A Protocol for Provisioning Resource Certificates
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                         G. Huston
Request for Comments: 6492                                    R. Loomans
Category: Standards Track                                    B. Ellacott
ISSN: 2070-1721                                                    APNIC
                                                              R. Austein
                                                                     ISC
                                                           February 2012

           A Protocol for Provisioning Resource Certificates

Abstract

   This document defines a framework for certificate management
   interactions between an Internet Number Resource issuer ("issuer")
   and an Internet Number Resource recipient ("subject") through the
   specification of a protocol for interaction between the two parties.
   The protocol supports the transmission of requests from the subject,
   and corresponding responses from the issuer encompassing the actions
   of certificate issuance, certificate revocation, and certificate
   status information reports.  This protocol is intended to be limited
   to the application of Internet Number Resource Certificate management
   and is not intended to be used as part of a more general certificate
   management framework.

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,
   and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
   http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6492.

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Table of Contents

   1. Introduction ....................................................3
      1.1. Terminology ................................................3
   2. Scope ...........................................................4
   3. Protocol Specification ..........................................4
      3.1. CMS Profile ................................................5
           3.1.1. SignedData Content Type .............................5
           3.1.2. CMS Object Validation ..............................10
           3.1.3. ASN.1 Specification of the CMS Signed Object .......12
      3.2. Common Message Format .....................................14
      3.3. Control - Resource Class Query ............................16
           3.3.1. Resource Class List Query ..........................16
           3.3.2. Resource Class List Response .......................17
      3.4. CA - Certificate Issuance .................................21
           3.4.1. Certificate Issuance Request .......................21
           3.4.2. Certificate Issuance Response ......................24
      3.5. Certificate Revocation ....................................24
           3.5.1. Certificate Revocation Request .....................25
           3.5.2. Certificate Revocation Response ....................26
      3.6. Request-Not-Performed Response ............................26
      3.7. XML Schema ................................................27
   4. Security Considerations ........................................29
   5. IANA Considerations ............................................30
      5.1. application/rpki-updown ...................................30
   6. Acknowledgements ...............................................30
   7. References .....................................................31
      7.1. Normative References ......................................31
      7.2. Informative References ....................................32

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1.  Introduction

   This document defines a framework for certificate management
   interactions between an Internet Number Resource issuer ("issuer")