Re: [Sidrops] draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-verification-01: Handling unknowns

Jakob,

I believe your reading of the ASPA verification procedure is incorrect.

Section 4 defines pairs wise verification procedure (let's call
pair_verification) which returns valid, invalid and unknown.
Sections 5.1 and 5.2 define verification procedure for upstream and
downstream path respectively.

In these procedures, the 'valid' and 'unknown' outcome of pair_verification
is the same. These procedures return 'valid', 'invalid' and 'unverifiable'
(in case of valid AS_SEQ + presence of AS_SET). So, your assumption that
the algorithm works when all ASes in the as-path make attestations is
incorrect.

To perform verification you don't need to split ASPATH into triplets (or
even bigger windows). I sent previously a linear function that makes
verification for the downstream path, for the upstream path it even
simpler. Since you are already working on the implementation I suggest to
discuss it in person before the end of this meeting. It makes me really
anxious if the specification is unclear for implementers.

чт, 25 июл. 2019 г. в 08:04, Jakob Heitz (jheitz) <jheitz@cisco.com>:

> I believe the path verification algorithm works when all ASes in the
> as-path
> make attestations. If some of the ASes make no attestations, then a more
> complete
> algorithm is as follows:
>
> For every sequence (A, B, C) of consecutive ASes in an AS-path:
> If A attests that B is not a provider and C attests that B is not a
> provider,
> then B leaked the route: B is transiting for free. The segment is invalid.
> If either A or C attests that B is a provider, then the AS-path segment
> (A, B, C) is valid.
> If neither A nor C make an attestation, then the leak state is unknown.
> Even if B lists both A and C as providers, it is not necessarily a leak,
> because either A or C could consider B as a provider for some of their
> routes, even though they don't attest to it.
>
> If all the path segments are valid, then the whole path is valid.
> If any of the path segments is invalid, then the whole path is invalid.
> Else, at least one path segment is unknown and one more rule must be
> applied: for any sequence of ASes (A, B1, ..., Bn, C), if A attests that B1
> is not a provider and C attests that Bn is not a provider, then the AS-path
> is invalid. This is for any number of Bx greater than 1.
>
> This algorithm breaks the AS-PATH into triples instead of pairs.
> For example, the AS_PATH (A,B,C,D,E) is broken into the triples:
> (A,B,C), (B,C,D), (C,D,E).
> I find it easier to reason about it like that.
> It can probably be re-worded into pairs.
>
> An additional point:
> If AS-SETs exist then complete sequences between the AS-SETs can be
> checked for invalidity.
> The best such an AS-PATH can get is unknown, but it can also be verified
> invalid.
>
> Regards,
> Jakob.
>
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> This draft is a work item of the SIDR Operations WG of the IETF.
>
>         Title           : Verification of AS_PATH Using the Resource
> Certificate Public Key Infrastructure and Autonomous System Provider
> Authorization
>         Authors         : Alexander Azimov
>                           Eugene Bogomazov
>                           Keyur Patel
>                           Job Snijders
>         Filename        : draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-verification-01.txt
>         Pages           : 10
>         Date            : 2019-07-08
>
> Abstract:
>    This document defines the semantics of an Autonomous System Provider
>    Authorization object in the Resource Public Key Infrastructure to
>    verify the AS_PATH attribute of routes advertised in the Border
>    Gateway Protocol.
>
>
>
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Alexander Azimov