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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Request for Comments: 6844
Category: Standards Track
ISSN: 2070-1721
P. Hallam-Baker
Comodo Group, Inc.
R. Stradling
Comodo CA, Ltd.
January 2013

DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Resource Record

Abstract

The Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) DNS Resource Record allows a DNS domain name holder to specify one or more Certification Authorities (CAs) authorized to issue certificates for that domain. CAA Resource Records allow a public Certification Authority to implement additional controls to reduce the risk of unintended certificate mis-issue. This document defines the syntax of the CAA record and rules for processing CAA records by certificate issuers.

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Table of Contents

   1. Introduction ....................................................2
   2. Definitions .....................................................3
      2.1. Requirements Language ......................................3
      2.2. Defined Terms ..............................................3
   3. The CAA RR Type .................................................5
   4. Certification Authority Processing ..............................7
      4.1. Use of DNS Security ........................................8
   5. Mechanism .......................................................8
      5.1. Syntax .....................................................8
           5.1.1. Canonical Presentation Format ......................10
      5.2. CAA issue Property ........................................10
      5.3. CAA issuewild Property ....................................12
      5.4. CAA iodef Property ........................................12
   6. Security Considerations ........................................13
      6.1. Non-Compliance by Certification Authority .................13
      6.2. Mis-Issue by Authorized Certification Authority ...........13
      6.3. Suppression or Spoofing of CAA Records ....................13
      6.4. Denial of Service .........................................14
      6.5. Abuse of the Critical Flag ................................14
   7. IANA Considerations ............................................14
      7.1. Registration of the CAA Resource Record Type ..............14
      7.2. Certification Authority Restriction Properties ............15
      7.3. Certification Authority Restriction Flags .................15
   8. Acknowledgements ...............................................16
   9. References .....................................................16
      9.1. Normative References ......................................16
      9.2. Informative References ....................................17

1. Introduction

The Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) DNS Resource Record allows a DNS domain name holder to specify the Certification Authorities (CAs) authorized to issue certificates for that domain. Publication of CAA Resource Records allows a public Certification Authority to implement additional controls to reduce the risk of unintended certificate mis-issue.

Like the TLSA record defined in DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) [RFC6698], CAA records are used as a part of a mechanism for checking PKIX certificate data. The distinction between the two specifications is that CAA records specify an authorization control to be performed by a certificate issuer before issue of a certificate and TLSA records specify a verification control to be performed by a relying party after the certificate is issued.

Conformance with a published CAA record is a necessary but not sufficient condition for issuance of a certificate. Before issuing a certificate, a PKIX CA is required to validate the request according to the policies set out in its Certificate Policy. In the case of a public CA that validates certificate requests as a third party, the certificate will typically be issued under a public trust anchor certificate embedded in one or more relevant Relying Applications.

Criteria for inclusion of embedded trust anchor certificates in applications are outside the scope of this document. Typically, such criteria require the CA to publish a Certificate Practices Statement (CPS) that specifies how the requirements of the Certificate Policy (CP) are achieved. It is also common for a CA to engage an independent third-party auditor to prepare an annual audit statement of its performance against its CPS.

A set of CAA records describes only current grants of authority to issue certificates for the corresponding DNS domain. Since a certificate is typically valid for at least a year, it is possible that a certificate that is not conformant with the CAA records currently published was conformant with the CAA records published at the time that the certificate was issued. Relying Applications MUST NOT use CAA records as part of certificate validation.

CAA records MAY be used by Certificate Evaluators as a possible indicator of a security policy violation. Such use SHOULD take account of the possibility that published CAA records changed between the time a certificate was issued and the time at which the certificate was observed by the Certificate Evaluator.

2. Definitions

2.1. Requirements Language

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

2.2. Defined Terms

The following terms are used in this document: 

   Authorization Entry:  An authorization assertion that grants or
   
      denies a specific set of permissions to a specific group of
      entities.
   
   Certificate:  An X.509 Certificate, as specified in [RFC5280].
   Certificate Evaluator:  A party other than a relying party that
      evaluates the trustworthiness of certificates issued by
      Certification Authorities.
   
   Certification Authority (CA):  An issuer that issues certificates in
      accordance with a specified Certificate Policy.
   
