RFC7337
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) K. Leung, Ed. Request for Comments: 7337 Cisco Category: Informational Y. Lee, Ed. ISSN: 2070-1721 Comcast
August 2014
Content Distribution Network Interconnection (CDNI) Requirements
Abstract
Content delivery is frequently provided by specifically architected and provisioned Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). As a result of significant growth in content delivered over IP networks, existing CDN providers are scaling up their infrastructure. Many Network Service Providers (NSPs) and Enterprise Service Providers (ESPs) are also deploying their own CDNs. To deliver contents from the Content Service Provider (CSP) to end users, the contents may traverse across multiple CDNs. This creates a need for interconnecting (previously) standalone CDNs so that they can collectively act as a single delivery platform from the CSP to the end users.
The goal of the present document is to outline the requirements for the solution and interfaces to be specified by the CDNI working group.
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6. CDNI Footprint & Capabilities Advertisement Interface
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 CDNI Model and CDNI Interfaces
- 3 Generic CDNI Requirements
- 4 CDNI Control Interface Requirements
- 5 CDNI Request Routing Redirection Interface Requirements
- 6 CDNI Footprint & Capabilities Advertisement Interface Requirements
- 7 CDNI Metadata Interface Requirements
- 8 CDNI Logging Interface Requirements
- 9 CDNI Security Requirements
Introduction
The volume of video and multimedia content delivered over the Internet is rapidly increasing and expected to continue doing so in the future. In the face of this growth, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) provide numerous benefits: reduced delivery cost for cacheable content, improved quality of experience for end users, and increased robustness of delivery. For these reasons, CDNs are frequently used for large-scale content delivery. As a result of the significant growth in content delivered over IP networks, existing CDN providers are scaling up their infrastructure and many NSPs and ESPs are deploying their own CDNs. Subject to the policy of the Content Service Provider (CSP), it is generally desirable that a given item
of content can be delivered to an end user regardless of that end user's location or attachment network. This creates a need for interconnecting (previously) standalone CDNs so they can interoperate and collectively behave as a single delivery infrastructure. The Content Distribution Network Interconnection (CDNI) working group has been chartered to develop an interoperable and scalable solution for such CDN interconnections.
The CDNI Problem Statement RFC6707 outlines the problem area that the CDNI working group is chartered to address. The Use Cases for CDNI document RFC6770 discusses the use cases for CDN Interconnection. The Framework for CDN Interconnection RFC7336 discusses the technology framework for the CDNI solution and interfaces.
The goal of the present document is to document the requirements for the CDNI solution and interfaces. In order to meet the time lines defined in the working group charter, the present document categorizes the CDNI requirements as "High Priority", "Medium Priority", and "Low Priority".
Terminology
This document uses the terminology defined in RFC6707. In addition, the key words "High Priority", "Medium Priority", and "Low Priority" in this document are to be interpreted as follows:
o "High Priority": When a requirement is tagged as "{HIGH}", it is
considered by the working group as an essential function for CDNI and necessary to a deployable solution. This requirement has to be met even if it causes a delay in the delivery by the working group of a deployable solution.
o "Medium Priority": When a requirement is tagged as "{MED}", it is
considered by the working group as an important function for CDNI. This requirement has to be met, unless it is established that attempting to meet this requirement would cause a delay in the delivery by the working group of a deployable solution.
o "Low Priority": When a requirement is tagged as "{LOW}", it is
considered by the working group as a useful function for CDNI. The working group will attempt to meet this requirement as long as it does not prevent meeting the "High Priority" and "Medium Priority" requirements and does not cause a delay in the delivery by the working group of a deployable solution.
CDNI Model and CDNI Interfaces
The "CDNI Expanded Model and CDNI Interfaces" figure and brief descriptions of the CDNI interfaces in RFC7336 are replicated below for convenience. That document contains the definitive reference model and descriptions for the CDNI interfaces.
o CDNI Control interface (CI): Operations to bootstrap and
parameterize the other CDNI interfaces, as well as operations to pre-position, revalidate, and purge both metadata and content. The latter subset of operations is sometimes collectively called the "Trigger interface."
o CDNI Request Routing interface: Operations to determine what CDN
(and optionally what Surrogate within a CDN) is to serve an end user's requests. This interface is actually a logical bundling of two separate but related interfaces:
* CDNI Footprint & Capabilities Advertisement interface (FCI):
Asynchronous operations (as defined in RFC7336) to exchange
routing information (e.g., the network footprint and
capabilities served by a given CDN) that enables CDN selection
for subsequent user requests; and
* CDNI Request Routing Redirection interface (RI): Synchronous
operations (as defined in RFC7336) to select a delivery CDN
(Surrogate) for a given user request.
o CDNI Metadata interface (MI): Operations to communicate metadata
that governs how the content is delivered by interconnected CDNs. Examples of CDNI Metadata include geo-blocking directives, availability windows, access control mechanisms, and purge directives. It may include a combination of:
* Asynchronous operations to exchange metadata that govern
subsequent user requests for content; and
* Synchronous operations that govern behavior for a given user
request for content.
o CDNI Logging interface (LI): Operations that allow interconnected
CDNs to exchange relevant activity logs. It may include a combination of:
* Real-time exchanges, suitable for runtime traffic monitoring;
and
* Offline exchanges, suitable for analytics and billing.
