Hi Aaron, Richard,

Following up on this review request for some clarifications on your comments.

Thank you.

Best regards,

David Dong
IANA Services Sr. Specialist

On Sat Mar 07 10:12:13 2026, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi Aaron, and @Richard Barnes <[email protected]> ,
> 
> First, I want to point out that Sven has graciously stepped up to push
> this
> draft through to publication, even though it's not originally his
> draft and
> we're sorta guessing at what the use case motivations were. So I
> really
> appreciate everyone giving him good guidance.
> 
> Thanks for your comment. Could you provide a little more context here
> for
> your comment?
> 
> From my reading of the PR / draft, it links to [RFC4043
> <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4043>] for the specification of a
> CSR
> attribute for PermanentIdentifier, and to [RFC4108
> <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4108>] for the specification of a
> CSR
> attribute for HardwareModuleName.
> 
> I don't know the right answer here, but I think I know the right
> question,
> which is: is it actually helpful to specify two different ways to
> carry
> these identifiers in an ACME request; one inside the CSR and one in
> the
> ACME JSON?
> 
> I see three possible ways to resolve this situation:
> 
> #1 Delete the ACME JSON mechanism -- this is what Sven's PR is
> attempting
> (but I agree that it doesn't currently delete it completely from the
> document).
> 
> #2 Delete the CSR mechanism -- this would mean fully removing all
> references to [RFC4032] and [RFC4108] and instead defining new JSON
> structures.
> 
> #3 specify both -- add the JSON def's without removing the CSR
> mechanism.
> 
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2026 at 09:17, Sven A Rajala <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Thank you for the review/feedback Aaron. We will work on amending the
> > draft PR with your feedback.
> >
> > Happy Friday,
> >
> > Sven Rajala
> >
> > Deputy PKI Officer
> >
> >
> >
> > *M:* +1 540 687 0761
> >
> > sven.rajala@*keyfactor.com <https://www.keyfactor.com/>*
> >
> >
> > *From: *Aaron Gable <[email protected]>
> > *Date: *Friday, 2026 March 6 at 09:57
> > *To: *Sven A Rajala <[email protected]>
> > *Cc: *Richard Barnes <[email protected]>, drafts-expert-review-
> > [email protected] <
> > [email protected]>, IETF ACME <[email protected]>
> > *Subject: *Re: [Acme] Re: [IANA #1442982] expert review for
> > draft-ietf-acme-device-attest (acme)
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> > I have left this same comment on the PR:
> >
> > I don't believe this can be the correct fix, for two reasons:
> > 1) ACME clients need to know how to encode these identifier types
> > when
> > they request them in a newOrder message.
> > 2) The table in the section immediately below this references the
> > `permanent-identifier` and `hardware-module` identifier types, so
> > they must
> > be defined.
> >
> > Instead, the fix should be amending the text of the draft to
> > explicitly
> > describe how an ACME client would encode one of these identifier
> > types in a
> > newOrder request, and (equivalently) how the ACME server would render
> > them
> > when returning an Order or Authorization object.
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 6, 2026, 06:44 Sven A Rajala <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hej Hej,
> >
> > Thank you for the expert review Richard! After some discussion we
> > have
> > created a PR to address your feedback and have removed the IANA
> > consideration for the ACME ID Types.
> >
> > The PR is here if you would like to review:
> > https://github.com/ietf-wg-acme/draft-bweeks-acme-device-
> > attest/pull/13
> >
> > Happy Friday,
> >
> > Sven Rajala
> >
> > Deputy PKI Officer
> >
> >
> >
> > *M:* +1 540 687 0761
> >
> > sven.rajala@*keyfactor.com <https://www.keyfactor.com/>*
> >
> >
> > *From: *Richard Barnes <[email protected]>
> > *Date: *Tuesday, 2026 March 3 at 18:01
> > *To: *[email protected] <
> > [email protected]>
> > *Cc: *[email protected] <[email protected]>, [email protected] <
> > [email protected]>
> > *Subject: *[Acme] Re: [IANA #1442982] expert review for
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> > Hi David,
> >
> > The requested validation method and error types are approved.  The
> > identifier types are NOT approved.
> >
> > The document does not specify the content of the ACME identifier
> > object
> > when these identifier types are used.  There is discussion of what a
> > client
> > may put in a CSR, but the JSON fields that appear in the identifier
> > object
> > are not defined.
> >
> > --Richard
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 5:30 PM David Dong via RT <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Richard Barnes, Aaron Gable (cc: acme WG),
> >
> > Following up on this expert review request from February 11th; thank
> > you.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > David Dong
> > IANA Services Sr. Specialist
> >
> > On Wed Feb 18 20:56:17 2026, david.dong wrote:
> > > Dear Richard Barnes, Aaron Gable (cc: acme WG),
> > >
> > > Following up on this expert review request; thank you.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > David Dong
> > > IANA Services Sr. Specialist
> > >
> > > On Wed Feb 11 00:36:58 2026, david.dong wrote:
> > > > Dear Richard Barnes, Aaron Gable (cc: acme WG),
> > > >
> > > > As the designated experts for the ACME Identifier Types, ACME
> > > > Validation Methods and ACME Error Type registries, can you review
> > > > the
> > > > proposed registrations in draft-ietf-acme-device-attest-01 for
> > > > us?
> > > > Please see:
> > > >
> > > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-acme-device-attest/
> > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-
> > ietf-acme-device-attest/__;!!BjbSd3t9V7AnTp3tuV-82YaK!y8cW-
> > VorNx2xtOEebJjyNTPm-
> > uUD8c3br5tEOSrC5kT___jERN69XCBBx272gIDVPg8_ILmadu7zlWo$>
> > > >
> > > > The due date is February 24th.
> > > >
> > > > If this is OK, when the IESG approves the document for
> > > > publication,
> > > > we'll make the registration at:
> > > >
> > > > https://www.iana.org/assignments/acme/
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> > > >
> > > > Unless you ask us to wait for the other reviewer, we’ll act on
> > > > the
> > > > first response we receive.
> > > >
> > > > With thanks,
> > > >
> > > > David Dong
> > > > IANA Services Sr. Specialist
> >
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