Internet Research Task Force (IRTF)                          RJ Atkinson
Request for Comments: 6744                                    Consultant
Category: Experimental                                         SN Bhatti
ISSN: 2070-1721                                            U. St Andrews
                                                          November 2012


                IPv6 Nonce Destination Option for the
        Identifier-Locator Network Protocol for IPv6 (ILNPv6)

Abstract

  The Identifier-Locator Network Protocol (ILNP) is an experimental,
  evolutionary enhancement to IP.  ILNP has multiple instantiations.
  This document describes an experimental Nonce Destination Option used
  only with ILNP for IPv6 (ILNPv6).  This document is a product of the
  IRTF Routing Research Group.

Status of This Memo

  This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
  published for examination, experimental implementation, and
  evaluation.

  This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
  community.  This document is a product of the Internet Research Task
  Force (IRTF).  The IRTF publishes the results of Internet-related
  research and development activities.  These results might not be
  suitable for deployment.  This RFC represents the individual
  opinion(s) of one or more members of the Routing Research Group of
  the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF).  Documents approved for
  publication by the IRSG are not a candidate for any level of Internet
  Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.

  Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
  and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
  http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6744.














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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction ....................................................2
     1.1. ILNP Document Roadmap ......................................3
     1.2. Terminology ................................................5
  2. Syntax ..........................................................5
  3. Transport Protocol Effects ......................................6
  4. Location Changes ................................................7
  5. Implementation Considerations ...................................7
     5.1. ILNP Communication Cache ...................................8
     5.2. Mode Indicator .............................................8
     5.3. IP Security ................................................8
  6. Backwards Compatibility .........................................8
  7. Security Considerations ........................................10
  8. IANA Considerations ............................................12
  9. References .....................................................12
     9.1. Normative References ......................................12
     9.2. Informative References ....................................13
  10. Acknowledgements ..............................................14

1.  Introduction

  This document is part of the ILNP document set, which has had
  extensive review within the IRTF Routing RG.  ILNP is one of the
  recommendations made by the RG Chairs.  Separately, various refereed
  research papers on ILNP have also been published during this decade.
  So, the ideas contained herein have had much broader review than the
  IRTF Routing RG.  The views in this document were considered
  controversial by the Routing RG, but the RG reached a consensus that
  the document still should be published.  The Routing RG has had
  remarkably little consensus on anything, so virtually all Routing RG
  outputs are considered controversial.



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  At present, the Internet research and development community is
  exploring various approaches to evolving the Internet Architecture to
  solve a variety of issues including, but not limited to, scalability
  of inter-domain routing [RFC4984].  A wide range of other issues
  (e.g., site multihoming, node multihoming, site/subnet mobility, node
  mobility) are also active concerns at present.  Several different
  classes of evolution are being considered by the Internet research
  and development community.  One class is often called "Map and
  Encapsulate", where traffic would be mapped and then tunnelled
  through the inter-domain core of the Internet.  Another class being
  considered is sometimes known as "Identifier/Locator Split".  This
  document relates to a proposal that is in the latter class of
  evolutionary approaches.

  This document describes a new option for the IPv6 Destination Options
  header that is used with the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol for
  IPv6 (ILNPv6).  ILNPv6 is an experimental protocol that is backwards
  compatible with, and incrementally upgradable from, IPv6.  This
  option is ONLY used in ILNPv6 sessions and is never used with classic
  IPv6 sessions.

  The Nonce Option for the IPv6 Destination Options Header that is
  described in this document provides two functions.  First, it
  provides protection against off-path attacks for packets when ILNPv6
  is in use.  Second, it provides a signal during initial network-layer
  session creation that ILNPv6 is proposed for use with this network-
  layer session, rather than classic IPv6.  This last function is
  particularly important for ensuring that ILNP is both incrementally
  deployable and backwards compatible with IPv6.  Consequently, this
  option MUST NOT be used except by an ILNPv6-capable node.

  Further, each Nonce value is unidirectional.  Since packets often
  travel asymmetric paths between two correspondents, having separate
  Nonces for each direction limits the number of on-path nodes that can
  easily learn an ILNP session's nonce.  So a typical TCP session will
  have two different nonce values in use: one nonce is used from Local
  Node to the Correspondent Node and a different nonce is used from the
  Correspondent Node to the Local Node.