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/ Upstream CDN \ | | / Downstream CDN \
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|******* Control |<======|====|=======>| Control *******|
|* +------*----*-+ | | | | +-*----*------+ *|
|* * * | | | | * * *|
|* +------*------+ | | LI | | +------*------+ *|
|* ***** Logging |<======|====|=======>| Logging ***** *|
|* * +-*-----------+ | | | | +-----------*-+ * *|
|* * * * | | | | * * * *|
. |* * | |<======|====|=======>| | * *| . . |* * | Req-Routing | | |FCI | | | Req-Routing | * *| . . |* * *** |<======|====|=======>| |** * *| . . |* * * +-------------+.| | | | +-------------+ * * *| . . |* * * . | | | * * *| . . |* * * +-------------+ |. | MI | | +-------------+ * * *| . . |* * * | Distribution|<==.===|====|=======>| Distribution| * * *| . . |* * * | | | . \ / | | | * * *| . . |* * * |+---------+ | | . \/ | | +---------+| * * *| .
. |* *****+-|Surrogate|***********************|Surrogate|-+***** *| . . |******* +---------+| | Acquisition | |+----------+ *******| . . | +-------------+ | | +-------*-----+ | . . \ / \ * / . . ---------------------- ---------*------------ . . * . . * Delivery . . * . . +--*---+ .
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<==> interfaces inside the scope of CDNI
Figure 1: CDNI Expanded Model and CDNI Interfaces
Generic CDNI Requirements
This section identifies generic requirements independent of the individual CDNI interfaces. Some of those are expected to affect multiple or all interfaces. Management is an important aspect of CDN operation. The fault and performance management is covered in CDNI Logging interface requirements. The other types of management are specific to the CDN provider and not needed for interoperability between CDN providers.
GEN-1 {MED} Wherever possible, the CDNI interfaces should reuse or
leverage existing IETF protocols.
GEN-2 {HIGH} The CDNI solution shall not require a change, or an
upgrade, to the User Agent to benefit from content delivery
through interconnected CDNs.
GEN-3 {HIGH} The CDNI solution shall not require a change, or an
upgrade, to the Content Service Provider delivering content
through a single CDN, to benefit from content delivery
through interconnected CDNs.
GEN-4 {HIGH} The CDNI solution shall not depend on intra-CDN
information to be exposed to other CDNs for effective and
efficient delivery of the content. Examples of intra-CDN
information include Surrogate topology, Surrogate status,
cached content, etc.
GEN-5 {HIGH} The CDNI solution shall support CDN interconnection
when delivery to the User Agent is based on HTTP RFC7230. (Note that while delivery and acquisition "data plane" protocols are out of the CDNI solution scope, the CDNI solution "control plane" protocols are expected to participate in enabling, selecting or facilitating operations of such acquisition and delivery protocols. Hence, it is useful to state requirements on the CDNI solution in terms of specifying which acquisition and delivery protocols are to be supported).
GEN-6 {HIGH} The CDNI solution shall support acquisition across
CDNs based on HTTP RFC7230. (The note above applies to this requirement, too.)
GEN-7 {LOW} The CDNI solution may support delivery to the User
Agent based on protocols other than HTTP.
GEN-8 {LOW} The CDNI solution may support acquisition across CDNs
based on protocols other than HTTP.
GEN-9 {MED} The CDNI solution should support cascaded CDN
redirection (CDN1 redirects to CDN2 that redirects to CDN3)
to an arbitrary number of levels beyond the first level.
GEN-10 {MED} The CDNI solution should support an arbitrary topology
of interconnected CDNs (i.e., the topology of interconnected
CDNs cannot be restricted to a tree, ring, star, etc.).
GEN-11 {HIGH} The CDNI solution shall prevent looping of any CDNI
information exchange.
