Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure -- HTTP Transfer for the Certificate Management Protocol (CMP)
RFC 6712
Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(September 2012; No errata)
Updates RFC 4210
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Authors | Tomi Kause , Martin Peylo | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
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Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 6712 (Proposed Standard) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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Responsible AD | Sean Turner | ||
IESG note | Steve Kent (kent@bbn.com) is the Document Shepherd. | ||
Send notices to | (None) |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) T. Kause Request for Comments: 6712 SSH Updates: 4210 M. Peylo Category: Standards Track NSN ISSN: 2070-1721 September 2012 Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure -- HTTP Transfer for the Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) Abstract This document describes how to layer the Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) over HTTP. It is the "CMPtrans" document referenced in RFC 4210; therefore, this document updates the reference given therein. 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/rfc6712. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2012 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Kause & Peylo Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 6712 CMPtrans September 2012 This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published or made publicly available before November 10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process. Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other than English. Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................2 2. Conventions Used in This Document ...............................3 3. HTTP-Based Protocol .............................................3 3.1. HTTP Versions ..............................................4 3.2. Persistent Connections .....................................4 3.3. General Form ...............................................4 3.4. Media Type .................................................4 3.5. Communication Workflow .....................................5 3.6. HTTP Request-URI ...........................................5 3.7. Pushing of Announcements ...................................5 3.8. HTTP Considerations ........................................6 4. Implementation Considerations ...................................7 5. Security Considerations .........................................7 6. IANA Considerations .............................................8 7. Acknowledgments .................................................8 8. References ......................................................9 8.1. Normative References .......................................9 8.2. Informative References .....................................9 1. Introduction The Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) [RFC4210] requires a well- defined transfer mechanism to enable End Entities (EEs), Registration Authorities (RAs), and Certification Authorities (CAs) to pass PKIMessage sequences between them. The first version of the CMP specification [RFC2510] included a brief description of a simple transfer protocol layer on top of TCP. Its features were simple transfer-level error handling and a mechanism to poll for outstanding PKI messages. Additionally, it was mentioned that PKI messages could also be conveyed using file-, E-mail-, and HTTP-based transfer, but those were not specified in detail. Kause & Peylo Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 6712 CMPtrans September 2012Show full document text