This would be very useful to add. Initially I thought that a vendor can always 
extend the voucher with vendor-specific fields: since the MASA creates it and 
the Pledge consumes it, and both are from the same vendor, so the vendor can do 
what it wants.  But, there's also a Registrar in the middle doing possibly a 
check of the voucher; and the Registrar is not of the same vendor. So we may 
need a formal defined 'container' item wherein all the further leafs/containers 
are vendor-specific.  This approach is overall better and the Registrar knows 
where to expect any vendor-specific fields.

A single field/leaf only would seem rather limiting, or not?

Esko

From: Fries, Steffen <steffen.fries=40siemens....@dmarc.ietf.org>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2024 17:31
To: anima@ietf.org
Subject: [Anima] Voucher Extensibility in RFC 8366bis

Hi,

As we are currently revising RFC 8366 I've got a question regarding the 
definition of leafs in the voucher. In the current version of the voucher 
definition there is no leaf, which allows to provide additional (vendor 
specific) values to the pledge. Would it make sense to allow this extensibility 
by providing an optional opaque leaf for this?

Background for the question is that we are currently discussing a migration 
path from an existing onboarding approach to BRSKI support. Having at least the 
option to provide additional values may ease the switch to BRSKI by keeping 
information in the voucher, which is currently used in addition.

Best regards
Steffen

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Steffen Fries
Siemens AG

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