Network Working Group A. Newton
Request for Comments: 4992 VeriSign, Inc.
Updates: 3981 August 2007
Category: Standards Track
XML Pipelining with Chunks
for the Internet Registry Information Service
Status of This Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2007).
Abstract
This document describes a simple TCP transfer protocol for the
Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS). Data is transferred
between clients and servers using chunks to achieve pipelining.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................3
2. Document Terminology ............................................3
3. Request Block (RQB) .............................................4
4. Response Blocks .................................................4
4.1. Response Block (RSB) .......................................5
4.2. Connection Response Block (CRB) ............................5
5. Block Header ....................................................6
6. Chunks ..........................................................7
6.1. No Data Types ..............................................9
6.2. Version Information Types ..................................9
6.3. Size Information Types .....................................9
6.4. Other Information Types ...................................10
6.5. SASL Types ................................................11
6.6. Authentication Success Information Types ..................12
6.7. Authentication Failure Information Types ..................12
6.8. Application Data Types ....................................12
7. Idle Sessions ..................................................13
8. Closing Sessions Due to an Error ...............................13
9. Use over TLS ...................................................13
10. Update to RFC 3981 ............................................13
11. IRIS Transport Mapping Definitions ............................14
11.1. URI Scheme ...............................................14
11.2. Application Protocol Label ...............................14
12. Internationalization Considerations ...........................14
13. IANA Considerations ...........................................14
13.1. XPC URI Scheme Registration ..............................14
13.2. XPCS URI Scheme Registration .............................15
13.3. S-NAPTR XPC Registration .................................15
13.4. S-NAPTR XPCS Registration ................................15
13.5. Well-Known TCP Port Registration for XPC .................16
13.6. Well-Known TCP Port Registration for XPCS ................16
14. Security Considerations .......................................17
14.1. Security Mechanisms ......................................17
14.2. SASL Compliance ..........................................18
15. References ....................................................19
15.1. Normative References .....................................19
15.2. Informative References ...................................19
Appendix A. Examples ..............................................20
Appendix B. Contributors ..........................................28
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1. Introduction
Using S-NAPTR [5], IRIS has the ability to define the use of multiple
application transports (or transfer protocols) for different types of
registry services, all at the discretion of the server operator. The
TCP transfer protocol defined in this document is completely modular
and may be used by any registry types.
This transfer protocol defines simple framing for sending XML in
chunks so that XML fragments may be acted upon (or pipelined) before
the reception of the entire XML instance. This document calls this
XML pipelining with chunks (XPC) and its use with IRIS as IRIS-XPC.
XPC is for use with simple request and response interactions between
clients and servers. Clients send a series of requests to a server
in data blocks. The server will respond to each data block
individually with a corresponding data block, but through the same
connection. Request and response data blocks are sent using the TCP
SEND function and received using the TCP RECEIVE function.
The lifecycle of an XPC session has the following phases:
1. A client establishes a TCP connection with a server.
2. The server sends a connection response block (CRB).
3. The client sends a request block (RQB). In this request, the
client can set a "keep open" flag requesting that the server keep
the XPC session open following the response to this request.
4. The server responds with a response block (RSB). In this
response, the server can indicate to the client whether or not
the XPC session will be closed.
5. If the XPC session is not to be terminated, then the lifecycle
repeats from step 3.
6. The TCP connection is closed.
2. Document 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 RFC 2119 [8].
Octet fields with numeric values are given according to the
conventions in RFC 1166 [12]: the leftmost bit of the whole field is
the most significant bit; when a multi-octet quantity is transmitted
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the most significant octet is transmitted first. Bits signifying
flags in an octet are numbered according to the conventions of RFC
1166 [12]: bit 0 is the most significant bit and bit 7 is the least
significant bit. When a diagram describes a group of octets, the
order of transmission for the octets starts from the left.
3. Request Block (RQB)
The format for the request block (RQB) is as follows:
+--------+-----------+-----------+-------------+
field | header | authority | authority | chunks 1..n |
| | length | | |
+--------+-----------+-----------+-------------+
octets 1 1 0..255 variable
Request Block
These fields have the following meanings:
o header - as described in Section 5.
o authority length - the length of the authority field in this
request block.
o authority - a string of octets describing the authority against
which this request is to be executed. See [1] for the definition
and description of an authority. The number of octets in this
string MUST be no more and no less than the number specified by
the authority length.
o chunks 1..n - the request data broken into chunks (Section 6).