GEN-12 {HIGH} When making use of third-party reference, the CDNI
solution shall consider the potential issues associated with
the use of various format of third-party references (e.g.,
NAT or IPv4/IPv6 translation potentially breaking third-party
references based on an IP addresses such as URI containing
IPv4 or IPv6 address literals, split DNS situations
potentially breaking third-party references based on DNS
FQDNs) and wherever possible avoid, minimize or mitigate the
associated risks based on the specifics of the environments
where the reference is used (e.g., likely or unlikely
presence of NAT in the path). In particular, this applies to
situations where the CDNI solution needs to construct and
convey uniform resource identifiers for directing/redirecting
a content request, as well as to situations where the CDNI
solution needs to pass on a third-party reference (e.g.,
identify the IP address of a User Agent) in order to allow
another entity to make a more informed decision (e.g., make a
more informed request routing decision by attempting to
derive location information from the third-party reference).
GEN-13 {HIGH} The CDNI solution shall support HTTP Adaptive
Streaming content.
CDNI Control Interface Requirements
The primary purpose of the CDNI Control interface (CI) is to initiate the interconnection across CDNs, bootstrap the other CDNI interfaces and trigger actions into the Downstream CDN by the Upstream CDN (such as delete object from caches or trigger pre-positioned content acquisition). The working group attempts to align requirements with the appropriate interface; however, solutions to these requirements may apply to a different interface or another interface in addition to the interface with which it is associated.
CI-1 {HIGH} The CDNI Control interface shall allow the Upstream CDN
to request that the Downstream CDN, including cascaded
Downstream CDNs, delete an object or set of objects and/or its
CDNI Metadata from the CDN Surrogates and any storage. Only
the object(s) and CDNI Metadata that pertain to the requesting
Upstream CDN are allowed to be purged.
CI-2 {MED} The CDNI Control interface should allow for multiple
content items identified by a Content Collection ID to be
purged using a single Content Purge action.
CI-3 {MED} The CDNI Control interface should allow the Upstream CDN
to request that the Downstream CDN, including cascaded
Downstream CDNs, mark an object or set of objects and/or its
CDNI Metadata as "stale" and revalidate them before they are
delivered again.
CI-4 {HIGH} The CDNI Control interface shall allow the Downstream
CDN to report on the completion of these actions (by itself,
and including cascaded Downstream CDNs), in a manner
appropriate for the action (e.g., synchronously or
asynchronously). The confirmation receipt should include a
success or failure indication. The failure indication and the
reason are included if the Downstream CDN cannot delete the
content in its storage.
CI-5 {MED} The CDNI Control interface should support initiation and
control by the Upstream CDN of pre-positioned CDNI Metadata
acquisition by the Downstream CDN.
CI-6 {MED} The CDNI Control interface should support initiation and
control by the Upstream CDN of pre-positioned content
acquisition by the Downstream CDN.
CI-7 {LOW} The CDNI Control interface may allow a CDN to establish,
update and terminate a CDN interconnection with another CDN
whereby one CDN can act as a Downstream CDN for the other CDN
(that acts as an Upstream CDN).
CI-8 {LOW} The CDNI Control interface may allow control of the CDNI
interfaces between any two CDNs independently for each
direction (e.g., for the direction where CDN1 is the Upstream
CDN and CDN2 is the Downstream CDN, and for the direction
where CDN2 is the Upstream CDN and CDN1 is the Downstream
CDN).
CI-9 {LOW} The CDNI Control interface may allow bootstrapping of
the CDNI Request Routing interface. For example, this can
potentially include:
* negotiation of the request routing method (e.g., DNS versus
HTTP, if more than one method is specified).
* discovery of the CDNI Request Routing interface endpoints.
* information necessary to establish secure communication
between the CDNI Request Routing interface endpoints.
CI-10 {LOW} The CDNI Control interface may allow bootstrapping of
the CDNI Metadata interface. This information could, for
example, include:
* discovery of the CDNI Metadata interface endpoints
* information necessary to establish secure communication
between the CDNI Metadata interface endpoints.
CI-11 {LOW} The CDNI Control interface may allow bootstrapping of
the Content Acquisition interface. This could, for example,
include exchange and negotiation of the Content Acquisition
methods to be used across the CDNs (e.g., HTTP, HTTPS, FTP,
ATIS C2 [ATIS-0800042]).
CI-12 {LOW} The CDNI Control interface may allow bootstrapping of
the CDNI Logging interface. This information could, for
example, include:
* discovery of the CDNI Logging interface endpoints.
* information necessary to establish secure communication
between the CDNI Logging interface endpoints.
* negotiation/definition of the log file format and set of
fields to be exported through the logging protocol, with
some granularity (e.g., on a per-content-type basis).
* negotiation/definition of parameters related to transaction
logs export (e.g., export protocol, file compression,
export frequency, directory).
CDNI Request Routing Redirection Interface Requirements
The main function of the CDNI Request Routing Redirection interface (RI) is to allow the Request Routing systems in interconnected CDNs to communicate to facilitate redirection of the request across CDNs.
