It has been a week, so please go ahead. Worst case people can object during the 
IETF LC.

Paul

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> On Oct 10, 2019, at 18:01, Rob Stradling <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Chairs,
> 
> May I interpret silence as consent, and go ahead and merge this PR?
> 
> From: Trans <[email protected]> on behalf of Rob Stradling 
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: 03 October 2019 15:11
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ryan Sleevi <[email protected]>; Eran Messeri <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Trans] Precertificates and revocation
>  
> Here's a PR:
> https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency-rfcs/pull/315
> 
> Feedback welcome.
> 
> On 03/10/2019 11:02, Eran Messeri wrote:
> > That reasoning makes sense to me. If 6962-bis precertificate is not a 
> > certificate but 6962-bis states that the existence of a precertificate 
> > indicates intent to issue a certificate, then checking whether the final 
> > certificate has been issued/revoked via OCSP makes sense.
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 5:40 PM Rob Stradling <[email protected] 
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > 
> >     Hi Eran.  OCSP (RFC6960, RFC5019) responses and CRLs (RFC5280)
> >     provide status information for certificates (RFC5280).  In CTv1
> >     (RFC6962), precertificates are certificates; whereas in CTv2
> >     (6962-bis), precertificates are (by design!) not certificates.
> > 
> >     The "effective MUST NOT" is because anything that is not a
> >     certificate (be it a CTv2 precertificate, a cat GIF, or whatever) is
> >     not in scope for OCSP, as currently specified.
> > 
> >     The fact that a CTv2 precertificate has a serial number that is
> >     intended to subsequently belong to a certificate makes it possible
> >     to imagine extending the OCSP protocol to report statuses of CTv2
> >     precertificates.  But until the OCSP protocol is extended in this
> >     way, the fact is that...the OCSP protocol has not yet been extended
> >     in this way.
> > 
> >     I think 6962-bis should extend the OCSP protocol in this way.  If it
> >     can be avoided, I don't think it should be left to CT client
> >     policies to extend IETF protocols.
> > 
> >     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >     *From:* Eran Messeri <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> >     *Sent:* 25 September 2019 17:58
> >     *To:* Rob Stradling <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> >     *Cc:* Ryan Sleevi <[email protected]
> >     <mailto:[email protected]>>; [email protected]
> >     <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> >     *Subject:* Re: [Trans] Precertificates and revocation
> >     Rob, what leads you to say that "6962-bis has an effective MUST NOT"
> >     regarding the CA not having to provide status information for a
> >     6962-bis precertificate?
> > 
> >     I agree it'd be helpful to add a clarification in 6962-bis regarding
> >     CAs possibly being asked about revocation status of a not-yet-issued
> >     certificate. I just want to understand where 6962-bis prevents CAs
> >     from publishing revocation info for 6962-bis precerts.
> > 
> >     On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 12:21 PM Rob Stradling <[email protected]
> >     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > 
> >         If 6962-bis says nothing about this topic, then ISTM that the
> >         default
> >         effective requirement will be that a CA MUST NOT provide OCSP
> >         status for
> >         a (CT v2) precertificate where the corresponding certificate has
> >         not
> >         (yet) been issued.  This is because, whichever way you look at
> >         it, a CT
> >         v2 precertificate is not a "certificate" according to
> >         RFC5280/RFC6960/RFC5019.
> > 
> >         I agree that a statement such as "CAs MUST provide OCSP status
> >         for CT v2
> >         precertificates" would not belong in 6962-bis, but would instead
> >         belong
> >         in a TLS client policy document.  However, I would prefer to
> >         avoid the
> >         situation where 6962-bis has an effective MUST NOT but where
> >         (some, but
> >         not necessarily all) TLS client policies have a MUST.  In order
> >         to avoid
> >         such a conflict, I think it would be helpful for 6962-bis to
> >         outline the
> >         policy space by making the following points:
> > 
> >         1. Since issuance of a precertificate `P` is a binding
> >         commitment to
> >         issue a corresponding certificate `C`, monitors may reasonably
> >         assume
> >         that `C` has been issued.
> >         2. It follows that monitors may wish to request status information
> >         (e.g., via CRL and/or OCSP) for the serial number of `P`, even
> >         though
> >         (unbeknownst to the monitor) `C` has not actually been issued.
> >         3. Although `P` is not a "certificate" according to
> >         RFC5280/RFC6960/RFC5019, some TLS clients may have policies that
> >         require
> >         CAs to provide certificate status (e.g., signed OCSP responses
> >         and/or
> >         CRLs) for the serial number of `P`, regardless of whether or not
> >         `C` has
> >         been issued.
> > 
> >         Making these points would transform 6962-bis's effective
> >         requirement
> >         from a MUST NOT into a MAY.  A TLS client policy could then
> >         profile that
> >         to a MUST without introducing any conflict.
> > 
> >         ISTM that this approach of outlining the policy space but not
> >         setting
> >         policy would be consistent with, for example,
> >         
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis-33#section-6.1..
> > 
> >         On 20/09/2019 17:16, Ryan Sleevi wrote:
> >          > As I mentioned elsewhere, I'm not sure this is an entirely
> >         useful or
> >          > productive concern to be raising at this time. I have also
> >         shared that I
> >          > think this is a question of policy than protocol, even though
> >         the policy
> >          > decision has implications on other protocols. Thus I think
> >         it's much
> >          > more appropriately discussed among individual implementations..
> >          >
> >          > As a protocol for allowing both the pre-disclosure of a
> >         certificate and
> >          > post-disclosure of a certificate. We saw, rather extensively
> >         in the
> >          > Threat Model document, different perspectives on policies
> >         regarding how
> >          > pre-disclosure should be treated and handled. For example,
> >         using the
> >          > protocol in 6962 or -bis, it's possible to use CT as a means of
> >          > detecting and correcting certificates prior to issuance (the
> >         discussion
> >          > about Logs applying rules to certificates). Similarly, it's
> >         possible for
> >          > CT as a protocol to be used entirely internal to an
> >         organization, as
> >          > part of audit logging for external audits via a common
> >         protocol, even
> >          > with the inclusion of data that might otherwise be
> >         inappropriate for
> >          > publicly-exposed logs.
> >          >
> >          > So I do think that, from the point of view of the RFCs, it's
> >         a matter of
> >          > policy as to how the existence of a pre-certificate is
> >         treated, which
> >          > aligns with the particular intended deployment of the CT
> >         protocol. If a
> >          > policy (e.g.. by a browser, for the Web PKI) treats the
> >         issuance of a
> >          > pre-certificate as an unrebuttable proof of an equivalent
> >         certificate,
> >          > which is certainly one of the core things CT enables policy
> >         to state,
> >          > then it naturally follows that it must be treated as such within
> >          > protocols that are keyed on the issuance of certificates.
> >          >
> >          > It's an operational concern, defined by local policy, as to
> >         what impact,
> >          > if any, it has on other protocols. Just as RFC 5280 does not
> >         define, for
> >          > example, what forms of names to include within a
> >         distinguished name, I'm
> >          > not convinced that this would even belong in 6962-bis,
> >         because it covers
> >          > the operational aspects and implications of a PKI that may
> >         use, in part
> >          > or whole, these RFCs.
> > 
> >         -- 
> >         Rob Stradling
> >         Senior Research & Development Scientist
> >         Sectigo Limited
> > 
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