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Network Working Group                                          A. Newton
Request for Comments: 4993                                VeriSign, Inc.
Category: Standards Track                                    August 2007


                  A Lightweight UDP Transfer Protocol
             for the Internet Registry Information Service

Status of This Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2007).

Abstract

   This document describes a lightweight UDP transfer protocol for the
   Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS).  This transfer protocol
   uses a single packet for every request and response, and optionally
   employs compression over the contents of the packet.

Table of Contents

   1. Introduction ....................................................3
   2. Document Terminology ............................................3
   3. Packet Format ...................................................4
      3.1. Payload Descriptor .........................................4
           3.1.1. Payload Request Descriptor ..........................4
           3.1.2. Payload Response Descriptor .........................5
           3.1.3. Payload Header ......................................6
           3.1.4. Payload Types .......................................6
           3.1.5. Version Information .................................7
           3.1.6. Size Information ....................................8
           3.1.7. Other Information ...................................8
   4. Interactions ....................................................9
   5. Internationalization Considerations ............................10
   6. IRIS Transport Mapping Definitions .............................10
      6.1. URI Scheme ................................................10
      6.2. Application Protocol Label ................................10
   7. IANA Considerations ............................................10
      7.1. Registrations .............................................10
           7.1.1. URI Scheme Registration ............................10
           7.1.2. Well-known UDP Port Registration ...................11
           7.1.3. S-NAPTR Registration ...............................11
   8. Security Considerations ........................................12
   9. References .....................................................13
      9.1. Normative References ......................................13
      9.2. Informative References ....................................13
   Appendix A. Examples ..............................................14
   Appendix B. Contributors ..........................................18

1.  Introduction

   Using Straightforward Name Authority Pointers (S-NAPTR) [4], IRIS has
   the ability to define the use of multiple application transports or
   transfer protocols for different types of registry services, all at
   the discretion of the server operator.  The UDP transfer protocol
   defined in this document is completely independent of the registry
   types for which it can carry data.

   The binding of this UDP transfer protocol to IRIS is called IRIS-LWZ
   (for IRIS Lightweight using Compression).  Its message exchange
   pattern is simple: a client sends a request in one UDP packet, and a
   server responds with an answer in one UDP packet.

   IRIS-LWZ packets are composed of two parts, a binary payload
   descriptor and a request/response transaction payload.  The request/
   response transaction payload may be compressed using the DEFLATE [1]
   algorithm.

2.  Document Terminology

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [6].

   Octet fields with numeric values are given according to the
   conventions in RFC 1166 [10]: the leftmost bit of the whole field is
   the most significant bit; when a multi-octet quantity is transmitted
   the most significant octet is transmitted first.  Bits signifying
   flags in an octet are numbered according to the conventions of RFC
   1166 [10]: bit 0 is the most significant bit and bit 7 is the least
   significant bit.  When a diagram describes a group of octets, the
   order of transmission for the octets starts from the left.

3.  Packet Format

   The packet format for IRIS-LWZ is as follows:

         +------------+---------+
   field |  payload   | payload |
         | descriptor |         |
         +------------+---------+
   octets 3 or 6..261*    0..n

     * In request packets, the payload descriptor can vary in length
       from 6 to 261 octets (i.e., 6..261).  In response packets, the
       payload descriptor is always 3 octets.

                                IRIS-LWZ Packet

       Each IRIS-LWZ query or response is contained in a single UDP
       packet.  Servers MUST be prepared to accept packets as large as
       4000 octets, and clients MUST NOT send packets larger than 4000
       octets.

3.1.  Payload Descriptor

       The payload descriptor has two different formats, one for a
       request and one for a response.  However, each format shares a
       common 1-octet payload header described in Section 3.1.3.

