Internet DRAFT - draft-nomadv6-mobileip-filters
draft-nomadv6-mobileip-filters
MIP6 Working Group K. Kuladinithi
INTERNET DRAFT N. A. Fikouras
Expires: March 2006 C. Goerg
ComNets-ikom,
Uni. Bremen
Koltsidas Georgios
Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou
Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki
Oct 2005
Filters for Mobile IPv6 Bindings (NOMADv6)
draft-nomadv6-mobileip-filters-03.txt
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Abstract
Filters for Mobile IPv6 Bindings (NOMADv6) introduces a set of
extensions for MIPv6 protocol that allows for intelligent use of
multiple points of attachment simultaneously, on a mobile node. It
specifies a set of rules (filters) communicated to binding agents
using binding updates. In turn, binding agents use this information
to determine whether and where to route flows associated with the
mobile node. In this manner, it is possible for a mobile node to
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distribute flows or packets of a flow among its available points of
attachment or to request that such flow is dropped before traversing
the Internet fabric, with or without notification to their source.
These extensions mirror a similar extension defined for Mobile IPv4
(NOMADv4) but has been extended to cater to the behavior of IPv6.
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Table of Contents
1.Introduction 4
2 Terminology 4
3.Comparison with Filters for Mobile IPv4 (NOMADv4 vs NOMADv6)6
4 NOMADv6 Protocol Overview 6
4.1 Protocol Description 6
4.1.1 Multiple network interface support and N bit 6
4.1.2 Sending Filtering Rules 7
4.1.3 Processing at the Filtering Agent 8
4.1.4 Lifetime of a Filter 9
4.1.6 Filters that split flows between different home addresses 9
4.1.7 De-registration when a single PoA is at the home network 9
4.2 Model of Operation 9
5 Backword compatibility with basic Mobile IPv6 12
6 Associating Filters with Bindings 12
6.1 Mobile Node Considerations 12
6.1.1 Creating a new mobility binding with Filters 13
6.1.2 Replacing a Filter of a mobility binding by Index 13
6.1.3 Adding new Filters to an existing mobility binding 13
6.1.4 Sharing a Filter between mobility binding 13
6.1.5 Renewing a mobility binding with Filters 13
6.1.6 Deleting a defined Filter/s for a mobility binding 14
6.1.7 Deleting all Filters for a mobility binding 14
6.1.8 Transferring a Filter between mobility bindings 14
6.2 Filtering Agent Considerations 14
7 NOMADv6 Extensions to MIPv6 Binding Messages 15
7.1 Filter Module Extensions 16
7.1.1 Traffic Class Filter Extension 16
7.1.2 Flow Label Filter Extension 16
7.1.3 Protocol Extension 17
7.1.4 Source Address Extension 18
7.1.5 Source Network Extension 18
7.1.6 Source Port Extension 19
7.1.7 Source Port Range Extension 19
7.1.8 Destination Port Extension 20
7.1.9 Destination Port Range Extension 20
7.1.10 Free-Form Extension 21
7.2 Filter Control Extension 22
7.3 Filter Deletion Extension 23
7.4 Filter Acknowledgement Extension 23
8. Security considerations 24
References 24
Authors' Addresses 25
Intellectual Property Statement 26
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1.Introduction
This document extends Mobile IPv6 protocol, introducing a set of
rules (called filters) that are transmitted with binding updates by a
mobile node. When receiving the binding update with filters, a
binding agent (Mobile IPv6 entities that can maintain bindings, HA,
CN, MAP) forwards flows matching filters defined by a mobile node to
the point of attachment associated with the respective filter. In
this manner it is made possible for mobile nodes to use multiple
active points of attachment simultaneously and efficiently.
This draft defines a series of different filter modules that can be
used independently or combined to form complex filters. Such filters
are relayed to binding agents during binding updates and are included
in signaling as mobility options. Binding agents capable of
maintaining filters are called filtering agents. All filters
contained in a binding update are associated with the point of
attachment (care-of-address) indicated in the binding update. In this
manner, filtering agents become aware of the relationship between
certain flows and specific bindings.
Flows intercepted by, or originating from a Filtering Agent (HA, CN,
MAP) will be filtered and individual flows will be forwarded to the
are-of address indicated by the respective binding. This enables
mobile nodes to distribute flows or to distribute packets of a single
flow, among their available points of attachment.
Mobile IPv6 does not provide the facilities for a mobile node to
register multiple care-of-addresses for a single home IP address.
This functionality is important for the considerations presented in
this document. This draft introduces the `N´ bit to the binding
update message. This bit, when set, informs the filtering agent to
hold multiple simultaneous binding for the given home address of the
mobile node and then manipulate the IP traffic based on the filtering
rules sent as mobility options. The benefits and goals of using
multiple points of attachment simultaneously are explained in [9],
[10] and [11], highlighting the benefits with real life scenarios.
The operation of filtering for Mobile IPv6 is intended to mirror the
operation of filtering for Mobile IPv4 [2], with changes necessary to
provide a similar behavior. The considerations presented in this
document are collectively referred to as the NOMADv6 Extensions.
2 Terminology
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 [1].
This document uses the following terms:
Destination Option
As defined in [3]
Domain A collection of networks sharing a common network
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administration.
