2.6.5 IPSEC KEYing information resource record (ipseckey)

NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of the 56th IETF Meeting in San Francisco, California USA. It may now be out-of-date.

Last Modified: 2003-02-26

Chair(s):
Samuel Weiler <weiler+ietf@watson.org>
Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>
Security Area Director(s):
Jeffrey Schiller <jis@mit.edu>
Steven Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
Security Area Advisor:
Steven Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
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. The content of the resource record are not limited to only the information that is in the DNS KEY record but may also contain useful IPSEC information 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.

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
No Current Internet-Drafts
No Request For Comments

Current Meeting Report


IPSECKEY
IETF56, San Francisco
18 March 2003
Minutes reported by Charlie Kaufman

Meeting convened at 5:01pm

Michael Richardson presented 
draft-richardson-ipsec-rr-02.txt

Suggestion was made and accepted to swap the order of the precedence and 
algorithm fields and make the presentation format match the wire format. 

Olafur Gudmundsson suggested that the working group accept the draft as a 
working group document, make a nits pass, and go to working group last 
call.  The proposal was accepted by the room without dissent.

Meeting adjourned at 5:08 pm.

Steve Bellovin explained likely timeframes for advancement to RFC.

Meeting adjourned again at 5:12 pm with goal of revising the document 
before the scheduled end time of 6 pm.

Slides

Agenda
'draft-richardson-ipsec-rr-03'