Technical Summary
Experience has show that people get confused using the three numeric
fields the TLSA record. This document specifies descriptive acronyms
for the three numeric fields in the TLSA records. This document
updates the format of the IANA registry created by RFC6698.
Working Group Summary
This document is a small update to RFC 6698, the specification
for the DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE)
Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol, also known by its DNS
RRset name, TLSA. The revision has one narrow purpose: to
give the three numeric fields in the RRtype definition mnemonic
names. This is meant to allow easier discussion of TLSA, particular
for the "certificate usage" field that specifies what type of public key
is in the TLSA record. Because this draft updates a standards track
RFC, the draft is meant to be a proposed standard as well.
The short document was thoroughly reviewed in the WG. That
very active discussion among many people led to some very deep
(but pointless:-) divisions in the WG about what the "certificate
usage" fields should be called. The WG chairs called rough
consensus, but a significant number of people in the WG
disagreed that there was consensus at all. It should be noted
that the WG has consensus that some terminology is better
than just having the numbers in RFC 6698; however, there are
strong opinions for three or four different sets of terminology. The
shepherd does not believe that the wording in the current draft
represents "rough consensus" but, at the same time, he doesn't
see any of the other options as having noticeably more consensus.
The responsible AD is ok with that, as are the chairs. There is
consensus that impercted words are better than numbers.
Document Quality
There are DANE tools, not sure if this has been coded up in
those. AD thinks he recalls one developer who said he'd add
this but only after we stop futzing with different names.
Personnel
Paul Hoffman is the document shepherd; Stephen Farrell is the responsible AD.
RFC Editor Note
Please delete the text "Other options suggested for 0: PKIX-TA"
from section 2.1 - its a bit of hanging text in the xml file that
should be gone or commented out. The authors may do for
you before auth-48.