Nit: "for the" is incorrectly repeated in section 3.2.2.4.14:


"See Appendix B for the for the format of the DNS TXT"



From: Servercert-wg [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Tim Hollebeek via Servercert-wg
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 10:17 AM
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Subject: [Servercert-wg] Ballot SC 13 version 2



Based on some feedback I received, I fixed some potential ambiguities regarding 
use of these methods to validate subdomains.



Note that the redline section contains a rich diff between version 1 and 2 if 
you only want to see what changed since the last version.



-Tim



Ballot SC13: CAA Contact Property and Associated E-mail Validation Methods



Purpose of Ballot: Increasingly, contact information is not available in WHOIS 
due to concerns about potential GDPR violations.  This ballot specifies a 
method by which domain holders can publish their contact information via DNS, 
and how CAs can use that information for validating domain control.



The following motion has been proposed by Tim Hollebeek of DigiCert and 
endorsed by Bruce Morton of Entrust and Doug Beattie of GlobalSign.



--- MOTION BEGINS ---

This ballot modifies the "Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management 
of Publicly-Trusted Certificates" as follows, based on Version 1.6.0:



Add Section 3.2.2.4.13: Email to DNS CAA Contact



Confirming the Applicant's control over the FQDN by sending a Random Value via 
email and then receiving a confirming response utilizing the Random Value. The 
Random Value MUST be sent to an email address identified as a CAA contactemail 
property record as defined in Appendix B.



Each email MAY confirm control of multiple FQDNs, provided that the DNS 
contactemail email address is the same for each Authorized Domain Name being 
validated.



The Random Value SHALL be unique in each email. The email MAY be re-sent in its 
entirety, including the re-use of the Random Value, provided that its entire 
contents and recipient SHALL remain unchanged. The Random Value SHALL remain 
valid for use in a confirming response for no more than 30 days from its 
creation. The CPS MAY specify a shorter validity period for Random Values.



Note: Once the FQDN has been validated using this method, the CA MAY also issue 
Certificates for other FQDNs that end with all the labels of the validated 
FQDN. This method is suitable for validating Wildcard Domain Names.



Add Section 3.2.2.4.14: Email to DNS TXT Contact



Confirming the Applicant's control over the FQDN by sending a Random Value via 
email and then receiving a confirming response utilizing the Random Value. The 
Random Value MUST be sent to an email address identified as a DNS TXT record 
email contact for

an Authorization Domain Name.  See Appendix B for the for the

format of the DNS TXT record email contact.



Each email MAY confirm control of multiple FQDNs, provided that the DNS 
contactemail email address is the same for each Authorized Domain Name being 
validated.



The Random Value SHALL be unique in each email. The email MAY be re-sent in its 
entirety, including the re-use of the Random Value, provided that its entire 
contents and recipient SHALL remain unchanged. The Random Value SHALL remain 
valid for use in a confirming response for no more than 30 days from its 
creation. The CPS MAY specify a shorter validity period for Random Values.



Note: Once the FQDN has been validated using this method, the CA MAY also issue 
Certificates for other FQDNs that end with all the labels of the validated 
FQDN. This method is suitable for validating Wildcard Domain Names.



Add Appendix B: DNS Contact Properties



These methods allow domain owners to publish contact information in DNS for the 
purpose of validating domain control.



B.1. CAA Methods



B.1.1. CAA contactemail Property



SYNTAX: contactemail <rfc6532emailaddress>



The CAA contactemail property takes an email address as its parameter.  The 
entire parameter value MUST be a valid email address as defined in RFC 6532 
section 3.2, with no additional padding or structure, or it cannot be used.



The following is an example where the holder of the domain specified the 
contact property using an email address.



$ORIGIN 
example.com<http://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=4062&d=-qX02_AjeY5nP-38L5wqhuBsOyt7HH4BIPg0lgiv-Q&s=5&u=http%3a%2f%2fexample%2ecom>

.              CAA 0 contactemail "[email protected]"



This email address is a valid contact address for all domains

it is relevant for via the standard CAA search algorithm

specified in RFC 6844 section 4.



The contactemail property MAY be critical, if the domain owner does not want 
CAs who do not understand it to issue certificates for the domain.



B.2. DNS TXT Methods



B.2.1. DNS TXT Email Contact



The DNS TXT record MUST be placed on the "_validation-contactemail" subdomain 
of the domain being validated.  The entire RDATA value of this TXT record MUST 
be a valid email address as defined in RFC 6532 section 3.2, with no additional 
padding or structure, or it cannot be used.



--- MOTION ENDS ---



*** WARNING ***: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.  THE REDLINE BELOW IS NOT THE OFFICIAL 
VERSION OF THE CHANGES (CABF Bylaws, Section 2.4(a)):



A comparison of the changes can be found at: 
https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/Ballot-SC4---CAA-CONTACT-email?diff=unified&expand=1<https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=4062&d=-qX02_AjeY5nP-38L5wqhuBsOyt7HH4BIKs4nF2q_w&s=5&u=https%3a%2f%2fgithub%2ecom%2fcabforum%2fdocuments%2fcompare%2fBallot-SC4---CAA-CONTACT-email%3fdiff%3dunified%26amp%3bexpand%3d1>



The changes between version 2 and version 1 are here:

https://github.com/cabforum/documents/commit/b635758f4dec0bc4c09fce11bc80703ddcfeb48e?short_path=7f6d14a#diff-7f6d14a20e7f3beb696b45e1bf8196f2<https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=4062&d=-qX02_AjeY5nP-38L5wqhuBsOyt7HH4BIP01l1-qqQ&s=5&u=https%3a%2f%2fgithub%2ecom%2fcabforum%2fdocuments%2fcommit%2fb635758f4dec0bc4c09fce11bc80703ddcfeb48e%3fshort%5fpath%3d7f6d14a%23diff-7f6d14a20e7f3beb696b45e1bf8196f2>



The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:



Discussion (7+ days)



Start Time: 2018-11-20 10:15 Eastern



End Time: Not before 2018-11-27 10:15 Eastern



Vote for approval (7 days)



Start Time: TBD



End Time: TBD

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