Subject: [pkix] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6844 (4061)

From: RFC Errata System <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 18:00:38 -0700 (PDT)

The following errata report has been submitted for RFC6844,
"DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Resource Record".

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You may review the report below and at:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=6844&eid=4061

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Type: Technical
Reported by: Evan Hunt <[email-masked]>

Section: 5.1

Original Text
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Tag values SHOULD NOT contain any other characters.

Corrected Text
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Tag values MUST NOT contain any other characters.

Notes
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Since the text representation of the tag field is unquoted, spaces and other whitespace must be explicitly excluded.  Otherwise, it is possible to create a CAA record whose text representation cannot be parsed.

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RFC6844 (draft-ietf-pkix-caa-15)
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Title               : DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Resource Record
Publication Date    : January 2013
Author(s)           : P. Hallam-Baker, R. Stradling
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509)
Area                : Security
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG