[Trans] Error reporting format in draft-ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis

Corey Bonnell <CBonnell@trustwave.com> Tue, 05 June 2018 15:38 UTC

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Subject: [Trans] Error reporting format in draft-ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis
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Hello,
Apologies if this was previously discussed (I searched the TRANS mail archives and didn’t find anything relevant), but section 5 of draft-ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis-28 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis-28#section-5) describes the preferred error reporting format as a JSON object with “error_code” and “error_message” fields. Instead of using this bespoke error reporting format, I was thinking that using the JSON Problem Details format (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7807) would be appropriate here.

Using the RFC 7807 format provides (at least) two advantages over the currently specified format, namely:

  *   The use of a standard format, which is already being used in other standards (such as ACME)
  *   The possibility to include additional metadata for error conditions, which may transmit sufficient machine-readable information to allow for CT clients to automatically recover from errors

Thanks,

Corey Bonnell
Senior Software Engineer

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