Re: [Ace] Requested review for IANA registration in draft-ietf-ace-oauth-params

[Brian Campbell <[e-mail]>]

Thanks Ludwig,

On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 8:20 AM Seitz Ludwig <[e-mail]>
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> *From:* Ace <[e-mail]> *On Behalf Of *Brian Campbell
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> So in -09 the "cnf" Introspection Response Parameter was the following the
> syntax of the "cnf" claim from PoP Key Semantics for CWTs
> [ID.ietf-ace-cwt-proof-of-possession] and in -10 it's following the syntax
> of PoP Key Semantics for JWTs [RFC7800] transitively via
> [I-D.ietf-oauth-mtls] reference. I think I understand that the two PoP key
> semantics documents are conceptually the same or similar. But I don't know
> that the syntax is the same? Figure 5
> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ace-oauth-params-10#section-6> is
> pointed to for mapping between CBOR and JSON but it only has mappings for
> the main top level parameters. Maybe I just don't get it or am missing
> something...
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> [LS] No you are not missing something, I just got sloppy trying to do a
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> Background: The reason for defining both JSON and CBOR-based interactions
> is that you might have a powerful client communicating with a constrained
> RS. The client does vanilla OAuth interactions with the AS via the token
> endpoint, but is served a CWT and associated ACE parameters (cnf,
> ace-profile, …) for interaction with the RS.
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> The pop-key should decode to the same binary representation regardless of
> whether it came in a JSON or CBOR wrapper.
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Okay, so noting that there is cnf content that doesn't decode to a key, I
suppose I'll just take it on faith that all the relevant or expected usages
involve a key that can be represented in both CBOR and JSON.

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