DMM Working Group J. Kaippallimalil
Internet-Draft Futurewei
Intended status: Standards Track L.M. Contreras
Expires: 13 March 2026 Telefonica
U. Chunduri
Intel Corporation
9 September 2025
UDP Tunnel Attachment Circuit as a Service
draft-jlu-dmm-udp-tunnel-acaas-00
Abstract
Delivery of network services over a Layer 3 tunnel bearer assumes
that the appropriate setup is provisioned over links that connect the
customer termination points and provider network. The setup needed
to allow successful data exchange over these links is referred to as
an attachment circuit (AC) while the underlying link for carrying
network services is referred to as "bearer", in this case a Layer 3
UDP tunnel.
This document specifies an extension for UDP tunnel as Layer 3 bearer
to the YANG service data model for AC defined in
[I-D.ietf-opsawg-teas-attachment-circuit].
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Attachment Circuit for UDP Tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. ietf-ac-udp-tunnel YANG Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Appendix A. Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1. Introduction
Connectivity services provided by networks to customers ensure the
transfer of data between termination points in the network. The
objectives of the connectivity service can be negotiated and agreed
between customer and network provider. To facilitate data transfer
within the provider network, it is assumed that the appropriate setup
is provisioned over links that connect customer termination points
and provider network (usually via Provider Edges (PEs)). This is
referred to as attachment circuit (AC) and the underlying link
defined in this document is a UDP tunnel as Layer 3 bearer. In
general, a bearer can be described as a physical or logical link that
connects a customer node (or site) to a provider network.
[I-D.ietf-opsawg-teas-attachment-circuit] describes further details
of bearers and 'Attachment Circuits'-as-a-service.
[I-D.ietf-opsawg-teas-attachment-circuit] describes YANG data models
for bearers and 'Attachment circuits'-as-a-service ACaaS). Layer 3
UDP tunnel as bearer is not defined there and is an extension defined
in this document. Section 2 describes the data module ietf-ac-udpt
for Layer 3 UDP tunnel service. Section 3 describes the UDP tunnel
YANG model.
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2. Attachment Circuit for UDP Tunnel
[I-D.ietf-opsawg-teas-attachment-circuit] defines YANG service model
for AC to an IETF slice [RFC9543] based on layer 2 bearers. This
document extends the YANG service model for AC in
[I-D.ietf-opsawg-teas-attachment-circuit] to support UDP tunnels.
The 'l3-service' and 'l3-tunnel-service' in the AC structure in
[I-D.ietf-opsawg-teas-attachment-circuit] is used to configure the
relevant layer 3 tunnel properties of a UDP tunnel AC. IPv4 and IPv6
properties of the UDP tunnel AC are provided in "ip-connection" and
the extension below adds source port number and range for the UDP
tunnel.
module: ietf-ac-udpt
augment /ac-svc:attachment-circuits/ac-svc:ac/ac-svc:ip-connection
/ac-svc:l3-service/ac-svc:l3-tunnel-service
/ac-svc:l3-tunnel-service:
+--rw (udp-port)?
+--:(port-range-or-operator)
+--rw source-port-range-or-operator
+--rw (port-range-or-operator)?
+--:(range)
| +--rw lower-port inet:port-number
| +--rw upper-port inet:port-number
+--:(operator)
+--rw operator? operator
+--rw port inet:port-number
Figure 1: UDP Tunnel Yang Module
'l3-tunnel-service' in [I-D.ietf-opsawg-teas-attachment-circuit] is
extended in this document to carry UDP source port number/range.
3. ietf-ac-udp-tunnel YANG Module
The "ietf-ac-udp-tunnel" module uses definitions in
[I-D.ietf-opsawg-teas-attachment-circuit] and [RFC8519].
