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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) D. Guo Request for Comments: 6930 S. Jiang, Ed. Category: Standards Track Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd ISSN: 2070-1721 R. Despres

                                                             RD-IPtech
                                                           R. Maglione
                                                         Cisco Systems
                                                            April 2013
             RADIUS Attribute for IPv6 Rapid Deployment
                   on IPv4 Infrastructures (6rd)

Abstract

 The IPv6 Rapid Deployment on IPv4 Infrastructures (6rd) provides both
 IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity services simultaneously during the
 IPv4/IPv6 coexistence period.  The Dynamic Host Configuration
 Protocol (DHCP) 6rd option has been defined to configure the 6rd
 Customer Edge (CE).  However, in many networks, the configuration
 information may be stored in the Authentication Authorization and
 Accounting (AAA) servers, while user configuration is mainly acquired
 from a Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) through the DHCP protocol.
 This document defines a Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
 (RADIUS) attribute that carries 6rd configuration information from
 the AAA server to BNGs.

Status of This Memo

 This is an Internet Standards Track document.
 This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
 (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
 received public review and has been approved for publication by the
 Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Further information on
 Internet Standards is available in 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/rfc6930.

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Table of Contents

 1. Introduction ....................................................3
 2. Terminology .....................................................3
 3. IPv6 6rd Configuration with RADIUS ..............................4
 4. Attributes ......................................................6
    4.1. IPv6-6rd-Configuration Attribute ...........................6
    4.2. Table of Attributes ........................................9
 5. Diameter Considerations .........................................9
 6. Security Considerations .........................................9
 7. IANA Considerations ............................................10
 8. Acknowledgments ................................................10
 9. References .....................................................10
    9.1. Normative References ......................................10
    9.2. Informative References ....................................11

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1. Introduction

 Recently, providers have started to deploy IPv6 and to consider
 transition to IPv6.  The IPv6 Rapid Deployment (6rd) [RFC5969]
 provides both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity services simultaneously
 during the IPv4/IPv6 coexistence period.  6rd is used to provide IPv6
 connectivity service through legacy IPv4-only infrastructure.  6rd
 uses the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) [RFC2131], and
 the 6rd Customer Edge (CE) uses the DHCP 6rd option [RFC5969] to
 discover a 6rd Border Relay and to configure an IPv6 prefix and
 address.
 In many networks, user-configuration information is managed by
 Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) servers.  The
 Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) protocol
 [RFC2865] is usually used by AAA servers to communicate with network
 elements.  In a fixed-line broadband network, the Broadband Network
 Gateways (BNGs) act as the access gateway for users.  The BNGs are
 assumed to embed a DHCP server function that allows them to handle
 locally any DHCP requests issued by hosts.
 Since the 6rd configuration information is stored in AAA servers, and
 user configuration is mainly through DHCP between BNGs and hosts/CEs,
 new RADIUS attributes are needed to propagate the information from
 AAA servers to BNGs.

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].
 The terms 6rd Customer Edge (6rd CE) and 6rd Border Relay (BR) are
 defined in [RFC5969].  "MAC" stands for Media Access Control.

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3. IPv6 6rd Configuration with RADIUS

 Figure 1 illustrates how DHCP and the RADIUS protocol cooperate to
 provide 6rd CE with 6rd configuration information.
    6rd CE                       BNG                       AAA Server
       |                          |                             |
       |-------DHCPDISCOVER------>|                             |
       |(Parameter Request w/ 6rd option)                       |
       |                          |--Access-Request(6rd Attr)-->|
       |                          |                             |
       |                          |<--Access-Accept(6rd Attr)---|
       |<-------DHCPOFFER---------|                             |
       |      (6rd option)        |                             |
       |                          |                             |
                 DHCP                         RADIUS
           Figure 1: The Cooperation between DHCP and RADIUS
               When Combined with RADIUS Authentication
 The BNG acts as a client of RADIUS and as a DHCP server.  First, the
 6rd CE MAY initiate a DHCPDISCOVER message that includes a Parameter
 Request option (55) [RFC2132] with the 6rd option [RFC5969].  When
 the BNG receives the DHCPDISCOVER, it SHOULD initiate a RADIUS
 Access- Request message to the RADIUS server. In that message,
  1. the User-Name attribute (1) SHOULD be filled by the 6rd CE MAC

address, and

  1. the User-Password attribute (2) SHOULD be filled by the shared 6rd

password that has been preconfigured on the DHCP server.

