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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                           R. Bush
Request for Comments: 7128                     Internet Initiative Japan
Category: Informational                                       R. Austein
ISSN: 2070-1721                                     Dragon Research Labs
                                                                K. Patel
                                                           Cisco Systems
                                                              H. Gredler
                                                  Juniper Networks, Inc.
                                                            M. Waehlisch
                                                               FU Berlin
                                                           February 2014

 Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Router Implementation Report

Abstract

   This document is an implementation report for the Resource Public Key
   Infrastructure (RPKI) Router protocol as defined in RFC 6810.  The
   authors did not verify the accuracy of the information provided by
   respondents.  The respondents are experts with the implementations
   they reported on, and their responses are considered authoritative
   for the implementations for which their responses represent.  The
   respondents were asked to only use the "YES" answer if the feature
   had at least been tested in the lab.

Status of This Memo

   This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
   published for informational purposes.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Implementation Forms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Protocol Data Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   4.  Protocol Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   5.  Protocol Transport  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   6.  Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   7.  Incremental Updates Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   8.  Session ID Support  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   9.  Incremental Session Startup Support . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   10. Interoperable Implementations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     10.1.  Cisco Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     10.2.  Juniper Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     10.3.  rpki.net Implementation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     10.4.  RIPE NCC Implementation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     10.5.  RTRlib Implementation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     10.6.  BBN RPSTIR Implementation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   11. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   12. Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   13. Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10

1.  Introduction

   In order to formally validate the origin Autonomous Systems (ASes) of
   BGP announcements, routers need a simple but reliable mechanism to
   receive Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) [RFC6810] prefix
   origin data from a trusted cache.  The RPKI Router protocol defined
   in [RFC6810] provides a mechanism to deliver validated prefix origin
   data to routers.

   This document provides an implementation report for the RPKI Router
   protocol as defined in RFC 6810 [RFC6810].

   The authors did not verify the accuracy of the information provided
   by respondents or by any alternative means.  The respondents are
   experts with the implementations they reported on, and their
   responses are considered authoritative for the implementations for
   which their responses represent.  Respondents were asked to only use
   the "YES" answer if the feature had at least been tested in the lab.

2.  Implementation Forms

   Contact and implementation information for person filling out this
   form:

   IOS
      Name: Keyur Patel
      Email: keyupate@cisco.com
      Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc.
      Release: IOS
      Protocol Role: Client

   XR
      Name: Forhad Ahmed
      Email:foahmed@cisco.com
      Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc.
      Release: IOS-XR
      Protocol Role: Client

   JUNOS
      Name: Hannes Gredler
      Email: hannes@juniper.net
      Vendor: Juniper Networks, Inc.
      Release: JUNOS
      Protocol Role: Client

   rpki.net
      Name: Rob Austein
      Email: sra@hactrn.net
      Vendor: rpki.net project
      Release: <http://subvert-rpki.hactrn.net/trunk/>
      Protocol Role: Client, Server

   NCC
      Name: Tim Bruijnzeels
      Email: tim@ripe.net
      Vendor: RIPE NCC
      Release: RIPE NCC validator-app 2.0.0 <https://github.com/RIPE-NCC
      /rpki-validator>
      Protocol Role: Server

   RTRlib
      Name: Fabian Holler, Matthias Waehlisch
      Email: waehlisch@ieee.org
      Vendor: HAW Hamburg, FU Berlin, RTRlib project
      Release: RTRlib 0.2 <http://rpki.realmv6.org/>
      Protocol Role: Client

   BBN
      Name: David Mandelberg, Andrew Chi
      Email: dmandelb@bbn.com
      Vendor: Raytheon/BBN Technologies
      Release: RPSTIR 0.2 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/rpstir/>
      Protocol Role: Server

3.  Protocol Data Units

   Does the implementation support Protocol Data Units (PDUs) as
   described in Section 5 of [RFC6810]?