RI-1 {HIGH} The CDNI Request Routing Redirection interface shall
support efficient request routing for small objects. This
may, for example, call for a mode of operation (e.g., DNS-
based request routing) where freshness and accuracy of CDN/
Surrogate selection can be traded off against reduced request
routing load (e.g., Via lighter-weight queries and caching of
request routing decisions).
RI-2 {HIGH} The CDNI Request Routing Redirection interface shall
support efficient request routing for large objects. This
may, for example, call for a mode of operation (e.g., HTTP-
based request routing) where freshness and accuracy of CDN/
Surrogate selection justifies a per-request decision and a
per-request CDNI Request-Routing protocol call.
RI-3 {HIGH} The CDNI Request Routing Redirection interface shall
support recursive CDNI request routing.
RI-4 {HIGH} The CDNI Request Routing Redirection interface shall
support iterative CDNI request routing.
RI-5 {MED} In case of detection of a request redirection loop, the
CDNI Request Routing Redirection interface's loop prevention
mechanism should allow redirection of the request on an
alternate CDN path (as opposed to the request not being
redirected at all).
RI-6 {MED} The CDNI Request Routing Redirection interface should
support a mechanism allowing enforcement of a limit on the
number of successive CDN redirections for a given request.
RI-7 {LOW} The CDNI Request Routing Redirection interface may
support a mechanism allowing an Upstream CDN to avoid
redirecting a request to a Downstream CDN if that is likely to
result in the total redirection time exceeding some limit.
RI-8 {HIGH} The CDNI Request Routing Redirection interface shall
allow the Upstream CDN to include, in the query to the
Downstream CDN, the necessary information to allow the
Downstream CDN to process the redirection query. This could,
for example, include:
* information from which the geographic region pertaining to
the IP address of the User Agent that originated the
request can be inferred (e.g., User Agent FQDN in case of
HTTP-based request routing, DNS Proxy FQDN in case of DNS-
based request routing).
* requested resource information (e.g., Resource URI in case
of HTTP-based request routing, Resource hostname in case of
DNS-based request routing).
* additional available request information (e.g., request
headers in case of HTTP-based request routing).
RI-9 {LOW} The CDNI Request Routing Redirection interface may also
allow the Upstream CDN to convey information pointing to CDNI
Metadata applicable (individually or through inheritance) to
the requested content. For illustration, the CDNI Metadata
pointed to could potentially include metadata that is
applicable to any content, metadata that is applicable to a
content collection (to which the requested content belongs)
and/or metadata that is applicable individually to the
requested content.
RI-10 {HIGH} The CDNI Request Routing Redirection interface shall
allow the Downstream CDN to include the following information
in the response to the Upstream CDN:
* status code, in particular indicating acceptance or
rejection of request (e.g., because the Downstream CDN is
unwilling or unable to serve the request). In case of
rejection, an error code is also to be provided, which
allows the Upstream CDN to react appropriately (e.g.,
select another Downstream CDN, or serve the request
itself).
* redirection information (e.g., Resource URI in case of
HTTP-based request routing, equivalent of a DNS record in
case of DNS-based request routing).
RI-11 {HIGH} The CDNI Request Routing Redirection interface shall
allow for per-chunk request routing of HTTP Adaptive Streaming
content.
RI-12 {LOW} The CDNI Request Routing Redirection interface may allow
the Upstream CDN to use the information conveyed by the
Downstream CDN during the Recursive Request Routing process to
rewrite an HTTP Adaptive Streaming manifest file.
RI-13 {LOW} The CDNI Request Routing interface may allow the
Upstream CDN to re-compute the message digest or digital
signature over the invariant portion of the chunk URIs
embedded in the HTTP Adaptive Streaming manifest file.
RI-14 {MED} The CDNI Request Routing Redirection interface should
correlate the HTTP Adaptive Stream manifest file to the
related chunks referenced in the manifest file.
RI-15 {MED} The CDNI Request Routing Redirection interface should
allow for an efficient method of transferring request routing
information for multiple chunks from the Downstream CDN to the
Upstream CDN as part of the recursive request routing process.
CDNI Footprint & Capabilities Advertisement Interface Requirements
The main function of the CDNI Footprint & Capabilities Advertisement interface (FCI) is to allow the Downstream CDN to advertise the information regarding its footprint and capabilities to the Upstream CDN.
FCI-1 {HIGH} The CDNI Footprint & Capabilities Advertisement
interface shall allow the Downstream CDN to communicate to the
Upstream CDN coarse information about the Downstream CDN
ability and/or willingness to handle requests from the
Upstream CDN. For example, this could potentially include a
binary signal ("Downstream CDN ready/not-ready to take
additional requests from Upstream CDN") to be used in case of
excessive load or failure condition in the Downstream CDN.
