Operational Security Capabilities for IP Network Infrastructure (opsec)
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Charter
Last Modified: 2008-04-04

Current Status: Active Working Group

Chair(s):
    Joe Abley  <[email protected]>
    Joel Jaeggli  <[email protected]>

Operations and Management Area Director(s):
    Dan Romascanu  <[email protected]>
    Ronald Bonica  <[email protected]>

Operations and Management Area Advisor:
    Ronald Bonica  <[email protected]>

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Description of Working Group:

Goals

The goal of the Operational Security Working Group is to codify
knowledge gained through operational experience about feature sets
that are needed to securely deploy and operate managed network
elements providing transit services at the data link and IP
layers.

It is anticipated that the codification of this knowledge will be
an aid to vendors in producing more securable network elements,
and an aid to operators in increasing security by deploying and
configuring more secure network elements.

Scope

The working group will list capabilities appropriate for
devices use in:

* Internet Service Provider (ISP) Networks
* Enterprise Networks

The following areas are excluded from the charter at this time:

* Wireless devices
* Small-Office-Home-Office (SOHO) devices
* Security devices (firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems,
Authentication Servers)
* Hosts

Methods

Framework Document

A framework document will be produced describing the scope,
format, intended use and documents to be produced.

Current Practices Document

A single document will be produced that attempts to capture
current practices related to secure operation. This will be
primarily based on operational experience. Each entry will
list:

* threats addressed,

* current practices for addressing the threat,

* protocols, tools and technologies extant at the time of writing
that are used to address the threat.

Individual Capability Documents

A series of documents will be produced covering various groupings
of security management capabilities needed to operate network elements
in a secure fashion. The capabilities will be described in terms that
allow implementations to change over time and will attempt to avoid
requiring any particular implementation.

The capabilities documents will cite the Current Practices document
where possible for justification.

Profile Documents

Profiles documents will be produced, which cite the capabilities
relevant to different operating environments.

Operator Outreach

Much of the operational security knowledge that needs to be
codified resides with operators. In order to access their
knowledge and reach the working group goal, informal BoFs will be
held at relevant operator fora.

RFC3871 will be used as a jumping off point.

Goals and Milestones:

  Done         Complete Charter

  Done         First draft of Framework Document as Internet Draft

  Done         First draft of Standards Survey Document as Internet Draft

  Done         First draft of Packet Filtering Capabilities

  Done         First draft of Event Logging Capabilities

  Done         First draft of Network Operator Current Security Practices

  Done         First draft of In-Band management capabilities

  Done         First draft of Out-of-Band management capabilities

  Done         First draft of Configuration and Management Interface
               Capabilities

  Feb 2005       First draft of Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
               (AAA) Capabilities

  Feb 2005       First draft of Documentation and Assurance capabilities

  Done         First draft of Miscellaneous capabilities

  Mar 2005       First draft of Deliberations Summary document

  Mar 2005       Submit Framework to IESG

  Mar 2005       Submit Standards Survey to IESG

  Done         Submit Network Operator Current Security Practices to IESG

  May 2005       First draft of ISP Operational Security Capabilities Profile

  May 2005       First draft of Enterprise Operational Security Capabilities
               Profile

  Jun 2005       Submit Packet Filtering capabilities to IESG

  Jun 2005       Submit Event Logging Capabilities document to IESG

  Jul 2005       Submit In-Band management capabilities to IESG

  Jul 2005       Submit Out-of-Band management capabilities to IESG

  Aug 2005       Submit Configuration and Management Interface Capabilities to
               IESG

  Aug 2005       Submit Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA)
               capabilities document to IESG

  Sep 2005       Submit Documentation and Assurance capabilities to IESG

  Sep 2005       Submit Miscellaneous capabilities document to IESG

  Dec 2005       Submit ISP Operational Security Capabilities Profile to IESG

  Dec 2005       Submit Large Enterprise Operational Security Capabilities
               Profile to IESG

  Dec 2005       Submit OPSEC Deliberation Summary document to IESG


Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised         I-D Title   <Filename>
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Jan 2005 Dec 2007   <draft-ietf-opsec-efforts-07.txt>
               Security Best Practices Efforts and Documents

Request For Comments:

 RFC   Stat Published     Title
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RFC4778 I    Jan 2007    Operational Security Current Practices in Internet
                      Service Provider Environments