 The BNG requests authentication, as defined in [RFC2865], with the
 IPv6-6rd-Configuration attribute (Section 4.1) in the desired
 attribute list.  If the authentication request is approved by the AAA
 server, an Access-Accept message MUST be acknowledged with the
 IPv6-6rd-Configuration attribute.  Then, the BNG SHOULD respond to
 the 6rd CE with a DHCPOFFER message, which contains a DHCP 6rd
 option.  The recommended format of the MAC address is as defined in
 Calling-Station-Id ([RFC3580], Section 3.20) without the SSID
 (Service Set Identifier) portion.
 Figure 2 describes another scenario -- later re-authorization -- in
 which the authorization operation is not coupled with authentication.
 Authorization relevant to 6rd is done independently after the
 authentication process.

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    6rd CE                       BNG                       AAA Server
       |                          |                             |
       |--------DHCPREQUEST------>|                             |
       |(Parameter Request w/ 6rd option)                       |
       |                          |--Access-Request(6rd Attr)-->|
       |                          |                             |
       |                          |<--Access-Accept(6rd Attr)---|
       |                          |                             |
       |<---------DHCPACK---------|                             |
       |      (6rd option)        |                             |
       |                          |                             |
                 DHCP                         RADIUS
           Figure 2: The Cooperation between DHCP and RADIUS
               When Decoupled from RADIUS Authentication
 In this scenario, the Access-Request packet SHOULD contain a Service-
 Type attribute (6) with the value Authorize Only (17); thus,
 according to [RFC5080], the Access-Request packet MUST contain a
 State attribute that it obtains from the previous authentication
 process.
 In both above-mentioned scenarios, Message-Authenticator (type 80)
 [RFC2865] SHOULD be used to protect both Access-Request and Access-
 Accept messages.
 After receiving the IPv6-6rd-Configuration attribute in the initial
 Access-Accept, the BNG SHOULD store the received 6rd configuration
 parameters locally.  When the 6rd CE sends a DHCP Request message to
 request an extension of the lifetime for the assigned address, the
 BNG does not have to initiate a new Access-Request towards the AAA
 server to request the 6rd configuration parameters.  The BNG could
 retrieve the previously stored 6rd configuration parameters and use
 them in its reply.
 If the BNG does not receive the IPv6-6rd-Configuration attribute in
 the Access-Accept, it MAY fall back to a preconfigured default 6rd
 configuration, if any.  If the BNG does not have any preconfigured
 default 6rd configuration or if the BNG receives an Access-Reject,
 the tunnel cannot be established.
 As specified in [RFC2131], Section 4.4.5 ("Reacquisition and
 expiration"), if the DHCP server to which the DHCP Request message
 was sent at time T1 has not responded by time T2 (typically
 0.375*duration_of_lease after T1), the 6rd CE (the DHCP client)
 SHOULD enter the REBINDING state and attempt to contact any server.

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 In this situation, the secondary BNG receiving the new DHCP message
 MUST initiate a new Access-Request towards the AAA server.  The
 secondary BNG MAY include the IPv6-6rd-Configuration attribute in its
 Access-Request.

4. Attributes

 This section defines the IPv6-6rd-Configuration attribute that is
 used in both above-mentioned scenarios.  The attribute design follows
 [RFC6158] and refers to [RFC6929].

4.1. IPv6-6rd-Configuration Attribute

 The specification requires that multiple IPv4 addresses are
 associated with one IPv6 prefix.  Given that RADIUS currently has no
 recommended way of grouping multiple attributes, the design below
 appears to be a reasonable compromise.  The IPv6-6rd-Configuration
 attribute is structured as follows:
     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     |    SubType1   |    SubLen1    |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                          IPv4MaskLen                          |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |    SubType2   |    SubLen2    |  Reserved     |  6rdPrefixLen |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                                                               |
    +                                                               +
    |                                                               |
    +                           6rdPrefix                           +
    |                                                               |
    +                                                               +
    |                                                               |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |   SubType3    |    SubLen3    |        6rdBRIPv4Address       |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |        6rdBRIPv4Address       |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     Type
       173

