The Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) Research Group research group has defined many protocols such as the Bundle Protocol and Licklider Transmission Protocol. The specifications of these protocols contain fields that are subject to a registry. For the purpose of its research work, the group created ad hoc registries. As the specifications are stable and have multiple interoperable implementations, the group would like to hand off the registries to IANA for official custody. This document describes the actions executed by IANA.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2 2. Treatment of Flag Fields Encoded Using SDNVs ....................2 3. Bundle Protocol .................................................3 3.1. Bundle Block Types .........................................3 3.2. Primary Bundle Protocol Version ............................3 3.3. Bundle Processing Control Flags ............................4 3.4. Block Processing Control Flags .............................5 3.5. Bundle Status Report Flags .................................6 3.6. Bundle Status Report Reason Codes ..........................7 3.7. Bundle Custody Signal Reason Codes .........................7 4. Security Considerations .........................................8 5. IANA Considerations .............................................8 6. Acknowledgements ................................................8 7. References ......................................................9 7.1. Normative References .......................................9 7.2. Informative References .....................................9
The DTNRG research group has defined many protocols relevant to the DTN architecture [RFC4838] such as the Bundle Protocol [RFC5050] and Licklider Transmission Protocol [RFC5326]. The specifications of these protocols contain fields that are subject to a registry. For the purpose of its research work, the group created ad hoc registries (http://www.dtnrg.org/wiki/AssignedNamesAndNumbers). As the specifications are stable and have multiple interoperable implementations, the group would like to hand off the registries to IANA for official custody. This document describes the actions executed by IANA.
The DTN protocols use several extensible bit flag fields that are encoded as Self-Delimiting Numeric Values (SDNVs) as defined in Section 4.1 of [RFC5050]. For these fields, the registry specifies the allocation and usage of bit positions within the unencoded field. The SDNV encoding treats the ensemble of bits in the unencoded value as a numeric value to be encoded on transmission and decoded on reception as described in [RFC5050].
Processing of SDNV-encoded flags is discussed in [RFC6256].
Section 4.1 of [RFC5050] specifies that implementations are not required to handle SDNVs with more than 64 bits in their unencoded value. Accordingly, SDNV-encoded flag fields should be limited to 64 bit positions.
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IANA registry policies and wording used in this document are described in [RFC5226].
The value "0" was not defined in any document or in the ad hoc registry. As per consensus by the DTNRG research group, it is reserved per this document.
The value "0-5" was not defined in any document or in the ad hoc registry. As per consensus by the DTNRG research group, it is reserved per this document.
The Bundle Protocol has a Bundle Processing Control Flags field (see Section 4.2 of [RFC5050]) encoded as an SDNV (see Section 2). An IANA registry has been set up as follows.
The registration policy for this registry is: Specification Required
The Value range is: Variable length. Maximum number of flag bit positions: 64
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Bundle Processing Control Flags Registry
+--------------------+----------------------------------+-----------+ | Bit Position | Description | Reference | | (right to left) | | | +--------------------+----------------------------------+-----------+ | 0 | Bundle is a fragment | [RFC5050] | | 1 | Application data unit is an | [RFC5050] | | | administrative record | | | 2 | Bundle must not be fragmented | [RFC5050] | | 3 | Custody transfer is requested | [RFC5050] | | 4 | Destination endpoint is a | [RFC5050] | | | singleton | | | 5 | Acknowledgement by application | [RFC5050] | | | is requested | | | 6 | Reserved | [RFC5050] | | 7-8 | Class of service: priority | [RFC5050] | | 9-13 | Class of service: reserved | [RFC5050] | | 14 | Request reporting of bundle | [RFC5050] | | | reception | | | 15 | Request reporting of custody | [RFC5050] | | | acceptance | | | 16 | Request reporting of bundle | [RFC5050] | | | forwarding | | | 17 | Request reporting of bundle | [RFC5050] | | | delivery | | | 18 | Request reporting of bundle | [RFC5050] | | | deletion | | | 19 | Reserved | [RFC5050] | | 20 | Reserved | [RFC5050] | | 21-63 | Unassigned | | +--------------------+----------------------------------+-----------+
The value "00000000" was not defined in any document or in the ad hoc registry. As per consensus by the DTNRG research group, it is reserved per this document.
The Bundle Protocol has a Bundle Status Report Reason Codes field (see Section 6.1.1 of [RFC5050]). An IANA registry has been set up as follows.
The registration policy for this registry is: Specification Required
The Value range is: unsigned 8-bit integer.
Bundle Status Report Reason Codes Registry
+-------+-------------------------------------------+---------------+ | Value | Description | Reference | +-------+-------------------------------------------+---------------+ | 0 | No additional information | [RFC5050] | | 1 | Lifetime expired | [RFC5050] | | 2 | Forwarded over unidirectional link | [RFC5050] | | 3 | Transmission canceled | [RFC5050] | | 4 | Depleted storage | [RFC5050] | | 5 | Destination endpoint ID unintelligible | [RFC5050] | | 6 | No known route to destination from here | [RFC5050] | | 7 | No timely contact with next node on route | [RFC5050] | | 8 | Block unintelligible | [RFC5050] | | 9-254 | Unassigned | | | 255 | Reserved | This document | +-------+-------------------------------------------+---------------+
The value "255" was not defined in any document or in the ad hoc registry. As per consensus by the DTNRG research group, it is reserved per this document.
The Bundle Protocol has a Bundle Custody Signal Reason Codes field (see Section 6.1.2 of [RFC5050]). An IANA registry has been set up as follows.
The registration policy for this registry is: Specification Required
The Value range is: unsigned 7-bit integer.
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Bundle Custody Signal Reason Codes Registry
+--------------+--------------------------------------+-------------+ | Value | Description | Reference | +--------------+--------------------------------------+-------------+ | 0 | No additional information | [RFC5050] | | 1-2 | Unassigned | | | 3 | Redundant reception (reception by a | [RFC5050] | | | node that is a custodial node for | | | | this bundle) | | | 4 | Depleted storage | [RFC5050] | | 5 | Destination endpoint ID | [RFC5050] | | | unintelligible | | | 6 | No known route to destination from | [RFC5050] | | | here | | | 7 | No timely contact with next node on | [RFC5050] | | | route | | | 8 | Block unintelligible | [RFC5050] | | 9-126 | Unassigned | | | 127 | Reserved | This | | | | document | +--------------+--------------------------------------+-------------+
The value "127" was not defined in any document or in the ad hoc registry. As per consensus by the DTNRG research group, it is reserved per this document.
This document requests the creation of registries managed by IANA. There are no security issues involved. Refer to the Security Considerations section of the referenced protocols.
The editor would like to thank the following people who have provided comments and suggestions to this document, in no specific order: Stephen Farrell, Daniel Ellard, Scott Burleigh, Keith Scott, and Elwyn Davies.
[RFC4838] Cerf, V., Burleigh, S., Hooke, A., Torgerson, L., Durst, R., Scott, K., Fall, K., and H. Weiss, "Delay-Tolerant Networking Architecture", RFC 4838, April 2007.
[RFC5326] Ramadas, M., Burleigh, S., and S. Farrell, "Licklider Transmission Protocol - Specification", RFC 5326, September 2008.
[RFC6256] Eddy, W. and E. Davies, "Using Self-Delimiting Numeric Values in Protocols", RFC 6256, May 2011.
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