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This document defines the syntax of the CAA 19 record and rules for processing CAA records by certificate issuers. 21 Status of this Memo 23 This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the 24 provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. 26 Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering 27 Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute 28 working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- 29 Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. 31 Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months 32 and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any 33 time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference 34 material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." 36 This Internet-Draft will expire on April 21, 2013. 38 Copyright Notice 40 Copyright (c) 2012 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the 41 document authors. All rights reserved. 43 This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal 44 Provisions Relating to IETF Documents 45 (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of 46 publication of this document. Please review these documents 47 carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect 48 to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must 49 include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of 50 the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as 51 described in the Simplified BSD License. 53 Table of Contents 55 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 56 2. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 57 2.1. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 58 2.2. Defined Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 59 3. The CAA RR type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 60 4. Certification Authority Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 61 4.1. Use of DNS Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 62 5. Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 63 5.1. Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 64 5.1.1. Canonical Presentation Format . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 65 5.2. CAA issue Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 66 5.3. CAA issuewild Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 67 5.4. CAA iodef Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 68 6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 69 6.1. Non-Compliance by Certification Authority . . . . . . . . 13 70 6.2. Mis-Issue by Authorized Certification Authority . . . . . 13 71 6.3. Suppression or spoofing of CAA records . . . . . . . . . . 14 72 6.4. Denial of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 73 6.5. Abuse of the Critical Flag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 74 7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 75 7.1. Registration of the CAA Resource Record Type . . . . . . . 15 76 7.2. Certification Authority Authorization Properties . . . . . 15 77 7.3. Certification Authority Authorization Flags . . . . . . . 16 78 7.4. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 79 8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 80 8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 81 8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 82 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 84 1. Introduction 86 The Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) DNS Resource Record 87 allows a DNS domain name holder to specify the Certification 88 Authorities authorized to issue certificates for that domain. 89 Publication of CAA resource records allow a public Certification 90 Authority (CA) to implement additional controls to reduce the risk of 91 unintended certificate mis-issue. 93 Like the TLSA record defined in DNS-Based Authentication of Named 94 Entities (DANE) [DANE], CAA records are used as a part of a mechanism 95 for checking PKIX certificate data. The distinction between the two 96 specifications is that CAA records specify a authorization control to 97 be performed by a certificate issuer before issue of a certificate 98 and TLSA records specify a verification control to be performed by a 99 Relying Party after the certificate is issued. 101 Conformance with a published CAA record is a necessary but not 102 sufficient condition for issueance of a certificate. Before issuing 103 a certificate, a PKIX CA is required to validate the request 104 according to the policies set out in its Certificate Policy. In the 105 case of a public CA that validates certificate requests as a third 106 party, the certificate will be typically issued under a public trust 107 anchor certificate embedded in one or more relevant Relying 108 Applications. 