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IETF-96 Proceedings

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Automated Certificate Management Environment (acme) (WG)

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Chair(s):

Security Area Area Director(s):

Assigned Area Director

Kathleen Moriarty

Status Update (provided 2016-07-19)

At IETF 96 we reviewed progress in the latest draft. We will be "adding back" the older flow in addition to the more complicated/general flow (variously termed preconditions or application) added in the latest draft.  We are planning on being in last call before IETF 97.

We are actively soliciting drafts to consider for adoption and/or recharting for discussion in the early fall.

Recordings:

Meeting Slides:

Blue Sheets:

bluesheets-96-acme-01.pdf

Internet-Drafts:

Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) (129791 bytes)

No Request for Comments

Charter (as of 2015-06-26):

Historically, issuance of certificates for Internet applications
(e.g., web servers) has involved many manual identity validation steps
by the certification authority (CA). The ACME WG will specify
conventions for automated X.509 certificate management, including
validation of control over an identifier, certificate issuance,
certificate renewal, and certificate revocation. The initial focus of
the ACME WG will be on domain name certificates (as used by web
servers), but other uses of certificates can be considered as work
progresses.

ACME certificate management must allow the CA to verify, in an
automated manner, that the party requesting a certificate has authority
over the requested identifiers, including the subject and subject
alternative names. The processing must also confirm that the requesting
party has access to the private key that corresponds to the public key
that will appear in the certificate. All of the processing must be done
in a manner that is compatible with common service deployment
environments, such as hosting environments.

ACME certificate management must, in an automated manner, allow an
authorized party to request revocation of a certificate.

The ACME working group is specifying ways to automate certificate
issuance, validation, revocation and renewal. The ACME working
group is not reviewing or producing certificate policies or
practices.

The starting point for ACME WG discussions shall be draft-barnes-acme.