Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Extensions for ".onion" Special-Use Domain Names
draft-ietf-acme-onion-07

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Extensions for ".onion" Special-Use Domain Names' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-acme-onion-07.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Extensions for
   ".onion" Special-Use Domain Names'
  (draft-ietf-acme-onion-07.txt) as Proposed Standard

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-onion/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   The document defines extensions to the Automated Certificate
   Management Environment (ACME) to allow for the automatic issuance of
   certificates to Tor hidden services (".onion" Special-Use Domain
   Names).

Working Group Summary

The draft has been discussed in-person at several IETF’s, and there has 
been moderate amount of email discussions.

Document Quality

There are a handful of implementations.  CA vendors have indicated 
that they plan to implement the specification.     

Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at
https://github.com/AS207960/acme-onion.

The project website and a reference implementation can be found at
https://acmeforonions.org.

There is a normative reference to a living document: The Tor Project, 
"Tor Specifications", <https://spec.torproject.org/print.html>.

Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Tomofumi Okubo. The
   Responsible Area Director is Deb Cooley.

IANA Note

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RFC Editor Note