110 Criteria for inclusion of embedded trust anchor certificates in 111 applications are outside the scope of this document. Typically such 112 criteria require the CA to publish a Certificate Practices Statement 113 (CPS) that specifies how the requirements of the Certificate Policy 114 (CP) are achieved. It is also common for a CA to engage an 115 independent third party auditor to prepare an annual audit statement 116 of its performance against its CPS. 118 A set of CAA records describes only current grants of authority to 119 issue certificates for the corresponding DNS domain. Since a 120 certificate is typically valid for at least a year, it is possible 121 that a certificate that is not conformant with the CAA records 122 currently published was conformant with the CAA records published at 123 the time that the certificate was issued. Relying Applications MUST 124 NOT use CAA records as part of certificate validation. 126 CAA Records MAY be used by Certificate Evaluators as a possible 127 indicator of a security policy violation. Such use SHOULD take 128 account of the possibility that published CAA records changed between 129 the time a certificate was issued and the time at which the 130 certificate was observed by the Certificate Evaluator. 132 2. Definitions 134 2.1. Requirements Language 136 The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", 137 "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this 138 document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. 140 2.2. Defined Terms 142 The following terms are used in this document: 144 Authorization Entry: An authorization assertion that grants or 145 denies a specific set of permissions to a specific group of 146 entities. 148 Certificate: An X.509 Certificate, as specified in [RFC5280]. 150 Certificate Evaluator: A party other than a Relying Party that 151 evaluates the trustworthiness of certificates issued by 152 Certification Authorities. 154 Certification Authority (CA): An Issuer that issues Certificates in 155 accordance with a specified Certificate Policy. 157 Certificate Policy (CP): Specifies the criteria that a Certification 158 Authority undertakes to meet in its issue of certificates. See 159 [RFC3647]. 161 Certification Practices Statement (CPS): Specifies the means by 162 which the criteria of the Certificate Policy are met. In most 163 cases this will be the document against which the operations of 164 the Certification Authority are audited. See [RFC3647]. 166 Domain: A DNS Domain Name. 168 Domain Name: A DNS Domain name as specified in [STD13]. 170 Domain Name System (DNS): The Internet naming system specified in 171 [STD13]. 173 DNS Security (DNSSEC): Extensions to the DNS that provide 174 authentication services as specified in [RFC4033], [RFC4034], 175 [RFC4035], [RFC5155] and revisions. 177 Issuer: An entity that issues Certificates. See [RFC5280]. 179 Property: The tag-value portion of a CAA Resource Record. 181 Property Tag: The tag portion of a CAA Resource Record. 183 Property Value: The value portion of a CAA Resource Record. 185 Public Key Infrastructure X.509 (PKIX): Standards and specifications 186 issued by the IETF that apply the [X.509] certificate standards 187 specified by the ITU to Internet applications as specified in 188 [RFC5280] and related documents. 190 Resource Record (RR): A particular entry in the DNS including the 191 owner name, class, type, time to live, and data, as defined in 192 [STD13] and [RFC2181]. 194 Resource Record Set(RRSet): A set of Resource Records or a 195 particularowner name, classand type. The time to live on all RRs 196 with an RRSet is always the same but the data may be different 197 among RRs in the RRSet. 199 Relying Party: A party that makes use of an application whose 200 operation depends on use of a Certificate for making a security 201 decision. See [RFC5280]. 203 Relying Application: An application whose operation depends on use 204 of a Certificate for making a security decision. 206 3. The CAA RR type 208 A CAA RR consists of a flags byte and a tag-value pair referred to as 209 a property. Multiple properties MAY be associated with the same 210 domain name by publishing multiple CAA RRs at that domain name. The 211 following flag is defined: 213 Issuer Critical: If set (=1), indicates that the corresponding 214 property entry tag MUST be understood if the semantics of the CAA 215 record are to be correctly interpreted by an issuer. 