I would mark this as Verified, though I suggested a couple of friendly
amendments on the mailing list:

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/acme/zSDRngwBWTgsCfNPcAp6tGO1Ba4/

On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM RFC Errata System <rfc-edi...@rfc-editor.org>
wrote:

> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC8555,
> "Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)".
>
> --------------------------------------
> You may review the report below and at:
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid8381
>
> --------------------------------------
> Type: Technical
> Reported by: Erik Nygren <erik+i...@nygren.org>
>
> Section: 8.3
>
> Original Text
> -------------
>    3.  Dereference the URL using an HTTP GET request.  This request MUST
>        be sent to TCP port 80 on the HTTP server.
>
> Corrected Text
> --------------
>    3.  Dereference the URL using an HTTP GET request.  This request MUST
>        be sent to TCP port 80 on the HTTP server.  (The HTTP client must
>        not resolve and/or must ignore any HTTPS DNS RRs [RFC 9460].)
>
> Notes
> -----
> Doing a DNS lookup of an HTTPS DNS RR [RFC 9460] might force the client to
> switch from HTTP to HTTPS scheme which would break HTTP-01 lookups.  The
> RFC8555 text is clear that "request MUST be sent to TCP port 80 on the HTTP
> server" which would be violated if the validating client did an HTTPS RR
> lookup in the DNS and followed the instructions in RFC 9460 section 9.5.
>
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> --------------------------------------
> RFC8555 (draft-ietf-acme-acme-18)
> --------------------------------------
> Title               : Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)
> Publication Date    : March 2019
> Author(s)           : R. Barnes, J. Hoffman-Andrews, D. McCarney, J. Kasten
> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
> Source              : Automated Certificate Management Environment
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG
>
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