INTERNET-DRAFT Donald E. Eastlake 3rd Motorola Laboratories Expires: December 2006 June 2006 Domain Name System (DNS) Cookies ------ ---- ------ ----- ------- Status of This Document By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79. This draft is intended to be become a Proposed Standard RFC. Distribution of this document is unlimited. Comments should be sent to the author or the DNSEXT working group mailing list . Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. 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." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/1id-abstracts.html The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html Abstract DNS cookies are a light-weight DNS transaction security mechanism. They provides limited protection to DNS servers and resolvers against a variety of increasingly common denial-of-service and cache poisoning attacks by off-path attackers. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006). D. Eastlake 3rd [Page 1] INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies Table of Contents Status of This Document....................................1 Abstract...................................................1 Copyright Notice...........................................1 Table of Contents..........................................2 1. Introduction............................................3 1.1 Contents of This Document..............................3 1.2 Definitions............................................3 2. Threats Considered......................................4 2.1 Denial-of-Service Attacks..............................4 2.1.1 DNS Server Denial-of-Service.........................4 2.1.2 Selected Host Denial-of-Service......................5 2.2 Cache Poisoning Attacks................................5 3. Comments on Existing DNS Security.......................5 4. The COOKIE RR...........................................6 4.1 Resolver Cookies.......................................7 4.2 Server Cookies.........................................7 5. General Policies and Implementation.....................8 5.1 Resolver Policies and Implementation...................8 5.2 Server Policies and Implementation.....................9 5.3 Implementation Requirements...........................10 6. NAT and AnyCast Considerations.........................10 7. IANA Considerations....................................12 8. Security Considerations................................12 9. Copyright and Disclaimer...............................13 10. Normative References..................................13 11. Informative References................................13 Author's Address..........................................15 Additional IPR Provisions.................................15 Expiration and File Name..................................15 D. Eastlake 3rd [Page 2] INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies 1. Introduction The Domain Name System (DNS) provides a replicated distributed database which stores "resource records" (RRs) under hierarchical domain names. DNS data is structured into CLASSes and zones which can be independently maintained. See [STD 13], [RFC 2181] familiarity with which is assumed. As with many core Internet protocols, DNS was designed at a time when the Internet had only a small pool of trusted users. As the Internet has exploded to a global information utility the DNS has increasingly been subject to abuse and been used as a vector for abuse. This document describes DNS cookies, a light-weight DNS transaction security mechanism. They provides limited protection to DNS servers and resolvers against a variety of increasingly common denial-of- service and cache poisoning attacks by off-path attackers. 1.1 Contents of This Document In Section 2, we discuss the threats against which DNS cookies provides some protection. Section 3 describes existing DNS security mechanisms and why they are not adequate subsitutes for DNS cookies. Section 4 describes the COOKIE RR including how recommendations for calculating Resolver and Server Cookies. Section 5 describes the processing of COOKIE RRs by resolvers and server and policies for such processing. Section 6 discusses some NAT and anycast related DNS Cookies design considerations. Sections 7 and 8 describe IANA and Security Considerations. 1.2 Definitions 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. An "off-path attacker", for a particular DNS resolver and server, is defined as an attacker which cannot observe the legitimate plain text DNS requests and responses between that resolver and server. D. Eastlake 3rd [Page 3] INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies "Soft state" indicates information learned or derived by a host which may be discarded when indicated by the policies of that host. For example, it could be discarded after a period of time or when storage for caching such data becomes full. If operations requiring that soft state continue after it has been discarded, it will be automatically re-generated, albeit at some cost. "Silently discarded" indicates that there are no DNS protocol message consequences; however, it is RECOMMENDED that appropriate debugging network management facilities be included in implementations, such as a counter of the occurrences of each type of such events. The term "IP address" is used herein in a length independent manner and refers interchangeably to IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. 2. Threats Considered DNS cookies are intended to provide significant but limited protection against certain denial-of-service and cache poisoning attacks by off-path attackers described below. 2.1 Denial-of-Service Attacks The normal form of the denial-of-service attacks considered herein is to send DNS requests to the attacked server with forged source IP addresses. The intent can be to attack the server or a selected host as described below. 2.1.1 DNS Server Denial-of-Service DNS requests that are accepted cause work on the part of DNS servers. This is particularly true for recursive servers which may issue one or more requests and process the responses thereto in order to determine their response to the initial query. And the situation is even worse for recursive servers implementing DNSSEC [RFC 4033], [RFC 4034], [RFC 4035] because they may be induced to perform burdensome public key cryptographic computations in attempts to verify the authenticity of data they retrieve in trying to answer the request. While the burden cause by such requests is not dependent on a forged IP source address, the use of such addresses makes + the source of the requests causing the denial-of-service requests to be harder to find and + administrative restriction of the IP addresses from which such D. Eastlake 3rd [Page 4] INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies requests should be honored harder to enforce. 2.1.2 Selected Host Denial-of-Service Request with a forged IP address causes a response to be sent to that forged IP address. Thus the forging of many such requests can, indirectly, result in enough traffic being sent to the forged IP address to interfere with service to the host at the IP address. Furthermore, it is generally easy in the DNS to create short requests that produce much longer responses. Thus a DNS server can be used as not only a way to obscure the true source of an attack but as a traffic amplifier to make the attack more effective. Use of DNS cookies severely limits the traffic amplification that can be obtained by attackers off path for the server and the attacked host. Enforced DNS cookies would make it hard for an off path attacker to cause any more than a brief error response to be send to a forged IP address. Furthermore, DNS cookies make it more effective to implement a rate limiting scheme for bad DNS cookie error response from the server which would further restrict selected host denial-of- service traffic from that server. 2.2 Cache Poisoning Attacks The form of the cache poisoning attacks considered is to send forged replies to a resolver. Modern network speeds for well connected hosts are such that, by forging replies from the IP addresses of heavily used DNS servers and for popular names to a heavily used resolver, there can be an unacceptably high probability of randomly coming up with a reply that will be accepted and cause false DNS information to be cached by that resolver. This can be used to facilitate phishing attacks and other diversion of legitimate traffic to a compromised or malicious host such as a web server. 3. Comments on Existing DNS Security Two forms of security have been added to DNS: The first, called DNSSEC and described in [RFC 4033], [RFC 4034], [RFC 4035], provides data origin authentication and authenticated denial of existence. It is being deployed very slowly and, in any case, can make some denial-of-service attacks worse because of the high cryptographic computational load it can require and the increased size in DNS packets that it can produces. D. Eastlake 3rd [Page 5] INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies The second form of security which has been added to DNS provides "transaction" security through TSIG [RFC 2845] or SIG(0) [RFC 2931]. TSIG could provide near perfect protection against the attacks for which DNS cookies provide weak and incomplete protection; however, TSIG is hard to deploy in the general Internet because of the burden it imposes of pre-agreement and key distribution between pairs of resolvers and servers and because it requires time synchronization between resolver and server. TKEY [RFC 2930] can solve the problem of key distribution for TSIG but some modes of TKEY impose substantial cryptographic computations loads and can be dependent on the deployment of DNSSEC. SIG(0) provides less protection than TSIG or, in one way, even DNS cookies, because it does not authentication requests, only complete transactions. In any case, it also depends on the deployment of DNSSEC and requires computationally burdensome public key cryptographic operations. Thus, none of the previous forms of DNS security are a suitable substitute for DNS cookies, which provide light weight transaction authentication of DNS requests and responses with no requirement for pre-configuration. 4. The COOKIE RR COOKIE is a meta-RR that can be included once in the Additional Information portion of DNS requests and responses. The RDATA portion of the COOKIE RR is 18 bytes long as shown below. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Resolver Cookie upper half | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Resolver Cookie lower half | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Server Cookie upper half | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Server Cookie lower half | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Error Code | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ The Resolver and Server Cookies are stored in network byte order and are determined as described below. D. Eastlake 3rd [Page 6] INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies The Error Code field MUST BE zero in requests and in responses unless the response is communicating a DNS cookie related error. Three values are possible for Error Code: NOCOOKIE and BADCOOKIE which occur with a Refused RCODE in the DNS response header, and MANYCOOKIE which occurs with a FormErr RCODE in the DNS header. More information on the generation of error response appears in Section 5 below. 4.1 Resolver Cookies The Resolver Cookie, when it occurs in a COOKIE RR in a DNS response, is intended to weakly assure the resolver that the response came from a server at the indicated source IP address. Servers remember the Resolver Cookie that appears in a query long enough to use it in the construction of the COOKIE RR in the corresponding response if such a COOKIE RR is included in that response. The Resolver Cookie SHOULD be a pseudo-random function of the server IP address and a secret quantity known only to the resolver. This resolver secret SHOULD have 64 bits of entropy [RFC 4086] and MAY be changed periodically. The RECOMMENDED method is the HMAC-MD5-64 [RFC 1321], [RFC 2104] of the server IP address and the resolver secret. That is Resolver Cookie = Truncate-64 ( HMAC-MD5 ( Server IP, Resolver Secret ) ) A resolver MUST NOT use the same Resolver Cookie value for queries to all servers. 4.2 Server Cookies The Server Cookie, when it occurs in a COOKIE RR in a query, is intended to weakly assure the server that the query legitimately came from a resolver at the indicated source IP address that is using the indicated Resolver Cooker. Resolvers learn Server Cookies and retain them as soft state associated with the server IP address. They learn them from the Server Cookie that appears in the COOKIE RR of a reply that also has the correct Resolver Cookie, even if that reply is an error message. The Server Cookie SHOULD be a pseudo-random function of the request source IP address, the request Resolver Cookie, and a secret quantity known only to the server. This server secret SHOULD have 64 bits of D. Eastlake 3rd [Page 7] INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies entropy [RFC 4086] and SHOULD be changed periodically such as daily. The RECOMMENDED method is the HMAC-MD5-64 [RFC 1321], [RFC 2104] of the request IP address, the Resolver Cookie, and the server secret. That is Server Cookie = Truncate-64 ( HMAC-MD5 ( (Request IP | Resolver Cookie), Server Secret ) ) where "|" represents concatenation. A server MUST NOT use the same Server Cookie value for responses to all requests. 5. General Policies and Implementation DNS resolvers and servers will adopt one of three policies regarding cookies. These policies SHOULD be logically settable on a per server IP address basis for resolvers and a per resolver IP address, Resolver Cookie pair for servers. Thus a resolver can have different policies for different servers, based on the server IP address. And a server can have different policies for different resolvers, based on the resolver IP address and Resolver Cookie. Of course, the actual implementation of setting these policies may by for blocks of values or use sparse array techniques. The policy for each value is either "Disabled", "Enabled", or "Enforced" as described below. 5.1 Resolver Policies and Implementation Disabled: Never include a COOKIE RR in requests. Ignore COOKIE RRs in the Additional Information section of responses. Enabled: Always include a COOKIE RR in the Additional Information section of requests. If a cached Server Cookie for the server is not available, the Server Cookie field can be set to any value. Normally process responses without a COOKIE RR. Silently ignore responses with more than one COOKIE RR. Silently ignore responses with one COOKIE RR if that RR has an incorrect Resolver Cookie value. On receipt of a response with one COOKIE RR and that RR having the correct Resolver Cookie value (even if it is a BADCOOKIE error response), perform normal response processing, including caching the received Server Cookie and MUST change to the Enforced policy for DNS requests to that server IP address. D. Eastlake 3rd [Page 8] INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies This policy change SHOULD be treated as soft state with the same discard policy as the Server Cookie value for that server. On discarding that state information, the policy for that server reverts to Enabled. Enforced: Always include a COOKIE RR in the Additional Information section of requests. Silently ignore all responses that do not include exactly one COOKIE RR with that RR having the correct Resolver Cookie value. Normally process responses which do include such a COOKIE RR. 5.2 Server Policies and Implementation Disabled: Ignore COOKIE RRs in requests. Never include a COOKIE RR in responses. Enabled: Normally process requests without a COOKIE RR. Ignore, other than sending a MANYCOOKIE error response, any request with more than one COOKIE RR. Ignore, other than sending a BADCOOKIE error response, any query with one COOKIE RR if that RR has an incorrect Server Cookie. On receipt of a request with a COOKIE RR having the correct Server Cookie value, perform normal request processing and SHOULD adopt the Enforced policy for DNS requests from that resolver IP address with the Resolver Cookie in the request. This policy change for that resolver SHOULD be treated as soft state. On discarding that state information, the policy for that resolver IP and Resolver Cookie pair reverts to enabled. Always include a COOKIE RR in responses. Enforced: Ignore requests without a COOKIE RR or with more than one COOKIE RR, other than sending a NOCOOKIE or MANYCOOKIE error message respectively. Ignore requests with one COOKIE RR if that RR has an incorrect Server Cookie, other than sending a BADCOOKIE error message. If a request has one COOKIE RR with a correct Server Cookie, perform normal processing of the request. Include a COOKIE RR in all responses. D. Eastlake 3rd [Page 9] INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies 5.3 Implementation Requirements DNS resolvers and servers MUST implement DNS cookies. DNS resolvers SHOULD operate in and be shipped so as to default to the Enabled or Enforced mode for all servers. DNS servers SHOULD operate in and be shipped so as to default to the Enabled or Enforced mode for all resolvers they are willing to service. 