An Infrastructure to Support Secure Internet Routing
RFC 6480

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                       M. Lepinski
Request for Comments: 6480                                       S. Kent
Category: Informational                                 BBN Technologies
ISSN: 2070-1721                                            February 2012

          An Infrastructure to Support Secure Internet Routing

Abstract

   This document describes an architecture for an infrastructure to
   support improved security of Internet routing.  The foundation of
   this architecture is a Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) that
   represents the allocation hierarchy of IP address space and
   Autonomous System (AS) numbers; and a distributed repository system
   for storing and disseminating the data objects that comprise the
   RPKI, as well as other signed objects necessary for improved routing
   security.  As an initial application of this architecture, the
   document describes how a legitimate holder of IP address space can
   explicitly and verifiably authorize one or more ASes to originate
   routes to that address space.  Such verifiable authorizations could
   be used, for example, to more securely construct BGP route filters.

Status of This Memo

   This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
   published for informational purposes.

   This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
   (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
   received public review and has been approved for publication by the
   Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Not all documents
   approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
   Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.

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Lepinski & Kent               Informational                     [Page 1]
RFC 6480                    RPKI Architecture              February 2012

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Table of Contents

   1. Introduction ....................................................3
      1.1. Terminology ................................................4
   2. Public Key Infrastructure for Internet Number Resources .........4
      2.1. Role in the Overall Architecture ...........................5
      2.2. CA Certificates ............................................6
      2.3. End-Entity (EE) Certificates ...............................7
      2.4. Trust Anchors ..............................................8
   3. Route Origination Authorizations ................................9
      3.1. Role in the Overall Architecture ...........................9
      3.2. Syntax and Semantics ......................................10
   4. Repositories ...................................................11
      4.1. Role in the Overall Architecture ..........................12
      4.2. Contents and Structure ....................................12
      4.3. Access Protocols ..........................................14
      4.4. Access Control ............................................15
   5. Manifests ......................................................15
      5.1. Syntax and Semantics ......................................15
   6. Local Cache Maintenance ........................................16
   7. Common Operations ..............................................17
      7.1. Certificate Issuance ......................................17
      7.2. CA Key Rollover ...........................................18
      7.3. ROA Management ............................................19
           7.3.1. Single-Homed Subscribers ...........................20
           7.3.2. Multi-Homed Subscribers ............................20
           7.3.3. Provider-Independent Address Space .................21
   8. Security Considerations ........................................21
   9. IANA Considerations ............................................21
   10. Acknowledgments ...............................................22
   11. References ....................................................22