--- 1/draft-ietf-sidr-publication-00.txt 2011-07-11 18:16:29.000000000 +0200
+++ 2/draft-ietf-sidr-publication-01.txt 2011-07-11 18:16:29.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,94 +1,95 @@
Network Working Group S. Weiler
Internet-Draft A. Sonalker
Intended status: Standards Track SPARTA, Inc.
-Expires: April 21, 2011 October 18, 2010
+Expires: January 12, 2012 R. Austein
+ ISC
+ July 11, 2011
A Publication Protocol for the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)
- draft-ietf-sidr-publication-00
+ draft-ietf-sidr-publication-01
Abstract
This document defines a protocol for publishing Resource Public Key
Infrastructure (RPKI) objects. Even though the RPKI will have many
participants issuing certificates and creating other objects, it is
operationally useful to consolidate the publication of those objects.
- This document provides the protocol for that.
+ This document provides the protocol for doing so.
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- This Internet-Draft will expire on April 21, 2011.
+ This Internet-Draft will expire on January 12, 2012.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Protocol Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Common Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1.1. Common XML Message Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- 3.2. Control Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
+ 3.2. Control Sub-Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2.1. Config Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2.2. Client Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- 3.3. Publication Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- 3.4. Error handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
+ 3.3. Publication Sub-Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
+ 3.4. Error handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.5. XML Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- 4. Operational Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
- 5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
+ 4. Operational Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
+ 5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
- 7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
- Appendix A. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
+ 7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1. Introduction
This document assumes a working knowledge of the Resource Public Key
Infrastructure (RPKI), which is intended to support improved routing
security on the Internet. [I-D.ietf-sidr-arch]
In order to make participation in the RPKI easier, it is helpful to
have a few consolidated repositories for RPKI objects, thus saving
every participant from the cost of maintaining a new service.
- Similarly, clients using the RPKI objects will find it faster and
- more reliable to retrieve the necessary set from a smaller number of
- repositories.
+ Similarly, relying parties using the RPKI objects will find it faster
+ and more reliable to retrieve the necessary set from a smaller number
+ of repositories.
These consolidated RPKI object repositories will in many cases be
outside the administrative scope of the organization issuing a given
RPKI object. Hence the need for a protocol to publish RPKI objects.
This document defines the RPKI publication protocol, including a sub-
protocol for configuring the publication engine.
1.1. Terminology
@@ -103,168 +104,170 @@
"Business Public Key Infrastructure" ("Business PKI" or "BPKI")
refers to a PKI, separate from the RPKI, used to authenticate clients
to the publication engine.
2. Context
This protocol was designed specifically for the case where an
internet registry, already issuing RPKI certificates to its children,
also wishes to run a publication service for its children.
- We use the term "Business PKI" here to suggest that an internet
- registry might already have a PKI, separate from the RPKI, for
- authenticating its clients and might wish to reuse that PKI for this
- protocol. Such reuse is not a requirement.
+ We use the term "Business PKI" here because an internet registry
+ might already have a PKI, separate from the RPKI, for authenticating
+ its clients and might wish to reuse that PKI for this protocol. Such
+ reuse is not a requirement.
3. Protocol Specification
In summary, the publication protocol uses XML messages wrapped in
CMS, carried over HTTP transport.
The publication procotol consists of two separate subprotocols. The
first is a control protocol used to configure a publication engine.
The second subprotocol, which we refer to by the overloaded term
"publication protocol", is used to request publication of specific
objects. The publication engine operates a single HTTP server on a
single port. It distinguishes between the two protocols by using
different URLs for them.
3.1. Common Details
This section discusses details that the two subprotocols have in
- common, including the transport and CMS wrappers. This portion of
- the protocol is largely inherited from the provisioning protocol
- ([I-D.ietf-sidr-rescerts-provisioning]).
+ common, including the transport and CMS wrappers.
Both protocols use a simple request/response interaction. The client
passes a request to the server, and the server generates a
- corresponding response. A message exchange commences with the client
- initiating an HTTP POST with content type of "application/x-rpki",
- with the message object as the body. The server's response will
- similarly be the body of the response with a content type of
- "application/x-rpki".
+ corresponding response.
- The content of the POST, and the server's response, will be a well-
+ A message exchange commences with the client initiating an HTTP POST
+ with content type of "application/rpki-publication", with the message
+ object as the body. The server's response will similarly be the body
+ of the response with a content type of "application/
+ rpki-publication".