3.1.1.  Payload Request Descriptor

       The payload descriptor for request packets varies from 6 to 261
       octets in length and has the following format:

             +--------+-------------+----------+-----------+-----------+
       field | header | transaction | maximum  | authority | authority |
             |        |     ID      | response |  length   |           |
             |        |             | length   |           |           |
             +--------+-------------+----------+-----------+-----------+
       octets    1           2           2           1         0..255

                          Request Payload Descriptor

       These fields have the following meanings:

       o  header - as described in Section 3.1.3.

   o  transaction ID - a 16-bit value identifying the transaction.  This
      value will be returned in the payload response descriptor (Section
      3.1.2) and can be used by clients to match requests with

      responses.  Clients SHOULD NOT use sequential values (see Section
      8).  Clients MUST NOT set all the bits in this value to 1 (i.e.,
      use a value of 0xFFFF).

   o  maximum response length - the total length of the UDP packet
      (i.e., UDP header length + payload descriptor length + XML payload
      length) that should not be exceeded when responding to this
      request.  If the server cannot provide a response that is equal to
      or less than this value, then it MUST respond with size
      information (Section 3.1.6).

   o  authority length - the length of the authority field in this
      payload descriptor.

   o  authority - a string of octets describing the authority against
      which this request is to be executed.  See [3] for the definition
      and description of an authority.  The number of octets in this
      string MUST be no more and no less than the number specified by
      the authority length.

3.1.2.  Payload Response Descriptor

   The payload descriptor for response packets is always 3 octets and
   consists of a payload header (Section 3.1.3) and a transaction ID.

         +--------+-------------+
   field | header | transaction |
         |        |     ID      |
         +--------+-------------+
   octets    1           2

                        Payload Response Descriptor

   The purpose of the transaction ID is to allow clients to match
   requests to responses.  A value of 0xFFFF is reserved for server use.
   The value of the transaction ID is as follows:

   1.  If the transaction ID in the corresponding request could not be
       read due to truncation, servers MUST use a transaction ID with
       all bits set to 1 (i.e., a value of OxFFFF) and send a descriptor
       error (see Section 3.1.7).

   2.  If the transaction ID in the corresponding request is a value of
       0xFFFF, servers MUST use a transaction ID of 0xFFFF and send a
       descriptor error (see Section 3.1.7).

   3.  Otherwise, the transaction ID MUST be the value of the
       transaction ID of the corresponding request.

3.1.3.  Payload Header

   The bits of the payload header are ordered according to RFC 1166
   [10], where bit 0 is the most significant and bit 7 is the least
   significant.  Each bit in the 1-octet payload header has the
   following meaning:

   o  bits 0 and 1 - version number ('V' field) - If 0 (both bits are
      zero), the protocol is the version defined in this document.
      Otherwise, the rest of the bits in the header and the payload may
      be interpreted as another version.

   o  bit 2 - request/response flag ('RR' flag) - If 0, this packet is a
      request (Section 3.1.1) packet.  If 1, this packet is a response
      (Section 3.1.2) packet.

   o  bits 3 - payload deflated ('PD' flag) - If 1, the payload is
      compressed using the DEFLATE [1] algorithm.

   o  bit 4 - deflate supported ('DS' flag) - If 1, the sender of this
      packet supports compression using the DEFLATE algorithm.  When
      this bit is 0 in a request, the payload of the response MUST NOT
      be compressed with DEFLATE.

   o  bit 5 - reserved - This MUST be 0.

   o  bits 6 and 7 - The value of these bits indicates payload types
      (Section 3.1.4) ('PT' field).

3.1.4.  Payload Types

   A payload type indicates the type of content in the UDP packet
   following the payload descriptor.  Some payload types have no meaning
   in request packets, and some payload types differ in meaning between
   requests and responses.  Some payload types indicate an empty
   payload.

   The payload type values in binary are as follows:

      00 - xml payload ('xml' type).  The payload is either an IRIS-
      based XML request or an IRIS-based XML response.

      01 - version info ('vi' type).  In a request packet, this payload
      type indicates that the server is to respond with version
      information (Section 3.1.5), and that the payload is empty.  In a
      response packet, this payload type indicates that the payload is
      version information (Section 3.1.5).

      10 - size info ('si' type).  This payload type has no meaning in a
      request packet and is a descriptor error.  In a response packet,
      this payload type indicates that the payload is size information
      (Section 3.1.6).

      11 - other info ('oi' type).  This payload type has no meaning in
      a request packet and is a descriptor error.  In a response packet,
      this payload type indicates that the payload is other information
      (Section 3.1.7).

