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Mobile IP Working Group Gopal Dommety
INTERNET DRAFT Kent Leung
November 1999 Cisco Systems
Expires May 2000
Mobile IP Vendor/Organization-Specific Extensions
draft-ietf-mobileip-vendor-ext-04.txt
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Abstract
This document proposes two new extensions to Mobile
IP [1]. These extensions will facilitate equipment vendors and
organizations to make specific use of these extensions as they see
fit for research or deployment purposes.
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1. Introduction
Current specification of Mobile IP [1] does not allow for
organizations and vendors to include organization/vendor-specific
information in the Mobile IP messages. With the imminent wide scale
deployment of Mobile IP it is useful to have vendor or
organization-Specific Extensions to support this capability. This
draft proposes two extensions that can be used for making
organization specific extensions by vendors/organizations for
their own specific purposes.
2. Vendor/Organization Specific Extensions
Two Vendor/Organization Specific Extensions are described, Critical
(CVSE) and Normal (NVSE) Vendor/Organization Specific Extensions.
The basic differences between the Critical and Normal Extensions
are that when the Critical extension is encountered but not recognized,
the message containing the extension MUST be silently discarded, whereas
when a Normal Vendor/Organization Specific Extension is encountered
but not recognized, the extension is ignored, but the rest of the
Extensions and message data MUST still be processed. Another
difference between the two is that Critical Vendor/Organization
Extension has a length field of two octets and the NVSE has a
length field of only one octet.
2.1. Critical Vendor/Organization Specific Extension (CVSE)
The format of this extension is as shown below.
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length | Vendor/Org-ID
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Vendor/Org-ID (cont) | Vendor-Type
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Vendor-Type | Opaque Data
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 1: Critical Vendor/Organization Specific Extension
Type 38 (not skippable) (see [1])
Length Length in bytes of this extension, not including the
Type and Length bytes.
Vendor-ID
The high-order octet is 0 and the low-order 3 octets
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are the SMI Network Management Private Enterprise Code
of the Vendor in network byte order, as defined in the
Assigned Numbers RFC [2].
Vendor-Type
Indicates the particular type of Extension.
Opaque Data
Vendor/organization specific data. These data fields
may be published in future RFCs. The opaque data is
zero or more octets.
The actual format of the opaque data is site or application specific,
and a robust implementation SHOULD support the field as undistinguished
octets.
The codification of the range of allowed usage of this field is
outside the scope of this specification. It is recommended that
opaque data be encoded as a sequence of vendor type/vendor
length/value fields.
The length field of this extension is chosen to be two bytes long
to allow for more than 251 bytes of Opaque Data. If an
implementation does not recognize the CVSE, according to RFC [1]
the entire packet is to be silently dropped. But if an agent
recognizes the CVSE, then it is aware of how to deal with
the length size.
2.2. Normal Vendor/Organization Specific Extension (NVSE)
The format of this extension is as shown below.
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length | Vendor/Org-ID
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Vendor/Org-ID (cont) | Vendor-Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Opaque Data
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 1: Normal Vendor/Organization Specific Extension
Type 133 (skippable) (see [1])
Length Length in bytes of this extension, not including the
Type and Length bytes.
Vendor-ID
The high-order octet is 0 and the low-order 3
octets are the SMI Network Management Private
Enterprise Code of the Vendor in network byte order,
as defined in the Assigned Numbers RFC [2].
Vendor-Type
Indicates the particular type of Extension.
Opaque Data
Vendor/organization specific data. These data
fields may be publicized in future RFCs. The opaque
data is zero or more octets.
2.3 Vendor/Organization Specific Extensions Processing Considerations
When a Mobile IP agent receives a registration request with an
extension of type 38 (CVSE) and recognizes it, but the extension
contains an unknown/unsupported vendor ID or does not know how to
interpret the opaque data or a part of opaque data, a registration
reject MUST be sent with the error code to indicate that the
registration was rejected due to the presence of an unknown CVSE.
When a Mobile IP entity receives a registration reply with an
extension of type 38 (CVSE) and recognizes it, but the extensions
contains an unknown/unsupported vendor ID or does not know how to
interpret the opaque data or a part of opaque data, the packet is
silently discarded.
