W3C WebAuthn Working Group J. Hodges
Internet-Draft PayPal
Intended status: Informational G. Mandyam
Expires: September 28, 2017 Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
M. Jones
Microsoft
March 27, 2017

Registries for Web Authentication (WebAuthn)
draft-hodges-webauthn-registries-00

Abstract

This specification defines IANA registries for W3C Web Authentication attestation statement formats and extension identifiers.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

This specification establishes IANA registries for W3C Web Authentication [WebAuthn] attestation statement formats and extension identifiers. The initial values for these registries are in the IANA Considerations section of the [WebAuthn] specification.

2. WebAuthn Attestation Statement Format Identifier Registry

WebAuthn attestation statement format identifiers are strings whose semantic, syntactic, and string-matching criteria are specified in [WebAuthn], along with the concepts of attestation and attestation statement formats.

WebAuthn attestation statement formats are registered on the advice of a Designated Expert (appointed by the IESG or their delegate), with a Specification Required (per [RFC5226]).

The Expert(s) will establish procedures for requesting registrations, and make them available from the registry page.

Registration requests consist of at least the following information:

The Expert(s) MAY define additional fields to be collected in the registry. Each attestation statement format identifier added to this registry MUST be unique amongst the set of registered attestation statement format identifiers. The Experts(s) MAY also designate attestation statement formats as proprietary if they lack complete specifications, and will assign a prefix indicating as such to the identifier.

Registrations MUST reference a freely available specification, e.g., as described in [RFC2026] Section 7.

Note that WebAuthn attestation statement formats can be registered by third parties, if the Expert(s) determine that an unregistered attestation statement format is widely deployed and not likely to be registered in a timely manner.

Decisions (or lack thereof) made by the Designated Expert can be first appealed to Application Area Directors (contactable using app-ads@tools.ietf.org email address or directly by looking up their email addresses on http://www.iesg.org/ website) and, if the appellant is not satisfied with the response, to the full IESG (using the iesg@iesg.org mailing list).



3. WebAuthn Extension Identifier Registry

WebAuthn extension identifiers are strings whose semantic, syntactic, and string-matching criteria are specified in [WebAuthn].

WebAuthn extension identifiers are registered on the advice of a Designated Expert (appointed by the IESG or their delegate), with a Specification Required (per [RFC5226]).

The Expert(s) will establish procedures for requesting registrations, and make them available from the registry page.

Registration requests consist of at least the following information:

The Expert(s) MAY define additional fields to be collected in the registry. Each extension identifier added to this registry MUST be unique amongst the set of registered extension identifiers.

Registrations MUST reference a freely available specification, e.g., as described in [RFC2026] Section 7.

Note that WebAuthn extensions can be registered by third parties, if the Expert(s) determine that an unregistered extension is widely deployed and not likely to be registered in a timely manner.

Decisions (or lack thereof) made by the Designated Expert can be first appealed to Application Area Directors (contactable using app-ads@tools.ietf.org email address or directly by looking up their email addresses on http://www.iesg.org/ website) and, if the appellant is not satisfied with the response, to the full IESG (using the iesg@iesg.org mailing list).



4. IANA Considerations

4.1. WebAuthn Attestation Statement Format Identifier and Extension Identifiers Registries

This specification establishes two registries:

For both registries, the Expert(s) and IANA will interact as outlined below:

IANA will direct any incoming requests regarding the registry to the processes established by the Expert(s); typically, this will mean referring them to the registry HTML page.

The Expert(s) will provide registry data to IANA in an agreed form (e.g., a specific XML format). IANA will publish:

Each published document will be at a URL agreed to by IANA and the Expert(s) and IANA will set HTTP response headers on them as (reasonably) requested by the Expert(s).

Additionally, the HTML generated by IANA will:

All registry data documents MUST include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions (<http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info>).

5. Security Considerations

See [WebAuthn] for relevant security considerations.

6. Acknowledgements

Thanks to Mark Nottingham for valuable comments and suggestions.

7. Document History

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8. Normative References

[RFC2026] Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", BCP 9, RFC 2026, DOI 10.17487/RFC2026, October 1996.
[RFC5226] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226, DOI 10.17487/RFC5226, May 2008.
[WebAuthn] Bharadwaj, V., Le Van Gong, H., Balfanz, D., Czeskis, A., Birgisson, A., Hodges, J., Jones, M. and R. Lindemann, "Web Authentication: An API for accessing Scoped Credentials", Editors' Draft, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation-track, Mar 2017.

Authors' Addresses

Jeff Hodges PayPal 2211 North First Street San Jose, California 95131 US EMail: Jeff.Hodges@PayPal.com URI: http://kingsmountain.com/people/Jeff.Hodges/
Giridhar Mandyam Qualcomm Technologies Inc. 5775 Morehouse Drive San Diego, California 92121 USA Phone: +1 858 651 7200 EMail: mandyam@qti.qualcomm.com
Michael B. Jones Microsoft EMail: mbj@microsoft.com URI: http://self-issued.info/