217 Issuers MUST NOT issue certificates for a domain if the relevant 218 CAA Resource Record set contains unknown property entry tags that 219 have the Critical bit set. 221 The following property tags are defined: 223 issue [; ]* : The issue property 224 entry authorizes the holder of the domain name or a party acting under the explicit authority of the holder 226 of that domain name to issue certificates for the domain in which 227 the property is published. 229 issue [; ]* : The issue property 230 entry authorizes the holder of the domain name or a party acting under the explicit authority of the holder 232 of that domain name to issue wildcard certificates for the domain 233 in which the property is published. 235 iodef : Specifies a URL to which an issuer MAY report 236 certificate issue requests that are inconsistent with the issuer's 237 Certification Practices or Certificate Policy, or that a 238 certificate evaluator may use to report observation of a possible 239 policy violation. The IODEF format is used [RFC5070]. 241 The following example is a DNS zone file (see [RFC1035]) that informs 242 CAs that certificates are not to be issued except by the holder of 243 the domain name 'ca.example.net' or an authorized agent thereof. 244 This policy applies to all subordinate domains under example.com. 246 $ORIGIN example.com 247 . CAA 0 issue "ca.example.net" 249 If the domain name holder specifies one or more iodef properties, a 250 certificate issuer MAY report invalid certificate requests to that 251 address. In the following example the domain name holder specifies 252 that reports may be made by means of email with the IODEF data as an 253 attachment, a Web service [RFC6546] or both: 255 $ORIGIN example.com 256 . CAA 0 issue "ca.example.net" 257 . CAA 0 iodef "mailto:security@example.com" 258 . CAA 0 iodef "http://iodef.example.com/" 260 A certificate issuer MAY specify additional parameters that allow 261 customers to specify additional parameters governing certificate 262 issuance. This might be the Certificate Policy under which the 263 certificate is to be issued, the authentication process to be used 264 might be specified or an account number specified by the CA to enable 265 these parameters to be retrieved. 267 For example, the CA 'ca.example.net' has requested its customer 268 'example.com' to specify the CA's account number '230123' in each of 269 the customer's CAA records. 271 $ORIGIN example.com 272 . CAA 0 issue "ca.example.net; account=230123" 274 The syntax of additional parameters is a sequence of tag-value pairs 275 as defined in section Section 5.2. The semantics of such parameters 276 is left to site policy and is outside the scope of this document. 278 The critical flag is intended to permit future versions CAA to 279 introduce new semantics that MUST be understood for correct 280 processing of the record, preventing conforming CAs that do not 281 recognize the new semantics from issuing certificates for the 282 indicated domains. 284 In the following example, the property 'tbs' is flagged as critical. 285 Neither the example.net CA, nor any other issuer is authorized to 286 issue under either policy unless the processing rules for the 'tbs' 287 property tag are understood. 289 $ORIGIN example.com 290 . CAA 0 issue "ca.example.net; policy=ev" 291 . CAA 128 tbs "Unknown" 293 Note that the above restrictions only apply to issue of certificates. 294 Since the validity of an end entity certificate is typically a year 295 or more, it is quite possible that the CAA records published at a 296 domain will change between the time a certificate was issued and 297 validation by a relying party. 299 4. Certification Authority Processing 301 Before issuing a certificate, a compliant CA MUST check for 302 publication of an relevant CAA Resource Record set. If such a record 303 set exists, a CA MUST NOT issue a certificate unless the CA 304 determines that either (1) the certificate request is consistent with 305 the applicable CAA Resource Record set or (2) that an exception 306 specified in the relevant Certificate Policy or Certification 307 Practices Statement Applies. 309 A certificate request MAY specify more than one domain name and MAY 310 specify wildcard domains. Issuers MUST verify authorization for all 311 the domains and wildcard domains specified in the request. 313 The search for a CAA record climbs the DNS name tree from the 314 specified label up to but not including the DNS root '.'. 