When a Mobile IP entity receives a registration request with an
extension of type 133 (NVSE) and recognizes it, but the extension
contains an unknown/unsupported vendor ID or does not know how to
interpret the opaque data or a part of opaque data, that particular
extension is skipped.
NOTE that according to RFC [1], when an extension numbered within
the range 0 through 127 is encountered but not recognized, the
message containing that extension MUST be silently discarded. This
draft is compliant with the above specification and specifies the
action if the extension of type 38 is encountered and recognized,
but does not support the vendor ID or the vendor type extension
within.
2.4 Error Codes
The following error codes will be used.
Registration denied by the Foreign agent:
107: Unsupported Vendor-ID or unable to interpret
Opaque Data in the CVSE sent by the Mobile Node to the
Foreign Agent.
Registration denied by the Home agent:
140: Unsupported Vendor-ID or unable to interpret
Opaque Data in the CVSE sent by the Mobile Node to the Home Agent.
141: Unsupported Vendor-ID or unable to interpret
Opaque Data in the CVSE sent by the Foreign Agent to the Home Agent.
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3. Restrictions
Multiple TLV's with the types 38 and 133 can be included in a
message. TLVs with types 38 and 133 can be placed
anywhere after the fixed portion of the Mobile IP message. These TLVs
are expected to be protected by the corresponding authenticator as
necessary. Ordering of these TLV's should not be modified by
intermediate nodes.
4. IANA Considerations
The numbers for the Vendor/Organization Specific extensions are
taken from the numbering space defined for Mobile IP registration
extensions defined in RFC 2002 [1]. The number for CVSE (section
2.2) is taken from the range 0-127 (not skippable) and the number
for NVSE (section 2.3) is taken from the range 128-255
(skippable). These MUST NOT conflict with any numbers used in RFC
2002[1], RFC 2344 [3], RFC 2356 [4], Mobile IP Challenge/Response
Extensions Draft [5], Mobile IP Network Access Identifier
Extensions Draft[6], or Mobile IP Based Micro Mobility Management
Protocol in The Third Generation Wireless Network Draft [7]. The
Code values specified for errors, listed in section 2.5, MUST NOT
conflict with any other code values listed in RFC 2002[1], RFC 2344
[3], RFC 2356 [4] Mobile IP Challenge/Response Extensions Draft
[5], Mobile IP Network Access Identifier Extensions Draft[6], or
Mobile IP Based Micro Mobility Management Protocol in The Third
Generation Wireless Network Draft [7].
5. Security Considerations
This document assumes that the Mobile IP messages are authenticated
using a method defined by the Mobile IP protocol. This proposal does
not impose any additional requirements on Mobile IP messages from a
security point of view. So this is not expected to be a security
issue.
6. IPv6 Considerations
This extension can be used in IPv4 and IPv6 alike.
7. Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank TR45.4 WG, TR45.6 WG, Basavaraj
Patil, Jouni Malinen, and Patrice Calhoun for their useful
discussions.
8. References
[1] C. Perkins, Editor. IP Mobility Support. RFC 2002, October
1996.
[2] Reynolds, J., and J. Postel, "Assigned Numbers", STD 2, RFC 1700,
USC/Information Sciences Institute, October 1994.
[3] G. Montenegro. Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP. RFC 2344, May
1998.
[4] G. Montenegro and V. Gupta. Sun's SKIP Firewall Traversal for
Mobile IP. RFC 2356, June 1998.
[5] Charles E. Perkins and Pat R. Calhoun. Mobile IP
Challenge/Response Extensions. draft-ietf-mobileip-challenge-06.txt,
Octobre 1999.
[6] Pat R. Calhoun and Charles E. Perkins. Mobile IP Network
Address Identifier Extension. draft-ietf-mobileip-mn-nai-04.txt,
September 1999. (work in progress).
[7] Yingchun Xu and et. al. Mobile IP Based Micro Mobility Management
Protocol in The Third Generation Wireless Network.
draft-ietf-mobileip-3gwireless-ext-00.txt, October 1999.
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Author Information
Gopal Dommety
Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
e-mail: gdommety@cisco.com
Kent Leung
Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
e-mail: kleung@cisco.com
Dommety, Leung
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