Network Working Group S. Venaas Internet-Draft cisco Systems Intended status: Standards Track January 31, 2011 Expires: August 4, 2011 A Registry for PIM Message Types draft-ietf-pim-registry-04.txt Abstract This document provides instructions to IANA for the creation of a registry for PIM message types. It specifies initial content of the registry based on existing RFCs specifying PIM message types. It also specifies a procedure for registering new types. In addition to this, one message type is reserved, and may be used for a future extension of the message type space. 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/. 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Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of Venaas Expires August 4, 2011 [Page 1] Internet-Draft A Registry for PIM Message Types January 2011 the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1. Initial registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2. Assignment of new message types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Venaas Expires August 4, 2011 [Page 2] Internet-Draft A Registry for PIM Message Types January 2011 1. Introduction Apart from this document, there is no existing document specifying a registry for PIM message types. PIM version 1 made use of IGMP [RFC1112] and there is an IGMP registry [IGMPREG] listing the message types used by PIM version 1. PIM version 2 however is not based on IGMP, and a separate PIM message type registry is needed. There are currently several RFCs specifying new PIM version 2 message types that should be in this new registry. They are the RFCs for PIM Dense Mode [RFC3973], PIM Sparse Mode [RFC4601] and Bidirectional PIM [RFC5015]. This document specifies the initial content of the new PIM message type registry based on those existing RFCs. This document also specifies a procedure for registering new PIM message types. In addition to this, this document reserves one message type. This type may be used for a future extension of the message type space. The current message type space is only 4 bits, so it is not unlikely that this will be needed. How exactly the extension should be done is left to a future document. Venaas Expires August 4, 2011 [Page 3] Internet-Draft A Registry for PIM Message Types January 2011 2. Security Considerations This document only creates an IANA registry. There may be a security benefit in a well-known place for finding information on which PIM message types are valid and how they are used. Apart from that there are no security considerations. Venaas Expires August 4, 2011 [Page 4] Internet-Draft A Registry for PIM Message Types January 2011 3. IANA Considerations This document requests IANA to create a PIM message type registry. This should be placed in the "Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)" branch of the tree. Each entry in the registry consists of message type, message name and references to the documents defining the type. The message type is a 4-bit integer with possible values from 0 to 15. 3.1. Initial registry The initial content of the registry should be as follows. Type Name Reference ------ ---------------------------------------- --------------------- 0 Hello [RFC3973] [RFC4601] 1 Register [RFC4601] 2 Register Stop [RFC4601] 3 Join/Prune [RFC3973] [RFC4601] 4 Bootstrap [RFC4601] 5 Assert [RFC3973] [RFC4601] 6 Graft [RFC3973] 7 Graft-Ack [RFC3973] 8 Candidate RP Advertisement [RFC4601] 9 State Refresh [RFC3973] 10 DF Election [RFC5015] 11-14 Unassigned this document 15 Reserved (for extension of type space) this document 3.2. Assignment of new message types Assignment of new message types is done according to the "IETF Review" model, see [RFC5226]. Venaas Expires August 4, 2011 [Page 5] Internet-Draft A Registry for PIM Message Types January 2011 4. Acknowledgements Thanks to Toerless Eckert for his suggestion to reserve a type for future message type space extension. Also thanks to Mykyta Yevstifeyev for reviewing the document and proposing improvements to the text. Venaas Expires August 4, 2011 [Page 6] Internet-Draft A Registry for PIM Message Types January 2011 5. Informative References [IGMPREG] IANA, "IGMP Type Numbers", IGMP TYPE NUMBERS - per RFC3228, BCP57 http://www.iana.org/assignments/igmp-type-numbers, June 2005. [RFC1112] Deering, S., "Host extensions for IP multicasting", STD 5, RFC 1112, August 1989. [RFC3973] Adams, A., Nicholas, J., and W. Siadak, "Protocol Independent Multicast - Dense Mode (PIM-DM): Protocol Specification (Revised)", RFC 3973, January 2005. [RFC4601] Fenner, B., Handley, M., Holbrook, H., and I. Kouvelas, "Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)", RFC 4601, August 2006. [RFC5015] Handley, M., Kouvelas, I., Speakman, T., and L. Vicisano, "Bidirectional Protocol Independent Multicast (BIDIR- PIM)", RFC 5015, October 2007. [RFC5226] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226, May 2008. Venaas Expires August 4, 2011 [Page 7] Internet-Draft A Registry for PIM Message Types January 2011 Author's Address Stig Venaas cisco Systems Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134 USA Email: stig@cisco.com Venaas Expires August 4, 2011 [Page 8]