+
+ The content of the POST and the server's response will be a well-
formed Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) [RFC5652] object with OID =
1.2.840.113549.1.7.2 as described in Section 3.1 of
[I-D.ietf-sidr-rescerts-provisioning].
3.1.1. Common XML Message Format
- The publication protocol uses the same message passing design as the
- provisioning protocol. The XML schema for this protocol (including
- both subprotocols) is below in Section 3.5. Both subprotocols use
- the same basic XML message format, which looks like:
+ The XML schema for this protocol (including both subprotocols) is
+ below in Section 3.5. Both subprotocols use the same basic XML
+ message format, which looks like:
[one or more PDUs]
+
version:
The value of this attribute is the version of this protocol.
- This document describes version 1.
+ This document describes version 2.
type:
The possible values of this attribute are "reply" and "query".
-3.2. Control Protocol
+ A query PDU may be one of four types: config_query, client_query,
+ publish_query, or withdraw_query. The first two are used by the
+ control sub-protocol, the latter two by the publication sub-protocol.
- The control protocol is used to configure a publication server. It
- can set global variables (at the moment, limited to a BPKI CRL) and
- manage clients who are allowed to publish data on the server.
+ A reply PDU may be one of five types: config_reply, client_reply,
+ publish_reply, withdraw_reply, or report_error_reply.
- The control protocol has two objects: the object, and the
- object.
+ Each of these PDUs may include an optional tag to facilitate bulk
+ operation. If a tag is set in a query PDU, the corresponding
+ reply(s) MUST have the tag attribute set to the same value.
+
+3.2. Control Sub-Protocol
+
+ The control sub-protocol is used to configure a publication server.
+ It can set global variables (at the moment, limited to a BPKI CRL)
+ and manage clients who are allowed to publish data on the server.
3.2.1. Config Object
The object allows configuration of data that apply to the
entire publication server rather than a particular client. There is
exactly one object in the publication server, and it only
supports the "set" and "get" actions -- it cannot be created or
- destroyed.
+ destroyed. Its use is typically restricted to the repository
+ operator.
The object only has one data element that can be set: the
bpki_crl. This is used by the publication server when authenticating
clients.
3.2.2. Client Object
- Unlike the object the object represents one
- client authorized to use the publication server.
+ Unlike the object, the object represents one
+ client authorized to use the publication server. There may well be
+ more than one object on each publication server. Again,
+ its use is typically restricted to the respository operator.
The object supports five actions: "create", "set", "get",
"list", and "destroy". Each client has a "client_handle" attribute,
which is used in responses and must be specified in "create", "set",
"get", or "destroy" actions.
Payload data which can be configured in a object include:
+
o base_uri (attribute): This attribute represents the base URI below
which the client will be allowed to publish data. Additional
- constraints may be imposed by the Publication Server in certain
+ constraints may be imposed by the publication server in certain
cases, for e.g., a child publishing directly under its parent.
- o bpki_cert (element): This represents the X509 BPKI CA certificate
+
+ o bpki_cert (element): This represents the X.509 BPKI CA certificate
for this client. This should be used as part of the certificate
- chain when validating incoming TLS and CMS messages. Two valid
- approaches exist. If the optional bpki_glue certificate is being
- used, then the bpki_cert certificate should be issued by the
- bpki_glue certificate; otherwise, the bpki_cert certificate should
- be issued by the publication engine's bpki_ta certificate.
- o bpki_glue (element): This is an additional (optional) type of X509
- certificate for this client. It may be used in certain
+ chain when validating incoming CMS messages. Two valid approaches
+ exist. If the optional bpki_glue certificate is being used, then
+ the bpki_cert certificate should be issued by the bpki_glue
+ certificate; otherwise, the bpki_cert certificate should be issued
+ by the publication engine's bpki_ta certificate.
+
+ o bpki_glue (element): This is an additional (optional) type of
+ X.509 certificate for this client. It may be used in certain
pathological cross-certification cases which require a two-
certificate chain due to issuer name conflicts. When being used,
issuing order is that the bpki_glue certificate should be the
issuer of the bpki_cert certificate. Otherwise, it should be
issued by the publication engine's bpki_ta certificate. Since
this is an optional use certificate, it may be left unset if not
needed.
-3.3. Publication Protocol
+3.3. Publication Sub-Protocol
- The publication protocol is structured differently from the control
- protocol in that objects in the publication protocol represent
- objects to be published or objects to be withdrawn from publication.
