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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                     T. Pauly, Ed.
Request for Comments: 9484                                    Apple Inc.
Updates: 9298                                                D. Schinazi
Category: Standards Track                              A. Chernyakhovsky
ISSN: 2070-1721                                               Google LLC
                                                            M. Kühlewind
                                                           M. Westerlund
                                                                Ericsson
                                                            October 2023


                          Proxying IP in HTTP

Abstract

   This document describes how to proxy IP packets in HTTP.  This
   protocol is similar to UDP proxying in HTTP but allows transmitting
   arbitrary IP packets.  More specifically, this document defines a
   protocol that allows an HTTP client to create an IP tunnel through an
   HTTP server that acts as an IP proxy.  This document updates RFC
   9298.

Status of This Memo

   This is an Internet Standards Track document.

   This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
   (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
   received public review and has been approved for publication by the
   Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Further information on
   Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841.

   Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
   and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
   https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9484.

Copyright Notice

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   document authors.  All rights reserved.

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   in the Revised BSD License.

Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction
   2.  Conventions and Definitions
   3.  Configuration of Clients
   4.  Tunnelling IP over HTTP
     4.1.  IP Proxy Handling
     4.2.  HTTP/1.1 Request
     4.3.  HTTP/1.1 Response
     4.4.  HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 Requests
     4.5.  HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 Responses
     4.6.  Limiting Request Scope
     4.7.  Capsules
       4.7.1.  ADDRESS_ASSIGN Capsule
       4.7.2.  ADDRESS_REQUEST Capsule
       4.7.3.  ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT Capsule
     4.8.  IPv6 Extension Headers
   5.  Context Identifiers
   6.  HTTP Datagram Payload Format
   7.  IP Packet Handling
     7.1.  Link Operation
     7.2.  Routing Operation
       7.2.1.  Error Signalling
   8.  Examples
     8.1.  Remote Access VPN
     8.2.  Site-to-Site VPN
     8.3.  IP Flow Forwarding
     8.4.  Proxied Connection Racing
   9.  Extensibility Considerations
   10. Performance Considerations
     10.1.  MTU Considerations
     10.2.  ECN Considerations
     10.3.  Differentiated Services Considerations
   11. Security Considerations
   12. IANA Considerations
     12.1.  HTTP Upgrade Token Registration
     12.2.  MASQUE URI Suffixes Registry Creation
     12.3.  Updates to masque Well-Known URI Registration
     12.4.  HTTP Capsule Types Registrations
   13. References
     13.1.  Normative References
     13.2.  Informative References
   Acknowledgments
   Authors' Addresses

1.  Introduction

   HTTP provides the CONNECT method (see Section 9.3.6 of [HTTP]) for
   creating a TCP [TCP] tunnel to a destination and a similar mechanism
   for UDP [CONNECT-UDP].  However, these mechanisms cannot tunnel other
   IP protocols [IANA-PN] nor convey fields of the IP header.

   This document describes a protocol for tunnelling IP through an HTTP
   server acting as an IP-specific proxy over HTTP.  This can be used
   for various use cases, such as remote access VPN, site-to-site VPN,
   secure point-to-point communication, or general-purpose packet
   tunnelling.

   IP proxying operates similarly to UDP proxying [CONNECT-UDP], whereby
   the proxy itself is identified with an absolute URL, optionally
   containing the traffic's destination.  Clients generate these URLs
   using a URI Template [TEMPLATE], as described in Section 3.

   This protocol supports all existing versions of HTTP by using HTTP
   Datagrams [HTTP-DGRAM].  When using HTTP/2 [HTTP/2] or HTTP/3
   [HTTP/3], it uses HTTP Extended CONNECT, as described in
   [EXT-CONNECT2] and [EXT-CONNECT3].  When using HTTP/1.x [HTTP/1.1],
   it uses HTTP Upgrade, as defined in Section 7.8 of [HTTP].

   This document updates [CONNECT-UDP] to change the "masque" well-known
   URI; see Section 12.3.

2.  Conventions and Definitions

   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
   BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.

   In this document, we use the term "IP proxy" to refer to the HTTP
   server that responds to the IP proxying request.  The term "client"
   is used in the HTTP sense; the client constructs the IP proxying
   request.  If there are HTTP intermediaries (as defined in Section 3.7
   of [HTTP]) between the client and the IP proxy, those are referred to
   as "intermediaries" in this document.  The term "IP proxying
   endpoints" refers to both the client and the IP proxy.

   This document uses terminology from [QUIC].  Where this document
   defines protocol types, the definition format uses the notation from
   Section 1.3 of [QUIC].  This specification uses the variable-length
   integer encoding from Section 16 of [QUIC].  Variable-length integer
   values do not need to be encoded in the minimum number of bytes
   necessary.

   Note that, when the HTTP version in use does not support multiplexing
   streams (such as HTTP/1.1), any reference to "stream" in this
   document represents the entire connection.

3.  Configuration of Clients

   Clients are configured to use IP proxying over HTTP via a URI
   Template [TEMPLATE].  The URI Template MAY contain two variables:
   "target" and "ipproto"; see Section 4.6.  The optionality of the
   variables needs to be considered when defining the template so that
   the variable is either self-identifying or possible to exclude in the
   syntax.

   Examples are shown below:

   https://example.org/.well-known/masque/ip/{target}/{ipproto}/
   https://proxy.example.org:4443/masque/ip?t={target}&i={ipproto}
   https://proxy.example.org:4443/masque/ip{?target,ipproto}
   https://masque.example.org/?user=bob

                      Figure 1: URI Template Examples

   The following requirements apply to the URI Template:

   *  The URI Template MUST be a level 3 template or lower.

   *  The URI Template MUST be in absolute form and MUST include non-
      empty scheme, authority, and path components.

   *  The path component of the URI Template MUST start with a slash
      "/".

   *  All template variables MUST be within the path or query components
      of the URI.

   *  The URI Template MAY contain the two variables "target" and
      "ipproto" and MAY contain other variables.  If the "target" or
      "ipproto" variables are included, their values MUST NOT be empty.
      Clients can instead use "*" to indicate wildcard or no-preference
      values; see Section 4.6.

   *  The URI Template MUST NOT contain any non-ASCII Unicode characters
      and MUST only contain ASCII characters in the range 0x21-0x7E
      inclusive (note that percent-encoding is allowed; see Section 2.1
      of [URI]).

   *  The URI Template MUST NOT use Reserved Expansion ("+" operator),
      Fragment Expansion ("#" operator), Label Expansion with Dot-
      Prefix, Path Segment Expansion with Slash-Prefix, nor Path-Style
      Parameter Expansion with Semicolon-Prefix.

   Clients SHOULD validate the requirements above; however, clients MAY
   use a general-purpose URI Template implementation that lacks this
   specific validation.  If a client detects that any of the
   requirements above are not met by a URI Template, the client MUST
   reject its configuration and abort the request without sending it to
   the IP proxy.

   As with UDP proxying, some client configurations for IP proxies will
   only allow the user to configure the proxy host and proxy port.
   Clients with such limitations MAY attempt to access IP proxying
   capabilities using the default template, which is defined as:
   "https://$PROXY_HOST:$PROXY_PORT/.well-known/masque/
   ip/{target}/{ipproto}/", where $PROXY_HOST and $PROXY_PORT are the
   configured host and port of the IP proxy, respectively.  IP proxy
   deployments SHOULD offer service at this location if they need to
   interoperate with such clients.

4.  Tunnelling IP over HTTP

   To allow negotiation of a tunnel for IP over HTTP, this document
   defines the "connect-ip" HTTP upgrade token.  The resulting IP
   tunnels use the Capsule Protocol (see Section 3.2 of [HTTP-DGRAM])
   with HTTP Datagrams in the format defined in Section 6.

   To initiate an IP tunnel associated with a single HTTP stream, a
   client issues a request containing the "connect-ip" upgrade token.

   When sending its IP proxying request, the client SHALL perform URI
   Template expansion to determine the path and query of its request;
   see Section 3.

   By virtue of the definition of the Capsule Protocol (see Section 3.2
   of [HTTP-DGRAM]), IP proxying requests do not carry any message
   content.  Similarly, successful IP proxying responses also do not
   carry any message content.

   IP proxying over HTTP MUST be operated over TLS or QUIC encryption,
   or another equivalent encryption protocol, to provide
   confidentiality, integrity, and authentication.

4.1.  IP Proxy Handling

   Upon receiving an IP proxying request:

   *  If the recipient is configured to use another HTTP server, it will
      act as an intermediary by forwarding the request to the other HTTP
      server.  Note that such intermediaries may need to re-encode the
      request if they forward it using a version of HTTP that is
      different from the one used to receive it, as the request encoding
      differs by version (see below).

