extended RCODE
Extended RCODE is represented by _FIELD-NAME_ RCODE and its _FIELD-
TYPE_ is a _mixed_.
For the sake of readability, it is RECOMMENDED to compute the whole
DNS Message Extended RCODE from both the OPT record and the DNS
Message Header. If the whole DNS Message Extended RCODE is computed
and has a mnemonic in [IANA.RCODEs], the _FIELD-VALUE_ MAY be this
mnemonic as _ID-NAME_. If the whole DNS Message Extended RCODE is
computed and no mnemonic is available (or used), the _FIELD-VALUE_ is
an _int_ with the computed Extended RCODE. If the whole DNS Message
Extended RCODE cannot be computed, the _FIELD-VALUE_ is an _ID-CODE_
EXT##, where ## stands for DNS Message Extended RCODE with the lower
four bits set to zero (i.e. the four-bit left shift still applies).
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Examples of Presentation format:
RCODE: NXDOMAIN
RCODE: 3841
RCODE: EXT3840
8.4. UDP Payload Size
UDP Payload Size is represented by _FIELD-NAME_ UDPSIZE, its _FIELD-
TYPE_ is _int_ and _FIELD-VALUE_ is the UDP Payload Size.
8.5. Unrecognized Option
EDNS options that are not part of this specification, and their own
specifications do not specify their _FIELD-NAME_ and _FIELD-VALUE_
MUST be displayed according to this subsection. Other options
(specified below or otherwise) MAY be displayed so as well.
Unrecognized EDNS option is represented by _FIELD-NAME_ OPT##, where
## stands for its OPTION-CODE, its _FIELD-TYPE_ is _base16_ and
_FIELD-VALUE_ is its OPTION-VALUE encoded as Base16.
8.6. LLQ Option
The LLQ (OPTION-CODE 1 [RFC8764]) option is represented by _FIELD-
NAME_ LLQ and its _FIELD-VALUE_ is a _list_ of _int_s with LLQ-
VERSION, LLQ-OPCODE, LLQ-ERROR, LLQ-ID, and LLQ-LEASE in this order.
Example of Presentation format:
LLQ=1,1,0,0,3600
8.7. NSID Option
The NSID (OPTION-CODE 3 [RFC5001]) option is represented by _FIELD-
NAME_ NSID and its _FIELD-VALUE_ is an object with two _SUBFIELD_s in
the following order:
* first _FIELD-NAME_ is HEX and _FIELD-VALUE_ is a _base16_
representation of the OPTION-VALUE
* second _FIELD-NAME_ is TEXT and _FIELD-VALUE_ is a _string_
representation of the OPTION-VALUE
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The TEXT value MAY be substituted with an empty string (for example,
if the OPTION-VALUE contains non-printable characters). Within JSON,
the TEXT _SUBFIELD_ MAY be omitted if it is an empty string.
8.8. DAU, DHU and N3U Options
The DAU, DHU, and N3U (OPTION-CODES 5, 6, 7, respectively [RFC6975])
options are represented by _FIELD-NAME_s DAU, DHU, and N3U,
respectively, and their FIELD-VALUES are _list_s of _int_s with their
ALG-CODEs.
Within Presentation format, their _FIELD-VALUE_s MAY be substituted
with _list_s of _ID-NAME_s with the textual mnemonics of the ALG-
CODEs found in their respective IANA registries
[IANA.EDNS.DAU][IANA.EDNS.DHU][IANA.EDNS.N3U].
Examples of Presentation format:
DAU: 8,10,13,14,15
DHU: 1,2,4
N3U: 1
DAU: RSASHA256,RSASHA512,ECDSAP256SHA256,ECDSAP384SHA384,ED25519
DHU: SHA-1,SHA-256,SHA-384
N3U: SHA-1
8.9. Edns-Client-Subnet Option
The EDNS Client Subnet (OPTION-CODE 8 [RFC7871]) option is
represented by _FIELD-NAME_ ECS and its _FIELD-TYPE_ is a _string_.
If FAMILY is either IPv4 (1) or IPv6 (2) and the OPTION-LENGTH
matches the expected length, the _FIELD-VALUE_ is a slash-separated
(no spaces) tuple of:
* the textual IPv4 or IPv6 address ([RFC1035], Section 3.4.1,
[RFC4291], Section 2.2), respectively
* SOURCE PREFIX-LENGTH as a decadic number
* SCOPE PREFIX-LENGTH as a decadic number, SHOULD be omitted
(including the separating slash) if zero
Otherwise, the _FIELD-VALUE_ is a _string_ with base16-representation
of the OPTION-VALUE.