   Certificate Policy (CP):  Specifies the criteria that a Certification
      Authority undertakes to meet in its issue of certificates.  See
      [RFC3647].
   
   Certification Practices Statement (CPS):  Specifies the means by
      which the criteria of the Certificate Policy are met.  In most
      cases, this will be the document against which the operations of
      the Certification Authority are audited.  See [RFC3647].
   
   Domain:  A DNS Domain Name.
   
   Domain Name:  A DNS Domain Name as specified in [STD13].
   
   Domain Name System (DNS):  The Internet naming system specified in
      [STD13].
   
   DNS Security (DNSSEC):  Extensions to the DNS that provide
      authentication services as specified in [RFC4033], [RFC4034],
      [RFC4035], [RFC5155], and revisions.
   
   Issuer:  An entity that issues certificates.  See [RFC5280].
   
   Property:  The tag-value portion of a CAA Resource Record.
   
   Property Tag:  The tag portion of a CAA Resource Record.
   
   Property Value:  The value portion of a CAA Resource Record.
   
   Public Key Infrastructure X.509 (PKIX):  Standards and specifications
      issued by the IETF that apply the [X.509] certificate standards
      specified by the ITU to Internet applications as specified in
      [RFC5280] and related documents.
   
   Resource Record (RR):  A particular entry in the DNS including the
      owner name, class, type, time to live, and data, as defined in
      [STD13] and [RFC2181].
   
   Resource Record Set (RRSet):  A set of Resource Records or a
      particular owner name, class, and type.  The time to live on all
      RRs with an RRSet is always the same, but the data may be
      different among RRs in the RRSet.
   
   Relying Party:  A party that makes use of an application whose
      operation depends on use of a certificate for making a security
      decision.  See [RFC5280].
   
   Relying Application:  An application whose operation depends on use
      of a certificate for making a security decision.

3. The CAA RR Type

A CAA RR consists of a flags byte and a tag-value pair referred to as a property. Multiple properties MAY be associated with the same domain name by publishing multiple CAA RRs at that domain name. The following flag is defined: 

   Issuer Critical:  If set to '1', indicates that the corresponding
      property tag MUST be understood if the semantics of the CAA record
      are to be correctly interpreted by an issuer.

Issuers MUST NOT issue certificates for a domain if the relevant CAA Resource Record set contains unknown property tags that have the Critical bit set.

The following property tags are defined: 

   issue <Issuer Domain Name> [; <name>=<value> ]* :  The issue property
      entry authorizes the holder of the domain name <Issuer Domain
      Name> or a party acting under the explicit authority of the holder
      of that domain name to issue certificates for the domain in which
      the property is published.
   
   issuewild <Issuer Domain Name> [; <name>=<value> ]* :  The issuewild
      property entry authorizes the holder of the domain name <Issuer
      Domain Name> or a party acting under the explicit authority of the
      holder of that domain name to issue wildcard certificates for the
      domain in which the property is published.
   
   iodef <URL> :  Specifies a URL to which an issuer MAY report
      certificate issue requests that are inconsistent with the issuer's
      Certification Practices or Certificate Policy, or that a
      Certificate Evaluator may use to report observation of a possible
      policy violation.  The Incident Object Description Exchange Format
      (IODEF) format is used [RFC5070].

The following example is a DNS zone file (see [RFC1035]) that informs CAs that certificates are not to be issued except by the holder of the domain name 'ca.example.net' or an authorized agent thereof. This policy applies to all subordinate domains under example.com. 

   $ORIGIN example.com
   .       CAA 0 issue "ca.example.net"

If the domain name holder specifies one or more iodef properties, a certificate issuer MAY report invalid certificate requests to that address. In the following example, the domain name holder specifies that reports may be made by means of email with the IODEF data as an attachment, a Web service [RFC6546], or both: 

   $ORIGIN example.com
   .       CAA 0 issue "ca.example.net"
   .       CAA 0 iodef "mailto:security@example.com"
   .       CAA 0 iodef "http://iodef.example.com/"

A certificate issuer MAY specify additional parameters that allow customers to specify additional parameters governing certificate issuance. This might be the Certificate Policy under which the certificate is to be issued, the authentication process to be used might be specified, or an account number specified by the CA to enable these parameters to be retrieved.