   *  Otherwise, the recipient will act as an IP proxy.  The IP proxy
      can choose to reject the IP proxying request.  Otherwise, it
      extracts the optional "target" and "ipproto" variables from the
      URI it has reconstructed from the request headers, decodes their
      percent-encoding, and establishes an IP tunnel.

   IP proxies MUST validate whether the decoded "target" and "ipproto"
   variables meet the requirements in Section 4.6.  If they do not, the
   IP proxy MUST treat the request as malformed; see Section 8.1.1 of
   [HTTP/2] and Section 4.1.2 of [HTTP/3].  If the "target" variable is
   a DNS name, the IP proxy MUST perform DNS resolution (to obtain the
   corresponding IPv4 and/or IPv6 addresses via A and/or AAAA records)
   before replying to the HTTP request.  If errors occur during this
   process, the IP proxy MUST reject the request and SHOULD send details
   using an appropriate Proxy-Status header field [PROXY-STATUS].  For
   example, if DNS resolution returns an error, the proxy can use the
   dns_error proxy error type from Section 2.3.2 of [PROXY-STATUS].

   The lifetime of the IP forwarding tunnel is tied to the IP proxying
   request stream.  The IP proxy MUST maintain all IP address and route
   assignments associated with the IP forwarding tunnel while the
   request stream is open.  IP proxies MAY choose to tear down the
   tunnel due to a period of inactivity, but they MUST close the request
   stream when doing so.

   A successful IP proxying response (as defined in Sections 4.3 and
   4.5) indicates that the IP proxy has established an IP tunnel and is
   willing to proxy IP payloads.  Any response other than a successful
   IP proxying response indicates that the request has failed; thus, the
   client MUST abort the request.

   Along with a successful IP proxying response, the IP proxy can send
   capsules to assign addresses and advertise routes to the client
   (Section 4.7).  The client can also assign addresses and advertise
   routes to the IP proxy for network-to-network routing.

4.2.  HTTP/1.1 Request

   When using HTTP/1.1 [HTTP/1.1], an IP proxying request will meet the
   following requirements:

   *  The method SHALL be "GET".

   *  The request SHALL include a single Host header field containing
      the host and optional port of the IP proxy.

   *  The request SHALL include a Connection header field with value
      "Upgrade" (note that this requirement is case-insensitive, as per
      Section 7.6.1 of [HTTP]).

   *  The request SHALL include an Upgrade header field with value
      "connect-ip".

   An IP proxying request that does not conform to these restrictions is
   malformed.  The recipient of such a malformed request MUST respond
   with an error and SHOULD use the 400 (Bad Request) status code.

   For example, if the client is configured with URI Template
   "https://example.org/.well-known/masque/ip/{target}/{ipproto}/" and
   wishes to open an IP forwarding tunnel with no target or protocol
   limitations, it could send the following request:

   GET https://example.org/.well-known/masque/ip/*/*/ HTTP/1.1
   Host: example.org
   Connection: Upgrade
   Upgrade: connect-ip
   Capsule-Protocol: ?1

                     Figure 2: Example HTTP/1.1 Request

4.3.  HTTP/1.1 Response

   The server indicates a successful IP proxying response by replying
   with the following requirements:

   *  The HTTP status code on the response SHALL be 101 (Switching
      Protocols).

   *  The response SHALL include a Connection header field with value
      "Upgrade" (note that this requirement is case-insensitive, as per
      Section 7.6.1 of [HTTP]).

   *  The response SHALL include a single Upgrade header field with
      value "connect-ip".

   *  The response SHALL meet the requirements of HTTP responses that
      start the Capsule Protocol; see Section 3.2 of [HTTP-DGRAM].

   If any of these requirements are not met, the client MUST treat this
   proxying attempt as failed and close the connection.

   For example, the server could respond with:

   HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols
   Connection: Upgrade
   Upgrade: connect-ip
   Capsule-Protocol: ?1

                    Figure 3: Example HTTP/1.1 Response

4.4.  HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 Requests

   When using HTTP/2 [HTTP/2] or HTTP/3 [HTTP/3], IP proxying requests
   use HTTP Extended CONNECT.  This requires that servers send an HTTP
   Setting, as specified in [EXT-CONNECT2] and [EXT-CONNECT3], and that
   requests use HTTP pseudo-header fields with the following
   requirements:

   *  The :method pseudo-header field SHALL be "CONNECT".

   *  The :protocol pseudo-header field SHALL be "connect-ip".

   *  The :authority pseudo-header field SHALL contain the authority of
      the IP proxy.

   *  The :path and :scheme pseudo-header fields SHALL NOT be empty.
      Their values SHALL contain the scheme and path from the URI
      Template after the URI Template expansion process has been
      completed; see Section 3.  Variables in the URI Template can
      determine the scope of the request, such as requesting full-tunnel
      IP packet forwarding, or a specific proxied flow; see Section 4.6.

   An IP proxying request that does not conform to these restrictions is
   malformed; see Section 8.1.1 of [HTTP/2] and Section 4.1.2 of
   [HTTP/3].

   For example, if the client is configured with URI Template
   "https://example.org/.well-known/masque/ip/{target}/{ipproto}/" and
   wishes to open an IP forwarding tunnel with no target or protocol
   limitations, it could send the following request:

   HEADERS
   :method = CONNECT
   :protocol = connect-ip
   :scheme = https
   :path = /.well-known/masque/ip/*/*/
   :authority = example.org
   capsule-protocol = ?1

                 Figure 4: Example HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 Request

4.5.  HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 Responses

   The server indicates a successful IP proxying response by replying
   with the following requirements:

   *  The HTTP status code on the response SHALL be in the 2xx
      (Successful) range.

   *  The response SHALL meet the requirements of HTTP responses that
      start the Capsule Protocol; see Section 3.2 of [HTTP-DGRAM].

   If any of these requirements are not met, the client MUST treat this
   proxying attempt as failed and abort the request.  As an example, any
   status code in the 3xx range will be treated as a failure and cause
   the client to abort the request.

   For example, the server could respond with:

   HEADERS
   :status = 200
   capsule-protocol = ?1

                Figure 5: Example HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 Response

4.6.  Limiting Request Scope

   Unlike UDP proxying requests, which require specifying a target host,
   IP proxying requests can allow endpoints to send arbitrary IP packets
   to any host.  The client can choose to restrict a given request to a
   specific IP prefix or IP protocol by adding parameters to its
   request.  When the IP proxy knows that a request is scoped to a
   target prefix or protocol, it can leverage this information to
   optimize its resource allocation; for example, the IP proxy can
   assign the same public IP address to two IP proxying requests that
   are scoped to different prefixes and/or different protocols.

   The scope of the request is indicated by the client to the IP proxy
   via the "target" and "ipproto" variables of the URI Template; see
   Section 3.  Both the "target" and "ipproto" variables are optional;
   if they are not included, they are considered to carry the wildcard
   value "*".

   target:
      The variable "target" contains a hostname or IP prefix of a
      specific host to which the client wants to proxy packets.  If the
      "target" variable is not specified or its value is "*", the client
      is requesting to communicate with any allowable host. "target"
      supports using DNS names, IPv6 prefixes, and IPv4 prefixes.  Note
      that IPv6 scoped addressing zone identifiers [IPv6-ZONE-ID] are
      not supported.  If the target is an IP prefix (IP address
      optionally followed by a percent-encoded slash followed by the
      prefix length in bits), the request will only support a single IP
      version.  If the target is a hostname, the IP proxy is expected to
      perform DNS resolution to determine which route(s) to advertise to
      the client.  The IP proxy SHOULD send a ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT
      capsule that includes routes for all addresses that were resolved
      for the requested hostname, that are accessible to the IP proxy,
      and belong to an address family for which the IP proxy also sends
      an Assigned Address.

   ipproto:
      The variable "ipproto" contains an Internet Protocol Number; see
      the defined list in the "Assigned Internet Protocol Numbers" IANA
      registry [IANA-PN].  If present, it specifies that a client only
      wants to proxy a specific IP protocol for this request.  If the
      value is "*", or the variable is not included, the client is
      requesting to use any IP protocol.  The IP protocol indicated in
      the "ipproto" variable represents an allowable next header value
      carried in IP headers that are directly sent in HTTP Datagrams
      (the outermost IP headers).  ICMP traffic is always allowed,
      regardless of the value of this field.

   Using the terms IPv6address, IPv4address, and reg-name from [URI],
   the "target" and "ipproto" variables MUST adhere to the format in
   Figure 6, using notation from [ABNF].  Additionally:

   *  If "target" contains an IPv6 literal or prefix, the colons (":")
      MUST be percent-encoded.  For example, if the target host is
      "2001:db8::42", it will be encoded in the URI as
      "2001%3Adb8%3A%3A42".

   *  If present, the IP prefix length in "target" SHALL be preceded by
      a percent-encoded slash ("/"): "%2F".  The IP prefix length MUST
      represent a decimal integer between 0 and the length of the IP
      address in bits, inclusive.

