RFC 9646 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2024

Conveying a Certificate Signing Request in a Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning Bootstrapping Request

Overview

RFC 9646, “Conveying a Certificate Signing Request in a Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning Bootstrapping Request”, is a Proposed Standard document published in October 2024 by K. Watsen, R. Housley, S. Turner. It updates RFC 8572. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document extends the input to the "get-bootstrapping-data" RPC defined in RFC 8572 to include an optional certificate signing request (CSR), enabling a bootstrapping device to additionally obtain an identity certificate (e.g., a Local Device Identifier (LDevID) from IEEE 802.1AR) as part of the "onboarding information" response provided in the RPC-reply.

Abstract as published in the RFC, via rfc-editor.org.

What “Proposed Standard” means

An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.

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This RFC updates
RFC 8572
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