Home link
As defined in [3].
Foreign link
As defined in [3].
Home Agent (HA)
As defined in [3].
Correspondent Node (CN)
As defined in [3].
Mobile Node (MN)
As defined in [3].
Mobility Anchor Point (MAP)
As defined in [4].
Care-Of-Address
As defined in [3].
Mobility Binding
As defined in [2].
Binding Agent (BA)
Any Mobile IP entity (HA,CN,MAP) that can maintain
mobility bindings.
Binding Update
Mobile IP signaling with the purpose of establishing or
updating a mobility binding.
Binding Acknowledgement
A Binding Acknowledgement is used to acknowledge receipt of
a Binding Update, if an acknowledgement was requested in the
Binding Update, the binding update was sent to a home agent,
or an error occurred.
Filtering Agent (FLA)
Any binding agent that can maintain filters for mobility
bindings in its binding cache, such as the HA, CN or MAP.
Filter Module (FLM)
A single filtering criteria that specifies the condition
to check for filtering data.
Filter (FL)
A collection of filter modules. Each filter module is
interpreted as having an AND relationship with the other
filter modules inside the filter. The relationship between
filters of a mobile node, is OR.
Filtering Update (FLU)
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Mobile IPv6 signaling (binding update) with the purpose of
establishing a new mobility binding that contains one or
more Filter extensions as mobility options. Each Filtering
Update should include the N bit ON on the binding update
mobility header.
Filtering Acknowledgement (FLAC)
Mobile IPv6 signaling (binding acknowledgment) for
returning the result of a Filtering Update.
Default Filter (DF)
A special Filter applicable for all flows not matching any
other Filter. Is either defined by mobile node or
automatically allocated from Filtering Agents to the
lowest defined Index of 0.
Idle Mobility Binding (IMB)
A mobility binding without Filters.
3.Comparison with Filters for Mobile IPv4 (NOMADv4 vs NOMADv6)
a. In MIPv6, there are no dedicated FAs, GFAs, or RFAs. The roles of
these entities have been taken over by the particular routers, which
are located along the path which a packet traverses from the HA to
the MN or CN to MN. These special routers are called MAPs. Therefore,
in an MIPv6 environment, MN destined packet filtering SHOULD be done
by an HA, CN or an MAP.
b. Mobile IPv6 route optimization can be deployed on a global scale
between all mobile nodes and correspondent nodes. Therefore, CNs are
considered along with Has as filtering agents.
d. MIPv6 lacks support for multiple simultaneous bindings that are
available in MIPv4 [6]. The filtering concept described in this draft
requires that all filtering agents are able to cater for simultaneous
bindings. For this a new ‘N’ bit is introduced to the binding update
mobility header for the support of simultaneous bindings in NOMADv6.
e. Sub types of the Filter extensions are defined on the first byte
of the Data field in NOMADv6. NOMADv4 uses standard short and long
TLV format as defined in [6] for including sub types.
4 NOMADv6 Protocol Overview
This section provides an overview of how filters for MIPv6 bindings
can be realized.
4.1 Protocol Description
4.1.1 Multiple network interface support and N bit
Filters for Mobile IPv6 is applicable only in the context of a mobile
node maintaining multiple points of attachment to one or more
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Internet administrative domains. NOMADv6 does not make any
assumptions on the number of permanent home IP addresses maintained
by a mobile node or the number of home agents related with each of
the home IP addresses. In that case, a point of attachment can be
associated with one or more home IP addresses and consequently reused
in different bindings with different binding agents.
The NOMADv6 reserves a bit in the Message Data field of the binding
update message, called the ‘N’ bit, for the purpose of introducing
simultaneous bindings support. Upon receiving a binding update with
the ‘N’ bit set, a filtering agent MUST issue a new binding for the
mobile node home IP address indicated in the binding update without
affecting any of the existing mobility bindings.
The format of the Message Data field in the binding update message is
as follows [3]:
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|Sequence # |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|A|H|L||K|N| Reserved | Lifetime |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
N When set, the binding agent MUST act based on the functions
described in section 4.1.3 and add a new entry to the binding
cache without deleting any existing entries for the mobile
node´s home address which is specified in the home address
destination option.
4.1.2 Sending Filtering Rules
Mobile nodes that wish to associate Filters with an acquired care-of
address are required to issue a binding update including a list of
Filters that indicate which flows are associated with the registered
care-of-address. Such signaling is termed as Filtering Updates. A
Filter is consisted of one or more Filter Modules and is terminated
by a Filter Control Extension. A Filter Module may contain several
predicates. There is an OR relationship between predicates of a
Filter Module. Moreover, there is an AND relationship between Filter
Modules of the same Filter. Consequently, in order for a flow to
match a Filter, it is required to qualify for all of the Filter
Modules contained in the Filter.
With the help of the Filter Control Extension, the Filter´s purpose
can be defined. It contains the Filter´s Index, and a Weight field.
The Index identifies uniquely, a Filter for a given mobile node while
the Weight field indicates the relative amount of traffic for which
the filter is applicable. If the Weight field is set to zero, then
all matching flows will be dropped without notification to their
source.