1.1.  ILNP Document Roadmap

  This document defines a new IPv6 Nonce Destination Option used by
  ILNPv6 nodes (1) to indicate to ILNP correspondent nodes (by
  inclusion within the initial packets of an ILNP session) that the
  node is operating in the ILNP mode and (2) to prevent off-path
  attacks against ILNP ICMP messages.  This Nonce is used, for example,
  with all ILNP ICMPv6 Locator Update messages that are exchanged among
  ILNP correspondent nodes.



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  The ILNP architecture can have more than one engineering
  instantiation.  For example, one can imagine a "clean-slate"
  engineering design based on the ILNP architecture.  In separate
  documents, we describe two specific engineering instances of ILNP.
  The term "ILNPv6" refers precisely to an instance of ILNP that is
  based upon, and backwards compatible with, IPv6.  The term "ILNPv4"
  refers precisely to an instance of ILNP that is based upon, and
  backwards compatible with, IPv4.

  Many engineering aspects common to both ILNPv4 and ILNPv6 are
  described in [RFC6741].  A full engineering specification for either
  ILNPv6 or ILNPv4 is beyond the scope of this document.

  Readers are referred to other related ILNP documents for details not
  described here:

  a) [RFC6740] is the main architectural description of ILNP, including
     the concept of operations.

  b) [RFC6741] describes engineering and implementation considerations
     that are common to both ILNPv4 and ILNPv6.

  c) [RFC6742] defines additional DNS resource records that support
     ILNP.

  d) [RFC6743] defines a new ICMPv6 Locator Update message used by an
     ILNP node to inform its correspondent nodes of any changes to its
     set of valid Locators.

  e) [RFC6745] defines a new ICMPv4 Locator Update message used by an
     ILNP node to inform its correspondent nodes of any changes to its
     set of valid Locators.

  f) [RFC6746] defines a new IPv4 Nonce Option used by ILNPv4 nodes to
     carry a security nonce to prevent off-path attacks against ILNP
     ICMP messages and also defines a new IPv4 Identifier Option used
     by ILNPv4 nodes.

  g) [RFC6747] describes extensions to Address Resolution Protocol
     (ARP) for use with ILNPv4.

  h) [RFC6748] describes optional engineering and deployment functions
     for ILNP.  These are not required for the operation or use of ILNP
     and are provided as additional options.







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1.2.  Terminology

  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 [RFC2119].

2.  Syntax

  The Nonce Option is carried within an IPv6 Destination Options
  header.  Section 4 of [RFC2460] provides much more information on the
  various options and optional headers used with IPv6.

  More than one option might be inside the IPv6 Destination Options
  Header; however, at most, one Nonce Option exists in a given IPv6
  packet.

  A system that receives a packet containing more than one Nonce Option
  SHOULD discard the packet as "Authentication Failed" (instead of
  passing the packet up to the appropriate transport-layer protocol or
  to ICMP) and SHOULD log the event, including the Source Locator,
  Source Identifier, Destination Locator, Destination Identifier,
  upper-layer protocol (e.g., OSPF, TCP, UDP) if any, and transport-
  layer port numbers (if any), as a security fault in accordance with
  local logging policies.

  As of this writing, IPv6 Destination Options headers, and the options
  carried by such headers, are extremely uncommon in the deployed
  Internet.  So, it is expected that this Nonce Option commonly would
  be the only IPv6 Destination Option present in a given IPv6 packet.
  If a Common Architecture Label IPv6 Security Option (CALIPSO) label
  option [RFC5570] is also present in the same IPv6 Destination Options
  header, the CALIPSO Option SHOULD precede the Nonce Option.  The
  Nonce Option SHOULD precede other possible options in the same IPv6
  Destination Options header.

  In the diagram below, we show not only the Nonce Option but also the
  IPv6 Destination Options header that carries the Nonce Option.

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | Next Header   | Hdr Ext Len   |  Option Type  | Option Length |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   /                         Nonce Value                           /
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+






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  Next Header:       8-bit selector.  Identifies the type of header
                     immediately following the Destination Options
                     header.  This field uses the same values as the
                     IPv4 Protocol field, as described in [RFC2460].

  Hdr Ext Len:       8-bit unsigned integer.  Length of the Destination
                     Options header in 8-octet units, not including the
                     first 8 octets.

  Option Type:       This contains the value 0x8B (139).  This is the
                     first octet of the Nonce Option itself.