4. Response Blocks
There are two types of blocks used by a server to respond to a
client. The first type is a response block (RSB) defined in Section
4.1. It is used by a server to respond to request blocks (RQBs).
The second type is a specialized version of a response block called a
connection response block (CRB) defined in Section 4.2. It is sent
by a server to a client when a connection is established to initiate
protocol negotiation. Conceptually, a CRB is a type of RQB; they
share the same format, but a CRB is constrained in conveying only
specific information and is only sent at the beginning of the session
lifecycle.
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4.1. Response Block (RSB)
The format for the response block (RSB) is as follows:
+--------+-------------+
field | header | chunks 1..n |
| | |
+--------+-------------+
octets 1 variable
Response Block
These fields have the following meanings:
o header - as described in Section 5.
o chunks 1..n - the response data broken into chunks (Section 6).
Servers SHOULD NOT send an RSB to a client until they have received
the entire RQB. Servers that do begin sending an RSB before the
reception of the entire RQB must consider that clients will not be
expected to start processing the RSB until they have fully sent the
RQB, and that the RSB may fill the client's TCP buffers.
4.2. Connection Response Block (CRB)
A connection response block (CRB) is a response block sent by a
server to a client in response to the client initiating a session. A
connection response block has the same format as a response block
(RSB) (Section 4.1). The only difference is that it is constrained
in one of two ways:
1. It contains only one chunk (see Section 6) containing version
information (see Section 6.2) and the keep-open (KO) flag in the
block header (see Section 5) has a value of 1 (meaning the
connection is not closing). Servers MUST use this type of CRB to
indicate service availability.
2. It contains only one chunk (see Section 6) containing a system
error (see 'system-error' under Section 6.4) and the keep-open
(KO) flag in the block header (see Section 5) has a value of 0
(meaning the server will close the connection immediately after
sending the CRB). Servers MUST use this type of CRB when they
can accept connections but cannot process requests.
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5. Block Header
Each data block starts with a one-octet header called the block
header. This header has the same format for both request and
response data blocks, though some of the bits in the header only have
meaning in one type of data block. The bits are ordered according to
the convention given in RFC 1166 [12], where bit 0 is the most
significant bit and bit 7 is the least significant bit. Each bit in
the block header has the following meaning:
o bits 0 and 1 - version (V field) - If 0 (both bits are zero), the
protocol is the version defined in this document. Otherwise, the
rest of the bits in the header and the block may be interpreted as
another version. If a server receives a request for a version it
does not support, it SHOULD follow the behavior described in
Section 8.
o bit 2 - keep open (KO flag) - This flag is used to request that a
connection stay open by a client and to indicate that a connection
will stay open by a server, depending on the type of block. In a
request block (RQB): a value of 1 indicates that a client is
requesting that the server not close the TCP session, and a value
of 0 indicates the client will expect their server to close the
TCP session immediately after sending the corresponding response.
In a response block (RSB) or a connection response block (CRB): a
value of 1 indicates that the server expects the client to keep
the TCP session open for the server to receive another request,
and a value of 0 indicates that the server expects the client to
close the TCP session immediately following this block.
o bits 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 - reserved - These MUST be 0. If a server
receives a request in which any of these bits is set to 1 and the
server does not understand the purpose for the value, the server
SHOULD follow the behavior described in Section 8.
+---------+-----------+----------+
field | Version | Keep Open | reserved |
| (V) | (KO) | |
+---------+-----------+----------+
bits 0 and 1 2 3 - 7
Block Header
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6. Chunks
Request and response blocks break down the request and response XML
data into chunks. Request and response blocks MUST always have a
minimum of 1 chunk. Each chunk has a one-octet descriptor. The
first bit of the descriptor determines if the chunk is the last chunk
in the block.