FCI-2 {MED} The CDNI Footprint & Capabilities Advertisement
interface should allow the Downstream CDN to communicate to
the Upstream CDN aggregate information to facilitate CDN
selection during request routing, such as Downstream CDN
capabilities, resources and affinities (i.e., preferences or
cost). This information could, for example, include:
* supported content types and delivery protocols
* footprint (e.g., Layer 3 coverage).
* a set of metrics/attributes (e.g., streaming bandwidth,
storage resources, distribution and delivery priority).
* a set of affinities (e.g., preferences, indication of
distribution/delivery fees).
* information to facilitate request redirection (e.g.,
Reachability information of Downstream CDN Request Routing
system).
[Note: Some of this information -- such as supported content
types and delivery protocols -- may also potentially be taken
into account by the Distribution system in the Upstream CDN
for pre-positioning of content and/or metadata in the
Downstream CDN in case of pre-positioned content acquisition
and/or pre-positioned CDNI Metadata acquisition.]
FCI-3 {MED} In the case of cascaded redirection, the CDNI Footprint
& Capabilities Advertisement interface should allow the
Downstream CDN to also include in the information communicated
to the Upstream CDN, information on the capabilities,
resources and affinities of CDNs to which the Downstream CDN
may (in turn) redirect requests received by the Upstream CDN.
In that case, the CDNI Request Routing interface shall prevent
looping of such information exchange.
FCI-4 {LOW} The CDNI Footprint & Capabilities Advertisement
interface may allow the Downstream CDN to communicate to the
Upstream CDN aggregate information on CDNI administrative
limits and policy. This information can be taken into account
by the Upstream CDN Request Routing system in its CDN
Selection decisions. This information could, for example,
include:
* maximum number of requests redirected by the Upstream CDN
to be served simultaneously by the Downstream CDN.
* maximum aggregate volume of content (e.g., in Terabytes) to
be delivered by the Downstream CDN over a time period.
FCI-5 {MED} The CDNI Footprint & Capabilities Advertisement
interface should support advertisement of the following types
of capabilities:
* delivery protocol (e.g., HTTP versus Real Time Messaging
Protocol [RTMP]).
* acquisition protocol (for acquiring content from an
Upstream CDN).
* redirection mode (e.g., DNS Redirection versus HTTP
Redirection).
* capabilities related to CDNI Logging (e.g., supported
logging mechanisms).
* capabilities related to CDNI Metadata (e.g., authorization
algorithms or support for proprietary vendor metadata).
FCI-6 {LOW} The CDNI Control interface may allow exchange and
negotiation of delivery authorization mechanisms to be
supported across the CDNs (e.g., URI-signature-based
validation).
FCI-7 {HIGH} The CDNI Footprint & Capabilities Advertisement
interface shall support extensible fields used to convey the
CDN capabilities and methods to indicate the footprint in the
advertisement from the Downstream CDN to the Upstream CDN.
CDNI Metadata Interface Requirements
The primary function of the CDNI Metadata interface (MI) is to allow the Distribution system in interconnected CDNs to communicate to ensure Content Distribution Metadata with inter-CDN scope can be exchanged across CDNs. We observe that while the CDNI Metadata Distribution protocol is currently discussed as a single "protocol", further analysis will determine whether the corresponding requirements are to be realized over a single interface and protocol, or over multiple interfaces and protocols. For example, a subset of the CDNI Metadata might be conveyed in-band along with the actual content acquisition across CDNs (e.g. content MD5 in HTTP header) while another subset might require an out-of-band interface and protocol (e.g., geo-blocking information).
MI-1 {HIGH} The CDNI Metadata interface shall allow the Upstream
CDN to provide the Downstream CDN with content distribution
metadata of inter-CDN scope.
MI-2 {HIGH} The CDNI Metadata interface shall support exchange of
CDNI Metadata for both the dynamic content acquisition model
and the pre-positioning content acquisition model.
MI-3 {HIGH} The CDNI Metadata interface shall support a mode where
no, or a subset of, the CDNI Metadata is initially
communicated to the Downstream CDN along with information
about how/where to acquire the rest of the CDNI Metadata
(i.e., Dynamic CDNI Metadata acquisition).
MI-4 {MED} The CDNI Metadata interface should support a mode where
all the relevant CDNI Metadata is initially communicated to
the Downstream CDN (i.e., pre-positioned CDNI Metadata
acquisition).
MI-5 {HIGH} Whether in the pre-positioned content acquisition model
or in the dynamic content acquisition model, the CDNI Metadata
interface shall provide the necessary information to allow the
Downstream CDN to acquire the content from an upstream source
(e.g., acquisition protocol and Uniform Resource Identifier in
Upstream CDN -- or rules to construct this URI).