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module ietf-ac-udp-tunnel {
yang-version 1.1;
namespace "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-ac-udp-tunnel";
prefix ac-udpt;
import ietf-ac-common {
prefix ac-common;
reference
"RFC SSSS: YANG Data Models for Bearers and 'Attachment
Circuits'-as-a-Service (ACaaS)";
}
import ietf-ac-svc {
prefix ac-svc;
reference
"RFC SSSS: YANG Data Models for Bearers and 'Attachment
Circuits'-as-a-Service (ACaaS)";
}
import ietf-packet-fields {
prefix packet-fields;
reference
"RFC 8519: YANG Data Model for Network Access
Control Lists (ACLs), Section 4.2";
}
organization
"IETF DMM (Distributed Mobility Management)";
contact
"WG Web:
WG List:
Author: John Kaippallimalil
";
description
"This YANG module defines a YANG model for augmenting the ACaaS
service model with UDP Encapsulation as Layer 3 tunnel service.
Copyright (c) 2024 IETF Trust and the persons identified as
authors of the code. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or
without modification, is permitted pursuant to, and subject
to the license terms contained in, the Revised BSD License
set forth in Section 4.c of the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions
Relating to IETF Documents
(https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info).
This version of this YANG module is part of RFC XXXX; see the
RFC itself for full legal notices.";
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revision 2023-11-13 {
description
"Initial revision.";
reference
"RFC XXXX: UDP Attachment Circuit as a Service";
}
identity udp {
base ac-common:l3-tunnel-type;
description
"UDP Encapsulation.";
reference
"RFC 8085: UDP Usage Guidelines, Section 3.1.11";
}
augment "/ac-svc:attachment-circuits/ac-svc:ac"
+ "/ac-svc:ip-connection/ac-svc:l3-service"
+ "/ac-svc:l3-tunnel-service/ac-svc:l3-tunnel-service" {
when "derived-from-or-self(./type, 'ac-udpt:udp')" {
description
"Only applicable if l3 service type is UDP encapsualtion.";
}
description
"Augments Layer 3 AC service with required data nodes for
UDP encapsulation support.";
choice udp-port {
description
"Choice of specifying the source port number or referring
to a group of port numbers.";
container source-port-range-or-operator {
description
"Indicates a set of source ports numbers.";
uses packet-fields:port-range-or-operator;
}
}
}
}
Figure 2: UDP Tunnel YANG Module
Note to RFC Editor:
Replace "RFC XXXX" with the RFC number to be assigned to this
document.
Replace "RFC SSSS" with the RFC number to be assigned to
[I-D.ietf-opsawg-teas-attachment-circuit].
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4. Acknowledgements
Mohamed Boucadair helped with Yang structures for the ietf-ac-udp-
tunnel attachment circuit in this document.
5. Security Considerations
This section is modeled after the template described in Section 3.7
of [I-D.ietf-netmod-rfc8407bis].
The "ietf-ac-udp-tunnel" YANG module defines a data model that is
designed to be accessed via YANG-based management protocols, such as
NETCONF [RFC6241] and RESTCONF [RFC8040]. These protocols have to
use a secure transport layer (e.g., SSH [RFC4252], TLS [RFC8446] or
QUIC [RFC9000] and have to use mutual authentication.
Servers MUST verify that requesting clients are entitled to access
and manipulate a given bearer or AC. For example, a given customer
must not have access to bearers (attachment circuits) of other
customers. The Network Configuration Access Control Model (NACM)
[RFC8341] provides the means to restrict access for particular
NETCONF or RESTCONF users to a preconfigured subset of all available
NETCONF or RESTCONF protocol operations and content.
The data nodes in the YANG model in this document inherits from
[I-D.ietf-opsawg-teas-attachment-circuit], and the security
constraints to the data structures there apply. Data nodes defined
in the ietf-ac-udp-tunnel YANG module are writable/creatable/
deletable (i.e., config true, which is the default). These data
nodes may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in some network
environments. Write operations (e.g., edit-config) and delete
operations to these data nodes without proper protection or
authentication can have a negative effect on network operations. The
'udp-port' information may be used to track a customer of the slice
service and may be considered a violation of the customer-provider
trust relationship.