Examples of Presentation format:
ECS: "1.2.3.4/24"
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ECS: "1234::2/56/48"
ECS: "000520000102030405060708"
8.10. EDNS EXPIRE Option
The EDNS EXPIRE (OPTION-CODE 9 [RFC7314]) option is represented by
_FIELD-NAME_ EXPIRE and its _FIELD-VALUE_ is a _mixed_:
* _ID-NAME_ NONE if OPTION-LENGTH is zero
* _int_ with EXPIRE value otherwise
8.11. Cookie Option
The DNS Cookie (OPTION-CODE 10 [RFC7873]) option is represented by
_FIELD-NAME_ COOKIE and its _FIELD-VALUE_ is a _list_ of _base16_
with the Client Cookie and, if OPTION-LENGTH is greater than 8, the
Server Cookie.
8.12. Edns-Tcp-Keepalive Option
The edns-tcp-keepalive (OPTION-CODE 11 [RFC7828]) option is
represented by _FIELD-NAME_ KEEPALIVE and its _FIELD-VALUE_ is an
_int_ with the TIMEOUT in tenths of seconds.
8.13. Padding Option
The Padding (OPTION-CODE 12 [RFC7830]) option is represented by
_FIELD-NAME_ PADDING and its _FIELD-VALUE_ is an _object_ with two
_SUBFIELD_s:
* first _FIELD-NAME_ is LENGTH and its _FIELD-VALUE_ is the OPTION-
LENGTH as _int_
* second _FIELD-NAME_ is HEX and its _FIELD-VALUE_ is a _string_
with base16-representation of OPTION-DATA
If the OPTION-DATA consists only of zeroes (0x00 octets), the HEX
_SUBFIELD_ SHOULD be an empty _string_. Within JSON, the HEX
_SUBFIELD_ MAY be omitted if it is an empty string.
8.14. CHAIN Option
The CHAIN (OPTION-CODE 13 [RFC7901]) option is represented by _FIELD-
NAME_ CHAIN and its _FIELD-VALUE_ is the Closest trust point as
_dname_.
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8.15. Edns-Key-Tag Option
The edns-key-tag (OPTION-CODE 14 [RFC8145], Section 4) option is
represented by _FIELD-NAME_ KEYTAG and its _FIELD-VALUE_ is the list
of Key Tag values as _list_ of _int_s.
8.16. Extended DNS Error Option
The Extended DNS Error (OPTION-CODE 15 [RFC8914]) option is
represented by _FIELD-NAME_ EDE and its _FIELD-VALUE_ is an _object_
with three _SUBFIELD_s:
* first _FIELD-NAME_ is CODE and its _FIELD-VALUE_ is the INFO-CODE
as _int_
* second _FIELD-NAME_ is Purpose and its _FIELD-VALUE_ is the
Purpose (first presented in [RFC8914], Section 5.2 and then
governed by [IANA.EDNS.EDE]) as _string_, or an empty _string_
* third _FIELD-NAME_ is TEXT and its _FIELD-VALUE_ is the EXTRA-TEXT
as _string_ (possibly of zero length)
Within JSON, the Purpose _SUBFIELD_ MAY be omitted if it is an empty
string. The same applies for TEXT _SUBFIELD_.
Examples of Presentation format:
EDE: 18 "Prohibited" ""
EDE: 6 "DNSSEC Bogus" "signature too short"
9. Examples of EDNS Presentation Format
The following examples shall illustrate the features of EDNS
Presentation format described above. They may not make much sense
and should not appear in normal DNS operation.
. 0 IN EDNS (
Version: 0
FLAGS: DO
RCODE: BADCOOKIE
UDPSIZE: 1232
EXPIRE: 86400
COOKIE: 36714f2e8805a93d,4654b4ed3279001b
EDE: 18 "Prohibited" "bad cookie\000"
OPT1234: 000004d2
PADDING: 113 ""
)
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. 0 IN EDNS ( FLAGS: 0 RCODE: BADSIG UDPSIZE: 4096 EXPIRE: NONE
NSID: 6578616d706c652e636f6d2e "example.com."
DAU: 8,10 KEEPALIVE: 600 CHAIN: zerobyte\000.com.
KEYTAG: 36651,6113 PADDING: 8 "df24d08b0258c7de" )
10. Examples of EDNS Representation in JSON
The following examples are the JSON equivalents of the examples in
Section 9. They may not make much sense and should not appear in
normal DNS operation.
