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  <front>
    <title abbrev="GRASP">A Generic Autonomic Signaling Protocol (GRASP)</title>
    
    <author initials="C." surname="Bormann" fullname="Carsten Bormann">
      <organization>Universit&#228;t Bremen TZI</organization>
      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>Postfach 330440</street>
          <city>D-28359 Bremen</city>
          <country>Germany</country>
        </postal>
        <email>cabo@tzi.org</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <author fullname="Brian Carpenter" initials="B. E." surname="Carpenter" role="editor">
      <organization abbrev="Univ. of Auckland"/>
      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>Department of Computer Science</street>
          <street>University of Auckland</street>
          <street>PB 92019</street>
          <city>Auckland</city>
          <region/>
          <code>1142</code>
          <country>New Zealand</country>
        </postal>
        <email>brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>


    <author fullname="Bing Liu" initials="B." surname="Liu" role="editor">
      <organization>Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd</organization>
      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>Q14, Huawei Campus</street>
          <street>No.156 Beiqing Road</street>
          <city>Hai-Dian District, Beijing</city>
          <code>100095</code>
          <country>P.R. China</country>
        </postal>
        <email>leo.liubing@huawei.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <!---->

    <date day="13" month="January" year="2016"/>

    <abstract>
      <t>This document establishes requirements for a signaling protocol that enables autonomic
      devices and autonomic service agents to dynamically discover peers, to synchronize
      state with them, and to negotiate parameter settings mutually with them. The document
      then defines a general protocol for discovery, synchronization and negotiation,
      while the technical objectives for specific scenarios are to be described in
      separate documents. An Appendix briefly discusses existing protocols with
      comparable features.</t>
    </abstract>
  </front>

  <middle>
    <section anchor="intro" title="Introduction">
      <t>The success of the Internet has made IP-based networks bigger and
      more complicated. Large-scale ISP and enterprise networks have become more and more
      problematic for human based management. Also, operational costs are growing quickly.
      Consequently, there are increased requirements for autonomic behavior in the networks.
      General aspects of autonomic networks are discussed in
      <xref target="RFC7575"/> and <xref target="RFC7576"/>. </t>
      
      <t>One approach is to largely decentralize the logic of network management by migrating it
      into network elements. A reference model for autonomic networking on this basis is given in
      <xref target="I-D.behringer-anima-reference-model"/>.
      In order to fulfil autonomy, devices that embody autonomic service agents
      have specific signaling requirements. In particular they need to discover each other,
      to synchronize state with each other,
      and to negotiate parameters and resources directly with each other.
      There is no restriction on the type of parameters and resources concerned,
      which include very basic information needed for addressing and routing,
      as well as anything else that might be configured in a conventional non-autonomic network.
      The atomic unit of synchronization or negotiation is referred to as a technical
      objective, i.e, a configurable parameter or set of parameters 
      (defined more precisely in <xref target="terms"/>).</t>

      <t>Following this Introduction, <xref target="reqts"/> describes the requirements
      for discovery, synchronization and negotiation.
      Negotiation is an iterative process, requiring multiple message exchanges forming
      a closed loop between the negotiating devices. State synchronization, when needed,
      can be regarded as a special case of negotiation, without iteration.
      <xref target="highlevel"/> describes a behavior model for a protocol
      intended to support discovery, synchronization and negotiation. The
      design of GeneRic Autonomic Signaling Protocol (GRASP) in <xref target="Overview"/>
      of this document is mainly based on this behavior model. The relevant capabilities 
      of various existing protocols are reviewed in <xref target="current"/>.</t>

      <t>The proposed discovery mechanism is oriented towards synchronization and
      negotiation objectives. It is based on a neighbor discovery process, but
      also supports diversion to off-link peers. Although many negotiations will occur
      between horizontally distributed peers, many target scenarios are hierarchical
      networks, which is the predominant structure of current large-scale 
      managed networks.
      However, when a device starts up with no pre-configuration, it has no
      knowledge of the topology. The protocol itself is capable of
      being used in a small and/or flat network structure such as a small
      office or home network as well as a professionally managed network.
      Therefore, the discovery mechanism needs to be able to allow a device
      to bootstrap itself without making any prior assumptions about network
      structure. </t>

      <t>Because GRASP can be used to perform a decision process among distributed
      devices or between networks, it must run in a secure and strongly authenticated
      environment. 
      </t>

      <t>It is understood that in realistic deployments, not all devices will
      support GRASP. It is expected that some autonomic service agents will directly
      manage a group of non-autonomic nodes, and that other non-autonomic nodes
      will be managed traditionally. Such mixed scenarios
      are not discussed in this specification.</t>
    </section>

    <!-- intro -->



    <section anchor="reqts" title="Requirement Analysis of Discovery, Synchronization and Negotiation">
      <t>This section discusses the requirements for discovery, negotiation
      and synchronization capabilities. The primary user of the protocol is an autonomic service
      agent (ASA), so the requirements are mainly expressed as the features needed by an ASA.
      A single physical device might contain several ASAs, and a single ASA might manage
      several technical objectives. </t>
      
      <t>Note that requirements for ASAs themselves, such as the processing of Intent 
      <xref target="RFC7575"/> or interfaces for coordination between ASAs are out of scope
      for the present document.</t>

      <section title="Requirements for Discovery">
        <t>D1. ASAs may be designed to manage anything, as required in
        <xref target="synchreq"/>. A basic requirement
        is therefore that the protocol can represent and discover any
        kind of technical objective among arbitrary subsets of participating nodes.</t>
        
        <t>In an autonomic network we must assume that when a device starts up
        it has no information about any peer devices, the network structure,
        or what specific role it must play. The ASA(s) inside the device are
        in the same situation. In some cases, when a new application session
        starts up within a device, the device or ASA may again lack
        information about relevant peers. It might be necessary to set
        up resources on multiple other devices, coordinated and matched to
        each other so that there is no wasted resource. Security settings
        might also need updating to allow for the new device or user. 
        The relevant peers may be different for different technical
        objectives. Therefore discovery needs to be repeated as often as
        necessary to find peers capable of acting as counterparts for each
        objective that a discovery initiator needs to handle.
        From this background we derive the next three requirements:</t>
        
        <t>D2. When an ASA first starts up, it has no knowledge of the specific network to
        which it is attached.
        Therefore the discovery process must be able to support any network scenario,
        assuming only that the device concerned is bootstrapped from factory condition.
        </t>
        
        <t>D3. When an ASA starts up, it must require no information about any
        peers in order to discover them.</t>
        
        <t>D4. If an ASA supports multiple technical objectives, relevant peers may be different
        for different discovery objectives, so discovery needs to be repeated to
        find counterparts for each objective. Thus, there must be a mechanism by
        which an ASA can separately discover peer ASAs for each of the
        technical objectives that it needs to manage, whenever necessary.</t>
       
        <t>D5. Following discovery, an ASA will normally perform negotiation
        or synchronization for the corresponding objectives. The design
        should allow for this by associating discovery, negotiation
        and synchronization objectives. It may provide an optional mechanism to
        combine discovery and negotiation/synchronization in a single call.</t>
        
        <t>D6. Some objectives may only be significant on the local link,
        but others may be significant across the routed network and require
        off-link operations. Thus, the relevant peers might be immediate
        neighbors on the same layer 2 link, or they might be more distant and
        only accessible via layer 3. The mechanism must therefore provide both
        on-link and off-link discovery of ASAs supporting specific technical
        objectives.</t>
        
        <t>D7. The discovery process should be flexible enough to allow for
        special cases, such as the following:
 
        <list style="symbols">
        <t>In some networks, as mentioned above, there will be some
        hierarchical structure, at least for certain synchronization or negotiation
        objectives, but this is unknown in advance. The discovery protocol must therefore
        operate regardless of hierarchical structure, which is an attribute of 
        individual technical objectives
        and not of the autonomic network as a whole. <!--A special case of discovery is that each
        device must be able to discover its hierarchical superior for each
        such objective that it is capable of handling.--> This is part of the more
        general requirement to discover off-link peers.</t>

        <t>During initialisation, a device must be able to establish mutual trust
        with the rest of the network and join an authentication mechanism. Although
        this will inevitably start with a discovery action, it is a special case
        precisely because trust is not yet established. This topic
        is the subject of <xref target="I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra"/>.
        We require that once trust has been established for a device,
        all ASAs within the device inherit the device's credentials and are also trusted.</t>
        <t>
        Depending on the type of network involved, discovery of other
        central functions might be needed, such as
        <!--a source of Intent distribution <xref target="RFC7575"/> or -->
        the Network Operations
        Center (NOC) <xref target="I-D.eckert-anima-stable-connectivity"/>.
        The protocol must be capable of supporting such discovery during initialisation,
        as well as discovery during ongoing operation.</t>
        </list></t>
        <t>D8. The discovery process must not generate excessive traffic and 
        must take account of sleeping nodes in the case of a constrained-node network
        <xref target="RFC7228"/>. </t>
        <t>D9. There must be a mechanism for handling stale discovery results.</t>
      </section>
      
      <section anchor="synchreq" title="Requirements for Synchronization and Negotiation Capability">
        <t>As background, consider the example of routing protocols, the closest
        approximation to autonomic networking already in widespread use. Routing
        protocols use a largely autonomic model based on distributed devices
        that communicate repeatedly with each other. The focus
        is reachability, so current routing protocols mainly consider simple
        link status, i.e., up or down, and an underlying assumption is that
        all nodes need a consistent view of the network topology in order
        for the routing algorithm to converge. Thus, routing is
        mainly based on information synchronization between peers,
        rather than on bi-directional negotiation. Other information,
        such as latency, congestion, capacity, and particularly unused capacity,
        would be helpful to get better path selection and utilization rate, but
        is not normally used in distributed routing algorithms. Additionally,
        autonomic networks need to be able to manage many more dimensions,
        such as security settings, power saving, load balancing, etc. 
        Status information and traffic metrics need to be shared between
        nodes for dynamic adjustment of resources and for monitoring purposes.
        While this might be achieved by existing protocols when they are
        available, the new protocol needs to be able to support parameter
        exchange, including mutual synchronization, even when no negotiation
        as such is required. In general, these parameters do not apply to all
        participating nodes, but only 
        to a subset. </t>
        
        <t>SN1. A basic requirement for the protocol is therefore the
        ability to represent, discover, synchronize and negotiate almost any
        kind of network parameter among arbitrary subsets of participating nodes.</t>
        
        <t>SN2. Negotiation is a request/response process that must be guaranteed to terminate 
        (with success or failure) and if necessary it must contain tie-breaking rules for 
        each technical objective that requires them. While these must be defined specifically 
        for each use case, the protocol should have some general mechanisms in support of loop
        and deadlock prevention, such as hop count limits or timeouts.</t>
        
        <t>SN3. Synchronization might concern small groups of nodes or very large groups.
        Different solutions might be needed at different scales. </t>
        
        <t>SN4. To avoid "reinventing the wheel", the protocol should be able to carry 
        the message formats used by existing configuration protocols (such as NETCONF/YANG)
        in cases where that is convenient.</t>
        
        <t>SN5. Human intervention in complex situations is costly and error-prone.
        Therefore, synchronization or negotiation of parameters without human
        intervention is desirable whenever the coordination of multiple devices can improve
        overall network performance. It therefore follows that the protocol, as part of the
        Autonomic Networking Infrastructure, must be capable of running in any device 
        that would otherwise need human intervention.</t>

        <t>SN6. Human intervention in large networks is often replaced by use of a
        top-down network management system (NMS). It therefore follows that 
        the protocol, as part of the Autonomic Networking Infrastructure, must
        be capable of running in any device that would otherwise be managed by 
        an NMS, and that it can co-exist with an NMS, and with protocols
        such as SNMP and NETCONF.</t>
        
        <t>SN7. Some features are expected to be implemented by individual ASAs,
        but the protocol must be general enough to allow them: 
          <list style="symbols">
         
          <t>Dependencies and conflicts: In order to
          decide a configuration on a given device, the device may need
          information from neighbors. This can be established through the
          negotiation procedure, or through synchronization if that
          is sufficient. However, a given item in a neighbor
          may depend on other information from its own neighbors, which may
          need another negotiation or synchronization procedure to obtain or decide.
          Therefore, there are potential dependencies and conflicts among negotiation or synchronization
          procedures. Resolving dependencies and conflicts is a matter for the individual ASAs involved. 
          To allow this, there need to be clear boundaries and convergence
          mechanisms for negotiations. Also some mechanisms are needed to avoid
          loop dependencies. In such a case, the protocol's role is limited to
          signaling between ASAs. </t>