3.1.5.  Version Information

EID 1010 (Verified) is as follows:

Section: 3.1.5

Original Text:

The first paragraph of Section 3.1.5, on page 97of RFC 4993, says:

|  A payload type with version information ('vi') MUST be conformant to
   the XML defined in [8] and use the <versions> element as the root
   element.

Corrected Text:

|  A payload type with version information ('vi') sent from the server
|  to the client MUST be conformant to the XML defined in [8] and use
   the <versions> element as the root element.
Notes:
As mentioned in other places of the text, this requirements language
is improper because it is intended to allow clients to send this
type of chunk as well, with unspecified (perhaps empty) content,
to be ignored by the server.

Note: This issue is a replication of the issue detailed in item (A.3)
for RFC 4992.
A payload type with version information ('vi') MUST be conformant to the XML defined in [8] and use the <versions> element as the root element. In the context of IRIS-LWZ, the protocol identifiers for these elements are as follows: <transferProtocol> - the value "iris.lwz1" to indicate the protocol specified in this document. <application> - the XML namespace identifier for IRIS [3]. <dataModel> - the XML namespace identifier for IRIS registries. This document defines no extension identifiers and no authentication mechanism identifiers. Servers SHOULD send version information in the following cases: 1. In response to a version information request (i.e., the PT field is set to 'vi'). 2. The version in a payload descriptor header does not match a version the server supports. 3. The IRIS-based XML payload does not match a version the server supports. The protocols identified by the <transferProtocol> element MUST only indicate protocols running on the same socket as the sender of the corresponding response. In other words, while a server operator may also be running IRIS-XPC [9], this XML instance is only intended to describe version negotiation for IRIS-LWZ. The octet size for the 'requestSizeOctets' and 'responseSizeOctets' attributes of the <tranferProtocol> element are defined in Section 3.1.6. 3.1.6. Size Information A payload type with size information ('si') MUST be conformant to the XML defined in [8] and use the <size> element as the root element. Octet counts provided by this information are defined as the total length of the UDP packet (i.e., UDP header length + payload descriptor length + XML payload length). 3.1.7. Other Information A payload type with other information ('oi') MUST be conformant to the XML defined in [8] and use the <other> element as the root element. The values for the 'type' attribute of <other> are as follows: 'descriptor-error' - indicates there was an error decoding the descriptor. Servers SHOULD send a descriptor error in the following cases: 1. When a request is received with a payload type indicating size information (i.e., the PT field is 'si'). 2. When a request is received with a payload type indicating other information (i.e., the PT field is 'oi'). 3. When a request is sent with a transaction ID of 0xFFFF (which is reserved for server use). 4. When a request is received with an incomplete or truncated payload descriptor. 5. When reserved bits in the payload descriptor are set to values other than zero. 'payload-error' - indicates there was an error interpreting the payload. Servers MUST send a payload error if they receive XML (i.e., the PT field is set to 'xml') and the XML cannot be parsed. 'system-error' - indicates that the receiver cannot process the request due to a condition not related to this protocol. Servers SHOULD send a system-error when they are capable of responding to requests but not capable of processing requests. 'authority-error' - indicates that the intended authority specified in the corresponding request is not served by the receiver. Servers SHOULD send an authority error when they receive a request directed to an authority other than those they serve. 