Re: [Roll] security for multi-link subnets

Ulrich Herberg <ulrich@herberg.name> Tue, 12 March 2013 18:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Roll] security for multi-link subnets
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Michael,

I think it is also worth mentioning RFC4903, in particular:

"A multi-link subnet model should be avoided.  IETF working groups
   using, or considering using, multi-link subnets today should
   investigate moving to one of the other models."

Have the issues mentioned in RFC4903 been sufficiently addressed?

Best regards
Ulrich

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Michael Richardson
<mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote:
>
> It was pointed out in a private discussion that the inclusion of
> security parameters in the ROLL applicability statements might be
> surprising to some.  For those who want a quick look:
>   http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-roll-applicability-template/
>   http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-roll-rpl-industrial-applicability/
>   http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-brandt-roll-rpl-applicability-home-building/
>
> Specifically, people wouldn't not normally think to look at
> applicability statements for a routing protocol to see that it is
> specifying not just security parameters for the routing protocol
> itself, but in some cases, requirements on access to the LLN as well.
>
> I agreed that perhaps this needed additional socialization, which I'm
> trying to do with this email.
>
> Some of my logic of what we are doing is that by (securely) assembling
> a bunch of links into a multi-link subnet, that in effect the ROLL
> applicability statements are in effect a kind of IP-over-FOO document.
>
> To parallel it to other IP-over-FOO documents better, they often specify
> things like how to encapsulate, and how to do address resolution on the
> subnet.
>
> RPL LLNs do not use stock-ND/ARP (which normally would be specified in an
> IP-over-FOO document), but rather use the RPL messages to discover other
> nodes on the subnet.     I have asked that the applicability statements
> be clear about if they use RFC6775 (6lowpan-ND), and if so, how.
>
> It was suggested really, we never did that before: specify security of
> the network in IP-over-FOO documents.  Well, that's true, because we
> never did a an IP-over-802.11, because it was ethernet.
>
> When WIFI's various incarnations happened (remember borrowing 2Mb/s *FH*
> wireless PCICIA cards back at IETF46?), they tried hard to make it look
> like ethernet, with ethernet-like physical security (WEP == "Wired Equivalent
> Privacy").  It's too bad that we didn't get more involved at the time,
> in the end, we did EAP and keyprov in great part to get that part done
> right.  I still think that the 802.11 security is largely a disaster.
>
> It is possible that the problem is the word "applicability", and perhaps
> we should have a different term.  I would welcome discussion here, or
> even just +1 that this is the right approach.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
> IETF ROLL WG co-chair.    http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/roll/charter/
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