          <t>Recovery from faults and identification of faulty devices should be
          as automatic as possible. The protocol's role is limited
          to the ability to handle discovery, synchronization and negotiation at
          any time, in case an ASA detects an anomaly such
          as a negotiation counterpart failing.</t>
          
          <t>Since the goal is to minimize human intervention, it is necessary that the
          network can in effect "think ahead" before changing its parameters. In
          other words there must be a possibility of forecasting the effect of a
          change by a "dry run" mechanism before actually installing the
          change. This will be an application of the protocol rather than a feature
          of the protocol itself. </t>
        
          <t>Management logging, monitoring, alerts and tools for intervention are required.
          However, these can only be features of individual ASAs. 
          Another document <xref target="I-D.eckert-anima-stable-connectivity"/> discusses how
          such agents may be linked into conventional OAM systems via an Autonomic Control Plane
          <xref target="I-D.ietf-anima-autonomic-control-plane"/>. </t>
          </list></t>
        
        <t>SN8. The protocol will be able to deal with a wide variety of
        technical objectives, covering any type of network parameter.
        Therefore the protocol will need either an explicit information model
        describing its messages, or at least a flexible and easily extensible message
        format. One design consideration is whether to adopt an existing
        information model or to design a new one. </t>

      </section>
      
      <section title="Specific Technical Requirements">
      
        <t>T1. It should be convenient for ASA designers to define new technical objectives
        and for programmers to express them, without excessive impact on
        run-time efficiency and footprint. The classes of device in which the protocol
        might run is discussed in <xref target="I-D.behringer-anima-reference-model"/>.</t>
        
        <t>T2. The protocol should be easily extensible in case the initially defined discovery,
        synchronization and negotiation mechanisms prove to be insufficient. </t>
          
        <t>T3. To be a generic platform, the protocol payload format should be 
        independent of the transport protocol or IP version.
        In particular, it should be able to run over IPv6 or IPv4.
        However, some functions, such as multicasting on
        a link, might need to be IP version dependent. In case of doubt, IPv6 should
        be preferred.</t>
          
        <t>T4. The protocol must be able to access off-link counterparts via routable addresses,
        i.e., must not be restricted to link-local operation.</t>
          
        <t>T5. It must also be possible for an external discovery mechanism
        to be used, if appropriate for a given technical objective. In other words, GRASP discovery
        must not be a prerequisite for GRASP negotiation or synchronization; the prerequisite 
        is discovering a peer's locator by any method. </t>
        
        <t>T6. ASAs and the signaling protocol need to run asynchronously when wait states occur.</t>
        
        <t>T7. Intent: There must be
        provision for general Intent rules to be applied by all devices in
        the network (e.g., security rules, prefix length, resource sharing
        rules). However, Intent distribution might not use the signaling
        protocol itself, but its design should not exclude such use. </t>
        
        <t>T8. Management monitoring, alerts and intervention:
        Devices should be able to report to a monitoring
        system. Some events must be able to generate operator alerts and
        some provision for emergency intervention must be possible (e.g.
        to freeze synchronization or negotiation in a mis-behaving device). These features
        might not use the signaling protocol itself, but its design should not exclude such use.</t>
        
        <t>T9. The protocol needs to be fully secured against forged messages and
        man-in-the middle attacks, and secured as much as reasonably possible
        against denial of service attacks. It needs to be capable of
        encryption in order to resist unwanted monitoring<!--, although this
        capability may not be required in all deployments-->. However, it is not
        required that the protocol itself provides these security features; it may
        depend on an existing secure environment. </t>
        
       </section>
    </section>

    <!-- reqts -->

   

    <section anchor="Overview" title="GRASP Protocol Overview">
       
      
      <section anchor="terms" title="Terminology">
         
      <t>The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
      "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
      "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
      <xref target="RFC2119"/> when they appear in ALL CAPS. When these words
      are not in ALL CAPS (such as "should" or "Should"), they have their
      usual English meanings, and are not to be interpreted as <xref target="RFC2119"/> key words.</t> 
      
      <t>This document uses terminology defined in <xref target="RFC7575"/>.</t>
  
        <t>The following additional terms are used throughout this document:
          <list style="symbols">
          <t>Autonomic Device: identical to Autonomic Node.</t>
          <t>Discovery: a process by which an ASA discovers peers
          according to a specific discovery objective. The discovery results
          may be different according to the different discovery objectives.
          The discovered peers may later be used as negotiation
          counterparts or as sources of synchronization data. </t>
            
          <t>Negotiation: a process by which two (or more) ASAs interact
          iteratively to agree on parameter settings that best satisfy the
          objectives of one or more ASAs.</t>

          <t>State Synchronization: a process by which two (or more) ASAs
          interact to agree on the current state of parameter
          values stored in each ASA. This is a special case of negotiation
          in which information is sent but the ASAs do not request
          their peers to change parameter settings. All other definitions
          apply to both negotiation and synchronization. </t>
                    
          <t>Technical Objective (usually abbreviated as Objective):
          A technical objective is a configurable parameter or set of parameters
          of some kind, which occurs in three contexts: Discovery, Negotiation
          and Synchronization. In the protocol, an objective is represented by an
          identifier and if relevant a value.
          Normally, a given objective will occur during discovery and negotiation,
          or during discovery and synchronization, but not in all three contexts.
          
            <list style="symbols">
            
            <t>One ASA may support multiple independent objectives.</t>
            
            <t>The parameter described by a given objective is naturally based
            on a specific service or function or action. It may in principle be
            anything that can be set to a specific logical, numerical or string
            value, or a more complex data structure, by a network node.
            That node is generally expected to contain an ASA
            which may itself manage other nodes.</t>

            <t>Discovery Objective: if a node needs to synchronize or negotiate
            a specific objective but does not know a peer that supports this objective,
            it starts a discovery process. The objective is called a Discovery Objective
            during this process.</t>
            
            <!-- A discovery objective may be in one-to-one correspondence
            with a synchronization objective or a negotiation objective, or it may
            correspond to a certain group of such objectives. -->
          
            <t>Synchronization Objective: an objective whose specific technical content
            needs to be synchronized among two or more ASAs. </t>
          
            <t>Negotiation Objective: an objective whose specific technical content
            needs to be decided in coordination with another ASA. </t>
          
            </list></t>
          
          <t>Discovery Initiator: an ASA that spontaneously starts discovery
          by sending a discovery message referring to a specific discovery
          objective.</t>

          <t>Discovery Responder: a peer ASA which responds to the
          discovery objective initiated by the discovery initiator.</t>
          
          <t>Synchronization Initiator: an ASA that spontaneously starts synchronization
          by sending a request message referring to a specific synchronization
          objective.</t>

          <t>Synchronization Responder: a peer ASA which responds with the
          value of a synchronization objective.</t>

          <t>Negotiation Initiator: an ASA that spontaneously starts
          negotiation by sending a request message referring to a specific
          negotiation objective.</t>

          <t>Negotiation Counterpart: a peer with which the Negotiation
          Initiator negotiates a specific negotiation objective.</t>


        </list></t>
      </section> 

      <section anchor="highlevel" title="High-Level Design Choices">
         

        <t>This section describes a behavior model and some considerations for
        designing a generic signaling protocol initially supporting discovery,
        synchronization and negotiation, which can
        act as a platform for different technical objectives.</t>

        <!-- <t>NOTE: An earlier version of this protocol used type-length-value
        formats and was prototyped by Huawei
        and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.</t> -->

        <t><list style="symbols">
            <t>A generic platform<vspace blankLines="1"/>
            The protocol is designed as a generic platform, which
            is independent from the synchronization or negotiation contents. It takes
            care of the general intercommunication between
            counterparts. The technical contents will vary according to the
            various technical objectives and the different pairs of
            counterparts.<vspace blankLines="1"/></t>
            
            <t>The protocol is expected to form part of an Autonomic Networking Infrastructure
            <xref target="I-D.behringer-anima-reference-model"/>. It will provide services to
            ASAs via a suitable application programming interface, which will reflect the
            protocol elements but will not necessarily be in one-to-one correspondence to
            them. It is expected that a single instance of GRASP will exist in an autonomic
            node, and that the protocol engine and each ASA will run as independent
            asynchronous processes.<vspace blankLines="1"/></t>

            <t>Security infrastructure and trust relationship<vspace blankLines="1"/>
            Because this negotiation protocol may directly
            cause changes to device configurations and bring significant
            impacts to a running network, this protocol 
            is assumed to run within an existing secure environment with
            strong authentication.
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            On the other hand, a limited negotiation model
            might be deployed based on a limited trust relationship. For
            example, between two administrative domains, ASAs might also
            exchange limited information and negotiate some particular
            configurations based on a limited conventional or contractual
            trust relationship.<vspace blankLines="1"/></t>

            <t>Discovery, synchronization and negotiation are designed together.<vspace blankLines="1"/>
            The discovery method and the synchronization and negotiation methods
            are designed in the same way and can be combined when this is
            useful. These processes can also be performed independently when appropriate.
            
            <list style="symbols">
            <t>GRASP discovery is always available for efficient discovery of GRASP peers
            and allows a rapid mode of operation described in <xref target="discmech"/>.
            For some objectives, especially those concerned with application layer
            services, another discovery mechanism such as the future DNS Service
            Discovery <xref target="RFC7558"/> or
            Service Location Protocol <xref target="RFC2608"/>
            MAY be used. The choice is left to the designers of individual
            ASAs.
            </t>
            </list><vspace blankLines="1"/></t>

            <t>A uniform pattern for technical contents<vspace blankLines="1"/>
            The synchronization and negotiation contents are defined
            according to a uniform pattern. They could be carried either in simple
            binary format or in payloads described by a
            flexible language. The basic protocol design uses the Concise
            Binary Object Representation (CBOR) <xref target="RFC7049"/>. 
            The format is extensible for unknown future requirements. <vspace blankLines="1"/></t>

            <t>A flexible model for synchronization<vspace blankLines="1"/>
            GRASP supports bilateral synchronization, which could be used
            to perform synchronization among a small number of nodes.
            It also supports an unsolicited flooding mode when large groups of nodes,
            possibly including all autonomic nodes, need data for the same
            technical objective.
                        