   P0:  Serial Notify

   P1:  Serial Query

   P2:  Reset Query

   P3:  Cache Response

   P4:  IPv4 Prefix

   P6:  IPv6 Prefix

   P7:  End of Data

   P8:  Cache Reset

   P10:  Error Report

   +---------+-----+-----+-------+--------+---------+-----+------+-----+
   |         | IOS |  XR | JUNOS |  rpki  |   rpki  | NCC | RTR- | BBN |
   |         |     |     |       |  .net  |   .net  |     | lib  |     |
   |         |     |     |       |  clnt  |   srvr  |     |      |     |
   +---------+-----+-----+-------+--------+---------+-----+------+-----+
   | Rcv.P0  | YES | YES |  YES  |  YES   |   ---   | --- | YES  | --- |
   | Snd.P0  | --- | --- |  ---  |  ---   |   YES   | YES | ---  | YES |
   | Rcv.P1  | --- | --- |  ---  |  ---   |   YES   | YES | ---  | YES |
   | Snd.P1  | YES | YES |  YES  |  YES   |   ---   | --- | YES  | --- |
   | Rcv.P2  | --- | --- |  ---  |  ---   |   YES   | YES | ---  | YES |
   | Snd.P2  | YES | YES |  YES  |  YES   |   ---   | --- | YES  | --- |
   | Rcv.P3  | YES | YES |  YES  |  YES   |   ---   | --- | YES  | --- |
   | Snd.P3  | --- | --- |  ---  |  ---   |   YES   | YES | ---  | YES |
   | Rcv.P4  | YES | YES |  YES  |  YES   |   ---   | --- | YES  | --- |
   | Snd.P4  | --- | --- |  ---  |  ---   |   YES   | YES | ---  | YES |
   | Rcv.P6  | YES | YES |  YES  |  YES   |   ---   | --- | YES  | --- |
   | Snd.P6  | --- | --- |  ---  |  ---   |   YES   | YES | ---  | YES |
   | Rcv.P7  | YES | YES |  YES  |  YES   |   ---   | --- | YES  | --- |
   | Snd.P7  | --- | --- |  ---  |  ---   |   YES   | YES | ---  | YES |
   | Rcv.P8  | YES | YES |  YES  |  YES   |   ---   | --- | YES  | --- |
   | Snd.P8  | --- | --- |  ---  |  ---   |   YES   | YES | ---  | YES |
   | Rcv.P10 | YES | YES |  NO~1 |  YES   |   YES   | YES | YES  | YES |
   | Snd.P10 | YES |  NO |   NO  |  YES   |   YES   | YES | YES  | YES |
   +---------+-----+-----+-------+--------+---------+-----+------+-----+

   Note 1:  No, Error PDU gets silently ignored.

4.  Protocol Sequence

   Does the RPKI Router protocol implementation follow the four protocol
   sequences as outlined in Section 6 of [RFC6810]?

   S1:  Start or Restart

   S2:  Typical Exchange

   S3:  No Incremental Update Available

   S4:  Cache Has No Data Available

   +----+-----+-----+-------+--------+---------+------+--------+-------+
   |    | IOS |  XR | JUNOS |  rpki  |   rpki  | NCC  | RTRlib |  BBN  |
   |    |     |     |       |  .net  |   .net  |      |        |       |
   |    |     |     |       |  clnt  |   srvr  |      |        |       |
   +----+-----+-----+-------+--------+---------+------+--------+-------+
   | S1 | YES | YES |  YES  |  YES   |   YES   | YES  |  YES   |  YES  |
   | S2 | YES | YES |  YES  |  YES   |   YES   | NO~1 |  YES   |  YES  |
   | S3 | YES | YES |  YES  |  YES   |   YES   | YES  |  YES   |  YES  |
   | S4 | YES | YES |  YES  |  YES   |   YES   | YES  |  YES   | YES~2 |
   +----+-----+-----+-------+--------+---------+------+--------+-------+

   Note 1:  Does not implement Serial Query, thus Incremental Update is
            never available, so responds to Serial Query with Cache
            Reset as described in Section 6.3 of [RFC6810]

   Note 2:  Sends Cache Reset in response to Serial Query when no data;
            sends Error Report PDU in response to Reset Query when no
            data.

5.  Protocol Transport

   Does the RPKI Router protocol implementation support the different
   protocol transport mechanisms outlined in Section 7 of [RFC6810]?

