Daniel, Your draft said: “Our protocol defines how the two domains interconnect to have NSF working in different domains interacting properly. In our case, the security controller of the cloud and the security controller of the cloudlet agree on how the cloudlet and the cloud needs to interconnect their data plane as well as how the cloud can configure or control the NSF in the cloudlet. The configuration of the NSF itself is not part of the collaboration protocol typically we expect that NETCONF/YANG be used.” Will different NSFs have different “protocol” to work across domains? Is the protocol straightly between two NSF instances? Is it necessary for the NSFs in two domains by same vendors?
Can you give some examples of those NSFs? Thanks, Linda From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Migault Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 8:04 AM To: Linda Dunbar Cc: Alireza Ranjbar; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [I2nsf] Is the “Security Service Function (SSF)” in draft-mglt-i2nsf-ssf-collaboration same as the NSF defined by the I2NSF-problem-and-use-cases? Hi Linda, I apology for the delay. Please find my response and additional questions – mostly for Susan ;-). If you are find with the response, I can also send them on the ML. Q1: There is no difference between SSF and NSF. We will change that in the next version. Thanks for raising it, this is a good reminder to update our terminology. Q2: Our protocol defines how the two domains interconnect to have NSF working in different domains interacting properly. In our case, the security controller of the cloud and the security controller of the cloudlet agree on how the cloudlet and the cloud needs to interconnect their data plane as well as how the cloud can configure or control the NSF in the cloudlet. The configuration of the NSF itself is not part of the collaboration protocol typically we expect that NETCONF/YANG be used. My understanding of draft-kumar-i2nsf-controller-northbound-framework-00 [1] is that is provides some requirements for an API to be able to manage a whole domain of NSF provided by multiple vendors. In our case if a cloud were using such API, we would consider the security controller of the cloud got control over a significant part of the resource of the cloudlet. In our case, we would like that collaboration of the cloudlet can be performed with a reduced footprint from the cloud. The foot print is limited by the cloudlet by limiting the interaction from the cloud to the NSF instantiating in the cloud. BR, Daniel On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Linda Dunbar <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Daniel and Alirezza, Is the “Security Service Function (SSF)” in your draft equivalent to the Network Security Function (NSF) defined in https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-i2nsf-problem-and-use-cases-01.pdf ? NSF: Network Security Function. An NSF is a function that detects abnormal activity and blocks/mitigates the effect of such abnormal activity in order to preserve the availability of a network or a service. In addition, the NSF can help in supporting communication stream integrity and confidentiality. Flow-based NSF: An NSF which inspects network flows according to a security policy. Flow-based security also means that packets are inspected in the order they are received, and without altering packets due to the inspection process (e.g., MAC rewrites, TTL decrement action, or NAT inspection or changes). If they are the same, can you change the terminology? If they are different, can you elaborate the differences in your draft? Second question: When the “Cloud based services” need network provider to enforce certain flow rules for the traffic destined to (originated from) the “Cloud based services”, do you anticipate those flow rules to be applied to specific SSFs belonging to different administrators? Or can those rules be to the “controller” of the SSFs belonging to network providers? As described by https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kumar-i2nsf-controller-northbound-framework/ ? Thanks, Linda _______________________________________________ I2nsf mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i2nsf
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