            <list style="symbols">
            <t>There may be some network parameters for which a more traditional flooding
            mechanism such as DNCP <xref target="I-D.ietf-homenet-dncp"/>
            <!-- <xref target="I-D.stenberg-anima-adncp"/>  --> is
            considered more appropriate. GRASP can coexist with DNCP.
            </t>
            </list><vspace blankLines="1"/></t>
            
            <t>A simple initiator/responder model for negotiation<vspace blankLines="1"/>
            Multi-party negotiations are too complicated to be modeled and
            there might be too many dependencies among the parties to converge
            efficiently. A simple initiator/responder model is more feasible
            and can complete multi-party negotiations by indirect steps.
            <vspace blankLines="1"/></t>

            <t>Organizing of synchronization or negotiation content<vspace blankLines="1"/>
            Naturally, the technical content will be
            organized according to the relevant function or service. The
            content from different functions or services is kept
            independent from each other. They are not combined into a
            single option or single session because these contents may be
            negotiated or synchronized with different counterparts or may be
            different in response time.<vspace blankLines="1"/></t>

            <t>Self-aware network device<vspace blankLines="1"/>Every autonomic
            device will be pre-loaded with various functions and ASAs and will be
            aware of its own capabilities, typically decided by the hardware,
            firmware or pre-installed software. Its exact role may depend on
            Intent and on the surrounding network behaviors, which may include 
            forwarding behaviors, aggregation properties, topology location, bandwidth,
            tunnel or translation properties, etc. The surrounding topology will
            depend on the network planning. Following an initial discovery phase,
            the device properties and those of its neighbors are the
            foundation of the synchronization or negotiation behavior of a specific
            device. A device has no pre-configuration for the
            particular network in which it is installed.<vspace blankLines="1"/></t>

            <t>Requests and responses in negotiation procedures<vspace blankLines="1"/>
            The initiator can negotiate with
            its relevant negotiation counterpart ASAs, which may be
            different according to the specific negotiation objective. It can request
            relevant information from the negotiation counterpart so that it
            can decide its local configuration to give the most coordinated
            performance. It can request the negotiation counterpart to make a
            matching configuration in order to set up a successful
            communication with it. It can request certain simulation or
            forecast results by sending some dry run conditions.
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>Beyond the traditional yes/no answer, the
            responder can reply with a suggested alternative if
            its answer is 'no'. This would start a bi-directional negotiation
            ending in a compromise between the two ASAs.<vspace blankLines="1"/></t>

            <t>Convergence of negotiation procedures<vspace blankLines="1"/>
            To enable convergence, when a responder makes a
            suggestion of a changed condition in a negative reply, it should
            be as close as possible to the original request or previous
            suggestion. The suggested value of the third or later negotiation
            steps should be chosen between the suggested values from the last
            two negotiation steps. In any case there must be a mechanism to
            guarantee convergence (or failure) in a small number of steps, such
            as a timeout or maximum number of iterations.
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            
            <list style="symbols">
         
            <t>End of negotiation<vspace blankLines="1"/>
            A limited number of rounds, for example three, or a timeout, is needed
            on each ASA for each negotiation objective. It may be an implementation
            choice, a pre-configurable parameter, or network Intent.
            These choices might vary between different types of ASA.
            Therefore, the definition of each negotiation objective MUST clearly specify
            this, so that the negotiation can always be terminated properly.
            <vspace blankLines="1"/></t>
            
            <t>Failed negotiation<vspace blankLines="1"/>There must be a
            well-defined procedure for concluding that a negotiation cannot
            succeed, and if so deciding what happens next (deadlock
            resolution, tie-breaking, or revert to best-effort
            service). Again, this MUST be specified for individual
            negotiation objectives, as an implementation choice, a pre-configurable
            parameter, or network Intent.</t>
            </list></t>
          </list></t>
      </section>
 
      <section title="GRASP Protocol Basic Properties and Mechanisms">
      
        <section anchor="reqsec" title="Required External Security Mechanism">
         <t>The protocol SHOULD run within a secure Autonomic Control Plane (ACP)
         <xref target="I-D.ietf-anima-autonomic-control-plane"/>. The ACP is assumed
         to carry all messages securely, including link-local multicast if possible.
         A GRASP implementation MUST verify whether the ACP is operational. </t>
         
         <t>If there is no ACP, the protocol
         MUST use another form of strong authentication and SHOULD use a form
         of strong encryption. TLS <xref target="RFC5246"/> 
         is RECOMMENDED for this purpose, based on a local Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
         <xref target="RFC5280"/> managed within the autonomic network itself. The details
         of such a PKI and how its boundary is established are out of scope for this document.
         DTLS <xref target="RFC6347"/> MAY be used but since GRASP operations usually
         involve several messages this is not expected to be advantageous. </t>
         
         <t>The ACP, or in its absence the local PKI, sets the boundary within which nodes
         are trusted as GRASP peers. A GRASP implementation MUST refuse to execute any GRASP
         functions except discovery if there is neither an operational ACP nor an operational
         (D)TLS environment. </t>
         
         <t>As mentioned in <xref target="highlevel"/>, limited GRASP operations might be
         performed across an administrative domain boundary by mutual agreement. Such operations
         MUST be authenticated and SHOULD be encrypted. TLS is RECOMMENDED for this purpose.</t>
         
         <t>Link-local multicast is used for discovery messages. <!-- It is preferred that the
         ACP will handle these and distribute them securely to all on-link ACP nodes only.
         However, in the absence of an ACP they cannot be secured. -->
         Responses to discovery messages MUST be secured, with one exception.</t>
         
         <t>The exception is that during initialisation, before a node has joined the applicable trust 
         infrastructure, e.g., <xref target="I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra"/>, or before
         the ACP is fully established, it might be impossible to secure messages.
         Indeed, both the security bootstrap process and the ACP creation process might
         use insecure GRASP discovery and response messages.
         Such usage MUST be limited to the strictly necessary minimum.
         A full analysis of the initialisation process is out of scope for the
         present document. </t>
                   
        </section> 
        
        <section title="Transport Layer Usage">
        <t>The protocol is capable of running over UDP or TCP, except for link-local multicast
        discovery messages, which can only run over UDP and MUST NOT be fragmented, and therefore
        cannot exceed the link MTU size. </t>
        <t>When running within a secure ACP,
        UDP SHOULD be used for messages not exceeding the minimum IPv6 path MTU,
        and TCP MUST be used for longer messages. In other words, IPv6 fragmentation
        is avoided. If a node receives a UDP message but the reply is too long, it
        MUST open a TCP connection to the peer for the reply.</t>
        <t>When running without an ACP, TLS SHOULD be supported and used by default, except
        for multicast discovery messages. DTLS MAY be supported as an alternative
        but the details are out of scope for this document. </t> 
        
        <t>For all transport protocols, the GRASP protocol listens to the GRASP Listen Port
        (<xref target="Constants"/>).</t>
        </section>
         
               
        <section anchor="discmech" title="Discovery Mechanism and Procedures">
           

          <t><list style="symbols">
              <t>Separated discovery and negotiation mechanisms<list style="empty">
                  <t>Although discovery and negotiation or synchronization are defined
                  together in the GRASP, they are separated mechanisms. The discovery
                  process could run independently from the negotiation or synchronization
                  process. Upon receiving a discovery (<xref target="DiscoveryMessage"/>)
                  <!-- or request (<xref target="RequestMessage"/>)--> message, the
                  recipient ASA should return a message in which it either
                  indicates itself as a discovery responder or diverts the
                  initiator towards another more suitable ASA.</t>

                  <t>The discovery action will normally be followed by
                  a negotiation or synchronization action. The
                  discovery results could be utilized by the negotiation
                  protocol to decide which ASA the initiator will negotiate
                  with.</t>
                  
                  <t>It is entirely possible to use GRASP discovery without a subsequent
                  negotiation or synchronization action. In this case, the discovered objective
                  is simply used as a name during the discovery process and any subsequent
                  operations between the peers are outside the scope of GRASP.</t>
                </list></t>

              <t>Discovery Procedures<list style="empty">
                  <t>Discovery starts as an on-link operation. The Divert option
                  can tell the discovery initiator to contact an off-link
                  ASA for that discovery objective. Every Discovery message is sent
                  by a discovery initiator via UDP to the ALL_GRASP_NEIGHBOR multicast
                  address (<xref target="Constants"/>). Every network
                  device that supports the GRASP always listens to a well-known
                  UDP port to capture the discovery messages.</t>

                  <t>If an ASA in the neighbor device supports the requested discovery objective,
                  it MAY respond with a Response message (<xref target="ResponseMessage"/>) with
                  locator option(s). Otherwise, if the neighbor has cached information
                  about an ASA that supports the requested discovery objective (usually
                  because it discovered the same objective before), it SHOULD
                  respond with a Response message with a Divert option pointing
                  to the appropriate Discovery Responder.</t>
                  
                  <t>If no discovery response is received within a reasonable timeout
                  (default GRASP_DEF_TIMEOUT milliseconds, <xref target="Constants"/>),
                  the Discovery message MAY be repeated, with a newly generated
                  Session ID (<xref target="SessionID"/>). An exponential backoff SHOULD be used
                  for subsequent repetitions, in order to mitigate possible denial of service attacks.</t>

                  <t>After a GRASP device successfully discovers a Discovery Responder
                  supporting a specific objective, it MUST cache this
                  information. This cache record MAY be used for future
                  negotiation or synchronization, and SHOULD be passed on when appropriate
                  as a Divert option to another Discovery Initiator. The cache lifetime
                  is an implementation choice that MAY be modified by network Intent.</t>
                  
                  <t>If multiple Discovery Responders are found for the same objective, they
                  SHOULD all be cached, unless this creates a resource shortage. The method
                  of choosing between multiple responders is an implementation choice.
                  This choice MUST be available to each ASA but the GRASP implementation
                  SHOULD provide a default choice.</t>
                  
                  <t>Because Discovery Responders will be cached in a finite cache, they might
                  be deleted at any time. In this case, discovery will need to be repeated. If an
                  ASA exits for any reason, its locator might still be cached for some time,
                  and attempts to connect to it will fail. ASAs need to be robust in these
                  circumstances. </t>
                  
                  <t>A GRASP device with multiple link-layer interfaces (typically a router) MUST
                  support discovery on all interfaces. If it receives a Discovery message
                  on a given interface for a specific objective that it does not support and for
                  which it has not previously discovered a Discovery Responder, it MUST relay
                  the query by re-issuing a Discovery message on its other interfaces.
                  The relayed message MAY have a different Session ID.
                  Before this, it MUST decrement the loop count within the objective, and 
                  MUST NOT relay the Discovery message if the result is zero.
                  Also, it MUST limit the total rate at which it relays discovery messages
                  to a reasonable value, in order to mitigate possible denial of service attacks.
                  It MUST cache the Session ID value of each relayed
                  discovery message and, to prevent loops, MUST NOT relay a Discovery message
                  which carries such a cached Session ID. 
                  These precautions avoid discovery loops and mitigate potential overload.</t>
                  
                  <t>This relayed discovery mechanism, with caching of the results, 
                  should be sufficient to support most network bootstrapping scenarios.</t>
                </list></t>
                
                <t>A complete discovery process will start with multicast on the 
                local link; a neighbor might divert it to an off-link destination,
                which could be a default higher-level gateway in a hierarchical network.
                Then discovery would continue with a unicast to that gateway; if that gateway
                is still not the right counterpart, it should divert to another gateway,
                which is in principle closer to the right counterpart. Finally the right
                counterpart responds to start the negotiation or synchronization process.
                </t>

              <t>Rapid Mode (Discovery/Negotiation binding)<list style="empty">
                  <t>A Discovery message MAY include a Negotiation
                  Objective option. This allows a rapid mode of negotiation
                  described in <xref target="negproc"/>. A similar mechanism
                  is defined for synchronization in <xref target="synchproc"/>.</t>
                </list></t>
            </list></t>
        </section>

        <section anchor="negproc" title="Negotiation Procedures">
           

          <t>A negotiation initiator sends a negotiation request to a
          counterpart ASA, including a specific negotiation objective. 
          It may request the negotiation
          counterpart to make a specific configuration. Alternatively, it may
          request a certain simulation or forecast result by sending a dry run configuration.
          The details, including the distinction between dry run and an actual
          configuration change, will be defined separately for each type of negotiation
          objective.</t>
          
          <t>If no reply message of any kind is received within a reasonable timeout
          (default GRASP_DEF_TIMEOUT milliseconds, <xref target="Constants"/>),
          the negotiation request MAY be repeated, with a newly generated
          Session ID (<xref target="SessionID"/>). An exponential backoff SHOULD be used
          for subsequent repetitions.</t>

          <t>If the counterpart can immediately apply the requested
          configuration, it will give an immediate positive (accept) answer.
          This will end the negotiation phase immediately. Otherwise, it will
          negotiate. It will reply with a proposed alternative configuration
          that it can apply (typically, a configuration that uses fewer resources
          than requested by the negotiation initiator). This will start a
          bi-directional negotiation to reach a compromise between the two ASAs.</t>

          <t>The negotiation procedure is ended when one of the negotiation
          peers sends a Negotiation Ending message, which contains an accept
          or decline option and does not need a response from the negotiation
          peer. Negotiation may also end in failure (equivalent to a decline)
          if a timeout is exceeded or a loop count is exceeded. </t>

          <t>A negotiation procedure concerns one objective and one
          counterpart. Both the initiator and the counterpart may take part in
          simultaneous negotiations with various other ASAs, or in
          simultaneous negotiations about different objectives. Thus, GRASP is
          expected to be used in a multi-threaded mode. Certain negotiation
          objectives may have restrictions on multi-threading, for example to
          avoid over-allocating resources.</t>
          
          <t>Some configuration actions, for example wavelength switching
          in optical networks, might take considerable time to execute. The ASA
          concerned needs to allow for this by design, but GRASP does allow for
          a peer to insert latency in a negotiation process if necessary
          (<xref target="ConfirmWaitingMessage"/>).</t>
          