+ The sub-publication protocol requests publication or withdrawal from
+ publication of RPKI objects.
- Each kind of object supports two actions: "publish" and "withdraw".
- In each case the XML element representing the object to be published
- or withdrawn has a "uri" attribute which contains the publication
- URI. For "publish" actions, the XML element body contains the DER
- object to be published, encoded in Base64; for "withdraw" actions,
- the XML element body is empty.
+ The publication protocol uses a common message format to request
+ publication of any RPKI object. This format was chosen specifically
+ to allow this protocol to accommodate new types of RPKI objects
+ without needing changes to this protocol.
- The publication protocol uses four types of objects:
- o Certificate Object: The object represents an RPKI
- certificate to be published or withdrawn.
- o CRL Object: The object represents an RPKI CRL to be
- published or withdrawn.
- o Manifest Object: The object represents an RPKI
- publication manifest to be published or withdrawn. See
- [I-D.ietf-sidr-rpki-manifests] for more information on manifests.
- o ROA Object: The object represents a ROA to be published or
- withdrawn. See [I-D.ietf-sidr-roa-format] for more information on
- ROAs.
+ Both the and objects have a payload of an
+ optional tag and a URI. The query also contains the DER
+ object to be published, encoded in Base64.
- Note that every publication or withdrawal action requires a new
- manifest, thus every publication or withdrawal action will involve at
- least two objects.
+ Note that every publish and withdraw action requires a new manifest,
+ thus every publish or withdraw action will involve at least two
+ objects.
3.4. Error handling
Errors are handled similarly in both subprotocols, and they're
handled at two levels.
Since all messages in this protocol are conveyed over HTTP
connections, basic errors are indicated via the HTTP response code.
-
4xx and 5xx responses indicate that something bad happened. Errors
that make it impossible to decode a query or encode a response are
handled in this way.
Where possible, errors will result in an XML message
which takes the place of the expected protocol response message.
messages are CMS-signed XML messages like the rest of
this protocol, and thus can be archived to provide an audit trail.
messages only appear in replies, never in queries.
@@ -264,245 +267,195 @@
Where possible, errors will result in an XML message
which takes the place of the expected protocol response message.
messages are CMS-signed XML messages like the rest of
this protocol, and thus can be archived to provide an audit trail.
messages only appear in replies, never in queries.
The message can appear in both the control and
publication subprotocols.
- The message includes an optional "tag" attribute to
- assist in matching the error with a particular query when using
- batching.
+ Like all other messages in this protocol, the message
+ includes a "tag" attribute to assist in matching the error with a
+ particular query when using batching. It is optional to set the tag
+ on queries but, if set on the query, it MUST be set on the reply or
+ error.
The error itself is conveyed in the error_code (attribute). The
value of this attribute is a token indicating the specific error that
- occurred. [TODO: define these tokens]
+ occurred.
The body of the element itself is an optional text
- string; if present, this is debugging information. At present this
- capabilty is not used, debugging information goes to syslog.
+ string; if present, this is debugging information.
3.5. XML Schema
The following is a RelaxNG compact form schema describing the
Publication Protocol.
default namespace = "http://www.hactrn.net/uris/rpki/publication-spec/"
# Top level PDU
-
- start = element msg { attribute version { xsd:positiveInteger {
- maxInclusive="1" } }, ((attribute type { "query" }, query_elt*) |
- (attribute type { "reply" }, reply_elt*)) }
+ start = element msg {
+ attribute version { "2" } ,
+ ( ( attribute type { "query" }, query_elt*) |
+ (attribute type { "reply" }, reply_elt*))
+ }
# PDUs allowed in a query
- query_elt = ( config_query | client_query | certificate_query |
- crl_query | manifest_query | roa_query )
+ query_elt = ( config_query | client_query | publish_query |
+ withdraw_query )
# PDUs allowed in a reply
- reply_elt = ( config_reply | client_reply | certificate_reply |
- crl_reply | manifest_reply | roa_reply | report_error_reply )
+ reply_elt = ( config_reply | client_reply | publish_reply |
+ withdraw_reply | report_error_reply )
# Tag attributes for bulk operations
tag = attribute tag { xsd:token {maxLength="1024" } }
# Base64 encoded DER stuff
- base64 = xsd:base64Binary { maxLength="512000" }
+ base64 = xsd:base64Binary
# Publication URLs
uri_t = xsd:anyURI { maxLength="4096" }
uri = attribute uri { uri_t }
# Handles on remote objects (replaces passing raw SQL IDs). NB:
- # Unlike the up-down protocol, handles in this protocol allow "/" as a
- # hierarchy delimiter.