MI-6 {HIGH} The CDNI Metadata shall allow signaling of one or more
upstream sources, where each upstream source can be in the
Upstream CDN, in another CDN, the CSP origin server or any
arbitrary source designated by the Upstream CDN. Note that
some upstream sources (e.g., the content origin server) may or
may not be willing to serve the content to the Downstream CDN;
if this policy is known to the Upstream CDN, then it may omit
those sources when exchanging CDNI Metadata.
MI-7 {HIGH} The CDNI Metadata interface (possibly in conjunction
with the CDNI Control interface) shall allow the Upstream CDN
to request addition and modification of CDNI Metadata into the
Downstream CDN.
MI-8 {HIGH} The CDNI Metadata interface (possibly in conjunction
with the CDNI Control interface) shall allow removal of
obsolete CDNI Metadata from the Downstream CDN (this could,
for example, be achieved via an explicit removal request from
the Upstream CDN or via expiration of a Time-To-Live (TTL)
associated with the CDNI Metadata).
MI-9 {HIGH} The CDNI Metadata interface shall allow association of
CDNI Metadata at the granularity of individual object. This
is necessary to achieve fine-grain CDNI Metadata distribution
at the level of an individual object when necessary.
MI-10 {HIGH} The CDNI Metadata interface shall allow association of
CDNI Metadata at the granularity of an object set. This is
necessary to achieve scalable distribution of metadata when a
large number of objects share the same distribution policy.
MI-11 {HIGH} The CDNI Metadata interface shall support multiple
levels of inheritance with precedence to more specific
metadata. For example, the CDNI Metadata Distribution
protocol may support metadata that is applicable to any
content, metadata that is applicable to a content collection
and metadata that is applicable to an individual content where
content level metadata overrides content collection metadata
that overrides metadata for any content.
MI-12 {HIGH} The CDNI Metadata interface shall ensure that
conflicting metadata with overlapping scope are prevented or
deterministically handled.
MI-13 {HIGH} The CDNI Metadata interface shall allow signaling of
content distribution control policies. For example, this
could potentially include:
* geo-blocking information (i.e., information defining
geographical areas where the content is to be made
available or blocked).
* availability windows (i.e., information defining time
windows during which the content is to be made available or
blocked; expiration time may also be included to remove
content).
* delegation whitelist/blacklist (i.e., information defining
through which Downstream CDNs the content may/may not be
delivered)
MI-14 {HIGH} The CDNI Metadata interface shall be able to exchange a
set of metadata elements with specified semantics (e.g., start
of time window, end of time window).
MI-15 {HIGH} The CDNI Metadata interface shall allow exchange of
opaque metadata element, whose semantic is not defined in CDNI
but established by private CDN agreement.
MI-16 {HIGH} The CDNI Metadata interface shall allow signaling of
authorization checks and validation that are to be performed
by the Surrogate before delivery. For example, this could
potentially include the need to validate information (e.g.,
Expiry time, Client IP address) required for access
authorization.
MI-17 {MED} The CDNI Metadata interface should allow signaling of
CDNI-relevant Surrogate cache behavior parameters. For
example, this could potentially include:
* control of whether the query string of HTTP URI is to be
ignored by Surrogate cache.
* enforcement of caching directives by Downstream CDN that
are different than the ones signaled in the HTTP headers
(e.g., "Expires" field).
* rate-pacing by Downstream CDN for content delivery (e.g.,
Progressive Download).
MI-18 {HIGH} The CDNI Metadata interface shall provide indication of
related content (e.g., HTTP Adaptive Bit Rate chunks) by the
Content Collection ID (CCID) metadata. This could be used by
the Downstream CDN for operations on the group of content.
For example, this could potentially include:
* content acquisition for the entire set of files when one
piece of content is requested.
* local file management and storage bundles all the files for
the content.
* purging the entire set of files associated with the
content.
* logging of the delivery of the content for the session when
at least one file in the set was delivered.
MI-19 {MED} The CDNI Metadata interface should support an optional
mechanism allowing the Upstream CDN to indicate to the
Downstream CDN which CDNI Log fields are to be provided for
all content items, for specific sets of content items, or for
specific content items delivered using HTTP. A CDNI
implementation that does not support this optional CDNI
Metadata Distribution interface mechanism shall ignore this
log format indication and generate CDNI Logging format for
HTTP Adaptive Streaming using the default set of CDNI Logging
fields. (Note: This function may be part of the CDNI Metadata
interface or the CDNI Control interface.)
MI-20 {MED} The CDNI Metadata interface should allow the Upstream
CDN to signal to the Downstream CDN the Content Collection ID
value for all, for specific sets of, or for specific content
items delivered using HTTP. Whenever the Downstream CDN is
instructed by the Upstream CDN to report the Content
Collection ID field in the log records, the Downstream CDN is
to use the value provided through the CDNI Metadata interface
for the corresponding content. Note the Session ID field
along with Content Collection ID may be used for HTTP Adaptive
Streaming content.
