A Publication Protocol for the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)
RFC 8181
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) S. Weiler
Request for Comments: 8181 W3C / MIT
Category: Standards Track A. Sonalker
ISSN: 2070-1721 STEER Tech
R. Austein
Dragon Research Labs
July 2017
A Publication Protocol for the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)
Abstract
This document defines a protocol for publishing Resource Public Key
Infrastructure (RPKI) objects. Even though the RPKI will have many
participants issuing certificates and creating other objects, it is
operationally useful to consolidate the publication of those objects.
Even in cases where a certificate issuer runs its own publication
repository, it can be useful to run the certificate engine itself on
a different machine from the publication repository. This document
defines a protocol which addresses these needs.
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 7841.
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/rfc8181.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Historical Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. Protocol Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1. Common XML Message Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2. Publication and Withdrawal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.3. Listing the Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.4. Error Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.5. Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.6. XML Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.1. <publish/> Query, No Existing Object . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.2. <publish/> Query, Overwriting Existing Object . . . . . . 12
3.3. <withdraw/> Query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.4. <success/> Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.5. <report_error/> with Optional Elements . . . . . . . . . 13
3.6. <report_error/> without Optional Elements . . . . . . . . 14
3.7. Error Handling with Multi-Element Queries . . . . . . . . 14
3.7.1. Multi-Element Query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.7.2. Successful Multi-Element Response . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.7.3. Failure Multi-Element Response, First Error Only . . 15
3.7.4. Failure Multi-Element Response, All Errors . . . . . 16
3.8. <list/> Query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.9. <list/> Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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