Subject: [sidr] New draft on separating validation from object retrieval

From: Tim Bruijnzeels <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 08:24:09 -0500

Hi all,

I have already had some informal discussions about this and decided to write our ideas up in a informational draft:
 http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-tbruijnzeels-sidr-validation-local-cache-00.txt

I will do a short talk on this during today's sidr session to explain the background. Further discussion can then be done on list.

For the impatient, the gist:

In our view this approach demonstrates a way to do top-down RPKI validation that is independent from *where* objects were retrieved and thus it is useful when thinking about multiple publication points, or alternative ways to fetch or share unvalidated objects.

The main question for the working group is wether we're willing to change the way RPs can handle manifest, i.e. MAY they treat them as authoritative sources to walk down the rpki tree?

Cheers
Tim