Project
IEEE 802.21 Media Independent Handover Services
<http://www.ieee802.org/21/>
Title
Higher Layer Requirements for MIH Services
Date
Submitted
Source(s)
HL Adhoc group
Ref:
21-06-0xxx-04-0000-MIH-HL-Reqs.doc
Abstract
This contribution provides HL requirements for IETF work
Purpose
Discuss and adopt in the draft.
Edited: Srinivas Sreemanthula
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Notice
1 IETF Requirements for IEEE 802.21 support
Adopt into the annex sections of the draft specification.
1.1 Transport Requirements
TR1. The transport mechanism must work regardless of the network location of the MIH service
entity e.g. on the same subnet, or deep in the network belonging to same or different
administrative domain.
TR2. The transport mechanism must be capable to support both IPv4 and IPv6 versions.
TR3. The transport mechanism must enable timely delivery of MIH communication.
TR4. The transport mechanism must be efficient and optimized.
TR5. The transport mechanism must enable NAT traversal for IPv4 networks.
TR6. The transport mechanism must enable Firewall pass-through for IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
1.2 Proxy Requirements
PR1. The transport mechanism must provide mechanism to distinguish between the packet source
and query source.
1.3 Discovery Requirements
DR1. The discovery mechanism must work regardless of the network location of the MIH service
entity e.g. on the same subnet, or deep in the network belonging to same or different
administrative domain.
DR2. The discovery mechanism must work for IPv4 and IPv6 hosts.
DR3. The discovery mechanism may allow for more than one MIH service entity to be discovered
at a time.
DR4. The discovery mechanism may enable NAT traversal for IPv4 networks.
DR5. The discovery mechanism may enable Firewall pass-through for IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
1.4 Security Requirements
SR1. The security mechanism must provide a common security association (SA) negotiation
method regardless of the network location of the MIH service entity e.g. on the same
subnet, or deep within the network.
SR2. The security mechanism must provide mutual authentication of MIH end nodes.
SR3. The security mechanism may provide one way authentication of either of MIH end nodes.
SR4. The security mechanism must provide integrity protection for MIH communications.
SR5. The security mechanism may provide confidentiality for the MIH communications.
SR6. The security mechanism must protect against replay attacks.
SR7. The security mechanism may protect MIH service entities and discovery resources against
denial of service attacks.
SR8. The security mechanism must not be dependent on the MIH protocol information.
SR9. The security mechanism may provide means to reuse or fast reestablishment the SA due to
host mobility.
SR10. The security mechanism may not be computationally intensive in order for support of
smaller devices.
SR11. The security mechanism may provide means to disable the security services listed here.