D/TLS IANA Registry Updates
draft-sandj-tls-iana-registry-updates-00

Abstract

This document changes the IANA registry policy for a number of D/TLS-related registries, renames some of the registries for consistency, and adds notes to many of the registries. As a result, this document updates many RFCs (see updates header).

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Table of Contents

• 1. Process Note
• 2. Introduction
• 3. Add “TLS” to Registry Names
• 4. Aligning with RFC 5226
• 5. TLS ExtensionType Values
• 6. TLS Cipher Suite Registry
• 7. TLS ClientCertificateType Identifiers
• 8. New Session Ticket TLS Handshake Message Type
• 9. Session Ticket TLS Extension
• 10. TLS Exporter Label Registry
• 11. Add Missing Item to TLS Alert Registry
• 12. Orphaned Extensions
• 13. Orphaned Registries
• 14. Security Considerations
• 15. IANA Considerations
• 16. References
• 16.1. Normative References
• 16.2. Informative References
• Authors' Addresses

1. Process Note

As the authors of this draft are also the WG chairs, the responsible Area Director has agreed to judge consensus.

RFC EDITOR: Please delete section prior to publication.

2. Introduction

This document requests that IANA make changes to a number of TLS-related IANA registries:

• Add “TLS” to registries’ names for consistency with other TLS-related registries.
• Change the IANA registry policy [RFC5226] for the TLS ExtensionType Values, TLS Cipher Suite, and TLS ClientCertificateType Identifiers registries. These more relaxes rules are more condusive to TBD.
• Add the designated expert intructions as a note to the TLS ExtensionType Values, TLS Cipher Suite, and TLS ClientCertificateType Identifiers registries to inform IANA-registry-focused, non-RFC-reading what’s expected from the registry.
• Add notes to indicate whether an extension, certain values of an extension, or an entire registry is only applicable pre-D/TLS 1.3.
• Rename the NewSessionTicket TLS HandshakeType message registry entry [RFC5077] to new_session_ticket to match the naming nomenclature for the other Handshake type names and to match with existing implementations.
• Rename the SessionTicket TLS to session_ticket to match the nomenclature for the other extensions’ names.
• Add missing entry to the TLS Alert Registry for the no_application_protocol alert defined in [RFC7301]

This document proposes no changes to the TLS Alert [I-D.ietf-tls-tls13], TLS ContentType [I-D.ietf-tls-tls13], TLS HandshakeType, [I-D.ietf-tls-tls13] and TLS Certificate Status Types [RFC6961]; Standards Action, for the 1st three, and IETF Review, for the last, are appropriate for these one-byte code points because of their scarcity.

This document proposes no changes to the EC Curve Type, EC Point Format registries , and Supported Groups Registry (see [I-D.ietf-tls-rfc4492bis]).

The lengthy updates header is a result of requests for IANA to refer to this draft in addition to the original RFC that defined a particular registry.

3. Add “TLS” to Registry Names

IANA is to update the names of the following registries to add “TLS” to for consistency with the other TLS-related extensions:

• Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) Protocol IDs,
• ExtensionType Values,
• Heartbeat Message Types,
• Heartbeat Modes, and
• Supported Groups.

IANA is also to add a reference to this document for the registry whose names have been updated as a result of the above change.

NOTE: Henceforth in this document the registries will be referred to using the “TLS” prefix.

4. Aligning with RFC 5226

Many of the TLS-related IANA registries were defined prior to [RFC5226] where “IETF Consensus” was used instead of the RFC5226-defined “IETF Review”. To align with the new terminology, IANA is to update to use “IETF Review” in place of “IETF Consensus” in the following registries:

• TLS Authorization Data Formats
• TLS Supplemental Data Formats (SupplementalDataType)

NOTE: Not that this is not a universal change as some registries originally defined with “IETF Consensus” are undergoing other changes either as a result of this document or [I-D.ietf-tls-rfc4492bis].

