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# KITE The **KITE protocol** allows building forwarding paths for prefixes using "authenticated" Interest-Data exchanges between a mobile producer (MP) and a trusted Rendezvous Server (RV). An MP sends a **KITE request** (a command Interest that follows a special naming convention), which is forwarded to the RV because the RV announces a prefix of the name. The KITE request leaves traces in the stateful forwarding plane (PIT entries), constructing a forwarding path for Data to be forwarded to the MP. The RV will verify the information carried in the KITE request (primarily the signature, and thus the term "authenticated Interest-Data exchange"), and respond with a **KITE acknowledgment**, a Data packet, for legitimate KITE requests. The KITE acknowledgment sent by the RV will trigger intermediate forwarders to save the reversed forwarding path for Data as Interest forwarding information, for a prefix specified by the name of the Interest-Data exchange. ## KITE Request (KiteRequest) A **KITE request** is essentially a command Interest, i.e., a signed Interest (http://named-data.net/doc/NDN-packet-spec/current/signed-interest.html) with extra information such as nonce and timestamp to for replay-attack prevention. A KITE request is signed and sent by an MP to be verified by an RV, An Interest packet that satisfies the following requirements is a KITE request: * Conforms to signed Interest specifications. * With the trailing Interest signing name components removed, the remaining leading part of the name conforms to KITE request name specifications (see below). * The ApplicationParameters contains the expiration period for the forwarding path (optional, details TBD). KITE request name specifications: * Starts with an **RV prefix**, i.e., a prefix announced by an RV. * Followed by a **"32=KITE"** keyword name component. * Followed by a **producer suffix**, i.e., one or more arbitrary name components. The concatenation of an RV prefix and a producer suffix in the same KITE request name is the **producer prefix** specified in this name. The forwarding path to be set up is for the producer prefix. * End with two name components for replay-attack prevention: prevention purposes: **timestamp** and **nonce**. ## KITE Acknowledgment (KiteAck) A **KITE acknowledgment** is a Data packet sent by the RV for an Interest (a **KITE request**) that passes verification. A KITE request that passes the verification is supposed to be sent by the owner of the prefix for which the forwarding path is set up. A Data packet that satisfies the following requirements is a KITE acknowledgement (note that a KITE acknowledgment is always generated in response to a KITE request): * Has the same name with a KITE request. * ContentType is 6 (KITE Acknowledgment). * Carry a prefix announcement object as payload, and the "announced prefix" indicated by the PA object must be the same as the name of the KiteAck minus the "32=KITE" keyword component (excluding Interest signature related components and the Parameters digest component). * The payload only consists of a prefix announcement object in data form, no other content.