The bits of the chunk descriptor octet are ordered according to the
convention given in RFC 1166 [12], where bit 0 is the most
significant bit and bit 7 is the least significant bit. The bits of
the chunk descriptor octet have the following meaning:
o bit 0 - last chunk (LC flag) - If 1, this chunk is the last chunk
in the block.
o bit 1 - data complete (DC flag) - If 1, the data in this chunk
represents the end of the data for the chunk type given. If this
bit is never set to 1 in any chunk descriptor for chunks of the
same type in a block, clients and servers MUST NOT assume the data
will continue in another block. If the block transitions from one
type of chunk to another without signaling completion of the data,
clients and servers MUST assume that the remaining data will not
be sent in a remaining chunk.
o bits 2, 3, and 4 - reserved - These MUST be 0.
o bits 5, 6, and 7 - chunk type (CT field) - determines the type of
data carried in the chunk. These are the binary values for the
chunk types:
* 000 - no data or 'nd' type (see Section 6.1)
* 001 - version information or 'vi' type (see Section 6.2)
* 010 - size information or 'si' type (see Section 6.3)
* 011 - other information or 'oi' type (see Section 6.4)
* 100 - SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) data or
'sd' type (see Section 6.5)
* 101 - authentication success information or 'as' type (see
Section 6.6)
* 110 - authentication failure information or 'af' type (see
Section 6.7)
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* 111 - application data or 'ad' type (see Section 6.8)
+------------+---------------+----------+------------+
field | Last Chunk | Data Complete | reserved | Chunk Type |
| (LC) | (DC) | | (CT) |
+------------+---------------+----------+------------+
bits 0 1 2 - 4 5 - 7
Chunk Descriptor
A block MAY have multiple types of chunks, but all chunks of the same
type MUST be contiguous in a block and MUST be ordered in the block
in the order in which their data is to be interpreted. Contiguous
chunks must be ordered by type within a block in the following way:
1. authentication-related chunks - either SASL data chunks (type
100), authentication success information chunks (type 101), or
authentication failure information chunks (type 110), but not
more than one type. During the setup of security mechanisms
using these chunks, clients MUST NOT send subsequent requests
until they have received either an authentication success or
failure chunk.
2. data chunks - either no data chunks (type 000) or application
data chunks (type 111), but not both.
3. information chunks - either version information (type 001) or
other information (type 011), but not both.
A block MUST have at least one type of the above chunks.
The format for a chunk is as follows:
+-----------+------------+--------+
field | chunk | chunk data | chunk |
| descriptor| length | data |
+-----------+------------+--------+
octets 1 2 variable
chunk
These fields have the following meanings:
o chunk descriptor - as described above.
o chunk data length - the length of the data of the chunk.
o chunk data - the data of the chunk.
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6.1. No Data Types
Servers and clients MUST ignore data in chunk types labeled no data.
There is no requirement for these types of chunks to be zero length.
A client MAY send "no data" to a server, and the server MUST respond
with either a chunk of the same type or other information (Section
6.4).
6.2. Version Information Types
Chunks of this type contain XML conformant to the schema specified in
[9] and MUST have the element as the root element.
In the context of IRIS-XPC, the protocol identifiers for these
elements are as follows:
o - the value "iris.xpc1" to indicate the
protocol specified in this document.
o - the XML namespace identifier for IRIS [1].
o - the XML namespace identifier for IRIS registries.
In the context of IRIS-XPC, the authentication mechanism identifiers
are the SASL mechanism names found in the IANA SASL mechanism
registry defined by RFC 4422 [10].
This document defines no extension identifiers.
Clients MAY send a block with this type of chunk to a server. These
chunks SHOULD be zero length, and servers MUST ignore any data in
them. When a server receives a chunk of this type, it MUST respond
with a chunk of this type. This interchange allows a client to query
the version information of a server.
The octet sizes for the 'requestSizeOctets' and 'responseSizeOctets'
attributes of the element are defined in Section
6.3.
6.3. Size Information Types
Chunks of this type contain XML conformant to the schema specified in
RFC 4991 [9] and MUST have the element as the root element.
Octet counts provided by this information are defined as the sum of
the count of all chunk data of a particular chunk type. For
instance, if an XML instance is broken up into chunks of 20, 30, and
40 octets, the octet count would be 90 (20 + 30 + 40).
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Clients MUST NOT send chunks of this type, and servers MAY close down
a session using the procedure in Section 8 if a chunk of this type is
received.