- object_handle = xsd:string { maxLength="255" pattern="[\-_A-Za-z0-9/]*" }
+ # Unlike the up-down protocol, handles in this protocol allow
+ # "/" as a hierarchy delimiter.
+ object_handle = xsd:string {
+ maxLength="255" pattern="[\-_A-Za-z0-9/]*" }
# element (use restricted to repository operator)
- # config_handle attribute, create, list, and destroy commands omitted
- # deliberately, see code for details
-
+ # config_handle attribute: create, list, and destroy commands
+ # omitted deliberately.
config_payload = (element bpki_crl { base64 }?)
-
config_query |= element config { attribute action { "set" }, tag?,
config_payload }
config_reply |= element config { attribute action { "set" }, tag? }
config_query |= element config { attribute action { "get" }, tag? }
config_reply |= element config { attribute action { "get" }, tag?,
config_payload }
# element (use restricted to repository operator)
-
client_handle = attribute client_handle { object_handle }
-
client_payload = (attribute base_uri { uri_t }?, element bpki_cert {
base64 }?, element bpki_glue { base64 }?)
-
- client_query |= element client { attribute action { "create" }, tag?,
- client_handle, client_payload }
- client_reply |= element client { attribute action { "create" }, tag?,
- client_handle }
+ client_query |= element client { attribute action { "create" },
+ tag?, client_handle, client_payload }
+ client_reply |= element client { attribute action { "create" },
+ tag?, client_handle }
client_query |= element client { attribute action { "set" }, tag?,
client_handle, client_payload }
+
client_reply |= element client { attribute action { "set" }, tag?,
client_handle }
client_query |= element client { attribute action { "get" }, tag?,
client_handle }
client_reply |= element client { attribute action { "get" }, tag?,
client_handle, client_payload }
client_query |= element client { attribute action { "list" }, tag? }
client_reply |= element client { attribute action { "list" }, tag?,
client_handle, client_payload }
- client_query |= element client { attribute action { "destroy" }, tag?,
- client_handle }
- client_reply |= element client { attribute action { "destroy" }, tag?,
- client_handle }
-
- # element
-
- certificate_query |= element certificate { attribute action {
- "publish" }, tag?, uri, base64 }
-
- certificate_reply |= element certificate { attribute action {
- "publish" }, tag?, uri }
-
- certificate_query |= element certificate { attribute action {
- "withdraw" }, tag?, uri }
-
- certificate_reply |= element certificate { attribute action {
- "withdraw" }, tag?, uri }
-
- # element
-
- crl_query |= element crl { attribute action { "publish" }, tag?, uri,
- base64 }
- crl_reply |= element crl { attribute action { "publish" }, tag?, uri }
- crl_query |= element crl { attribute action { "withdraw" }, tag?, uri }
- crl_reply |= element crl { attribute action { "withdraw" }, tag?, uri }
-
- # element
-
- manifest_query |= element manifest { attribute action { "publish" },
- tag?, uri, base64 }
- manifest_reply |= element manifest { attribute action { "publish" },
- tag?, uri }
- manifest_query |= element manifest { attribute action { "withdraw" },
- tag?, uri }
- manifest_reply |= element manifest { attribute action { "withdraw" },
- tag?, uri }
+ client_query |= element client { attribute action { "destroy" },
+ tag?, client_handle }
+ client_reply |= element client { attribute action { "destroy" },
+ tag?, client_handle }
- # element
+ # element
+ publish_query |= element publish { tag?, uri, base64 }
+ publish_reply |= element publish { tag?, uri }
- roa_query |= element roa { attribute action { "publish" }, tag?, uri,
- base64 }
- roa_reply |= element roa { attribute action { "publish" }, tag?, uri }
- roa_query |= element roa { attribute action { "withdraw" }, tag?, uri }
- roa_reply |= element roa { attribute action { "withdraw" }, tag?, uri }
+ # element
+ withdraw_query |= element withdraw { tag?, uri }
+ withdraw_reply |= element withdraw { tag?, uri }
# element
error = xsd:token { maxLength="1024" }
-
report_error_reply = element report_error {
tag?,
attribute error_code { error },
xsd:string { maxLength="512000" }?
