A new IETF working group has been proposed in the Security Area. The IESG has not made any determination as yet. The following Description was submitted, and is provided for informational purposes only: IPSEC KEYing information resource record (ipseckey) --------------------------------------------------- Current Status: Proposed Working Group Description of Working Group: This effort has the goal of designing a IPSEC-specific resource record for the domain name system (DNS) to replace the functionality of the IPSEC sub-type of the KEY resource record. The original DNSSEC specification explicitly specified flags on the KEY resource records for use by IPSEC. Experience has shown that this has operational problems. The DNSEXT working group is restricting the use of the KEY record to DNS uses only. Thus, IPSEC keying via DNS needs a new resource record. The scope of work is to identify what information is needed in an IPSEC-specific keying resource record. The content of the resource record are not limited to only the information that is in the DNS KEY record but may also contain useful IPSEC information information, such as that which is required for Opportunistic Encryption. Other possible uses are out of scope for this working group, since any reuse will require a careful analysis of the trust model and possible security interactions with IPsec. The WG will define the semantics of the record only in terms of how the data in the record can be used for initializing an IPSEC session. Questions of when it is appropriate to do so are regarded as policy issues that are out of scope for this WG. This effort is specific to providing IPSEC information in DNS. All other distribution channels are out of scope.
