
Recent History of Validation Working Group Updates
Explore the recent developments and milestones in the Validation Working Group, including updates on CAA method registration with IANA and insights from the Validation Summit. Discover the evolution of validation methods and ongoing discussions shaping the future of online verification processes.
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Agenda Brief overview of recent history of validation WG Odds and Ends Update on CAA method registration with IANA Redirects Validation Summit overview and progress Any other business? Reminder: What we are working on can always be found on our Trello board: https://trello.com/b/NuqJuIcZ/validation-working-group
Odds and Ends: IANA registration and Re-directs Technical Expert has been appointed, IANA registration of CAA tags now takes a few days Re-directs seem to have a consensus, and keeps coming up. Ballot needed. Proposal: One redirect allowed Must be a normal re-direct (HTTP headers only, no parsing of HTML for Meta-refresh, no parsing of javascript)
Brief History of Validation August 2016: Ballot 169 Get rid of any other method March 2017: Ballot 187 Mandatory CAA Checking September 2017: Ballot 190 Restricted port list, fixes for ballot 169 February 2018: Ballot 218 Remove Validation Methods 1 and 5 March 2018: Validation Summit February 2019: Ballot SC13 CAA CONTACT-EMAIL and e-mail validation February 2019: Ballot SC7 any other method for IP addresses
Validation Summit Held in Herndon, Virginia during the March 2018 Face-to-face meeting Discussed all the validation methods that existed at the time Validation Summit findings and working document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aJiOzYVTpoAPVWDucnp20cTO2PR_cRsHncvkhlrcR1 0/edit?pli=1#heading=h.rvt81ejrzk00 Method 1: Removed Method 2: E-mail, FAX, SMS, Postal Mail, or Carrier Pidgeon Method 3: Phone Contact Method 4: Constructed E-mail Method 5: Removed
Validation Summit Held in Herndon, Virginia during the March 2018 Face-to-face meeting Discussed all the validation methods that existed at the time Method 6: Agreed-upon change to a website Method 7: DNS change Method 8: IP Address Method 9: Test Certificate Method 10: TLS with a Random Number Method 11: Removed: any other method Method 12: Validating application as domain contact
Validation Summit New methods since the Validation Summit: Method 13: E-mail to DNS CAA Contact Method 14: E-mail to DNS TXT Contact Method 15 (proposed): Phone call to DNS CAA Contact Method 16 (proposed): Phone call to DNS TXT Contact Up Next: Improvements to Method 6: Agreed upon change to a website A proposed list of changes exists in the Validation Summit document Three items need more research
Active Methods 2: Email improvements made 3: Phone improvements in progress 4: Constructed E-mail 6: Agreed-upon change to a website work in progress 7: DNS Change - TODO 8: IP Address improvements made 10: Replace with TLS ALPN method work in progress 12: New (From method #1: applicant as domain registrant) 13,14: New (email and phone)