316 Given a request for a specific domain X, or a request for a wildcard 317 domain *.X, the relevant record set R(X) is determined as follows: 319 Let CAA(X) be the record set returned in response to performing a CAA 320 record query on the label X, P(X) be the DNS label immediately above 321 X in the DNS hierarchy and A(X) be the target of a CNAME or DNAME 322 alias record specified at the label X. 324 o If CAA(X) is not empty, R(X) = CAA (X), otherwise 326 o If A(X) is not null, and R(A(X)) is not empty, then R(X) = 327 R(A(X)), otherwise 329 o If X is not a top level domain then R(X) = R(P(X), otherwise 331 o R(X) is empty. 333 For example, if a certificate is requested for X.Y.Z the issuer will 334 search for the relevant CAA record set in the following order: 336 X.Y.Z 338 Alias (X.Y.Z) 340 Y.Z 342 Alias (Y.Z) 344 Z 346 Alias (Z) 348 Return Empty 350 4.1. Use of DNS Security 352 Use of DNSSEC to authenticate CAA RRs is strongly RECOMMENDED but not 353 required. An issuer MUST NOT issue certificates if doing so would 354 conflict with the relevant CAA Resource Record set, irrespective of 355 whether the corresponding DNS records are signed. 357 DNSSEC provides a proof of non-existence for both DNS domains and RR 358 set within domains. DNSSEC verification thus enables an issuer to 359 determine if the answer to a CAA record query is empty because the RR 360 set is empty or if it is non-empty but the response has been 361 supressed. 363 Use of DNSSEC allows an issuer to acquire and archive a proof that 364 they were authorized to issue certificates for the domain. 365 Verification of such archives MAY be an audit requirement to verify 366 CAA record processing compliance. Publication of such archives MAY 367 be a transparency requirement to verify CAA record processing 368 compliance. 370 5. Mechanism 372 5.1. Syntax 374 A CAA RR contains a single property entry consisting of a tag value 375 pair. Each tag represents a property of the CAA record. The value 376 of a CAA property is that specified in the corresponding value field. 378 A domain name MAY have multiple CAA RRs associated with it and a 379 given property MAY be specified more than once. 381 The CAA data field contains one property entry. A property entry 382 consists of the following data fields: 384 +0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-|0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-| 385 | Flags | Tag Length = n | 386 +----------------+----------------+...+---------------+ 387 | Tag char 0 | Tag Char 1 |...| Tag Char n-1 | 388 +----------------+----------------+...+---------------+ 389 +----------------+----------------+.....+----------------+ 390 | Value byte 0 | Value byte 1 |.....| Value byte m-1 | 391 +----------------+----------------+.....+----------------+ 393 Where n is the length specified in the Tag length field and m is the 394 remaining octets in the Value field (m = d - n - 2) where d is the 395 length of the RDATA section. 397 The data fields are defined as follows: 399 Flags: One octet containing the following fields: 401 Bit 0: Issuer Critical Flag If the value is set (1), the critical 402 flag is asserted and the property MUST be understood if the CAA 403 record is to be correctly processed by a certificate issuer. 405 A Certification Authority MUST NOT issue certificates for any 406 Domain that contains a CAA critical property for an unknown or 407 unsupported property tag that for which the issuer critical 408 flag is set. 410 Note that according to the conventions set out in [RFC1035], Bit 0 411 is the Most Significant Bit and Bit 7 is the Least Significant 412 Bit. Thus the Flags value 1 means that bit 7 is set while a value 413 of 128 means that bit 0 is set according to this convention. 415 All other bit positions are reserved for future use. 417 To ensure compatibility with future extensions to CAA, DNS records 418 compliant with this version of the CAA specification MUST clear 419 (set to "0") all reserved flags bits. Applications that interpret 420 CAA records MUST ignore the value of all reserved flag bits. 422 Tag Length: A single octet containing an unsigned integer specifying 423 the tag length in octets. The tag length MUST be at least 1 and 424 SHOULD be no more than 15. 426 Tag: The property identifier, a sequence of ASCII characters. 428 Tag values MAY contain ASCII characters 'a' through 'z', 'A' 429 through 'Z' and the numbers 0 through 9. Tag values SHOULD NOT 430 contain any other characters. Matching of tag values is case 431 insensitive. 433 Tag values submitted for registration by IANA MUST NOT contain any 434 characters other than the (lowercase) ASCII characters 'a' through 435 'z' and the numbers 0 through 9. 437 Value: A sequence of octets representing the property value. 438 Property values are encoded as binary values and MAY employ sub- 439 formats. 441 The length of the value field is specified implicitly as the 442 remaining length of the enclosing Resource Record data field. 