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Internet Internet Area Working Group ICMP IPv6 nexthops Node identification RFC5837 describes a mechanism for Extending ICMP for Interface and Next-Hop Identification, which allows providing additional information in an ICMP error that helps identify interfaces participating in the path. This is especially useful in environments where each interface may not have a unique IP address to respond to, e.g., a traceroute. This document introduces a similar ICMP extension for Node Identification. It allows providing a unique IP address and/or a textual name for the node, in the case where each node may not have a unique IP address (e.g., the IPv6 nexthop deployment case described in draft-chroboczek-intarea-v4-via-v6). About This Document The latest revision of this draft can be found at . Status information for this document may be found at . Discussion of this document takes place on the Internet Area Working Group Working Group mailing list (), which is archived at . Subscribe at . Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at .

Introduction In addition to adding incoming interface information to a traceroute using the mechanisms described in , a network operator may be interested in adding information to identify nodes themselves. describes a scenario in which individual nodes do not have unique IPv4 addresses to use to reply to an IPv4 traceroute, so additional information is needed.

Conventions and Definitions 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 when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.

Node Identification Object This section defines the Node Identification Object, an ICMP Extension Object with a Class-Num (Object Class Value) of 5 that can be appended to the following messages:

• ICMPv4 Time Exceeded
• ICMPv4 Destination Unreachable
• ICMPv4 Parameter Problem
• ICMPv6 Time Exceeded
• ICMPv6 Destination Unreachable

For reasons described in , this extension cannot be appended to any of the currently defined ICMPv4 or ICMPv6 messages other than those listed above. The extension defined herein MAY be appended to any of the above listed messages and SHOULD be appended whenever required to identify the node and when local policy or security considerations do not supersede this requirement. Similarly to the Interface Identification Object defined in , there are two different pieces of information that can appear in a Node Information Object.

1. An IP Address Sub-Object MAY be included, containing an address of sufficient scope to identify the node within the domain. The IP Address Sub-Object is defined in of this memo.
2. A Node Name Sub-Object MAY be included, as specified in , containing up to 63 octets of the yang sys:hostname or another appropriate name uniquely identifying the node.

C-Type Meaning in a Node Identification Object The C-Type contains a bitmask describing what information is included in this Node Identification Object.

C-Type for the Node Identification Object

The following are bit-field definitions for C-Type: Reserved (bits 0-4): These bits are reserved for future use and MUST be set to 0 on transmit and ignored on receipt. IP Addr (bit 5) : When set, a Node IP Address Sub-Object is present. When clear, an IP Address Sub-Object is not present. The Node IP Address Sub-Object is described in of this memo. Node Name (bit 6): When set, a Node Name Sub-Object is included. When clear, it is not included. The Node Name Sub-Object is described in of this memo. Rsvd2 (bit 7): This bit is reserved for future use and MUST be set to 0 on transmit and ignored on receipt. The information included does not self-identify, so this specification defines a specific ordering for sending the information that must be followed. If bit 5 (IP Address) is set, a Node IP Address Sub-Object MUST be sent first. If bit 6 (Name) is set, a Node Name Sub-Object MUST be sent next. The information order is thus: IP Address Sub-Object, Node Name Sub-Object. Any or all pieces of information may be present or absent, as indicated by the C-Type. Any data that follows these optional pieces of information MUST be ignored. It is valid (though pointless until additional bits are assigned by IANA) to receive a Node Information Object where bits 5 and 6 are both 0; this MUST NOT generate a warning or error.

Node IP Address Sub-Object If the Node Identification Object identifies the node by address, the Object Payload contains an address sufficient to identify the node within the appropriate scope - global or as otherwise configured - as depicted in .

Node Identification Object - C-Type 2 Payload

Payload fields are defined as follows:

• Address Family Identifier (AFI): This 16-bit field identifies the type of address represented by the Address field. Values for this field represent a subset of values found in the IANA registry of Address Family Numbers (available from ). Valid values are 1 (representing a 32-bit IPv4 address) and 2 (representing a 128-bit IPv6 address).
• Reserved: This field MUST be set to 0 and ignored upon receipt.
• Address: This variable-length field represents an address of appropriate scope (global, if none other defined) that can be used to identify the node.

Node Name Sub-Object depicts the Node Name Sub-Object:

Node Identification Object Node Name Sub-Object

The Node Name Sub-Object MUST have a length that is a multiple of 4 octets and MUST NOT exceed 64 octets. The Length field represents the length of the Node Name Sub- Object, including the length and the node name in octets. The maximum valid length is 64 octets. The length is constrained to ensure there is space for the start of the original packet and additional information. The second field contains the human-readable node name. The node name SHOULD be the sys:hostname , if less than 64 octets, or the first 63 octets of the sys:hostname, if the sys:hostname is longer. The node name MAY be some other human-meaningful name of the node. The node name MUST be padded with ASCII NUL characters if the object would not otherwise terminate on a 4-octet boundary. The node name MUST be represented in the UTF-8 charset using the Default Language .