A mobile node may define more than one Filter for a specific mobility
binding. The declaration of these Filters may take place during one
or more Filtering Updates. In the case of shared Filters, packets of
matching flows will get distributed between multiple points of
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attachment with respect to the Weight value of each filter. A mobile
node may share a Filter between mobility bindings by issuing a
Filtering Request from each respective point of attachment. The first
one will contain the full Filter (Filter Body + Filter Control
Extension) while all subsequent Filtering Requests will contain only
a Filter Control Extension indicating the Index number of the Filter
to be shared.
Flows that fail to match any of the defined Filters are handled as
defined by the Filter with the lowest possible Index, termed
as Default Filter. A mobile node may define some of the attributes
of the Default Filter such as the associated mobility binding and
its Weight field by issuing a Filtering Request. Otherwise, these
will be configured by each Filtering Agent (see section 4.1.3).
When a mobile node needs to delete filters, it sends the binding
update containing a single Filter Control Extension. The index of the
filter to be deleted should be sent in the index field. If a mobile
node wishes to delete all filters, index should be set to 255.
All the filtering rules which have to be set in the mobility options
of a binding update will be described in section 7.1. The rules by
which a mobile node decides on the set of Filters are considered
beyond the scope of this document. The extensions presented in this
document do not affect in any way the mobile node´s choice on the
point of attachment to be used when returning traffic.
4.1.3 Processing at the Filtering Agent
Filtering Updates will be processed by one or more Filtering Agents.
A Filtering Agent can be any Mobile IPv6 entity that can maintain
mobility bindings with Filters, like a HA, CN or MAP.
Flows that fail to match any of the defined Filters are handled as
defined by the Default Filter. If a mobile node fails to promptly
define a Default Filter or if the associated mobility binding expires
then a new one will automatically be configured by each involved
Filtering Agent to the lowest possible Index of 0.
Different Filtering Agents may apply different Default Filter
definitions; however it is recommended that the Default Filter be
associated with the mobility binding with the longest outstanding
lifetime with the Weight field set to 1.
A mobile node may issue Filters corresponding to flows that do not
yet exist. When such a flow is initiated it will be handled by the
Filtering Agents as indicated by the respective Filter.
A Filtering Acknowledgement contains one or more extensions to the
binding acknowledgment indicating the Index of a Filter along with a
Code signifying the result of the respective Filtering Update. The
Code is used to relay success or the reason of rejection to the
mobile node.
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Upon receiving a binding update with the ‘N’ bit not set, a Filtering
Agent should replace all existing bindings in its binding cache with
the one indicated by the binding update and remove all associated
bindings. From that point on the Filtering Agent is required to act
as per [3] and ignore the considerations presented in this document.
A mobility binding in that state is termed as an Idle Mobility
Binding.
4.1.4 Lifetime of a Filter
A Filter remains valid for the lifetime of the corresponding mobility
binding. If the lifetime of a binding expires or it is cancelled by
the registration of another mobility binding then all associated
Filters are deleted from the binding cache.
When renewing mobility binding, a mobile node is not required to
include any reference to any requested Filters. A mobile node SHOULD
set the ‘N’ bit on in its Binding Update and then the Filtering Agent
SHOULD refresh the lifetime of the binding and all filters, related
to the home address sent on the Destination option of the Binding
Update.
4.1.6 Filters that split flows between different home addresses.
A mobile node that maintains multiple home IP addresses can share
multiple points of attachment between them. That is, having
established a binding for a certain home IP address and a specific
point of attachment does not restrict the use of the same point of
attachment with an other home IP address even when home IP addresses
share the same home agent.
A MN with more than one points of attachment, MAY have different home
addresses (multi-homed mobile node) for each of those points of
attachment. These addresses MAY be registered with different HAs or
with the same HA. In this situation, if MN wishes to split its flows
coming to one point of attachment (A) to another (B), MN MUST send a
Filtering Update via A, including an alternate CoA mobility option
with the CoA of the point of attachment B. The HA of the point of
attachment A, upon receival of this binding update, MUST tunnel the
matching flows to the CoA of the point of attachment B. (Refer Fig.
1)
4.1.7 De-registration when a single PoA is at the home network
When a mobile node is connected to its home network by one of its
points of attachment, the mobile node MUST de-register all the other
bindings that belong to the same home IP address. In this way, mobile
node SHOULD delete all filters associated with the specific
binding(s) and revert to operations as defined in [3].
4.2 Model of Operation
Filters for Mobile IPv6 Bindings has two modes of operation that can
be seamlessly combined but for the sake of simplicity are covered in
this section separately. The first model of operation concerns the
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management of whole flows while the second model addresses the
distribution of the individual packets of flows between points of
attachment.
The distribution of multiple flows is illustrated in figure 1. It
shows a mobile node that maintains multiple access interfaces
simultaneously. Each interface provides a point of attachment through
a foreign network (FN-A, FN-B and FN-C). The extensions presented do
not provide any restriction as to how many points of attachment a
mobile node may maintain or how many home agents it can be attached
to. For example, the mobile node in figure 1 has two separate points
of attachment through FN-A and FN-B, communicating with CN-1 and CN-2
via HA-1. In addition, the mobile node maintains another point of
attachment through FN-C, corresponding with CN3 via HA2. MN uses one
home address (HoA-1) for two interfaces, while the other interface is
connected to the HA2 via HoA-2.