   *  If "target" contains an IP prefix and the prefix length is
      strictly less than the length of the IP address in bits, the lower
      bits of the IP address that are not covered by the prefix length
      MUST all be set to 0.

   *  "ipproto" MUST represent a decimal integer between 0 and 255
      inclusive or the wildcard value "*".

   target = IPv6prefix / IPv4prefix / reg-name / "*"
   IPv6prefix = IPv6address ["%2F" 1*3DIGIT]
   IPv4prefix = IPv4address ["%2F" 1*2DIGIT]
   ipproto = 1*3DIGIT / "*"

                   Figure 6: URI Template Variable Format

   IP proxies MAY perform access control using the scoping information
   provided by the client, i.e., if the client is not authorized to
   access any of the destinations included in the scope, then the IP
   proxy can immediately reject the request.

4.7.  Capsules

   This document defines multiple new capsule types that allow endpoints
   to exchange IP configuration information.  Both endpoints MAY send
   any number of these new capsules.

4.7.1.  ADDRESS_ASSIGN Capsule

   The ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsule (capsule type 0x01) allows an endpoint to
   assign its peer a list of IP addresses or prefixes.  Every capsule
   contains the full list of IP prefixes currently assigned to the
   receiver.  Any of these addresses can be used as the source address
   on IP packets originated by the receiver of this capsule.

   ADDRESS_ASSIGN Capsule {
     Type (i) = 0x01,
     Length (i),
     Assigned Address (..) ...,
   }

                  Figure 7: ADDRESS_ASSIGN Capsule Format

   The ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsule contains a sequence of zero or more
   Assigned Addresses.

   Assigned Address {
     Request ID (i),
     IP Version (8),
     IP Address (32..128),
     IP Prefix Length (8),
   }

                     Figure 8: Assigned Address Format

   Each Assigned Address contains the following fields:

   Request ID:
      Request identifier, encoded as a variable-length integer.  If this
      address assignment is in response to an Address Request (see
      Section 4.7.2), then this field SHALL contain the value of the
      corresponding field in the request.  Otherwise, this field SHALL
      be zero.

   IP Version:
      IP Version of this address assignment, encoded as an unsigned
      8-bit integer.  It MUST be either 4 or 6.

   IP Address:
      Assigned IP address.  If the IP Version field has value 4, the IP
      Address field SHALL have a length of 32 bits.  If the IP Version
      field has value 6, the IP Address field SHALL have a length of 128
      bits.

   IP Prefix Length:
      The number of bits in the IP address that are used to define the
      prefix that is being assigned, encoded as an unsigned 8-bit
      integer.  This MUST be less than or equal to the length of the IP
      Address field in bits.  If the prefix length is equal to the
      length of the IP address, the receiver of this capsule is allowed
      to send packets from a single source address.  If the prefix
      length is less than the length of the IP address, the receiver of
      this capsule is allowed to send packets from any source address
      that falls within the prefix.  If the prefix length is strictly
      less than the length of the IP address in bits, the lower bits of
      the IP Address field that are not covered by the prefix length
      MUST all be set to 0.

   If any of the capsule fields are malformed upon reception, the
   receiver of the capsule MUST follow the error-handling procedure
   defined in Section 3.3 of [HTTP-DGRAM].

   If an ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsule does not contain an address that was
   previously transmitted in another ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsule, it
   indicates that the address has been removed.  An ADDRESS_ASSIGN
   capsule can also be empty, indicating that all addresses have been
   removed.

   In some deployments of IP proxying in HTTP, an endpoint needs to be
   assigned an address by its peer before it knows what source address
   to set on its own packets.  For example, in the remote access VPN
   case (Section 8.1), the client cannot send IP packets until it knows
   what address to use.  In these deployments, the endpoint that is
   expecting an address assignment MUST send an ADDRESS_REQUEST capsule.
   This isn't required if the endpoint does not need any address
   assignment, for example, when it is configured out-of-band with
   static addresses.

   While ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsules are commonly sent in response to
   ADDRESS_REQUEST capsules, endpoints MAY send ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsules
   unprompted.

4.7.2.  ADDRESS_REQUEST Capsule

   The ADDRESS_REQUEST capsule (capsule type 0x02) allows an endpoint to
   request assignment of IP addresses from its peer.  The capsule allows
   the endpoint to optionally indicate a preference for which address it
   would get assigned.

   ADDRESS_REQUEST Capsule {
     Type (i) = 0x02,
     Length (i),
     Requested Address (..) ...,
   }

                  Figure 9: ADDRESS_REQUEST Capsule Format

   The ADDRESS_REQUEST capsule contains a sequence of one or more
   Requested Addresses.

   Requested Address {
     Request ID (i),
     IP Version (8),
     IP Address (32..128),
     IP Prefix Length (8),
   }

                    Figure 10: Requested Address Format

   Each Requested Address contains the following fields:

   Request ID:
      Request identifier, encoded as a variable-length integer.  This is
      the identifier of this specific address request.  Each request
      from a given endpoint carries a different identifier.  Request IDs
      MUST NOT be reused by an endpoint and MUST NOT be zero.

   IP Version:
      IP Version of this address request, encoded as an unsigned 8-bit
      integer.  It MUST be either 4 or 6.

   IP Address:
      Requested IP address.  If the IP Version field has value 4, the IP
      Address field SHALL have a length of 32 bits.  If the IP Version
      field has value 6, the IP Address field SHALL have a length of 128
      bits.

   IP Prefix Length:
      Length of the IP Prefix requested in bits, encoded as an unsigned
      8-bit integer.  It MUST be less than or equal to the length of the
      IP Address field in bits.  If the prefix length is strictly less
      than the length of the IP address in bits, the lower bits of the
      IP Address field that are not covered by the prefix length MUST
      all be set to 0.

   If the IP address is all-zero (0.0.0.0 or ::), this indicates that
   the sender is requesting an address of that address family but does
   not have a preference for a specific address.  In that scenario, the
   prefix length still indicates the sender's preference for the prefix
   length it is requesting.

   If any of the capsule fields are malformed upon reception, the
   receiver of the capsule MUST follow the error-handling procedure
   defined in Section 3.3 of [HTTP-DGRAM].

   Upon receiving the ADDRESS_REQUEST capsule, an endpoint SHOULD assign
   one or more IP addresses to its peer and then respond with an
   ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsule to inform the peer of the assignment.  For
   each Requested Address, the receiver of the ADDRESS_REQUEST capsule
   SHALL respond with an Assigned Address with a matching Request ID.
   If the requested address was assigned, the IP Address and IP Prefix
   Length fields in the Assigned Address response SHALL be set to the
   assigned values.  If the requested address was not assigned, the IP
   address SHALL be all-zero, and the IP Prefix Length SHALL be the
   maximum length (0.0.0.0/32 or ::/128) to indicate that no address was
   assigned.  These address rejections SHOULD NOT be included in
   subsequent ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsules.  Note that other Assigned Address
   entries that do not correspond to any Request ID can also be
   contained in the same ADDRESS_ASSIGN response.

   If an endpoint receives an ADDRESS_REQUEST capsule that contains zero
   Requested Addresses, it MUST abort the IP proxying request stream.

   Note that the ordering of Requested Addresses does not carry any
   semantics.  Similarly, the Request ID is only meant as a unique
   identifier; it does not convey any priority or importance.

4.7.3.  ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT Capsule

   The ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule (capsule type 0x03) allows an
   endpoint to communicate to its peer that it is willing to route
   traffic to a set of IP address ranges.  This indicates that the
   sender has an existing route to each address range and notifies its
   peer that, if the receiver of the ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule sends
   IP packets for one of these ranges in HTTP Datagrams, the sender of
   the capsule will forward them along its preexisting route.  Any
   address that is in one of the address ranges can be used as the
   destination address on IP packets originated by the receiver of this
   capsule.

   ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT Capsule {
     Type (i) = 0x03,
     Length (i),
     IP Address Range (..) ...,
   }

               Figure 11: ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT Capsule Format

   The ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule contains a sequence of zero or more
   IP Address Ranges.

   IP Address Range {
     IP Version (8),
     Start IP Address (32..128),
     End IP Address (32..128),
     IP Protocol (8),
   }

                     Figure 12: IP Address Range Format

   Each IP Address Range contains the following fields:

   IP Version:
      IP Version of this range, encoded as an unsigned 8-bit integer.
      It MUST be either 4 or 6.

   Start IP Address and End IP Address:
      Inclusive start and end IP address of the advertised range.  If
      the IP Version field has value 4, these fields SHALL have a length
      of 32 bits.  If the IP Version field has value 6, these fields
      SHALL have a length of 128 bits.  The Start IP Address MUST be
      less than or equal to the End IP Address.