  Option Length:     This indicates the length in 8-bit octets of the
                     Nonce Value field of the Nonce Option.  This value
                     must be selected so that the enveloping IPv6
                     Destination Option complies with the IPv6 header
                     alignment rules.  Common values are 4 (when the
                     Nonce Value is 32 bits) and 12 (when the Nonce
                     value is 96 bits).

  Nonce Value:       An unpredictable cryptographically random value
                     [RFC4086] used to prevent off-path attacks on an
                     ILNP session.  This field has variable length,
                     with the length indicated by the Option Length
                     field preceding it.  Note that the overall IPv6
                     IPv6 Destination Option MUST comply with IPv6
                     header alignment rules.  Implementations MUST
                     support sending and receiving 32-bit and 96-bit
                     Nonce values.

3.  Transport Protocol Effects

  When the initial packet(s) of an IPv6 session contain this Nonce
  Destination Option, ILNPv6 is in use for that network-layer session.
  (NOTE: Backwards compatibility and incremental deployment are
  discussed in more detail in Section 6 below.)

  When a network-layer session is using ILNPv6, the transport-layer
  pseudo-header calculations MUST set to zero the high-order 64-bits
  ("Locator" or "Routing Prefix") of each IPv6 address.  This has the
  effect that the transport-layer is no longer aware of the topological
  network location of either node in that transport-layer session.

  The preceding rule applies not only to unicast ILNPv6 sessions but
  also to multicast or anycast ILNPv6 sessions.






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4.  Location Changes

  When a node has a change in its Locator set that causes all
  previously valid Locators to become invalid, the node MUST send an
  ICMP Locator Update message (containing the Nonce Option with the
  appropriate nonce value) to each of its correspondents [RFC6740]
  [RFC6743].

  In the deployed Internet, packets sometimes arrive at a destination
  out of order.  A receiving node MUST drop a packet arriving from a
  correspondent if the Source Locator of the received packet is not in
  the receiving node's Identifier-Locator Communication Cache's
  (ILCC's) Set of Correspondent Locators UNLESS that packet contains a
  Nonce Option with the appropriate nonce value for that Source
  Identifier and Destination Identifier pair.  This is done to reduce
  the risk of ILNP session hijacking or ILNP session interference
  attacks.

  Hence, the node that has had all previously valid Locators become
  invalid MUST include the Nonce Option with the appropriate nonce
  value in all packets (data or otherwise) to all correspondents for at
  least three round-trip times (RTTs) for each correspondent.  (N.B. An
  implementation need not actually calculate RTT values; it could just
  use a fixed timer with a time long enough to cover the longest RTT
  path, such as 1 minute.)  This "gratuitous authentication" ensures
  that the correspondent can authenticate any received packet, even if
  the ICMP Locator Update control message arrives and is processed
  AFTER some other packet using the new Source Locator(s).  If an ILNP
  session is using IPsec, then, of course, IPsec SHOULD continue to be
  used even if one or more participating nodes change location.
  Because IP Security for ILNP [RFC6741] binds only to the Identifiers,
  and not to the Locators in the packet, changes in Locator value have
  no impact on IP Security for ILNP sessions.

  As mobility and multihoming are functionally equivalent for ILNP,
  this section applies equally to either situation and also to any
  other situation in which a node's set of Locators might change over
  time.

5.  Implementation Considerations

  Implementers may use any internal implementation they wish, PROVIDED
  that the externally visible behaviour is the same as this
  implementation approach.







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5.1.  ILNP Communication Cache

  As described in [RFC6741], ILNP nodes maintain an Identifier-Locator
  Communication Cache (ILCC) that contains several variables for each
  correspondent.  The ILNP Nonce value is an important part of that
  cache.

5.2.  Mode Indicator

  To support ILNP, and to retain needed incremental deployability and
  backwards compatibility, the network layer needs a (logical) mode bit
  in the Transport Control Block (or equivalent for one's
  implementation) to track which IP sessions are using traditional IPv6
  and which IP sessions are using ILNPv6.

  If a given transport-layer session is using ILNP, then an entry
  corresponding to the network-layer components of that transport-layer
  session also will exist in the ILNP Communication Cache.  Multiple
  transport-layer sessions between a given pair of nodes normally share
  a single entry in the ILNP Communication Cache, provided their
  network-layer details (e.g., Identifiers, Nonces) are identical.
  Because two different ILNP nodes at two different locations might
  share the same Identifier value, it is important for an ILNP
  implementation to use the ILNP Nonce values to distinguish between
  different ILNP nodes that happen to be using the same (or some of the
  same) Identifier value(s).