Security Considerations It may not be desirable to allow this information to be sent to an arbitrary receiver. The addition of this information SHOULD be configurable, and MUST default to off. An implementation SHOULD determine what objects may be appended to a given message based on the destination IP address of the ICMP message that will contain the objects. The intended field of use for the extensions defined in this document is administrative debugging and troubleshooting. The extensions herein defined supply additional information in ICMP responses. These mechanisms are not intended to be used in non-debugging applications. This document does not specify an authentication mechanism for the extension that it defines. Application developers should be aware that ICMP messages and their contents are easily spoofed.

IANA Considerations This IANA has allocated the ICMP Extension Object Class value 5 to the extension described above. The corresponding Class Sub-types Registry is as follows:

C-Type (Value)	Description	Reference
0-4	Unallocated - allocatable with Standards Action	[This document]
5	IP Address Sub-object included	[This document]
6	Name Sub-object included	[This document]
7	Unallocated - allocatable with Standards Action	[This document]

References Normative References ISO/IEC 10646-1 defines a large character set called the Universal Character Set (UCS) which encompasses most of the world's writing systems. The originally proposed encodings of the UCS, however, were not compatible with many current applications and protocols, and this has led to the development of UTF-8, the object of this memo. UTF-8 has the characteristic of preserving the full US-ASCII range, providing compatibility with file systems, parsers and other software that rely on US-ASCII values but are transparent to other values. This memo obsoletes and replaces RFC 2279. This document is the current policies being applied by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) towards the standardization efforts in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in order to help Internet protocols fulfill these requirements. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. This document redefines selected ICMP messages to support multi-part operation. A multi-part ICMP message carries all of the information that ICMP messages carried previously, as well as additional information that applications may require. Multi-part messages are supported by an ICMP extension structure. The extension structure is situated at the end of the ICMP message. It includes an extension header followed by one or more extension objects. Each extension object contains an object header and object payload. All object headers share a common format. This document further redefines the above mentioned ICMP messages by specifying a length attribute. All of the currently defined ICMP messages to which an extension structure can be appended include an "original datagram" field. The "original datagram" field contains the initial octets of the datagram that elicited the ICMP error message. Although the original datagram field is of variable length, the ICMP message does not include a field that specifies its length. Therefore, in order to facilitate message parsing, this document allocates eight previously reserved bits to reflect the length of the "original datagram" field. The proposed modifications change the requirements for ICMP compliance. The impact of these changes on compliant implementations is discussed, and new requirements for future implementations are presented. This memo updates RFC 792 and RFC 4443. [STANDARDS-TRACK] This memo defines a data structure that can be appended to selected ICMP messages. The ICMP extension defined herein can be used to identify any combination of the following: the IP interface upon which a datagram arrived, the sub-IP component of an IP interface upon which a datagram arrived, the IP interface through which the datagram would have been forwarded had it been forwardable, and the IP next hop to which the datagram would have been forwarded. Devices can use this ICMP extension to identify interfaces and their components by any combination of the following: ifIndex, IPv4 address, IPv6 address, name, and MTU. ICMP-aware devices can use these extensions to identify both numbered and unnumbered interfaces. [STANDARDS-TRACK] This document defines a YANG data model for the configuration and identification of some common system properties within a device containing a Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) server. This document also includes data node definitions for system identification, time-of-day management, user management, DNS resolver configuration, and some protocol operations for system management. IANA In many standards track documents several words are used to signify the requirements in the specification. These words are often capitalized. This document defines these words as they should be interpreted in IETF documents. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. RFC 2119 specifies common key words that may be used in protocol specifications. This document aims to reduce the ambiguity by clarifying that only UPPERCASE usage of the key words have the defined special meanings. Informative References IRIF, University of Paris Google, LLC Red Hat This document proposes "v4-via-v6" routing, a technique that uses IPv6 next-hop addresses for routing IPv4 packets, thus making it possible to route IPv4 packets across a network where routers have not been assigned IPv4 addresses. The document both describes the technique, as well as discussing its operational implications.

Change history This section is to be removed before publishing as an RFC.

Changes since draft-fenner-intarea-extended-icmp-hostid-00

• Instead of having two different messages with the same Class Value and different CType values, we copy the bitmap implementation from . The re-use of bit positions means that packet parsing and generation code can be largely reused from existing code.

Changes since draft-fenner-intarea-extended-icmp-hostid-01

• Fixed several copy-pasta errors that still referred to interface names instead of node name.

Acknowledgments This document derives text heavily from , since the underlying mechanism is identical, and only the semantics of the message differs. Thanks are therefore due to that document's authors: Alia K. Atlas, Ronald P. Bonica, Carlos Pignataro, Naiming Shen and JR. Rivers.