RFC 8634 · BEST CURRENT PRACTICE · 2019

BGPsec Router Certificate Rollover

Overview

RFC 8634, “BGPsec Router Certificate Rollover”, is a Best Current Practice document published in August 2019 by B. Weis, R. Gagliano, K. Patel. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

Certification Authorities (CAs) within the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) manage BGPsec router certificates as well as RPKI certificates. The rollover of BGPsec router certificates must be carefully performed in order to synchronize the distribution of router public keys with BGPsec UPDATE messages verified with those router public keys. This document describes a safe rollover process, and it discusses when and why the rollover of BGPsec router certificates is necessary. When this rollover process is followed, the rollover will be performed without routing information being lost.

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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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