Re: [Ace] [EXTERNAL] Francesca Palombini's Discuss on draft-ietf-ace-oauth-authz-38: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 06 July 2021 07:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ace] [EXTERNAL] Francesca Palombini's Discuss on draft-ietf-ace-oauth-authz-38: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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Hi Francesca,

Thanks for picking this up and turning it serious.

There is a BCP14 alert here, though:


>   A profile MAY want to prepare for being combined with others by clearly specifying 
>   its security requirements.

The BCP14 keyword MAY would be appropriate to announce some behavior that a peer MUST prepare for.  But that is not what we are trying to say here.  Maybe:

NEW^N:
>   Profiles are expected to prepare for being combined with others by clearly specifying 
>   their security requirements.


(Stating may be another alternative word for specifying.)

Grüße, Carsten