   +---------+-----+-----+-------+-------+--------+-----+--------+-----+
   |         | IOS |  XR | JUNOS |  rpki |  rpki  | NCC | RTRlib | BBN |
   |         |     |     |       |  .net |  .net  |     |        |     |
   |         |     |     |       |  clnt |  srvr  |     |        |     |
   +---------+-----+-----+-------+-------+--------+-----+--------+-----+
   | SSH     |  NO | YES |   NO  |  YES  |  YES   |  NO |  YES   | YES |
   | TLS     |  NO |  NO |   NO  |   NO  |   NO   |  NO |   NO   |  NO |
   | TCP     | YES | YES |  YES  |  YES  |  YES   | YES |  YES   | YES |
   | TCP-MD5 |  NO |  NO |   NO  |   NO  |   NO   |  NO |   NO   |  NO |
   | TCP-AO  |  NO |  NO |   NO  |   NO  |   NO   |  NO |   NO   |  NO |
   | IPsec   |  NO |  NO |   NO  |   NO  |   NO   |  NO |   NO   |  NO |
   +---------+-----+-----+-------+-------+--------+-----+--------+-----+

6.  Error Codes

   Does the RPKI Router protocol implementation support the different
   protocol error codes outlined in Section 10 of [RFC6810]?

   +-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+--------+-------+--------+-----+
   |       | IOS |  XR | JUNOS |  rpki |  rpki  |  NCC  | RTRlib | BBN |
   |       |     |     |       |  .net |  .net  |       |        |     |
   |       |     |     |       |  clnt |  srvr  |       |        |     |
   +-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+--------+-------+--------+-----+
   | Rcv.0 | YES | YES |   NO  |  YES  |  YES   |  YES  |  YES   | YES |
   | Snd.0 | YES | YES |   NO  |  YES  |  YES   |  YES  |  YES   | YES |
   | Rcv.1 | YES | YES |   NO  |  YES  |  YES   |  YES  |  YES   | YES |
   | Snd.1 | YES | YES |   NO  |  YES  |  YES   |  YES  |  YES   | YES |
   | Rcv.2 | YES | YES |   NO  |  YES  |  ---   |  ---  |  YES   | --- |
   | Snd.2 | --- | --- |  ---  |  ---  |  YES   |  YES  |  ---   | YES |
   | Rcv.3 | YES | YES |   NO  |  YES  |  ---   |  ---  |  YES   | --- |
   | Snd.3 | --- | --- |  ---  |  ---  |  YES   |  YES  |  ---   | YES |
   | Rcv.4 | YES | YES |   NO  |  YES  |  YES   |  YES  |  YES   | YES |
   | Snd.4 | YES | YES |   NO  |  YES  |  YES   |  YES  |  YES   | YES |
   | Rcv.5 | YES | YES |   NO  |  YES  |  YES   |  YES  |  YES   | YES |
   | Snd.5 | YES | YES |   NO  |  YES  |  YES   |  YES  |  YES   | YES |
   | Rcv.6 | --- | --- |  ---  |  ---  |  YES   | YES~1 |  ---   | YES |
   | Snd.6 | YES | YES |   NO  |   NO  |  ---   |  ---  |  YES   | --- |
   | Rcv.7 | --- | --- |  ---  |  ---  |  YES   | YES~1 |  ---   | YES |
   | Snd.7 | YES | YES |   NO  |   NO  |  ---   |  ---  |  YES   | --- |
   +-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+--------+-------+--------+-----+

   Note 1:  YES, but... fatal, so connection is dropped, but cache does
            not conclude it's inconsistent.

7.  Incremental Updates Support

   Does the RPKI Router implementation support Incremental Updates as
   defined in Section 4 of [RFC6810]?

   +-----+----+-------+-------------+-------------+-----+--------+-----+
   | IOS | XR | JUNOS |   rpki.net  |   rpki.net  | NCC | RTRlib | BBN |
   |     |    |       |     clnt    |     srvr    |     |        |     |
   +-----+----+-------+-------------+-------------+-----+--------+-----+
   |  NO | NO |  YES  |     YES     |     YES     |  NO |  YES   | YES |
   +-----+----+-------+-------------+-------------+-----+--------+-----+

8.  Session ID Support

   Session ID is used to indicate that the cache server may have
   restarted and that the incremental restart may not be possible.

