Adding Acronyms to Simplify Conversations about DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE)
RFC 7218
| Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(April 2014; No errata)
Updates RFC 6698
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| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text pdf html bibtex | ||
| Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
| Document shepherd | Paul Hoffman | ||
| Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2013-12-28) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 7218 (Proposed Standard) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
| Telechat date | |||
| Responsible AD | Stephen Farrell | ||
| Send notices to | paul.hoffman@vpnc.org | ||
| IANA | IANA review state | IANA OK - Actions Needed | |
| IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack | ||
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) O. Gudmundsson
Request for Comments: 7218 Shinkuro Inc.
Updates: 6698 April 2014
Category: Standards Track
ISSN: 2070-1721
Adding Acronyms to Simplify Conversations about
DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE)
Abstract
Experience has shown that people get confused when discussing the
three numeric fields of the TLSA record. This document specifies
descriptive acronyms for the three numeric fields in TLSA records.
This document updates the format of the IANA registry created by RFC
6698.
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/rfc7218.
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RFC 7218 Adding Acronyms to DANE Registries April 2014
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.1. TLSA Certificate Usages Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2. TLSA Selectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.3. TLSA Matching Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Examples of Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. TLSA Records Using/Displaying the Acronyms . . . . . . . 4
3.2. Acronym Use in a Specification Example . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1. Introduction
During discussions on how to add DNS-Based Authentication of Named
Entities (DANE) [RFC6698] technology to new protocols and services,
people were repeatedly confused as to what the numeric values stood
for and even the order of the fields of a TLSA record (note that TLSA
is not an acronym but a name). This document updates the IANA
registry definition for the TLSA record to add a column containing an
acronym for each specified field, in order to reduce confusion. This
document does not change the DANE protocol in any way.
It is expected that DANE parsers in applications and DNS software can
adopt parsing the acronyms for each field.
2. IANA Considerations
This document applies to the "DNS-Based Authentication of Named
Entities (DANE) Parameters" registry located at <http://www.iana.org/
assignments/dane-parameters>. IANA has added a column with an
acronym to each of the sub-registries.
[RFC6698] and this document are the referenced documents for the
three sub-registries.
As these acronyms are offered for human consumption, case does not
matter; it is expected that software that parses TLSA records will
handle upper-, mixed-, or lower-case characters as input.
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2.1. TLSA Certificate Usages Registry
The reference for this registry has been updated to include both
[RFC6698] and this document.
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