6.4. Other Information Types
Chunks of this type contain XML conformant to the schema specified in
RFC 4991 [9] and MUST have the element as the root element.
The values for the 'type' attribute of are as follows:
'block-error' - indicates there was an error decoding a block.
Servers SHOULD send a block error in the following cases:
1. When a request block is received containing a chunk of this
type.
2. When a request block is received containing authentication
success (see Section 6.6) or authentication failure (see
Section 6.7) information.
3. When a request block is received containing size information
(see Section 6.3).
4. When reserved bits in the request block are 1.
5. When a block has not been received in its entirety and the TCP
session has been idle for a specific period of time (i.e., a
data block has been received but no terminating chunk for the
data block has been received). Two minutes is RECOMMENDED for
this timeout value. Note, there is a difference between an
idle condition due to the incomplete reception of a data block
and an idle condition between request/response transactions
associated with keeping the session open. For the latter, see
Section 7.
'data-error' - indicates there was an error parsing data in chunks
containing application or SASL data (e.g., XML is not valid in
application data).
'system-error' - indicates that the receiver cannot process the
request due to a condition not related to this protocol. Servers
SHOULD send a system-error when they are capable of responding to
requests but not capable of processing requests.
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'authority-error' - indicates that the intended authority
specified in the corresponding request is not served by the
receiver. Servers SHOULD send an authority error when they
receive a request directed to an authority other than those they
serve.
'idle-timeout' - indicates that an XPC session has been idle for
too long. Usage of this value is defined in Section 7. Note,
there is a difference between an idle condition due to the
incomplete reception of a data block and an idle condition between
request/response transactions associated with keeping the session
open. For the former, see 'block-error' above.
Clients MUST NOT send chunks of this type, and servers MAY close down
a session using the procedure in Section 8 if a chunk of this type is
received.
6.5. SASL Types
The SASL chunk type allows clients and servers to exchange SASL data.
The format for the data of this type of chunk is as follows:
+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
field | mechanism | mechanism | mechanism | mechanism |
| name | name | data | data |
| length | | length | |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
octets 1 variable 2 variable
SASL Authentication
These fields have the following meaning:
o mechanism name length - the length of the SASL mechanism name.
o mechanism name - the name of the SASL mechanism as registered in
the IANA SASL mechanism registry defined by [10].
o mechanism data length - the length of the SASL data.
o mechanism data - the data used for SASL.
These fields MUST NOT span multiple chunks. Therefore, it should be
noted that SASL data length exceeding the length of the chunk minus
the length of SASL profile name minus one is an error.
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Depending on the nature of the SASL mechanism being used, SASL data
is sent from clients to servers and from servers to clients and may
require multiple request/response transactions to complete. However,
once a SASL exchange is complete and a server can determine
authentication status, the server MUST send either authentication
success information (see Section 6.6) or authentication failure
information (see Section 6.7).
When used as an initial challenge response for SASL mechanisms that
support such a feature, the mechanism data length may be set to a
decimal value of 65,535 to indicate an absent initial response. A
value of 0 indicates an empty initial response.
6.6. Authentication Success Information Types
Chunks of this type contain XML conformant to the schema specified in
RFC 4991 [9] and MUST have the element as the
root element.
This type of chunk is only sent from a server to a client. If a
client sends it to a server, this will result in a block error (see
'block-error' in Section 6.4). The usage of this chunk type is
defined in Section 6.5. A server MAY close down a session due to
reception of this type of chunk using the procedure in Section 8.
SASL mechanisms may use the child element to pass back
arbitrary binary data as base 64 binary. The absence of this element
indicates the absence of such data, where as the presence of the
element with no content indicates an empty data set.
6.7. Authentication Failure Information Types
Chunks of this type contain XML conformant to the schema specified in
RFC 4991 [9] and MUST have the element as the
root element.
This type of chunk is only sent from a server to a client. If a
client sends it to a server, this will result in a block error (see
'block-error' in Section 6.4). The usage of this chunk type is
defined in Section 6.5. A server MAY close down a session due to
reception of this type of chunk using the procedure in Section 8.
6.8. Application Data Types
These chunks contain application data. For IRIS, these are IRIS [1]
XML instances.