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     Length
       28 + n*6 (the length of the entire attribute in octets, where n
       is the number of BR IPv4 addresses and minimum n is 1)
     SubType1
       1 (SubType number, for the IPv4 Mask Length suboption)
     SubLen1
       6 (the length of the IPv4 Mask Length suboption)
     IPv4MaskLen
       The number of high-order bits that are identical across all CE
       IPv4 addresses within a given 6rd domain.  This may be any
       value between 0 and 32.  Any value greater than 32 is invalid.
       Since [RFC6158], Appendix A.2.1, has forbidden 8-bit fields, a
       32-bit field is used here.
     SubType2
       2 (SubType number for the 6rd prefix suboption)
     SubLen2
       20 (the length of the 6rd prefix suboption)
     Reserved
       Set to all 0 for now.  Reserved for future use.  To be
       compatible with other IPv6 prefix attributes in the RADIUS
       protocol, the bits MUST be set to zero by the sender and MUST
       be ignored by the receiver.
     6rdPrefixLen
       The IPv6 Prefix length of the Service Provider's 6rd IPv6
       prefix in number of bits.  The 6rdPrefixLen MUST be less than
       or equal to 128.
     6rdPrefix
       The Service Provider's 6rd IPv6 prefix represented as a
       16-octet IPv6 address.  The bits after the 6rdPrefixlen number
       of bits in the prefix SHOULD be set to zero.

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     SubType3
       3 (SubType number, for the 6rd Border Relay IPv4 address
       suboption)
     SubLen3
       6 (the length of the 6rd Border Relay IPv4 address suboption)
     6rdBRIPv4Address
       One or more IPv4 addresses of the 6rd Border Relay(s) for a
       given 6rd domain.  The maximum RADIUS attribute length of 255
       octets results in a limit of 37 IPv4 addresses.
 Since the subtypes have values, they can appear in any order.  If
 multiple 6rdBRIPv4Address (subtype 3) appear, they are RECOMMENDED to
 be placed together.
 The IPv6-6rd-Configuration attribute is normally used in Access-
 Accept messages.  It MAY be used in Access-Request packets as a hint
 to the RADIUS server; for example, if the BNG is preconfigured with a
 default 6rd configuration, these parameters MAY be inserted in the
 attribute.  The RADIUS server MAY ignore the hint sent by the BNG,
 and it MAY assign different 6rd parameters.
 If the BNG includes the IPv6-6rd-Configuration attribute, but the AAA
 server does not recognize it, this attribute MUST be ignored by the
 AAA server.
 If the BNG does not receive the IPv6-6rd-Configuration attribute in
 the Access-Accept, it MAY fallback to a preconfigured default 6rd
 configuration, if any.  If the BNG does not have any preconfigured
 default 6rd configuration, the 6rd tunnel cannot be established.
 If the BNG is pre-provisioned with a default 6rd configuration and
 the 6rd configuration received in Access-Accept is different from the
 configured default, then the 6rd configuration received in the
 Access-Accept message MUST be used for the session.
 If the BNG cannot support the received 6rd configuration for any
 reason, the tunnel SHOULD NOT be established.

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4.2. Table of Attributes

 The following table adds to the one in [RFC2865], Section 5.44,
 providing a guide to the quantity of IPv6-6rd-Configuration
 attributes that may be found in each kind of packet.
 Request Accept Reject Challenge Accounting  #  Attribute
                                  Request
  0-1     0-1     0      0         0-1      173  IPv6-6rd-
                                                 Configuration
  0-1     0-1     0      0         0-1      1    User-Name
  0-1     0       0      0         0-1      2    User-Password
  0-1     0-1     0      0         0-1      6    Service-Type
  0-1     0-1     0-1    0-1       0-1      80   Message-Authenticator
 The following key defines the meanings of the above table entries.
 0     This attribute MUST NOT be present in packet.
 0+    Zero or more instances of this attribute MAY be present in
       packet.
 0-1   Zero or one instance of this attribute MAY be present in
       packet.
 1     Exactly one instance of this attribute MUST be present in
       packet.

5. Diameter Considerations

 This attribute is usable within either RADIUS or Diameter [RFC6733].
 Since the attribute defined in this document has been allocated from
 the standard RADIUS type space, no special handling is required by
 Diameter entities.

6. Security Considerations

 In 6rd scenarios, both CE and BNG are within a provider network,
 which can be considered as a closed network and a lower-threat
 environment.  A similar consideration can be applied to the RADIUS
 message exchange between the BNG and the AAA server.
 In 6rd scenarios, the RADIUS protocol is run over IPv4.  Known
 security vulnerabilities of the RADIUS protocol are discussed in
 [RFC2607], [RFC2865], and [RFC2869].  Use of IPsec [RFC4301] for
 providing security when RADIUS is carried in IPv6 is discussed in
 [RFC3162].

