Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Objects Issued by IANA
RFC 6491

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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                      T. Manderson
Request for Comments: 6491                                     L. Vegoda
Category: Standards Track                                          ICANN
ISSN: 2070-1721                                                  S. Kent
                                                                     BBN
                                                           February 2012

    Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Objects Issued by IANA

Abstract

   This document provides specific direction to IANA as to the Resource
   Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) objects it should issue.

Status of This Memo

   This is an Internet Standards Track document.

   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).  Further information on
   Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.

   Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
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   http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6491.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2
   2.  Requirements Notation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   3.  Required Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   4.  Definitions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   5.  Reserved Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   6.  Unallocated Resources  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   7.  Special Purpose Registry Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   8.  Multicast  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   9.  Informational Objects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   10. Certificates and Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) . . . . .  5
   11. IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   12. Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   13. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   14. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     14.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     14.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
   Appendix A.  IANA Reserved IPv4 Address Blocks . . . . . . . . . . 10
   Appendix B.  IANA Reserved IPv6 Address Blocks . . . . . . . . . . 11

1.  Introduction

   "An Infrastructure to Support Secure Internet Routing" [RFC6480]
   directs IANA [RFC2860] to issue Resource Public Key Infrastructure
   (RPKI) objects for which it is authoritative.  This document
   describes the objects IANA will issue.  If IANA is directed to issue
   additional RPKI objects in future, this document will be revised and
   a new version issued.

   The signed objects described here that IANA will issue are the
   unallocated, reserved, special use IPv4 and IPv6 address blocks, and
   the unallocated and reserved Autonomous System numbers.  These number
   resources are managed by IANA for the IETF; thus, IANA bears the
   responsibility of issuing the corresponding RPKI objects.  The reader
   is encouraged to consider the technical effects on the public routing
   system of the signed object issuance proposed for IANA in this
   document.

   This document does not deal with BGP [RFC4271] routing systems, as
   those are under the policy controls of the organizations that operate
   them.  Readers are directed to "Local Trust Anchor Management for the
   Resource Public Key Infrastructure" [TA-MGMT] for a description of
   how to locally override IANA issued objects, e.g., to enable use of
   unallocated, reserved, and special use IPv4 and IPv6 address blocks
   in a local context.

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   The direction to IANA contained herein follows the ideal that it
   should represent the ideal technical behavior for registry and