draft-ietf-pkix-pkixrep-01.txt

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Internet Draft                                          S. Boeyen
PKIX Working Group                                      Entrust Inc
November2002                                            P. Hallam-Baker
Expires in May 2003                                     VeriSign Inc.
                                                  
                                                    


                Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
                        Repository Locator Service
                   <draft-ietf-pkix-pkixrep-01.txt>

1  Status of this Memo
   
   This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
   all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.

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1.1  Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000).  All Rights Reserved.

2  Abstract

   This document defines a PKI repository locator service. The service
   makes use of DNS SRV records defined in accordance with RFC 2782. The
   service enables certificate using systems to locate PKI repositories 
   based on a domain name, identify the protocols that can be used to 
   access the repository, and obtain addresses for the servers that host 
   the repository service. 

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT",
   "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document (in uppercase,
   as shown) are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

3  Overview 

   Operational protocols have been specified for retrieval of PKI data,
   including public-key certificates and revocation information, from 
   PKI repositories in a number of RFCs including RFC 2559, RFC 2560 
 
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   and RFC 2585. These RFCs assume that a certificate using system has
   the knowledge information necessary to identify, locate and connect 
   to the PKI repository with a specific protocol. Although there are 
   some tools available in protocol-specific environments for this 
   purpose, such as knowledge references in directory systems, these 
   are restricted to use with a single protocol and do not share a 
   common means of publication. This draft provides a solution to 
   this problem through the use of SRV RRs in DNS. This solution is
   expected to be particularly useful in environments where only a 
   domain name is available. In other situations (e.g. where a 
   certificate is available that contains the required information), 
   such a DNS lookup is not needed.

   RFC 2782 defines a DNS RR for specifying the location of services
   (SRV). This Internet-draft defines SRV records for a PKI 
   repository locator service to enable PKI clients to obtain the  
   necessary information to connect to a domain's PKI repository, 
   including information about each protocol that is supported by 
   that domain for access to its repository. This Internet-draft 
   includes the defininition of a  SRV RR format for this service 
   and an example of its potential use in an email environment. 
   
4  SRV RR definition

   The format of the SRV RR, whose DNS type code is 33, is:

   _Service._Proto.Name TTL Class SRV Priority Weight Port Target

   For the PKI repository locator service, this draft uses the symbolic
   name "PKIXREP". Note that when used in an SRV RR, this name MUST
   be prepended with a "_" character.

   The protocols that can be included in PKIXREP SRV RRs are:
   LDAP 
   HTTP
   OCSP
   
   Note that when these protocol names appear in SRV records, they 
   MUST be prepended by a "_" character. 

   Other protocols could be added in future. 

   System administrators SHOULD create at least one PKIXREP SRV RR for 
   each protocol that can be used to access their service. If the 
   service is operated on a number of hosts, additional records can 
   be created, as described in RFC 2782.

4.1 SRV RR example

   This example uses fictional domain "example.test" as an aid in 
   understanding the use of SRV records by a certificate using system.

   Let an email client that needs a certificate for a recipient be 
   Alice and assume that Alice's client system supports LDAP for 
   certificate retrieval. Let the message recipient be Bob and let
   Bob's email address be [e-mail]. Assume that example.test 
   maintains a "border directory" PKI repository and that Bob's 
     
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   certificate is available from that directory "border.example.test" 
   via LDAP.  
   
   Alice's client system retrieves, via DNS, the SRV record for 
   _PKIXREP._LDAP.example.test. 

        - the QNAME of the DNS query is _PKIXREP._LDAP.example.test
        - the QCLASS of the DNS query is IN
        - the QTYPE of the DNS query is SRV

   The result SHOULD include the host address for example.test's 
   border directory system.
   
   Note that if example.test operated their service on a number of 
   hosts, more than one SRV RR would be returned. In this case, 
   RFC 2782 defines the procedure to be followed in determining which 
   of these should be accessed first.

5  Security considerations

   Security issues regarding PKI repositories themselves are outside 
   the scope of this specification. For LDAP repositories, for example, 
   specific security considerations are addressed in RFC 2559.

   Security issues with respect to the use of SRV records in general
   are addressed in RFC 2782 and these issues apply to the use of SRV
   records in the context of the PKIXREP service defined here. 

6  References

   RFC 2119:  Keywords for use in RFCs to indicate requirement levels.

   RFC 2782:  A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)

   RFC 2559:  Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure 
              Operational Protocols - LDAPv2

   RFC 2560:  Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
              Online Certificate Status Protocol - OCSP

   RFC 2585:  Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
              Operational Protocols: FTP and HTTP

7  Authors' Addresses

   Sharon Boeyen                     
   Entrust Inc
   1000 Innovation Drive        
   Ottawa, Ontario                   
   Canada K2K 3E7                    
   email: [e-mail]

   Phillip M. Hallam-Baker
   VeriSign Inc.
   401 Edgewater Place, Suite 280
   Wakefield MA 01880
   email: [e-mail]

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