In figure 1, the mobile node maintains five communication sessions
with correspondent nodes of CN1, CN2 and CN3. Flows associated with
CN1 are denoted by 'a' and CN2 are denoted by 'b' & ‘c’ while the
respective flows for CN3 are denoted by’d’ and 'e'.
When MN requires to transfer flows `a´ & `b´ (Filter1) to the
interface connected to the FN-A, while receiving all the other flows
(Default filter) over FN-B, MN sends a new binding as defined in
4.1.2 with the ‘N’ bit set.
When MN requires transferring flow `d´ to the interface connected to
FN-B, MN sends a binding update with HoA-2 and CoA-C, together with
CoA-B in the Alternate care-of-address mobility option and with the
required filtering extensions (see section 4.1.6). This causes the
addition of a new binding entry (HOA-2:CoA-B:Filter1) at HA2. This
will not result in any deletion of existing binding entries (HoA-
2:CoA-C will remain). HA2, will now intercept all flows (d & e), but
will tunnel flow `d´ through FN-B, while flow `e´ or any other flows
continues through FN-C.
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+-------+ +-------+ +-------+
| CN1 | | CN2 | | CN3 |
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+
|a b| |d
|a c b c b c b c b c| |e
|a b ----------------- |d
|a c| |e
+--------+ |d
| HA1 |HoA-1:CoA-A:Filter1(a,b) |e
| |HoA-1:CoA-B:Default(c) |d
+--------+ |e
|b c| |d
|a c| +--------+
|b c| HoA-2:CoA-B:Filter1(d)| HA2 |
|a c| HoA-2:CoA-C:Default(e)| |
|b c| +--------+
|a c| +-------------+ |d e|
|b c| | | |d e|
|a c ------------| FN-B |----------------------- d e|
|b c c c c c c c| | d d d d d d d d d d d d e|
|a +-------------+ e|
|b c| e|
|a d| e|
|b c| e|
|a d|HoA-1 e|
+------------+ +--------+ +------------+
| |a b a b a | MN | e e e e e e e e e e| |
| FN-A |----------| |--------------------| FN-C |
| | HoA-1+--------+HoA-2 | |
+------------+ +------------+
Figure 1: A mobile node with three points of attachment in
different foreign networks (CoA-A, CoA-B & CoA-C) with 2 home
addresses (HoA-1 & HoA-2). Incoming flows are redirected by the
respective filtering agents (HA1, HA2) to different care-of-
addresses, based on the filtering rules.
In the example presented in figure 1, the HA1 & HA2 act as the
filtering agents. But, any Mobile IPv6 binding agent (HA, MAP, CN)
can act as filtering agents. To return traffic, a mobile node may
choose any of the available points of attachment.
Figure 2, illustrates the second model of operation. It shows the
mobile node that maintains two points of attachment in visited domain
A and B, while maintaining one active flow from CN1, denoted with
‘a’. In this example, MN maintains two bindings with the CN1 for
visiting domain A and B. NOMADv6 extensions are applied to share a
Filter (Flow ‘a’) over point of attachment A and B. However,
distribution of single flow could lead to performance degradation
when using standard TCP applications. But, for the applications that
could be reorder the out of sequence packets at the receiver, this
mechanism performs well.
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+-------------------------+
| Public |
| Network |
+---------------------+ | |
| Visited Domain A | | |
| | | |
a a a |a a a a a a a a a| a a a a a a a a |
------------------------------------------------------- a |
a| | | | | |
| +---------------------+ | |a |
+------+ | |aaaaaa+------+
| MN | +---------------------+ | ------| CN1 |
+------+ | | | | | +------+
|a | a a a | a a | |
--------------------------------------------------------- |
| | | |
| Visited Domain B | | |
+---------------------+ +-------------------------+
Figure 2: A mobile node with multiple points of attachment in
different visited domains. A single incoming flow is
distributed by the respective Filtering Agents (HA,CN or
MAP) to a different care-of address.
5 Backword compatibility with basic Mobile IPv6
If the binding update does not have the ‘N’ bit set, the processing
of the BU is same as [3]. But if the binding agent has already
registered multiple care-of addresses for the same home address, the
binding agent MUST overwrite all the bindings for the home address
specified in the destination option. Binding updates without the ‘N’
bit set are considered as idle mobility bindings. In order to
preserve backward compatibility with the basic protocol [3], it is
stated in section 4.1.3 that a Filtering Agent maintaining only idle
Mobility Bindings for a mobile is required to act as per [3] and to
ignore the behavior presented in this document.
6 Associating Filters with Bindings
This section gives a detailed description of the steps taken by a
mobile node that wishes to associate filters with its bindings.
Furthermore, it presents how a filtering agent reacts to the receipt
of a binding update containing a list of filters.
6.1 Mobile Node Considerations
A mobile node that acquires a care-of address within a visited domain
may issue a binding update containing a list of Filters. All included
Filters will be associated with the registered care-of address at all
Filtering Agents (HA,CN,MAP). A mobile node that maintains multiple
points of attachment may request for simultaneous mobility bindings
by setting the ‘N’ bit in its binding Updates. However, each of the
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binding updates must contain its own list of filters. Should the
binding update be rejected then the mobile node will receive a
Filtering Acknowledgement with a binding acknowledgement Extension
indicating the Index of the Filter that was rejected along with the
reason for rejection.
