Re: [Acme] Proposed ACME Charter Language

[Russ Housley <[e-mail]>]

Here is the currrent language ...

Russ

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Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME)

Historically, issuance of certificates for Internet applications
(e.g., web servers) has involved many manual identity validation steps
by the certification authority (CA).  The ACME WG will specify
conventions for automated X.509 certificate management, including
validation of control over an identifier, certificate issuance,
certificate renewal, and certificate revocation.  The initial focus of
the ACME WG will be on domain name certificates (as used by web
servers), but other uses of certificates can be considered as work
progresses.

ACME certificate management must allow the CA to verify, in an
automated manner, that the party requesting a certificate has authority
over the requested identifiers, including the subject and subject
alternative names.  The processing must also confirm that the requesting
party has access to the private key that corresponds to the public key
that will appear in the certificate.  All of the processing must be done
in a manner that is compatible with common service deployment
environments, such as hosting environments.

ACME certificate management must, in an automated manner, allow a
party that has previously requested a certificate to subsequently
request revocation of that certificate.

In order to facilitate deployment by CAs, the ACME protocol must be
compatible with common industry standards for the operation of a CA,
for example the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements [0].

The starting point for ACME WG discussions shall be draft-barnes-acme.

[0] https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/BRv1.2.3.pdf