RFC 9646: Conveying a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) in a Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning (SZTP) Bootstrapping Request
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This document extends the input to the "get-bootstrapping-data" RPC defined in RFC 8572 to include an optional certificate signing request (CSR), enabling a bootstrapping device to additionally obtain an identity certificate (e.g., a Local Device Identifier (LDevID) from IEEE 802.1AR) as part of the "onboarding information" response provided in the RPC-reply.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC9646
- Published
- October 2024
- Authors
- K. Watsen; R. Housley; S. Turner
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- ops
- Pages
- 32
- Also known as
- —
- Updates:
- RFC 8572
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