444 5.1.1. Canonical Presentation Format 446 The canonical presentation format of the CAA record is: 448 CAA 450 Where: 452 Flags: Is an unsigned integer between 0 and 255. 454 Tag: Is a non-zero sequence of ASCII letter and numbers in lower 455 case. 457 Value: Is the encoding of the value field as 458 specified in [RFC1035] section 5.1. 460 5.2. CAA issue Property 462 The issue property tag is used to request that certificate issuers 463 perform CAA issue restriction processing for the domain and to grant 464 authorization to specific certificate issuers. 466 The CAA issue property value has the following sub-syntax (specified 467 in ABNF as per [RFC5234]). 469 Property = space [domain] space [";" *(space parameter) space] 471 domain = label *("." label) 472 label = (ALPHA / DIGIT) * ( ["-"] (ALPHA / DIGIT )) 474 space = *(SP / HTAB) 476 parameter = tag "=" value 478 tag = 1* (ALPHA / DIGIT) 480 value = *VCHAR 482 For consistency with other aspects of DNS administration, Domain name 483 values are specified in Letter-Digit-Hyphen Label (LDH-Label) form. 485 A CAA record with an issue parameter tag that does not specify a 486 domain name is a request that certificate issuers perform CAA issue 487 restriction processing for the corresponding domain without granting 488 authorization to any certificate issuer. 490 This form of issue restriction would be appropriate to specify that 491 no certificates are to be issued for the domain in question. 493 For example, the following CAA record set requests that no 494 certificates be issued for the domain 'nocerts.example.com' by any 495 certificate issuer. 497 nocerts.example.com CAA 0 issue ";" 499 A CAA record with an issue parameter tag that specifies a domain name 500 is a request that certificate issuers perform CAA issue restriction 501 processing for the corresponding domain and grants authorization to 502 the certificate issuer specified by the domain name. 504 For example, the following CAA record set requests that no 505 certificates be issued for the domain 'certs.example.com' by any 506 certificate issuer other than the example.net certificate issuer. 508 certs.example.com CAA 0 issue "example.net" 510 CAA authorizations are additive. thus the result of specifying both 511 the empty issuer and a specified issuer is the same as specifying 512 just the specified issuer alone. 514 An issuer MAY choose to specify issuer-parameters that further 515 constrain the issue of certificates by that issuer. For example 516 specifying that certificates are to be subject to specific validation 517 polices, billed to certain accounts or issued under specific trust 518 anchors. 520 The semantics of issuer-parameters are determined by the issuer 521 alone. 523 5.3. CAA issuewild Property 525 The issuewild property has the same syntax and semantics as the issue 526 property except that issuewild properties only grant authorization to 527 issue certificates that specify a wildcard domain and issuewild 528 properties take precedence over issue properties when specified. 529 Specifically: 531 issuewild properties MUST be ignored when processing a request for 532 a domain that is not a wildcard domain. 534 If at least one issuewild property is specified in the relevant 535 CAA record set, all issue properties MUST be ignored when 536 processing a request for a domain that is a wildcard domain. 538 5.4. CAA iodef Property 540 The iodef property specifies a means of reporting certificate issue 541 requests or cases of certificate issue for the corresponding domain, 542 that violate the security policy of the issuer or the domain name 543 holder. 545 The Incident Object Description Exchange Format (IODEF) [RFC5070] is 546 used to present the incident report in machine readable form. 548 The iodef property takes a URL as its parameter. The URL scheme type 549 determines the method used for reporting: 551 mailto: The IODEF incident report is reported as a MIME email 552 attachment to an SMTP email that is submitted to the mail address 553 specified. The mail message sent SHOULD contain a brief text 554 message to alert the recipient to the nature of the attachment. 556 http or https: The IODEF report is submitted as a web service 557 request to the HTTP address specified using the protocol specified 558 in [RFC6546]. 560 6. Security Considerations 562 CAA Records assert a security policy that the holder of a domain name 563 wishes to be observed by certificate issuers. The effectiveness of 564 CAA records as an access control mechanism is thus dependent on 565 observance of CAA constraints by issuers. 