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7. Idle Sessions
If a server needs to close a connection due to it being idle, it
SHOULD do the following:
1. Send an unsolicited response block containing an idle timeout
error (see 'idle-timeout' in Section 6.4) with the keep-open (KO)
flag in the block header (Section 5) set to a value of 0.
2. Close the TCP connection.
8. Closing Sessions Due to an Error
If a server is to close a session due to an error, it SHOULD do the
following:
1. Send a response block containing either a block-error or data-
error (see Section 6.4) or version information (see Section 6.2)
with the keep-open (KO) flag in the block header (Section 5) set
to a value of 0.
2. Close the TCP connection.
9. Use over TLS
XPC may be tunneled over TLS [4] by establishing a TLS session
immediately after a TCP session is opened and before any blocks are
sent. This type of session is known as XPCS.
When using TLS, a convention must be established to allow a client to
authenticate the validity of a server. XPCS uses the same convention
as described by IRIS-BEEP [2].
TLS enables authentication and confidentiality.
Implementers should note that while XPC and XPCS have separate URI
scheme names and S-NAPTR application protocol labels, both are
identified with the same value in version
information chunks (see Section 6.2).
10. Update to RFC 3981
Section 6.2 of RFC 3981 [1] (IRIS-CORE) states that IRIS-BEEP [2] is
the default transport for IRIS. This document revises RFC 3981 and
specifies IRIS-XPC as the default transport for IRIS. The TCP well-
known port registration is specified in Section 13.5.
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11. IRIS Transport Mapping Definitions
This section lists the definitions required by IRIS [1] for transport
mappings.
11.1. URI Scheme
See Section 13.1 and Section 13.2.
11.2. Application Protocol Label
See Section 13.3 and Section 13.4.
12. Internationalization Considerations
XML processors are obliged to recognize both UTF-8 and UTF-16 [3]
encodings. Use of the XML defined by [9] MUST NOT use any other
character encodings other than UTF-8 or UTF-16.
13. IANA Considerations
13.1. XPC URI Scheme Registration
URL scheme name: iris.xpc
Status: permanent
URL scheme syntax: defined in [1].
Character encoding considerations: as defined in RFC 3986 [6].
Intended usage: identifies IRIS XML using chunks over TCP
Applications using this scheme: defined in IRIS [1].
Interoperability considerations: n/a
Security Considerations: defined in Section 14.
Relevant Publications: IRIS [1].
Contact Information: Andrew Newton
Author/Change controller: the IESG
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13.2. XPCS URI Scheme Registration
URL scheme name: iris.xpcs
Status: permanent
URL scheme syntax: defined in [1].
Character encoding considerations: as defined in RFC 3986 [6].
Intended usage: identifies IRIS XML using chunks over TLS
Applications using this scheme: defined in IRIS [1].
Interoperability considerations: n/a
Security Considerations: defined in Section 14.
Relevant Publications: IRIS [1].
Contact Information: Andrew Newton
Author/Change controller: the IESG
13.3. S-NAPTR XPC Registration
Application Protocol Label (see [5]): iris.xpc
Intended usage: identifies an IRIS server using XPC
Interoperability considerations: n/a
Security Considerations: defined in Section 14.
Relevant Publications: IRIS [1].
Contact Information: Andrew Newton
Author/Change controller: the IESG
13.4. S-NAPTR XPCS Registration
Application Protocol Label (see [5]): iris.xpcs
Intended usage: identifies an IRIS server using secure XPCS
Interoperability considerations: n/a
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Security Considerations: defined in Section 14.
Relevant Publications: IRIS [1].
Contact Information: Andrew Newton
Author/Change controller: the IESG
13.5. Well-Known TCP Port Registration for XPC
Protocol Number: TCP
TCP Port Number: 713
Message Formats, Types, Opcodes, and Sequences: defined in Section
4.2, Section 3, and Section 4.1.
Functions: defined in IRIS [1].
Use of Broadcast/Multicast: none
Proposed Name: IRIS over XPC
Short name: iris.xpc
Contact Information: Andrew Newton
13.6. Well-Known TCP Port Registration for XPCS
Protocol Number: TCP
TCP Port Number: 714
Message Formats, Types, Opcodes, and Sequences: defined in Sections
9, 4.2, 3, and 4.1.
Functions: defined in IRIS [1].
