An Infrastructure to Support Secure Internet Routing
RFC 6480
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(February 2012; No errata)
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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.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6480.
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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
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