567 The objective of the CAA record properties described in this document 568 is to reduce the risk of certificate mis-issue rather than avoid 569 reliance on a certificate that has ben mis-issued. DANE [DANE] 570 describes a mechanism for avoiding reliance on mis-issued 571 certificates. 573 6.1. Non-Compliance by Certification Authority 575 CAA records offer CAs a cost-effective means of mitigating the risk 576 of certificate mis-issue: The cost of implementing CAA checks is very 577 small and the potential costs of a mis-issue event include the 578 removal of an embedded trust anchor. 580 6.2. Mis-Issue by Authorized Certification Authority 582 Use of CAA records does not prevent mis-issue by an authorized 583 Certification Authority. , i.e., a CA that is authorized to issue 584 certificates for the domain in question by CAA records.. 586 Domain name holders SHOULD verify that the CAs they authorize to 587 issue certificates for their domains employ appropriate controls to 588 ensure that certificates are issued only to authorized parties within 589 their organization. 591 Such controls are most appropriately determined by the domain name 592 holder and the authorized CA(s) directly and are thus out of scope of 593 this document. 595 6.3. Suppression or spoofing of CAA records 597 Suppression of the CAA record or insertion of a bogus CAA record 598 could enable an attacker to obtain a certificate from an issuer that 599 was not authorized to issue for that domain name. 601 Where possible, Issuers SHOULD perform DNSSEC validation to detect 602 missing or modified CAA record sets. 604 In cases where DNSSEC is not deployed in a corresponding domain, an 605 issuer SHOULD attempt to mitigate this risk by employing appropriate 606 DNS security controls. For example all portions of the DNS lookup 607 process SHOULD be performed against the authoritative name server. 608 Data cached by third parties MUST NOT be relied on but MAY be used to 609 support additional anti-spoofing or anti-suppression controls. 611 6.4. Denial of Service 613 Introduction of a malformed or malicious CAA RR could in theory 614 enable a Denial of Service attack. 616 This specific threat is not considered to add significantly to the 617 risk of running an insecure DNS service. 619 An attacker could, in principle, perform a Denial of Service attack 620 against an issuer by requesting a certificate with a maliciously long 621 DNS name. In practice, the DNS protocol imposes a maximum name 622 length and CAA processing does not exacerbate the existing need to 623 mitigate Denial of Service attacks to any meaningful degree. 625 6.5. Abuse of the Critical Flag 627 A Certification Authority could make use of the critical flag to 628 trick customers into publishing records which prevent competing 629 Certification Authorities from issuing certificates even though the 630 customer intends to authorize multiple providers. 632 In practice, such an attack would be of minimal effect since any 633 competent competitor that found itself unable to issue certificates 634 due to lack of support for a property marked critical SHOULD 635 investigate the cause and report the reason to the customer who will 636 thus discover that they had been deceived. 638 7. IANA Considerations 639 7.1. Registration of the CAA Resource Record Type 641 [Note to IANA, the CAA resource record has already been assigned. On 642 issue of this draft as an RFC, the record should be updated to 643 reflect this document as the authoritative specification and this 644 paragraph (but not the following ones deleted] 646 IANA has assigned Resource Record Type 257 for the CAA Resource 647 Record Type and added the line depicted below to the registry named 648 Resource Record (RR) TYPEs and QTYPEs as defined in BCP 42 [RFC6195] 649 and located at http://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-parameters. 651 RR Name Value and meaning Reference 652 ----------- --------------------------------------------- --------- 653 CAA 257 Certification Authority Restriction [RFC-THIS] 655 7.2. Certification Authority Authorization Properties 657 [Note to IANA, this is a new registry that needs to be created and 658 this paragraph but not the following ones deleted.] 660 IANA has created the Certification Authority Authorization Properties 661 registry with the following initial values: 663 Tag Meaning Reference 664 ----------- ---------------------------------- --------- 665 issue Authorization Entry by Domain [RFC-THIS] 666 issuewild Authorization Entry by Domain [RFC-THIS] 667 iodef Report incident by IODEF report [RFC-THIS] 668 auth Reserved 669 path Reserved 670 policy Reserved 672 Although [HB2011]" has expired, deployed clients implement the CAA 673 properties specified in the draft and re-use of these property tags 674 for a different purtpose could cause unexpected behavior. 