'no-inflation-support-error' - indicates that the receiver does not support payloads that have been compressed with DEFLATE [1]. Servers MUST send this error when they receive a request that has been compressed with DEFLATE but they do not support inflation. 4. Interactions The intent of IRIS-LWZ is to utilize UDP for IRIS requests and responses when UDP is appropriate. Not all IRIS requests and responses will be able to utilize UDP and may require the use of other transfer protocols (i.e., IRIS-XPC [9] and/or Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP)). The following strategy SHOULD be used: 1. If a request requires authentication, confidentiality, or other security, use another transfer protocol. IRIS-XPC [9] is RECOMMENDED. 2. The maximum packet size should be calculated as follows: a. If the path MTU is unknown, the maximum packet size MUST be 1500 octets. b. If the path MTU is known, the maximum packet size MUST NOT exceed the path MTU and MUST NOT exceed 4000 octets. 3. If a request is less than or equal to the maximum packet size, send it uncompressed. 4. If a request can be compressed to a size less than or equal to the maximum packet size, send the request using compression. Otherwise, use another transfer protocol. In cases where another transfer protocol is needed, IRIS-XPC [9] is RECOMMENDED. 5. If a request yields a size error, send the request with another transfer protocol. IRIS-XPC [9] is RECOMMENDED. For retransmission of requests considered to be unanswered, a client SHOULD retransmit using a timeout value initially set to 1 second. This timeout value SHOULD be doubled for every retransmission, and a client SHOULD NOT retransmit any request once the timeout value has reached 60 seconds. Clients that use timeout values other than the recommendations above MUST allocate or have allocated dedicated network resources that will ensure fairness to other network packets and avoid network congestion. Clients MUST NOT have more than one outstanding request (i.e., an unanswered request that has not timed out) at a time unless they allocate or have been allocated dedicated network bandwidth and resources reserved specifically for this purpose. Finally, if a client intends multiple requests to the same server in a short amount of time, this protocol offers no real advantage over IRIS-XPC [9]. In such a case, IRIS-XPC is RECOMMENDED to be used as it would be similarly or more efficient and would offer greater response sizes and allow better security. 5. Internationalization Considerations XML processors are obliged to recognize both UTF-8 and UTF-16 [2] encodings. Use of the XML defined by [8] MUST NOT use any other character encodings other than UTF-8 or UTF-16. 6. IRIS Transport Mapping Definitions This section lists the definitions required by IRIS [3] for transport mappings. 6.1. URI Scheme See Section 7.1.1. 6.2. Application Protocol Label See Section 7.1.3. 7. IANA Considerations 7.1. Registrations 7.1.1. URI Scheme Registration URL scheme name: iris.lwz Status: permanent URL scheme syntax: defined in [3]. Character encoding considerations: as defined in RFC 3986 [5]. Intended usage: identifies an IRIS entity made available using XML over UDP Applications using this scheme: defined in IRIS [3]. Interoperability considerations: n/a Security Considerations: defined in Section 8. Relevant Publications: IRIS [3]. Contact Information: Andrew Newton <andy@hxr.us> Author/Change controller: the IESG 7.1.2. Well-known UDP Port Registration Protocol Number: UDP UDP Port Number: 715 Message Formats, Types, Opcodes, and Sequences: defined in Sections 3 and 3.1. Functions: defined in IRIS [3]. Use of Broadcast/Multicast: none Proposed Name: IRIS-LWZ Short name: iris.lwz Contact Information: Andrew Newton <andy@hxr.us> 7.1.3. S-NAPTR Registration Application Protocol Label (see [4]): iris.lwz Intended usage: identifies an IRIS server using XML over UDP Interoperability considerations: n/a Security Considerations: defined in Section 8. Relevant Publications: IRIS [3]. Contact Information: Andrew Newton <andy@hxr.us> Author/Change controller: the IESG 8. Security Considerations
EID 2320 (Verified) is as follows:

Section: 8

Original Text:

The first paragraph of Section 8, on page 12 of RFC 4993, says:

   IRIS-LWZ is intended for serving public data; it provides no in-band
   mechanisms for authentication or confidentiality.  Any application
   with these needs must provide out-of-band mechanisms (e.g., IPsec),
   or use the IRIS transfer protocols that provide such capabilities,
|  such as IRIS-XPC [9].
                ^^^

Corrected Text:

   IRIS-LWZ is intended for serving public data; it provides no in-band
   mechanisms for authentication or confidentiality.  Any application
   with these needs must provide out-of-band mechanisms (e.g., IPsec),
   or use the IRIS transfer protocols that provide such capabilities,
|  such as IRIS over XPCS [9].
                ^^^^^^^^^
Notes:
The last phrase fatally misses the requirement.
The needed services are only provided by the TLS encapsulation of
IRIS-XPC, the compound protocol being named IRIS over XPCS in [9], and
that is being made visible via explicit iris.xpcs URIs [9].

Alexey: the term IRIS-XPCS is not defined in [9], but "IRIS over XPCS" is used. So I modified the change accordingly.
IRIS-LWZ is intended for serving public data; it provides no in-band mechanisms for authentication or confidentiality. Any application with these needs must provide out-of-band mechanisms (e.g., IPsec), or use the IRIS transfer protocols that provide such capabilities, such as IRIS-XPC [9]. Due to this lack of security, it is possible for an attacker to alter IRIS-LWZ messages sent from the client to the server and from the server to the client. Such an attack can result in denying usage of an IRIS service or in supplying false information to end users and many other scenarios. Because IRIS-LWZ is a UDP-based protocol, it is possible for servers using IRIS-LWZ to be used in a type of distributed denial-of-service attack known as a reflection attack. This type of attack affects other types of UDP-using protocols, such as DNS. Server operators should be prepared to apply the same methods used for mitigating reflection attacks with other protocols, such as DNS, when using IRIS-LWZ. All operators should follow the advice given in BCP 38 [7]. IRIS-LWZ uses transaction IDs in the payload descriptors to better enable a client to match a response to a request. By randomizing the transaction IDs being used (i.e., not using sequential numbers), attackers flooding the network with a large amount of spoofed packets have a lesser chance of succeeding with the attack. This measure is not guaranteed to thwart any such attack. Client implementers MUST take appropriate measures when ignoring this advice. 9. References 9.1. Normative References [1] Deutsch, P., "DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3", RFC 1951, May 1996. [2] The Unicode Consortium, "The Unicode Standard, Version 3", ISBN 0-201-61633-5, 2000, <The Unicode Standard, Version 3>. [3] Newton, A. and M. Sanz, "IRIS: The Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS) Core Protocol", RFC 3981, January 2005. [4] Daigle, L. and A. Newton, "Domain-Based Application Service Location Using SRV RRs and the Dynamic Delegation Discovery Service (DDDS)", RFC 3958, January 2005. [5] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66, RFC 3986, January 2005. [6] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", RFC 2119, BCP 14, March 1997. [7] Ferguson, P. and D. Senie, "Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing", BCP 38, RFC 2827, May 2000. [8] Newton, A., "A Common Schema for Internet Registry Information Service Transfer Protocols", RFC 4991, August 2007. [9] Newton, A., "XML Pipelining with Chunks for the Internet Registry Information Service", RFC 4992, August 2007. 9.2. Informative References [10] Kirkpatrick, S., Stahl, M., and M. Recker, "Internet numbers", RFC 1166, July 1990. Appendix A. Examples This section gives examples of IRIS-LWZ exchanges. Lines beginning with "C:" denote data sent by the client to the server, and lines beginning with "S:" denote data sent by the server to the client. Following the "C:" or "S:", the line contains either octet values in hexadecimal notation with comments or XML fragments. No line contains both octet values with comments and XML fragments. Comments are contained within parentheses. The following example demonstrates an IRIS client requesting a lookup of 'AUP' in the 'local' entity class of a 'dreg1' registry. The client passes a bag (see [3]) with the search request. The server responds with a 'nameNotFound' response and an explanation. C: (request packet) C: 0x08 (header: V=0,RR=request,PD=no,DS=yes,PT=xml) C: 0x03 0xA4 (transaction ID=932) C: 0x05 0xDA (maximum response size=1498) C: 0x09 (authority length=9) C: (authority="localhost") C: 0x6c 0x6f 0x63 0x61 0x6c 0x68 0x6f 0x73 0x74 C: (IRIS XML request) C: <request xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:iris1" C: xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" > C: <searchSet> C: <bag> C: <simpleBag xmlns="http://example.com/"> C: <salt>127.0.0.1:3434</salt> C: <md5>4LnQ1KdCahzyvwBqJis5rw==</md5> C: </simpleBag> C: </bag> C: <lookupEntity C: registryType="dreg1" C: entityClass="local" C: entityName="AUP" /> C: </searchSet> C: </request> S: (response packet) S: 0x20 (header: V=0,RR=response,PD=no,DS=no,PT=xml) S: 0x03 0xA4 (transaction ID=932) S: (IRIS XML response) S: <iris:response xmlns:iris="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:iris1"> S: <iris:resultSet><iris:answer></iris:answer> S: <iris:nameNotFound><iris:explanation language="en-US"> S: The name 'AUP' is not found in 'local'.