STIR Certificate Delegation
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Network Working Group                                        J. Peterson
Internet-Draft                                                   Neustar
Intended status: Standards Track                           March 9, 2020
Expires: September 10, 2020

                      STIR Certificate Delegation
                   draft-ietf-stir-cert-delegation-02

Abstract

   The Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (STIR) certificate profile
   provides a way to attest authority over telephone numbers and related
   identifiers for the purpose of preventing telephone number spoofing.
   This specification details how that authority can be delegated from a
   parent certificate to a subordinate certificate.  This supports a
   number of use cases, including those where service providers grant
   credentials to enterprises or other customers capable of signing
   calls with STIR.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Motivation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Delegation of STIR Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     4.1.  Scope of Delegation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   5.  Authentication Services Signing with Delegate Certificates  .   6
   6.  Verification Service Behavior for Delegate Certificate
       Signatures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   7.  Acquiring Certificate Chains in STIR  . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   8.  Certification Authorities and Service Providers . . . . . . .   7
     8.1.  ACME and Delegation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     8.2.  Handling Multiple Certificates  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   9.  Alternative Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   10. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   11. Privacy Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   12. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   13. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   14. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     14.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     14.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12

1.  Introduction

   The STIR problem statement [RFC7340] reviews the difficulties facing
   the telephone network that are enabled by impersonation, including
   various forms of robocalling, voicemail hacking, and swatting.  One
   of the most important components of a system to prevent impersonation
   is the implementation of credentials which identify the parties who
   control telephone numbers.  The STIR certificates [RFC8226]
   specification describes a credential system based on [X.509] version
   3 certificates in accordance with [RFC5280] for that purpose.  Those
   credentials can then be used by STIR authentication services
   [RFC8224] to sign PASSporT objects [RFC8225] carried in SIP [RFC3261]
   requests.

   [RFC8226] specifies an extension to X.509 that defines a Telephony
   Number (TN) Authorization List that may be included by certification
   authorities (CAs) in certificates.  This extension provides