   Does the RPKI Router protocol implementation support the Session ID
   procedures outlined in Section 5.1 of [RFC6810]?

   +-----+-----+-------+------------+------------+------+--------+-----+
   | IOS |  XR | JUNOS |  rpki.net  |  rpki.net  | NCC  | RTRlib | BBN |
   |     |     |       |    clnt    |    srvr    |      |        |     |
   +-----+-----+-------+------------+------------+------+--------+-----+
   | YES | YES |  YES  |    YES     |    YES     | NO~1 |  YES   | YES |
   +-----+-----+-------+------------+------------+------+--------+-----+

   Note 1:  NO, using random, but will FIX

9.  Incremental Session Startup Support

   Does the RPKI Router protocol implementation support Incremental
   session startups with Serial Number and Session ID as defined in
   Section 5.3 of [RFC6810]?

   +-----+-----+-------+------------+-------------+-----+--------+-----+
   | IOS |  XR | JUNOS |  rpki.net  |   rpki.net  | NCC | RTRlib | BBN |
   |     |     |       |    clnt    |     srvr    |     |        |     |
   +-----+-----+-------+------------+-------------+-----+--------+-----+
   | YES | YES |  YES  |    YES     |     YES     |  NO |  YES   | YES |
   +-----+-----+-------+------------+-------------+-----+--------+-----+

10.  Interoperable Implementations

   List other implementations with which you have tested the
   interoperability of the RPKI Router implementation.

10.1.  Cisco Implementation

   Cisco: The Cisco IOS and IOS-XR implementation should be
   interoperable with other vendor RPKI Router Protocol implementations.
   In particular, we have tested our interoperability with rpki.net's
   RPKI Router implementation.

10.2.  Juniper Implementation

   Juniper: The Juniper Networks, Inc. JUNOS implementation should be
   interoperable with other vendor RPKI Router Protocol implementations.
   In particular, we have tested our interoperability with rpki.net's
   and NCC's RPKI Router Cache implementation.

10.3.  rpki.net Implementation

   rpki.net: The rpki.net implementation should operate with other rpki-
   rtr implementations.  In particular, we have tested our rpki-rtr
   server's interoperability with Cisco IOS, Cisco IOS-XR, and Juniper.

10.4.  RIPE NCC Implementation

   RIPE NCC: The RIPE NCC validator has been tested by us with other
   rpki-rtr implementations.  In particular, we have tested with RTRlib
   and CISCO IOS.  We received positive feedback from close contacts who
   tested our validator with JUNOS and Quagga.

10.5.  RTRlib Implementation

   RTRlib: The RTRlib has been tested by us with other rpki-rtr
   implementations.  In particular, we have tested with rtr-origin from
   rpki.net and RIPE NCC Validator.

10.6.  BBN RPSTIR Implementation

   BBN RPSTIR: We have not yet tested with any other implementations.

11.  Security Considerations

   No new security issues are introduced to the RPKI Router protocol
   defined in [RFC6810].

12.  Acknowledgements

   The authors would like to thank Andrew Chi, David Mandelberg, Fabian
   Holler, Forhad Ahmed, and Tim Bruijnzeels for their contributions to
   this document.

13.  Normative References

   [RFC6810]  Bush, R. and R. Austein, "The Resource Public Key
              Infrastructure (RPKI) to Router Protocol", RFC 6810,
              January 2013.

Authors' Addresses

   Randy Bush
   Internet Initiative Japan
   5147 Crystal Springs
   Bainbridge Island, Washington  98110
   US

   EMail: randy@psg.com

   Rob Austein
   Dragon Research Labs

   EMail: sra@hactrn.net

   Keyur Patel
   Cisco Systems
   170 West Tasman Drive
   San Jose, California  95134
   US

   EMail: keyupate@cisco.com

   Hannes Gredler
   Juniper Networks, Inc.
   1194 N. Mathilda Ave.
   Sunnyvale, California  94089
   US

   EMail: hannes@juniper.net

   Matthias Waehlisch
   FU Berlin
   Takustr. 9
   Berlin  14195
   Germany

   EMail: waehlisch@ieee.org
   URI:   http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~waehl

 

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