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 To get unauthorized 6rd configuration information, a malicious user
 may use MAC address spoofing and/or a dictionary attack on the shared
 6rd password that has been preconfigured on the DHCP server.  The
 relevant security issues have been considered in Section 12 of
 [RFC5969].
 Security issues that may arise specifically between the 6rd CE and
 BNG are discussed in [RFC5969].  Furthermore, generic DHCP security
 mechanisms can be applied to DHCP intercommunication between 6rd CE
 and BNG.
 Security considerations for the Diameter protocol are discussed in
 [RFC6733].

7. IANA Considerations

 Per this document, IANA has assigned one new RADIUS Attribute Type in
 the "Radius Types" registry (currently located at
 http://www.iana.org/assignments/radius-types) for the following
 attribute:
    IPv6-6rd-Configuration (173)

8. Acknowledgments

 The authors would like to thank Alan DeKok, Yong Cui, Leaf Yeh, Sean
 Turner, Joseph Salowey, Glen Zorn, Dave Nelson, Bernard Aboba, Benoit
 Claise, Barry Lieba, Stephen Farrell, Adrian Farrel, Ralph Droms, and
 other members of the SOFTWIRE WG, RADEXT WG, AAA Doctors, and
 Security Directorate for valuable comments.

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.
 [RFC2131]  Droms, R., "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol", RFC
            2131, March 1997.
 [RFC2132]  Alexander, S. and R. Droms, "DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor
            Extensions", RFC 2132, March 1997.
 [RFC2865]  Rigney, C., Willens, S., Rubens, A., and W. Simpson,
            "Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)", RFC
            2865, June 2000.

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 [RFC3162]  Aboba, B., Zorn, G., and D. Mitton, "RADIUS and IPv6", RFC
            3162, August 2001.
 [RFC4301]  Kent, S. and K. Seo, "Security Architecture for the
            Internet Protocol", RFC 4301, December 2005.
 [RFC5080]  Nelson, D. and A. DeKok, "Common Remote Authentication
            Dial In User Service (RADIUS) Implementation Issues and
            Suggested Fixes", RFC 5080, December 2007.
 [RFC5969]  Townsley, W. and O. Troan, "IPv6 Rapid Deployment on IPv4
            Infrastructures (6rd) -- Protocol Specification", RFC
            5969, August 2010.
 [RFC6158]  DeKok, A., Ed., and G. Weber, "RADIUS Design Guidelines",
            BCP 158, RFC 6158, March 2011.
 [RFC6733]  Fajardo, V., Ed., Arkko, J., Loughney, J., and G. Zorn,
            Ed., "Diameter Base Protocol", RFC 6733, October 2012.

9.2. Informative References

 [RFC2607]  Aboba, B. and J. Vollbrecht, "Proxy Chaining and Policy
            Implementation in Roaming", RFC 2607, June 1999.
 [RFC2869]  Rigney, C., Willats, W., and P. Calhoun, "RADIUS
            Extensions", RFC 2869, June 2000.
 [RFC3580]  Congdon, P., Aboba, B., Smith, A., Zorn, G., and J. Roese,
            "IEEE 802.1X Remote Authentication Dial In User Service
            (RADIUS) Usage Guidelines", RFC 3580, September 2003.
 [RFC6929]  DeKok, A. and A. Lior, "Remote Authentication Dial-In User
            Service (RADIUS) Protocol Extensions", RFC 6929, April
            2013.

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Authors' Addresses

 Dayong Guo
 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
 Q14 Huawei Campus, 156 BeiQi Road,
 ZhongGuan Cun, Hai-Dian District, Beijing 100095
 P.R. China
 EMail: guoseu@huawei.com
 Sheng Jiang (Editor)
 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
 Q14 Huawei Campus, 156 BeiQi Road,
 ZhongGuan Cun, Hai-Dian District, Beijing 100095
 P.R. China
 EMail: jiangsheng@huawei.com
 Remi Despres
 RD-IPtech
 3 rue du President Wilson
 Levallois
 France
 EMail: despres.remi@laposte.net
 Roberta Maglione
 Cisco Systems
 181 Bay Street
 Toronto, ON
 M5J 2T3
 Canada
 EMail: robmgl@cisco.com

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