          <section anchor="rapidneg" title="Rapid Mode (Discovery/Negotiation Linkage)">
             <t>A Discovery message MAY include a Negotiation
             Objective option. In this case the Discovery message also acts
             as a Request message to indicate to the Discovery Responder
             that it could directly reply to the Discovery Initiator with
             a Negotiation message for rapid processing, if it
             could act as the corresponding negotiation
             counterpart. However, the indication is only advisory not
             prescriptive. </t>

             <t>This rapid mode could reduce the interactions between
             nodes so that a higher efficiency could be achieved. This
             rapid negotiation function SHOULD be configured off by default
             and MAY be configured on or off by Intent.</t>
          </section>          
          
        </section>
         
        
        <section anchor="synchproc" title="Synchronization and Flooding Procedure">
         
         <t>A synchronization initiator sends a synchronization request to a
          counterpart, including a specific synchronization objective.
          The counterpart responds with a Synchronization message (<xref target="SynchMessage"/>)
          containing the current value of the requested synchronization
          objective. No further messages are needed. </t>
          
        <t>If no reply message of any kind is received within a reasonable timeout
        (default GRASP_DEF_TIMEOUT milliseconds, <xref target="Constants"/>),
        the synchronization request MAY be repeated, with a newly generated
        Session ID (<xref target="SessionID"/>). An exponential backoff SHOULD be used
        for subsequent repetitions.</t>
                    
        <section anchor="flooding" title="Flooding">
        <t>In the case just described, the message exchange is unicast and
         concerns only one synchronization objective. For large groups of nodes
         requiring the same data, synchronization flooding is available. For this, 
         a flooding initiator MAY send an unsolicited Flood message containing
         one or more Synchronization Objective option(s), if and only if the specification 
         of those objectives permits it. This is sent as a multicast message to the 
         ALL_GRASP_NEIGHBOR multicast address (<xref target="Constants"/>).
         To ensure that flooding does not result in a loop, the originator of the Flood message
         MUST set the loop count in the objectives to a suitable value (the default is GRASP_DEF_LOOPCT).
         In this case a suitable mechanism is needed
         to avoid excessive multicast traffic. This mechanism MUST be defined as part of the
         specification of the synchronization objective(s) concerned. It might be a simple rate
         limit or a more complex mechanism such as the Trickle algorithm <xref target="RFC6206"/>.</t> 
         
        <t>A GRASP device with multiple link-layer interfaces (typically a router) MUST
        support synchronization flooding on all interfaces. If it receives a multicast
        Flood message on a given interface, it MUST relay
        it by re-issuing a Flood message on its other interfaces.
        The relayed message MAY have a different Session ID.
        Before this, it MUST decrement the loop count within the objective, and  
        MUST NOT relay the Flood message if the result is zero.  
        Also, it MUST limit the total rate at which it relays Flood messages
        to a reasonable value, in order to mitigate possible denial of service attacks.
        It MUST cache the Session ID value of each relayed
        Flood message and, to prevent loops, MUST NOT relay a Flood message
        which carries such a cached Session ID. These precautions avoid synchronization loops
        and mitigate potential overload.</t>
        
        <t>Note that this mechanism is unreliable in the case of sleeping nodes. Sleeping nodes
        that require an objective subject to flooding SHOULD periodically
        request unicast synchronization for that objective. </t>
        
        <t>The multicast messages for synchronization flooding are subject to the security
        rules in <xref target="reqsec"/>. In practice this means that they MUST NOT be transmitted
        and MUST be ignored on receipt unless there is an operational ACP.</t>
        </section>
        
        <section anchor="rapidsynch" title="Rapid Mode (Discovery/Synchronization Linkage)">
             <t>A Discovery message MAY include a Synchronization
             Objective option. In this case the Discovery message also acts
             as a Request message to indicate to the Discovery Responder
             that it could directly reply to the Discovery Initiator with
             a Synchronization message <xref target="SynchMessage"/> with synchronization data for rapid processing,
             if the discovery target supports the corresponding synchronization
             objective. However, the indication is only advisory not
             prescriptive.</t>

             <t>This rapid mode could reduce the interactions between
             nodes so that a higher efficiency could be achieved. This
             rapid synchronization function SHOULD be configured off by default
             and MAY be configured on or off by Intent.</t>
        </section>
        
        </section>
         
      </section>
      
      <section title="High Level Deployment Model">
      <t>It is expected that a GRASP implementation will reside in an autonomic node
      that also contains both the appropriate security environment (preferably the ACP)
      and one or more Autonomic Service Agents (ASAs). In the minimal case of a single-purpose
      device, these three components might be fully integrated. A more common model is expected
      to be a multi-purpose device capable of containing several ASAs. In this case it is expected
      that the ACP, GRASP and the ASAs will be implemented as separate processes, which are
      probably multi-threaded to support asynchronous operation. It is expected that GRASP
      will access the ACP by using a typical socket interface. Well defined
      Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) will be needed
      between GRASP and the ASAs. For further details of possible deployment models, see
      <xref target="I-D.behringer-anima-reference-model"/>.
      </t>
      </section>
       

      <section anchor="Constants" title="GRASP Constants">
         

        <t><list style="symbols">
            <t>ALL_GRASP_NEIGHBOR<vspace blankLines="1"/>A link-local
            scope multicast address used by a GRASP-enabled device to discover
            GRASP-enabled neighbor (i.e., on-link) devices . All devices that
            support GRASP are members of this multicast group.<list style="symbols">
                <t>IPv6 multicast address: TBD1</t>

                <t>IPv4 multicast address: TBD2</t>
              </list></t>

            <t>GRASP_LISTEN_PORT (TBD3)<vspace blankLines="1"/>A UDP and TCP port that
            every GRASP-enabled network device always listens to.</t>
            
            <t>GRASP_DEF_TIMEOUT (60000 milliseconds)<vspace blankLines="1"/>The default timeout used to
            determine that a discovery etc. has failed to complete.</t>
            
            <t>GRASP_DEF_LOOPCT (6)<vspace blankLines="1"/>The default loop count used to
            determine that a negotiation has failed to complete, and to avoid looping messages.</t>
          </list></t>
      </section>

  
      <section anchor="SessionID" title="Session Identifier (Session ID)">
         

        <t>This is an up to 24-bit opaque value used to distinguish multiple sessions between
        the same two devices. A new Session ID MUST be generated by the initiator for every
        new Discovery, Flood or Request message. All responses and follow-up messages in the same 
        discovery, synchronization or negotiation procedure MUST carry the same Session ID.</t>

        <t>The Session ID SHOULD have a very low collision rate locally. It
        MUST be generated by a pseudo-random algorithm using a locally generated seed
        which is unlikely to be used by any other device in the same
        network <xref target="RFC4086"/>.</t>
        
        <t>However, there is a finite probability that two nodes might generate the same
        Session ID value. For that reason, when a Session ID is communicated via GRASP, the
        receiving node MUST tag it with the initiator's IP address to allow disambiguation.
        Multicast GRASP messages and their responses, which may be relayed between links,
        therefore include a field that carries the initiator's global IP address.</t>
      </section>

       

      <section anchor="GRASPMessages" title="GRASP Messages">
         

        <t>This section defines the GRASP message format and message types.
        Message types not listed here are reserved for future use. </t>

        <section title="GRASP Message Format">
           
          <t>GRASP messages share an identical header format and a
          variable format area for options. GRASP message headers and options
          are transmitted in Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) 
          <xref target="RFC7049"/>. In this specification, they are described
          using CBOR data definition language (CDDL)
          <xref target="I-D.greevenbosch-appsawg-cbor-cddl"/>.
          Fragmentary CDDL is used to describe each item in this section. A complete and normative
          CDDL specification of GRASP is given in <xref target="cddl"/>, including constants such
          as message types.
          </t>
          <t>Every GRASP message, except the No Operation message, carries a Session ID (<xref target="SessionID"/>).
          Options are then presented serially in the options field.</t>
          
          <t>In fragmentary CDDL, every GRASP message follows the pattern:</t>
          
          <t><figure>
              <artwork><![CDATA[
  grasp-message = (message .within message-structure) / noop-message

  message-structure = [MESSAGE_TYPE, session-id, +grasp-option]

  MESSAGE_TYPE = 1..255
  session-id = 0..16777215 ;up to 24 bits
  grasp-option = any
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
          
          <t>The MESSAGE_TYPE indicates the type of the message and thus defines 
          the expected options.  Any options received that are not consistent with
          the MESSAGE_TYPE SHOULD be silently discarded. </t>
          
          <t>The No Operation (noop) message is  described in <xref target="noop"/>.</t>
          <t>The various MESSAGE_TYPE values are defined in <xref target="cddl"/>.</t>
          <t>All other message elements are described below and formally defined in <xref target="cddl"/>.</t>
          
        </section>

        <section anchor="DiscoveryMessage" title="Discovery Message">
        <t>In fragmentary CDDL, a Discovery message follows the pattern:</t>
          
          <t><figure>
              <artwork><![CDATA[
  discovery-message = [M_DISCOVERY, session-id, initiator, objective]
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
          
          
          <t>
          A discovery initiator sends a Discovery message
               to initiate a discovery process for a particular objective option.
               </t><t>

               The discovery initiator sends the Discovery 
               messages to the link-local ALL_GRASP_NEIGHBOR multicast
               address for discovery, and stores the discovery 
               results (including responding discovery objectives and
               corresponding unicast addresses, FQDNs or URIs).
               </t><t>
               The 'initiator' field in the message is a globally unique IP address of the
               initiator, for the sole purpose of disambiguating the Session ID
               in other nodes. If for some reason the initiator does not
               have a globally unique IP address, it MUST use a link-local
               address for this purpose that is highly likely to be
               unique, for example using <xref target="RFC7217"/>. 
               </t><t>

               A Discovery message MUST include exactly one of the following:
               <list style="symbols">
               <t>a discovery objective option (<xref target="ObjOption"/>).
               Its loop count MUST be set to a suitable value to prevent discovery
               loops (default value is GRASP_DEF_LOOPCT).
               </t>

               <t>a negotiation objective option (<xref target="ObjOption"/>). This
               is used both for the purpose of discovery and to indicate 
               to the discovery target that it MAY directly reply to 
               the discovery initiatior with a Negotiation message for 
               rapid processing, if it could act as the corresponding negotiation counterpart.
               The sender of such a Discovery message MUST initialize
               a negotiation timer and loop count in the same way as a Request message
               (<xref target="RequestMessage"/>).
               </t>
               <t>a synchronization objective option (<xref target="ObjOption"/>).
               This is used both for the purpose of discovery and to indicate to the discovery
               target that it MAY directly reply to the discovery initiator with a Synchronization message
               for rapid processing, if it could act as the corresponding synchronization counterpart.
               Its loop count MUST be set to a suitable value to prevent discovery
               loops (default value is GRASP_DEF_LOOPCT).</t>
               </list></t>
        </section>

        <section anchor="ResponseMessage" title="Response Message">
          <t>In fragmentary CDDL, a Response message follows the pattern:</t>
          
          <t><figure>
              <artwork><![CDATA[
  response-message = [M_RESPONSE, session-id, initiator,
                    (+locator-option // divert-option), ?objective)]
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
          
          <t>
          A node which receives a Discovery message SHOULD send a 
          Response message if and only if it can respond to the discovery. It MUST
          contain the same Session ID and initiator as the Discovery message.
          It MAY include a copy of the discovery objective from
          the Discovery message.
          </t><t>

          If the responding node supports the discovery objective 
          of the discovery, it MUST include at least one kind of 
          locator option (<xref target="LocatorOption"/>) to indicate its own 
          location. A sequence of multiple kinds of locator 
          options (e.g. IP address option + FQDN option) is also 
          valid.
          </t><t>

          If the responding node itself does not support the discovery 
          objective, but it knows the locator of the discovery 
          objective, then it SHOULD respond to the discovery message with a 
          divert option (<xref target="DivertOption"/>) embedding a locator 
          option or a combination of multiple kinds of locator
          options which indicate the locator(s) of the discovery 
          objective.
          </t>
        </section>

   

