[Ace] draft-ietf-ace-oauth-authz-10.txt: Leaving implementers in the dark

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Sun, 18 February 2018 15:38 UTC

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Subject: [Ace] draft-ietf-ace-oauth-authz-10.txt: Leaving implementers in the dark
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      *  Register the client at the AS.  This includes making known to
         the AS which profiles, token_types, and key types (symmetric/
         asymmetric) the client.

Shouldn’t this say how?

(This is just one instance of a rather pervasive issue.)

Grüße, Carsten