Technical Summary
This note describes a simple out-of-band protocol to ease setup of
the RPKI provisioning and publication protocols between two parties.
The protocol is encoded in a small number of XML messages, which can
be passed back and forth by any mutually agreeable secure means.
This setup protocol is not part of the provisioning or publication
protocol, rather, it is intended to simplify configuration of these
protocols by setting up relationships and exchanging keying material
used to authenticate those relationships.
Working Group Summary
The protocol described in this document grew out of a series of
workshops held starting in 2010, at which it became clear that manual
configuration of keying material and service URLs was both error
prone and unnecessarily confusing. The basic mechanism and semantics
have been essentially unchanged since the earliest versions of the
protocol, but there were several workshop-driven syntax changes and
simplifications before the protocol made its way into the IETF, and a
few more simplifications and minor extensions have occurred since
that time.
Document Quality
There is a working implementation.
Personnel
Shepherd: morrowc@ops-netman.net (Chris Morrow)
AD: aretana@cisco.com (Alvaro Retana)