Use of Broadcast/Multicast: none
Proposed Name: IRIS over XPCS
Short name: iris.xpcs
Contact Information: Andrew Newton
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14. Security Considerations
Implementers should be fully aware of the security considerations
given by IRIS [1] and TLS [4]. With respect to server authentication
with the use of TLS, see Section 6 of IRIS-BEEP [2].
14.1. Security Mechanisms
Clients SHOULD be prepared to use the following security mechanisms
in the following manner:
o SASL/DIGEST-MD5 - for user authentication without the need of
session encryption.
o SASL/OTP - for user authentication without the need of session
encryption.
o TLS using the TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA cipher - for
encryption.
o TLS using the TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA cipher with client-
side certificates - for encryption and user authentication.
o TLS using the TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA cipher - for
encryption. See [7].
o TLS using the TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA cipher with client-side
certificates - for encryption and user authentication. See [7].
o TLS using the TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA cipher - for
encryption. See [7].
o TLS using the TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA cipher with client-side
certificates - for encryption and user authentication. See [7].
Anonymous client access SHOULD be considered in one of two
methods:
1. When no authentication has been used.
2. Using the SASL anonymous profile: SASL/ANONYMOUS
As specified by SASL/PLAIN, clients MUST NOT use the SASL/PLAIN
mechanism without first encrypting the TCP session (e.g., such as
with TLS). Clients MUST implement SASL/PLAIN and TLS using the
TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA cipher.
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14.2. SASL Compliance
The following list details the compliance of IRIS-XPC for use with
SASL, as specified by RFC 4422 [10], Section 4.
1. The SASL service name to be used by IRIS-XPC is "iris-xpc".
2. Section 6.2 describes the negotiation facility used to determine
the available security mechanisms. This facility may be used
both before the initiation of SASL exchanges and after the
installation of security mechanisms.
3.
a) Section 6.5 describes the mechanism to initiate
authentication exchanges.
b) Section 6.5 describes the mechanism to transfer server
challenges and client responses.
c) Section 6.6 and Section 6.7 describe the mechanisms to
indicate the outcome of an authentication exchange. Section
6.6 describes how additional data may be carried with this
message.
4. Non-empty authorization identity strings used within IRIS-XPC
MUST be normalized according to RFC 4013 [11]. The semantics of
the non-empty authorization identity strings is server dependent,
and clients MUST use the values for these strings as given by
configuration or the user.
5. Clients or servers wishing to abort an ongoing authentication
exchange MUST close the connection.
6. After new security layers are negotiated, they take effect on the
first octet following the authentication success (as) (Section
6.6) chunk sent by the server and on the first octet sent after
receipt of the authentication success (as) chunk sent by the
client.
7. IRIS-XPC can be used with both TLS and SASL. When used in
combination, TLS MUST always be applied before any SASL
mechanism.
8. IRIS-XPC does not support multiple SASL authentications.
However, if TLS is being used in combination with SASL, TLS
authentication MUST occur before any SASL authentication.
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15. References
15.1. Normative References
[1] Newton, A. and M. Sanz, "IRIS: The Internet Registry
Information Service (IRIS) Core Protocol", RFC 3981, January
2005.
[2] Newton, A. and M. Sanz, "Using the Internet Registry
Information Service over the Blocks Extensible Exchange
Protocol", RFC 3983, January 2005.
[3] The Unicode Consortium, "The Unicode Standard, Version 3",
ISBN 0-201-61633-5, 2000, .
[4] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Protocol Version 1.1", RFC 4346, April 2006.
[5] Daigle, L. and A. Newton, "Domain-Based Application Service
Location Using SRV RRs and the Dynamic Delegation Discovery
Service (DDDS)", RFC 3958, January 2005.
[6] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66, RFC 3986,
January 2005.
[7] Chown, P., "Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Ciphersuites for
Transport Layer Security (TLS)", RFC 3268, June 2002.
[8] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", RFC 2119, BCP 14, March 1997.
[9] Newton, A., "A Common Schema for Internet Registry Information
Service Transfer Protocols", RFC 4991, August 2007.
[10] Melnikov, A. and K. Zeilenga, "Simple Authentication and
Security Layer (SASL)", RFC 4422, June 2006.