   IP Protocol:
      The Internet Protocol Number for traffic that can be sent to this
      range, encoded as an unsigned 8-bit integer.  If the value is 0,
      all protocols are allowed.  If the value is not 0, it represents
      an allowable next header value carried in IP headers that are sent
      directly in HTTP Datagrams (the outermost IP headers).  ICMP
      traffic is always allowed, regardless of the value of this field.

   If any of the capsule fields are malformed upon reception, the
   receiver of the capsule MUST follow the error-handling procedure
   defined in Section 3.3 of [HTTP-DGRAM].

   Upon receiving the ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule, an endpoint MAY
   update its local state regarding what its peer is willing to route
   (subject to local policy), such as by installing entries in a routing
   table.

   Each ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT contains the full list of address ranges.
   If multiple ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsules are sent in one direction,
   each ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule supersedes prior ones.  In other
   words, if a given address range was present in a prior capsule but
   the most recently received ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule does not
   contain it, the receiver will consider that range withdrawn.

   If multiple ranges using the same IP protocol were to overlap, some
   routing table implementations might reject them.  To prevent overlap,
   the ranges are ordered; this places the burden on the sender and
   makes verification by the receiver much simpler.  If an IP Address
   Range A precedes an IP Address Range B in the same
   ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule, they MUST follow these requirements:

   *  The IP Version of A MUST be less than or equal to the IP Version
      of B.

   *  If the IP Version of A and B are equal, the IP Protocol of A MUST
      be less than or equal to the IP Protocol of B.

   *  If the IP Version and IP Protocol of A and B are both equal, the
      End IP Address of A MUST be strictly less than the Start IP
      Address of B.

   If an endpoint receives a ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule that does not
   meet these requirements, it MUST abort the IP proxying request
   stream.

   Since setting the IP protocol to zero indicates all protocols are
   allowed, the requirements above make it possible for two routes to
   overlap when one has its IP protocol set to zero and the other has it
   set to non-zero.  Endpoints MUST NOT send a ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT
   capsule with routes that overlap in such a way.  Validating this
   requirement is OPTIONAL, but if an endpoint detects the violation, it
   MUST abort the IP proxying request stream.

4.8.  IPv6 Extension Headers

   Both request scoping (see Section 4.6) and the ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT
   capsule (see Section 4.7.3) use Internet Protocol Numbers.  These
   numbers represent both upper layers (as defined in Section 2 of
   [IPv6], with examples that include TCP and UDP) and IPv6 extension
   headers (as defined in Section 4 of [IPv6], with examples that
   include Fragment and Options headers).  IP proxies MAY reject
   requests to scope to protocol numbers that are used for extension
   headers.  Upon receiving packets, implementations that support
   scoping or routing by Internet Protocol Number MUST walk the chain of
   extensions to find the outermost non-extension Internet Protocol
   Number to match against the scoping rule.  Note that the
   ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule uses Internet Protocol Number 0 to
   indicate that all protocols are allowed; it does not restrict the
   route to the IPv6 Hop-by-Hop Options header (Section 4.3 of [IPv6]).

5.  Context Identifiers

   The mechanism for proxying IP in HTTP defined in this document allows
   future extensions to exchange HTTP Datagrams that carry different
   semantics from IP payloads.  Some of these extensions can augment IP
   payloads with additional data or compress IP header fields, while
   others can exchange data that is completely separate from IP
   payloads.  In order to accomplish this, all HTTP Datagrams associated
   with IP proxying request streams start with a Context ID field; see
   Section 6.

   Context IDs are 62-bit integers (0 to 2^62-1).  Context IDs are
   encoded as variable-length integers; see Section 16 of [QUIC].  The
   Context ID value of 0 is reserved for IP payloads, while non-zero
   values are dynamically allocated.  Non-zero even-numbered Context IDs
   are client-allocated, and odd-numbered Context IDs are proxy-
   allocated.  The Context ID namespace is tied to a given HTTP request;
   it is possible for a Context ID with the same numeric value to be
   simultaneously allocated in distinct requests, potentially with
   different semantics.  Context IDs MUST NOT be re-allocated within a
   given HTTP request but MAY be allocated in any order.  The Context ID
   allocation restrictions to the use of even-numbered and odd-numbered
   Context IDs exist in order to avoid the need for synchronization
   between endpoints.  However, once a Context ID has been allocated,
   those restrictions do not apply to the use of the Context ID; it can
   be used by either the client or the IP proxy, independent of which
   endpoint initially allocated it.

   Registration is the action by which an endpoint informs its peer of
   the semantics and format of a given Context ID.  This document does
   not define how registration occurs.  Future extensions MAY use HTTP
   header fields or capsules to register Context IDs.  Depending on the
   method being used, it is possible for datagrams to be received with
   Context IDs that have not yet been registered.  For instance, this
   can be due to reordering of the packet containing the datagram and
   the packet containing the registration message during transmission.

6.  HTTP Datagram Payload Format

   When associated with IP proxying request streams, the HTTP Datagram
   Payload field of HTTP Datagrams (see [HTTP-DGRAM]) has the format
   defined in Figure 13.  Note that, when HTTP Datagrams are encoded
   using QUIC DATAGRAM frames, the Context ID field defined below
   directly follows the Quarter Stream ID field that is at the start of
   the QUIC DATAGRAM frame payload:

   IP Proxying HTTP Datagram Payload {
     Context ID (i),
     Payload (..),
   }

                Figure 13: IP Proxying HTTP Datagram Format

   The IP Proxying HTTP Datagram Payload contains the following fields:

   Context ID:
      A variable-length integer that contains the value of the Context
      ID.  If an HTTP/3 datagram that carries an unknown Context ID is
      received, the receiver SHALL either drop that datagram silently or
      buffer it temporarily (on the order of a round trip) while
      awaiting the registration of the corresponding Context ID.

   Payload:
      The payload of the datagram, whose semantics depend on value of
      the previous field.  Note that this field can be empty.

   IP packets are encoded using HTTP Datagrams with the Context ID set
   to zero.  When the Context ID is set to zero, the Payload field
   contains a full IP packet (from the IP Version field until the last
   byte of the IP payload).

7.  IP Packet Handling

   This document defines a tunneling mechanism that is conceptually an
   IP link.  However, because links are attached to IP routers,
   implementations might need to handle some of the responsibilities of
   IP routers if they do not delegate them to another implementation,
   such as a kernel.

7.1.  Link Operation

   The IP forwarding tunnels described in this document are not fully
   featured "interfaces" in the IPv6 addressing architecture sense
   [IPv6-ADDR].  In particular, they do not necessarily have IPv6 link-
   local addresses.  Additionally, IPv6 stateless autoconfiguration or
   router advertisement messages are not used in such interfaces, and
   neither is neighbor discovery.

   When using HTTP/2 or HTTP/3, a client MAY optimistically start
   sending proxied IP packets before receiving the response to its IP
   proxying request, noting however that those may not be processed by
   the IP proxy if it responds to the request with a failure or if the
   datagrams are received by the IP proxy before the request.  Since
   receiving addresses and routes is required in order to know that a
   packet can be sent through the tunnel, such optimistic packets might
   be dropped by the IP proxy if it chooses to provide different
   addressing or routing information than what the client assumed.

   Note that it is possible for multiple proxied IP packets to be
   encapsulated in the same outer packet, for example, because a QUIC
   packet can carry more than one QUIC DATAGRAM frame.  It is also
   possible for a proxied IP packet to span multiple outer packets,
   because a DATAGRAM capsule can be split across multiple QUIC or TCP
   packets.

7.2.  Routing Operation

   The requirements in this section are a repetition of requirements
   that apply to IP routers in general and might not apply to
   implementations of IP proxying that rely on external software for
   routing.

   When an endpoint receives an HTTP Datagram containing an IP packet,
   it will parse the packet's IP header, perform any local policy checks
   (e.g., source address validation), check their routing table to pick
   an outbound interface, and then send the IP packet on that interface
   or pass it to a local application.  The endpoint can also choose to
   drop any received packets instead of forwarding them.  If a received
   IP packet fails any correctness or policy checks, that is a
   forwarding error, not a protocol violation, as far as IP proxying is
   concerned; see Section 7.2.1.  IP proxying endpoints MAY implement
   additional filtering policies on the IP packets they forward.

   In the other direction, when an endpoint receives an IP packet, it
   checks to see if the packet matches the routes mapped for an IP
   tunnel and performs the same forwarding checks as above before
   transmitting the packet over HTTP Datagrams.

   When IP proxying endpoints forward IP packets between different
   links, they will decrement the IP Hop Count (or TTL) upon
   encapsulation but not upon decapsulation.  In other words, the Hop
   Count is decremented right before an IP packet is transmitted in an
   HTTP Datagram.  This prevents infinite loops in the presence of
   routing loops and matches the choices in IPsec [IPSEC].  This does
   not apply to IP packets generated by the IP proxying endpoint itself.

