ACME2 authz object status values

[FGasper]

The latest ACME2 spec describes an authz object’s status as:

The status of this authorization. Possible values are: “pending”, “processing”, “valid”, “invalid” and “revoked”.

… but what do those values mean? Specifically, what does processing mean? I don’t see this spelled out anywhere in the spec. Order objects have “processing” defined, but not authz.

[FGasper]

That appears to be a description of the order statuses, not the authz statuses … ?

[_az]

You are right - my bad. Seems like ACME v1 didn’t define them either.

Boulder seems to imply that they have similar meanings across object types, though.

[FGasper]

I just wonder what a “processing” authz would be. I guess it’s sent an HTTP request but hasn’t gotten a reply?

[_az]

You got me interested. I think the problem may be one of the spec not being updated fully, since it also fails to mention the deactivated status:

e.g /authz/JpwS7L4roOKkbASiretXjVcEGVbG2p0LJLPA9wDs994:

{
  "identifier": {
    "type": "dns",
    "value": "rqyvdtyotco.com"
  },
  "status": "deactivated",
  "expires": "2018-01-19T09:45:05Z",
  <snip>
}