Internet-Draft SNAC Router RA Flag July 2024
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J. Hui
Google LLC

SNAC Router Flag in ICMPv6 Router Advertisement Messages

Abstract

This document defines a new flag, the SNAC Router flag, in the Router Advertisement message that can be used to distinguish configuration information sent by SNAC routers from information sent by infrastructure routers. This flag is used only by SNAC routers and is ignored by all other devices.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

A Stub Network Auto Configuration for IPv6 (SNAC) router is an autonomously-configuring router that provides IP connectivity between one or more stub networks and one or more infrastructure networks. A common SNAC router example is a device that attaches a 6LoWPAN-based network to a home network, automatically providing IPv6 forwarding between the two networks without explicit operator configuration. SNAC routers are described in [I-D.ietf-snac-simple]. This document defines a new RA flag, the "SNAC router" flag, which SNAC routers use to identify RAs sent by other SNAC routers.

2. Terminology

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.

3. SNAC Router Flag

The "SNAC Router" flag is router advertisement flag bit TBD.

The SNAC router flag is to be used by SNAC routers. The use of this flag is documented in [I-D.ietf-snac-simple]. Devices that do not implement [I-D.ietf-snac-simple] MUST NOT set the SNAC router flag, and MUST silently ignore the SNAC router flag. This means that the presence or absence of the flag should not change the behavior of such devices in any way (other than that it is of course permissible to log and cache the value of the flag as part of normal router advertisement processing, where applicable.

4. IANA Considerations

IANA is requested to allocate a flag from the "Internet Control Message Protocol version 6 (ICMPv6) Parameters", "IPv6 ND Router Advertisement flags" registry [IANA-RA-FLAGS] as specified below:

Table 1
RA Option Bit Description Reference
TBD S - SNAC Router Flag This Document

5. Security Considerations

This protocol shares the security issues of NDP that are documented in the "Security Considerations" section of [RFC4861].

6. Normative References

[I-D.ietf-snac-simple]
Lemon, T. and J. Hui, "Automatically Connecting Stub Networks to Unmanaged Infrastructure", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-snac-simple-05, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-snac-simple-05>.
[IANA-RA-FLAGS]
IANA, "IPv6 ND Router Advertisement flags", <https://www.iana.org/assignments/icmpv6-parameters/icmpv6-parameters.xhtml#icmpv6-parameters-11>.
[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>.
[RFC4861]
Narten, T., Nordmark, E., Simpson, W., and H. Soliman, "Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 4861, DOI 10.17487/RFC4861, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4861>.
[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>.

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Jonathan Hui
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