The main goal with this proposal is to be able to enable delegating domain 
control validation to multiple providers via CNAME. Since CNAMEs have to be 
unique in a DNS Zone, we're left with modifying the label of the TXT record.
On Tuesday, August 30, 2022 at 11:11:22 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:

> How about use multiple TXT records for longer hash? like "_
> acme-challenge_accounts.example.com TXT [account hash]"
>
> 在2022年8月23日星期二 UTC+8 23:15:04<[email protected]> 写道:
>
>> This message is to solicit opinions about a proposed new ACME challenge 
>> to address hosting environments where a user cannot easily prove control 
>> using existing methods, but could via an alternative DNS-based approach.
>>
>> We have observed cases where customers want to restrict DNS changes for 
>> most of their domains and delegate the domain control validation through 
>> CNAMEs to a centralized location. However, with DNS-01 having a static 
>> label, these customers are prevented from being able to use CNAME 
>> delegation to integrate with more than one ACME CA for certificate issuance.
>>
>> Being able to have multiple independent instances of an ACME client 
>> obtain certificates for the same domain is particularly important for High 
>> Availability deployments, where Subscribers often set up multiple 
>> independent serving stacks that integrate with multiple ACME CAs for 
>> failover and need a valid certificate in each of them.
>>
>> The new challenge is called DNS-ACCOUNT-01 and it extends (but does not 
>> replace) DNS-01 in the following way: the DNS label under which the TXT 
>> record is created to respond to the challenge is account dependent. This 
>> allows a Subscriber to use multiple and separate subdomains to solve ACME 
>> challenges for the same domain.
>>
>> We plan to submit this as a draft to the IETF for consideration, to make 
>> the challenge available to all CAs and promote its adoption in ACME clients.
>>
>>
>> The current draft is available here: 
>> https://daknob.github.io/draft-todo-chariton-dns-account-01/
>>
>> A text version is available here: 
>> https://daknob.github.io/draft-todo-chariton-dns-account-01/draft.txt
>>
>>
>> In DNS-01, the CA checks for DNS records under _acme-challenge. In 
>> DNS-ACCOUNT-01, the CA will check for DNS records under 
>> _acme-challenge_accountUniqueValue, e.g. _acme-challenge_ujmmovf2vn55tgye. 
>> The last part is constructed from base32 encoding a part of the SHA-256 
>> hash of the ACME Account URL. This allows each ACME account to use a 
>> separate subdomain for the TXT record. We believe that BR Method 3.2.2.4.7 
>> can be used with the proposed challenge for proof of domain control.
>>
>>
>> We welcome any thoughts you may have on the matter and we will be happy 
>> to discuss this and move it forward.
>>
>

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