6. NAT and AnyCast Considerations In the Classic Internet, DNS Cookies could simply be a pseudo-random function of the resolver IP address and a sever secret or the server IP address and a resolver secret. You would want to compute the Server Cookie that way, so a resolver could cache its Server Cookie for a particular server for an indefinitely amount of time and the server could easily regenerate and check it. You could consider the Resolver Cookie to be a resolver signature over the server IP address which the resolver checks in responses and you could extend this signature to cover the ID for example. But we have this wart called NAT [RFC 3022], Network Address Translation (including therein for the purposes of this document NAT- PT [RFC 2766], Network Address and Protocol Translation). There is no problem with DNS transactions between resolvers and servers behind a NAT box using local IP addresses. Nor is there a problem with NAT translation of internal addresses to external addresses or translations between IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, as long as the address mapping is relatively stable. Should an internal resolver being mapped to a particular external IP address change occasionally, the disruption is no more than when a resolver rolls-over its DNS COOKIE secret. And normally external access to a DNS server behind a NAT box is handled by a fixed mapping which forwards externally received DNS requests to a specific host. However, NAT devices sometimes also map ports. This can cause multiple DNS requests and responses from multiple internal hosts to be simultaneously mapped to a smaller number of external IP addresses, frequently one. There could be many resolvers behind a NAT box that appear to come from the same source IP address to a server outside that NAT box.. If one of these were an attacker (think Zombie or Botnet), that behind-NAT attacked could get the Server Cookie for some server for the outgoing IP address by just making some random request to that server. It could then include that Server Cookie in the COOKIE RR of requests to the server with the forged IP address of the local IP address of some other host and/or D. Eastlake 3rd [Page 10] INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies resolver behind the NAT box. (Attacker possession of this Server Cookie will not help in forging responses to cause cache poisoning as such responses are protected by the required Resolver Cookie.) To fix this potential defect, it is necessary to distinguish different resolvers behind a NAT box from the point of view of the server. It is for this reason that the Server Cookie is specified as a pseudo-random function of both the request source IP address and the Resolver Cookie. From this inclusion of the Resolver Cookie in the calculation of the Server Cookie, it follows that a stable Resolver Cookie, for any particular server, is needed. If, for example, the request ID was included in the calculation of the Resolver Cookie, it would normally change with each query to a particular server. This would mean that each query would have to be sent twice: first to learn the new Server Cookie based on this new Resolver Cookie based on the new ID and then again using this new Resolver Cookie to actually get an answer. Thus the input to the Resolver Cookie computation must be limited to the server IP address and one or more things that change slowly such as the resolver secret. In principle, there could be a similar problem for servers, not particularly due to NAT but due to mechanisms like anycast which may cause queries to a DNS server at an IP address to be delivered to any one of several machines. (External queries to a DNS server behind a NAT box usually occur via port forwarding such that all such queries go to one host.) However, it is impossible to solve this the way the similar problem was solved for NATed resolvers; if the Server Cookie was included in the calculation of the Resolver Cookie the same way the Resolver Cookie is included in the Server Cookie, you would just get an almost infinite series of BADCOOKIE errors as a query was repeatedly retried. For server accessed via anycast or similar mechanisms to successfully support DNS COOKIES, the server clones must either all use the same server secret or the mechanism that distributes queries to them must cause the queries from a particular resolver to go to a particular server for a sufficiently long period of time that extra queries due to changes in Server Cookie resulting from accessing different server machines are not unduly burdensome. Such anycast accessed servers are unlikely to be recursive servers or otherwise act as resolvers due to the confusion that would result in getting responses to their queries back to the right machine. If they are they must all use the same resolver secret. D. Eastlake 3rd [Page 11] INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies 7. IANA Considerations The meta-RRTYPE value for COOKIE is (TBD, 248 (0xF8) suggested). Three new RCODES are assigned values above 15: NOCOOKIE is assigned the value (TBD, 23 suggested). BADCOOKIE is assigned the value (TBD, 24 suggested). MANYCOOKIE is assigned the value (TBD, 25 suggested). 