On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Danny McPherson <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Apr 11, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
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> From there, we can discuss the issue of, for example, HOW TO onboard and
> purge signing and validating certificates to routers from the RPKI -- [I
> suspect the intention was to use rpki-rtr protocol for this, but it doesn't
> currently support it, nor are the security implications clear].
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> The rtr cert/ee-cert part was never planned/designed to be done via
> rpki-rtr.
> Ideally at provisioning time your ee-cert is dropped onto the box,
> similar to base-config today. Potentially your fav vendor has a
> methodology in their plan for this. I can't imagine it's too tough,
> nor that it's exact specification needs to be in an IETF doc (since it
> seems implementation specific). Could be wrong though.
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> It has huge implications on the scale and operations, particularly when

right: "Dear vendor, if you do this with a GUI only option I will stab
you in the eye"

I suppose, to me this looks like any other configuration thing you do
today on routers... beating the vendor over the head to support sane
(netconf? maybe?) methods for provisioning, is already done.

> considering how rollovers and other such changes are effectuated.  Also,

rollovers == acl-updates == routing-policy-updates == ntp server
reconfig == .... normal router configuration processes.

> decoupling these entirely from validating certificates means I've got two
> mechanisms now for on-boarding [just] these things.  I'd prefer not to leave

or another configuration bit to sling, yes.

> this to "magic happens" given that it's foundational to pretty much
> everything else that's being built.

copy my comment to vendors, into your rfp.

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> sure, some modelling seems like a good thing here, I think this was
> asked for at the mic in PAR as well, no? (in response to some
> discussions with Sriram?)
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> Yep!
>

ok, so ... got proposal? I think Sriram is itching/looking for how to
get a more reasoned approach to this (or that seemed to be his intent
at the mic).

> we can chat about that on-list or in the meeting... I suppose there's
> a slew of milestones which are 'complete', there aren't really any
> changes (that I planned) from an 'adding things' perspective. The
> ops-documentation (see wiki) to me is probably NOT an ietf document,
> again happy to talk at the meeting about that though.
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> I'd be interested in lining out the longer-term deliverables for the group
> on the list..

sure, shoot.
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