For example, the CA 'ca.example.net' has requested its customer 'example.com' to specify the CA's account number '230123' in each of the customer's CAA records. 

   $ORIGIN example.com
   .       CAA 0 issue "ca.example.net; account=230123"

The syntax of additional parameters is a sequence of name-value pairs as defined in Section 5.2. The semantics of such parameters is left to site policy and is outside the scope of this document.

The critical flag is intended to permit future versions CAA to introduce new semantics that MUST be understood for correct processing of the record, preventing conforming CAs that do not recognize the new semantics from issuing certificates for the indicated domains.

In the following example, the property 'tbs' is flagged as critical. Neither the example.net CA nor any other issuer is authorized to issue under either policy unless the processing rules for the 'tbs' property tag are understood. 

   $ORIGIN example.com
   .       CAA 0 issue "ca.example.net; policy=ev"
   .       CAA 128 tbs "Unknown"

Note that the above restrictions only apply at certificate issue. Since the validity of an end entity certificate is typically a year or more, it is quite possible that the CAA records published at a domain will change between the time a certificate was issued and validation by a relying party.

4. Certification Authority Processing

Before issuing a certificate, a compliant CA MUST check for publication of a relevant CAA Resource Record set. If such a record set exists, a CA MUST NOT issue a certificate unless the CA determines that either (1) the certificate request is consistent with the applicable CAA Resource Record set or (2) an exception specified in the relevant Certificate Policy or Certification Practices Statement applies.

A certificate request MAY specify more than one domain name and MAY specify wildcard domains. Issuers MUST verify authorization for all the domains and wildcard domains specified in the request.

The search for a CAA record climbs the DNS name tree from the specified label up to but not including the DNS root '.'.

Given a request for a specific domain X, or a request for a wildcard domain *.X, the relevant record set R(X) is determined as follows:

Let CAA(X) be the record set returned in response to performing a CAA record query on the label X, P(X) be the DNS label immediately above X in the DNS hierarchy, and A(X) be the target of a CNAME or DNAME alias record specified at the label X. 

   o  If CAA(X) is not empty, R(X) = CAA (X), otherwise
  • If A(X) is not null, and R(A(X)) is not empty, then R(X) = R(A(X)), otherwise
   o  If X is not a top-level domain, then R(X) = R(P(X)), otherwise
  • R(X) is empty.

For example, if a certificate is requested for X.Y.Z the issuer will search for the relevant CAA record set in the following order: 

      X.Y.Z
      
      Alias (X.Y.Z)
      
      Y.Z
      Alias (Y.Z)
      
      Z
      
      Alias (Z)
      
      Return Empty

4.1. Use of DNS Security

Use of DNSSEC to authenticate CAA RRs is strongly RECOMMENDED but not required. An issuer MUST NOT issue certificates if doing so would conflict with the relevant CAA Resource Record set, irrespective of whether the corresponding DNS records are signed.

DNSSEC provides a proof of non-existence for both DNS domains and RR set within domains. DNSSEC verification thus enables an issuer to determine if the answer to a CAA record query is empty because the RR set is empty or if it is non-empty but the response has been suppressed.

Use of DNSSEC allows an issuer to acquire and archive a proof that they were authorized to issue certificates for the domain. Verification of such archives MAY be an audit requirement to verify CAA record processing compliance. Publication of such archives MAY be a transparency requirement to verify CAA record processing compliance.

5. Mechanism

5.1. Syntax

A CAA RR contains a single property entry consisting of a tag-value pair. Each tag represents a property of the CAA record. The value of a CAA property is that specified in the corresponding value field.

A domain name MAY have multiple CAA RRs associated with it and a given property MAY be specified more than once.

The CAA data field contains one property entry. A property entry consists of the following data fields: 

   +0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-|0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-|
   | Flags          | Tag Length = n |
   +----------------+----------------+...+---------------+
   | Tag char 0     | Tag char 1     |...| Tag char n-1  |
   +----------------+----------------+...+---------------+
   +----------------+----------------+.....+----------------+
   | Value byte 0   | Value byte 1   |.....| Value byte m-1 |
   +----------------+----------------+.....+----------------+

Where n is the length specified in the Tag length field and m is the remaining octets in the Value field (m = d - n - 2) where d is the length of the RDATA section.