8. Security Considerations DNS Cookies provide a weak form of authentication of DNS requests and responses. In particular, they provide no protection at all against "on-path" adversaries; that is, they provide no protection against any adversary which can observe the plain text DNS traffic, such as an on-path router, bridge, or any device on an on-path shared link unless the DNS traffic in question on that link is appropriately encrypted. For example, if a host is connected via an unsecured IEEE 802.11 link (Wi-Fi), any device in the vicinity that could receive and decode the 802.11 transmissions must be considered "on-path". On the other hand, in a similar situation but one where 802.11i security is appropriately deployed, of the Wi-Fi network nodes, only the Access Point via which the host is connecting is "on-path". Despite these limitations, use of DNS Cookies on the global Internet are expected to provide a significant reduction in the available launch points for the traffic amplification and denial of service attacks described in Section 2 above. The recommended cryptographic algorithm for use in DNS Cookies is HMAC-MD5-64, that is, the HMAC scheme [RFC 2104] using the MD5 hash function [RFC 1321] with its output truncated to 64-bits. Although MD5 is now considered to be susceptible to collisions attacks, this does not effect the security of HMAC-MD5. In light of the weak plain-text token security provided by DNS Cookies, stronger cryptography is probably not warranted. However, there is nothing wrong with using, for example, HMAC-SHA256-64 instead, assuming a DNS processor has adequate computational resources available. DNS processors that feel the need for somewhat stronger security without a significant increase in computational load should consider more frequent changes in their resolver and/or server secret; however, this does require more frequent generation of a cryptographically strong random number [RFC 4086] and a change in a server secret will result in a number of BADCOOKIE rejected requests from resolvers caching their old Server Cookie. D. Eastlake 3rd [Page 12] INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies 9. Copyright and Disclaimer Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006). This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights. This document and the information contained herein are provided on an "AS IS" basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE REPRESENTS OR IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 10. Normative References [RFC 1321] - Rivest, R., "The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm", RFC 1321, April 1992. [RFC 2104] - Krawczyk, H., Bellare, M., and R. Canetti, "HMAC: Keyed- Hashing for Message Authentication", RFC 2104, February 1997. [RFC 2119] - Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC 2181] - Elz, R. and R. Bush, "Clarifications to the DNS Specification", RFC 2181, July 1997. [RFC 4086] - Eastlake, D., 3rd, Schiller, J., and S. Crocker, "Randomness Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC 4086, June 2005. [STD 13] Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - concepts and facilities", STD 13, RFC 1034, November 1987. Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, November 1987. 11. Informative References. [RFC 2845] - Vixie, P., Gudmundsson, O., Eastlake 3rd, D., and B. Wellington, "Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS (TSIG)", RFC 2845, May 2000. D. Eastlake 3rd [Page 13] INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies [RFC 2930] - Eastlake 3rd, D., "Secret Key Establishment for DNS (TKEY RR)", RFC 2930, September 2000. [RFC 2931] - Eastlake 3rd, D., "DNS Request and Transaction Signatures ( SIG(0)s )", RFC 2931, September 2000. [RFC 3022] - Srisuresh, P. and K. Egevang, "Traditional IP Network Address Translator (Traditional NAT)", RFC 3022, January 2001. [RFC 4033] - Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S. Rose, "DNS Security Introduction and Requirements", RFC 4033, March 2005. [RFC 4034] - Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S. Rose, "Resource Records for the DNS Security Extensions", RFC 4034, March 2005. [RFC 4035] - Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S. Rose, "Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security Extensions", RFC 4035, March 2005. D. Eastlake 3rd [Page 14] INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies Author's Address Donald E. Eastlake 3rd Motorola Laboratories 155 Beaver Street Milford, MA 01757 USA Telephone: +1-508-786-7554 (w) EMail: Donald.Eastlake@motorola.com Additional IPR Provisions The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any Intellectual Property Rights or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in this document or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has made any independent effort to identify any such rights. Information on the procedures with respect to rights in RFC documents can be found in BCP 78 and BCP 79. 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