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ACME Integrations for Device Certificate Enrollment
draft-ietf-acme-integrations-17

Note: This ballot was opened for revision 13 and is now closed.

Roman Danyliw
Yes
Erik Kline
No Objection
Comment (2023-02-25 for -13) Not sent
# Internet AD comments for draft-ietf-acme-integrations-13
CC @ekline

## Comments

### S4, etc

* I guess there's no validation that client.example.com has not been
  delegated to an entity for which the EST RA does NOT have DNS update
  abilities.
Francesca Palombini
No Objection
Comment (2023-03-01 for -13) Not sent
Thank you for the work on this document.

Many thanks to John Levine for his ART ART review: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/art/efQ6-4iasbvkX8lCcXKANlxaq4E/

I would encourage the authors to take a look at John's comments, which provide good input for clarification for non-expert readers.
John Scudder
(was Discuss) No Objection
Comment (2023-06-08 for -15) Sent
Thanks for addressing my DISCUSS.

## NITS

"Roots CAs" -> "Root CAs"?

"The EST Registration Authority (RA) is configured with the DNS domain which it will issue certificates." That should be "for which", right?

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Murray Kucherawy
No Objection
Comment (2023-03-02 for -13) Sent
I support John's DISCUSS, especially as it relates to BCP 14 keywords.  Moreover, the shepherd writeup doesn't explain the choice of status for this document, which might be relevant to this.
Paul Wouters
No Objection
Comment (2023-03-01 for -13) Sent
The document is a good read, and the figures in it make the process very clear. Thanks for that work.

Just some minor comments:


       |                      | Publish DNS TXT      |           |
       |                      | "example.com"        |           |

       |                      | Delete DNS TXT       |           |
       |                      | "example.com"        |           |

This reads a little as if a TXT record with the content "example.com"
needs to be published and deleted. Maybe use 'Publish ACME DNS challange
in "example.com"' ?


        This ownership proof could have been by fulfilling an
        authorization challenge against the explicit identifier
        "pledge.example.com",

Where does "pledge" come from? Is this a normative reference to something?

If it is made up here, add some "for example" text to clarify this. And
use at least "_pledge" to avoid clashing with potential real hostnames
called pledge ?



NITS:

        which it will issue certificates.

s/\.$/ for./
Warren Kumari
No Objection
Comment (2023-03-01 for -13) Sent
I'm balloting No Objection in the "This is outside my area of expertise" / "I read the protocol action, and I trust the sponsoring AD so have no problem" sense of the term.
I've been called for jury duty, and so am relying heavily on Bo Wu's OpsDir (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/review-ietf-acme-integrations-12-opsdir-lc-wu-2023-01-20/) and Ted Lemon's DNSDIR (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/review-ietf-acme-integrations-13-dnsdir-telechat-lemon-2023-03-01/) reviews to help guide me. Thank you very much, Bo and Ted.

While Ted does say that "at this point that the concerns I raised have been addressed and the document is ready to go", I'd strongly encourage the authors to reconsider addressing the comments in the first two paragraphs of his review; I think that they would further improve the document...
Éric Vyncke
No Objection
Comment (2023-03-02 for -13) Sent
# Éric Vyncke, INT AD, comments for draft-ietf-acme-integrations-13
CC @evyncke

Thank you for the work put into this document. As usual on this topic, I support John Scudder's DISCUSS about the use BCP14 uppercase terms in an informational document.

Please find below some non-blocking COMMENT points (but replies would be appreciated even if only for my own education).

Special thanks to Deb Cooley for the shepherd's detailed write-up including the WG consensus **albeit** it lacks the justification of the intended status.

Other thanks to Ted Lemon, the DNS directorate reviewer, please consider this int-dir review as if it was mine:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/review-ietf-acme-integrations-13-dnsdir-telechat-lemon-2023-03-01/ (it is dated of yesterday, but I still have to read authors' reply)

Please note that Bob Halley is the Internet directorate reviewer (at my request) and you may want to consider this int-dir review as well when it will be available (no need to wait for it though):
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-acme-integrations/reviewrequest/17100/

I hope that this review helps to improve the document,

Regards,

-éric

## COMMENTS

### Abstract

Should the abstract add references to relevant RFC and/or expand the acronyms ? This would help readers to find this document. They are only expanded in section 2.

### Section 1

In this section, please expand EST, BRSKI, and TEAP.

`enable automated certificate enrollment for devices` should devices be qualified ? I.e., devices w/o a UI ?

### Section 2

`portion of the graph of all possible domain names` AFAIK the graph of all possible domain names is actually a tree (i.e., a restricted graph).

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Alvaro Retana Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection (for -13) Not sent

                            
Andrew Alston Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection (2023-03-02 for -13) Not sent
I Support John's discuss points on this one.
Lars Eggert Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection (2023-02-28 for -13) Sent
# GEN AD review of draft-ietf-acme-integrations-13

CC @larseggert

Thanks to Tim Evens for the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) review
(https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/gen-art/Sxu_T3P5jpR7uj3s6Pfak2f6Jes).

## Comments

### Inclusive language

Found terminology that should be reviewed for inclusivity; see
https://www.rfc-editor.org/part2/#inclusive_language for background and more
guidance:

 * Term `traditionally`; alternatives might be `classic`, `classical`,
   `common`, `conventional`, `customary`, `fixed`, `habitual`, `historic`,
   `long-established`, `popular`, `prescribed`, `regular`, `rooted`,
   `time-honored`, `universal`, `widely used`, `widespread`

## Nits

All comments below are about very minor potential issues that you may choose to
address in some way - or ignore - as you see fit. Some were flagged by
automated tools (via https://github.com/larseggert/ietf-reviewtool), so there
will likely be some false positives. There is no need to let me know what you
did with these suggestions.

### Typos

#### Section 2, paragraph 2
```
-    defintions:
+    definitions:
+         +
```

### Outdated references

Document references `draft-ietf-uta-use-san-00`, but `-10` is the latest
available revision.

### Grammar/style

#### Section 4, paragraph 7
```
RFC9110] error code. Refer to section Section 8.5 for further details on err
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
```
Possible typo: you repeated a word.

#### Section 5, paragraph 1
```
he /simpleenroll API. Refer to section Section 8.2 for more details. If the C
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
```
Possible typo: you repeated a word.

#### Section 5, paragraph 2
```
RFC9110] error code. Refer to section Section 8.5 for further details on err
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
```
Possible typo: you repeated a word.

#### Section 8.2, paragraph 2
```
5272] response, or may return a human readable error in the response body. If
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
```
This word is normally spelled with a hyphen.

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