5.3.  IP Security

  Whether or not ILNP is in use, the IPsec subsystem MUST maintain an
  IPsec Security Association Database (SAD) and MUST maintain
  information about which IPsec Selectors apply to traffic received by
  or sent from the local node [RFC4301].  By combining the information
  in the IPsec SAD, of what IPsec Selectors apply, and the information
  in the ILCC, an implementation has sufficient knowledge to apply
  IPsec properly to both received and transmitted packets.

6.  Backwards Compatibility

  This option MUST NOT be present in an IPv6 packet unless the packet
  is part of an ILNPv6 session.  As is explained below in more detail,
  the presence or absence of this option from the initial packets of a
  new IPv6 session is an important indication of whether the session is
  using classic IPv6 or ILNPv6.

  ILNPv6 nodes MUST include this option in the first few packets of
  each ILNPv6 session, MUST include this option in all ICMP messages
  generated by endpoints participating in an ILNPv6 session, and MAY



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  include this option in any and all packets of an ILNPv6 session.  It
  is recommended that this option be included in all packets of the
  ILNPv6 session if the packet loss for that session is known to be
  much higher than normal.

  If a node supports ILNP and the node wishes to be able to receive
  incoming new ILNP sessions, then that node's FQDN SHOULD have one or
  more Node Identifier (NID) records and also one or more Locator
  (e.g., L64 or LP) records associated with it in the DNS [RFC6742].

  When a host ("initiator") initiates a new IP session with a
  correspondent ("responder"), it normally will perform a DNS lookup to
  determine the address(es) of the responder.  A host that has been
  enhanced to support the Identifier/Locator Split operating mode
  SHOULD look for Node Identifier ("NID") and Locator ("L64") records
  in any received DNS replies.  DNS servers that support Identifier and
  Locator (i.e., L64 or LP) records might include them (when they
  exist) as additional data in all DNS replies to DNS queries for DNS A
  or AAAA records associated with a specified DNS FQDN.

  If the initiator supports ILNP, and from DNS data learns that the
  responder also supports ILNP, then the initiator SHOULD attempt to
  use ILNP for new sessions with that responder.  In such cases, the
  initiator MUST generate an unpredictable, cryptographically random,
  ILNP Nonce value, MUST store that ILNP Nonce value in the local ILCC,
  and MUST include the ILNP Nonce Destination Option in its initial
  packet(s) to the responder.  The IETF has provided advice on
  generating cryptographically random numbers, such as this nonce value
  [RFC4086].

  If the responder supports ILNP and receives initial packet(s)
  containing the ILNP Nonce Destination Option, the responder will
  thereby learn that the initiator supports ILNP and the responder also
  will use ILNP for this new IP session.

  If the responder supports ILNP and receives initial IP packet(s) NOT
  containing the Nonce Destination Option, the responder will thereby
  learn that the initiator does NOT support ILNP and the responder will
  use classic IPv6 for this new IP session.

  If the responder does not support ILNP and receives initial packet(s)
  containing the ILNP Nonce Destination Option, the responder MUST drop
  the packet and MUST send an ICMP "Parameter Problem" error message
  back to the initiator [RFC4443].  Indeed, it is not expected that
  this behaviour will need to be coded into non-ILNP nodes, as this is
  the normal behaviour for nodes receiving unknown option headers.





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  If the initiator EITHER does not receive a response from the
  responder in a timely manner (e.g., within the applicable TCP timeout
  for a TCP session), and does not receive an ICMP Unreachable error
  message for that packet, OR receives an ICMP Parameter Problem error
  message for that packet, then the initiator infers that the responder
  is not able to support ILNP.  In this case, the initiator should try
  again to create the new IP session, but this time use classic IPv6
  and hence MUST NOT include the ILNP Nonce Destination Option.

7.  Security Considerations

  The ILNPv6 Nonce Destination Option is used ONLY for ILNPv6 sessions,
  because this option is part of the backwards compatibility and
  incremental-deployment approach for the Identifier-Locator Network
  Protocol (ILNP).  This option MUST NOT be used with classic IPv6
  sessions.

  The ILNPv6 Nonce Destination Option only seeks to provide protection
  against off-path attacks on an IP session.  Ordinary IPv6 is
  vulnerable to on-path attacks unless IPsec is in use [CA-1995-01]
  [RFC4301].  This option exists to provide non-cryptographic
  protection for ILNP sessions, protection equivalent to the security
  of IP sessions that do NOT use IPsec.