"EDNS": {
"Version": 0,
"FLAGS": [ "DO" ],
"RCODE": "BADCOOKIE",
"UDPSIZE": 1232,
"EXPIRE": 86400,
"COOKIE": [ "36714f2e8805a93d", "4654b4ed3279001b" ],
"EDE": {
"CODE": 18,
"Purpose": "Prohibited",
"TEXT": "bad cookie\u0000"
},
"OPT1234": "000004d2",
"PADDING": {
"LENGTH": 113
}
}
"EDNS": { "FLAGS": [ ], "RCODE": "BADSIG", "UDPSIZE": 4096,
"EXPIRE": "NONE", "NSID": { "HEX": "6578616d706c652e636f6d2e",
"TXT": "example.com." }, "DAU": [ 8, 10 ], "KEEPALIVE": 600,
"CHAIN": "zerobyte\\000.com.", "KEYTAG": [ 36651, 6113 ],
"PADDING": { "LENGTH": 8, "HEX": "df24d08b0258c7de" } }
11. Guidelines for Future EDNS Options
This draft describes the presentation and JSON format of those ENDS
options that are known at the time of writing. Other EDNS options
fall in the category of Unrecognized Options (Section 8.5), unless
specified otherwise. The following guidelines shall help define
them.
When defining new EDNS options, it is recommended to specify their
_FIELD-NAME_s, _FIELD-TYPE_s and the construction of _FIELD-VALUE_s
so that the EDNS Presentation and JSON format comprehensibly handles
them. Those formats should follow the semantics of the options'
values rather than the syntax in order to make them more human-
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readable. If it is necessary to define a new _FIELD-TYPE_, care must
be taken to define its representation in Presentation and JSON format
in a similar fashion like in this document.
12. Forward-Compatibility Considerations
This specification of ENDS Presentation and JSON format prefers
displaying textual mnemonics over potentially cryptic numeric values
wherever possible, which is desirable for human readers. It refers
to several IANA tables collecting the definitions of those mnemonics.
Those tables may be getting updated throughout time, and for human
readers, it is still beneficial that the EDNS formats reflect those
updates. However, this may cause difficulties for algorithms
implementing the reverse process of converting EDNS Presentation and/
or JSON format back to wire format, because they might not understand
some new mnemonics. This limitation has to be taken into
consideration.
Similarly, new documents may define Presentation and JSON format of
newly defined EDNS options according to (or not according to) the
guidelines above (Section 11). This is, again, beneficial for human
readers, as otherwise all new EDNS options would have to be
represented as Unrecognized Options (Section 8.5). However, this may
also cause difficulties for algorithms implementing the reverse
process of converting EDNS Presentation and/or JSON format back to
wire format, because they might not understand some new options.
13. Update Representing DNS Messages in JSON
This section is not related to EDNS. This section updates [RFC8427],
Section 2.6, including erratum 5439, which introduced contradicting
MUSTs for escaping backslashes.
In order to solve this contradiction and correctly represent a DNS
name in JSON, it MUST be first converted to textual Presentation
format according to [RFC1035], Section 5.1 (called master file format
in the referenced document), and the resulting <character-string>
subsequently is inserted into JSON as String ([RFC8259], Section 7).
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Note that the previous paragraph prescribes the following escaping
strategy: In the first step, every problematic character (non-
printable, backslash, dot within Label, or any octet) is either
substituted with the sequence \DDD, where DDD is the three-digit
decimal ASCII code, or in some cases (backslash, dot, any printable
character) just prepended with a backslash. In the second step,
every quote (") and backslash (\) in the resulting <character-string>
is prepended with another backslash. Note that the JSON escaping
sequence \uXXXX (where XXXX is a hexadecimal Unicode code) is thus
never needed.
Moreover, the following requirements from [RFC8427] still hold: The
name MUST be represented as an absolute Fully-Qualified Domain Name.
Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) labels MUST be expressed in their
A-label form, as described in [RFC5890].
Example: the name with the Wire format 04005C2E2203636F6D00 can be
represented in JSON as:
"NAME": "\\000\\\\\\046\".com."
but also as (among other ways):
"NAME": "\\000\\092\\.\\\".c\\om."
14. IANA Considerations
This document has no IANA actions.
15. Security Considerations
This document only describes the textual representation of binary
data and therefore has no security impact on related protocols.
When implementing software, care must be taken to handle possibly
inconsistent or broken input data.
16. Acknowledgements
TODO
17. Implementation Status
*Note to the RFC Editor*: Please remove this entire appendix before
publication.
This version of this specification draft-peltan-edns-presentation-
format-02 has been implemented in Knot DNS 3.3.2.
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18. Change History
*Note to the RFC Editor*: Please remove this entire appendix before
publication.
* edns-presentation-format-00
Initial public draft.
* edns-presentation-format-01
Added Guidelines for Future EDNS Options, dummy IANA
Considerations and Security Considerations.