676 Addition of tag identifiers requires a public specification and 677 expert review as set out in [RFC6195] Section 3.1.1.. 679 The tag space is designed to be sufficiently large that exhausting 680 the possible tag space need not be a concern. The scope of expert 681 review SHOULD be limited to the question of whether the specification 682 provided is sufficiently clear to permit implementation and to avoid 683 unnecessary duplication of functionality. 685 7.3. Certification Authority Authorization Flags 687 IANA has created the Certification Authority Authorization Flags 688 registry with the following initial values: 690 Flag Meaning Reference ----------- ---------------------------------- 691 --------- 0 Issuer Critical Flag [RFC-THIS] 1-7 Reserved> [RFC-THIS] 693 Assignment of new flags follows the 'RFC Required' policy set out in 694 [RFC5226] section 4.1. 696 7.4. Acknowledgements 698 The authors would like to thank the following people who contributed 699 to the design and documentation of this work item: Chris Evans, 700 Stephen Farrell, Jeff Hodges, Paul Hoffman, Stephen Kent, Adam 701 Langley, Ben Laurie, Chris Palmer, Scott Schmit, Sean Turner and Ben 702 Wilson. 704 8. References 706 8.1. Normative References 708 [DANE] P. Hoffman., J. Schlyter, "draft-ietf-dane-protocol-23: 709 Replace with reference to RFC before issue.", 2012. 711 [RFC1035] Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and 712 specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, November 1987. 714 [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate 715 Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. 717 [RFC2181] Elz, R. and R. Bush, "Clarifications to the DNS 718 Specification", RFC 2181, July 1997. 720 [RFC4033] Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S. 721 Rose, "DNS Security Introduction and Requirements", 722 RFC 4033, March 2005. 724 [RFC4034] Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S. 725 Rose, "Resource Records for the DNS Security Extensions", 726 RFC 4034, March 2005. 728 [RFC4035] Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S. 729 Rose, "Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security 730 Extensions", RFC 4035, March 2005. 732 [RFC5070] Danyliw, R., Meijer, J., and Y. Demchenko, "The Incident 733 Object Description Exchange Format", RFC 5070, 734 December 2007. 736 [RFC5155] Laurie, B., Sisson, G., Arends, R., and D. Blacka, "DNS 737 Security (DNSSEC) Hashed Authenticated Denial of 738 Existence", RFC 5155, March 2008. 740 [RFC5226] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an 741 IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226, 742 May 2008. 744 [RFC5234] Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax 745 Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008. 747 [RFC5280] Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S., 748 Housley, R., and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key 749 Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List 750 (CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, May 2008. 752 [RFC6195] Eastlake, D., "Domain Name System (DNS) IANA 753 Considerations", BCP 42, RFC 6195, March 2011. 755 [RFC6546] Trammell, B., "Transport of Real-time Inter-network 756 Defense (RID) Messages over HTTP/TLS", RFC 6546, 757 April 2012. 759 [STD13] Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - concepts and facilities", 760 STD 13, RFC 1034, November 1987. 762 Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and 763 specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, November 1987. 765 [X.509] International Telecommunication Union, "ITU-T 766 Recommendation X.509 (11/2008): Information technology - 767 Open systems interconnection - The Directory: Public-key 768 and attribute certificate frameworks", ITU-T 769 Recommendation X.509, November 2008. 771 8.2. Informative References 773 [HB2011] Hallam-Baker, P., Stradling, R., and B. Laurie, "DNS 774 Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Resource 775 Record", draft-hallambaker-donotissue-04 (work in 776 progress), May 2011. 778 [RFC3647] Chokhani, S., Ford, W., Sabett, R., Merrill, C., and S. 779 Wu, "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate 780 Policy and Certification Practices Framework", RFC 3647, 781 November 2003. 783 Authors' Addresses 785 Phillip Hallam-Baker 786 Comodo Group Inc. 788 Email: philliph@comodo.com 790 Rob Stradling 791 Comodo CA Ltd. 793 Email: rob.stradling@comodo.com