6. IANA Considerations
IANA is requested to register the following URI in the "ns"
subregistry within the "IETF XML Registry" [RFC3688]:
URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-ac-udp-tunnel
Registrant Contact: The IESG.
XML: N/A; the requested URI is an XML namespace.
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IANA is requested to register the following YANG module in the "YANG
Module Names" subregistry [RFC6020] within the "YANG parameters"
registry.
Name: ietf-ac-udp-tunnel
Maintained by IANA? N
Namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-ac-udp-tunnel
Prefix: ac-udp-tunnel
Reference: RFC XXXX
7. References
7.1. Normative References
[I-D.ietf-opsawg-teas-attachment-circuit]
Boucadair, M., Roberts, R., de Dios, O. G., Barguil, S.,
and B. Wu, "YANG Data Models for Bearers and 'Attachment
Circuits'-as-a-Service (ACaaS)", Work in Progress,
Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-opsawg-teas-attachment-circuit-
20, 23 January 2025,
.
[RFC8519] Jethanandani, M., Agarwal, S., Huang, L., and D. Blair,
"YANG Data Model for Network Access Control Lists (ACLs)",
RFC 8519, DOI 10.17487/RFC8519, March 2019,
.
7.2. Informative References
[I-D.ietf-netmod-rfc8407bis]
Bierman, A., Boucadair, M., and Q. Wu, "Guidelines for
Authors and Reviewers of Documents Containing YANG Data
Models", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-
netmod-rfc8407bis-28, 5 June 2025,
.
[RFC3688] Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", BCP 81, RFC 3688,
DOI 10.17487/RFC3688, January 2004,
.
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[RFC4252] Ylonen, T. and C. Lonvick, Ed., "The Secure Shell (SSH)
Authentication Protocol", RFC 4252, DOI 10.17487/RFC4252,
January 2006, .
[RFC6020] Bjorklund, M., Ed., "YANG - A Data Modeling Language for
the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)", RFC 6020,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6020, October 2010,
.
[RFC6241] Enns, R., Ed., Bjorklund, M., Ed., Schoenwaelder, J., Ed.,
and A. Bierman, Ed., "Network Configuration Protocol
(NETCONF)", RFC 6241, DOI 10.17487/RFC6241, June 2011,
.
[RFC8040] Bierman, A., Bjorklund, M., and K. Watsen, "RESTCONF
Protocol", RFC 8040, DOI 10.17487/RFC8040, January 2017,
.
[RFC8341] Bierman, A. and M. Bjorklund, "Network Configuration
Access Control Model", STD 91, RFC 8341,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8341, March 2018,
.
[RFC8446] Rescorla, E., "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol
Version 1.3", RFC 8446, DOI 10.17487/RFC8446, August 2018,
.
[RFC9000] Iyengar, J., Ed. and M. Thomson, Ed., "QUIC: A UDP-Based
Multiplexed and Secure Transport", RFC 9000,
DOI 10.17487/RFC9000, May 2021,
.
[RFC9543] Farrel, A., Ed., Drake, J., Ed., Rokui, R., Homma, S.,
Makhijani, K., Contreras, L., and J. Tantsura, "A
Framework for Network Slices in Networks Built from IETF
Technologies", RFC 9543, DOI 10.17487/RFC9543, March 2024,
.
Appendix A. Abbreviations
AC – Attachment Circuit
PE – Provider Edge
UDP – User Datagram Protocol
Authors' Addresses
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John Kaippallimalil
Futurewei
United States of America
Email: john.kaippallimalil@futurewei.com
Luis M. Contreras
Telefonica
Telefonica Sur-3 building, 3rd floor
28050 Madrid
Spain
Email: luismiguel.contrerasmurillo@telefonica.com
Uma Chunduri
Intel Corporation
2191 Laurelwood Rd
Santa Clara, CA 95054
United States of America
Email: umac.ietf@gmail.com
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