Internet Engineering Task Force P. Dawes Internet-Draft Vodafone Group Intended status: Informational July 23, 2015 Expires: January 24, 2016 Requirements for Marking SIP Messages to be Logged draft-ietf-insipid-logme-reqs-03 Abstract SIP networks use signalling monitoring tools to debug customer reported problems and for regression testing if network or client software is upgraded. As networks grow and become interconnected, including connection via transit networks, it becomes impractical to predict the path that SIP signalling will take between clients, and therefore impractical to monitor SIP signalling end-to-end. This draft describes requirements for adding an indicator to the SIP protocol data unit (PDU, or a SIP message) that marks the PDU as a candidate for logging. Such marking will typically be applied as part of network testing controlled by the network operator and not used in regular client signalling. However, such marking can be carried end-to-end including the SIP terminals, even if a session originates and terminates in different networks. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on January 24, 2016. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2015 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. Dawes Expires January 24, 2016 [Page 1] Internet-Draft log me marker July 2015 This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Conventions Used in this Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Motivating Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Basic Debugging Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5. Requirements for a "Log Me" Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6.1. Trust Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6.2. Security Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6.2.1. "Log Me" Marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6.2.2. Sending Logged Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 7. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1. Introduction Service providers who use SIP (see RFC 3261 [RFC3261]) in their networks need the ability to debug customer reported problems and also need to run regression tests if SIP client software/hardware is upgraded. Such debugging and tests might be confined to a single service provider but might also be needed for customers who have different service providers, including providers in different countries that are interconnected through networks belonging to one or more third parties. A mechanism is needed to mark particular SIP sessions, i.e. those related to debugging or regression testing, as candidates for logging and this marking must be carried within the candidate SIP messages as they are routed across networks (and geographies) to enable particular traffic to be targetted for debugging and testing and to avoid having to know in advance which SIP entities signalling will cross. Such marking must take into account that SIP messages might traverse different service providers, different countries, regions with different privacy requirements, and different trust domains. Dawes Expires January 24, 2016 [Page 2] Internet-Draft log me marker July 2015 This draft describes the requirements for such a "log me" marker for SIP signalling. 2. Conventions Used in this Document The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119]. 3. Motivating Scenario Signalling for SIP session setup can cross several networks, and these networks may not have common ownership and also may be in differrent countries. If a single operator wishes to perform regression testing or fault debugging end-to-end, the separate ownership of networks that carry the signalling and the explosion in the number of possible signalling paths through SIP entities from the originating to the terminating user make it impractical to pre- configure logging of an end-to-end SIP signalling of a session of interest. The figure below gives an example of a signalling path through multiple networks. Dawes Expires January 24, 2016 [Page 3] Internet-Draft log me marker July 2015 +------------------+ +------------------+ | COUNTRY W | | COUNTRY X | | Operator A | | Operator A | | | | | | SIP Phones | | SIP Phones | | | //| | +------------------+ // +------------------+ | // | // ,'```', // +------------------+ .`',.' `..'``',<==// | COUNTRY X | ,' Operator A `', | Operator A | ; Backbone Network ..'--| | ', ,., .'` | PSTN phones | '.,.`'.,,,.` `''` | | || +------------------+ || \/ +------------------+ | | | Transit Network | | | | |\\ +------------------+ \\ | \\ | \\ +------------------+ \\ +------------------+ | COUNTRY Z | \\ | COUNTRY Y | | Operator C | \\=>| Operator B | | | | | | SIP Phones | | SIP Phones | | | | | +------------------+ +------------------+ Figure 1: Example signalling path through multiple networks 4. Basic Debugging Procedure The skeleton debugging procedure is as follows: o The user's terminal is placed in debug mode. The terminal logs its own signalling and inserts a "log me" marker into SIP requests for session setup o All SIP entities that the signalling traverses, from the first proxy the terminal connects to at the edge of the network to the destination client terminal, can detect that the "log me" marker Dawes Expires January 24, 2016 [Page 4] Internet-Draft log me marker July 2015 is present and can log SIP requests and responses that contain the marker if configured to do so. o Subsequent responses and requests in the same dialog are logged. o Logging stops, either because the dialog has ended or because a 'stop event', typically expiry of a certain amount of time, occurred o The user's terminal and any other SIP entity that has logged signalling sends logs to a server that is co-ordinating debugging. 