</iris:explanation> S: </iris:nameNotFound></iris:resultSet></iris:response> Example 1 The following example demonstrates an IRIS client requesting domain availability information for 'milo.example.com'. The server responds that the domain is assigned and active. C: (request packet) C: 0x00 (header: V=0,RR=request,PD=no,DS=no,PT=xml) C: 0x0B 0xE7 (transaction ID=3047) C: 0x0F 0xA0 (maximum response size=4000) C: 0x0B (authority length=11) C: (authority="example.com") C: 0x65 0x78 0x61 0x6D 0x70 0x6C 0x65 0x23 0x63 0x6F 0x6D C: (IRIS XML request) C: <request xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:iris1" C: xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" C: xsi:schemaLocation="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:iris1 iris.xsd" > C: <searchSet> C: <lookupEntity C: registryType="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:dchk1" C: entityClass="domain-name" C: entityName="milo.example.com" /> C: </searchSet> C: </request> S: (response packet) S: 0x20 (header: V=0,RR=response,PD=no,DS=no,PT=xml) S: 0x0B 0xE7 (transaction ID=3047) S: (IRIS XML response) S: <iris:response xmlns:iris="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:iris1"> S: <iris:resultSet><iris:answer><domain S: authority="example.com" registryType="dchk1" S: entityClass="domain-name" entityName="tcs-com-1" S: temporaryReference="true" S: xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:dchk1"><domainName> S: milo.example.com</domainName><status><assignedAndActive/> S: </status></domain></iris:answer> S: </iris:resultSet></iris:response> Example 2 The following example demonstrates an IRIS client requesting domain availability information for felix.example.net, hobbes.example.net, and daffy.example.net. The client does not support responses compressed with DEFLATE, and the maximum UDP packet it can safely receive is 498 octets. The server responds with size information indicating that it would take 1211 octets to provide an answer. C: (request packet) C: 0x00 (header: V=0,RR=request,PD=no,DS=no,PT=xml) C: 0x7E 0x8A (transaction ID=32394) C: 0x01 0xF2 (maximum response size=498) C: 0x0B (authority length=11) C: (authority="example.net") C: 0x65 0x78 0x61 0x6D 0x70 0x6C 0x65 0x23 0x6E 0x65 0x74 C: (IRIS XML request) C: <request xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:iris1" C: xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" C: xsi:schemaLocation="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:iris1 iris1.xsd"> C: <searchSet> C: <lookupEntity registryType="dchk1" entityClass="domain-name" C: entityName="felix.example.net" /> C: </searchSet> C: <searchSet> C: <lookupEntity registryType="dchk1" entityClass="domain-name" C: entityName="hobbes.example.net" /> C: </searchSet> C: <searchSet> C: <lookupEntity registryType="dchk1" entityClass="domain-name" C: entityName="daffy.example.net" /> C: </searchSet> C: </request> S: (response packet) S: 0x22 (header: V=0,RR=response,PD=no,DS=no,PT=si) S: 0x7E 0x8A (transaction ID=32394) S: (Size Information XML response) S: <responseSize xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:iris-transport"> S: <octets>1211</octets> S: </responseSize> Example 3 The following example illustrates an IRIS client requesting the version information from a server, and the server returning the version information. C: (request packet) C: 0x01 (header: V=0,RR=request,PD=no,DS=no,PT=vi) C: 0x2E 0x9C (transaction ID=11932) C: 0x01 0xF2 (maximum response size=498) C: 0x0B (authority length=11) C: (authority="example.net") C: 0x65 0x78 0x61 0x6D 0x70 0x6C 0x65 0x23 0x6E 0x65 0x74 S: (response packet) S: 0x21 (header: V=0,RR=response,PD=no,DS=no,PT=vi) S: 0x2E 0x9C (transaction ID=11932) S: (Version Information XML response) S: <versions xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:iris-transport"> S: <transferProtocol protocolId="iris.lwz1"> S: <application protocolId="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:iris1"> S: <dataModel protocolId="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:dchk1"/> S: <dataModel protocolId="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:dreg1"/> S: </application> S: </transferProtocol> S: </versions> Example 4 Appendix B. Contributors Substantive contributions to this document have been provided by the members of the IETF's CRISP Working Group, especially Milena Caires and David Blacka. Author's Address Andrew L. 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