Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) Node ID Validation Extension
draft-ietf-acme-dtnnodeid-18

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Subject: Document Action: 'Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) Node ID Validation Extension' to Experimental RFC (draft-ietf-acme-dtnnodeid-18.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Delay-Tolerant
   Networking (DTN) Node ID Validation Extension'
  (draft-ietf-acme-dtnnodeid-18.txt) as Experimental RFC

This document is the product of the Automated Certificate Management
Environment Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Paul Wouters and Deb Cooley.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-acme-dtnnodeid/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   This document specifies an extension to the Automated Certificate
   Management Environment (ACME) protocol which allows an ACME server to
   validate the Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) Node ID for an ACME
   client.  The DTN Node ID is encoded as a certificate Subject
   Alternative Name (SAN) of type otherName with a name form of
   BundleEID and as an ACME Identifier type "bundleEID".

Working Group Summary

This document was developed in support of work in the DTN WG.  This draft was originally in IESG review as Experimental in 2021.  It was eventually returned to the working group in early 2024 to wait for referenced specifications in DTN WG to be stable.  Now, in 2025, all the normative specifications have been completed in the DTN WG. 

There is concensus within the ACME WG for this draft.

Document Quality

There aren't any known implementations of this mechanism as of yet.

As the document points out:
| The emergent properties of DTN naming and BP security are still	
|  being developed and explored, especially between different	
|  organizational and administrative domains, so the	
|  "experimental" status of this document is related more to the	
|  practical utility of this kind of Node ID validation than to	
|  the validation method itself.

Personnel

Yoav Nir is the document shepherd. 

Deb Cooley is the responsible Area Director.

RFC Editor Note