This informational document describes and identifies the requirements for a profile of a certificate management protocol to handle Public Key Certificate (PKC) lifecycle interactions between Internet Protocol Secuity (IPsec) Virtual Private Network (VPN) Systems using IKE (versions 1 and 2) and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Systems. These requirements are designed so that they meet the needs of enterprise scale IPsec VPN deployments. It is intended that a standards track profile will be created that fulfills these requirements