The data fields are defined as follows: 

   Flags:  One octet containing the following fields:
   
      Bit 0, Issuer Critical Flag:  If the value is set to '1', the
         critical flag is asserted and the property MUST be understood
         if the CAA record is to be correctly processed by a certificate
         issuer.

A Certification Authority MUST NOT issue certificates for any Domain that contains a CAA critical property for an unknown or unsupported property tag that for which the issuer critical flag is set.

Note that according to the conventions set out in [RFC1035], bit 0 is the Most Significant Bit and bit 7 is the Least Significant Bit. Thus, the Flags value 1 means that bit 7 is set while a value of 128 means that bit 0 is set according to this convention.

All other bit positions are reserved for future use.

To ensure compatibility with future extensions to CAA, DNS records compliant with this version of the CAA specification MUST clear (set to "0") all reserved flags bits. Applications that interpret CAA records MUST ignore the value of all reserved flag bits. 

   Tag Length:  A single octet containing an unsigned integer specifying
   
      the tag length in octets.  The tag length MUST be at least 1 and
      SHOULD be no more than 15.
   
   Tag:  The property identifier, a sequence of US-ASCII characters.

Tag values MAY contain US-ASCII characters 'a' through 'z', 'A' through 'Z', and the numbers 0 through 9. Tag values SHOULD NOT contain any other characters. Matching of tag values is case insensitive.

Tag values submitted for registration by IANA MUST NOT contain any characters other than the (lowercase) US-ASCII characters 'a' through 'z' and the numbers 0 through 9. 

   Value:  A sequence of octets representing the property value.
      Property values are encoded as binary values and MAY employ sub-
      formats.

The length of the value field is specified implicitly as the remaining length of the enclosing Resource Record data field.

5.1.1. Canonical Presentation Format

The canonical presentation format of the CAA record is:

CAA <flags> <tag> <value>

Where: 

   Flags:  Is an unsigned integer between 0 and 255.
   
   Tag:  Is a non-zero sequence of US-ASCII letters and numbers in lower
      case.
   
   Value:  Is the <character-string> encoding of the value field as
      specified in [RFC1035], Section 5.1.

5.2. CAA issue Property

The issue property tag is used to request that certificate issuers perform CAA issue restriction processing for the domain and to grant authorization to specific certificate issuers.

The CAA issue property value has the following sub-syntax (specified in ABNF as per [RFC5234]). 

   issuevalue  = space [domain] space [";" *(space parameter) space]
   
   domain = label *("." label)
   label = (ALPHA / DIGIT) *( *("-") (ALPHA / DIGIT))
   
   space = *(SP / HTAB)
   
   parameter =  tag "=" value
   
   tag = 1*(ALPHA / DIGIT)
   
   value = *VCHAR

For consistency with other aspects of DNS administration, domain name values are specified in letter-digit-hyphen Label (LDH-Label) form.

A CAA record with an issue parameter tag that does not specify a domain name is a request that certificate issuers perform CAA issue restriction processing for the corresponding domain without granting authorization to any certificate issuer.

This form of issue restriction would be appropriate to specify that no certificates are to be issued for the domain in question.

For example, the following CAA record set requests that no certificates be issued for the domain 'nocerts.example.com' by any certificate issuer. 

   nocerts.example.com       CAA 0 issue ";"

A CAA record with an issue parameter tag that specifies a domain name is a request that certificate issuers perform CAA issue restriction processing for the corresponding domain and grants authorization to the certificate issuer specified by the domain name.

For example, the following CAA record set requests that no certificates be issued for the domain 'certs.example.com' by any certificate issuer other than the example.net certificate issuer. 

   certs.example.com       CAA 0 issue "example.net"

CAA authorizations are additive; thus, the result of specifying both the empty issuer and a specified issuer is the same as specifying just the specified issuer alone.

An issuer MAY choose to specify issuer-parameters that further constrain the issue of certificates by that issuer, for example, specifying that certificates are to be subject to specific validation polices, billed to certain accounts, or issued under specific trust anchors.

The semantics of issuer-parameters are determined by the issuer alone.

5.3. CAA issuewild Property

The issuewild property has the same syntax and semantics as the issue property except that issuewild properties only grant authorization to issue certificates that specify a wildcard domain and issuewild properties take precedence over issue properties when specified. Specifically:

issuewild properties MUST be ignored when processing a request for a domain that is not a wildcard domain.