It is important for a mobile node to keep a record of the Filters
and their corresponding Index numbers per home address.
For the management of Filters eight scenarios are identified. These
are presented along with the actions to be undertaken by the mobile
node.
6.1.1 Creating a new mobility binding with Filters
In order to create a new mobility binding with associated Filters,
the mobile node MUST issue a binding update including one or more
full Filter definitions (one or more Filter modules with Filter
Control Extension) as mobility options, attached to the binding
update mobility header. Each of the Filters MUST be allocated a
different Index number.
The destination of the Filtering Update is identified as described
in [3].
6.1.2 Replacing a Filter of a mobility binding by Index
In order for a mobile node to replace an existing Filter, it is
required to issue a binding update with a full definition of the
new Filter. The Filter Control Extension of the Filter must indicate
the Index of the Filter to be replaced. The Weight value of the new
Filter MAY be different from the Weight of the previous Filter
definition.
6.1.3 Adding new Filters to an existing mobility binding
In order for a mobile node to add new Filters to an existing mobility
binding, it is required to act as if creating a new mobility binding
with Filters. It is necessary for the new Filter to adopt an
unallocated Index number otherwise it would be replacing an existing
Filter with that Index.
6.1.4 Sharing a Filter between mobility binding
A mobile node may share a Filter between mobility bindings by
issuing a binding update from each respective point of attachment.
The first one will contain the full Filter (Filter Body + Filter
Control Extension) while all subsequent Filtering Requests will
contain only a Filter Control Extension indicating the Index
number of the Filter to be shared.
6.1.5 Renewing a mobility binding with Filters
Periodically, a mobile node is required to renew its mobility
bindings in order to extend their lifetime. Renewing a mobility
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binding may occur as described in [3]. The mobile node sets the ‘N’
bit, when sending a binding update in order to renew all filters
allocated for the home address defined in the destination option.
6.1.6 Deleting a defined Filter/s for a mobility binding
In order for a mobile node to delete an existing Filter for a
mobility binding, it is required to issue a binding update from
any care-of address. The binding update must include a Filter
Deletion Extensions indicating the Index of each Filter to be
deleted.
6.1.7 Deleting all Filters for a mobility binding
In order for a mobile node to delete all existing Filters for a
mobility binding, it is required to issue a binding update from
any care-of address. The binding update must include a Filter
Deletion Extensions with the Index field set to zero.
6.1.8 Transferring a Filter between mobility bindings
It is required to act as if creating a new mobility binding with
Filters and send out a binding update from the point of attachment to
which it wants to transfer the Filter to the other. The Filtering
Update must attach the Alternate Care-of-Address mobility option and
must contain the full Filter. Alternate care-of-address option
contains the care-of-address of the point of attachment, which the
filter should be transferred. In this way, the transferring of
filters are possible irrespective of the same or different home
addresses used for each of attachment.
The Weight field of the Filter Control Extension indicates the
relative amount of traffic for which a Filter is applicable. If the
Weight field is set to zero then all matching flows will be dropped
without notification to their source. For any other value of Weight,
matching flows will get forwarded to the point of attachment
indicated by the corresponding mobility binding. In the case of
shared Filters, packets of matching flows will get distributed
between multiple points of attachment with respect to the Weight
value of each Filter.
6.2 Filtering Agent Considerations
This section contains considerations for Filtering Agents. These are
Mobile IPv6 entities that can maintain mobility bindings such as HAs,
CNs or MAPs when hierarchical Mobile IPv6 is supported.
Should the Filtering Agent fail to apply any of the Filters then for
each such Filter a Filter Acknowledgement Extension must be included
in the Filtering Acknowledgement indicating the Index of the rejected
Filter along with the reason of rejection. If authentication of the
Filtering Update fails, then none of the Filters MUST be applied.
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Should the Filtering Agent succeed in applying the Filters, then the
Filtering Acknowledgement indicating the index of the success MUST be
sent, only if `A´ bit is set on the Binding Update.
When a Filtering Agent intercepts a packet for a mobile node for
which it maintains a mobility binding, it is required to identify
whether the packet matches any of the Filters associated with the
mobility binding. If so, the packet is handled as described by the
Weight value of the corresponding Filter. If no matching Filter is
found then the packet is handled as indicated by the Default Filter.
When a mobility binding expires or is deregistered by a mobile node
then all associated Filters are deleted with it. Whenever a Filtering
Agent received a Filtering Update without setting the N bit (i.e.
Binding Update), it is required to overwrite all the bindings set for
the home address and keep the binding for the new care-of-address,
sent. This binding is called the Idle Mobility Binding and it is
required to ignore the behavior described in this document and to act
as per [3].
7 NOMADv6 Extensions to MIPv6 Binding Messages
In this section, the new Mobile IPv6 extensions required to support
the Filters for Mobile IPv6 bindings are specified.
All filtering extensions are sent as mobility options of the binding
update or binding acknowledgment mobility header as defined in [3].
The filtering extensions are encoded using a type-length-value (TLV)
format in the mobility options.