        <section anchor="RequestMessage" title="Request Message">
           
          <t>In fragmentary CDDL, a Request message follows the pattern:</t>
          
          <t><figure>
              <artwork><![CDATA[
  request-message = [M_REQUEST, session-id, objective]
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
          <t>
          A negotiation or synchronization requesting node
          sends the Request message to the unicast address (directly
          stored or resolved from an FQDN) of the negotiation or
          synchronization counterpart (selected from the discovery
          results).</t>
          <t>A request message MUST include the relevant objective option, with the requested
          value in the case of negotiation. </t>
          <t>When an initiator sends a Request message, it MUST initialize a negotiation timer
          for the new negotiation thread with the value GRASP_DEF_TIMEOUT milliseconds. Unless this 
          timeout is modified by a Confirm-waiting message (<xref target="ConfirmWaitingMessage"/>),
          the initiator will consider that the negotiation has failed when the timer expires. </t>
          <t>When an initiator sends a Request message, it MUST initialize the loop count
          of the objective option with a value defined in the specification of the option
          or, if no such value is specified, with GRASP_DEF_LOOPCT. </t>
          <t>If a node receives a Request message for an objective for which no ASA is currently
          listening, it MUST immediately close the relevant socket to indicate this to the initiator.</t>
        </section>

         

        <section anchor="NegotiationMessage" title="Negotiation Message">
           

          <t>In fragmentary CDDL, a Negotiation message follows the pattern:</t>
          
          <t><figure>
              <artwork><![CDATA[
  discovery-message = [M_NEGOTIATE, session-id, objective]
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
          <t>A negotiation counterpart sends a Negotiation
          message in response to a Request message, a 
          Negotiation message, or a Discovery message
          in Rapid Mode. A negotiation process MAY
          include multiple steps.</t>
          
          <t>The Negotiation message MUST include the relevant Negotiation Objective option,
          with its value updated according to progress in the negotiation. The sender
          MUST decrement the loop count by 1. If the loop count becomes zero the message
          MUST NOT be sent. In this case the negotiation session has failed and will time out.</t>
        </section>

         

        <section anchor="NegotiationEndingMessage" title="Negotiation-ending Message">
           

          <t>In fragmentary CDDL, a Negotiation-ending message follows the pattern:</t>
          
          <t><figure>
              <artwork><![CDATA[
  end-message = [M_END, session-id, accept-option / decline-option]
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
          <t>
          A negotiation counterpart sends an Negotiation-ending
          message to close the negotiation. It MUST contain 
          either an accept or a decline option, 
          defined in <xref target="AcceptOption"/> and <xref target="DeclineOption"/>.
          It could be sent either by the 
          requesting node or the responding node.</t>
        </section>

         

        <section anchor="ConfirmWaitingMessage" title="Confirm-waiting Message">
        
          <t>In fragmentary CDDL, a Confirm-waiting message follows the pattern:</t>

          <t><figure>
              <artwork><![CDATA[
  wait-message = [M_WAIT, session-id, waiting-time]
  waiting-time =        0..4294967295 ; in milliseconds
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
          <t>
          A responding node sends a Confirm-waiting message to
          ask the requesting node to wait for a further
          negotiation response. It might be that the local
          process needs more time or that the negotiation 
          depends on another triggered negotiation. This
          message MUST NOT include any other options.
          When received, the waiting time value overwrites 
          and restarts the current negotiation timer
          (<xref target="RequestMessage"/>).</t>

          <t>The responding node SHOULD send a Negotiation, Negotiation-Ending or another
          Confirm-waiting message before the negotiation timer expires. If
          not, the initiator MUST abandon or restart the negotiation
          procedure, to avoid an indefinite wait.</t>
        </section>
        
        <section anchor="SynchMessage" title="Synchronization Message">
          <t>In fragmentary CDDL, a Synchronization message follows the pattern:</t>
          
          <t><figure>
              <artwork><![CDATA[
  synch-message = [M_SYNCH, session-id, objective]
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
          
          <t>A node which receives a synchronization Request, or
             a Discovery message in Rapid Mode, sends back a unicast Synchronization
             message with the synchronization data, in the form of a GRASP Option for the specific
             synchronization objective present in the Request.</t>          
         
        </section>
        
        
        <section anchor="FloodMessage" title="Flood Message">
          <t>In fragmentary CDDL, a Flood message follows the pattern:</t>
          
          <t><figure>
              <artwork><![CDATA[
  flood-message = [M_FLOOD, session-id, initiator, +objective]
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
          
          <t>
          A node MAY initiate flooding by sending an unsolicited Flood Message
          with synchronization data. This MAY be sent to the
          link-local ALL_GRASP_NEIGHBOR multicast address, in accordance
          with the rules in <xref target="synchproc"/>. The initiator
          address is provided as described for Discovery messages.
          The synchronization data will be in the form of GRASP Option(s) for specific
          synchronization objective(s). The loop count(s) MUST be set to a suitable
          value to prevent flood loops (default value is GRASP_DEF_LOOPCT).</t>
          
          <t>A node that receives a Flood message SHOULD cache the received objectives for
          use by local ASAs.</t>
        </section>
        
        <section anchor="noop" title="No Operation Message">
          <t>In fragmentary CDDL, a No Operation message follows the pattern:</t>
          
          <t><figure>
              <artwork><![CDATA[
  noop-message = [M_NOOP]
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
          
          <t>
          This message MAY be sent by an implementation that for practical reasons needs to
          activate a socket. It MUST be silently ignored by a recipient.</t>
        </section>

         
      </section>

       

      <section anchor="GRASPOptions" title="GRASP Options">
         

        <t>This section defines the GRASP options for the negotiation
        and synchronization protocol signaling. Additional
        options may be defined in the future.</t>

        <section title="Format of GRASP Options">
           
           <t>GRASP options are CBOR objects that MUST start with an unsigned integer identifying 
           the specific option type carried in this option. These option types are formally
           defined in <xref target="cddl"/>. Apart from that the only format requirement
           is that each option MUST be a well-formed CBOR object. In general a CBOR array format
           is RECOMMENDED to limit overhead.</t>
           
          <t>GRASP options are usually scoped by using encapsulation. However, this is not a
          requirement</t>
          
        </section>

         

        <section anchor="DivertOption" title="Divert Option">
           

          <t>The Divert option is used to redirect a GRASP request to another
          node, which may be more appropriate for the intended negotiation or synchronization. It
          may redirect to an entity that is known as a specific negotiation or synchronization
          counterpart (on-link or off-link) or a default gateway. The divert
          option MUST only be encapsulated in Response messages.
          If found elsewhere, it SHOULD be silently ignored.</t>

          <t>In fragmentary CDDL, the Divert option follows the pattern:</t>

          <t><figure>
              <artwork><![CDATA[
  divert-option = [O_DIVERT, +locator-option]
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
          

        <t>The embedded Locator Option(s) (<xref target="LocatorOption"/>)
        point to diverted destination target(s) in response to a Discovery message. </t>

        </section>

         

        <section anchor="AcceptOption" title="Accept Option">
           

          <t>The accept option is used to indicate to the negotiation counterpart
          that the proposed negotiation content is accepted.</t>

          <t>The accept option MUST only be encapsulated in Negotiation-ending
          messages. If found elsewhere, it SHOULD be silently ignored.</t>

          <t>In fragmentary CDDL, the Accept option follows the pattern:</t>

          <t><figure>
              <artwork><![CDATA[
  accept-option = [O_ACCEPT]
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
        </section>

         

        <section anchor="DeclineOption" title="Decline Option">
           

          <t>The decline option is used to indicate to the negotiation
          counterpart the proposed negotiation content is declined and end the
          negotiation process.</t>

          <t>The decline option MUST only be encapsulated in
          Negotiation-ending messages. If found elsewhere, it SHOULD be
          silently ignored.</t>

          <t>In fragmentary CDDL, the Decline option follows the pattern:</t>

          <t><figure>
              <artwork><![CDATA[
  decline-option = [O_DECLINE, ?reason]
  reason = text  ;optional error message
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
          <t>Note: there are scenarios where a negotiation counterpart wants
          to decline the proposed negotiation content and continue the
          negotiation process. For these scenarios, the negotiation
          counterpart SHOULD use a Negotiate message, with either an objective
          option that contains a data field set
          to indicate a meaningless initial value, or a specific objective
          option that provides further conditions for convergence.</t>
        </section>

         

        <section anchor="IDOption" title="Device Identity Option">
           

          <t>The Device Identity option carries the identities of the sender 
          and of the domain(s) that it belongs to. </t>

          <t>In fragmentary CDDL, the Device Identity option follows the pattern:</t>

          <t><figure>
              <artwork><![CDATA[
  option-device-id = [O_DEVICE_ID, bytes]
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
          <t> The option contains a variable-length field containing the device identity
          and one or more domain identities. The format is not yet defined.
          </t>
          <t>Note: Currently this option is an unused placeholder. It might be removed or modified.</t>

        </section>

         

        <section anchor="LocatorOption" title="Locator Options">
           

          <t>These locator options are used to present reachability information for an ASA,
          a device or an interface. They are Locator IPv4 Address
          Option, Locator IPv6 Address Option, Locator FQDN (Fully
          Qualified Domain Name) Option and Uniform Resource Identifier Option.</t>
          
          <t>Note: It is assumed that all locators are in scope throughout
          the GRASP domain. GRASP is not intended to work across disjoint addressing
          or naming realms. </t>

          <section title="Locator IPv4 address option">

            <t>In fragmentary CDDL, the IPv4 address option follows the pattern:</t>

          <t><figure>
              <artwork><![CDATA[
  ipv4-locator-option = bytes .size 4
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
          
          <t>The content of this option is a binary IPv4 address.</t>

          <t>Note: If an operator has internal network address translation for IPv4,
          this option MUST NOT be used within the Divert option.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Locator IPv6 address option">
             
          <t>In fragmentary CDDL, the IPv6 address option follows the pattern:</t>

          <t><figure>
              <artwork><![CDATA[
  ipv6-locator-option = bytes .size 16
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
          
          <t>The content of this option is a binary IPv6 address.</t>
          
          <t>Note 1: The IPv6 address MUST normally have global scope. Exceptionally, during node bootstrap,
          a link-local address MAY be used for specific objectives only.</t>
          
          <t>Note 2: A link-local IPv6 address MUST NOT be used when
            this option is included in a Divert option.</t>
          </section>

           

          <section title="Locator FQDN option">
             

          <t>In fragmentary CDDL, the FQDN option follows the pattern:</t>

          <t><figure>
              <artwork><![CDATA[
  fqdn-locator-option = [O_FQDN_LOCATOR, text]
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
          
          <t>The content of this option is the Fully Qualified Domain Name of the target.
          </t>
          <t>Note 1: Any FQDN which might not be valid throughout the network in question,
          such as a Multicast DNS name <xref target="RFC6762"/>, MUST NOT be used when
          this option is used within the Divert option.</t>
          <t>Note 2: Normal GRASP operations are not expected to use this option. It is intended for
          special purposes such as discovering external services.</t>
          </section>
          
          <section title="Locator URI option">
             

            <t>In fragmentary CDDL, the URI option follows the pattern:</t>

          <t><figure>
              <artwork><![CDATA[
  uri-locator-option = [O_URI_LOCATOR, text]
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
          
          <t>The content of this option is the Uniform Resource Identifier of the target
          <xref target="RFC3986"/>.
          </t>
          <t>Note 1: Any URI which might not be valid throughout the network in question,
          such as one based on a Multicast DNS name <xref target="RFC6762"/>, MUST NOT be used when
          this option is used within the Divert option.</t>
          <t>Note 2: Normal GRASP operations are not expected to use this option. It is intended for
          special purposes such as discovering external services.</t>
          </section>

           
        </section>

         

        <!---->
      </section>

       
     <section title="Objective Options">
      <section anchor="ObjOption" title="Format of Objective Options">
       
        <t>An objective option is used to identify objectives for
        the purposes of discovery, negotiation or synchronization.
        All objectives MUST be in the following format,
        described in fragmentary CDDL:</t>

        <t><figure>
            <artwork><![CDATA[
  objective = [objective-name, objective-flags, loop-count, ?any]
           
  objective-name = text
  loop-count = 0..255
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
          
          <t>All objectives are identified by a unique name which is a case-sensitive UTF-8 string. </t>
          
          <t>The names of generic objectives MUST NOT include a colon (":")
          and MUST be registered with IANA (<xref target="iana"/>).</t>
          