5. TLS ExtensionType Values

IANA is to update the TLS ExtensionType Values registry as follows:

• Change the registry policy to:
  
  Values with the first byte in the range 0-254 (decimal) are assigned via Specification Required [RFC5226]. Values with the first byte 255 (decimal) are reserved for Private Use [RFC5226].
• Update the “References” to also refer to this document.
• Add the following note:
  
  Note: Experts are to verify that there is in fact a publicly available standard.

6. TLS Cipher Suite Registry

IANA is to update the TLS Cipher Suite registry as follows:

• Change the registry policy to:
  
  Values with the first byte in the range 0-254 (decimal) are assigned via Specification Required [RFC5226]. Values with the first byte 255 (decimal) are reserved for Private Use [RFC2434].
• Add a “Recommended” column to the cipher suite registry. All ciphers listed in [I-D.ietf-tls-tls13] Appendix A.4 are marked as “Yes”. All other cipher suites are marked as “No”.
• Add the following:
  
  Note:
  
  Cipher suites marked as “Yes” are those allocated via Standards Track RFCs. Cipher suites marked as “No” are not; cipher suites marked “No” range from “good” to “bad” from a cryptographic standpoint.
  
  The designated expert [RFC5226] only ensures that the specification is publically available.

7. TLS ClientCertificateType Identifiers

IANA is to update the TLS ClientCertificateType Identifiers registry as follows:

• Change the registry policy to:
  
  Values in the range 0-223 are assigned via Specification Required [RFC5226]. Values 224-255 are are reserved for Private Use.
• Add the following:
  
  Note:
  
  The designated expert [RFC5226] only ensures that the specification is publically available.

8. New Session Ticket TLS Handshake Message Type

To align with TLS implementations and to align the naming nomenclature for other Handshake message types, IANA is to rename entry 4 in the TLS HandshakeType registry to “new_session_ticket (renamed from NewSessionTicket)”. IANA is to also add a reference to this document in the Reference column for entry 4 in the TLS HandshakeType registry.

9. Session Ticket TLS Extension

The nomenclature for the registry entries in the TLS ExtensionType Values registry correspond to the presentation language field name except for entry 35. To ensure that the values in the registry are consistently identified in the registry, IANA is to rename entry 35 to “session_ticket (renamed from “SessionTicket TLS”)”.

10. TLS Exporter Label Registry

IANA is to add the following note to the TLS Exporter Label Registry:

 {{RFC5705}} defines keying material exporters for TLS in terms of the TLS PRF. {{I-D.ietf-tls-tls13}} replaced the PRF with HKDF, thus requiring a new construction. The exporter interface remains the same, however the value is computed different.

11. Add Missing Item to TLS Alert Registry

IANA is to add the following entry to the TLS Alert Registry (the entry was omitted from the IANA instructions in [RFC7301]):

120   no_application_protocol  Y  [RFC7301]

12. Orphaned Extensions

To make it clear that D/TLS 1.3 has orphaned certain extensions (i.e., they are only applicable to version of D/TLS prior to 1.3), IANA is to add the following to the TLS ExtensionType Values registry:

Note:

The following extensions are only applicable to D/TLS protocol vesions prior to 1.3: truncated_hmac, srp, encrypt_then_mac, extended_master_secret, session_ticket, and renegotiation_info are not applicable to TLS 1.3.

13. Orphaned Registries

To make it clear that D/TLS 1.3 has orphaned certain registries (i.e., they are only applicable to version of D/TLS protocol versions prior to 1.3), IANA is to:

• Add the following to the TLS Compression Method Identifiers registry [RFC3749]:
  
  Note:
  
  Value 0 (NULL) is the only value in this registry applicable to D/TLS protocol versions prior to 1.3.
• Add the following to the TLS Hash Algorithm [RFC5246] and TLS SignatureAlgorithm registries [RFC5246]:
  
  Note:
  
  The values in this registry are only applicable to D/TLS protocol versions prior to 1.3.
• Update the “References” in the TLS Compression Method Identifiers, TLS Hash Algorithm [RFC5246] and TLS SignatureAlgorithm registries to also refer to this document.

14. Security Considerations

TBSL

15. IANA Considerations

This document is entirely about changes to TLS-related IANA registries.

16. References

16.1. Normative References

16.2. Informative References

Authors' Addresses