A Reputation Query Protocol
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REPUTE Working Group N. Borenstein
Internet-Draft Mimecast
Intended status: Standards Track M. Kucherawy
Expires: November 6, 2013 May 5, 2013
A Reputation Query Protocol
draft-ietf-repute-query-http-05
Abstract
This document defines a mechanism to conduct queries for reputation
information over the Hypertext Transfer Protocol using JSON as the
payload meta-format.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Key Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2. Other Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.2. Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.3. URI Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.4. Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.5. Protocol Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Appendix A. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Appendix B. Public Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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1. Introduction
This document defines a method to query a reputation data service for
information about an entity, using the HyperText Transfer Protocol
(HTTP) as the transport mechanism and JSON as the payload meta-
format.
2. Terminology and Definitions
This section defines terms used in the rest of the document.
2.1. Key Words
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [KEYWORDS].
2.2. Other Definitions
Other terms of importance in this document are defined in
[I-D.REPUTE-MODEL] and [I-D.REPUTE-MEDIA-TYPE].
3. Description
3.1. Overview
A reputation query made via [HTTP] encodes the question being asked
in an HTTP GET method.
The components to the question being asked comprise the following:
o The subject of the query;
o The name of the host, or the IP address, at which the reputation
service is available;
o The name of the reputation application, i.e., the context within
which the query is being made;
o Optionally, name(s) of the specific reputation assertions or
attributies that are being requested.
The name of the application, if given, MUST be one registered with
IANA in the Reputation Applications Registry. A server receiving a
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