   Implementers need to ensure that they do not forward any link-local
   traffic beyond the IP proxying interface that it was received on.  IP
   proxying endpoints also need to properly reply to packets destined to
   link-local multicast addresses.

   IPv6 requires that every link have an MTU of at least 1280 bytes
   [IPv6].  Since IP proxying in HTTP conveys IP packets in HTTP
   Datagrams and those can in turn be sent in QUIC DATAGRAM frames that
   cannot be fragmented [DGRAM], the MTU of an IP tunnel can be limited
   by the MTU of the QUIC connection that IP proxying is operating over.
   This can lead to situations where the IPv6 minimum link MTU is
   violated.  IP proxying endpoints that operate as routers and support
   IPv6 MUST ensure that the IP tunnel link MTU is at least 1280 bytes
   (i.e., that they can send HTTP Datagrams with payloads of at least
   1280 bytes).  This can be accomplished using various techniques:

   *  If both IP proxying endpoints know for certain that HTTP
      intermediaries are not in use, the endpoints can pad the QUIC
      INITIAL packets of the outer QUIC connection that IP proxying is
      running over.  (Assuming QUIC version 1 is in use, the overhead is
      1 byte for the type, 20 bytes for the maximal connection ID
      length, 4 bytes for the maximal packet number length, 1 byte for
      the DATAGRAM frame type, 8 bytes for the maximal Quarter Stream
      ID, 1 byte for the zero Context ID, and 16 bytes for the
      Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD)
      authentication tag, for a total of 51 bytes of overhead, which
      corresponds to padding QUIC INITIAL packets to 1331 bytes or
      more.)

   *  IP proxying endpoints can also send ICMPv6 echo requests with 1232
      bytes of data to ascertain the link MTU and tear down the tunnel
      if they do not receive a response.  Unless endpoints have an out-
      of-band means of guaranteeing that the previous techniques are
      sufficient, they MUST use this method.  If an endpoint does not
      know an IPv6 address of its peer, it can send the ICMPv6 echo
      request to the link-local all nodes multicast address (ff02::1).

   If an endpoint is using QUIC DATAGRAM frames to convey IPv6 packets
   and it detects that the QUIC MTU is too low to allow sending 1280
   bytes, it MUST abort the IP proxying request stream.

7.2.1.  Error Signalling

   Since IP proxying endpoints often forward IP packets onwards to other
   network interfaces, they need to handle errors in the forwarding
   process.  For example, forwarding can fail if the endpoint does not
   have a route for the destination address, if it is configured to
   reject a destination prefix by policy, or if the MTU of the outgoing
   link is lower than the size of the packet to be forwarded.  In such
   scenarios, IP proxying endpoints SHOULD use ICMP [ICMP] [ICMPv6] to
   signal the forwarding error to its peer by generating ICMP packets
   and sending them using HTTP Datagrams.

   Endpoints are free to select the most appropriate ICMP errors to
   send.  Some examples that are relevant for IP proxying include the
   following:

   *  For invalid source addresses, send Destination Unreachable
      (Section 3.1 of [ICMPv6]) with code 5, "Source address failed
      ingress/egress policy".

   *  For unroutable destination addresses, send Destination Unreachable
      (Section 3.1 of [ICMPv6]) with code 0, "No route to destination",
      or code 1, "Communication with destination administratively
      prohibited".

   *  For packets that cannot fit within the MTU of the outgoing link,
      send Packet Too Big (Section 3.2 of [ICMPv6]).

   In order to receive these errors, endpoints need to be prepared to
   receive ICMP packets.  If an endpoint does not send
   ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsules, such as a client opening an IP flow
   through an IP proxy, it SHOULD process proxied ICMP packets from its
   peer in order to receive these errors.  Note that ICMP messages can
   originate from a source address different from that of the IP
   proxying peer and also from outside the target if scoping is in use
   (see Section 4.6).

8.  Examples

   IP proxying in HTTP enables many different use cases that can benefit
   from IP packet proxying and tunnelling.  These examples are provided
   to help illustrate some of the ways in which IP proxying in HTTP can
   be used.

8.1.  Remote Access VPN

   The following example shows a point-to-network VPN setup, where a
   client receives a set of local addresses and can send to any remote
   host through the IP proxy.  Such VPN setups can be either full-tunnel
   or split-tunnel.

   +--------+ IP A          IP B +--------+           +---> IP D
   |        +--------------------+   IP   | IP C      |
   | Client | IP Subnet C <--> ? |  Proxy +-----------+---> IP E
   |        +--------------------+        |           |
   +--------+                    +--------+           +---> IP ...

                        Figure 14: VPN Tunnel Setup

   In this case, the client does not specify any scope in its request.
   The IP proxy assigns the client an IPv4 address (192.0.2.11) and a
   full-tunnel route of all IPv4 addresses (0.0.0.0/0).  The client can
   then send to any IPv4 host using its assigned address as its source
   address.

   [[ From Client ]]             [[ From IP Proxy ]]

   SETTINGS
     H3_DATAGRAM = 1

                                 SETTINGS
                                   ENABLE_CONNECT_PROTOCOL = 1
                                   H3_DATAGRAM = 1

   STREAM(44): HEADERS
   :method = CONNECT
   :protocol = connect-ip
   :scheme = https
   :path = /vpn
   :authority = proxy.example.com
   capsule-protocol = ?1

                                 STREAM(44): HEADERS
                                 :status = 200
                                 capsule-protocol = ?1

   STREAM(44): DATA
   Capsule Type = ADDRESS_REQUEST
   (Request ID = 1
    IP Version = 4
    IP Address = 0.0.0.0
    IP Prefix Length = 32)

                                 STREAM(44): DATA
                                 Capsule Type = ADDRESS_ASSIGN
                                 (Request ID = 1
                                  IP Version = 4
                                  IP Address = 192.0.2.11
                                  IP Prefix Length = 32)

                                 STREAM(44): DATA
                                 Capsule Type = ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT
                                 (IP Version = 4
                                  Start IP Address = 0.0.0.0
                                  End IP Address = 255.255.255.255
                                  IP Protocol = 0) // Any

   DATAGRAM
   Quarter Stream ID = 11
   Context ID = 0
   Payload = Encapsulated IP Packet

                                 DATAGRAM
                                 Quarter Stream ID = 11
                                 Context ID = 0
                                 Payload = Encapsulated IP Packet

                     Figure 15: VPN Full-Tunnel Example

   A setup for a split-tunnel VPN (the case where the client can only
   access a specific set of private subnets) is quite similar.  In this
   case, the advertised route is restricted to 192.0.2.0/24, rather than
   0.0.0.0/0.

   [[ From Client ]]             [[ From IP Proxy ]]

                                 STREAM(44): DATA
                                 Capsule Type = ADDRESS_ASSIGN
                                 (Request ID = 0
                                  IP Version = 4
                                  IP Address = 192.0.2.42
                                  IP Prefix Length = 32)

                                 STREAM(44): DATA
                                 Capsule Type = ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT
                                 (IP Version = 4
                                  Start IP Address = 192.0.2.0
                                  End IP Address = 192.0.2.41
                                  IP Protocol = 0) // Any
                                 (IP Version = 4
                                  Start IP Address = 192.0.2.43
                                  End IP Address = 192.0.2.255
                                  IP Protocol = 0) // Any

                    Figure 16: VPN Split-Tunnel Example

8.2.  Site-to-Site VPN

   The following example shows how to connect a branch office network to
   a corporate network such that all machines on those networks can
   communicate.  In this example, the IP proxying client is attached to
   the branch office network 192.0.2.0/24, and the IP proxy is attached
   to the corporate network 203.0.113.0/24.  There are legacy clients on
   the branch office network that only allow maintenance requests from
   machines on their subnet, so the IP proxy is provisioned with an IP
   address from that subnet.

   192.0.2.1 <--+   +--------+             +-------+   +---> 203.0.113.9
                |   |        +-------------+  IP   |   |
   192.0.2.2 <--+---+ Client | IP Proxying | Proxy +---+---> 203.0.113.8
                |   |        +-------------+       |   |
   192.0.2.3 <--+   +--------+             +-------+   +---> 203.0.113.7

                    Figure 17: Site-to-Site VPN Example

   In this case, the client does not specify any scope in its request.
   The IP proxy assigns the client an IPv4 address (203.0.113.100) and a
   split-tunnel route to the corporate network (203.0.113.0/24).  The
   client assigns the IP proxy an IPv4 address (192.0.2.200) and a
   split-tunnel route to the branch office network (192.0.2.0/24).  This
   allows hosts on both networks to communicate with each other and
   allows the IP proxy to perform maintenance on legacy hosts in the
   branch office.  Note that IP proxying endpoints will decrement the IP
   Hop Count (or TTL) when encapsulating forwarded packets, so protocols
   that require that field be set to 255 will not function.

