Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Policy and Certification Practices Framework
RFC 3647
| Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(November 2003; Errata)
Obsoletes RFC 2527
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| Last updated | 2020-01-21 | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized with errata bibtex | ||
| Stream | WG state | (None) | |
| Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 3647 (Informational) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
| Telechat date | |||
| Responsible AD | Russ Housley | ||
| Send notices to | <wpolk@nist.gov> | ||
Network Working Group S. Chokhani
Request for Comments: 3647 Orion Security Solutions, Inc.
Obsoletes: 2527 W. Ford
Category: Informational VeriSign, Inc.
R. Sabett
Cooley Godward LLP
C. Merrill
McCarter & English, LLP
S. Wu
Infoliance, Inc.
November 2003
Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
Certificate Policy and Certification Practices Framework
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document presents a framework to assist the writers of
certificate policies or certification practice statements for
participants within public key infrastructures, such as certification
authorities, policy authorities, and communities of interest that
wish to rely on certificates. In particular, the framework provides
a comprehensive list of topics that potentially (at the writer's
discretion) need to be covered in a certificate policy or a
certification practice statement. This document supersedes RFC 2527.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2. Purpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3. Scope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2. Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3. Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1. Certificate Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2. Certificate Policy Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.3. X.509 Certificate Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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3.3.1. Certificate Policies Extension . . . . . . . . . 12
3.3.2. Policy Mappings Extension. . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.3.3. Policy Constraints Extension . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.3.4. Policy Qualifiers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.4. Certification Practice Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.5. Relationship Between CP and CPS. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.6. Relationship Among CPs, CPSs, Agreements, and
Other Documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.7. Set of Provisions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4. Contents of a Set of Provisions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.1.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.1.2. Document Name and Identification . . . . . . . . 22
4.1.3. PKI Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.1.4. Certificate Usage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.1.5. Policy Administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.1.6. Definitions and Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.2. Publication and Repository Responsibilities. . . . . . . 25
4.3. Identification and Authentication (I&A). . . . . . . . . 25
4.3.1. Naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.3.2. Initial Identity Validation. . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.3.3. I&A for Re-key Requests. . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.3.4. I&A for Revocation Requests. . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.4. Certificate Life-Cycle Operational Requirements. . . . . 27
4.4.1. Certificate Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4.4.2. Certificate Application Processing . . . . . . . 28
4.4.3. Certificate Issuance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4.4.4. Certificate Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.4.5. Key Pair and Certificate Usage . . . . . . . . . 29
4.4.6. Certificate Renewal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.4.7. Certificate Re-key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.4.8. Certificate Modification . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.4.9. Certificate Revocation and Suspension. . . . . . 31
4.4.10. Certificate Status Services. . . . . . . . . . . 33
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