The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Ghostbusters Record
RFC 6493
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Randy Bush
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) R. Bush
Request for Comments: 6493 Internet Initiative Japan
Category: Standards Track February 2012
ISSN: 2070-1721
The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Ghostbusters Record
Abstract
In the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), resource
certificates completely obscure names or any other information that
might be useful for contacting responsible parties to deal with
issues of certificate expiration, maintenance, roll-overs,
compromises, etc. This document describes the RPKI Ghostbusters
Record containing human contact information that may be verified
(indirectly) by a Certification Authority (CA) certificate. The data
in the record are those of a severely profiled vCard.
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/rfc6493.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (c) 2012 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the
document authors. All rights reserved.
This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Suggested Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. RPKI Ghostbusters Record Payload Example . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. vCard Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. CMS Packaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
7. Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
9.1. OID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
9.2. File Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
9.3. Media Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
10. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1. Introduction
In the operational use of the RPKI, it can become necessary to
contact, human to human, the party responsible for a resource-holding
CA certificate, AKA the certificate's maintainer, be it the holder of
the certificate's private key or an administrative person in the
organization, a NOC, etc. An important example is when the operator
of a prefix described by a Route Origin Authorization (ROA) sees a
problem, or an impending problem, with a certificate or Certificate
Revocation List (CRL) in the path between the ROA and a trust anchor.
For example, a certificate along that path has expired, is soon to
expire, or a CRL associated with a CA along the path is stale, thus
placing the quality of the routing of the address space described by
the ROA in jeopardy.
As the names in RPKI certificates are not meaningful to humans, see
[RFC6484], there is no way to use a certificate itself to lead to the
worrisome certificate's or CRL's maintainer. So, "Who you gonna
call?"
This document specifies the RPKI Ghostbusters Record, an object
verified via an end-entity (EE) certificate, issued under a CA
certificate, the maintainer of which may be contacted using the
payload information in the Ghostbusters Record.
The Ghostbusters Record conforms to the syntax defined in [RFC6488].
The payload of this signed object is a severely profiled vCard.
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