   [[ From Client ]]             [[ From IP Proxy ]]

   SETTINGS
     H3_DATAGRAM = 1

                                 SETTINGS
                                   ENABLE_CONNECT_PROTOCOL = 1
                                   H3_DATAGRAM = 1

   STREAM(44): HEADERS
   :method = CONNECT
   :protocol = connect-ip
   :scheme = https
   :path = /corp
   :authority = proxy.example.com
   capsule-protocol = ?1

                                 STREAM(44): HEADERS
                                 :status = 200
                                 capsule-protocol = ?1

   STREAM(44): DATA
   Capsule Type = ADDRESS_ASSIGN
   (Request ID = 0
   IP Version = 4
   IP Address = 192.0.2.200
   IP Prefix Length = 32)

   STREAM(44): DATA
   Capsule Type = ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT
   (IP Version = 4
   Start IP Address = 192.0.2.0
   End IP Address = 192.0.2.255
   IP Protocol = 0) // Any

                                 STREAM(44): DATA
                                 Capsule Type = ADDRESS_ASSIGN
                                 (Request ID = 0
                                  IP Version = 4
                                  IP Address = 203.0.113.100
                                  IP Prefix Length = 32)

                                 STREAM(44): DATA
                                 Capsule Type = ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT
                                 (IP Version = 4
                                  Start IP Address = 203.0.113.0
                                  End IP Address = 203.0.113.255
                                  IP Protocol = 0) // Any

   DATAGRAM
   Quarter Stream ID = 11
   Context ID = 0
   Payload = Encapsulated IP Packet

                                 DATAGRAM
                                 Quarter Stream ID = 11
                                 Context ID = 0
                                 Payload = Encapsulated IP Packet

                Figure 18: Site-to-Site VPN Capsule Example

8.3.  IP Flow Forwarding

   The following example shows an IP flow forwarding setup, where a
   client requests to establish a forwarding tunnel to
   target.example.com using the Stream Control Transmission Protocol
   (SCTP) (IP protocol 132) and receives a single local address and
   remote address it can use for transmitting packets.  A similar
   approach could be used for any other IP protocol that isn't easily
   proxied with existing HTTP methods, such as ICMP, Encapsulating
   Security Payload (ESP), etc.

   +--------+ IP A         IP B +--------+
   |        +-------------------+   IP   | IP C
   | Client |    IP C <--> D    |  Proxy +---------> IP D
   |        +-------------------+        |
   +--------+                   +--------+

                       Figure 19: Proxied Flow Setup

   In this case, the client specifies both a target hostname and an
   Internet Protocol Number in the scope of its request, indicating that
   it only needs to communicate with a single host.  The IP proxy is
   able to perform DNS resolution on behalf of the client and allocate a
   specific outbound socket for the client instead of allocating an
   entire IP address to the client.  In this regard, the request is
   similar to a regular CONNECT proxy request.

   The IP proxy assigns a single IPv6 address to the client
   (2001:db8:1234::a) and a route to a single IPv6 host
   (2001:db8:3456::b) scoped to SCTP.  The client can send and receive
   SCTP IP packets to the remote host.

   [[ From Client ]]             [[ From IP Proxy ]]

   SETTINGS
     H3_DATAGRAM = 1

                                 SETTINGS
                                   ENABLE_CONNECT_PROTOCOL = 1
                                   H3_DATAGRAM = 1

   STREAM(44): HEADERS
   :method = CONNECT
   :protocol = connect-ip
   :scheme = https
   :path = /proxy?target=target.example.com&ipproto=132
   :authority = proxy.example.com
   capsule-protocol = ?1

                                 STREAM(44): HEADERS
                                 :status = 200
                                 capsule-protocol = ?1

                                 STREAM(44): DATA
                                 Capsule Type = ADDRESS_ASSIGN
                                 (Request ID = 0
                                  IP Version = 6
                                  IP Address = 2001:db8:1234::a
                                  IP Prefix Length = 128)

                                 STREAM(44): DATA
                                 Capsule Type = ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT
                                 (IP Version = 6
                                  Start IP Address = 2001:db8:3456::b
                                  End IP Address = 2001:db8:3456::b
                                  IP Protocol = 132)

   DATAGRAM
   Quarter Stream ID = 11
   Context ID = 0
   Payload = Encapsulated SCTP/IP Packet

                                 DATAGRAM
                                 Quarter Stream ID = 11
                                 Context ID = 0
                                 Payload = Encapsulated SCTP/IP Packet

                    Figure 20: Proxied SCTP Flow Example

8.4.  Proxied Connection Racing

   The following example shows a setup where a client is proxying UDP
   packets through an IP proxy in order to control connection
   establishment racing through an IP proxy, as defined in Happy
   Eyeballs [HEv2].  This example is a variant of the proxied flow but
   highlights how IP-level proxying can enable new capabilities, even
   for TCP and UDP.

   +--------+ IP A         IP B +--------+ IP C
   |        +-------------------+        |<------------> IP E
   | Client |  IP C <--> E      |   IP   |
   |        |     D <--> F      |  Proxy |
   |        +-------------------+        |<------------> IP F
   +--------+                   +--------+ IP D

                 Figure 21: Proxied Connection Racing Setup

   As with proxied flows, the client specifies both a target hostname
   and an Internet Protocol Number in the scope of its request.  When
   the IP proxy performs DNS resolution on behalf of the client, it can
   send the various remote address options to the client as separate
   routes.  It can also ensure that the client has both IPv4 and IPv6
   addresses assigned.

   The IP proxy assigns both an IPv4 address (192.0.2.3) and an IPv6
   address (2001:db8:1234::a) to the client, as well as an IPv4 route
   (198.51.100.2) and an IPv6 route (2001:db8:3456::b), which represent
   the resolved addresses of the target hostname, scoped to UDP.  The
   client can send and receive UDP IP packets to either one of the IP
   proxy addresses to enable Happy Eyeballs through the IP proxy.

   [[ From Client ]]             [[ From IP Proxy ]]

   SETTINGS
     H3_DATAGRAM = 1

                                 SETTINGS
                                   ENABLE_CONNECT_PROTOCOL = 1
                                   H3_DATAGRAM = 1

   STREAM(44): HEADERS
   :method = CONNECT
   :protocol = connect-ip
   :scheme = https
   :path = /proxy?target=target.example.com&ipproto=17
   :authority = proxy.example.com
   capsule-protocol = ?1

                                 STREAM(44): HEADERS
                                 :status = 200
                                 capsule-protocol = ?1

                                 STREAM(44): DATA
                                 Capsule Type = ADDRESS_ASSIGN
                                 (Request ID = 0
                                  IP Version = 4
                                  IP Address = 192.0.2.3
                                  IP Prefix Length = 32),
                                 (Request ID = 0
                                  IP Version = 6
                                  IP Address = 2001:db8::1234:1234
                                  IP Prefix Length = 128)

                                 STREAM(44): DATA
                                 Capsule Type = ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT
                                 (IP Version = 4
                                  Start IP Address = 198.51.100.2
                                  End IP Address = 198.51.100.2
                                  IP Protocol = 17),
                                 (IP Version = 6
                                  Start IP Address = 2001:db8:3456::b
                                  End IP Address = 2001:db8:3456::b
                                  IP Protocol = 17)
   ...

   DATAGRAM
   Quarter Stream ID = 11
   Context ID = 0
   Payload = Encapsulated IPv6 Packet

   DATAGRAM
   Quarter Stream ID = 11
   Context ID = 0
   Payload = Encapsulated IPv4 Packet

                Figure 22: Proxied Connection Racing Example

9.  Extensibility Considerations

   Extensions to IP proxying in HTTP can define behavior changes to this
   mechanism.  Such extensions SHOULD define new capsule types to
   exchange configuration information if needed.  It is RECOMMENDED for
   extensions that modify addressing to specify that their extension
   capsules be sent before the ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsule and that they do
   not take effect until the ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsule is parsed.  This
   allows modifications to address assignment to operate atomically.
   Similarly, extensions that modify routing SHOULD behave similarly
   with regard to the ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT capsule.

10.  Performance Considerations

   Bursty traffic can often lead to temporally correlated packet losses;
   in turn, this can lead to suboptimal responses from congestion
   controllers in protocols running inside the tunnel.  To avoid this,
   IP proxying endpoints SHOULD strive to avoid increasing burstiness of
   IP traffic; they SHOULD NOT queue packets in order to increase
   batching beyond the minimal amount required to take advantage of
   hardware offloads.

   When the protocol running inside the tunnel uses congestion control
   (e.g., [TCP] or [QUIC]), the proxied traffic will incur at least two
   nested congestion controllers.  When tunneled packets are sent using
   QUIC DATAGRAM frames, the outer HTTP connection MAY disable
   congestion control for those packets that contain only QUIC DATAGRAM
   frames encapsulating IP packets.  Implementers will benefit from
   reading the guidance in Section 3.1.11 of [UDP-USAGE].

