Network Working Group N. Borenstein Internet-Draft Mimecast Intended status: Informational M. Kucherawy Expires: December 3, 2011 Cloudmark June 1, 2011 Reputation Data Interchange using UDP draft-kucherawy-reputation-query-udp-00 Abstract This document defines a mechanism to conduct queries for reputation information using the User Datagram 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/. 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 December 3, 2011. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2011 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. 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. Borenstein & Kucherawy Expires December 3, 2011 [Page 1] Internet-Draft Reputation Queries with UDP June 2011 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Document Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Terminology and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.1. Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.2. Other Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6.1. General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 7. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Appendix A. Public Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Borenstein & Kucherawy Expires December 3, 2011 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Reputation Queries with UDP June 2011 1. Introduction This memo defines a method to query a reputation data service for information about an entity, using the User Datagram Protocol. It is part of a series defining the overall reputation query/response structure as well as the concept of reputation "vocabularies" for particular applications. 2. Document Series This memo represents the media type registration, part of a series of documents that define the overall service and introduce the initial exemplary applications. The series is as follows: 1. RFCxxxx: A Model for Reputation Interchange 2. RFCxxxx+1: A Media Type for Reputation Information 3. RFCxxxx+2: Using UDP for Reputation Interchange (this memo) 4. RFCxxxx+3: Using the DNS for Reputation Interchange 5. RFCxxxx+4: Using HTTP/XML for Reputation Interchange 6. RFCxxxx+5: A Reputation Vocabulary for Email Identity Reputation 7. RFCxxxx+6: A Reputation Vocabulary for Email Property Reputation 3. Terminology and Definitions This section defines terms used in the rest of the document. 3.1. Keywords 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 [KEYWORDS]. 3.2. Other Definitions Other terms of importance in this memo are defined in RFCxxxx, the base memo in this document series. Borenstein & Kucherawy Expires December 3, 2011 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Reputation Queries with UDP June 2011 4. Description [TBD] 5. IANA Considerations This memo presents no actions for IANA. 6. Security Considerations This memo describes security considerations introduced by the media type defined here. 6.1. General This memo is part of a series introducing a reputation query and response system (see Section 2). The Security Considerations sections of the other memos should also be consulted. 7. Informative References [KEYWORDS] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. Appendix A. Public Discussion Public discussion of this suite of memos takes place on the domainrep@ietf.org mailing list. See https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/domainrep. Authors' Addresses Nathaniel Borenstein Mimecast 203 Crescent St., Suite 303 Waltham, MA 02453 USA Phone: +1 781 996 5340 Email: nsb@guppylake.com Borenstein & Kucherawy Expires December 3, 2011 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Reputation Queries with UDP June 2011 Murray S. Kucherawy Cloudmark 128 King St., 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Phone: +1 415 946 3800 Email: msk@cloudmark.com Borenstein & Kucherawy Expires December 3, 2011 [Page 5]