Internet-Draft Enhanced SLURM Filters July 2024
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sidrops
Internet-Draft:
draft-fu-sidrops-enhanced-slurm-filter-01
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Authors:
Y. Fu
China Unicom
N. Geng
Huawei

Filtering Out RPKI Data by Type based on Enhanced SLURM Filters

Abstract

Simplified Local Internet Number Resource Management with the RPKI (SLURM) helps operators create a local view of the global RPKI by generating sets of filters and assertions. This document proposes to filter out RPKI data by type based on enhanced SLURM filters. Only the RPKI data types that the network or routers are interested in will appear in the Relying Party's output.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Relying Party (RP) collects signed RPKI objects from global RPKI publication points. The RPKI data passing RP's validation will appear in RP's output. Then, the RPKI-to-Router (RTR) protocol [RFC6810][RFC8210][I-D.ietf-sidrops-8210bis] will synchronize the validated RPKI data from RP to routers. Currently, four types of RPKI data including IPv4 Prefix, IPv6 Prefix, Router Key, and ASPA are supported in the RTR protocol.

However, in some cases, routers may be interested in a part of RPKI data types, instead of all [I-D.geng-sidrops-rtr-selective-sync]. In such cases, storing unused data on the router is unreasonable, and synchronizing all types of data will induce some unnecessary transmission and storage overhead. Besides, multiple types of data can be transmitted together. The router cannot use any type of these data unless it waits for all data to complete transmission.

Furthermore, there may be more types of RPKI data in the RPKI repositories and RPs, which makes the above problem more significant and worse. The followings are example types, and some of them may be possibly supported in the RPKI system in the future:

To deal with the problem, configuring routers directly ignoring the uninterested RPKI data transmitted by RTR protocol may not be a good solution. While storage overhead is avoided, transmission delay is not optimized. Extending RTR protocol for supporting selective synchronization of RPKI data is an alternative solution [I-D.geng-sidrops-rtr-selective-sync]. Both of the two solutions require the upgrade of router software.

SLURM provides a simple way to enable an RP to establish a local and customized view of the RPKI ([RFC8416], [I-D.ietf-sidrops-aspa-slurm]). It defines Validation Output Filters to filter out specific RPKI data items and Locally Added Assertions to add RPKI data items. Unfortunately, SLURM cannot efficiently filter out RPKI data by type, i.e., filter out all the RPKI data belonging to a specific type.

This document proposes enhanced SLURM filters which can filter out RPKI data by type. With enhanced SLURM filters, operators can efficiently select which type of RPKI data need to be synchronized to routers.

The proposed method requires some modifications on the SLURM-related process of RP software. Upgrades of RTR implementations and router software implementations are not involved.

1.1. Requirements Language

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.

2. Use Case

One of use cases is IPv6-only network. Suppose a IPv6-only network wants to enable ROV on BGP border routers. The routers should be only interested in IPv6-related BGP validation because the routers can only receive IPv6 routes from neighbor ASes. Therefore, IPv4 Prefix data is not useful for the network. An example of IPv6-only network is New China Education and Research Network (named Future Internet Technology Infrastructure, FITI).

                  +------------+
                  | Rely Party |
                  +------------+
                   /          \
                  / Sync RPKI  \
                 /  data by RTR \
      +---------/----------------\---------+
IPv6  |        /                  \        |IPv6
routes| +----------+          +----------+ |routes
------->|BGP router|          |BGP router| |------>
      | +----------+          +----------+ |
      |             IPv6-only              |
      +------------------------------------+

As described in Section 1, there may be more types of RPKI data in the RPKI repositories and RPs. Thus, there will be more use cases where a network does not need all types of RPKI data in the future.

3. Enhanced SLURM Filters

This section proposes two optional designs.

3.1. Design 1: RPKI Data Type Filters

A SLURM file consists of a single JSON [RFC8259] object containing the following members:

  • A "slurmVersion" member that MUST be set to 3, encoded as a number

  • A "validationOutputFilters" member whose value is an object. The object MUST contain exactly four members:

  • A "locallyAddedAssertions" member whose value is an object. The object MUST contain exactly three members:

The following JSON structure with JSON members represents a SLURM file that has no filters or assertions:

  {
    "slurmVersion": 2,
    "validationOutputFilters": {
      "aspaFilters": [],
      "bgpsecFilters": [],
      "prefixFilters": [],
      "typeFilters": []
    },
    "locallyAddedAssertions": {
      "aspaAssertions": [],
      "bgpsecAssertions": [],
      "prefixAssertions": []
    }
  }

3.1.1. RPKI Data Type Filters

There are currently four types of RPKI data (which follows the RTR PDU definitions). The number of data types may increase with time.

  • IPv4 Prefix

  • IPv6 Prefix

  • Router Key

  • ASPA

The RP can configure zero or at most four RPKI Data Type Filters ("Type Filter" for short). Each Type Filter contains a single 'rpkiDataType' and optionally a single 'comment'.

  • The 'rpkiDataType' member MUST be one of the values, i.e., "IPv4 Prefix", "IPv6 Prefix", "Router Key", and "ASPA".

  • It is RECOMMENDED that an explanatory comment is included with each Type Filter so that it can be shown to users of the RP software.

Any RPKI data item that matches any configured Type Filter MUST be removed from the RP's output.