[11] Zeilenga, K., "SASLprep: Stringprep Profile for User Names and
Passwords", RFC 4013, February 2005.
15.2. Informative References
[12] Kirkpatrick, S., Stahl, M., and M. Recker, "Internet numbers",
RFC 1166, July 1990.
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Appendix A. Examples
This section gives examples of IRIS-XPC sessions. Lines beginning
with "C:" denote data sent by the client to the server, and lines
beginning with "S:" denote data sent by the server to the client.
Following the "C:" or "S:", the line contains either octet values in
hexadecimal notation with comments or XML fragments. No line
contains both octet values with comments and XML fragments. Comments
are contained within parentheses.
It should also be noted that flag values of "yes" and "no" reflect
binary values 1 and 0.
The following example demonstrates an IRIS client issuing two
requests in one XPC session. In the first request, the client is
requesting status information for "example.com". This request and
its response are transferred with one chunk. In the second request,
the client is requesting status information for "milo.example.com",
"felix.example.com", and "hobbes.example.com". This request and its
response are transferred with three chunks.
S: (connection response block)
S: 0x20 (block header: V=0,KO=yes)
S: (chunk 1)
S: 0xC1 (LC=yes,DC=yes,CT=vi)
S: 0x01 0xBF (chunk length=447)
S: (Version Information)
S:
S:
S:
S:
S:
S:
S:
C: (request block)
C: 0x20 (block header: V=0,KO=yes)
C: 0x0B (authority length=11)
C: (authority="example.com")
C: 0x65 0x78 0x61 0x6D 0x70 0x6C 0x65 0x23 0x63 0x6F 0x6D
C: (chunk 1)
C: 0xC7 (LC=yes,DC=yes,CT=ad)
C: 0x01 0x53 (chunk length=339)
C: (IRIS XML request)
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C:
C:
C:
C:
S: (response block)
S: 0x20 (block header: V=0,KO=yes)
S: (chunk 1)
S: 0xC7 (LC=yes,DC=yes,CT=ad)
S: 0x01 0xE0 (chunk length=480)
S: (IRIS XML response)
S:
S:
S:
S:
S: example.com
S:
S:
S:
S:
S:
S:
C: (request block)
C: 0x00 (block header: V=0,KO=no)
C: 0x0B (authority length=11)
C: (authority="example.com")
C: 0x65 0x78 0x61 0x6D 0x70 0x6C 0x65 0x23 0x63 0x6F 0x6D
C: (chunk 1)
C: 0x07 (LC=no,DC=no,CT=ad)
C: 0x01 0x4E (chunk length=339)
C: (IRIS XML request)
C:
C:
C:
C: (chunk 2)
C: 0x07 (LC=no,DC=no,CT=ad)
C: 0x00 0xA9 (chunk length=169)
C: (IRIS XML request)
C:
C:
C: (chunk 3)
C: 0xC7 (LC=yes,DC=yes,CT=ad)
C: 0x00 0xB5 (chunk length=181)
C: (IRIS XML request)
C:
C:
C:
S: (response block)
S: 0x00 (block header: V=0,KO=no)
S: (chunk 1)
S: 0x07 (LC=no,DC=no,CT=ad)
S: 0x01 0xDA (chunk length=474)
S: (IRIS XML response)
S:
S:
S:
S:
S: milo.example.com
S:
S:
S:
S:
S:
S: (chunk 2)
S: 0x07 (LC=no,DC=no,CT=ad)
S: 0x01 0xA2 (chunk length=418)
S: (IRIS XML response)
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S:
S:
S:
S: felix.example.com
S:
S:
S:
S:
S:
S: (chunk 3)
S: 0xC7 (LC=yes,DC=yes,CT=ad)
S: 0x01 0xB5 (chunk length=437)
S: (IRIS XML response)
S:
S:
S:
S: hobbes.example.com
S:
S:
S:
S:
S:
S:
Example 1
In the following example, an IRIS client requests domain status
information for "milo.example.com", "felix.example.com", and
"hobbes.example.com" in one request. The request is sent with one
chunk; however, the answer is returned in three chunks.
