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EXPERIMENTAL

Obsoleted by:

RFC 8002

Updates:

RFC 5201

Authors:

T. Heer
S. Varjonen

Stream:

IETF

Source:

hip (int)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6253

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Abstract

The Certificate (CERT) parameter is a container for digitalcertificates. It is used for carrying these certificates in HostIdentity Protocol (HIP) control packets. This document specifies theCERT parameter and the error signaling in case of a failedverification. Additionally, this document specifies therepresentations of Host Identity Tags in X.509 version 3 (v3) andSimple Public Key Infrastructure (SPKI) certificates.

The concrete use of certificates, including how certificates areobtained, requested, and which actions are taken upon successful orfailed verification, is specific to the scenario in which thecertificates are used. Hence, the definition of these scenario-specific aspects is left to the documents that use the CERTparameter.

This document updates RFC 5201. This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.