Re: [Ace] Parameter abbreviation number ranges for draft-ietf-ace-oauth-authz

Ludwig Seitz <ludwig.seitz@ri.se> Tue, 28 August 2018 06:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ace] Parameter abbreviation number ranges for draft-ietf-ace-oauth-authz
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On 2018-08-27 18:19, Jim Schaad wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Background:
>>
>> CBOR integers have a very compact representation (1 byte) for numbers from
>> 0-23, from 24-255 (which is all we will ever need ;-) ) they use 2 bytes.
>~snip~
>>
>> client_id      24
>> client_secret  25
>> response_type  26
>> state 27
>> redirect_uri 28
>> error_description 29
>> error_uri 30
>> code 31
>> expires_in 32
>> username 33
>> password 34
>> refresh_token 35
> 
> [JLS] I would be willing to push error_description and error_uri up into the
> two byte range I don't think they fall into the frequently used category in
> a working system.  I don't know that we need to keep client_id,
> client_secret, username and password in the low range at this time.   Do we
> really think that we are going to be using this on small devices?
> 

Good we agree an that then. Actually according to my understanding of 
CBOR integers they already are in the two byte category (see quoted part 
above the ~snip~).


/Ludwig

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Ludwig Seitz, PhD
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