S: (connection response block)
S: 0x20 (block header: V=0,KO=yes)
S: (chunk 1)
S: 0xC1 (LC=yes,DC=yes,CT=vi)
S: 0x01 0xBF (chunk length=447)
S: (Version Information)
S:
S:
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S:
S:
S:
S:
S:
C: (request block)
C: 0x00 (block header: V=0,KO=no)
C: 0x0B (authority length=11)
C: (authority="example.com")
C: 0x65 0x78 0x61 0x6D 0x70 0x6C 0x65 0x23 0x63 0x6F 0x6D
C: (chunk 1)
C: 0xC7 (LC=yes,DC=yes,CT=ad)
C: 0x02 0xAB (chunk length=683)
C: (IRIS XML request)
C:
C:
C:
C:
C:
C:
C:
C:
S: (response block)
S: 0x00 (block header: V=0,KO=no)
S: (chunk 1)
S: 0x07 (LC=no,DC=no,CT=ad)
S: 0x01 0xDA (chunk length=474)
S: (IRIS XML response)
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S:
S:
S:
S:
S: milo.example.com
S:
S:
S:
S:
S:
S: (chunk 2)
S: 0x07 (LC=no,DC=no,CT=ad)
S: 0x01 0xA2 (chunk length=418)
S: (IRIS XML response)
S:
S:
S:
S: felix.example.com
S:
S:
S:
S:
S:
S: (chunk 3)
S: 0xC7 (LC=yes,DC=yes,CT=ad)
S: 0x01 0xB5 (chunk length=437)
S: (IRIS XML response)
S:
S:
S:
S: hobbes.example.com
S:
S:
S:
S:
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S:
S:
Example 2
In the following example, an IRIS client sends a request containing
SASL/PLAIN authentication data and a domain status check for
"example.com". The server responds with authentication success
information and the domain status of "example.com". Note that the
client requests that the connection stay open for further requests,
but the server does not honor this request.
S: (connection response block)
S: 0x20 (block header: V=0,KO=yes)
S: (chunk 1)
S: 0xC1 (LC=yes,DC=yes,CT=vi)
S: 0x01 0xBF (chunk length=447)
S: (Version Information)
S:
S:
S:
S:
S:
S:
S:
C: (request block)
C: 0x00 (block header: V=0,KO=no)
C: 0x0B (authority length=11)
C: (authority="example.com")
C: 0x65 0x78 0x61 0x6D 0x70 0x6C 0x65 0x23 0x63 0x6F 0x6D
C: (chunk 1)
C: 0x44 (LC=no,DC=yes,CT=sd)
C: 0x00 0x11 (chunk length=11)
C: (SASL data)
C: 0x05 (mechanism length=5)
C: (mechanism name="PLAIN")
C: 0x50 0x4C 0x41 0x49 0x43
C: 0x00 0x0A (sasl PLAIN data length=10)
C: (sasl PLAIN data: authcid="bob")
C: (sasl PLAIN data: authzid=NULL)
C: (sasl PLAIN data: password="kEw1")
C: 0x62 0x6F 0x62 0x20 0x00 0x20 0x6B 0x45 0x77 0x31
C: (chunk 2)
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C: 0xC7 (LC=yes,DC=yes,CT=ad)
C: 0x01 0x53 (chunk length=339)
C: (IRIS XML request)
C:
C:
C:
C:
S: (response block)
S: 0x00 (block header: V=0,KO=no)
S: (chunk 1)
S: 0x45 (LC=no,DC=yes,CT=as)
S: 0x00 0xD0 (chunk length=208)
S: (authentication success response)
S:
S:
S:
S: user 'bob' authenticates via password
S:
S:
S: (chunk 2)
S: 0xC7 (LC=yes,DC=yes,CT=ad)
S: 0x01 0xE0 (chunk length=480)
S: (IRIS XML response)
S:
S:
S:
S:
S: example.com
S:
S:
S:
S:
S:
S:
Example 3
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Appendix B. Contributors
Substantive contributions to this document have been provided by the
members of the IETF's CRISP Working Group, especially Robert Martin-
Legene, Milena Caires, and David Blacka.
Author's Address
Andrew L. Newton
VeriSign, Inc.
21345 Ridgetop Circle
Sterling, VA 20166
USA
Phone: +1 703 948 3382
EMail: andy@hxr.us
URI: http://www.verisignlabs.com/
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