  When ILNPv6 is in use, the ILNP Nonce Destination Option MUST be
  included in any ICMP control messages (e.g., ICMP Unreachable, ICMP
  Locator Update) sent by participants in that ILNPv6 session, even if
  IPsec also is in use for that ILNPv6 session.  Note that certain ICMP
  messages, for example, a "Packet Too Big" message, might be generated
  by transit devices that are not aware of the ILNP Nonce in use for
  that ILNPv6 session; hence, they are not able to include the ILNP
  Nonce.  Again, this is also true of classic IPv6 in the same
  operational situations, so this does not create a new security issue.

  For ILNPv6 sessions, any ICMP control messages received from a
  participant in that ILNPv6 session that lack a Nonce Destination
  Option MUST be discarded as forgeries.  This security event SHOULD be
  logged in accordance with local security logging policies, including
  details of the received packet (i.e., Source Locator, Source
  Identifier, Destination Locator, Destination Identifier, upper-layer
  protocol (e.g., TCP, UDP, OSPF) if any, transport-layer port numbers
  if any, and the date and time the packet was received).

  For ILNPv6 sessions, ICMP control messages received from a
  participant in that ILNPv6 session that have a Nonce Destination
  Option, but do NOT have the correct nonce value inside the Nonce
  Destination Option, MUST be discarded as forgeries.  This security
  event SHOULD be logged as described above.



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  Of course, longer nonce values provide greater resistance to random
  guessing of the nonce value.  However, ILNPv6 sessions operating in
  higher risk environments SHOULD also use the cryptographic
  authentication provided by IP Security for ILNP [RFC6741] [RFC4301].
  Use of IP Security for ILNP for an ILNPv6 session does not eliminate
  the need for the ILNPv6 Nonce Option to be included as described here
  or as described in [RFC6743].

  As a performance optimisation, it is suggested that when both the
  Nonce Option and IPsec are present in a packet and the Nonce Option
  has not been encrypted the Nonce Option value be checked for validity
  before beginning IPsec processing.  This minimises the ability of an
  off-path attacker to force the recipient to perform expensive
  cryptographic computations on received control packets.

  For environments with data at differing Sensitivity Levels operating
  over common infrastructure (e.g., when the IPv6 CALIPSO is deployed),
  it is recommended that the ILNP Nonce Option be encrypted by using
  ESP Transport-Mode or ESP Tunnel-Mode in order to reduce the covert
  channel bandwidth potential created by the Nonce Option and to
  prevent a node at one Sensitivity Level from attacking an ILNP
  session at a different Sensitivity Level [RFC5570].  Further, Multi-
  Level Secure (MLS) systems SHOULD use different nonce values for ILNP
  sessions having different Sensitivity Levels [RFC5570].  Also, an MLS
  implementation of ILNP will also store the Sensitivity Label
  information associated with each ILNP session in the implementation's
  ILCC.  When the Nonce Option and the CALIPSO Option are present in
  the same IPv6 Destination Options header, the CALIPSO Option SHOULD
  appear before the Nonce Option.

  In all cases, the ILNP Nonce Value MUST be unpredictable and
  cryptographically random.  [RFC4086] provides concrete advice on how
  to generate a suitable nonce value.

  As this is an option within the IPv6 Destination Options header,
  rather than an option within the IPv6 Hop-by-Hop Option Header, the
  presence of this option in an IPv6 packet ought not disturb routers
  along the path an IP packet containing this option happens to travel.
  Further, many deployed modern IP routers (both IPv4 and IPv6) have
  been explicitly configured to ignore all IP Options, even including
  the "Router Alert" option, when forwarding packets not addressed to
  the router itself.  Reports indicate this has been done to preclude
  use of IP Options as a (Distributed) Denial-of-Service attack vector
  on backbone routers.







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  As the Nonce is used in the checksum of all Authentication Header
  (AH) protected packets, as an implementation hint, it would seem
  sensible to include the Nonce value from the ILCC for that ILNP
  session.

8.  IANA Considerations

  Consistent with the procedures of [RFC2780], IANA has assigned a new
  IPv6 Destination Option Type value of 0x8B.

  The Nonce Option MUST NOT change in transit and MUST be included in
  IP Authentication Header calculations.

