Re: [v6ops] new draft: draft-colitti-v6ops-host-addr-availability

["Fred Baker (fred)" <[e-mail]>]

> On Jul 6, 2015, at 7:08 PM, Erik Kline <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Some of this could also serve as input to motivate a SAVI document
> defining a basic logging protocol.
> 
> I still believe that if there where a trivially deployable logging
> methodology that captured
> 
>    {IP address, timestamp, rfc7039#section-3.2 binding context}
> 
> tuples, or even the full data structure entry described in
> rfc6620#section-3.1, then the auditing objectives could be well and
> truly met.
> 
> I think this is still one large unmet need.  (not necessarily a v6ops
> matter, perhaps)

Operational requirements for such could be a v6ops project, and probably a quick one. You're correct that a protocol development probably belongs in a protocol WG. Calling out the binding anchor makes sense, but some of those (the port on an Ethernet switch to which a host attaches, the security association between a host and the base station on wireless links) don't have obvious portable names (if I say that a given security association is number 27 in the AP's table, that's meaningful to the AP, but I'm not sure it's meaningful to an operator coming in after the fact).

I find myself wondering whether this might get rolled up with some other logging operation, such as for stateful NATs. It begins to sound a lot like a record that associates a set of elements together (a 3-tuple or 5-tuple for a session with a MAC Address and a port number and a time stamp, logged only if the source IP address isn't mapped to the MAC address of interest, perhaps) that is emitted for a reason beyond "it was seen".

Would IPFIX, in some incarnation, address this?

I'll let you write that :-)