A RPKI data item is considered to match with a Type Filter if the following condition applies: The item is considered to match if the RPKI data type of the item is equal to the "rpkiDataType" value of Type Filter.

The following example JSON structure represents a "typeFilter" member with one object as described above:

  "typeFilter": [
    {
      "rpkiDataType": "IPv4 Prefix",
      "comment": "Filter out VRPs with IPv4 Prefixes"
    }
  ]

When a type of RPKI data is to be filtered out, the corresponding Filters and Assertions MUST be ignored. In the above JSON example, the prefixFilters with IPv4 prefixes and the prefixAssertions with IPv4 prefixes will be ignored by RP.

3.2. Design 2: Special ASNs

A SLURM file consists of a single JSON [RFC8259] object which has the same structure as [I-D.ietf-sidrops-aspa-slurm], except that the "slurmVersion" member MUST be set to 3.

The structure of ROA filters, BGPsec filters, and ASPA filters are not changed.

To filter out a specific type of RPKI data, a special value (e.g., 65535. The value is TBD) can be set to the "asn" member of the above filters.

The following example JSON structure represents a "prefixFilters" member with one object as described above:

  "prefixFilters": [
    {
      "asn": 65535,
      "comment": "Filter out VRPs with IPv4 and IPv6 Prefixes"
    }
  ]

When a type of RPKI data is to be filtered out, the corresponding Filters and Assertions MUST be ignored. In the above JSON example, the other prefixFilters and all the prefixAssertions will be ignored by RP.

To filter only IPv4 Prefixes, two special values can be used, i.e., one is for IPv4 and the other is for IPv6. The concret design is TBD.

4. Security Considerations

The security considerations in Section 6 of [RFC8416] are also applied to this document.

5. IANA Considerations

This document has no IANA actions.

6. References

6.1. Normative References

[RFC8416]
Ma, D., Mandelberg, D., and T. Bruijnzeels, "Simplified Local Internet Number Resource Management with the RPKI (SLURM)", RFC 8416, DOI 10.17487/RFC8416, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8416>.
[RFC8259]
Bray, T., Ed., "The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format", STD 90, RFC 8259, DOI 10.17487/RFC8259, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8259>.
[RFC6810]
Bush, R. and R. Austein, "The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to Router Protocol", RFC 6810, DOI 10.17487/RFC6810, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6810>.
[RFC8210]
Bush, R. and R. Austein, "The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to Router Protocol, Version 1", RFC 8210, DOI 10.17487/RFC8210, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8210>.
[I-D.ietf-sidrops-8210bis]
Bush, R. and R. Austein, "The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to Router Protocol, Version 2", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-sidrops-8210bis-12, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-sidrops-8210bis-12>.
[I-D.geng-sidrops-rtr-selective-sync]
Geng, N., Zhuang, S., and M. Huang, "Selective Synchronization for RPKI to Router Protocol", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-geng-sidrops-rtr-selective-sync-03, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-geng-sidrops-rtr-selective-sync-03>.
[I-D.ietf-sidrops-aspa-slurm]
Snijders, J. and B. Cartwright-Cox, "Simplified Local Internet Number Resource Management (SLURM) with RPKI Autonomous System Provider Authorizations (ASPA)", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-slurm-01, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-slurm-01>.
[RFC2119]
Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
[RFC8174]
Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

6.2. Informative References

[RFC7909]
Kisteleki, R. and B. Haberman, "Securing Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) Objects with Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Signatures", RFC 7909, DOI 10.17487/RFC7909, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7909>.
[I-D.van-beijnum-sidrops-pathrpki]
van Beijnum, I., "Path validation with RPKI", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-van-beijnum-sidrops-pathrpki-00, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-van-beijnum-sidrops-pathrpki-00>.
[I-D.ietf-grow-rpki-as-cones]
Snijders, J., stucchi-lists@glevia.com, and M. Aelmans, "RPKI Autonomous Systems Cones: A Profile To Define Sets of Autonomous Systems Numbers To Facilitate BGP Filtering", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-grow-rpki-as-cones-02, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-grow-rpki-as-cones-02>.
[I-D.spaghetti-sidrops-rpki-asgroup]
Snijders, J. and F. Korsbäck, "A profile for RPKI Signed Groupings of Autonomous System Numbers (ASGroup)", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-spaghetti-sidrops-rpki-asgroup-00, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-spaghetti-sidrops-rpki-asgroup-00>.
[I-D.ietf-sidrops-rpki-prefixlist]
Snijders, J. and G. Huston, "A profile for Signed Prefix Lists for Use in the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-sidrops-rpki-prefixlist-03, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-sidrops-rpki-prefixlist-03>.
[I-D.xie-sidrops-moa-profile]
Xie, C., Dong, G., Li, X., Huston, G., and D. Ma, "A Profile for Mapping Origin Authorizations (MOAs)", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-xie-sidrops-moa-profile-05, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-xie-sidrops-moa-profile-05>.
[I-D.chen-sidrops-sispi]
Chen, L., Liu, L., Li, D., and L. Qin, "A Profile of Signed SAVNET-Peering Information (SiSPI) Object for Deploying Inter-domain SAVNET", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-chen-sidrops-sispi-00, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-chen-sidrops-sispi-00>.

Acknowledgements

TBD

Authors' Addresses

Yu Fu
China Unicom
Beijing
China
Nan Geng
Huawei
Beijing
China