If at least one issuewild property is specified in the relevant CAA record set, all issue properties MUST be ignored when processing a request for a domain that is a wildcard domain.

5.4. CAA iodef Property

The iodef property specifies a means of reporting certificate issue requests or cases of certificate issue for the corresponding domain that violate the security policy of the issuer or the domain name holder.

The Incident Object Description Exchange Format (IODEF) [RFC5070] is used to present the incident report in machine-readable form.

The iodef property takes a URL as its parameter. The URL scheme type determines the method used for reporting: 

   mailto:  The IODEF incident report is reported as a MIME email
      attachment to an SMTP email that is submitted to the mail address
      specified.  The mail message sent SHOULD contain a brief text
      message to alert the recipient to the nature of the attachment.
   
   http or https:  The IODEF report is submitted as a Web service
      request to the HTTP address specified using the protocol specified
      in [RFC6546].

6. Security Considerations

CAA records assert a security policy that the holder of a domain name wishes to be observed by certificate issuers. The effectiveness of CAA records as an access control mechanism is thus dependent on observance of CAA constraints by issuers.

The objective of the CAA record properties described in this document is to reduce the risk of certificate mis-issue rather than avoid reliance on a certificate that has been mis-issued. DANE [RFC6698] describes a mechanism for avoiding reliance on mis-issued certificates.

6.1. Non-Compliance by Certification Authority

CAA records offer CAs a cost-effective means of mitigating the risk of certificate mis-issue: the cost of implementing CAA checks is very small and the potential costs of a mis-issue event include the removal of an embedded trust anchor.

6.2. Mis-Issue by Authorized Certification Authority

Use of CAA records does not prevent mis-issue by an authorized Certification Authority, i.e., a CA that is authorized to issue certificates for the domain in question by CAA records.

Domain name holders SHOULD verify that the CAs they authorize to issue certificates for their domains employ appropriate controls to ensure that certificates are issued only to authorized parties within their organization.

Such controls are most appropriately determined by the domain name holder and the authorized CA(s) directly and are thus out of scope of this document.

6.3. Suppression or Spoofing of CAA Records

Suppression of the CAA record or insertion of a bogus CAA record could enable an attacker to obtain a certificate from an issuer that was not authorized to issue for that domain name.

Where possible, issuers SHOULD perform DNSSEC validation to detect missing or modified CAA record sets.

In cases where DNSSEC is not deployed in a corresponding domain, an issuer SHOULD attempt to mitigate this risk by employing appropriate DNS security controls. For example, all portions of the DNS lookup process SHOULD be performed against the authoritative name server. Data cached by third parties MUST NOT be relied on but MAY be used to support additional anti-spoofing or anti-suppression controls.

6.4. Denial of Service

Introduction of a malformed or malicious CAA RR could in theory enable a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack.

This specific threat is not considered to add significantly to the risk of running an insecure DNS service.

An attacker could, in principle, perform a DoS attack against an issuer by requesting a certificate with a maliciously long DNS name. In practice, the DNS protocol imposes a maximum name length and CAA processing does not exacerbate the existing need to mitigate DoS attacks to any meaningful degree.

6.5. Abuse of the Critical Flag

A Certification Authority could make use of the critical flag to trick customers into publishing records that prevent competing Certification Authorities from issuing certificates even though the customer intends to authorize multiple providers.

In practice, such an attack would be of minimal effect since any competent competitor that found itself unable to issue certificates due to lack of support for a property marked critical SHOULD investigate the cause and report the reason to the customer. The customer will thus discover that they had been deceived.

7. IANA Considerations

7.1. Registration of the CAA Resource Record Type

IANA has assigned Resource Record Type 257 for the CAA Resource Record Type and added the line depicted below to the registry named "Resource Record (RR) TYPEs" and QTYPEs as defined in BCP 42 [RFC6195] and located at http://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-parameters. 

