Network Working Group R. Jesup Internet-Draft WorldGate Communications Intended status: Standards Track S. Loreto Expires: January 16, 2014 Ericsson R. Stewart Adara Networks M. Tuexen Muenster Univ. of Appl. Sciences July 15, 2013 DTLS Encapsulation of SCTP Packets draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-dtls-encaps-01.txt Abstract The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a transport protocol originally defined to run on top of the network protocols IPv4 or IPv6. This document specifies how SCTP can be used on top of the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol. 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 the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Encapsulation and Decapsulation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. DTLS Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5. SCTP Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 8. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1. Introduction 1.1. Overview The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) as defined in [RFC4960] is a transport protocol running on top of the network protocols IPv4 or IPv6. This document specifies how SCTP is used on top of the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol. This encapsulation is used for example within the RTCWeb protocol suite (see [I-D.ietf-rtcweb-overview] for an overview) for transporting non-media data between browsers. The architecture of this stack is described in [I-D.ietf-rtcweb-data-channel]. 1.2. Terminology This document uses the following terms: Association: An SCTP association. Stream: A unidirectional stream of an SCTP association. It is uniquely identified by a stream identifier. 1.3. Abbreviations DTLS: Datagram Transport Layer Security. MTU: Maximum Transmission Unit. PPID: Payload Protocol Identifier. Jesup, et al. Expires January 16, 2014 [Page 2] Internet-Draft SCTP over DTLS July 2013 SCTP: Stream Control Transmission Protocol. TCP: Transmission Control Protocol. TLS: Transport Layer Security. 2. Conventions 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 [RFC2119]. 3. Encapsulation and Decapsulation Procedure When an SCTP packet is sent down to the DTLS layer, the complete SCTP packet, consisting of the SCTP common header and a number of SCTP chunks, MUST be handled as the payload of the application layer protocol of DTLS. When the DTLS layer has processed a DTLS record containing a message of the application layer protocol, the payload MUST be given up to the SCTP layer. The SCTP layer expects an SCTP common header followed by a number of SCTP chunks. 4. DTLS Considerations The DTLS implementation MUST be based on [RFC6347]. If path MTU discovery is performed by the DTLS layer, the method described in [RFC4821] MUST be used. For probe packets, the extension defined in [RFC6520] MUST be used. If path MTU discovery is performed by the SCTP layer and IPv4 is used as the network layer protocol, the DTLS implementation MUST allow the DTLS user to enforce that the corresponding IPv4 packet is sent with the DF bit set. SCTP performs segmentation and reassembly based on the path MTU. Therefore the DTLS layer MUST NOT use any compression algorithm. 5. SCTP Considerations 5.1. Base Protocol SCTP as specified in [RFC4960] is used. However, the following restrictions are necessary to reflect that the lower layer is the connection oriented protocol DTLS instead of the connection less protocol IPv4 and IPv6: Jesup, et al. Expires January 16, 2014 [Page 3] Internet-Draft SCTP over DTLS July 2013 o A DTLS connection MUST be established before an SCTP association can be set up. o All associations MUST be single-homed. o The INIT and INIT-ACK chunk MUST NOT contain any IPv4 Address or IPv6 Address parameters. The INIT chunk MUST NOT contain the Supported Address Types parameter. o The implementation MUST NOT rely on processing ICMP or ICMPv6 packets. This applies in particular to path MTU discovery when performed by SCTP. 5.2. Padding Extension The padding extension defined in [RFC4820] MUST be supported and used for probe packets when performing path MTU discovery as specified in [RFC4821]. 