          <t>The names of privately defined objectives MUST include at least one colon (":"). 
          The string preceding the last colon in the name MUST be globally unique and in some
          way identify the entity or person defining the objective. The following three methods
          MAY be used to create such a globally unique string:
          <list style="numbers">
          <t>The unique string is a decimal number representing a registered 32 bit Private Enterprise
          Number (PEN) <xref target="I-D.liang-iana-pen"/> that uniquely identifies the enterprise
          defining the objective.</t>
          <t>The unique string is a fully qualified domain name that uniquely identifies the entity or person
          defining the objective.</t>
          <t>The unique string is an email address that uniquely identifies the entity or person
          defining the objective.</t>
          </list> 
          
          The GRASP protocol treats the objective name as an opaque string. For example, "EX1", "411:EX1", 
          "example.com:EX1", "example.org:EX1 and "user@example.org:EX1" would be five different objectives.</t>
          
          <t>The 'objective-flags' field is described below.</t>
          
          <t>The 'loop-count' field is used for terminating negotiation as described in
          <xref target="NegotiationMessage"/>. It is also used for terminating discovery as
          described in <xref target="discmech"/>, and for terminating flooding as described in
          <xref target="flooding"/>. 
          </t>
          <t>
          The 'any' field is to express the actual value of a negotiation
          or synchronization objective. Its format is defined in the
          specification of the objective and may be a single value
          or a data structure of any kind. It is optional because it is optional
          in a Discovery or Response message.</t>
         </section>

         <section title="Objective flags">

         <t>An objective may be relevant for discovery only, for discovery and negotiation, or
         for discovery and synchronization. This is expressed in the objective by logical flags:</t>
         <t><figure>
        <artwork><![CDATA[
  objective-flags = uint .bits objective-flag
  objective-flag = &(
  F_DISC: 0   ; valid for discovery only
  F_NEG: 1    ; valid for discovery and negotiation
  F_SYNCH: 2  ; valid for discovery and synchronization
  )
  ]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
         </section>

      <section anchor="ConsOption" title="General Considerations for Objective Options">
         
        
        <t>As mentioned above, Objective Options MUST be assigned a unique name.
        As long as privately defined Objective Options obey the rules above, this document
        does not restrict their choice of name, but the entity or person concerned SHOULD publish the names in use. </t>
        
        <t>All Objective Options MUST respect the CBOR patterns defined above as "objective"
        and MUST replace the "any" field with a valid CBOR data definition
        for the relevant use case and application. </t>
        
        <t>An Objective Option that contains no additional
        fields beyond its "loop-count" can only be a discovery objective and MUST only be used
        in Discovery and Response messages.</t>
        
        <t>The Negotiation Objective Options contain negotiation objectives,
        which vary according to different functions/services. They MUST
        be carried by Discovery, Request or Negotiation Messages only. The negotiation
        initiator MUST set the initial "loop-count" to a value specified in the
        specification of the objective or, if no such value is specified, to 
        GRASP_DEF_LOOPCT.</t>

        <t>For most scenarios, there should be initial values in the
        negotiation requests. Consequently, the Negotiation Objective options MUST
        always be completely presented in a Request message, or in a Discovery
        message in rapid mode. If there is no
        initial value, the bits in the value field SHOULD all be set to
        indicate a meaningless value, unless this is inappropriate for the
        specific negotiation objective.</t>
        
        <t>Synchronization Objective Options are similar, but MUST be carried
        by Discovery, Request, Response or Flood messages only. They include
        value fields only in Response or Flood messages. </t>
        </section>
        <section title="Organizing of Objective Options">
           
          <t>Generic objective options MUST be specified in documents
          available to the public and SHOULD be designed to use either
          the negotiation or the synchronization mechanism described above.
          </t> 

          <t>As noted earlier, one negotiation objective is handled by each
          GRASP negotiation thread. Therefore, a negotiation objective, which is
          based on a specific function or action, SHOULD be organized as a single
          GRASP option. It is NOT RECOMMENDED to organize multiple negotiation
          objectives into a single option, nor to split a single function
          or action into multiple negotiation objectives. </t>
          
          <t>It is important to understand that GRASP negotiation does not 
          support transactional integrity. If transactional integrity is needed for
          a specific objective, this must be ensured by the ASA. For example, an ASA
          might need to ensure that it only participates in one negotiation thread
          at the same time. Such an ASA would need to stop listening for incoming
          negotiation requests before generating an outgoing negotiation request.</t>
          
          <t>A synchronization objective SHOULD be organized as a single GRASP option.</t>
          
          <t>Some objectives will support more than one operational mode.
          An example is a negotiation objective with both a "dry run" mode
          (where the negotiation is to find out whether the other end can in fact
          make the requested change without problems) and a "live" mode. Such
          modes will be defined in the specification of such an objective. These
          objectives SHOULD include flags indicating the
          applicable mode(s).</t>
          
          <t>An objective may have multiple parameters. Parameters
          can be categorized into two classes: the obligatory ones presented as
          fixed fields; and the optional ones presented in CBOR sub-options or
          some other form of data structure embedded in CBOR. The format might be
          inherited from an existing management or configuration protocol,
          the objective option acting as a carrier for that format.
          The data structure might be defined in a formal language, but that is a 
          matter for the specifications of individual objectives.
          There are many candidates, according to the context, such as ABNF, RBNF,
          XML Schema, possibly YANG, etc. The GRASP protocol itself is agnostic on
          these questions. </t>
          
          <t>It is NOT RECOMMENDED to split parameters in a single objective into
          multiple options, unless they have different response periods. An
          exception scenario may also be described by split objectives.</t>
          
          <t>All objectives MUST support GRASP discovery. However, as mentioned
          in <xref target="highlevel"/>, it is acceptable for an ASA to use an alternative method
          of discovery. </t>
          
          <t>Normally, a GRASP objective will refer to specific technical parameters
          as explained in <xref target="terms"/>. However, it is acceptable to define
          an abstract objective for the purpose of managing or coordinating ASAs. 
          It is also acceptable to define a special-purpose objective for purposes
          such as trust bootstrapping or formation of the ACP.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Experimental and Example Objective Options">
           
          <t>The names "EX0" through "EX9" have been reserved for experimental options.
          Multiple names have been assigned because a single experiment
          may use multiple options simultaneously. These experimental options
          are highly likely to have different meanings when used for different
          experiments. Therefore, they SHOULD NOT be used without an explicit
          human decision and SHOULD NOT be used in unmanaged networks such as
          home networks.</t>
          <t>These names are also RECOMMENDED for use in documentation 
          examples.</t>
        </section>
       </section>
         
      </section>

       

      <section title="Open Issues">
      
        <t>RFC Editor: This section should be deleted except for any items not marked
        as resolved, which should be retained and renumbered.</t>

        <t>There are various unresolved design questions that are worthy of more work
        in the near future, as listed below (statically numbered in historical order
        for reference purposes,
        with the resolved issues retained for reference):

           <list style="symbols">
            <t>1. UDP vs TCP: For now, this specification suggests UDP and TCP as
            message transport mechanisms. This is not clarified yet. UDP
            is good for short conversations, is necessary for multicast discovery,
            and generally fits the discovery and divert scenarios
            well. However, it will cause problems with large messages. TCP is good
            for stable and long sessions, with a little bit of time
            consumption during the session establishment stage. If messages
            exceed a reasonable MTU, a TCP mode will be required in any case.
            This question may be affected by the security discussion.
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED by specifying UDP for short message and TCP for longer one.
            </t>

            <t>2. DTLS or TLS vs built-in security mechanism. For now, this
            specification has chosen a PKI based built-in security mechanism
            based on asymmetric cryptography. However, (D)TLS might be chosen as security solution
            to avoid duplication of effort. It also allows essentially similar security for short
            messages over UDP and longer ones over TCP. The implementation trade-offs are different.
            The current approach requires expensive asymmetric cryptographic calculations
            for every message. (D)TLS has startup overheads but cheaper crypto per message.
            DTLS is less mature than TLS.
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED by specifying external security (ACP or (D)TLS).
            </t>
            
            <t>The following open issues applied only if the original security model was retained:
            <list style="symbols">
            <t>2.1. For replay protection, GRASP currently requires every participant to have an
            NTP-synchronized clock. Is this OK for low-end devices, and how does
            it work during device bootstrapping?
            We could take the Timestamp out of signature option, to become
            an independent and OPTIONAL (or RECOMMENDED) option.</t>
            
             <t>2.2. The Signature Option states that this option
            could be any place in a message. Wouldn't it be better to specify a position
            (such as the end)? That would be much simpler to implement. </t>
            
            </list>RESOLVED by changing security model.</t>
            
            <t>3. DoS Attack Protection needs work.
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED by adding text.</t>  

              
            <t>4. Should we consider preferring a text-based approach to
            discovery (after the initial discovery needed for bootstrapping)? 
            This could be a complementary mechanism for multicast based discovery, especially 
            for a very large autonomic network. Centralized registration could be automatically
            deployed incrementally. At the very first stage, the repository could be empty; 
            then it could be filled in by the objectives discovered by different devices (for example
            using Dynamic DNS Update). The more records are stored in the repository, the less the 
            multicast-based discovery is needed. However, if we adopt such a mechanism, there would be
            challenges: stateful solution, and security. 
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED for now by adding optional use of DNS-SD by ASAs. Subsequently removed
            by editors as irrelevant to GRASP istelf.
            </t> 
            
            <t>5. Need to expand description of the minimum requirements for
            the specification of an individual discovery, synchronization or
            negotiation objective. 
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED for now by extra wording.</t>

            <t>6. Use case and protocol walkthrough. A description of how a node starts up,
            performs discovery, and conducts negotiation and synchronisation for a sample
            use case would help readers to understand the applicability of this specification.
            Maybe it should be an artificial use case or maybe a simple real one, based on
            a conceptual API. However, the authors have not yet decided whether to have a
            separate document or have it in the protocol document. 
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: recommend a separate document.</t>
            
            <t>7. Cross-check against other ANIMA WG documents for consistency and gaps.</t>
            
            <t>8. Consideration of ADNCP proposal.
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED by adding optional use of DNCP for flooding-type synchronization.</t>
            
            
            <t>9. Clarify how a GDNP instance knows whether it is running inside the ACP. (Sheng)
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED by improved text.</t>
            
            <t>10. Clarify how a non-ACP GDNP instance initiates (D)TLS. (Sheng)
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED by improved text and declaring DTLS out of scope for this draft.
            </t>
            <t>11. Clarify how UDP/TCP choice is made. (Sheng) [Like DNS? - Brian]
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED by improved text.</t>
            
            
            <t>12. Justify that IP address within ACP or (D)TLS environment is sufficient to
            prove AN identity; or explain how Device Identity Option is used. (Sheng)
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED for now: we assume that all ASAs in a device are trusted
            as soon as the device is trusted, so they share credentials. In that case
            the Device Identity Option is useless. This needs to be reviewed later.</t>
            
            <t>13. Emphasise that negotiation/synchronization are independent from discovery,
            although the rapid discovery mode includes the first step of a negotiation/synchronization. 
            (Sheng) 
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED by improved text. </t>
            
            <t>14. Do we need an unsolicited flooding mechanism for discovery (for discovery results
            that everyone needs), to reduce scaling impact of flooding discovery messages? (Toerless)
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Yes, added to requirements and solution. </t>
            
            <t>15. Do we need flag bits in Objective Options to distinguish distinguish Synchronization
            and Negotiation "Request" or rapid mode "Discovery" messages? (Bing)
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: yes, work on the API showed that these flags are essential. </t> 
            
            <t>16. (Related to issue 14). Should we revive the "unsolicited Response" for flooding
            synchronisation data? This has to be done carefully due to the well-known issues with
            flooding, but it could be useful, e.g. for Intent distribution, where DNCP doesn't
            seem applicable.
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Yes, see #14.            
            </t>
            
            <t>17. Ensure that the discovery mechanism is completely proof against loops 
            and protected against duplicate responses.
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Added loop count mechanism.            
            </t>
            
            <t>18. Discuss the handling of multiple valid discovery responses.
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Stated that the choice must be available to the ASA
            but GRASP implementation should pick a default. </t>
            