}
4. Operational Considerations
Placeholder section to talk about nesting children under parents in
- the sameso repository, to allow for a single rsync to fetch both
+ the same repository, to allow for a single rsync to fetch both
(observing that the rsync setup times tends to dominate over the sync
time). And, more distressingly, talk about the access control
impacts of that nesting.
5. IANA Considerations
- This document specifies no IANA Actions.
+ IANA is asked to register the application/rpki-publication MIME media
+ type as follows:
+
+ MIME media type name: application
+ MIME subtype name: rpki-publication
+ Required parameters: None
+ Optional parameters: None
+ Encoding considerations: binary
+ Security considerations: Carries an RPKI Publication Protocol
+ Message, as defined in this document.
+ Interoperability considerations: None
+ Published specification: This document
+ Applications which use this media type: HTTP
+ Additional information:
+ Magic number(s): None
+ File extension(s):
+ Macintosh File Type Code(s):
+ Person & email address to contact for further information:
+ Rob Austein
+ Intended usage: COMMON
+ Author/Change controller: Rob Austein
6. Security Considerations
7. References
7.1. Normative References
- [I-D.ietf-sidr-res-certs]
- Huston, G., Michaelson, G., and R. Loomans, "A Profile for
- X.509 PKIX Resource Certificates",
- draft-ietf-sidr-res-certs-19 (work in progress),
- October 2010.
-
[I-D.ietf-sidr-rescerts-provisioning]
Huston, G., Loomans, R., Ellacott, B., and R. Austein, "A
Protocol for Provisioning Resource Certificates",
- draft-ietf-sidr-rescerts-provisioning-07 (work in
- progress), October 2010.
+ draft-ietf-sidr-rescerts-provisioning-10 (work in
+ progress), June 2011.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
- [RFC2818] Rescorla, E., "HTTP Over TLS", RFC 2818, May 2000.
-
- [RFC5246] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security
- (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, August 2008.
-
- [RFC5280] Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S.,
- Housley, R., and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key
- Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List
- (CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, May 2008.
-
[RFC5652] Housley, R., "Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)", STD 70,
RFC 5652, September 2009.
- [X.690] Postel, J., "ITU-T Recommendation X.690: ISO/IEC 8825-
- 1:2002, Information technology - ASN.1 encoding rules:
- Specification of Basic Encoding Rules (BER), Canonical
- Encoding Rules (CER) and Distinguished Encoding Rules
- (DER)", 2002.
-
7.2. Informative References
[I-D.ietf-sidr-arch]
Lepinski, M. and S. Kent, "An Infrastructure to Support
- Secure Internet Routing", draft-ietf-sidr-arch-11 (work in
- progress), September 2010.
-
- [I-D.ietf-sidr-roa-format]
- Lepinski, M., Kent, S., and D. Kong, "A Profile for Route
- Origin Authorizations (ROAs)",
- draft-ietf-sidr-roa-format-07 (work in progress),
- July 2010.
-
- [I-D.ietf-sidr-rpki-manifests]
- Austein, R., Huston, G., Kent, S., and M. Lepinski,
- "Manifests for the Resource Public Key Infrastructure",
- draft-ietf-sidr-rpki-manifests-08 (work in progress),
- October 2010.
-
-Appendix A. Acknowledgments
-
- We acknowledge the editors of [I-D.ietf-sidr-rescerts-provisioning]
- (Geoff Huston, Robert Loomans, Byron Ellacott, and Rob Austein), from
- whom we took some of the text for this document.
-
- We especially thank Rob Austein, who implemented the publication
- protocol and helped us to understand it.
+ Secure Internet Routing", draft-ietf-sidr-arch-13 (work in
+ progress), May 2011.
Authors' Addresses
Samuel Weiler
SPARTA, Inc.
7110 Samuel Morse Drive
Columbia, Maryland 21046
US
- Email: weiler@sparta.com
+ Email: weiler@tislabs.com
Anuja Sonalker
SPARTA, Inc.
7110 Samuel Morse Drive
Columbia, Maryland 21046
US
Email: Anuja.Sonalker@sparta.com
+
+ Rob Austein
+ ISC
+ 950 Charter Street
+ Redwood City, CA 94063
+ USA
+
+ Email: sra@isc.org