MI-21 {MED} The CDNI Metadata interface should allow the Upstream
CDN to signal to the Downstream CDN the Authorization Group ID
value for all the related HTTP Adaptive Streaming content
(i.e., manifest file and chunks). The authorization result of
a content (e.g., manifest file) is transferred over to related
content (e.g., chunks).
MI-22 {HIGH} The CDNI Metadata interface shall support extensible
format for CDNI Metadata delivery from the Upstream CDN to the
Downstream CDN.
CDNI Logging Interface Requirements
This section identifies the requirements related to the CDNI Logging interface (LI). We observe that while the CDNI Logging interface is currently discussed as a single "protocol", further analysis will determine whether the corresponding requirements are to be realized over a single interface and protocol or over multiple interfaces and protocols.
LI-1 {HIGH} The CDNI Logging interface and architecture shall
ensure reliable transfer of CDNI logging information across
CDNs.
LI-2 {HIGH} The CDNI Logging interface shall provide logging of
deliveries and incomplete deliveries to User Agents performed
by the Downstream CDN as a result of request redirection by
the Upstream CDN.
LI-3 {MED} In the case of cascaded CDNs, the CDNI Logging interface
should allow the Downstream CDN to report to the Upstream CDN
logging for deliveries and incomplete deliveries performed by
the Downstream CDN itself as well as logging for deliveries
and incomplete deliveries performed by cascaded CDNs on behalf
of the Downstream CDN.
LI-4 {HIGH} The CDNI Logging interface shall support batch/offline
exchange of logging records.
LI-5 {MED} The CDNI Logging interface should also support an
additional mechanism taking into account the timing
constraints for some types of logging records (e.g., near-real
time for monitoring and analytics applications).
LI-6 {HIGH} The CDNI Logging interface shall define a log file
format and a set of fields to be exported for various CDNI
Logging events.
LI-7 {HIGH} The CDNI Logging interface shall define a transport
mechanism to exchange CDNI Logging files.
LI-8 {MED} The CDNI Logging interface should allow a CDN to query
another CDN for relevant current logging records (e.g., for
on-demand access to real-time logging information).
LI-9 {LOW} The CDNI Logging interface may support aggregate/
summarized logs (e.g., total bytes delivered for a content
regardless of individual User Agents to which it was
delivered).
LI-10 {LOW} The CDNI Logging interface may support logging of
performance data for deliveries to User Agents performed by
the Downstream CDN as a result of request redirection by the
Upstream CDN. Performance data may include various traffic
statistics (the specific parameters are to be determined).
The CDNI Logging interface may support the Upstream CDN to
indicate the nature and contents of the performance data to be
reported by the Downstream CDN.
LI-11 {MED} The CDNI Logging interface should support logging of
consumed resources (e.g., storage, bandwidth) to the Upstream
CDN for deliveries where content is stored by the Downstream
CDN for delivery to User Agents. The information logged may
include the type of storage (e.g., Origin, Intermediate, Edge,
Cache) as well as the amount of storage (e.g., total GB, GB
used, per time period, per content domain) all of which may
impact the cost of the services.
LI-12 {MED} In the case of cascaded CDNs, the CDNI Logging interface
should support the Downstream CDN to report consumed resources
(e.g. storage, bandwidth) to the Upstream CDN where content
is stored by the Downstream CDN itself as well as logging for
storage resources when content storage is performed by
cascaded CDNs on behalf of the Downstream CDN.
LI-13 {HIGH} The CDNI Logging interface shall support logging of
deleted objects from the Downstream CDN to the Upstream CDN as
a result of explicit delete requests on via the CDNI Control
interface from the Upstream CDN.
LI-14 {HIGH} The CDNI Logging interface shall support the exchange
of extensible log file formats to support proprietary
information fields. These information fields shall be agreed
upon ahead of time between the corresponding CDNs.
LI-15 {HIGH} The CDNI Logging interface shall allow a CDN to notify
another CDN about which CDNI Logging information is available
for transfer and/or no longer available (e.g., it exceeded
some logging retention period or some logging retention
volume).
LI-16 {MED} The CDNI Logging interface should support the ability
for the Downstream CDN to include the Content Collection ID
and Session ID fields in CDNI log entries generated for HTTP
Adaptive Streaming content.
LI-17 {MED} The CDNI Logging interface should provide privacy
protection by not disclosing information that can be used to
identify the user (e.g., method that anonymizes the IP address
carried in the logging field). The use of the privacy
protection mechanism is optional.
