Re: [Anima] [Iot-onboarding] Device Certificate Deployment Automation with ACME using BRSKI

Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca> Tue, 06 August 2019 15:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Anima] [Iot-onboarding] Device Certificate Deployment Automation with ACME using BRSKI
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Kent Watsen <kent+ietf@watsen.net> wrote:
    > Skimming quickly, I see now the direction to go to a cloud registrar to
    > be redirected to a local registrar.  I feel compelled to point out that
    > this is exactly what SZTP (RFC 8572) does, or at least, supports.
    > Actually, as a more general statement, it was originally said that the
    > two WG's approaches were different, but they are now becoming more and
    > more alike.  Well, since SZTP is published already, it's more like the
    > ANIMA approach is becoming more like SZTP, albeit seemingly with more
    > complexity.

Yes, I had hoped to push towards this view.

    > Regarding ACME integration during bootstrap, I think the basic desire
    > is to configure a device to obtain a certificate via ACME,
    > configuration which so happens to be provided at the time of the
    > bootstrap event, but could also happen at anytime thereafter.  Support
    > for such configuration should be added to
    > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netconf-keystore

agreed.