Let’s put this on the agenda for next CABF teleconference.

 

Ben Wilson, JD, CISA, CISSP

VP Compliance

+1 801 701 9678



 

From: Public [mailto:public-boun...@cabforum.org] On Behalf Of Geoff Keating 
via Public
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To: Phillip <phill...@comodo.com>; CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion List 
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Subject: Re: [cabfpub] CAA working group description

 

I tried to write the CABForum WG charter so that it did not include changes to 
the CAA specification itself; these should indeed be handled at the IETF level. 
 This WG is about adoption of CAA in the Baseline Requirements.  Some topics we 
might cover are:

 

- Requirement for DNSSEC checking—for example, we might extend the current 
requirements so that CAs obtain and retain a record of the NSEC/NSEC3 record 
proving a subdomain does not use DNSSEC, even if they don’t actually check the 
crypto

- Error handling—for example, perhaps repeated failure to find a record should 
be treated as if the record is missing, rather than the current interpretation 
where we treat it as if the record exists and allows issuance, or we might just 
go to fail-closed

- Adoption of any new IETF RFCs, which may need to be phased in

- Adoption of any new IETF Errata

 

I don’t think any of these apply at the IETF level; I’m sure the IETF is not 
going to specify a ‘what if you only wanted a little bit of DNSSEC’ 
configuration, I think the IETF RFC should specify fail-closed because that’s 
the only fully secure approach, and the IETF can’t specify adoption of their 
standards in the Baseline Requirements.





On 5 Oct 2017, at 11:09 am, Phillip via Public <public@cabforum.org 
<mailto:public@cabforum.org> > wrote:

 

I can well imagine a possibility where the IETF WG might leave some parts of 
the specification specified in less detail than would be desirable for 
compliance purposes and thus make work in CABForum desirable. But lets cross 
that bridge if we come to it.

 

What somewhat worries me is a situation in which I have ten CABForum members 
tell me that they really want X in a CABForum group and then I report that into 
the IETF WG and three people say they have other ideas and there being 3 of 
them and one of me, they represent the consensus. IETF process does allow for 
liasons and there might be an argument for a CABForum/IETF liason. But that 
does not seem like the right approach here.

 

 

 

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To: Jacob Hoffman-Andrews <j...@letsencrypt.org <mailto:j...@letsencrypt.org> 
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Subject: Re: [cabfpub] CAA working group description

 

I agree with both Phillip and Jacob here. I think LAMPS is a great venue for 
working out the technical issues of discussion - and identifying where policy 
flexibility is needed or the challenges - and then bringing that as maybe one 
or two more ballots into the Forum. I think the technical clarifications and 
edge cases that we've seen discussed are totally within the realm of IETF's 
goals of interoperability, so we should try to use that as much as possible :)

 

The extent of Forum ballots seems like it may be adopting one or two more 
technical erratum (if interoperability issues arise and raised in IETF), and 
then potentially exploring adopting the newer version being proposed in LAMPS 
once completed.

 

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews via Public < 
<mailto:public@cabforum.org> public@cabforum.org> wrote:

With respect, I would suggest that there is already a CAA working group: the 
IETF LAMPS WG at  <https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/lamps/charter/> 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/lamps/charter/. It has the advantage of being 
open for anyone to join and post, so CAs can more easily have conversations 
with Subscribers and Relying Parties. If half of the CAA conversation happens 
in LAMPS and half happens here, it will be harder for Subscribers and Relying 
Parties to fully participate.

 

I'd definitely encourage anyone in the CA/Browser Forum who is interested in 
CAA issues to join the LAMPS mailing list at  
<https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/spasm> 
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/spasm (confusingly, the mailing list is 
named SPASM, a holdover from an earlier name).

 

I think it's likely there will be another ballot or two in the CA/Browser Forum 
clarifying some of the language we use to incorporate CAA, but I think the 
amount of work is not enough to justify splitting out a second working group.


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