CDNI Security Requirements
This section identifies the requirements related to the CDNI security. Some of these are expected to affect multiple or all protocols.
SEC-1 {HIGH} All the CDNI interface shall support secure operation
over unsecured IP connectivity (e.g., the Internet). This
includes authentication, confidentiality, integrity protection
as well as protection against spoofing and replay.
SEC-2 {HIGH} The CDNI solution shall provide sufficient protection
against denial-of-service attacks. This includes protection
against spoofed delivery requests sent by User Agents directly
to a Downstream CDN attempting to appear as if they had been
redirected by a given Upstream CDN when they have not.
SEC-3 {MED} The CDNI solution should be able to ensure that for any
given request redirected to a Downstream CDN, the Downstream
CDN can determine the Upstream CDN that redirected the request
directly to the Downstream CDN (leading to that request being
served by that CDN, or being further redirected).
SEC-4 {MED} The CDNI solution should be able to ensure that for any
given transaction log generated by the Downstream CDN and
communicated to an Upstream CDN, the Upstream CDN can confirm
the transmitted log record corresponds to a request
redirection by the Upstream CDN.
SEC-5 {LOW} The CDNI solution may provide a mechanism allowing an
Upstream CDN that has credentials to acquire content from the
CSP origin server (or another CDN), to allow establishment of
credentials authorizing the Downstream CDN to acquire the
content from the CSP origin server (or the other CDN) (e.g.,
in case the content cannot be acquired from the Upstream CDN).
10. Security Considerations
This document discusses CDNI security requirements in Section 9.
11. Contributors
This document reflects contributions from the following individuals:
Francois Le Faucheur Cisco Systems EMail: [email protected]
Mahesh Viveganandhan Cisco Systems EMail: [email protected]
Grant Watson Alcatel-Lucent (Velocix) EMail: [email protected]
12. Acknowledgements
This document leverages the earlier work of the IETF CDI working group in particular, as documented in [REQ-ROUTE], [DIST-REQS], and [AAA-REQS].
The authors would like to thank Gilles Bertrand, Christophe Caillet, Bruce Davie, Phil Eardley, Ben Niven-Jenkins, Agustin Schapira, Emile Stephan, Eric Burger, Susan He, Kevin Ma, Daryl Malas, Iuniana Oprescu, and Spencer Dawkins for their input. Serge Manning along with Robert Streijl, Vishwa Prasad, Percy Tarapore, Mike Geller, and Ramki Krishnan contributed to this document by addressing the requirements of the ATIS Cloud Services Forum.
Ray Brandenburg, Matt Caufield, and Gilles Bertrand provided valuable inputs for HTTP Adaptive Streaming, CDNI Metadata interface, and CDNI Logging interface, respectively.
Stephen Farrell, Adrian Farrel, Benoit Claise, Sean Turner, Christer Holmberg, and Carlos Pignataro provided review comments that helped improve the document.
13. References
13.1. Normative References
RFC6707 Niven-Jenkins, B., Le Faucheur, F., and N. Bitar, "Content
Distribution Network Interconnection (CDNI) Problem
Statement", RFC 6707, September 2012.
RFC7336 Peterson, L., Davie, B., and R. Brandenburg, Ed.,
"Framework for Content Distribution Network
Interconnection (CDNI)", RFC 7336, August 2014.
13.2. Informative References
[AAA-REQS]
Gilletti, D., Nair, R., Scharber, J., and J. Guha,
"Content Internetworking (CDI) Authentication,
Authorization, and Accounting Requirements", Work in
Progress, June 2001.
[ATIS-0800042]
ATIS, "ATIS IPTV Content on Demand Service", ATIS-0800042
v002, September 2011, <https://www.atis.org/docstore/
product.aspx?id=25670>.
[DIST-REQS]
Amini, L., "Distribution Requirements for Content
Internetworking", Work in Progress, November 2001.
[REQ-ROUTE]
Cain, B., "Request Routing Requirements for Content
Internetworking", Work in Progress, November 2001.
RFC6770 Bertrand, G., Stephan, E., Burbridge, T., Eardley, P., Ma,
K., and G. Watson, "Use Cases for Content Delivery Network
Interconnection", RFC 6770, November 2012.
RFC7230 Fielding, R. and J. Reschke, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing", RFC 7230, June 2014.
[RTMP] Parmar, H., Ed. and M. Thornburgh, Ed., "Adobe's Real Time
Messaging Protocol", December 2012,
<http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/rtmp/
pdf/rtmp_specification_1.0.pdf>.
Authors' Addresses
Kent Leung (editor) Cisco Systems 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134 USA
Phone: +1 408 526 5030 EMail: [email protected]
Yiu Lee (editor) Comcast One Comcast Center Philadelphia, PA 19103 USA
EMail: [email protected]