   When the protocol running inside the tunnel uses loss recovery (e.g.,
   [TCP] or [QUIC]) and the outer HTTP connection runs over TCP, the
   proxied traffic will incur at least two nested loss recovery
   mechanisms.  This can reduce performance, as both can sometimes
   independently retransmit the same data.  To avoid this, IP proxying
   SHOULD be performed over HTTP/3 to allow leveraging the QUIC DATAGRAM
   frame.

10.1.  MTU Considerations

   When using HTTP/3 with the QUIC Datagram extension [DGRAM], IP
   packets are transmitted in QUIC DATAGRAM frames.  Since these frames
   cannot be fragmented, they can only carry packets up to a given
   length determined by the QUIC connection configuration and the Path
   MTU (PMTU).  If an endpoint is using QUIC DATAGRAM frames and it
   attempts to route an IP packet through the tunnel that will not fit
   inside a QUIC DATAGRAM frame, the IP proxy SHOULD NOT send the IP
   packet in a DATAGRAM capsule, as that defeats the end-to-end
   unreliability characteristic that methods such as Datagram
   Packetization Layer PMTU Discovery (DPLPMTUD) depend on [DPLPMTUD].
   In this scenario, the endpoint SHOULD drop the IP packet and send an
   ICMP Packet Too Big message to the sender of the dropped packet; see
   Section 3.2 of [ICMPv6].

10.2.  ECN Considerations

   If an IP proxying endpoint with a connection containing an IP
   proxying request stream disables congestion control, it cannot signal
   Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) [ECN] support on that outer
   connection.  That is, the QUIC sender MUST mark all IP headers with
   the Not ECN-Capable Transport (Not-ECT) codepoint for QUIC packets
   that are outside of congestion control.  The endpoint can still
   report ECN feedback via QUIC ACK_ECN frames or the TCP ECN-Echo (ECE)
   bit, as the peer might not have disabled congestion control.

   Conversely, if congestion control is not disabled on the outer
   congestion, the guidance in [ECN-TUNNEL] about transferring ECN marks
   between inner and outer IP headers does not apply because the outer
   connection will react correctly to congestion notifications if it
   uses ECN.  The inner traffic can also use ECN, independently of
   whether it is in use on the outer connection.

10.3.  Differentiated Services Considerations

   Tunneled IP packets can have Differentiated Services Code Points
   (DSCPs) [DSCP] set in the traffic class IP header field to request a
   particular per-hop behavior.  If an IP proxying endpoint is
   configured as part of a Differentiated Services domain, it MAY
   implement traffic differentiation based on these markings.  However,
   the use of HTTP can limit the possibilities for differentiated
   treatment of the tunneled IP packets on the path between the IP
   proxying endpoints.

   When an HTTP connection is congestion-controlled, marking packets
   with different DSCPs can lead to reordering between them, and that
   can in turn lead the underlying transport connection's congestion
   controller to perform poorly.  If tunneled packets are subject to
   congestion control by the outer connection, they need to avoid
   carrying DSCP markings that are not equivalent in forwarding behavior
   to prevent this situation.  In this scenario, the IP proxying
   endpoint MUST NOT copy the DSCP field from the inner IP header to the
   outer IP header of the packet carrying this packet.  Instead, an
   application would need to use separate connections to the proxy, one
   for each DSCP.  Note that this document does not define a way for
   requests to scope to particular DSCP values; such support is left to
   future extensions.

   If tunneled packets use QUIC datagrams and are not subject to
   congestion control by the outer connection, the IP proxying endpoints
   MAY translate the DSCP field value from the tunneled traffic to the
   outer IP header.  IP proxying endpoints MUST NOT coalesce multiple
   inner packets into the same outer packet unless they have the same
   DSCP marking or an equivalent traffic class.  Note that the ability
   to translate DSCP values is dependent on the tunnel ingress and
   egress belonging to the same Differentiated Service domain or not.

11.  Security Considerations

   There are significant risks in allowing arbitrary clients to
   establish a tunnel that permits sending to arbitrary hosts,
   regardless of whether tunnels are scoped to specific hosts or not.
   Bad actors could abuse this capability to send traffic and have it
   attributed to the IP proxy.  HTTP servers that support IP proxying
   SHOULD restrict its use to authenticated users.  Depending on the
   deployment, possible authentication mechanisms include mutual TLS
   between IP proxying endpoints, HTTP-based authentication via the HTTP
   Authorization header [HTTP], or even bearer tokens.  Proxies can
   enforce policies for authenticated users to further constrain client
   behavior or deal with possible abuse.  For example, proxies can rate
   limit individual clients that send an excessively large amount of
   traffic through the proxy.  As another example, proxies can restrict
   address (prefix) assignment to clients based on certain client
   attributes, such as geographic location.

   Address assignment can have privacy implications for endpoints.  For
   example, if a proxy partitions its address space by the number of
   authenticated clients and then assigns distinct address ranges to
   each client, target hosts could use this information to determine
   when IP packets correspond to the same client.  Avoiding such
   tracking vectors may be important for certain proxy deployments.
   Proxies SHOULD avoid persistent per-client address (prefix)
   assignment when possible.

   Falsifying IP source addresses in sent traffic has been common for
   denial-of-service attacks.  Implementations of this mechanism need to
   ensure that they do not facilitate such attacks.  In particular,
   there are scenarios where an endpoint knows that its peer is only
   allowed to send IP packets from a given prefix.  For example, that
   can happen through out-of-band configuration information or when
   allowed prefixes are shared via ADDRESS_ASSIGN capsules.  In such
   scenarios, endpoints MUST follow the recommendations from [BCP38] to
   prevent source address spoofing.

   Limiting request scope (see Section 4.6) allows two clients to share
   one of the proxy's external IP addresses if their requests are scoped
   to different Internet Protocol Numbers.  If the proxy receives an
   ICMP packet destined for that external IP address, it has the option
   to forward it back to the clients.  However, some of these ICMP
   packets carry part of the original IP packet that triggered the ICMP
   response.  Forwarding such packets can accidentally divulge
   information about one client's traffic to another client.  To avoid
   this, proxies that forward ICMP on shared external IP addresses MUST
   inspect the invoking packet included in the ICMP packet and only
   forward the ICMP packet to the client whose scoping matches the
   invoking packet.

   Implementers will benefit from reading the guidance in
   [TUNNEL-SECURITY].  Since there are known risks with some IPv6
   extension headers (e.g., [ROUTING-HDR]), implementers need to follow
   the latest guidance regarding handling of IPv6 extension headers.

   Transferring DSCP markings from inner to outer packets (see
   Section 10.3) exposes end-to-end flow level information to an on-path
   observer between the IP proxying endpoints.  This can potentially
   expose a single end-to-end flow.  Because of this, such use of DSCPs
   in privacy-sensitive contexts is NOT RECOMMENDED.

   Opportunistic sending of IP packets (see Section 7.1) is not allowed
   in HTTP/1.x because a server could reject the HTTP Upgrade and
   attempt to parse the IP packets as a subsequent HTTP request,
   allowing request smuggling attacks; see [OPTIMISTIC].  In particular,
   an intermediary that re-encodes a request from HTTP/2 or 3 to
   HTTP/1.1 MUST NOT forward any received capsules until it has parsed a
   successful IP proxying response.

12.  IANA Considerations

12.1.  HTTP Upgrade Token Registration

   IANA has registered "connect-ip" in the "HTTP Upgrade Tokens"
   registry maintained at <https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-
   upgrade-tokens>.

   Value:  connect-ip
   Description:  Proxying of IP Payloads
   Expected Version Tokens:  None
   References:  RFC 9484

12.2.  MASQUE URI Suffixes Registry Creation

   IANA has created the "MASQUE URI Suffixes" registry maintained at
   <https://www.iana.org/assignments/masque>.  The registration policy
   is Expert Review; see Section 4.5 of [IANA-POLICY].  This new
   registry governs the path segment that immediately follows "masque"
   in paths that start with "/.well-known/masque/"; see
   <https://www.iana.org/assignments/well-known-uris> for the
   registration of "masque" in the "Well-Known URIs" registry.

   This new registry contains three columns:

   Path Segment:  An ASCII string containing only characters allowed in
      tokens; see Section 5.6.2 of [HTTP].  Entries in this registry
      MUST all have distinct entries in this column.
   Description:  A description of the entry.
   Reference:  An optional reference defining the use of the entry.

   The registry's initial entries are as follows:

                +==============+==============+===========+
                | Path Segment | Description  | Reference |
                +==============+==============+===========+
                | udp          | UDP Proxying | RFC 9298  |
                +--------------+--------------+-----------+
                | ip           | IP Proxying  | RFC 9484  |
                +--------------+--------------+-----------+

                   Table 1: MASQUE URI Suffixes Registry

   Designated experts for this registry are advised that they should
   approve all requests as long as the expert believes that both (1) the
   requested Path Segment will not conflict with existing or expected
   future IETF work and (2) the use case is relevant to proxying.

