RFC 6489 · BEST CURRENT PRACTICE · 2012

Certification Authority Key Rollover in the Resource Public Key Infrastructure

Overview

RFC 6489, “Certification Authority Key Rollover in the Resource Public Key Infrastructure”, is a Best Current Practice document published in February 2012 by G. Huston, G. Michaelson, S. Kent. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document describes how a Certification Authority (CA) in the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) performs a planned rollover of its key pair. This document also notes the implications of this key rollover procedure for relying parties (RPs). In general, RPs are expected to maintain a local cache of the objects that have been published in the RPKI repository, and thus the way in which a CA performs key rollover impacts RPs. This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice.

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What “Best Current Practice” means

Documents the IETF community's recommended operational or procedural practice rather than a protocol specification.

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