Sean, at the meeting we agreed to do more in this area; look for new content 
from the editors.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Leonard [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 7:17 PM
> To: ACME WG <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Acme] I-D Action: draft-ietf-acme-acme-07.txt
> 
> I reviewed this draft.
> 
> The concerns raised about the textual transmission of certificates, have not
> been fully addressed. But at least they have been partially addressed, so that
> progress is appreciated.
> 
> However since it’s my bad that I have not had the time to flesh out a
> response, we can let this go if the certificates are just transmitted 
> “according
> to [RFC7468]”, and as text/plain. I would also advocate stronger language
> about the format, namely, that it is just -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- and 
> -----
> END CERTIFICATE-----, separated only by newlines (no other text,
> supplemental or otherwise). I also don’t see why a client “‘SHOULD’ verify
> that the ‘file’ contains only encoded certificates. “MUST” would be better,
> and closes security holes. (MUST is also essentially stated by the sentence
> that follows.) If there is any “SHOULD”, the client “SHOULD” verify that the
> public key of the certificate matches the public key of the submission. Also
> it’s not a ‘file’, it’s unnamed content.
> 
> Given that the payload is text (and, in particular, no supplementary text), 
> you
> may want to note that it’s charset=us-ascii. However that is the default
> anyway.
> 
> I can supply draft text if desirable.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sean
> 
> > On Jun 21, 2017, at 12:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> >
> >
> > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories.
> > This draft is a work item of the Automated Certificate Management
> Environment of the IETF.
> >
> >        Title           : Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)
> >        Authors         : Richard Barnes
> >                          Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
> >                          James Kasten
> >     Filename        : draft-ietf-acme-acme-07.txt
> >     Pages           : 74
> >     Date            : 2017-06-21
> >
> > Abstract:
> >   Certificates in PKI using X.509 (PKIX) are used for a number of
> >   purposes, the most significant of which is the authentication of
> >   domain names.  Thus, certificate authorities in the Web PKI are
> >   trusted to verify that an applicant for a certificate legitimately
> >   represents the domain name(s) in the certificate.  Today, this
> >   verification is done through a collection of ad hoc mechanisms.  This
> >   document describes a protocol that a certification authority (CA) and
> >   an applicant can use to automate the process of verification and
> >   certificate issuance.  The protocol also provides facilities for
> >   other certificate management functions, such as certificate
> >   revocation.
> >
> >
> > The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-acme-acme/
> >
> > There are also htmlized versions available at:
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-acme-acme-07
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-acme-acme-07
> >
> > A diff from the previous version is available at:
> > https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-acme-acme-07
> >
> >
> > Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of
> > submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at 
> > tools.ietf.org.
> >
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