A complete mobility header, once filter extensions are attached
SHOULD be an integer multiple of 8 octets long.
Filter extensions can be categorized into 4 types,
o Filter Module Extensions
o Filter Control Extension
o Filter Deletion Extension
o Filter Acknowledgement Extension
The Filter Module Extensions specify the different filtering rules
that the mobile node wishes to inform the Filtering Agent. There are
10 such filter extensions. These extensions are always attached to
the Binding Update mobility header as mobility option/s. To form a
valid Filter, at least one of the filter module extensions must be
included. The Filter Control Extension must appear once in every
Filter following all Filter Modules. Filter control extension may
appear more than once in a binding update interleaving with Filter
declarations.
Filter Modules of the same type may not appear in a Filter more than
once. A Filter Module may include one or more predicates. There is an
OR relationship between Filter Module predicates. That is, in order
for a flow to match a Filter Module, it is required to qualify for
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any of the predicates in it. In addition, there is an AND
relationship between Filter Modules of a Filter. As such, in order
for a flow to match a Filter, it is required to qualify for all its
Filter Modules.
In Filter Modules, the first byte of the data is allocated to define
the types of the Filter Modules. The left most bit of the Sub-Type
field is used to determine whether the rules included in the Filter
Module are positive or negative. In the first case, a flow is
required to match exactly the predicates included in the Filter
Module while in the second the inverted (NOT) rule is applied.
The Filter Deletion extension is an extension sent to the Filtering
Agent by the mobile node to deleted filter/s. This extension is
attached to Binding Update mobility header. The Filter
Acknowledgement extension is an extension sent to the mobile node by
the Filtering Agent to inform of success or any failure of filter
accommodation. This extension is attached to Binding Acknowledgement
mobility header.
7.1 Filter Module Extensions
7.1.1 Traffic Class Filter Extension.
Specifies the extension required to filter IPv6 packets, based on the
value placed on the Traffic Class field of a packet. This has an
alignment requirement of 2n. The format is as follows.
0 1 2 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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|Option Type | Option Length |I| Sub-Type |Traffic Class |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Option Type The type which describes a collection of NOMADv6
extensions (To be defined)
Option Length N+1, where N is the number of Traffic Class
entries.
I Invert. A left most bit of the Sub-Type field is
used to invert each predicate of the Filter
Module. Due to this bit, two different Sub-Type
values are given.
Sub-Type 0 for given Module, 128 for inverted Module
Traffic Class Values, related to different classes or
priorities of IPv6 packets.[7]
7.1.2 Flow Label Filter Extension
Specifies the extension required to filter IPv6 packets based on the
value placed on the Flow Label field of a IPv6 packet. This has an
alignment requirement of 4n+1. The format is as follows.
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0 1 2 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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| | Option Type| Option Length |I| Sub-Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Reserved | Flow Label |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Option Type The type which describes a collection of NOMADv6
extensions (To be defined)
Option Length 4N+1, where N is the number of Flow Label
entries. Each Flow Label entry is assumed to
take 4 bytes (including the Reserved bits)
I Invert. A left most bit of the Sub-Type field is
used to invert each predicate of the Filter
Module. Due to this bit, two different Sub-Type
values are given.
Sub-Type 1 for given Module, 129 for inverted Module
Flow Label Any value which is labelled on this field of a
IPv6 packet. Refer [7] for what and how flow
label is in IPv6.
7.1.3 Protocol Extension
Specifies one or more protocol to be filtered. This has an alignment
requirement of 2n. The format is as follows.
0 1 2 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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|Option Type | Option Length |I| Sub-Type | Protocol |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Option Type The type which describes a collection of NOMADv6
extensions (To be defined)
Option Length N+1, where N is the number of Protocol entries.
I Invert. A left most bit of the Sub-Type field is
used to invert each predicate of the Filter
Module. Due to this bit, two different Sub-Type
values are given.
Sub-Type 2 for given Module, 130 for inverted Module
Protocol Identifies the next level protocol used in the
data portion of the IPv6 datagram. The values
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for various protocols are specified in [7]
7.1.4 Source Address Extension
Specifies one or more source addresses to be filtered. This has an
alignment requirement of 8n+5. The format is as follows.
0 1 2 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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| | Option Type| Option Length |I| Sub-Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
+ +
| |
+ Source Address +
| |
+ +
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Option Type The type which describes a collection of NOMADv6
extensions (To be defined)
Option Length 16N+1, where N is the number of source
addresses.
I Invert. A left most bit of the Sub-Type field is
used to invert each predicate of the Filter
Module. Due to this bit, two different Sub-Type
values are given.
Sub-Type 3 for given Module, 131 for inverted Module
Source Address Identifies the source address/es to be filtered.
7.1.5 Source Network Extension
Specifies one or more source network/s to be filtered. This has an
alignment requirement of 8n+4. The format is as follows.
0 1 2 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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|Option Type | Option Length |I| Sub-Type | Network Prefix|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Network Address |
+ +
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Option Type The type which describes a collection of NOMADv6
extensions (To be defined)
Option Length 9N+1, where N is number networks.
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I Invert. A left most bit of the Sub-Type field is
used to invert each predicate of the Filter
Module. Due to this bit, two different Sub-Type
values are given.
