GeoPriv M. Linsner Internet Draft Cisco Systems Intended status: Standards Track S. Dhesikan Expires: September 2009 Cisco Systems H. Tschofenig Nokia Siemens Networks March 5, 2009 Administrative Specific Elements for Civic Location Format draft-linsner-geopriv-adminspecific-02.txt Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted to IETF in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published or made publicly available before November 10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process. 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The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html This Internet-Draft will expire on September 7, 2009. Linsner, et al. Expires September 7, 2009 [Page 1] Internet-Draft Admin Specific Location Elements March 2009 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2009 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 in effect on the date of publication of this document (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info). Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Abstract This document defines additional civic address parameters for use in Location Objects [1], [2], and [4]. The format is based on the civic address definition of PIDF-LO. These addition parameters allow expression of administrative specific location data elements. Table of Contents 1. Introduction...................................................2 2. Conventions used in this document..............................3 3. Administrative Specific Location...............................3 3.1. Examples of the Admin specific location parameters........5 4. Example Schema.................................................6 5. Security Considerations........................................7 6. IANA Considerations............................................7 6.1. XML Schema Registration...................................7 6.2. CAType Registry Update....................................8 7. References.....................................................8 7.1. Normative References......................................8 7.2. Informative References....................................8 8. Acknowledgments................................................8 Author's Addresses................................................9 1. Introduction In large enterprise/campus networks, information about a host's network/campus location is often useful for internal application configuration and maintenance of both applications and network infrastructure. Typically, this is information that is not useful outside of the campus or enterprise. Currently, this information is collected via additional data collection mechanisms such as SNMP or link layer protocols. Linsner, et al. Expires September 7, 2009 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Admin Specific Location Elements March 2009 The information included within this locally significant data set includes elements like access point identifier, switch port identifier, administrative domain identifier, etc. Although these attributes are not normally associated with publicly known civic locations advertised outside the enterprise, they are none the less very important to the configuration, administration and maintenance of campus networks/applications. These elements are considered 'location' within the domain of enterprise application and infrastructure administration. Although PIDF-LO civic location currently supports additional elements such as CAtypes 28 (room), 32 (additional code), or 33 (seat), the use of already defined fields for internal purposes is problematic as there may be conflicts in the future. Therefore, there is the need to identify a range of elements that network/application administrators can use for their own local purposes. Since these additional CAtypes are designated for internal administrative usage and have no value outside the administrative domain, the additional CAtypes defined here SHOULD be deleted from any location object (LO) prior to the LO being distributed outside the respective administrative domain. Additions to PIDF-LO PIDF-LO, as updated by [2], includes a full set of parameters used to describe civic locations. The new parameters defined here are additions to the updated set. Such additions provide a means to describe a host's location with additional local administrative significance. 2. Conventions used in this document 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]. 3. Administrative Specific Location Administrative Specific Location elements are defined by first identifying the Administrative domain via a new CAType. The CAtype 200 is recommended for this purpose. It is then suggested that the CAtype 201 to 225 be reserved for the Administrative domain specified information. Linsner, et al. Expires September 7, 2009 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Admin Specific Location Elements March 2009 New Civic CAtype Description Example Field Admin 200 Administrative Identifier Cisco AS-1 201 Administrative specific location Port-6 element 1 AS-2 202 Administrative specific location Region-12 element 2 AS-3 203 Administrative specific location Sector-9 element 3 AS-4 204 Administrative specific location Response element 4 team-6 AS-5 205 Administrative specific location 987654 element 5 AS-6 206 Administrative specific location element 6 AS-7 207 Administrative specific location element 7 AS-8 208 Administrative specific location element 8 AS-9 209 Administrative specific location element 9 AS-10 210 Administrative specific location element 10 AS-11 211 Administrative specific location element 11 AS-12 212 Administrative specific location element 12 AS-13 213 Administrative specific location element 13 Linsner, et al. Expires September 7, 2009 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Admin Specific Location Elements March 2009 AS-14 214 Administrative specific location element 14 AS-15 215 Administrative specific location element 15 AS-16 216 Administrative specific location element 16 AS-17 217 Administrative specific location element 17 AS-18 218 Administrative specific location element 18 AS-19 219 Administrative specific location element 19 AS-20 220 Administrative specific location element 20 AS-21 221 Administrative specific location element 21 AS-22 222 Administrative specific location element 22 AS-23 223 Administrative specific location element 23 AS-24 224 Administrative specific location element 24 AS-25 225 Administrative specific location element 25 Table 1: New CAtypes 3.1. Examples of the Admin specific location parameters A location that includes administrative specific information for switch number 6, port 3. Linsner, et al. Expires September 7, 2009 [Page 5] Internet-Draft Admin Specific Location Elements March 2009 cisco sw6port3 A location that includes administrative specific information for zone 6. cisco zone6 4. Example Schema Linsner, et al. Expires September 7, 2009 [Page 6] Internet-Draft Admin Specific Location Elements March 2009 5. Security Considerations The XML parameters defined in the document are additions to the current PIDF-LO specification. Therefore the parameters defined here are subject to the same security considerations of [1]. 6. IANA Considerations 6.1. XML Schema Registration IANA will update the registered XML schema with additions as shown in section 4 of this document. Linsner, et al. Expires September 7, 2009 [Page 7] Internet-Draft Admin Specific Location Elements March 2009 URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:schema:pidf:geopriv10:civicAddr 6.2. CAType Registry Update IANA will update the civic address type registry established by RFC4776. The additions to the registry are shown in Table 1 of the document. 7. References 7.1. Normative References [1] Petersen, J., "A Presence-based GEOPRIV Location Object Format", RFC 4119, December 2005. [2] Thomson, M. & Winterbottom, J., "Revised Civic Location Format for Presence Identifier Format Location Object (PIDF-LO)", RFC 5139, February 2008. [3] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [4] Schulzrinne, H., "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCPv4 and DHCPv6) Option for Civic Addresses Configuration Information", RFC4776, November 2006 7.2. Informative References There are no informative references at this time. 8. Acknowledgments This document was prepared using 2-Word-v2.0.template.dot. Linsner, et al. Expires September 7, 2009 [Page 8] Internet-Draft Admin Specific Location Elements March 2009 Author's Addresses Marc Linsner Cisco Systems, Inc. Marco Island, Florida, USA Email: mlinsner@cisco.com Subha Dhesikan Cisco Systems, Inc. San Jose, California, USA Email: sdhesika@cisco.com Hannes Tschofenig Nokia Siemens Networks Linnoitustie 6 Espoo 02600 Finland Phone: +358 (50) 4871445 Email: Hannes.Tschofenig@gmx.net URI: http://www.tschofenig.priv.at Linsner, et al. Expires September 7, 2009 [Page 9]