5. Requirements for a "Log Me" Marker o REQ1: It MUST be possible to mark a SIP request or response as of interest for logging by inserting a "log me" marker. This is known as "log me" marking. o REQ2: It MUST be possible for a "log me" marker to cross network boundaries. o REQ3: A "log me" marker is most effective if it passes end-to-end. However, source networks should behave responsibly and not leave it to a downstream network to detect and remove a marker that it will not use. A "log me" marker SHOULD be removed at trust domain boundaries. o REQ4: The presence of a "log me" marker indicates that a request or response is part of debugging or regression testing. SIP entities that support "log me" marking SHOULD log SIP requests or responses that contain a "log me" marker." The SIP entity checks for the presence of a "log me" marker and writes any request or response that contains a "log me" marker to a log file. o REQ5: If a UA that supports "log me" marking receives a request with a "log me" marker, it MUST echo that "log me" marker in responses to that request. o REQ6: A SIP proxy MAY insert a "log me" marker into requests and responses. The typical case for which a proxy needs to insert a "log me" marker is for compatibility with UAs that have not implemented "logme" marking, i.e. when a UA has not marked a request and when responses received on a dialog of interest for logging do not contain an echoed "log me" marker. In these cases, the entity that inserts a "log me" marker is stateful inasmuch as it must remember when a dialog is of interest for logging. An entity that inserts a "log me" marker SHOULD also log the SIP request or response as per REQ4. Dawes Expires January 24, 2016 [Page 5] Internet-Draft log me marker July 2015 o REQ7: SIP proxies MAY be stateless in terms of logging of SIP requests that contain a "log me" marker, i.e. they MAY base the decision to log a SIP request or response solely on the presence of the "log me" marker. For example, it is OPTIONAL for a SIP entity to maintain state of which SIP requests contained a "log me" marker in order to log responses to those requests. Echoing a "log me" marker in responses is the responsibility of the UA that receives a request. o REQ8: A "log me" marker MAY include an identifier that indicates the test case that caused it to be inserted, known as a test case identifier. The test case identifier does not have any impact on session setup, it is used by the debugging server to collate all logged SIP requests and responses to the initial SIP request in a dialog or standalone transaction. The Session-ID described in RFC 7206 [RFC7206] and I-D.ietf-insipid-session-id-12 [I-D.ietf-insipid-session-id] could be used as the test case identifier but it would be useful for the UA to log a human readable name together with this Session-ID when it performs "log me" marking of an initial SIP request. o REQ9: "log me" marking of requests and responses MUST be applied on a per-dialog granularity. If applied, "log me" marking MUST begin with the dialog-creating request and SHOULD continue to the dialog end. "log me" marking MUST NOT be stopped and re-started on a given dialog. 6. Security Considerations In order to prevent any security implications of a "log me" marker, the marker itself MUST not contain any sensitive information, detecting its presence or absence MUST NOT reveal sensitive information, and maliciously adding a "log me" marker MUST NOT adversely affect a network. This section analyses how to meet these requirements. 6.1. Trust Domain Since a "log me" marker may cause a SIP entity to log the SIP header and body of a request or response, the "log me" marker SHOULD be removed at a trust domain boundary. If a prior agreement to log sessions exists with the next hop network then the "log me" marker might not be removed. Dawes Expires January 24, 2016 [Page 6] Internet-Draft log me marker July 2015 6.2. Security Threats 6.2.1. "Log Me" Marking The "log me" marker MUST not convey any sensitive information, although the "log me" marker will sometimes be inserted because a particular device is experiencing problems. The presence of a "log me" marker will cause some SIP entities to log signalling. Therefore, this marker must be removed at the earliest opportunity if it has been incorrectly inserted. Activating a debug mode affects the operation of a terminal, therefore debugging configuration must be supplied by an authorized server to an authorized terminal, debugging configuration must not be altered in transit, and must not be readable by an unauthorized third party. Logged signalling is privacy-sensitive data, therefore signalling logs must be passed to an authorized server, must not be altered in transit, and must not be readable by an unauthorized third party. 6.2.2. Sending Logged Information A SIP entity that has logged information should encrypt it, such that it can be decrypted only by the debug server, before sending it to a debug server in order to protect the content of logs from a third party. 7. Acknowledgments The author wishes to thank Jorgen Axell, Keith Drage, Vijay Gurbani, Christer Holmberg, Hadriel Kaplan, Paul Kyzivat, James Polk, and Gonzalo Salgueiro for their constructive comments and guidance while developing this document. 8. References 8.1. Normative References [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997, . Dawes Expires January 24, 2016 [Page 7] Internet-Draft log me marker July 2015 8.2. Informative References [I-D.ietf-insipid-session-id] Jones, P., Polk, J., Salgueiro, G., and C. Pearce, "End- to-End Session Identification in IP-Based Multimedia Communication Networks", draft-ietf-insipid-session-id-12 (work in progress), January 2015. [RFC3261] Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., Camarillo, G., Johnston, A., Peterson, J., Sparks, R., Handley, M., and E. Schooler, "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261, DOI 10.17487/RFC3261, June 2002, . [RFC7206] Jones, P., Salgueiro, G., Polk, J., Liess, L., and H. Kaplan, "Requirements for an End-to-End Session Identification in IP-Based Multimedia Communication Networks", RFC 7206, DOI 10.17487/RFC7206, May 2014, . Author's Address Peter Dawes Vodafone Group The Connection Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2FN UK Email: peter.dawes@vodafone.com Dawes Expires January 24, 2016 [Page 8]