  Further, if an end system receives an IPv6 packet containing this
  option, but does not recognise this option, the end system MUST
  discard the packet and, regardless of whether or not the received
  packet's Destination Address was a multicast address, send an ICMPv6
  Parameter Problem, Code 2 ("Unrecognised IPv6 Option Encountered"),
  message to the received packet's Source IPv6 Address, pointing to the
  unrecognised Option Type.

9.  References

9.1.  Normative References

  [RFC2119]     Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
                Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

  [RFC2460]     Deering, S. and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version
                6 (IPv6) Specification", RFC 2460, December 1998.

  [RFC2780]     Bradner, S. and V. Paxson, "IANA Allocation Guidelines
                For Values In the Internet Protocol and Related
                Headers", BCP 37, RFC 2780, March 2000.

  [RFC4301]     Kent, S. and K. Seo, "Security Architecture for the
                Internet Protocol", RFC 4301, December 2005.

  [RFC4443]     Conta, A., Deering, S., and M. Gupta, Ed., "Internet
                Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet
                Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification", RFC 4443,
                March 2006.

  [RFC6740]     Atkinson, R. and S. Bhatti, "Identifier-Locator Network
                Protocol (ILNP) Architectural Description", RFC 6740,
                November 2012.





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  [RFC6741]     Atkinson, R. and S. Bhatti, "Identifier-Locator Network
                Protocol (ILNP) Engineering and Implementation
                Considerations", RFC 6741, November 2012.

  [RFC6743]     Atkinson, R. and S. Bhatti, "ICMPv6 Locator Update
                Message", RFC 6743, November 2012.

9.2.  Informative References

  [CA-1995-01]  US CERT, "CERT Advisory CA-1995-01 IP Spoofing Attacks
                and Hijacked Terminal Connections", Pittsburgh, PA,
                USA, 1995.

  [RFC4086]     Eastlake 3rd, D., Schiller, J., and S. Crocker,
                "Randomness Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC
                4086, June 2005.

  [RFC4984]     Meyer, D., Ed., Zhang, L., Ed., and K. Fall, Ed.,
                "Report from the IAB Workshop on Routing and
                Addressing", RFC 4984, September 2007.

  [RFC5570]     StJohns, M., Atkinson, R., and G. Thomas, "Common
                Architecture Label IPv6 Security Option (CALIPSO)", RFC
                5570, July 2009.

  [RFC6742]     Atkinson, R., Bhatti, S. and S. Rose, "DNS Resource
                Records for the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol
                (ILNP)", RFC 6742, November 2012.

  [RFC6745]     Atkinson, R. and S. Bhatti,  "ICMP Locator Update
                Message for the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol for
                IPv4 (ILNPv4)", RFC 6745, November 2012.

  [RFC6746]     Atkinson, R. and S.Bhatti, "IPv4 Options for the
                Identifier-Locator Network Protocol (ILNP)", RFC 6746,
                November 2012.

  [RFC6747]     Atkinson, R. and S. Bhatti, "Address Resolution
                Protocol (ARP) Extension for the Identifier-Locator
                Network Protocol for IPv4 (ILNPv4)", RFC 6747, November
                2012.

  [RFC6748]     Atkinson, R. and S. Bhatti, "Optional Advanced
                Deployment Scenarios for the Identifier-Locator Network
                Protocol (ILNP)", RFC 6748, November 2012.






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10.  Acknowledgements

  Steve Blake, Stephane Bortzmeyer, Mohamed Boucadair, Noel Chiappa,
  Wes George, Steve Hailes, Joel Halpern, Mark Handley, Volker Hilt,
  Paul Jakma, Dae-Young Kim, Tony Li, Yakov Rehkter, Bruce Simpson,
  Robin Whittle, and John Wroclawski (in alphabetical order) provided
  review and feedback on earlier versions of this document.  Steve
  Blake provided an especially thorough review of an early version of
  the entire ILNP document set, which was extremely helpful.  We also
  wish to thank the anonymous reviewers of the various ILNP papers for
  their feedback.

  Roy Arends provided expert guidance on technical and procedural
  aspects of DNS issues.

Authors' Addresses

  RJ Atkinson
  Consultant
  San Jose, CA 95125
  USA

  EMail: [email protected]


  SN Bhatti
  School of Computer Science
  University of St Andrews
  North Haugh, St Andrews
  Fife  KY16 9SX
  Scotland, UK

  EMail: [email protected]


















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