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Clarification and enhancement of RFC7030 CSR Attributes definition
draft-ietf-lamps-rfc7030-csrattrs-16

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From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
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Cc: The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, debcooley1@gmail.com, draft-ietf-lamps-rfc7030-csrattrs@ietf.org, housley@vigilsec.com, lamps-chairs@ietf.org, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org, spasm@ietf.org
Subject: Protocol Action: 'Clarification and enhancement of RFC7030 CSR Attributes definition' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-lamps-rfc7030-csrattrs-16.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Clarification and enhancement of RFC7030 CSR Attributes definition'
  (draft-ietf-lamps-rfc7030-csrattrs-16.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Limited Additional Mechanisms for PKIX
and SMIME 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-lamps-rfc7030-csrattrs/


Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   This document updates RFC 7030 to clarify the handling of Certificate
   Signing Request (CSR) attributes in Enrollment over Secure Transport
   (EST).  This document describes how an EST server specifies the CSR
   attribute types (object identifiers) and also CSR attribute values,
   especially X.509 extension values, that the EST server expects the
   client to include in subsequent CSRs.

   It provides new convenient and straightforward approach:
   using a template for CSR contents that may be partially filled in by
   the server.  This also allows specifying a subject Distinguished Name
   (DN).

Working Group Summary

    EST has wide support.  Several people have expressed support of
    the clarifications in this document.  Great care was taken to ensure
    that the conventions specified in this document do not break current
    implementations of RFC 7030.

Document Quality

    No special reviews are needed.  The ASN.1 module in Appendix A properly 
    compiles.

  There are downward normative reference to Informational RFC 5911,
  Informational RFC 5912, and Informational RFC 6268.  All of these
  are already in the downref registry, so no special action is needed
  for them.

Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Russ Housley. The Responsible
   Area Director is Deb Cooley.

IANA Note

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RFC Editor Note