* edns-presentation-format-02
Substantial re-work with common FIELD-TYPE specifications, bigger
changes in presentation format and smaller in JSON.
19. References
19.1. Normative References
[RFC1035] Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and
specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, DOI 10.17487/RFC1035,
November 1987, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1035>.
[RFC6891] Damas, J., Graff, M., and P. Vixie, "Extension Mechanisms
for DNS (EDNS(0))", STD 75, RFC 6891,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6891, April 2013,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6891>.
[RFC8259] Bray, T., Ed., "The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data
Interchange Format", STD 90, RFC 8259,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8259, December 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8259>.
[RFC8427] Hoffman, P., "Representing DNS Messages in JSON",
RFC 8427, DOI 10.17487/RFC8427, July 2018,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8427>.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
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[RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.
[RFC4648] Josefsson, S., "The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data
Encodings", RFC 4648, DOI 10.17487/RFC4648, October 2006,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4648>.
[RFC3597] Gustafsson, A., "Handling of Unknown DNS Resource Record
(RR) Types", RFC 3597, DOI 10.17487/RFC3597, September
2003, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3597>.
[RFC5890] Klensin, J., "Internationalized Domain Names for
Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document Framework",
RFC 5890, DOI 10.17487/RFC5890, August 2010,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5890>.
[RFC6975] Crocker, S. and S. Rose, "Signaling Cryptographic
Algorithm Understanding in DNS Security Extensions
(DNSSEC)", RFC 6975, DOI 10.17487/RFC6975, July 2013,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6975>.
[RFC4291] Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "IP Version 6 Addressing
Architecture", RFC 4291, DOI 10.17487/RFC4291, February
2006, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4291>.
19.2. Informative References
[IANA.RCODEs]
"DNS RCODEs", n.d., <https://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-
parameters/dns-parameters.xhtml#dns-parameters-6>.
[IANA.EDNS.EDE]
"EDNS Extended Error Codes", n.d.,
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-parameters/dns-
parameters.xhtml#extended-dns-error-codes>.
[IANA.EDNS.DAU]
"DNS Security Algorithm Numbers", n.d.,
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-sec-alg-numbers/dns-
sec-alg-numbers.xhtml>.
[IANA.EDNS.DHU]
"DNSSEC DS RR Type Digest Algorithms", n.d.,
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/ds-rr-types/ds-rr-
types.xhtml#ds-rr-types-1>.
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[IANA.EDNS.N3U]
"DNSSEC NSEC3 Hash Algorithms", n.d.,
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/dnssec-nsec3-parameters/
dnssec-nsec3-parameters.xhtml#dnssec-nsec3-parameters-3>.
[RFC8764] Cheshire, S. and M. Krochmal, "Apple's DNS Long-Lived
Queries Protocol", RFC 8764, DOI 10.17487/RFC8764, June
2020, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8764>.
[RFC5001] Austein, R., "DNS Name Server Identifier (NSID) Option",
RFC 5001, DOI 10.17487/RFC5001, August 2007,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5001>.
[RFC7871] Contavalli, C., van der Gaast, W., Lawrence, D., and W.
Kumari, "Client Subnet in DNS Queries", RFC 7871,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7871, May 2016,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7871>.
[RFC7314] Andrews, M., "Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS) EXPIRE
Option", RFC 7314, DOI 10.17487/RFC7314, July 2014,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7314>.
[RFC7873] Eastlake 3rd, D. and M. Andrews, "Domain Name System (DNS)
Cookies", RFC 7873, DOI 10.17487/RFC7873, May 2016,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7873>.
[RFC7828] Wouters, P., Abley, J., Dickinson, S., and R. Bellis, "The
edns-tcp-keepalive EDNS0 Option", RFC 7828,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7828, April 2016,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7828>.
[RFC7830] Mayrhofer, A., "The EDNS(0) Padding Option", RFC 7830,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7830, May 2016,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7830>.
[RFC7901] Wouters, P., "CHAIN Query Requests in DNS", RFC 7901,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7901, June 2016,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7901>.
[RFC8145] Wessels, D., Kumari, W., and P. Hoffman, "Signaling Trust
Anchor Knowledge in DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC)",
RFC 8145, DOI 10.17487/RFC8145, April 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8145>.
[RFC8914] Kumari, W., Hunt, E., Arends, R., Hardaker, W., and D.
Lawrence, "Extended DNS Errors", RFC 8914,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8914, October 2020,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8914>.
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Authors' Addresses
Libor Peltan
CZ.NIC
Email: libor.peltan@nic.cz
Tom Carpay
NLnet Labs
Email: tomcarpay@gmail.com
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