5.3. Dynamic Address Reconfiguration Extension If the dynamic address reconfiguration extension defined in [RFC5061] is used, only wildcard addresses MUST be used in ASCONF chunks. 5.4. SCTP Authentication Extension The SCTP authentication extension defined in [RFC4895] can be used with DTLS encapsulation, but does not require any additional benefit. 5.5. Partial Reliability Extension Partial reliability as defined in [RFC3758] can be used in combination with DTLS encapsulation. It is also possible to use additional PR-SCTP policies. 5.6. Stream Reset Extension The SCTP stream reset extension defined in [RFC6525] can be used with DTLS encapsulation. It is used to reset streams and add streams during the lifetime of the SCTP association. 5.7. Interleaving of Large User Message SCTP as defined in [RFC4960] does not support the interleaving of large user messages that need to be fragmented and reassembled by the SCTP layer. The protocol extension defined in [I-D.stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ndata] overcomes this limitation can can be used with DTLS encapsulation. Jesup, et al. Expires January 16, 2014 [Page 4] Internet-Draft SCTP over DTLS July 2013 6. IANA Considerations This document requires no actions from IANA. 7. Security Considerations Security considerations for DTLS are specified in [RFC6347] and for SCTP in [RFC4960], [RFC3758], and [RFC6525]. The combination of SCTP and DTLS introduces no new security considerations. 8. Acknowledgments The authors wish to thank Gorry Fairhurst for his invaluable comments. 9. References 9.1. Normative References [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC3758] Stewart, R., Ramalho, M., Xie, Q., Tuexen, M., and P. Conrad, "Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Partial Reliability Extension", RFC 3758, May 2004. [RFC4820] Tuexen, M., Stewart, R., and P. Lei, "Padding Chunk and Parameter for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)", RFC 4820, March 2007. [RFC4821] Mathis, M. and J. Heffner, "Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery", RFC 4821, March 2007. [RFC4960] Stewart, R., "Stream Control Transmission Protocol", RFC 4960, September 2007. [RFC5061] Stewart, R., Xie, Q., Tuexen, M., Maruyama, S., and M. Kozuka, "Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Dynamic Address Reconfiguration", RFC 5061, September 2007. [RFC6347] Rescorla, E. and N. Modadugu, "Datagram Transport Layer Security Version 1.2", RFC 6347, January 2012. [RFC6520] Seggelmann, R., Tuexen, M., and M. Williams, "Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Heartbeat Extension", RFC 6520, February 2012. Jesup, et al. Expires January 16, 2014 [Page 5] Internet-Draft SCTP over DTLS July 2013 [RFC6525] Stewart, R., Tuexen, M., and P. Lei, "Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Stream Reconfiguration", RFC 6525, February 2012. [I-D.stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ndata] Stewart, R., Tuexen, M., and S. Loreto, "A New Data Chunk for Stream Control Transmission Protocol", draft-stewart- tsvwg-sctp-ndata-01 (work in progress), February 2013. 9.2. Informative References [RFC4895] Tuexen, M., Stewart, R., Lei, P., and E. Rescorla, "Authenticated Chunks for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)", RFC 4895, August 2007. [I-D.ietf-rtcweb-overview] Alvestrand, H., "Overview: Real Time Protocols for Brower- based Applications", draft-ietf-rtcweb-overview-06 (work in progress), February 2013. [I-D.ietf-rtcweb-data-channel] Jesup, R., Loreto, S., and M. Tuexen, "RTCWeb Data Channels", draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-04 (work in progress), February 2013. Authors' Addresses Randell Jesup WorldGate Communications 3800 Horizon Blvd, Suite #103 Trevose, PA 19053-4947 US Phone: +1-215-354-5166 Email: randell_ietf@jesup.org Salvatore Loreto Ericsson Hirsalantie 11 Jorvas 02420 FI Email: Salvatore.Loreto@ericsson.com Jesup, et al. Expires January 16, 2014 [Page 6] Internet-Draft SCTP over DTLS July 2013 Randall R. Stewart Adara Networks Chapin, SC 29036 US Email: randall@lakerest.net Michael Tuexen Muenster University of Applied Sciences Stegerwaldstrasse 39 48565 Steinfurt DE Email: tuexen@fh-muenster.de Jesup, et al. Expires January 16, 2014 [Page 7]