IPSEC KEYing information resource record (ipseckey) ----------------------------------------------------- Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): Sam Weiler Rob Austein Security Area Director(s): Jeffrey Schiller Steven Bellovin Security Area Advisor: Steven Bellovin Mailing Lists: General Discussion:ipseckey@sandelman.ca To Subscribe: ipseckey-request@sandelman.ca Archive: http://www.sandelman.ca/lists/html/ipseckey/ Description of Working Group: This effort has the goal of designing a IPSEC-specific resource record for the domain name system (DNS) to replace the functionality of the IPSEC sub-type of the KEY resource record. The original DNSSEC specification explicitly specified flags on the KEY resource records for use by IPSEC. Experience has shown that this has operational problems. The DNSEXT working group is restricting the use of the KEY record to DNS uses only. Thus, IPSEC keying via DNS needs a new resource record. The scope of work is to identify what information is needed in an IPSEC-specific keying resource record, and to design such a record in co-operation with the dnsext working group. The contents of the resource record are not limited to only the information that is in the DNS KEY record but may also contain other useful IPSEC information, such as that which is required for Opportunistic Encryption. Other possible uses are out of scope for this working group, since any reuse will require a careful analysis of the trust model and possible security interactions with IPsec. It is anticipated that such analysis will be documented in some future standards-track RFCs. The WG will define the semantics of the record only in terms of how the data in the record can be used for initializing an IPSEC session. Questions of when it is appropriate to do so are regarded as policy issues that are out of scope for this WG. This effort is specific to providing IPSEC information in DNS. All other distribution channels are out of scope. Goals and Milestones: MAR 03 Solicit various proposals on what information is needed in IPSEC specific KEYing record APR 03 Publish first Internet-Draft of consensus DNS Resource Record MAY 03 Complete WG Last Call on consensus DNS RR proposal document and pass document to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard $Id: charter.txt,v 1.3 2003/02/26 20:24:10 mcr Exp $