[ca-tf] RIPE Certification Task Force meeting minutes

Hi Ronald,

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> By the end of the year we need to deliver a document to SURFnet.

I'd be very interested to see this document, as from the outline it
seems that it addresses questions more people have.

> I expect that it will contain the following items:
> - what is this all about

I gave a talk at UKNOF in September, www.uknof.co.uk, this has some
slides on why you want to do this.   I'm currently updating the
slides for a similar talk @ MENOG in 2 weeks time.  Slides of
that will be on the RIPE website.

> - what is the current implementation status

Prototypes and plans.

> - how can the SURFnet NOC use the verification possibilities

Most likely this will be put into your routers.  A prefix is
announced to you with a cert, the router verifies the cert,
if the cert is valid, it can be put in the RIB or FIB.

> - what does resource certificates mean for SURFnet as a LIR

In short: it should be able to store certificates, verify them and
generate certificates for sub-allocations that it gives to its
customers.  To do this, they'll have to set up their own CA.  This
can be outsourced, we are already expecting that the RIPE'll have to set
up a mechanism where we can run a CA for most LIRs.


> It would be nice if we could play with some prototype to see how
> all of this will work in real life.
> 
> We noticed
> http://ca-trial.ripe.net/~caservice/server.cgi
> is currently down. 

Yes, and I don't think it will tell you much: you can generate a
cert and verify it, but you cannot use it for any application yet
(as the apps haven't been developed).

> 
> At an IETF SIDR meeting I wrote down this URL:
> http://mirin.apnic.net/resourcecerts/
> But I don't understand if the wiki is kept up to date or not.

It is.

Feel free to call me some time if you want more details.

Henk




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