Sub-Type 4 for given Module, 132 for inverted Module
Network Prefix Identifies the network prefix to be filtered.
Network Address Identifies the first 64 bits of the Source
network address.
7.1.6 Source Port Extension
Specifies one or more source ports to be filtered. This has an
alignment requirement of 2n+3. The format is as follows.
0 1 2 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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |Option Type | |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|Option Length |I| Sub-Type | Source Port Number |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Option Type The type which describes a collection of NOMADv6
extensions (To be defined)
Option Length 2N+1, where N is number of port entries.
I Invert. A left most bit of the Sub-Type field is
used to invert each predicate of the Filter
Module. Due to this bit, two different Sub-Type
values are given.
Sub-Type 5 for given Module, 133 for inverted Module
Source Port Identifies the Source Port Number/s to be
filtered.
7.1.7 Source Port Range Extension
Specifies one or more source ports to be filtered. This has an
alignment requirement of 2n+1. The format is as follows.
0 1 2 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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| | Option Type| Option Length |I| Sub-Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Source Port Number Min | Source Port Number Max |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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Option Type The type which describes a collection of NOMADv6
extensions (To be defined)
Option Length 4N+1, where N is number of port range entries.
I Invert. A left most bit of the Sub-Type field is
used to invert each predicate of the Filter
Module. Due to this bit, two different Sub-Type
values are given.
Sub-Type 6 for given Module, 134 for inverted Module
Port Number Min Identifies the start point of a range of port
numbers.
Port Number Max Identifies the end point of a range of port
numbers.
7.1.8 Destination Port Extension
Specifies one or more destination ports to be filtered. This has an
alignment requirement of 2n+3. The format is as follows.
0 1 2 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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |Option Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|Option Length |I| Sub-Type | Destination Port Number |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Option Type The type which describes a collection of NOMADv6
extensions (To be defined)
Option Length 2N+1, where N is number of port entries.
I Invert. A left most bit of the Sub-Type field is
used to invert each predicate of the Filter
Module. Due to this bit, two different Sub-Type
values are given.
Sub-Type 7 for given Module, 135 for inverted Module
Destination Port Identifies the destination Port Number/s to be
filtered.
7.1.9 Destination Port Range Extension
Specifies one or more destination ports to be filtered. This has an
alignment requirement of 2n+1. The format is as follows.
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0 1 2 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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| | Option Type| Option Length|I| Sub-Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Destination Port Number Min | Destination Port Number Max |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Option Type The type which describes a collection of NOMADv6
extensions (To be defined)
Option Length 4N+1, where N is number of port range entries.
I Invert. A left most bit of the Sub-Type field is
used to invert each predicate of the Filter
Module. Due to this bit, two different Sub-Type
values are given.
Sub-Type 8 for given Module, 136 for inverted Module
Port Number Min Identifies the start point of a range of port
numbers.
Port Number Max Identifies the end point of a range of port
numbers.
7.1.10 Free-Form Extension
Specifies the value of an area anywhere within a packet. The
alignment requirement is based on the number of bytes on Value field.
The format is as follows.
0 1 2 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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length |I| Sub-Type | Reserved |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Offset | Value
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
....
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Mask
....
Option Type The type which describes a collection of NOMADv6
extensions (To be defined)
Option Length Is variable, depends on the length of the Value
and Mask.
I Invert. A left most bit of the Sub-Type field is
used to invert each predicate of the Filter
Module. Due to this bit, two different Sub-Type
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values are given.
Sub-Type 9 for given Module, 137 for inverted Module
Offset Indicates the starting octet location within an
IPv6 packet to use to mask with the Mask and
check with Value.
Value Indicates the value to be checked, once masked.
Mask Indicates the value to use as the mask to mask
the octets starting from the offset.
The area indicated by the offset and for a length equivalent to that
of Mask is compared against Mask with the bitwise operator AND. The
result of this operation is compared against Value. A match would
indicate that the packet qualifies the filter.
Value and Mask fields MUST have exactly the same size. However, the
length of the Value and Mask may vary with every free-form filter.
For the sizes of Value and Mask the following condition holds:
Value = Mask = (Length - 4) / 2
7.2 Filter Control Extension
Specifies a filter´s unique identifier, called the index along with
the Filter´s Target.
0 1 2 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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length | Sub-Type | Index |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Weight |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Option Type The type which describes a collection of NOMADv6
extensions (To be defined).
Option Length 3
Sub-Type 125
Index Filter’s index number
Weight Relative amount of traffic for which forwarding
Filter is applicable
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7.3 Filter Deletion Extension
0 1 2 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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length | Sub-Type | Index |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Type The type, which describes a collection of
extensions having a common data type. (To Be
Defined).
Sub-Type 126
Length N, where N is the number of Index entries
Index A Filter’s index number
7.4 Filter Acknowledgement Extension
Specifies the format of an acknowledgement extension which is sent
with the binding acknowledgement mobility header to inform the MN
about the status of Filters processed at the Filtering Agent. This
has an alignment requirement of 2n+3. The format is as follows.
0 1 2 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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |Option Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|Option Len | Sub-Type | Code | index |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Option Type The type which describes a collection of NOMADv6
extensions (To be defined)
Option Length 3
Sub-Type 127.