            <t>19. Should we use a text-oriented format such as JSON/CBOR instead of 
            native binary TLV format?
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Yes, changed to CBOR. </t>
            
            <t>20. Is the Divert option needed? If a discovery response provides a valid
            IP address or FQDN, the recipient doesn't gain any extra knowledge from the Divert.
            On the other hand, the presence of Divert informs the receiver that the target
            is off-link, which might be useful sometimes.
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Decided to keep Divert option. </t>
            
            <t>21. Rename the protocol as GRASP (GeneRic Autonomic Signaling Protocol)?
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Yes, name changed.</t>
            
            <t>22. Does discovery mechanism scale robustly as needed? Need hop limit on relaying?
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Added hop limit.</t>

            <t>23. Need more details on TTL for caching discovery responses. 
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Done.</t>

            <t>24. Do we need "fast withdrawal" of discovery responses?
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: This doesn't seem necessary. If an ASA exits or stops supporting a given objective,
            peers will fail to start future sessions and will simply repeat discovery. </t>

            <t>25. Does GDNP discovery meet the needs of multi-hop DNS-SD?
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Decided not to consider this further as a GRASP protocol issue. GRASP objectives
            could embed DNS-SD formats if needed.</t>

            <t>26. Add a URL type to the locator options (for security bootstrap etc.)
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Done, later renamed as URI. </t>
            
            <t>27. Security of Flood multicasts (<xref target="flooding"/>).
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: added text.</t>
            
            <t>28. Does ACP support secure link-local multicast?
            </t>
            
            <t>29. PEN is used to distinguish vendor options. Would it be better to use
            a domain name? Anything unique will do.
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Simplified this by removing PEN field and changing naming rules
            for objectives.</t>
            
            <t>30. Does response to discovery require randomized delays to mitigate amplification attacks? 
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: WG feedback is that it's unnecessary.</t>
            
            <t>31. We have specified repeats for failed discovery etc. Is that sufficient to deal with sleeping nodes?
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: WG feedback is that it's unnecessary to say more.</t>
            
            <t>32. We have one-to-one synchronization and flooding synchronization. Do we also need
            selective flooding to a subset of nodes?
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: This will be discussed as a protocol extension in a separate draft
            (draft-liu-anima-grasp-distribution).</t>
            
            <t>33. Clarify if/when discovery needs to be repeated.
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Done.</t>
            
            <t>34. Clarify what is mandatory for running in ACP, expand discussion of security boundary
            when running with no ACP - might rely on the local PKI infrastructure.
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Done.</t>
            
            <t>35. State that role-based authorization of ASAs is out of scope for GRASP.
            GRASP doesn't recognize/handle any "roles".
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Done.</t>
            
            <t>36. Reconsider CBOR definition for PEN syntax.
            ( objective-name = text / [pen, text] ; pen = uint )
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: See issue 29.</t>
            
            <t>37. Are URI locators really needed?
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Yes, e.g. for security bootstrap discovery, but added note that
            addresses are the normal case (same for FQDN locators).</t>
            
            <t>38. Is Session ID sufficient to identify relayed responses?
            Isn't the originator's address needed too?
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Yes, this is needed for multicast messages and their responses.</t>
            
            <t>39. Clarify that a node will contain one GRASP instance supporting multiple ASAs.
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Done.</t>
            
            <t>40. Add a "reason" code to the DECLINE option?
            <vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Done.</t>
            
            <t>41. What happens if an ASA cannot conveniently use one of the GRASP mechanisms?
            Do we (a) add a message type to GRASP, or (b) simply pass the discovery results to the ASA so
            that it can open its own socket?<vspace blankLines="1"/>
            RESOLVED: Both would be possible, but (b) is preferred.</t>
            
            <t>42. Do we need a feature whereby an ASA can bypass the ACP and use the data plane
            for efficiency/throughput? This would require discovery to return non-ACP addresses
            and would evade ACP security. </t>
            
            <t>43. Rapid mode synchronization and negotiation is currently limited to a single objective
            for simplicity of design and implementation. A future consideration is to allow multiple
            objectives in rapid mode for greater efficiency. </t>
            
            <t>44. In requirement T9, the words that encryption "may not be required in all deployments"
            were removed. Is that OK?.</t>
            
            <t>45. Device Identity Option is unused. Can we remove it completely?.</t>
            
            <t>46. The 'initiator' field in DISCOVER, RESPONSE and FLOOD messages is intended to assist
            in loop prevention. However, we also have the loop count for that. It would be simpler to
            remove the initiator, making message parsing more uniform. Is that OK?</t>
            
            <t>47. REQUEST is a dual purpose message (request negotiation or request synchronization).
            Would it be better to split this into two different messages (and adjust various
            message names accordingly)?</t>
            
            
            </list></t>
      </section>


    <section anchor="security" title="Security Considerations">
      <t>It is obvious that a successful attack on negotiation-enabled nodes
      would be extremely harmful, as such nodes might end up with a completely
      undesirable configuration that would also adversely affect their peers.
      GRASP nodes and messages therefore require full protection. </t>

      <t>- Authentication<list style="hanging">
          <t>A cryptographically authenticated identity for each device is
          needed in an autonomic network. It is not safe to assume that a
          large network is physically secured against interference or that all
          personnel are trustworthy. Each autonomic node MUST be capable
          of proving its identity and authenticating its messages. GRASP
          relies on a separate external certificate-based security mechanism to support
          authentication, data integrity protection, and anti-replay protection.</t>

          <t>Since GRASP is intended to be deployed in a single administrative
          domain operating its own trust anchor and CA, there is
          no need for a trusted public third party. In a network requiring
          "air gap" security, such a dependency would be unacceptable. </t>
          
          <t>If GRASP is used temporarily without an external security mechanism,
          for example during system bootstrap (<xref target="reqsec"/>),
          the Session ID (<xref target="SessionID"/>) will act as a nonce to
          provide limited protection against third parties injecting responses.
          A full analysis of the secure bootstrap process is out of scope for the
          present document. </t>
        </list></t>
        
      <t>- Authorization and Roles<list style="hanging">
         <t>The GRASP protocol is agnostic about the role of individual ASAs and about
         which objectives a particular ASA is authorized to support. It SHOULD apply
         obvious precautions such as allowing only one ASA in a given node to modify
         a given objective, but otherwise authorization is out of scope. </t>
         </list></t>
         
      <t>- Privacy and confidentiality<list style="hanging">
          <t>Generally speaking, no personal information is expected to be
          involved in the signaling protocol, so there should be no direct
          impact on personal privacy. Nevertheless, traffic flow paths, VPNs,
          etc. could be negotiated, which could be of interest for traffic
          analysis. Also, operators generally want to conceal details of their
          network topology and traffic density from outsiders. Therefore,
          since insider attacks cannot be excluded in a large 
          network, the security mechanism for the protocol MUST
          provide message confidentiality.</t>
        </list></t>

      <t>- DoS Attack Protection<list style="hanging">
          <t>GRASP discovery partly relies on insecure link-local multicast. Since
          routers participating in GRASP sometimes relay discovery messages from one link
          to another, this could be a vector for denial of service attacks. Relevant
          mitigations are specified in <xref target="discmech"/>. Additionally,
          it is of great importance that firewalls prevent any GRASP messages
          from entering the domain from an untrusted source. </t>
        </list></t>
        
      <t>- Security during bootstrap and discovery<list style="hanging">
          <t>A node cannot authenticate GRASP traffic from other nodes until it
          has identified the trust anchor and can validate certificates for other
          nodes. Also, until it has succesfully enrolled
          <xref target="I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra"/> it cannot
          assume that other nodes are able to authenticate its own traffic.
          Therefore, GRASP discovery during the bootstrap phase for a new device
          will inevitably be insecure and GRASP synchronization and negotiation
          will be impossible until enrollment is complete.</t>
        </list></t>
    </section>
    
    <section anchor="cddl" title="CDDL Specification of GRASP">
    <t><figure>
    <artwork><![CDATA[
<CODE BEGINS>

grasp-message = (message .within message-structure) / noop-message

message-structure = [MESSAGE_TYPE, session-id, +grasp-option]

MESSAGE_TYPE = 0..255
session-id = 0..16777215 ;up to 24 bits
grasp-option = any

message /= discovery-message
discovery-message = [M_DISCOVERY, session-id, initiator, objective]

message /= response-message ;response to Discovery
response-message = [M_RESPONSE, session-id, initiator,
                   (+locator-option // divert-option), ?objective]

message /= synch-message ;response to Synchronization request
synch-message = [M_SYNCH, session-id, objective] 

message /= flood-message
flood-message = [M_FLOOD, session-id, initiator, +objective]

message /= request-message
request-message = [M_REQUEST, session-id, objective]

message /= negotiation-message
negotiation-message = [M_NEGOTIATE, session-id, objective]

message /= end-message
end-message = [M_END, session-id, accept-option / decline-option ]

message /= wait-message
wait-message = [M_WAIT, session-id, waiting-time]

noop-message = [M_NOOP]

divert-option = [O_DIVERT, +locator-option]

accept-option = [O_ACCEPT]

decline-option = [O_DECLINE, ?reason]
reason = text  ;optional error message

waiting-time = 0..4294967295 ; in milliseconds

option-device-id = [O_DEVICE_ID, bytes]

locator-option /= ipv4-locator-option
ipv4-locator-option = bytes .size 4
; this is simpler than [O_IPv4_LOCATOR, bytes .size 4]

locator-option /= ipv6-locator-option
ipv6-locator-option = bytes .size 16

locator-option /= fqdn-locator-option
fqdn-locator-option = [O_FQDN_LOCATOR, text]

locator-option /= uri-locator-option
uri-locator-option = [O_URI_LOCATOR, text]

initiator = ipv4-locator-option / ipv6-locator-option

objective-flags = uint .bits objective-flag

objective-flag = &(
 F_DISC: 0   ; valid for discovery only
 F_NEG: 1    ; valid for discovery and negotiation
 F_SYNCH: 2  ; valid for discovery and synchronization
 )

objective = [objective-name, objective-flags, loop-count, ?any]

objective-name = text ;see specification for uniqueness rules

loop-count = 0..255

; Constants for message types and option types

M_NOOP = 0
M_DISCOVERY = 1
M_RESPONSE = 2
M_REQUEST = 3
M_NEGOTIATE = 4
M_END = 5
M_WAIT = 6
M_SYNCH = 7
M_FLOOD = 8

O_DIVERT = 100
O_ACCEPT = 101
O_DECLINE = 102
O_FQDN_LOCATOR = 103
O_URI_LOCATOR = 104
O_DEVICE_ID = 105


<CODE ENDS>
    ]]></artwork>
    </figure></t>
    </section>

    <section anchor="iana" title="IANA Considerations">
    <t>This document defines the General Discovery and Negotiation
      Protocol (GRASP).</t>
      <t><xref target="Constants"/> explains the following link-local multicast
      addresses, which IANA is requested to assign for use by GRASP:</t>

      <t><list style="hanging">
          <t hangText="ALL_GRASP_NEIGHBOR multicast address">(IPv6): (TBD1).
          Assigned in the IPv6 Link-Local Scope Multicast Addresses registry.</t>

          <t hangText="ALL_GRASP_NEIGHBOR multicast address">(IPv4): (TBD2).
          Assigned in the IPv4 Multicast Local Network Control Block.
          <!-- <vspace blankLines="1"/>
          (Note in draft: alternatively, we could use 224.0.0.1, currently
          defined as All Systems on this Subnet.)--></t>
        </list></t>

      <t><xref target="Constants"/> explains the following UDP and TCP port,
       which IANA is requested to assign for use by GRASP:</t>

      <t><list style="hanging">
          <t hangText="GRASP_LISTEN_PORT:">(TBD3)</t>
        </list></t>

      <t>The IANA is requested to create a GRASP Parameter Registry
      including two registry tables. These are the GRASP Messages and Options Table and 
      the GRASP Objective Names Table.</t>

      <t>GRASP Messages and Options Table. The values in this table are names paired with decimal
      integers. Future values MUST be assigned using the Standards Action policy
      defined by <xref target="RFC5226"/>. The following initial values are assigned by this document:</t>