12.3.  Updates to masque Well-Known URI Registration

   IANA has updated the entry for the "masque" URI suffix in the "Well-
   Known URIs" registry maintained at <https://www.iana.org/assignments/
   well-known-uris>.

   IANA has updated the "Reference" field to include this document and
   has replaced the "Related Information" field with "For sub-suffix
   allocations, see the registry at <https://www.iana.org/assignments/
   masque>.".

12.4.  HTTP Capsule Types Registrations

   IANA has added the following values to the "HTTP Capsule Types"
   registry maintained at <https://www.iana.org/assignments/masque>.

                      +=======+=====================+
                      | Value | Capsule Type        |
                      +=======+=====================+
                      | 0x01  | ADDRESS_ASSIGN      |
                      +-------+---------------------+
                      | 0x02  | ADDRESS_REQUEST     |
                      +-------+---------------------+
                      | 0x03  | ROUTE_ADVERTISEMENT |
                      +-------+---------------------+

                           Table 2: New Capsules

   All of these new entries use the following values for these fields:

   Status:  permanent
   Reference:  RFC 9484
   Change Controller:  IETF
   Contact:  masque@ietf.org
   Notes:  None

13.  References

13.1.  Normative References

   [ABNF]     Crocker, D., Ed. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
              Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5234, January 2008,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5234>.

   [BCP38]    Ferguson, P. and D. Senie, "Network Ingress Filtering:
              Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source
              Address Spoofing", BCP 38, RFC 2827, DOI 10.17487/RFC2827,
              May 2000, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2827>.

   [DGRAM]    Pauly, T., Kinnear, E., and D. Schinazi, "An Unreliable
              Datagram Extension to QUIC", RFC 9221,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC9221, March 2022,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9221>.

   [DSCP]     Nichols, K., Blake, S., Baker, F., and D. Black,
              "Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS
              Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers", RFC 2474,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2474, December 1998,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2474>.

   [ECN]      Ramakrishnan, K., Floyd, S., and D. Black, "The Addition
              of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP",
              RFC 3168, DOI 10.17487/RFC3168, September 2001,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3168>.

   [EXT-CONNECT2]
              McManus, P., "Bootstrapping WebSockets with HTTP/2",
              RFC 8441, DOI 10.17487/RFC8441, September 2018,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8441>.

   [EXT-CONNECT3]
              Hamilton, R., "Bootstrapping WebSockets with HTTP/3",
              RFC 9220, DOI 10.17487/RFC9220, June 2022,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9220>.

   [HTTP]     Fielding, R., Ed., Nottingham, M., Ed., and J. Reschke,
              Ed., "HTTP Semantics", STD 97, RFC 9110,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC9110, June 2022,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9110>.

   [HTTP-DGRAM]
              Schinazi, D. and L. Pardue, "HTTP Datagrams and the
              Capsule Protocol", RFC 9297, DOI 10.17487/RFC9297, August
              2022, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9297>.

   [HTTP/1.1] Fielding, R., Ed., Nottingham, M., Ed., and J. Reschke,
              Ed., "HTTP/1.1", STD 99, RFC 9112, DOI 10.17487/RFC9112,
              June 2022, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9112>.

   [HTTP/2]   Thomson, M., Ed. and C. Benfield, Ed., "HTTP/2", RFC 9113,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC9113, June 2022,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9113>.

   [HTTP/3]   Bishop, M., Ed., "HTTP/3", RFC 9114, DOI 10.17487/RFC9114,
              June 2022, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9114>.

   [IANA-POLICY]
              Cotton, M., Leiba, B., and T. Narten, "Guidelines for
              Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26,
              RFC 8126, DOI 10.17487/RFC8126, June 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8126>.

   [ICMP]     Postel, J., "Internet Control Message Protocol", STD 5,
              RFC 792, DOI 10.17487/RFC0792, September 1981,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc792>.

   [ICMPv6]   Conta, A., Deering, S., and M. Gupta, Ed., "Internet
              Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet
              Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification", STD 89,
              RFC 4443, DOI 10.17487/RFC4443, March 2006,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4443>.

   [IPv6]     Deering, S. and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version 6
              (IPv6) Specification", STD 86, RFC 8200,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8200, July 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8200>.

   [IPv6-ZONE-ID]
              Carpenter, B., Cheshire, S., and R. Hinden, "Representing
              IPv6 Zone Identifiers in Address Literals and Uniform
              Resource Identifiers", RFC 6874, DOI 10.17487/RFC6874,
              February 2013, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6874>.

   [PROXY-STATUS]
              Nottingham, M. and P. Sikora, "The Proxy-Status HTTP
              Response Header Field", RFC 9209, DOI 10.17487/RFC9209,
              June 2022, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9209>.

   [QUIC]     Iyengar, J., Ed. and M. Thomson, Ed., "QUIC: A UDP-Based
              Multiplexed and Secure Transport", RFC 9000,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC9000, May 2021,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9000>.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
              2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
              May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

   [TCP]      Eddy, W., Ed., "Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)",
              STD 7, RFC 9293, DOI 10.17487/RFC9293, August 2022,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9293>.

   [TEMPLATE] Gregorio, J., Fielding, R., Hadley, M., Nottingham, M.,
              and D. Orchard, "URI Template", RFC 6570,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6570, March 2012,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6570>.

   [URI]      Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
              Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66,
              RFC 3986, DOI 10.17487/RFC3986, January 2005,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3986>.

13.2.  Informative References

   [CONNECT-UDP]
              Schinazi, D., "Proxying UDP in HTTP", RFC 9298,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC9298, August 2022,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9298>.

   [DPLPMTUD] Fairhurst, G., Jones, T., Tüxen, M., Rüngeler, I., and T.
              Völker, "Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery for
              Datagram Transports", RFC 8899, DOI 10.17487/RFC8899,
              September 2020, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8899>.

   [ECN-TUNNEL]
              Briscoe, B., "Tunnelling of Explicit Congestion
              Notification", RFC 6040, DOI 10.17487/RFC6040, November
              2010, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6040>.

   [HEv2]     Schinazi, D. and T. Pauly, "Happy Eyeballs Version 2:
              Better Connectivity Using Concurrency", RFC 8305,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8305, December 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8305>.

   [IANA-PN]  IANA, "Protocol Numbers",
              <https://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers>.

   [IPSEC]    Kent, S. and K. Seo, "Security Architecture for the
              Internet Protocol", RFC 4301, DOI 10.17487/RFC4301,
              December 2005, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4301>.

   [IPv6-ADDR]
              Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "IP Version 6 Addressing
              Architecture", RFC 4291, DOI 10.17487/RFC4291, February
              2006, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4291>.

   [OPTIMISTIC]
              Schwartz, B. M., "Security Considerations for Optimistic
              Use of HTTP Upgrade", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft,
              draft-schwartz-httpbis-optimistic-upgrade-00, 21 August
              2023, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-
              schwartz-httpbis-optimistic-upgrade-00>.

   [PROXY-REQS]
              Chernyakhovsky, A., McCall, D., and D. Schinazi,
              "Requirements for a MASQUE Protocol to Proxy IP Traffic",
              Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-masque-ip-
              proxy-reqs-03, 27 August 2021,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-masque-
              ip-proxy-reqs-03>.

   [ROUTING-HDR]
              Abley, J., Savola, P., and G. Neville-Neil, "Deprecation
              of Type 0 Routing Headers in IPv6", RFC 5095,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5095, December 2007,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5095>.

   [TUNNEL-SECURITY]
              Krishnan, S., Thaler, D., and J. Hoagland, "Security
              Concerns with IP Tunneling", RFC 6169,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6169, April 2011,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6169>.

   [UDP-USAGE]
              Eggert, L., Fairhurst, G., and G. Shepherd, "UDP Usage
              Guidelines", BCP 145, RFC 8085, DOI 10.17487/RFC8085,
              March 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8085>.

Acknowledgments

   The design of this method was inspired by discussions in the MASQUE
   Working Group around [PROXY-REQS].  The authors would like to thank
   participants in those discussions for their feedback.  Additionally,
   Mike Bishop, Lucas Pardue, and Alejandro Sedeño provided valuable
   feedback on the document.

   Most of the text on client configuration is based on the
   corresponding text in [CONNECT-UDP].

Authors' Addresses

   Tommy Pauly (editor)
   Apple Inc.
   Email: tpauly@apple.com


   David Schinazi
   Google LLC
   1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
   Mountain View, CA 94043
   United States of America
   Email: dschinazi.ietf@gmail.com


   Alex Chernyakhovsky
   Google LLC
   Email: achernya@google.com


   Mirja Kühlewind
   Ericsson
   Email: mirja.kuehlewind@ericsson.com


   Magnus Westerlund
   Ericsson
   Email: magnus.westerlund@ericsson.com