Internet-Draft CDNI extensions for HTTPS delegation July 2022
Fieau, et al. Expires 12 January 2023 [Page]
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CDNI Working Group
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draft-ietf-cdni-interfaces-https-delegation-09
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Authors:
F. Fieau, Ed.
Orange
E. Stephan
Orange
S. Mishra
Verizon

CDNI extensions for HTTPS delegation

Abstract

This document defines a new Footprint and Capabilities metadata objects to support HTTPS delegation between two or more interconnected CDNs. Specifically, this document outlines CDNI Metadata interface objects for delegation method as published in the ACME-STAR document [RFC9115].

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Content delivery over HTTPS using one or more CDNs along the path requires credential management. This specifically applies when an entity delegates delivery of encrypted content to another trusted entity.

[RFC9115] defines a mechanism where an upstream entity, that is, holder of a X.509 certificate can give a temporary delegated authority, via issuing a certificate to one or more downstream entities for the purposes of delivering content on its behalf. Furthermore, the upstream entity has the ability to extend the duration of the certificate automatically and iteratively until it allows the last renewal to end and therefore terminate the use of certificate authority to the downstream entity.

More specifically, [RFC9115] defines a process where the upstream Content Delivery Network (uCDN), the holder of the domain, generates on-demand a X.509 certificate for the downstream CDN (dCDN). The certificate generation process ensures that the certified public key corresponds to a private key controlled by the downstream CDN. [RFC9115] follows [RFC8739] for Short-Term, Automatically Renewed Certificate (STAR) in the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME).

This document defines CDNI Metadata to make use of HTTPS delegation between an upstream CDN (uCDN) and a downstream CDN (dCDN) based on mechanism specified in [RFC9115]. Furthermore, it includes a proposal of IANA registry to enable adding of delegation methods.

Section 2 defines terminology used in this document. Section 3 presents delegation metadata for the FCI interface. Section 4 addresses the metadata for handling HTTPS delegation with the Metadata Interface. Section 5 addresses IANA registry for delegation methods. Section 6 covers the security considerations.

2. Terminology

This document uses terminology from CDNI framework documents such as: CDNI framework document [RFC7336], CDNI requirements [RFC7337] and CDNI interface specifications documents: CDNI Metadata interface [RFC8006] and CDNI Footprint and capabilities [RFC8008].

3. Delegation metadata for CDNI FCI

The Footprint and Capabilities interface as defined in [RFC8008], allows a dCDN to send a FCI capability type object to a uCDN. This draft adds an object named FCI.SupportedDelegationMethods.

This object shall allow a dCDN to advertise the capabilities regarding the supported delegation methods and their configuration.

The following is an example of the supported delegated methods capability object for a CDN supporting STAR delegation method.


     {
     "capabilities": [
       {
         "capability-type": "FCI.SupportedDelegationMethods",
         "capability-value": {
           "delegation-methods": [
                    "AcmeStarDelegationDelegationMethod",
                    "... Other supported delegation methods ..."
           ]
         }
         "footprints": [
           <Footprint objects>
         ]
       }
      ]
     }

4. Delegation metadata for CDNI

This section defines Delegation metadata using the current Metadata interface model. This allows bootstrapping delegation methods between a uCDN and a delegate dCDN.

This section presents the use of CDNI Delegation metadata to apply to an HostMatch object, as defined in [RFC8006] and as specified in the following sections.

The existence of delegation method in the CDNI metadata Object shall enable the use of this method, as chosen by the delegating entity. In the case of an HostMatch object, the delegation method will be activated for the set of Host defined in the HostMatch. See Section 4.2 for more details about delegation methods metadata specification.

The HostMatch object can reference a host metadata that points at the delegation information. Delegation metadata are added to a Metadata object.

Those "delegation" metadata can apply to other MI objects such as PathMatch object metadata.

Below shows both HostMatch and its Metadata related to a host, for example, here is a HostMatch object referencing "video.example.com":


HostMatch:
   {
     "host": "video.example.com",
     "host-metadata": {
       "type": "MI.HostMetadata",
       "href": "https://metadata.ucdn.example/host1234"
     }
   }

Following the example above, the metadata is modeled
for ACMEStarDelegationMethod as follows:

  "generic-metadata-value": {
    "acme-delegations": [
      "https://acme.ucdn.example/acme/delegation/ogfr8EcolOT",
      "https://acme.ucdn.example/acme/delegation/wSi5Lbb61E4"
    ]
  }

4.2. AcmeStarDelegationMethod object

This section defines the AcmeStarDelegationMethod object which describes metadata related to the use of ACME/STAR API presented in [RFC9115]

As expressed in [RFC9115], when an origin has set a delegation to a specific domain (i.e. dCDN), the dCDN should present to the end-user client, a short-term certificate bound to the master certificate.


