On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 04:29:20PM -0700, Roland Bracewell Shoemaker wrote:
> There was some previous discussion about possibly using a slightly
> simpler DNS based verification method on the list last time I posted
> this as an individual submission. After reading through the CABF BRs for
> IP validation I'm pretty sure the proposed solution (checking for a TXT
> record in the reverse mapping zone) would not be considered BR compliant
> so I've stuck with the originally proposed challenge.

The relevant (proposed) text I could find says:

"[...] in a TXT record for the IP Address."

(This is from proposed "7 IP Address validation methods"[1]).

The only way I can make sense for having DNS records for the IP address
is the QNAME corresponding to the IP in reverse mapping. I don't see
the "or prepend a underscore label" or similar language for the method,
unlike the DNS domain validation, which has that sort of language.

So I interpret that for IP address of 192.0.2.1, the QNAME has to be:
"1.2.0.192.in-addr.arpa".

I guess the person to ask would Jeremy Rowley (he posted the latest
version of the text I could find to CABForum validation list).


Also, the relevant section for TLS-SNI in the "7 methods" says:

"[...] a Certificate on the IP Address [...]"

Whatever that actually means (I can come up with at least two different
interpretations, and both of these are probably wrong):

- The certificate has to certify the IP address.
- The connection has to ask for certificate on IP address, i.e., omit
  server_name.

... Both of these interpretations are technically problematic. And
neither is compatible with what the I-D text says.



[1] I presume CABForum wants to first get the "10 Domain Validation
methods" through, and then work on getting the "7 IP Address Validation
methods" passed.


-Ilari

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