      <t><figure>
          <artwork><![CDATA[ M_NOOP = 0
 M_DISCOVERY = 1
 M_RESPONSE = 2
 M_REQUEST = 3
 M_NEGOTIATE = 4
 M_END = 5
 M_WAIT = 6

 O_DIVERT = 100
 O_ACCEPT = 101
 O_DECLINE = 102
 O_FQDN_LOCATOR = 103
 O_URI_LOCATOR = 104
 O_DEVICE_ID = 105
]]></artwork>
        </figure>
        </t>
        
        <t>GRASP Objective Names Table. The values in this table are UTF-8 strings.
        Future values MUST be assigned using the Specification Required policy
        defined by <xref target="RFC5226"/>.
        The following initial values are assigned by this document:</t>

      <t><figure>
          <artwork><![CDATA[ EX0
 EX1
 EX2
 EX3
 EX4
 EX5
 EX6
 EX7
 EX8
 EX9
]]></artwork>
        </figure>
        </t>
     
    </section>

    <section anchor="ack" title="Acknowledgements">
    
      <t>A major contribution to the original version of this document was made by Sheng Jiang.</t>
      
      <t>Valuable comments were received from
      Michael Behringer,
      Jeferson Campos Nobre,
      Laurent Ciavaglia,
      Zongpeng Du,
      Yu Fu,
      Joel Halpern,
      Zhenbin Li,
      Dimitri Papadimitriou,
      Pierre Peloso,
      Reshad Rahman,
      Michael Richardson,
      Markus Stenberg,
      Rene Struik,
      Dacheng Zhang,
      and other participants in the NMRG research group
      and the ANIMA working group.</t>

      <t>This document was produced using the xml2rfc tool <xref target="RFC2629"/>.</t>
    </section>

    <section anchor="changes" title="Change log [RFC Editor: Please remove]">
    
    <t>draft-ietf-anima-grasp-02, 2016-01-13:
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Resolved numerous issues according to WG discussions.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Renumbered requirements, added D9.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Protocol change: only allow one objective in rapid mode.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Protocol change: added optional error string to DECLINE option.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Protocol change: removed statement that seemed to say that a Request not preceded
      by a Discovery should cause a Discovery response. That made no sense, because there
      is no way the initiator would know where to send the Request.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Protocol change: Removed PEN option from vendor objectives, changed naming rule
      accordingly.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Protocol change: Added FLOOD message to simplify coding.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Protocol change: Added SYNCH message to simplify coding.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Protocol change: Added initiator id to DISCOVER, RESPONSE and FLOOD messages.
      But also allowed the relay process for DISCOVER and FLOOD to regenerate a Session ID.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Protocol change: Require that discovered addresses must be global (except during bootstrap).
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Protocol change: Receiver of REQUEST message must close socket if no ASA is listening for the objective.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Protocol change: Simplified Waiting message.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Protocol change: Added No Operation message.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Renamed URL locator type as URI locator type.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Updated CDDL definition.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Various other clarifications and editorial fixes.
      </t>
    
    <t>draft-ietf-anima-grasp-01, 2015-10-09:
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Updated requirements after list discussion.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Changed from TLV to CBOR format - many detailed changes, added co-author.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Tightened up loop count and timeouts for various cases.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Noted that GRASP does not provide transactional integrity.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Various other clarifications and editorial fixes.
      </t>
    
    <t>draft-ietf-anima-grasp-00, 2015-08-14:
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      File name and protocol name changed following WG adoption.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Added URL locator type.
      </t>
    
    <t>draft-carpenter-anima-gdn-protocol-04, 2015-06-21:
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Tuned wording around hierarchical structure.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Changed "device" to "ASA" in many places. 
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Reformulated requirements to be clear that the ASA is the main customer 
      for signaling.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Added requirement for flooding unsolicited synch, and added it to protocol spec.
      Recognized DNCP as alternative for flooding synch data.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Requirements clarified, expanded and rearranged following design team discussion.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Clarified that GDNP discovery must not
      be a prerequisite for GDNP negotiation or synchronization (resolved issue 13).
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Specified flag bits for objective options (resolved issue 15).
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Clarified usage of ACP vs TLS/DTLS and TCP vs UDP (resolved issues 9,10,11).
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Updated DNCP description from latest DNCP draft.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Editorial improvements.</t>
      <t>draft-carpenter-anima-gdn-protocol-03, 2015-04-20:
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Removed intrinsic security, required external security
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Format changes to allow DNCP co-existence
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Recognized DNS-SD as alternative discovery method.
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Editorial improvements</t>
      <t>draft-carpenter-anima-gdn-protocol-02, 2015-02-19:
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Tuned requirements to clarify scope,
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Clarified relationship between types of objective,
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Clarified that objectives may be simple values or complex data structures,
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Improved description of objective options,
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Added loop-avoidance mechanisms (loop count and default timeout,
      limitations on discovery relaying and on unsolicited responses),
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Allow multiple discovery objectives in one response,
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Provided for missing or multiple discovery responses,
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Indicated how modes such as "dry run" should be supported,
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Minor editorial and technical corrections and clarifications,
      <vspace blankLines="1"/>
      Reorganized future work list. </t>
      <t>draft-carpenter-anima-gdn-protocol-01, restructured the logical flow of the document,
      updated to describe synchronization completely, add unsolicited responses, numerous corrections
      and clarifications, expanded future work list, 2015-01-06. </t>
      <t>draft-carpenter-anima-gdn-protocol-00, combination
      of draft-jiang-config-negotiation-ps-03 and
      draft-jiang-config-negotiation-protocol-02, 2014-10-08.</t>
    </section>
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    <references title="Normative References">
      
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.2119'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.5280'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.4086'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.5246'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.6347'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.3986'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.7049'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.7217'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.I-D.greevenbosch-appsawg-cbor-cddl'?>
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    <references title="Informative References">
      
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.2629'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.5226'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.6733'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.2865'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.4861'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.5971'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.6241'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.3209'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.2205'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.3416'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.3315'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.6887'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.6762'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.6763'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.2608'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.6206'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.7228'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.7575'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.7576'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.7558'?>

      <?rfc include='reference.I-D.ietf-homenet-hncp'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.I-D.stenberg-anima-adncp'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.I-D.ietf-homenet-dncp'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.I-D.ietf-netconf-restconf'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.I-D.chaparadza-intarea-igcp'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.I-D.behringer-anima-reference-model'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.I-D.ietf-anima-autonomic-control-plane'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.I-D.eckert-anima-stable-connectivity'?>
      <?rfc include='reference.I-D.liang-iana-pen'?>

    </references>
    
 <section anchor="current" title="Capability Analysis of Current Protocols">
      <t>This appendix discusses various existing protocols with properties
      related to the above negotiation and synchronisation requirements. The
      purpose is to evaluate whether any existing protocol, or a simple
      combination of existing protocols, can meet those requirements.</t>

      <t>Numerous protocols include some form of discovery, but these all appear to be very
      specific in their applicability. Service Location Protocol (SLP) 
      <xref target="RFC2608"/> provides service discovery for managed networks,
      but requires configuration of its own servers. DNS-SD <xref target="RFC6763"/>
      combined with mDNS <xref target="RFC6762"/> provides service discovery for
      small networks with a single link layer. <xref target="RFC7558"/>
      aims to extend this to larger autonomous networks but this is not yet
      standardized. However, both SLP and DNS-SD appear to
      target primarily application layer services, not the layer 2 and 3 objectives
      relevant to basic network configuration. Both SLP and DNS-SD are text-based protocols. </t>

      <t>Routing protocols are mainly one-way information announcements. The
      receiver makes independent decisions based on the received information
      and there is no direct feedback information to the announcing peer. This
      remains true even though the protocol is used in both directions between
      peer routers; there is state synchronization, but no negotiation, and
      each peer runs its route calculations independently.</t>

      <t>Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) <xref target="RFC3416"/> uses
      a command/response model not well suited for peer negotiation. Network Configuration
      Protocol (NETCONF) <xref target="RFC6241"/> uses an RPC model that does allow positive or
      negative responses from the target system, but this is still not
      adequate for negotiation.</t>

      <t>There are various existing protocols that have elementary negotiation
      abilities, such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
      <xref target="RFC3315"/>, Neighbor Discovery (ND) <xref target="RFC4861"/>,
      Port Control Protocol (PCP) <xref target="RFC6887"/>, Remote Authentication
      Dial In User Service (RADIUS) <xref target="RFC2865"/>, Diameter <xref target="RFC6733"/>,
      etc. Most of them are configuration or
      management protocols. However, they either provide only a simple
      request/response model in a master/slave context or very limited
      negotiation abilities.</t>

      <t>There are some signaling protocols with an element of negotiation.
      For example Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) <xref target="RFC2205"/>
      was designed for negotiating quality of service
      parameters along the path of a unicast or multicast flow. RSVP is a very
      specialised protocol aimed at end-to-end flows. However, it has some
      flexibility, having been extended for MPLS label distribution <xref target="RFC3209"/>.
      A more generic design is General Internet
      Signalling Transport (GIST) <xref target="RFC5971"/>, but it is
      complex, tries to solve many problems, and is also aimed at per-flow
      signaling across many hops rather than at device-to-device signaling.
      However, we cannot completely exclude extended RSVP or GIST as a
      synchronization and negotiation protocol. They do not appear to be
      directly useable for peer discovery.</t>

      <t>We now consider two protocols that are works in progress at the time
      of this writing. Firstly, RESTCONF <xref target="I-D.ietf-netconf-restconf"/>
      is a protocol intended to
      convey NETCONF information expressed in the YANG language via HTTP,
      including the ability to transit HTML intermediaries. While this is a
      powerful approach in the context of centralised configuration of a
      complex network, it is not well adapted to efficient interactive
      negotiation between peer devices, especially simple ones that are
      unlikely to include YANG processing already.</t>

      <t>Secondly, we consider Distributed Node Consensus Protocol (DNCP) 
      <xref target="I-D.ietf-homenet-dncp"/>. This is defined as a generic form
      of state synchronization protocol, with a proposed usage profile being the 
      Home Networking Control Protocol (HNCP) <xref target="I-D.ietf-homenet-hncp"/>
      for configuring Homenet routers. A specific application of DNCP for autonomic
      networking was proposed in <xref target="I-D.stenberg-anima-adncp"/>.
      </t>
      <t>DNCP "is designed to provide a way for each participating node to
         publish a set of TLV (Type-Length-Value) tuples, and to provide a
         shared and common view about the data published... DNCP is most suitable
         for data that changes only infrequently... If constant rapid
         state changes are needed, the preferable choice is to use an
         additional point-to-point channel..."</t>
      <t>Specific features of DNCP include:
      <list style="symbols">
          <t>Every participating node has a unique node identifier.</t>
          
          <t>DNCP messages are encoded as a sequence of TLV objects, sent over
          unicast UDP or TCP, with or without (D)TLS security.</t>
          
          <t>Multicast is used only for discovery of DNCP neighbors
          when lower security is acceptable.</t>
          
          <t>Synchronization of state is maintained by a flooding process using the Trickle algorithm.
          There is no bilateral synchronization or negotiation capability.</t>

          <t>The HNCP profile of DNCP is designed to operate between directly connected neighbors
          on a shared link using UDP and link-local IPv6 addresses.</t>
        </list>
      DNCP does not meet the needs of a general negotiation protocol, because it is designed
      specifically for flooding synchronization. Also, in its HNCP profile it is limited to link-local
      messages and to IPv6. However, at the minimum it is a
      very interesting test case for this style of interaction between devices
      without needing a central authority, and it is a proven method of network-wide state
      synchronization by flooding.</t>

      <t>A proposal was made some years ago for an IP based Generic Control Protocol
      (IGCP) <xref target="I-D.chaparadza-intarea-igcp"/>. This was aimed
      at information exchange and negotiation but not directly at peer
      discovery. However, it has many points in common with the present work.</t>

      <t>None of the above solutions appears to completely meet the needs of
      generic discovery, state synchronization and negotiation in a single solution.
      Many of the protocols assume that they are working in a traditional
      top-down or north-south scenario, rather than a fluid peer-to-peer
      scenario. Most of them are specialized in one way or another. As a result, 
      we have not identified a combination of existing protocols that meets the
      requirements in <xref target="reqts"/>. Also, we have not identified a path
      by which one of the existing protocols could be extended to meet the
      requirements.
      </t>
    </section>

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