dCDN                  uCDN             Content Provider           CA
 |              ACME/STAR proxy        ACME/STAR client    ACME/STAR srv
 |                     |                     |                     |
 | 1. GET Metadata incl. Delegation Method object with CSR template|
 +-------------------->|                     |                     |
 | 200 OK + Metadata incl. CSR template [CDNI]                     |
 |<--------------------+                     |                     |
 | 2. Request delegation: video.dcdn.example + dCDN public key     |
 +-------------------->|                     |                     |
 |                     | 3. Request STAR Cert + dCDN public key    |
 |                     +-------------------->| 4. Request STAR cert|
 |                     |                     |    + Pubkey         |
 |                     |                     |-------------------->|
 |                     |                     | 5. STAR certificate |
 |                     | 6. STAR certificate |<--------------------|
 | 7. STAR certificate |<--------------------+                     |
 +<--------------------|                     |                     |
 |                     |                     |                     |
 | 8. Retrieve STAR certificate (credential-location-uri)          |
 +---------------------------------------------------------------->|
 |                     |                     |         9. renew +--|
 |                     |                     |            cert  |  |
 | 10. Star certificate                      |                  +->|
 |<----------------------------------------------------------------+
 |  ...                |                     |                     |

Figure 1: Example call-flow of STAR delegation in CDNI showing 2 levels
of delegation

Property: acme-delegations

  • Description: an array of delegation objects associated with the dCDN account on the uCDN ACME server (see Section 2.3.1 of [RFC9115] for the details).
  • Type: Objects
  • Mandatory-to-Specify: Yes

5. IANA considerations

This document requests the registration of the following entries under the "CDNI Payload Types" registry hosted by IANA regarding "CDNI delegation":


+-------------------------------+---------------+
| Payload Type                  | Specification |
+-------------------------------+---------------+
| MI.AcmeStarDelegationMethod   | RFCthis       |
+-------------------------------+---------------+
| FCI.SupportedDelegationMethods| RFCthis       |
+-------------------------------+---------------+

[RFC Editor: Please replace RFCthis with the published RFC number for
   this document.]


5.1. CDNI MI AcmeStarDelegationMethod Payload Type

Purpose: The purpose of this Payload Type is to distinguish AcmeStarDelegationMethod MI objects (and any associated capability advertisement)

Interface: MI

Encoding: see Section 5

5.2. CDNI FCI SupportedDelegationMethods Payload Type

Purpose: The purpose of this Payload Type is to distinguish SupportedDelegationMethods FCI objects (and any associated capability advertisement)

Interface: FCI

Encoding: see Section 4

6. Security considerations

Delegation metadata proposed here do not alter nor change Security Considerations as outlined in the following RFCs: An Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Profile for Generating Delegated Certificates [RFC9115]; the CDNI Metadata [RFC8006] and CDNI Footprint and Capabilities [RFC8008].

7. References

7.1. Normative References

[RFC8006]
Niven-Jenkins, B., Murray, R., Caulfield, M., and K. Ma, "Content Delivery Network Interconnection (CDNI) Metadata", RFC 8006, DOI 10.17487/RFC8006, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8006>.
[RFC8008]
Seedorf, J., Peterson, J., Previdi, S., van Brandenburg, R., and K. Ma, "Content Delivery Network Interconnection (CDNI) Request Routing: Footprint and Capabilities Semantics", RFC 8008, DOI 10.17487/RFC8008, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8008>.
[RFC8739]
Sheffer, Y., Lopez, D., Gonzalez de Dios, O., Pastor Perales, A., and T. Fossati, "Support for Short-Term, Automatically Renewed (STAR) Certificates in the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME)", RFC 8739, DOI 10.17487/RFC8739, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8739>.
[RFC9115]
Sheffer, Y., López, D., Pastor Perales, A., and T. Fossati, "An Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Profile for Generating Delegated Certificates", RFC 9115, DOI 10.17487/RFC9115, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9115>.

7.2. Informative References

[RFC7336]
Peterson, L., Davie, B., and R. van Brandenburg, Ed., "Framework for Content Distribution Network Interconnection (CDNI)", RFC 7336, DOI 10.17487/RFC7336, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7336>.
[RFC7337]
Leung, K., Ed. and Y. Lee, Ed., "Content Distribution Network Interconnection (CDNI) Requirements", RFC 7337, DOI 10.17487/RFC7337, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7337>.

Authors' Addresses

Frederic Fieau (editor)
Orange
40-48, avenue de la Republique
92320 Chatillon
France
Emile Stephan
Orange
2, avenue Pierre Marzin
22300 Lannion
France
Sanjay Mishra
Verizon
13100 Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, MD 20904
United States of America