Index Filter´s index number
Code Values to indicate the status of the Filter
accommodation
The following section specifies the values to use within the Code
field of the Filter Acknowledgement Extension are defined:
Successful Filtering Update Codes:
Code Name Value
---------------------- -----
REQUEST ACCEPTED TBD
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Failed Filtering Update Codes:
Error Name Value
---------------------- -----
TOO MANY FILTERS TBD
INVALID FILTER SYNTAX TBD
UNKNOWN FILTER TBD
CAN NOT DROP MIP SIG TBD
The Error Code “CAN NOT DROP MIP SIG” is used when the mobile node
issues a Filtering Update requesting the drop of flows corresponding
to Mobile IPv6 signalling such as Router Advertisements, Binding
Update, Binding Refresh Request, Binding Acknowledgement or Binding
Error.
8. Security considerations
Since the filter extensions defined in this document only concern the
messaging between the home agent (or correspondent node with route
optimization) and the MN, all security mechanisms that are defined in
[3] is considered sufficient to protect the integrity and
authenticity of filter extensions that are attached with Binding
Update and Binding acknowledgement messages.
References
[1] S. Bradner. Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
Levels. RFC 2119, IETF, March 1997.
[2] N.A. Fikouras, A. Udugama, K. Kuladinithi, C. Goerg, W. Zirwas.
Filters for Mobile IP Bindings (NOMAD).draft-nomad-mobileip-
filters-05.txt, IETF, October 2003.
[3] Johnson, D., Perkins, C., and J. Arkko, "Mobility Support in
IPv6", RFC 3775, June 2004.
[4] H. Soliman, C. Castelluccia, K. Malki, L. Bellier. Hierarchical
MIPv6 Mobility management. Draft-ietf-mobileip-hmipv6-06.txt,
IETF, July 2002.
[5] K. Malki, H. Soliman. Simultaneous Binding for Mobile Ipv6 Fast
Handoffs. draft-emalki-mobileip-bicasting-v6-06.txt, IETF, July
2005.
[6] C. Perkins, IP Mobility Support for IPv4. RFC 3220, January
2002.
[7] S. Deering, R. Hinden. Internet Protocol Version 6
Specification, RFC 2460, December 1998.
[8] J. Reynolds and J. Postel. Assigned Numbers. Request for
Comments 1700, STD 2, IETF, October 1994.
[9] T. Ernst, N. Montavont, R. Wakikawa, C. Ng, E. Paik,
K. Kuladinithi and T. Noel, "Goals and Benefits of
Multihoming," IETF http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-
ernst-generic-goals-and-benefits-01.txt, February 2005
[10] N. Fikouras, K. Kuladinithi, C. Goerg and C. Bormann, "Mobile
IPv4 Flow Mobility", draft-nomad-mip4-flow-mobility-pb-00.txt
(work in progress), Feb 2004.
[11] N. Montavont, R. Wakikawa, T. Ernst, C. Ng and K. Kuladinithi
"Analysis of Multihoming in Mobile IPv6",
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http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-montavont-mobileip-
multihoming-pb-statement-04.txt, June 2005.
A. Changes from Previous Versions
The following updates and changes were made in this version of the
Filters for Mobile IPv6 Bindings draft, compared to earlier
versions.
A.1. Updates from version 00
Removed the Target field from the Filter Control Extension
Introduced the Weight field in the Filter Control Extension.
Introduced the Filter Deletion Extension
Introduced shared Filters based on the Index field.
Extended the section 4.2 to explain the distribution of packets of a
flow.
A.2. Updates from version 01
Clarified what happens if one interface is attached to the home
network (section 4.1.7)
Added references to the problem statement drafts of multi-homing
goals and benefits in the introduction
Added the security section
A.3. Updates from version 02
Added copyright statement as defined in RFC 3667
Added new reference of 11 and updated references of 5, 3 & 9
Remove the following statement from the section 4.1.6
“If the filtering agent is a CN instead of a HA, then packets will be
delivered to the CoA of the point of attachment B using a Type 2
Routing Header as stated in [3]”. This does not go with return
routerbility procedure that is defined in [3]
Authors' Addresses
Koojana Kuladinithi
Department of Communication Networks (ComNets)
Center for Information and Communication Technology (ikom)
University of Bremen
D-28219 Bremen, Germany
Tel: +49-421-218-8264
Email: koo@comnets.uni-bremen.de
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Niko A. Fikouras
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Telecommunications Division
Panepistimioupolis
P.O.Box 54124
Thessaloniki
Greece
Tel.: +302310256491
Fax.: +302310270724
Email: niko@ieee.org
Carmelita Goerg
Department of Communication Networks (ComNets)
Center for Information and Communication Technology (ikom)
University of Bremen
28219, Bremen, Germany
Tel: +49-421-218-2277
Email: cg@comnets.uni-bremen.de
Koltsidas Georgios
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Telecommunications Division
Panepistimioupolis
P.O.Box 54124
Thessaloniki
Greece
Tel.: +302310994192
Email: fractgkb@auth.gr
Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Telecommunications Division
Panepistimioupolis
P.O.Box 54124
Thessaloniki
Greece
Tel.: +302310996285
Email: niovi@auth.gr
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