 RR Name      Value and meaning                                Reference
 -----------  ---------------------------------------------    ---------
 CAA          257 Certification Authority Restriction          [RFC6844]

7.2. Certification Authority Restriction Properties

IANA has created the "Certification Authority Restriction Properties" registry with the following initial values: 

   Tag          Meaning                                Reference
   -----------  -------------------------------------- ---------
   issue        Authorization Entry by Domain          [RFC6844]
   issuewild    Authorization Entry by Wildcard Domain [RFC6844]
   iodef        Report incident by IODEF report        [RFC6844]
   auth         Reserved                               [HB2011]
   path         Reserved                               [HB2011]
   policy       Reserved                               [HB2011]

Although [HB2011] has expired, deployed clients implement the CAA properties specified in the document and reuse of these property tags for a different purpose could cause unexpected behavior.

Addition of tag identifiers requires a public specification and Expert Review as set out in [RFC6195], Section 3.1.1.

The tag space is designed to be sufficiently large that exhausting the possible tag space need not be a concern. The scope of Expert Review SHOULD be limited to the question of whether the specification provided is sufficiently clear to permit implementation and to avoid unnecessary duplication of functionality.

7.3. Certification Authority Restriction Flags

IANA has created the "Certification Authority Restriction Flags" registry with the following initial values: 

             Flag         Meaning                            Reference
   -----------  ---------------------------------- ---------
   0            Issuer Critical Flag               [RFC6844]
   1-7          Reserved>                          [RFC6844]

Assignment of new flags follows the RFC Required policy set out in [RFC5226], Section 4.1.

8. Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the following people who contributed to the design and documentation of this work item: Chris Evans, Stephen Farrell, Jeff Hodges, Paul Hoffman, Stephen Kent, Adam Langley, Ben Laurie, James Manager, Chris Palmer, Scott Schmit, Sean Turner, and Ben Wilson.

9. References

9.1. Normative References

   [RFC1035]  Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and
              specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, November 1987.
   
   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
   
   [RFC2181]  Elz, R. and R. Bush, "Clarifications to the DNS
              Specification", RFC 2181, July 1997.
   
   [RFC4033]  Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S.
              Rose, "DNS Security Introduction and Requirements",
              RFC 4033, March 2005.
   
   [RFC4034]  Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S.
              Rose, "Resource Records for the DNS Security Extensions",
              RFC 4034, March 2005.
   
   [RFC4035]  Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S.
              Rose, "Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security
              Extensions", RFC 4035, March 2005.
   
   [RFC5070]  Danyliw, R., Meijer, J., and Y. Demchenko, "The Incident
              Object Description Exchange Format", RFC 5070,
              December 2007.
   
   [RFC5155]  Laurie, B., Sisson, G., Arends, R., and D. Blacka, "DNS
              Security (DNSSEC) Hashed Authenticated Denial of
              Existence", RFC 5155, March 2008.
   
   [RFC5226]  Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
              IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
              May 2008.
   
   [RFC5234]  Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
              Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008.
   
   [RFC5280]  Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S.,
              Housley, R., and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key
              Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List
              (CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, May 2008.
   
   [RFC6195]  Eastlake, D., "Domain Name System (DNS) IANA
              Considerations", BCP 42, RFC 6195, March 2011.
   
   [RFC6546]  Trammell, B., "Transport of Real-time Inter-network
              Defense (RID) Messages over HTTP/TLS", RFC 6546,
              April 2012.
   
   [RFC6698]  Hoffman, P. and J. Schlyter, "The DNS-Based Authentication
              of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS)
              Protocol: TLSA", RFC 6698, August 2012.
   
   [STD13]    Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - concepts and facilities",
              STD 13, RFC 1034, November 1987.
   
              Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and
              specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, November 1987.
   
   [X.509]    International Telecommunication Union, "ITU-T
              Recommendation X.509 (11/2008): Information technology -
              Open systems interconnection - The Directory: Public-key
              and attribute certificate frameworks", ITU-T
              Recommendation X.509, November 2008.

9.2. Informative References

   [HB2011]   Hallam-Baker, P., Stradling, R., and B. Laurie, "DNS
              Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Resource
              Record", Work in Progress, May 2011.
   
   [RFC3647]  Chokhani, S., Ford, W., Sabett, R., Merrill, C., and S.
              Wu, "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate
              Policy and Certification Practices Framework", RFC 3647,
              November 2003.

Authors' Addresses

Phillip Hallam-Baker
Comodo Group, Inc.

EMail: 

          philliph@comodo.com

Rob Stradling
Comodo CA, Ltd. 

   EMail: rob.stradling@comodo.com